Today Apple introduced a new social music network through iTunes 10 and named it Ping. Looking like a Facebook style social networking, Ping will work on iTunes, iPod touch, and iPhone. It is not clear if it will be available as a general webpage.

Jobs told that Apple had sold 11.7 billion songs, 450 million TV episodes, 100 million movies, 35 million books, and the store now features 160 million accounts. It sure does make sense on starting a social networking. But I would have been happier if it were a part of Facebook.

Regarding the privacy Jobs pointed out that Ping’s privacy settings are "super simple." iTunes 10 is not available for download yet.

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Google has been suggesting the search terms as one types on it’s search box. Now, with a new testing going on, Google might be telling you what you should be looking for rather than searching.

In the video, Rob Ousbey spotted Google’s test of entire search page suggestion. The suggestion, termed ‘streaming’ search refreshes the entire search page as you type. 

The new feature is in line with Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s recent comment in The Wall Street Journal that "… most people don’t want Google to answer their questions, they want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."

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People Magazine iPad edition is now available for free download in the App Store. With the App, one can buy week’s special digital issues for $4 through iTunes.

Current subscribers of the printed edition of People magazine, can access the digital edition for free in their iPad. The digital issue of the magazine includes the full print magazine contents and extra stuffs like celebrity videos, photo galleries, movie trailers, song samples, and breaking news updates.

Earlier, it was reported that the People magazine paparazzi were preventing the release of the iPad edition of the magazine. They were demanding a better pay for their work. It is however not known if their demand was met before the release.

With the release of iPad version of People, other magazines from the publisher like Time, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune are expected to be released in their digital versions soon.

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Google has decided to pull the plugs off its first social networking offering, Google Wave. Google wave, in its initial days, was told to replace email, or threaten Facebook and Twitter.

Google should have learnt that, Social Networking is not an as easy as it looks, with problems in Google Buzz previously, and now with Google Wave.

But, there is no denying that, web search is the most closely related service to social networking than any other online services. With multiple pushes, search leadership, and its financial might, one day Google is bound to succeed in this avenue too. Facebook needs a ‘mighty’ competitor too.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is not used to being said what to do with his device.

When people started telling that his device was not good enough, he was outraged. He started telling how they need to hold the ‘magic device’. Consumer Reports was the one to blame for all these hassles. That was why he was ‘stunned and embarrassed’.

Some points to prove that he wasn’t at ease in the press meet:

• Admitting "We’re not perfect” shouldn’t have been easy for Jobs. That is why he started his presentation by admitting the truth.
• He was still in defensive mood – repeatedly calling out the press for blowing the problem out of proportion.
• Saying and trying to prove, the antenna problem isn’t unique to Apple.

And yes, nobody cared! As long as they can get their hand on the $29 ‘bumper,’ for free!

Those, who heard of the the Apple engineers knowing about the problem beforehand, are asking, ‘Is Apple staffed with people afraid to tell the truth?’

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Since the iPhone 4 went on sale yesterday, a number of reports have begun to appear online about the users having issues with the signal strength. When the phone is held with hand over the new steel band that encases the iPhone, the signal strengt reduced and loose the connection.

Apple’s response to the problem:

“Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.”

That means, Apple publicly admits to their antenna design flaws within the iPhone 4 that can reduce reception quality.

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Google celebrated Pacman’s 30th anniversary yesterday with an interactive PacMan Google logo. The birthday cake is all chowed-up – the the birthday party is all done but the cool, interactive, and fully functional PacMan logo is still featured in Google.com. That left me wondering if the PacMan logo signify more than a simple birthday party!

Google is in the verge of releasing an Operating System, a web based OS. The programs in the Chrome OS are supposed to work like the PacMan logo. The games and programs are supposed to run in remote servers and we, consumers, won’t need a hard disk to install software.

When the announcement of a Web Apps store like the Apple Apps store and PacMan birthday mystically coincided, and the ‘birthday logo’ was featured in an extended period, I believe Google wants us to believe this is how Google’s OS works.

The PacMan logo is made in code Google has been promoting lately, JavaScript. Chrome browser is told to perform a number of times better in dealing with JavaScript when compared to other browser.

Google is trying to redefine how we use computers. They told that the desktop is soon going to be obsolete and, now it is becoming clear how they are going to change the computing platform.

Later this year, Google is planning to open a Web application store for easier set up programs based on the Chrome browser. It is an important step towards the release of Chrome OS, Google announced last year.

The online store was previewed during a Google conference for software programmers. The Chrome OS is being developed for light-weight laptops (netbooks) that don’t have any hard drives. Every programs run on it will be remotely hosted and run. Chrome OS powered computers will be cheap and are expected to arrive in store in time for the holiday shopping season.

The Google’s Web apps store is also expected to provide applications for tablet computers to compete with Apple’s iPad. Like the Apple store, the Google store will also feature paid as well as free apps to download for the computers using Chrome OS

Started in May of 2005, with an objective to offer users with an option to upload easily and share videos with each other, YouTube has largely been successful in the said objective.

In the last 5 years, the site has grown to become the most visited video site in the world, with over two billion views daily.  In every single minute, people upload more than 24 hours of video footage. YouTube history is well presented in the following video:

YouTube is localized in 22 countries in 24 different languages. It receives 70 percent of all its video uploads from outside the United States these days. The most popular video on YouTube is Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”, with over 200 million views – posted below:

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The fastest commercial train in the world is now operational in China running at a maximum speed of 394 kilometers per hour (km/hr) in a trail run. The train link connects two cities, Guangzhou in South to Wuhan in central China, and will travel at an average speed of 350km/hr (217mph). The 1,068 km distance between the two cities can now be covered by the high-speed train in two hours and forty five minutes – that is, a saving of about six hours of travel time.

The high-speed train line uses technology developed in co-operation with firms such as Siemens, Bombardier and Alstom.

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