Wonderloop: a new way to make friends with video profiling

A social network start-up reportedly allows users to meet new people with same interests or location, and is the first ever-site to have video profiles.Wonderloop, the first of its kind to have video profiles, allowing users to make the same of first impression one would make in real life,...

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3 essential techniques to protect your online privacy

The Web is a wild place, with more than the NSA potentially out to get you. With the so-called six strikes antipiracy initiative in full effect, you never know if Hollywood is monitoring your peer-to-peer activity. Then there are the malicious hackers trying to reset email, Facebook,...

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Google Chromebooks likely to struggle in India

With most vendors positioning it as a 'secondary device', Google's latest personal computer Chromebook may struggle to attract attention in India, a highly competitive marketinternet penetration beyond cities is low.  Industry experts said that while the web-centric device may draw interestsome...

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‘Children using smartphones before learning to talk‘

More than 29% of youngsters are said to be playing games on smartphones oriPads, even before they can string together a sentence, according to a study.Around 70% of children already know how to use the latest gadgets before beginning to go toschool, according to electronic learning...

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The E-Cigarette Industry, Waiting to Exhale

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times An NJOY e-cigarette. A pioneer in its industry, NJOY now has 200 rivals, including major tobacco companies. “We have to narrow as much as possible the bridge to familiarity,” Craig Weiss, NJOY’s president, said of the selling of e-cigarettes. “We have to make it easy for smokers...

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Facebook's communal photo albums make it easier to share snapshots—or ignore them

In what seemsa no-duh move, Facebook is making photos more of a social experience. Rather than individuals uploading vacation photos for their friends to ogle—though there will still be plenty of that—users can now add photos to shared albums. The good news: A group of friends can add photos of...

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Amazon Matchmaker mashes cheap Audible audiobooks with Kindle ebooks

If you have a big library of Kindle books, Amazon is hoping you’ll spend a little extra for the audio versions. A new serviceAmazon, called Matchmaker, scans your Kindle book library and offers a audiobook “upgrades” at discount prices. Upgrades cost as little as $1 for free public domain books,...

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