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Google has just acquired Metaweb, a semantic search engine provider. Metaweb's most notable product, Freebase, which is a repository of structured data has more than 12 million entities in its database. Freebase has its own API and runs on community support. It is clear that Google's search capabilities will increase with the introduction of a smarter search engine. Freebase would continue to be free and open for users and developers and Google will help with its development and contribute...

Now Gmail users can put their signature using rich text in their mail. This gives you the freedom to attach images as well as text in different fonts and colours. To change your signature to something cool and colourful, you just need to go to Settings of your gmail account and in the signature section you would be presented with an editor which supports rich text instead of old text area which was presented before. Also if you have multiple Gmail accounts mapped on one id, you can use...

Now a days everything is going 3D. From daily soaps to movies, we enjoy 3D effects a lot, so here is the turn of your bowser. We read a post which reveals that Adobe will roll out a 3D plugin very soon. Adobe's product manager posted a few details about the same: “If you are into 3d development for games, augmented reality or just interactive stuff like websites, you just can’t miss the session entitled Flash Player 3D future scheduled for Max 2010 scheduled on October 27 at 11:00AM in...

Some of you might find this girly but here we show you some images of Fluffy Linux. It is an eyecandy for the pink lovers. Most of the design is in pink and reflects some sort of fairy land with unicorns and bunnies. I was particularly impressed by the Kopete, the chat application. Fluffy is based on Kubuntu and an Alpha version will be rolling out anytime soon. Check out more screenshots here. You can follow the fluffy development...

Boy Genius Report revealed some shocking pics yesterday. It is an image of a burnt iPhone. The brand new iPhone4 caught fire for no reason. It was just hooked to a computer via Apple USB cable that accompanied the device. BGR confirmed it from an Apple store that it was not the user's fault but the defective USB port that has to be blamed. According to BGR "phone bezel was extremely hot (obviously), and it slightly burned the customers hand. The USB port in the phone was slightly melted and the...

The Kubuntu Team has decided that with release of Kubuntu 10.10 there will be no Netbook Remix. Instead Plasma Netbook Workspace would be packaged with the standard Kubuntu distro. According to Digitizor an algorithm would run during the install which would decide the default workspace: desktop or netbook, though it would be manually changeable. Digitizor further says "This decision has been taken to provide efficiency towards testing and maintenance. With one less distro to worry about, more...

This post is not coming out because of my Technical interests. I am writing this post because I had to write it. India is a developing country. We have a large pool of doctors, scientists and engineers. Still a very huge population in rural India is illiterate with female illiteracy rate touching alarmingly high marks. Let me introduce you to Nanhi Kali Project. This project is aimed to improve the girl literacy rate in India and abroad. Nanhi Kali project helps poor and illiterate girls to...

We told you about a few suspicious apps made by a Vietnam-based Thuat Nguyen which were eating up money from certain app store and iTunes clients. As it turns out, Apple just got rid of all the apps made by this developer. Apple said that the developer violated the Program License Agreement in a way that rigged fraudulent purchases of his e-books. A few hundred users were charged as high as $600 for the ebooks they never purchased. We recommend our readers to check their iTunes account and...

If you are an Apple App Store customer or an iTunes user then make sure that you check out your bank account statement. It seems that a lot of Apple ids have been compromised and are being used to buy apps on App store. Hundreds of dollars are missing from a few users' account. It is suspicious that out of top 50 book apps 40 were created by a Vietnamese developer “Thuat Nguyen”. MacRumors forum thread shows that a number of users had their account compromised and hundreds of dollars...

Yesterday a handful members of internet community 4chan hacked YouTube and targeted the videos of pop singer Justin Bieber, although some other videos were also hacked. Some users claimed that they saw a pop up saying that Bieber is dead. It seems that You Tube had a vulnerability which allowed the members of 4chan group to inject html directly into the webpages and execute it. For a few hours You Tube was the host of a variety of malwares, pop up messages and pornographic videos. Google...