Last week facebook launched subscribe button and Grouping feature like G+ circles and shut mouth of all those Googlers who where telling facebook’s security features are week. Subscribe may also take the market shares of twitter where people follow public tweets of popular celebrities and techies. It seems that facebook has taken the competition serious and these quick fixes are part of this.

This time its Apples turn it seems. We have also seen that Apple has release iOS 5 which is deeply integrated with twitter API’s. It seems that this decision of keep The Social Network (a.k.a Facebook) away from apple core hurt someone.

Now the rumor surrounding facebook is that they are working on a secret project called Project Spartan. Project spartan is facebooks app store platform which will feature all the popular facebook apps and games for mobile users and they can enjoy it on iPhone and android devices and these will contain apps which may not be available on iTunes or Android Market.

Now what does that mean? Facebook is developing a new HTML 5 and Javascript based UI framework called BoltJS which is targeting Wedkit based browsers for now ( iOS and Android browsers). Rumor states that facebook will re-wite their facebook app in android and iOS with this new platform which will also have a new app-store feature. This app store will contain mobile apps like games and other popular facebook apps. It is also said that many popular facebook apps and games have been started rewriting process to fit in this new platform, also the latest release of Facebook for iOS is a test of BoltJS.

It would also be a heart breaker for apples iCloud service, with Facebook App-store you can have a common app-store for both Android and iPhones and also the apps would be on facebook cloud and you don’t have to worry about loosing them when your mobile crashes. [ only time will say, if we can run those apps offline too.. HTML 5 can do that too ]

Also this framework would be an open source, so people can use it to design their own mobile apps and integrate with FB easily .

Samsung would launch the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 on August 10th. Galaxy Tab 750 is the new brand name for Galaxy Tab 10 in India, which was announced early this year.

Lunch is happening in Bangalore in a Samsung bloggers meet-up on August 10th 2011. And the big news is Samsung would give away 20 Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 to bloggers who are participating in this event and do a live web-cast of this new Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 on their blog.

Check out this link of indiblogger.in link http://www.indiblogger.in/bloggermeet.php?id=127&tab=4 for more information and participate… may be you would win a new Galaxy Tab.

We @ TechGearz would post more update on this event and hope to post a review on this device soon

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Is every home in India going to be a high-tech home? well this could be real soon, Vodafone is launching Webbox in India. It was released in South Africa few months back and now its in a pilot phase in Kerala.

Webbox is a 2.5G and EDGE enabled QWERTY keyboard set powered by Android OS and Opera Mini browser which compresses data around 90%. You can connect it to your TV using the RCA cable which you use for connecting to CD/DVD player. Its very simple to install, just insert your SIM into this device and start using internet, send SMS, listen to FM radio, share photo and more… Check this Vodafone link for more info.

It is rumored to price around Rs 5799 ($130), which will include 12GB free data usage and 180 days validity period. So would you go for it, will update you more on this soon till then check out this video from Vodafone’s site..

Source: thenextweb.com

On clicking try now button it started showing me a list of friends who are online with a green dot like we had before on the chat-box. It gave me an option to directly message them if they are not online. Well by default if no friends are online it will show you the friends with whom you do more conversation based on some algorithm.

Facebook is making a lot of changes in its design these days, are they more cautious with their design now ? since Google is coping it for plus  or it was a part of the plan, never mind.

Well I liked it, this new fixed friend list feature allows you to see all your online friends any time, even when your are on any other Facebook page or profile. Previously you had to click on the chat window to right side of the page, which would open up a irritating menu with your online friend list. Here you can type and search for your friends too.

If you have not tried, try it out now and do post your feedback and review on this

As you all know that, Plus Google’s new social network is all over internet and news for couple of weeks now and every one is trying hard to get an invite to use it.

Google has learned a lot from their past experience and  this time made a product keeping a normal internet user in mind and not for the geeky developer. But that doesnt mean they forgot about developers… today Facebook and Twitter is more popular due to their Open social API’s which is allowing every single internet site to connect to Facebook or Twitter to share contents and may more.

Google will be soon releasing its APIs for developers and they have already started collecting information about developers who are interested in Plus development. Click here and make your entry and get the latest news on Google APIs

Today (9th June) is Les Paul birthday, the person who has invented electronic guitar and give a new dimension to rock and roll music. Google is celebrating his birthday by making Google.com log as an HTML based guitar which actually plays music.

Check it out yourself at google.com home page, it works with your keyboard or you can drag the stings with mouse. Happy Google-ing

This video shows the user interface of yet to be release Microsoft Windows 8. It has a HTML 5 based new desktop window or as they call it Tiles. check out the video above in this post for more details. We would be posting you more on this topic. Stay tuned.

It is one of the most popular game on Android and iPhone, which is now also available on Nokia Symbian phones… and now… it is also available on your Chrome Brwoser.

Yes, the most popular Android and iPhone game Angry Birds, who are against a bunch of pigs who stolen eggs from their nest. They are all angry and they want to teach those pigs a lesson or you can say they want to kill them… . All the levels of Angry Birds are available on this Chrome version too, i guess, I have started with the first stage now and lets see how far I go.

You can download this awesome game on Chrome Web Store and play. The Game is made on HTML5 and CSS 3. So what are you waiting for give it a try and let me know which level you are now

Eclipse is one of the best desktop based IDE for developing applications. It is used for devloping Java, C++, Python, PHP, Ruby on Rails and various other web technology based applications. IBM has always taken Eclipse platform to a high level by making Eclipse based Lotus Notes Client and Designer platform and other IBM Rational Tools. And so is many third party companies for making their own development tools.

Cloud computing and Platform as a service is emerging a lot these days. To make PaaS powerful like desktop application development we need a perfect web based development platform to develop web application on cloud.

IBM and Eclipse foundation is coming up with a new project called Orion, a web based application development platform which will run on your browser. It would be powered by almost all features of desktop based Eclipse IDE. A prototype of this IDE is available at http://www.eclipse.org/orion/

Project is still in its initial development stage, you can register and try some hands on this IDE.