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Facebook has announced that it is axing three of its little known services within the next 90 days. The firm decided on the closures because it felt it was spreading itself too thin.

Facebook is trying to defend the changed policies of Moves, saying there is a difference between "sharing" and "commingling" user data. Though their defending statements may be too late to make.

The Moves team has recently changed their softwares privacy policy after the recent acquisition made by Facebook, and may disclose personally identifiable data to third party companies.

Moves offers unique movement interpretation algorithms which collect data from sensors inside mobile device which makes it an attractive buy for Facebook.

Back in 2005 Windows Live was announced and many products were moved from the MSN platform to the Windows Live platform. New products and services were announced including Windows Live QnA. The service name explains...

Cnet has come up with a report saying that Microsoft is set to release Windows 7 by the end of this year's holiday shopping season based on PC industry sources in Asia and the U.S....

Microsoft Tuesday unveiled the second release candidate for its long awaited Hyper-V hypervisor, which adds minor tweaks like guest operating system support for Windows 2000 Server and mouse integration tools for Novell SUSE 10 Linux....

Google Inc confirmed on Thursday it had been an active bidder in recent U.S. auctions for licenses to create a national wireless network and that it will weigh in as regulators set new rules. In...

Tokyo show shifts from September, confirms Oct 9-12 dates The dates for this year's Tokyo Games Show have been revealed, and organiser CESA has decided to push it back from last year's September slot...

Napster, one of the largest digital music retailers, said Monday it would start selling downloads in the MP3 format from the second quarter of this year in the latest blow to copy protection for songs...

Beta testers have received access to a release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3, but general consumers still have a long wait until they'll see SP3 available for download. Microsoft has scheduled the last...

Six years after BitTorrent Incorporated's chief executive Bram Cohen created the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing technology, the company plans to start helping media companies stream videos over the Internet. While the BitTorrent software has been notorious...

In an interesting chain of buyouts, US computer maker Gateway has now moved a step closer to purchasing Packard Bell, a decision which comes as Acer, headquartered in Taiwan, announced last week that it would...

Marissa Mayer, Google Incorporated's vice president of search products and user experience, made the announcement that the search giant will make a significant push toward integrating results from a variety of its search engines....

The Chilean government wants Google to fix its geographical search program that places village Villa O'Higgins, named after Chilean independence hero Bernardo O'Higgins, Santiago, on the Argentine side of the border. "Chile has asked for...

Research In Motion Limited is making internal changes to ensure that a massive outage of its BlackBerry e-mail service like the recent one that hit North American and left business executives, lawyers, politicians and other...

Intel has been tinkering with a concept of a phase change memory device chip for nearly 30 years. Intel CTO Justin Rattner demonstrated a 128-bit sample of code-name Alverston at the Intel Developer Forum in...

Some of our members are reporting that earlier today Microsoft removed Internet Explorer 7 from Critical updates (or forced Automatic Updates if set to Automatic) to Optional updates, after a brief disappearance all together from...

Once rumoured to see the light of the day in the first quarter of the year to coincisde with the launch of Microsoft Windows Vista, chipsets with built-in DirectX 10-supporting Mirage 4 graphics core from...

Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced. The move follows a deal between the commercial arm of the...

Microsoft is preparing 55 legal actions worldwide against sellers on auction sites who are hawking illegal copies of the company's software, the company said Tuesday. The actions are a mix of lawsuits and criminal...

As Microsoft moves towards Release To Manufacturing (RTM) We will be seeing more Vista builds being released to not only to msdn/technet, we will also be seeing them being released to Technial Beta Testers and...

PC peripheral player Logitech has motorized the computer mouse scroll wheel with two new models that ease scanning and scrolling through large computer documents, spreadsheets, pictures, lists and other data. The Fremont, Calif.-based company said...

Thats right, despite the many reviews posted by various websites calling for a Beta 3 Microsoft have stuck to their roadmap and gone from Beta 2 to the RC1 branch. I wonder how many RC's...

A leading Linux figure, Daniel Robbins, the founder of Gentoo Linux and its former chief architect, has announced that he has accepted a position at Microsoft Corp. In a brief note to the Gentoo Foundation...

Within the next two weeks Apple will announce an updated iPod mini with a color screen and higher capacity hard drive, Think Secret has learned. Highly reliable sources have confirmed that the next iPod mini...

Google announced yesterday that the company is currently testing a prototype service used to search TV programming. The engine dubbed "Google Video" allows users to search across text from TV shows like Fox...