Google added Free SMS Chat feature for Gmail in India

Google has launched 'Free SMS Chat' service for its free email service Gmail and paid email service Google Apps customers in India along with 51 other countries in Asia, Africa and North America. This feature allows users to send SMS to mobile phones from gmail chat windows from 10, October. Users just need to add friend's mobile numbers of their contacts in the email address book.

The service starts with free 50 SMS credits for each user and every sent SMS costs one credit. Every reply received adds on 5 credits subject to the maximum level being 50 SMS at any given time. If no replies are received to any of the sent 50 text messages and the credit balance come down to zero, then Google will add one credit after 24 hours. This credit limit was intended for preventing misuse of this service or spamming.

The Gmail Free SMS service is now available on eight Indian Mobile operators Aircel, Idea, Loop Mobile, MTS, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, Tata indicom and Vodafone. BSNL, MTNL and Airtel are not supported yet.

The SMSes sent from Gmail chat are delivered to mobile phones while replies from the mobile phone come into the chat window. For the mobile phone user, the reply is charged at local SMS rate as per her/his normal billing plan.

If you want to block SMSes from GChat from a particular contact, you can just reply to the message with 'BLOCK', later if you wish to continue receiving messages have the option of sending 'UNBLOCK'.

Gmail Indian users can totally block this service, if they don't wish text messages from any Gmail user, just by sending 'STOP' SMS to +918082801060 and to reactivate the service they can SMS 'START' to the same number.

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Facebook Bug - Likes Count Increasing Automatically without User Clicks

Facebook 'likes' are automatically being added to web pages even if a user has not clicked a like button, or even visited the page in question, it has been revealed.

A security researcher site found that simply sending a web address to a friend using Facebook's private messaging function would add two likes to that page.

The site said that leaving a comment on a story within Facebook also adds to the tally, the BBC reports.

"Many websites that use Facebook's 'like' or 'recommend' buttons also carry a counter next to them. This counter reflects the number of times people have clicked those buttons and also the number of times people have shared that page's link on Facebook, the site explained.

"When the count is increased via page shares, no user information is exchanged. We did recently find a bug with our social plug-ins where at times the count for the Share or Like goes up by two, and we are working on fix to solve the issue now," it added.

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Government ordered to block Facebook, YouTube Social Sites in Kashmir

Internet users in Kashmir are unable to access Facebook and YouTube. The government had issued orders to Internet service providers to restrict access to the websites. This move is believed to be in response to the protests against the anti-Islam video on YouTube.

It was previously reported that the certain URLs with offensive content had been blocked, but it now seems that access to the entire websites have been restricted. Last month the Government of Jammu & Kashmir had directed service providers to ensure that the controversial YouTube video was not accessible from the state.

The order was issued by the state Home Department, invoking the powers conferred under section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act 1885.

"In the interest of public safety and for maintaining public order, the government directed all licensed Telecom Service Providers and Internet Service Providers to make arrangements to ensure that their subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir should not be able to download or upload the contents" with regard to the video, the order said.

The order also emphasised that if necessary entire domains could also be blocked by service providers. "If necessary, due to technical reasons, the Fully Qualified Domain Names shall be blocked viz www.youtube.com, www.facebook.com etc," the order read.

Greater Kashmir quoted executives from telecom service providers in the state who confirmed that there was indeed a block in place, but when Greater Kashmir contacted Aga Ruhullah, Jammu & Kashmir's minister for information technology, he claimed ignorance. "There is not any ban on these websites. I don't have proper information of it. I can't confirm whether there is any technical snag in it," Ruhullah said.

Meanwhile, the Government of India has asked private telecom operators in Jammu and Kashmir to provide at the earliest a mechanism for fool-proof monitoring of real-time Internet traffic in the state.

via - ibnlive | source - greaterkashmir

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Facebook launches service to send real-life gifts to Friends

Facebook is rolling out a service called Gifts which, as its name suggests, lets users send chocolate, coffee, socks and other real-life presents to one another.

Facebook Gifts launched Thursday to a subset of users in the U.S. and will roll out to more over the coming months as people begin to send gifts to each other.

Users will be able to click on a "gifts" icon on their Facebook friends' pages on Facebook's website or on Android mobile phones. (iPhone and iPad versions are coming soon.)

The icon will also show up on the right side of users' Facebook pages with the notifications for friends' birthdays, weddings and other life events. For example, if your friend's birthday is coming up in two days, you'll now see a "give her a gift" link and the gift icon next to her name and photo.

Clicking the icon will display presents you can buy, such as a Starbucks gift card, cupcakes or a teddy bear.

The recipient will be notified through Facebook to enter a shipping address for the presents. In some cases, they'll be able to select their own cupcake flavors or size and style of socks. They can also exchange gifts for other items if they don't like chocolate or don't wear socks.

The move represents Facebook Inc.'s first real foray into e-commerce. The company will take an unspecified cut from each item sold. On Thursday, possible gifts included gourmet ice cream, Andy Warhol prints, flowers, organic dog toys and spa packages.

Facebook Gifts is the result of Facebook's acquisition of Karma, a 16-person startup based in San Francisco. Facebook bought the company on May 18, the day of its rocky initial public offering. Karma's mobile app let people send gifts to their friends on the go. Facebook Gifts, of course, works both on computers and mobile devices.

Lee Linden, the former head of Karma, is now head product manager for Facebook Gifts, which he says incorporates "the heart and soul of the Karma experience."

"We think gifting is a form of communication," he said.

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Facebook apps updated brings Automatic Photo Uploading for Android

World most popular giant, Facebook, is rolling out a new feature that will enable you to automatically upload any images you've taken on your Android phone's camera. So, now users can share new clicked images directly to their private Facebook album.This new auto-upload feature appears to be inspired from the Instant upload on Google+ and Apple's Photostream feature. Facebook has named this feature as "Photo Sync".

To start syncing your photos, make sure you have the latest version of Facebook for Android installed on your phone.

From the Android app:

• Logged in with your Facebook account, hit the main menu button in the top-left.
• Tap Photos
• Tap Sync at the bottom of your photos section.

From your computer:

• Logged in with your Facebook account, hit the main menu button in the top-left.
• Click Photos
• Click Synced From Phone at the top of your photos section. Follow the step-by-step instructions.

You can save upto 2GB of photos per account using the Photo Syncing feature. If you don't want to sync photos when you take them you can also turn off within Facebook for Android.

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Twitter Redecorate apps brings new features expanded content, adds header photos and more

Twitter on Tuesday unveiled a series of design updates, a new app for the iPad and new versions of the application for other mobile devices that dropped support for third-party image hosting.

"Starting today you can make your presence on Twitter more meaningful with new Twitter profiles," the company blog said.

"Upload an all-new header photo on mobile apps for iPad, iPhone and Android or twitter.com, and the same image will appear whenever anyone views your profile on the web or these apps. You can upload your header photo, which appears above your Tweets, to express yourself instantly, anywhere."

Twitter's Jaikumar Ramanathan said one of the features is improved photo sharing.

"Photo streams for profiles display the images people have shared on Twitter," he wrote.

"Whenever you see a photo stream, swipe left or right through the thumbnails or tap to view photos in fullscreen mode. Android users can also get closer to photos with pinch-to-zoom."

As expected, Twitter apps for iOS and Android have removed the option to upload images to third-party sites like TwitPic. Uploading videos to third-party services is still supported.

Twitter, which allows its members to post brief comments, links or pictures, claims to have more than 140 million active users, with the largest number being in the United States.

A recent survey found one in seven Americans who go online use Twitter and eight percent do so every day.

via - ndtv | source - twitter

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Facebook released new update to v3.2 for BlackBerry Smartphone

Facebook for BlackBerry has been updated to version 3.2 that brings new exciting features for the BlackBerry users. This update includes refreshed navigation icons, Facebook's friends birthday alerts, Facebook event support and more.

New features in Facebook for BlackBerry v3.2 -

• Updated icons with your most current Facebook profile picture
• Facebook Events support lets you view event information, post to the event's wall, view profiles of invited guests, and receive event notifications
• Enhanced Calendar Integration for friend's Birthdays with alerts

Download Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones v3.2 from the BlackBerry App World for free.

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FarmVille 2 available on Facebook and Zynga Online in 3D

Zynga announced the global launch of FarmVille 2 Wednesday, the next generation of the company's popular Facebook-farming game.

"FarmVille 2 offers players a new way to farm by delivering an immersive experience, rich characters, and new social features that make game boards come to life with their friends," said Tim LeTourneau, vice president of games at Zynga.

Zynga's first game to be built entirely in 3D, the game lets players not only grow and harvest crops but also use those crops to do things like feed chickens on their farm or bake treats they can then take to market and sell.

With FarmVille 2 Zynga has also made it easier to plant and harvest crops. Now rather than clicking multiple times on each square of a crop in order to plant and harvest, you can instead drag your mouse over a large area and plant or harvest over that entire space at once.

The game also includes a number of decorations you can interact with, ranging from a wind chime that actually plays to a rocking chair you can move back and forth.

Zynga hopes that all that will be enough to have new players come to the game, and for FarmVille enthusiasts to build a whole new farm in FarmVille 2 while continuing to maintain their farm in the original version of the game. Zynga plans to continue to support the original FarmVille, and keep adding expansions and new features to the original game to keep people interested.

"We can't wait to see the farms that players create. We also want dedicated players of FarmVille to know that we remain fully committed to bringing them new reasons to play the original game they love," says LeTourneau.

FarmVille 2 is live now on Facebook.

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