Good news from twitter folks. They have rolled out a new interface!  Yes! a new interface yet again and this time it’s looking quite promising. It’s faster and more consistent. The earlier one was so slow that It made me stop using twitter almost entirely.

As per twitter,

It’s now easier and faster to see the information that matters most to you. Immediately access your favorite features from the lefthand side. Photos, videos and conversations are embedded directly in Tweets so you can see the whole story at a glance. And now everything in Home will appear consistently across computers, iPhones, and Android mobile phones.

Turning on your computer to discover that it has been infected with a virus can be just as frustrating and upsetting as waking up to the realization that you’ve become really sick overnight. Computer viruses operate in much the same way as a biological virus in that they thrive on being passed from computer to computer. In other words, if you have an infected computer you’re likely to pass on that infection to all of your friends’ computers in the same way that you’d also pass the common cold onto them. Unlike a biological virus, however, your computer can infect the computer of a friend who isn’t even in the same country as you. Virus protection software is getting more advanced each day but it is still important for users to take precautions, especially with their e-mails.

Apple’s iPhone apps have always been considered the safe alternative to Android. Unlike the Android marketplace, Apple screens all its apps before posting them for use. One researcher, however, discovered a bug in their screening process that would potentially allow hackers access to your phone.

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Charlie Miller, a researcher at Accuvant and one of the world’s best-known Apple hackers, said,

Until now, you could just blindly trust and download as many apps as you wanted and not worry about it, but until they fix this, you really should think twice about any apps you’re downloading, because they could be malicious.

Now, some news from Smartphone market. Smartphone industry has been seeing a lot of buzz lately as almost all the major players are trying to grab a piece of pie. Apple the current industry leader, is facing stiff competition from Samsung.
There have been many phones that have been labeled the iPhone killer over the past few years. The fact of the matter is that most of these smartphones have been very similar to the iPhone and have not been able to shake the fantastic grip that Apple has on the smartphone market. Some Android smartphones may have slightly better specifications and they may even look better, but Apple has a dedicated market and people find the iPhone very easy to set up, use and manage. That is why it has been such a best seller over the past few years. However, Google and Samsung have now teamed up to bring out a phone that will be called the Nexus Prime. This phone is unique because it will be called the first “ice cream sandwich” cell phone that has ever been released.

Google has had a pretty big year in terms of improvements. First, they introduce +1 and now they introduce voice search for desktop. While voice search has been a big part of Android for years, desktop users have had to stick to typing. Google used all of the voice data it has been collecting on Android to hone desktop search into a well-oiled machine.

The effectiveness of voice search is surprisingly good. Google is leading the pack when it comes to voice recognition. Despite trying to stump it with uncommon words, out of the 50 or so times I used voice search it only misheard me twice. This includes searches involving names and book titles. It’s clear that Google has been putting all those mobile voice searches to good use.

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Google seems to be doing a lot these days. After Google Instant, it has come up with another intuitive (though not much innovative) page results thumbnail previews feature. This is probably another attempt to enhance search experience for users or (perhaps a move to beat Bing). Note Bing is already offering similar thumbnail previews of webpages on search results pages. Google thumbnail previews are although a little different than how Bing displays its previews. The larger thumbnail is shown as soon as you hover the mouse over a search result. A somewhat similar functionality is already offered in image results where a larger preview of image is displayed after clicking.