According to Sina Tech, on Thursday developer Tom Waddington said that he found some strings like "RSS feeds" in Facebook codes, it means that Facebook may launch its own RSS reader.Google announced in March this year that they would close its RSS subscription service Google Reader on July 1 mainly because its use had constantly declined in the past few years. Subsequently, many companies competing to launch Google Reader alternatives. Waddington believes that this time Facebook will also join this camp.From Facebook codes, RSS feed connects to the user's Facebook ID, each feed allows multiple...

According to Sina Tech, Yahoo announced that it would provide users with shorter, more lovely and more memorable Yahoo IDs starting from July 15. For IDs like emily@yahoo.com, if they are in inactive status in the past 12 months, then other users will be able to get this ID.Yahoo plans to reset Yahoo ID system to help users get the ID they want in mid of July. By mid-August, users who apply for a Yahoo user ID will be informed what kind of ID they get.This means that users can apply multiple IDs, but in the end only one ID can be assigned to one user. Spammers and other information offenders a...

Taiwan's IT industry has a tense competition with South Korea, TSMC chairman Morris Chang said that although Samsung Electronics is a powerful opponent, ,there is only one Samsung in South Korean; in contrast, Taiwan has the TSMC, HTC, MediaTek and Hon Hai, they can challenge Samsung altogether.Morris Chang pointed out that Samsung Electronics is the  company with biggest market capitalization in South Korea, the market value is roughly $200 billion; but the second largest company in South Korea has far less capital than Samsung.Taiwan has similar situation.For example, TSMC has the ...

Yesterday there was news about Google's acquisition of Waze with 1.3 billion US dollars. Today Google officially released news that they had completed the acquisition of Waze. However the price is not unveiled.Google said on its official blog :The Waze product development team will remain in Israel and operate separately for now. We’re excited about the prospect of enhancing Google Maps with some of the traffic update features provided by Waze and enhancing Waze with Google’s search capabilities.The major benefit of Waze to Google is its real time traffic information. When you foll...

According to The Verge, Samsung will enhance its product army by unveiling two new tablet devices, they are 8 inch and 10.1 inch Galaxy Tab 3.The configuration details of 8 inch Galaxy Tab 3 are:1.5 GHz Exynos dual core processorWXGA TFT display screen, resolution is 1280x800 px and 189 PPIThe main camera is 8 megapixel, 1.3 megapixel front camera4450 mAh battery1.5 GB RAM16GB/32GB storage spaceThe configuration details of 10.1 inch Galaxy Tab 3 are:1.6 GHz Intel dual-core processorWXGA TFT display frequency with a resolution of 1280x800, 149 PPI1 GB RAM6800 mAh battery16GB/32GB storage space3...

PewInternet released latest survey report about Internet and life. The report shows that Facebook is still the favorite social network of American teenagers, but it's also the most criticized one. Although some people enjoyed staying on Facebook, most people are complaining that there are more and more adult contents and negative social interactions on Facebook.The key findings are:Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they did in the past.Teen Twitter use has grown significantly: 24% of online teens use Twitter, up from 16% in 2011.94% American teenage...

Tencent has released the earnings report of Q1 in 2013, the total revenue is $2.1611 billion which increases  11.5% compared to last quarter and increases 40.4% compared to the same time last year. The  profit is 649.4 million US dollars which increases 17.3% compared to last quarter and increases 37.4% compared last year.The three main profit generators are:1. Value-added services revenue of 1.7014 billion US dollars with an increase of 13.6% compared to last quarter and an increase of 28.6% compared to last year;2. Online advertising revenue of 135.5 million US dollars with a decre...

Emotion analysis is a new research direction in computer science in these years, what it does is expressing emotions and feelings of people with data. The means to do emotion analysis include natural language processing, statistical and signal processing. The platforms which are most suitable for emotion analysis are also microblogging like social networking platform, Twitter is one good example.Computing Laboratory of the University of Vermont project Hedonometer conducted emotion analysis for the tens of millions tweets every day in the past five years and recorded the results. Hedonome...