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Twitter has just debuted the capability to add line breaks in your tweets. Brace yourself for the coming explosion of ASCII art on Twitter.

Twitter’s stated objective in last year’s API restrictions that infuriated developers was to “deliver a consistent user experience.” In fact, the company switched its existing display guidelines to display requirements in an effort to make a tweet on Twitter.com look the same as a tweet in HootSuite or any other Twitter client.

But with this update of Twitter’s own making, tweets which look interesting and sensible on Twitter.com will look completely stupid and odd (see Twitter’s own embedded tweet above) on any other platform.

A US bar has banned much-awaited Google Glass inside its premises citing privacy concerns for patrons.

According to a report by GeekWire, the 5 Point, a Seattle bar, posted a notice on its Facebook page last week that if someone wants to grab a pint, they'll have to remove the 1,500 dollars glasses.

"For the record, The 5 Point is the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses," the post read, Fox News reports.

"And ass-kickings will be encouraged for violators," it added.

Dave Meinert, the bar's owner, told KIRO-FM that people coming to the bar definitely don't want to be secretly filmed or videotaped and immediately put on the Internet

Facebook Inc introduced the biggest change in years to its popular newsfeed on Thursday, with a new look and focus on photos that is expected to make the social network more ad-friendly and may entice users to spend more time on the website.

The changes to the newsfeed, whose look and feel had remained largely unchanged since Facebook's inception, include a division into several sections, with separate areas for photographs and music.

The newsfeed is the ever-changing stream of photos, videos and comments uploaded from friends, and is the first page most users see upon logging in.

A recent study showed that Apple's iPhone is the most reliable smartphone compared to the likes of Samsung, Nokia and Motorola handsets, according to a Mashable report.

Till now we were using software to do so. Now we get this feature in MS Office 2013.

Google’s announcement today that it is destroying Google Reader, the most popular RSS syndication tool was a massive blow to the blogging community – and to most of those speaking out tonight via social media, an entirely unnecessary attack on an important corner of the public Internet by a company with more than $50 billion in revenue and a newly-won reputation as a tech giant on the move.

The last RSS-focused product Google closed was AdSense for Feeds, its ad product for site owners who wanted to monetize their RSS feeds. With Reader and AdSense for Feeds gone, the last RSS product standing at Google is Feedburner – and all signs point to that getting the ax sooner or later, too.

Google appears eager to let other organizations use certain top-level domains that it wants to acquire and manage.

Last June, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Named and Numbers (ICANN) revealed which companies and organizations had applied for their own generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The effort is part of a move to foster competition on the Internet by allowing companies to use a greater variety of TLDs beyond just .com.

Google applied for 101 of the 1,900 available gTLDs, looking to score such obvious ones as .google, .chrome, .gmail, .goog, and .youtube. But along with those gTLDs were ones that could be used by any organization, including .search, .app, .blog, and .cloud.

Though the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo were in talks to acquire popular news-reader app Pulse, it looks like it’s LinkedIn who will shell out the big bucks for the app.

AllThingsD, citing sources close to the deal, says the acquisition will be completed soon for anywhere between $50 million to $100 million. Pulse, an app that aggregates news, has more than 20 million users who read more than 10 million stories per day.

AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher reported earlier today that companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo and Facebook were potential acquirers of Pulse.

pulsemicrosoftIt’s not surprising that Microsoft was in the mix. The Redmond software giant worked with Pulse when it released its web-focused version last August. Microsoft wanted to provide a glimpse of the potential for its new Internet Explorer 10 browser, particularly on touch-enabled Windows machines.

If you use the web version of Pulse, there’s still a small IE logo in the right corner that links to a video of Pulse’s features on a Windows 8 tablet.

But it’s LinkedIn that will reportedly make the acquisition, a company that has been pushing hard recently for content features. This deal will surely enhance that.

San Francisco-based Pulse was developed by Alphonso Labs and founded by Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta in 2010.

Apple (AAPL) won a patent infringement lawsuit Thursday in an English court, which exonerates the iPhone maker from charges it unlawfully used Samsung technology.

Samsung had argued that three individual patents relating to processing and transmitting data on 3G mobile networks had been infringed, but the court found all three claims invalid.

This is the latest case in a global barrage of claims and counterclaims between the two companies, which between them account for one in every two smartphones sold worldwide.

Samsung said it was disappointed by the court's decision.

"Upon a thorough review of the judgment we will decide whether to file an appeal," a spokeswoman said.

Apple declined to comment.

The South Korean company won a bittersweet legal victory over its Cupertino-based rival last summer when another British judge ruled its Galaxy tablet should not be blocked from sale in Britain.

But what of the virtual, social, online insignia of Papal power? According to Vatican Radio, Pope Benedict XVI's Twitter account, created just last year and having only been used 36 times to send faith-based messages in nine languages, will also be cut loose at 8:00 p.m. Feb 28th, permanently removed with a single click of its de-activation link.

Most of the buyers don't know about repairability factor. Hope next time they will count it before buying a laptop.

it really worth to have an iPad