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 Bananatag embeds a small, 1 pixel by 1 pixel transparent image in each email, hosted on their servers. When you open the email, Bananatag knows that unique image has been accessed, and can then tell the sender their email has been opened. Similarly, it turns links into short links that head back to its server so they know when they're accessed (but keeping the original text of the link intact).

Bananatag is available as a Chrome or Firefox extension for Gmail, a plugin for Outlook, or use it with any other web client using a simple tweak to your contact's addresses. It's free for 5 messages a day, but $5 a month gives you unlimited tracking.

It's actually nothing new: email marketers have been using the same tracking techniques for a long time, to tell how many people open their newsletters, click the links inside, and so on.



Using a service like Bananatag could be useful for a number of reasons, but it's also creepy to think that your friends could be tracking the emails they send you this very same way. Luckily, there's an easy way around it: if you get an email that asks you to display images, just reject your mail client's request to display them. Obviously you can't do this for every email (since some will have pictures you want to open), but if you get an email that makes no mention of images but asks you to display them, that's a hint that the sender may be using a service like Bananatag.

More importantly, don't ever click a link in an email if you don't know where it goes. Hover over the link and check its destination in the bottom left corner of your window first. If the link text doesn't match the link that shows up in the bottom corner, that link is going somewhere else. Bananatag isn't out to get you; they just want to track your clicks, but other evildoers can use this same trick to get into your bank account, PayPal account, or something similar, so it's a good rule to follow. If the link text goes somewhere you trust, copy and paste it into your browser's address bar instead of clicking on it.

Bananatag is an interesting service with some worthwhile uses, but we could understand why one might find it creepy, too, so the techniques it uses are good to be aware of. You can't protect yourself fully (unless you never open images in emails), but it's good to be on the lookout should a service like this become more popular with, say, increasingly nosy friends. Hit the link to see more about the service.

So to get started go to the following link  .......... http://www.bananatag.com/ 
and you also go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cq1-kBsefsA for a brief summary of the software.

Microsoft is saying that it will open up new stores in Natick, Massachusetts; Honolulu, Hawaii; Portland, Oregon; Troy, Michigan and Schaumburg, Illinois much like an Apple store where consumers can walk in and purchase Microsoft products in the coming months.
The company already has 51 stores that were opened in 2012 to help usher in both Windows 8 and the Windows RT Surface and Windows Surface with Windows 8 Pro tablets.
Its seem that the company is following Apple for better and active participation of the customers.Lets see and hope that the company will come up with better and effective methods in future.

Refer to the following link for the video ...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2MHO3labS4o
Steve Jobs before co-founding  Apple in his parent’s garage in 1976, he first entered the tech world working for Atari founder Nolan Bushnell who was riding sky high after the success of the video game Pong. Jobs was put to work creating the follow up, along with Steve Wozniak, in turning Pong into a single player video game, and the hit Breakout was the eventual result.

For more go to ........ http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/02/05/atari-founder-nolan-bushnell-explains-how-to-find-the-next-steve-jobs/

Mary Leakey (6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines. She developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She also discovered the Laetoli footprints. In 1960 she became director of excavation at Olduvai and subsequently took it over, building her own staff. After the death of her husband, she became a leading palaeoanthropologist, helping to establish the Leakey tradition by training her son, Richard, in the field.

Go to wikipedia.org to explore her life ............

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It's been 3,201 days, and still counting. The rover has driven 22.03 miles, mostly at a snail's pace, from one crater to another, stopping for months at a time in the frigid Martian winters. The six motorized wheels, rated to turn 2.5 million times, have lasted 70 million in total, according to NASA, and are all still working.

It was never supposed to be such long .....but it proved to be a great success.

John Callas, manager of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover project says,"Opportunity is still in very good health, especially considering what it's gone through.The surface of Mars is a pretty tough place; there can be temperature fluctuations of a hundred degrees each day. That's pretty hard on the hardware."

You can go to the following website for the Pictures: Postcards From Mars .......... http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/slideshow/photos-postcards-mars-145303

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“What I saw was just so far from anything that really happened or said in those days,” Wozniak told “Good Morning America.”
The 62-year-old Wozniak, who is portrayed in the film by actor Josh Gad, formed Apple Computer with Jobs in 1976. The film attempts to portray the defining years of Steve Jobs’ life. Jobs died on Oct. 5, 2011. He was 56.
Wozniak said the first thing that struck him as inaccurate were the personalities.

Another thing Wozniak said the film got wrong was the wardrobe.
“The portrayal in the clip was a little absurd… I never wore a tie or looked like a professional,” he said. “And in that scene I kind of looked like a real professional…”
So what would Steve Jobs think of his portrayal?
“I think he would have been a little offended and embarrassed by it just like myself… I think he would say that was, you know, a little bit too phony,” Wozniak said.


Wozniak said he just watched one scene and the entire film might be great.
I also think the movie would be great ........for more you can go to    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/01/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-criticizes-jobs-biopic-film/

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Yes....Google is facing legal actions against alleged secret tracking of the internet habits of millions of iPhone users.This is the first time Google has been threatened with a group claim over privacy in the UK