European Commission going to Slap Facebook

The European Commission is preparing a Directive to avert Facebook from sharing users’ information — such as their political viewpoint and place — with advertisers unless users purposely allow it.

According to The Telegraph, the Directive — which will be part of an update to current data protection laws — is scheduled for early January release. Should Facebook fail to adjust its privacy settings in compliance with the new legislation, the social network could face prosecution and/or a heavy fine.

Facebook, for its part, says that it shares data incognito and in amassed to advertisers, and that individuals’ own details are not at risk.

This is not the foremost time Facebook has been scrutinized by the European merger. In June 2009, the EU laid out privacy guidelines for social networks, and in June of this year, EU regulators began investigating Facebook’s facial recognition system.

Earlier this month, Facebook released details about how it tracks its 800 million users across the web.

Good Bye Yahoo Site Explorer

As Per The Recent Yahoo Post, Yahoo Shut down the "Yahoo Site Explorer" From Monday (November 21st).

Its a very shot announcement that i can even post it here! :P

"With the completion of algorithmic transition to Bing, Yahoo! Search has merged Site Explorer into Bing Webmaster Tools. Webmasters should now be using the Bing Webmaster Tools to ensure that their websites continue to get high quality organic search traffic from Bing and Yahoo!. Site Explorer services will not be available from November 21, 2011."

  

i think this is good news for SEO people that they only have to concentrate now on Google and Bing.

Bing Webmaster Tools has much of this information, with the big exception of competitive linkage data, which is a huge exception.

so whats your view on this??

Architecture of Android OS

In order to understand how Android works, take a look at Figure below, which shows the various layers that make up the Android operating system (OS).

• Linux kernel — This is the kernel on which Android is based. This layer contains all the low level device drivers for the various hardware components of an Android device.

• Libraries — These contain all the code that provides the main features of an Android OS. For example, the SQLite library provides database support so that an application can use it for data storage. The WebKit library provides functionalities for web browsing.

• Android run time — At the same layer as the libraries, the Android run-time provides a set of core libraries that enable developers to write Android apps using the Java programming language. The

• Android run-time also includes the Dalvik virtual machine, which enables every Android application to run in its own process, with its own instance of the Dalvik virtual machine (Android applications are compiled into the Dalvik executables). Dalvik is a specialized virtual machine designed specifically for Android and optimized for battery-powered mobile devices with limited memory and CPU.

• Application framework — Exposes the various capabilities of the Android OS to application developers so that they can make use of them in their applications.

• Applications — At this top layer, you will find applications that ship with the Android device (such as Phone, Contacts, Browser, etc.), as well as applications that you download and install from the Android Market. Any applications that you write are located at this layer.