Is it true that one of our greatest inventions, the phone number, is about to face an immediate death in the future? The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said, Yes. I don’t know how long telephones will be around for.” Will they be around for ten more years? I’ll go even further. It may not even take 5 years for the phone service, as we know ... Full story

As we discussed before in the case of Google Wave, Google’s social networking initiatives seem to be in a complete free–fall. Google's Social Networking trend, Orkut which has always been successful only in the Indian and Brazilian markets, had over the past year or so stagnated in its growth. According to comScore, Facebook has finally surpassed Orkut to become the number 1 networking site in ... Full story

This is not a joke. Its true, The Tech Giants acting as if they “owns the internet”. Now i am saying about Facebook. First, they came for our privacy. Now, they want to take two very common nouns, too. From now on companies with names starting with "Face" could be in trouble. Or ending with "Book" may get a law suit from Facebook. Full story

After so many days of testing the new alpha version to invite-only users, the New Digg is here. Digg’s redesigned site is live for everyone. From now on you can join eNewsz on Digg. The new version of the Digg, the social news network focuses on the personalized news stream, “My News”, a new item on Digg shows stories dugg by users you choose to ... Full story

Ning, platform to build-your-own social networking service will switch to a paid-only model this Friday. While Ning has been growing steadily, it’s been struggling financially, laying off 42 percent of its staff in April. Full story

Facebook Places is almost here, Facebook officially launched its "Places" location-based product on Wednesday, backed by seeming rivals Foursquare and Gowalla. The Facebook 'Places' officially goes live Thursday, although an iPhone app will go live Wednesday night. The touch.facebook.com site will also go live, for HTML5-enabled mobile browsers. No one knows whether it would extend the service to a desktop version of the site ... Full story

Facebook will be changing the layout of Facebook Fan Pages in the next couple of weeks and are giving Page administrators a heads up. Facebook actually made this announcement in October of 2009 and will begin the roll out the week of August 23rd. Full story

Those of you with several Gmail accounts, keep reading this post. Google officially announced multiple sign-in feature to Gmail, which will let users switch back and forth between Gmail accounts without going through the sign-in procedure. Full story

The one of the best webmail solutions available today, Gmail has been adding tons of features through Gmail Labs and other means. However, one of the most wanted thing missing in Gmail was Rich Text or HTML Signatures which would allowed users to add HTML text or images to their email signatures. Full story

After banning Chinese telecom equipment, the Government has now put Blackberry devices, Skype services and Gmail under the security scanner. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has offered a time period of 15 days to take appropriate steps for the same. If this does not happen, these services might be banned in India, Report says. Concerns have also been raised about the data services being offered ... Full story