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Joel Fernandes (G+) is a tech enthusiast and a social media blogger. During his leisure time, he enjoys taking photographs, and photography is one of his most loved hobbies. You can find some of his photos on Flickr. He does a little of web coding, and maintains a tech blog of his own - Techo Latte. Joel is currently pursuing his Masters in Computer Application from Bangalore, India. You can get in touch with him on Twitter - @joelfernandes, or visit his Facebook Profile for more information.

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Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new feature for the social networking site, which he claims that it will help save lives of thousands of people all over the world. The new feature – Organ Donor, will enable users to register as an organ donor through the website and share their intentions with family and friends.

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Google has officially shut down Google Wave, a real-time service for sharing docs, sending emails and messages with friends and relatives. Google announced about the shutdown in November 2011, stating that – from January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. As a part of the shutdown, all Waves will be deleted automatically.

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Yet another Miley Cyrus scam is spreading on Facebook with a new title and message. The new Miley Cyrus Facebook scam takes users to a webpage which is designed to look very similar to Facebook and contains a fake video player embedded. Clicking on the play button, will ask you to share the page on Facebook before you can start watching the video. However, sharing the link does not do anything and it will keep prompting you to share the video to watch it.

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Facebook made an announcement today stating the launch of “Support Dashboard,” allowing users to track the progress of filed reports. Support Dashboard is yet another portal that is basically designed to track the status and progress of the reports that you have filed.

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The social networking giant – Facebook has announced the debut of the new Antivirus Marketplace, a one-stop portal that will offer free downloads and (six-month) licenses to antivirus software and also make use of the URL blacklists, which will help prevent users from visiting malicious links. This is a partnership between Facebook and the world’s biggest antivirus and Internet security companies like Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec.

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A new scam on Facebook is underway promising users to giveaway four Regal/AMC movie tickets for free. This isn’t the first time we’re notice such a scam on Facebook. Few days back, we reported a similar scam which promised Facebook users to giveaway two JetBlue Airline tickets for free.

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Priced at $700, Nikon has unveiled the successor of the Nikon D3100, a new-entry level DSLR – Nikon D3200 with new and enhanced features including, a faster burst mode, a new image processor, a super-sized 24-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, a microphone input jack, and an optional wireless adapter. The $700 kit comes with the Nikon D3200 body along with a 16-55mm stabilized lens.

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In the past, we reported the Southwest Airline Ticket message spreading on Facebook, where users were promised with two free tickets from the airlines, however, that turned out to be a fake message created by scammers. Today we noticed a similar scam that has been spreading across the social networking giant Facebook.

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A new video scam message is circulating around the social networking giant Facebook, taking advantage of users curiosity who have been searching for an answer to the question – if the World is going to end in 2012 or not. The video scam message indicates that NASA has confirmed the 2012 doomsday and the World is going to come to an end.

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Google today is celebrating the French photographer – Robert Doisneau’s 100th birthday by featuring a monochrome Google Doodle on its homepage. The doodle consists of four photographs on Robert Doisneau in which the letters ‘Google’ are incorporated.

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Just three days after the launch of Angry Birds Space, the game was downloaded over 10 million time worldwide. With such an overwhelming response from Angry Birds fans, hackers decided to take advantage of it by releasing a fake version of the Angry Birds Space infected with a Trojan horse virus in it. The new virus identified as Andr/KongFu-L is masking itself as the popular Angry Birds Space game for Android.

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Facebook announced the new Timeline feature last year and ever since, there have been a number of scam messages that are spreading related to the new profile layout. One of the most popularly spreading scam messages is the Disable or Remove Facebook Timeline, which promises to show users a trick to disable the new Facebook Timeline.

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Google Plus Gets a Major Redesign

This morning, Google announced in a blog post that its social networking site Google+ has now reached a new mark with 170 million registered members and that they are also rolling out a new design over the next few days. The new Google Plus design looks simple enough and quite user friendly. The redesign of Google+ might have triggered due to the fact that users on Google+ have spent very less time in the past despite the social network having a good user base.

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Everybody is tired of Twitter spam. That includes Twitter as well. With spammers increasing day-by-day on Twitter, the micro blogging service has finally decided to take tough actions against spammers by bringing down their tools which are used to send spam tweets across the network.

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Reports coming in state that the social netwoking giant Facebook, which is going to offer its shares publicly this year, has reportedly chosen NASDAQ over the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for its listing. It is said that the company will trade under the ticker symbol “FB.”

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