March 7th, 2012 
Omar Khan The Android Market is out! Google Play is the new kid on the block Google’s Android Market has gone through massive changes since its launch. It went from a simple app store to including e-books, music and videos. Now Google feels that the Android Market is making the experience a bit too restrictive and not [...]
December 24th, 2011 Omar Khan The popular Google mobile platform Android is slowly making its way to 1 million activations per day. According to Andy Rubin, Google’s Android chief, each device is counted only once and resold devices are excluded from this list. An activation is counted when someone walks into a store, buys a new phone and registers it [...]
October 14th, 2011 Omar Khan Apple approved iPad and iPhone app converts Flash video to HTML5The new Skyfire browser which was approved by Apple for the iPad and iPhone is now available for download from the AppStore for $2.99 will be able to convert Flash video to HTML5 on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The Skyfire browser is already [...]
September 21st, 2011 Omar Khan Facebook makes changes to lists. Smart Lists are in! Facebook has had lists for years but they organizing them was a time consuming and tedious process. Finally realizing the need to make the lives of its users easy, Facebook has revisited the lists and made them better. To make them easy and more useful, its [...]
September 19th, 2011 Omar Khan Facebook apps add over 200k jobs and over $15 billion to the U.S. economy A new study by the University of Maryland Business School has revealed that Facebook applications has created over 180,000 jobs and contributed over $12 billion to the U.S. economy. The study shows that Facebook applications have created 53,000 jobs in the [...]
September 19th, 2011 Omar Khan Twitter workaround blocked by governmentThis is an update to my previous post about a server workaround which granted access to Twitter in China. The workaround has been effectively blocked by the government and is no longer working. I tested the link and below are the test results:
September 18th, 2011 Omar Khan Google enriches its social network by integration with its key servicesGoogle+, Google’s social networking service has a new feature introduced to it which allows users to share directions from Google Maps to Google+. The +snippets, which adds a link, descriptions and an thumbnail to whatever you want to share with your circles on Google+. Bradley [...]
September 15th, 2011 Omar Khan A Chinese user has discovered a workaround to access Twitter from within China where it has been blocked since 2009 by the government. Twitter has been blocked since June 2009 and the users in China are using their local versions called Sina and Tencent with a combined 300 million registered users.
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