Flipkart Plus to launch on August 15: Features, subscription fee and more

Flipkart is all set to launch Amazon Prime rival in India. Called Flipkart Plus, the loyalty programme will go live this Independence Day (August 15). "On Independence Day, reward yourself with a slew of benefits as Flipkart launches Flipkart Plus, a one-of-a-kind no-fee customer benefits program with a wide range of benefits and rewards. And absolutely no strings attached," says the company on its website. This is Flipkart's second attempt at loyalty programme.
The Flipkart Plus loyalty programme will reportedly offer Flipkart customers a range of benefits and rewards. Here are all the details about Flipkart Plus: features benefits it will offer to customers and more.

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Facebook launches Digital Literacy Library to help young people use the internet responsibly

There are more young people online than ever in our current age of misinformation, and Facebook is developing resources to help youths better navigate the internet in a positive, responsible way. Facebook has launched a Digital Literacy Library in partnership with the Youth and Media team at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. The interactive lessons and videos can be downloaded for free, and they’re meant to be used in the classroom, in after-school programs, or at home.

Created from more than 10 years of academic research and “built in consultation with teens,” the curriculum is divided into five themes: Privacy and Reputation, Identity Exploration, Positive Behavior, Security, and Community Engagement. There are 18 lessons in total, available in English; there are plans to add 45 more languages. Lessons can be divided into three different age groups between 11 and 18, and they cover everything from having healthy relationships online (group activities include discussing scenarios like “over-texting”) to recognizing phishing scams.



The Digital Literacy Library is part of Facebook’s Safety Center as well as a larger effort to provide digital literacy skills to nonprofits, small businesses, and community colleges. Though it feels like a step in the right direction, curiously missing from the lesson plans are any mentions of “fake news.” Facebook has worked on a news literacy campaign with the aim of reducing the spread of false news before. But given the company’s recent announcements admitting to the discovery of “inauthentic” social media campaigns ahead of the midterm elections, it’s strange that the literacy library doesn’t call attention to spotting potential problems on its own platform.

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Facebook has started internal testing of its dating app

Two months after announcing the product at its F8 developer conference, Facebook is testing its dating product internally with employees. Independent app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who regularly uncovers new Facebook features by scouring the source code, found evidence of the product Friday and posted it on Twitter. The company confirmed to The Verge that the product is in testing within the Facebook app but declined to comment further.

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Use WhatsApp? Get ready for more spam

Facebook-owned WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging service, is considering opening its platform for businesses to communicate with their customers. This could be a potential way to monetize the service but will also allow brands and marketers to contact users leaving them vulnerable to spam.

The development was first reported by Bloomberg, which cited Facebook chief financial officer David Wehner, who spoke about the plans at a tech conference in Boston.

"We think that enabling that B2C [business-to-consumer] messaging has good business potential for us. As we learn those things, I think there's going to be opportunities to bring some of those things to WhatsApp, but that's more longer term."

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Nokia X, X+ and XL Dual Sim Android Phone launched: Pros and Cons

Nokia X, one of the most waited stuff from Nokia finally announced. Till now Nokia was only manufacturing the Windows based smartphone. Even Nokia has been acquired by Microsoft recently, the origin of Windows platform but surprisingly Nokia has announced its very first Android based smart phone.

A few days ago the Normandy was in trend as the upcoming phone from Nokia with Android OS. But it turn out with something different. The phone has been announced in MWC 2014, Barcelona. The phone is launched with three different models, Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL.

Nokia X Features -

Android Operating System -

Its celebration time. Android is finally available on Nokia hardware. Explore all the features of Android on Nokia X. Download thousands of apps from Google play and enjoy them on your Nokia X. The Nokia X is currently loaded with Jelly Bean v4.1.2.

Processor -

As per the processor it is coming with Dual Core 1Ghz Cortex A-5 CPU, Adreno 203 GPU and  Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset for better and faster performance on Android platform.

Camera -

Camera, the most important thing for at-least half of the people who buy smart phone. Well you might get little disappointed here because Nokia X is loaded with 3.5 MP primary camera with no secondary camera. The phone records the video @48o p @30fps.

Design and Display -

Nokia X is actually a 4 inch smart phone. But as per its cost and considering the brand name, its good. It has IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16 M colors. It also supports multi touch up-to two fingers.

Nokia X Key Specifications -

Android OS v4.1.2 Jelly Bean(Update Expected)
3.5 MP primary camera
4 GB internal memory, 512 MB RAM
1 GHz Dual core processor
4 inch touch screen
Pros -

Affordable Phone, low cost.
Nokia hardware on Android platform (For the First time)
1 GHz processor
Cons -

No secondary camera
Nokia X Price -

Price in India – Rs. 8,599 (approx)

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Awesome Facebook chat codes

Within few years Facebook evolves a lot and becomes the hobby of people around the globe. You meet new people, share your related ideas, see your favorite product pages and play social games on Facebook. You can also chat with your friends on Facebook, to enhance Facebook chat experience; Facebook introduces chat codes due to which you can include pictures according to your mod in your chat box during chat with someone, that’s really cool. Isn’t it? So here we have Awesome Facebook chat codes which enables you to include different kind of pictures in your Facebook chatting, enjoy your chat!!!

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List of faces, Facebook (2012)

The trick of the year, at least so far, is definitely a bug in the Facebook  system that allows you to insert new and an endless amount of emoticons in chat and messages .

Thanks to this trick anyone can create new smileys that you can send to friends (and others) in chat, or use to customize and beautify your messages on Facebook.

Today we have gathered for you a list of brand new and unique smileys for Facebook ! To use them, simply copy the code of the emoticon on the chat.

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Facebook shortcuts : everyone should know

For FireFox:

    Shift+Alt+1: View your News Feed
    Shift+Alt+2: View your own Profile
    Shift+Alt+3: View pop-up of friend requests
    Shift+Alt+5: View pop-up of notifications
    Shift+Alt+6: View Account Settings
    Shift+Alt+7: View Privacy Settings
    Shift+Alt+? : Search bar 

For Google Chrome:

• Alt+?: Search  
  
• Alt+1: View your News Feed
• Alt+2: View your own Profile
• Alt+3: View pop-up of friend requests
• Alt+4: View pop-up of messages
• Alt+5: View pop-up of notifications
• Alt+6: View Account Settings
• Alt+7: View Privacy Settings
• Alt+8: View Facebook’s own profile
• Alt+9: Read latest Terms of Service agreement.

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UK Facebook Hacker Jailed For 8 Months

It’s a pretty harsh sentence if you ask me, especially since Facebook decided in July 2011 to start paying bug bounties.
I have to say though, this guy must be a pretty talented hacker to break into the Facebook servers – they aren’t exactly low hanging fruit. I’d imagine they are some of the most hammered servers in the World (especially by script kiddies).
Sadly, however talented he is, or whatever his intention was in reality – what he did was illegal and he can be punished (fairly harshly) for it.

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Facebook Hack – View photo albums of non-friends

A new FACEBOOK exploit allows anyone to access any photo album of non-friends as long as you have the link.

By following the simple steps shown in above image, you can bypass the security of Facebook and view photos of others online.

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