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NewGenApps Tech News: Yahoo and Facebook Not in Search Alliance

Written by Anurag | Nov 18, 2012 6:30:00 PM
  1. Yahoo and Facebook are not currently in talks about forming a search alliance or building a search engine together. Full story covered in  Yahoo and Facebook Not in Search Alliance
  2. The launch of Android 4.2 brought a welcome smattering of extra features to the mobile world, but a recently discovered bug omits something slightly important: namely, the month of December.read more here Android 4.2 bug omits December from the People app, makes end-of-year birthdays even less bearable
  3. When you’re dealing with 1 billion people’s personal info, security is critical. But Facebook didn’t want to sacrifice speed. That’s why it spent the last two years making infrastructure improvements so that its transition of all its users to HTTPS which starts this week will “slow down connections only slightly.” People will be able to opt-out of HTTPS for maximum speed if that’s how they roll.  Read Facebook Could Slow Down A Tiny Bit As It Starts Switching All Users To Secure HTTPS Connections
  4. Python 3.2 for iOS is a Python 3.2.3 development environment for the iOS. Click here Python 3.2 for iOS