According to 9 to 5 Mac, the new MacBook Pro could be announced tomorrow or latest by Tuesday.

Readers of MacRumors.com spotted Geekbench benchmark results for what appears to be a MacBook Pro featuring a 2.66GHz Core i7 M620, a high-end dual core processor featuring Intel’s Hyperthreading and Turbo Boost technologies.

The new MacBook Pro is equipped with Intel Core i5, the top models 15 and 17 “embark on their i7 Core or i5 Core chips.

Google with a clear mission to make RSS reading more attractive has announced the Google Reader Play – a new visual tool that can change the browsing experience on the web.

Although this new feature is in experimental stage, the new interface shows only one new item at a time when at full screen, focusing on images, videos, maps and other attractions to “fill the eyes.”

“In essence, Reader play is a different view of the Reader”, “It is designed to be an easy and fun to browse through interesting items, while Reader is much more customizable to organize your feeds.  says Garrett Wu, product manager for Reader.

Basically, the Reader does not require anyone to subscribe to feeds. In automatic mode, it puts the contents of your “Recommended Item” on the top.

From the first navigation, the content is tailored to the individual taste of each user. For this, it is necessary for Internet users to interact with what they see by clicking on the items “Like”, “Add Star” and “Share.”

For many, this new standard of viewing the content is ideal for the TV format and even more so for the tablets, especially because it is fast, simple and visually appealing. Also, there are rumors that this feature is going to be completely awesome on the Apple iPad (now that apple is not on the Google’s list of competitors), while reading news.

You can test it by visiting – http://www.google.com/reader/play.

Facebook is preparing to send out an update for the entire user base to give permission to share their geographical locations. According to several sources, the popular social network Facebook has been working on this new additional feature from about a year ago but is being very cautious about implementing it. Facebook does not want the new feature to cause any technical problems to the targeted Ads function.

We also hear that this feature will be available from April on Facebook as it’s rumored in the f8 conference (which happens every year for developers). The meet also hosts an API for third parties, engaging applications to share this information.
So far the company has remained silent and one of its spokesmen Meredith Chin said, the company is still not ready to give information regarding this new service because they are still testing and adapting things.

It is clear that the service still wants to attract more users than losing the existing ones. A few weeks ago, Facebook reached 400 million users mark and also became the second most visited site in the U.S., after Google.

What is GEO-Tagging\Targetting? Here is a funny image from XKCD.

Meanwhile, rival Twitter in December bought Mixer Labs, a company that will support you to Geotag the tweets. The CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams, said at the time that the new acquisition of the company will allow users show their Twitter followers from where they are writing their tweets.

Microsoft officials didn’t disclose any of the Windows 7 technical documents to the public, however the technical documents of the next generation of Windows Client and Server Operating Systems is being developed secretly.

We got on hands Microsoft’s technical documentation schematics (plan) and guess what we found? Microsoft is secretly planning on putting together the technical documentation for Windows 8. However, one thing to notice is that these were not released with Windows 7. This seems to be a marketing strategy that Microsoft is going to use to market its future product – Windows 8.

The Microsoft server and the development kit service is in charge of Robert Muglia, responsible for the Microsoft communication protocol project (MCPP), although the third party developer may through gain MCPP technology documents in order to realize with Microsoft’s product cooperation.

Here is a sneak peek into the technical documentation by Microsoft of the lifecycle support plan for Microsoft products.

Also, we hear that approximately 500 Microsoft employees are devoting in develop the MCPP technology documents, in view of the fact that MCPP and European Work team server agreement plan (European Work Group Server Protocol Program).

These approximately 232 product team development engineers and the project management personnel are carrying on the development and the examination positively for this documents’ technical content, including to TDI resolution periodic review, as well as for the next generation Windows client side, server development new content of Windows 8.

According to an eye-tracking study by OneUpWeb, users of the Google search engine ignore the results in real time from Google.

The study consisted of 44 people divided into two groups: those seeking information and those who wanted to buy a product. 73% of the volunteers had never heard of the results in real time. The study aimed to answer three main questions:

1. The average user of the browser, you recognize and understand the results in real time
2. Consumers, “use the results in real time
3. What do the consumers of such results

The results:

• Only 25% of consumers used and viewed the results in real time, compared with 47% of those seeking information.
• Most participants were indifferent to the results in real time.

From the graph, users only take into account the window of real-time results of Twitter. Maybe better if Google place it higher on the page, but I think the results would be similar. The fact that there is not much importance given to these results could indicate that you the profile is ranked low or Google is aware of the devaluation of the quality of the results due to real-time search results.

{Via SearchEngineLand.}

Accumulating the ‘Fact and figures’ of top websites is the latest trend on the web. Recently Ping.com conducted a survey and created a detailed graphic image about Google.com’s fact and figures. Now it’s the biggest social network – Facebook’s turn with about the 40 million members .

That’s not everything, according to the new graphics created by Website-Monitoring.com. Facebook globally has more than 400 million users of which 50% users are active.

Moreover, the image also provides other historical data from the past. The social network sees and increase of 3,000 photographs every month, with over 60 million daily update status updates each week and shared links with over 5,000 websites, videos and blogs.

Here is the image, with the complete data of ‘Facebook facts and figures‘.

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