Facebook has enabled an option on the account deletion page that lets you completely destroy all of your data including any trace of messages you sent.

Previously, Facebook deleted the account so you couldn’t access it, but also held on to the data. The new option will soon let you delete everything that you have ever done on Facebook. [Read more…]

We have been hearing rumours the last few days that a new iMac could be launching soon along with a few other products. The rumours started last week when stores were told to let their iMac stock deplete.

Yesterday, John Gruber of daring fireball said…

We’ll have much to talk about, what with the new Mac Pros (finally, right?), speed-bump iMacs, and the gorgeous new 16:9 27-inch Cinema Display that Apple might hypothetically release tomorrow. UPDATE: Doubly-hypothetical, but who knows, maybe even that desktop multitouch trackpad device I first mentioned last October, too.

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HMV looks set to join the digital download competition by launching a new service that allows users to download MP3 files from it’s online store.

The new service will tackle the likes of Amazon and iTunes as well as others who are big players in the industry. The service is being started by 7Digital of which HMV own a 50% share in. The service when ready, will be compatible with both Mac and Windows based computers. There are no details on whether mobile devices will be able to connect just yet.

Price wise, the service will see singles selling for 40p each and albums costing £4.99. Artists will be featured weekly along side special offers on albums and music in general. [Read more…]

HDTV has been around a while in the UK now although at the moment, there’s still very few HD channels to choose from leaving us with just regular standard def to watch on our fancy and large screens.

There is good news coming though because the BBC has announced that as of April 2011, all BBC channels will be broadcast in HD. The BBC HD channels will have all shows transmitted through them in optimum HD quality.

In order to make this possible the BBC has requested that all shows made for any BBC channel is filmed using HD equipment so that when the time comes, there will be a wide variety of programs already recorded in HD quality. Of course the BBC will continue to play older programs from what we understand will be enhanced for HD. [Read more…]

Earlier this week we mentioned that Facebook was about to reach a huge milestone by the 500 millionth member signing up to use the service. As expected, this goal has now been reached.

The announcement was made by the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

As expected, the company also is launching Facebook Stories which will see a number of cheesy stories published about how Facebook has had an impact on their life. [Read more…]

Every couple of weeks, Google [GOOG] publish details on the distribution of Android on smartphones and tablets. A couple of weeks ago Android 2.2 started showing up on the chart with 1.8% share. In the last 2 weeks the new installs of the 2.2 froyo update have now moved to 3.3%.

Android 2.1 hasn’t suffered here though as distribution shows that it has moved from a 53.1% share up to a 55.5% share over the last two weeks.

The drops have occurred on the Android 1.5 and 1.6 builds where the 23.5% share 1.6 had two weeks ago is now 22.1% and Android 1.5 has dropped from 21.3% down to 18.9%. [Read more…]

Millions of routers like the one pictured here have a vulnerability that allows hackers to intercept and redirect traffic as well as access computers on a local network.

The list of vulnerable routers tested so far can be found in a Google spreadsheet where the last column indicates whether the specific router listed is prone to this sort of attack.

The research has been performed by Seismic who are a security consultancy based in Maryland.

Craig Heffner, a researcher with the company, will both present the research at Black Hat and release a proof-of-concept tool to demonstrate the problem in practice. Heffner believes this is the best way to get router manufacturers to release firmware updates to fix the issue.

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Google [GOOG] appears to be in the process of giving the Google Images service a revamp. The new Google Images has a more user friendly interface and is able to show more images on the screen at once due to the text below each image hiding away when not needed.

Rather than being restricted to a certain amount of images per page, Google has opted for a scrollable wall where you can carry on scrolling with the image thumbnails loading up as needed.

Right now it doesn’t appear to be up and running but we suspect it will load up shortly as Google push it out to servers. [Read more…]

Yesterday, Apple [AAPL] posted it’s third quarter results. The quarter included a full three months of iPad sales along with the roll out of the iPhone 4.

Profits reported were $3.25b with revenues of $15.7b which is an increase the same quarter from last year.

Apple sold 3.27 million iPads. The iPhone 4 sold well although the iPod is showing decline at the moment. An interesting detail mentioned on the call was that the iPad and iPhone 4 stocks are constantly being sold. Everything the company can make is being sold which is quite impressive. [Read more…]

Recent figures reveal that the Amazon Kindle eBooks are selling very well. The numbers reveal that for every 100 hardcover books sold, there are 143 Kindle eBooks sold. This is for Kindle books sold in the last 3 months.

Amazon also point out that this number is going to increase significantly. When comparing the first half of 2010 to 2009, the have been three times more Kindle books sold this year which is an impressive number. [Read more…]

Apple [AAPL] has made a new iTunes update available for download. The new version is iTunes 9.2.1 that fixes a few important bugs. The list includes the following…

* Addresses minor issues with dragging and dropping items
* Addresses a performance issue when first syncing to some devices with iTunes 9.2
* Addresses an issue upgrading to iOS 4 on an iPhone or iPod touch with encrypted back-ups
* Addresses other issues that improve stability and performance [Read more…]

3D on the Sony Playstation 3 is coming soon. Official documents and guidelines however, reveal that the 3D gaming resolution will be limited to 720p for games.

Games that already run at full HD 1080p will also be downscaled to 720p. Both the left eye and the right eye will receive a 720p image. What this will do is allow a 60 frames per second rate to still be achieved. This has two benefits. The first is that the action will continue to be smooth. Also the higher frame rates allow for less eye-strain from what Joystiq reports. [Read more…]