Parents in the UK can now clear their minds of any apprehensions when their kids use the internet as lessons on Internet safety are being taught at schools. This new initiative is just another part of the new strategy of the UK Government christened “Click Clever, Click safe” which is aimed at educating people and students about using the Internet safely. The Government has decided to make this Internet safety lessons, a part of the curriculum from the year 2011.

In an effort to make develop batteries that are thinner and flexible, researchers have developed a cell that consists of all but a single copy paper with carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes were used to collect and store the electric charge. This new technology, researchers believe will be an efficient way to cut out on the manufacturing costs of batteries and also on the flexibility of such batteries. The technique involved paper being painted with carbon nanotubes as paper served as the best surface for the carbon nanotubes.
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One of the leading social networking sites Friendster.com is on its way to be sold to Malaysian company. With increasing competition in Social networking sites it was necessary to update Friendster.com to match the present day standards of content and privacy.

We have been seeing the war between Bing and Google search on web since Bing was launched by Microsoft. In a step further, now they are competing on mobile web also. Bing has an enthusiastic team that is ever modifying the features of this search engine to impress their users.
Though Google is leader of mobile web too, but the features offered by Bing, have brought it to compete with Google and even go ahead.

We have seen that social networking sites are hub for hackers and spammers. Facebook, Orkut, Myspace and Twitter has seen many of such threads in recent past where the accounts have been compromised for the fun of hackers.

In a bid to compete with upcoming music services like LastFM and Spotify on the Internet, MySpace has decided to come up with a UK version of the famous MySpace Music. MySpace claims that it will be the most comprehensive music service on the internet with a number of artists to choose from. The site will be offering free streaming of international and other artists and will serve as a platform for many upcoming artists and band makers.
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Internet giant has come up with yet another new feature in its search engine. By adding the new real-time search feature now in its search engine, users will be able search data in real-time. This was the first time that a search engine has attempted to include real-time search and delivering the most relevant information was that any search engine would aim for. The new service which was ready for the Internet will be rolled out worldwide in a couple of days.

Bloggers and people worldwide have another issue for debate this week and it’s the new privacy settings that Facebook introduced this week. On the 9th of December, users of the social networking site were prompted to update their privacy settings. Critics are of the opinion that this new settings in privacy would make the Facebook profile more visible on search engines and this clearly has been the issue of debate.

Property owners and estate agents in the UK have yet another reason to rejoice, Google maps UK is all set to release a new feature which will help them display their property as an overlap on Google maps. Though Google has refused to give any official confirmation on this new feature launch, plans of this were discussed in a conference earlier this week. Analysts say this new feature will be similar to the one Google started in Australia and expects its launching next year.

Every technologist is trying to invent environment friendly gadget. So that the use of conventional sources of energy can be diverted to newer sources like solar and wind energy. In this way a new concept of sticker phone has been put forwarded by Liu Hsiang-Ling.