Social Networking websites have become a part and parcel of most of people’s necessity, people seemed to be hooked to such sites. Sony Ericsson’s upcoming 3G HSDPA handset Cedar has been designed to cater to this ever increasing need. The phone is claimed to be Eco-Friendly with part of the Cedar being constructed using recycled plastic.

The phone has been fitted with a 2.2” TFT screen that displays images in 262K colors. The phone has got a basic 2 MP camera and allows VGA video recording at 30fps. It has got 3.5mm audio jack. Its network capabilities spread over GSM GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS HSDPA 850/1900/2100, UMTS HSDPA 2100 and EDGE 850/900/1800/1900.

The phone weighs about 84gms with dimensions 111mm x 49mm x 15.5mm. It is available in two color combinations, namely, black and silver or black and red. It offers a talk time of about 12 hours 30 min and standby time of around 420 hours on a GSM network. It provides for approximately 4 hours 56 min of talk time and about 475 hours of standby time on a UMTS network.

It has pre-installed Widget Manager 2.0 app with which users can access social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace on the stand-by screen of their devices. EAS Push e-mail facility and modem connectivity have also been provided with the phone. 3G users can avail of faster internet speeds and access web browser Netfront 3.5.

The pricing is still under cover and it is expected to hit select markets within the third quarter of this year. Stay Tuned!

Facebook is a routine for most of us now days. There isn’t a single day when we don’t login to our facebook account and play games, chat, gossip, and do hell lot of things (except when we’re really busy). How about if you get to work in facebook itself. Your dream may soon come true as Facebook is launching its first Asian office in the southern city of India – Hyderabad.

Facebook has announced that it is investing in India by opening an office in Hyderabad, where a world-class team will be built to support its growing number of users, advertisers and developers in India and around the world.

The company has seen a huge growth in recent months. The company has more than 400 million active users worldwide. More than 8 million people in India now actively use the site to connect with their friends, family, and people they know in India and across the globe.

A full list of job descriptions can be viewed here.

Facebook’s new operations center in Hyderabad will be its first in Asia and will supplement operations supported out of Palo Alto, California, Dublin, Ireland and a recently announced location in Austin, Texas. The Hyderabad office, like the others, will also house online advertising and developer support teams.

With the spread of social networking came a whole lot of security concerns. Orkut, being an older social network, has been known to have quite a bit of notorious activity going on. If you wish to secure yourself and your online avatar on Orkut, here are a few tips from me to do so…
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Safegaurd your Password
The easiest way for someone to access all of your information is to gain your password. To ensure that this doesn’t happen, never use Orkut or any other social networking software at a cybercafe you’re not familiar with. It’s really easy to install malicious programs such as Key-Loggers that record your keystrokes and allow people to phish for your login details easily at such places. Needless to say, never enter your login details into a third party site and always look for the line https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?… in your URL while logging in.
Set your Privacy Settings
In Orkut’s Privacy settings the last box allows you to set privileges or rights for what kind of content of yours is accessible to fellow social networkers. If you wish your scrap book, videos, testimonials or photos to be private, set them to allow “only friends”  or “only friends of friends” to view them. This ensures that not every troll out there has access to your profile. If you wish to take it a step further, you can set it up so that that only friends of friends, or only people who know your email address can send you friend requests.

Accept Friend Requests Cautiously
Orkut’s known for spam from autobots and random “fraandsheep” requests. Be vigilant and don’t accept friend requests from every Tom, Dickens and Harye that sends one your way. In fact, its a good idea to check someone’s profile before you accept their request, to ensure they’re not the social degenerate or sexually frustrated low-life that would creep you out.
Every now and then you’ll come across some fishy looking email in your inbox, telling you that you need to ‘reconfirm’ your details in order to continue using Orkut. Ignore any such mail and block those that send it. There are loads of people out there who come with with legit looking mailers and/or websites that ask you for your login details.

Downloading Files for Orkut = Not appreciated..

A lot of unofficial sites offer supposedly “powerful applications” that are nothing but stacks of Trojans and key-loggers. Don’t download anything but official Orkut applications to ensure that you don’t get screwed over.

Ensure your Password’s not easy
Lastly, please ensure that your password is everything but easy to crack. Keeping it a variation of your name and/or your last name is downright retarded. Using a mix of alphabetical and numeric characters is a great idea. Most of the time we get lazy and decide to keep it something that’s easy to remember, which, in most cases, is easy to crack too. Keep a difficult password and remember it! If you tend to forget things write down in a diary.

These all steps are for he betterment of social network. If in case we have missed out somthing do write to us via comment.