About a month ago Facebook announced the proposal of Facebook App Center. The main aim of this was to assist the users in discovering great "social apps" for their Android and iPhone devices. It has been reported that this Facebook App Center might go live this week. Official announcement stated that the App Center is going to open doors "in the coming weeks". This Facebook App Center will not compete with the big boys in the field such as the Apple App Store, Google Play, or Amazon Appstore. Links to the respective app stores will be provided by this App Centre. Along with this it will familiarize the user with the software. It will not be full fledged app store but the app recommender. Lets hope that this Facebook App Center will actually be something useful and do not annoy its 900 million users.

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Google has announced to bring the offline maps download feature for its Android maps application. You can access the offline maps feature through the Labs option in settings for Google Maps app on Android. This feature will be added to the main menu by Google. Till now no official announcement has been specified about its arrival date. It will support only devices running Android 2.2 Froyo and higher. With the help of this feature you can Pre-catch Map Area function that allows downloading maps of a specific area to be selected manually. Till now this function is in beta stage and offers caching only the Map tiles. We hope that users will get to select the area on the maps to be downloaded for offline viewing with the complete offline maps support. Many map apps for different platforms offer offline map support but one has to download huge amount of data ranging between 100 MB to 300 MB or higher for that. Recently Nokia has introduced the Offline Maps to several devices through web based user interface and also to Windows Phone based Lumia Devices. Google is also going to introduce the Offline Maps pretty soon. At the end of this month Google might show Project Majel (Google Assistant) at the Google I/O conference. It would be quite beneficial if Google Assistant can help you search for areas on Offline Maps, then it would really save some time and offer greater integration.No exact time was promised by Google to enable Offline Maps for Android platform.

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Nowadays HTC is going through a tough patch. On one side, Apple is targeting the company for Patent infringement and asking for a ban on its devices in US and on the other side Microsoft barred HTC from accessing the Windows OS software build for tablets. HTC’s inexperience in the tablet market is the reason for this problem. Even the Microsoft is not happy the way things are with HTC in the tablet market. HTC has unveiled couple of tablets called the Flyer and Jetstream but both failed. Companies like Samsung, Acer, and Asus exhibited their upcoming tablets and other device on the Windows 8 platform at Computex 2012 event. But HTC was not there as it didn’t have the OS build to develop and showcase its Windows 8 tablet. Another reason was that engineers of HTC wanted to introduce their Windows 8 tablet with a customised home screen, with which Microsoft was not happy as it wants to sell Windows and not a customised skin on the tablet. It has also been reported that HTC is barred from accessing the OS only in the initial stages and after the OS is released it can develop its own tablet. If HTC shows significant growth in the Windows Phone 8 market then Microsoft could allow HTC from developing its tablet on Windows 8. We may see the tablet in next year which would be a great setback for HTC.

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Wednesday marks a major milestone in the history of the Internet. IPv6 addresses for products and services, including AT&T, Google, Facebook, Cisco, Comcast and Yahoo have been formally enabled by many ISPs and tech companies. This IPv6 is a next-generation Internet layer protocol that was designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This helps to make a virtually limitless number of new IP addresses once the world had run out of addresses on the most widely-used Internet layer protocol, IPv4. There is fixed limit of around 4 billion IP addresses for IPv4 but IPv6 has exponentially more, on the magnitude of around 340 billion billion billion billion (3.4×1038). Virtual IPv6 launch party is being hosted on Wednesday with video tributes to the new protocol from tech bigwigs such as Cisco CEO John Chambers.

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The most successful game of the franchise is Angry Birds Space. It has been recently announced by Rovio that its game passed 50 million downloads in less than 30 days, and now it doubles that. There has been 100 million downloads of Angry Birds Space, meaning that users are still almost as excited about it as at its launch. The added physics in the game make it much more interesting and challenging. Just download the game and play it as 100 million people seem to do. From plush toys to t-shirts and all kinds of themed apparel Angry Birds craze is seen everywhere. Even Formula 1 driver Heikki Kovalainen has a helmet with the birds on it.

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