Ever since the SOPA, also known as the House Bill 3261 was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, it has been under scrutiny of various Internet companies and the people who are closely related to Internet. Only in the recent time when the Web has strongly reacted against the law, it has gained most popularity making common people aware about what SOPA and PIPA is. As people are understanding [...]

Yet another spectacular year for technology has come to an end. A brand new year has already started on a promising note to bring new changes that would obviously make our life bigger and better. The developments in the tech s and software companies were impressive in the previous year and we can expect the same in the coming year. There were many turn-rounds in these companies which made the headlines and we are pretty [...]

As the year passed by, there was much advancement in the World Wide Web. Most likely, the year 2011 proved to be a year for Google. Google acquired a number of companies, came up with various new products, and enhanced the one already present. As a whole, Google saw some pretty impressive statistics this year. As a major change, in April, co-founder Larry Page repalced Eric Schmidt as CEO of the company. Schmidt took on [...]

Oneric Ocelot ( Ubuntu 11.10 ) is scheduled to be launched on October 13, 2011. There are no such major changes in Oneric Ocelot. Instead, it improves on the drastic changes made in Maverick Meerkat ( Ubuntu 11.04 ). So, What’s new in Oneric Ocelot? New Login Screen – BetaGDM is no longer the default login screen for Ubuntu; ( replacing the old GDM Manager ) – Instead, a new login screen called LightDM – [...]

With the news of passing of Steve Jobs, fortystones would like to pay a small tribute to one of the greatest Innovators the world has seen. We would also like to remember our previous stones where we briefly wrote about his life as Apple Godfather and one who actually Changed The World. Top 10 most quoted Tweets on Storify about #SteveJobs [View the story "Top 10 most quoted Tweets on Storify about #SteveJobs" on Storify]via [...]

Things are changing and lately a lot for Facebook. For the past few days, every time I log-on to my Facebook account I see something or the other popping out.Every day or two, you get notifications about some new Facebook feature that has been recently added to the Facebook changing phenomenon. As I expect more changes in the near future, here we try to look into some of those features that would (as Facebook says) [...]

Its been almost about  2 months since Google+ came around. In the rush to get in on the apparent next big thing on social networking, you might have registered for a Google plus account, helped it reach a 10 million mark in just two weeks and then completely forgot about it. If that is the case with you, log-in back to your Google plus account to see something special that the guys at Google plus [...]