Google Broadband Fiber Network to Launch Soon Q2 : Google to Tests Ultra High Speed Broadband Network. Google is planning to build, and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the country. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We’ll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000, and potentially up to 500,000 people.

“Our goal is to experiment with new ways to help make internet access better and faster for everyone,” said product managers Minnie Ingersoll and James Kelly on the company’s blog.

“Network providers are making real progress to expand and improve high-speed internet access, but there’s still more to be done. We don’t think we have all the answers — but through our trial, we hope to make a meaningful contribution to the shared goal of delivering faster and better internet for everyone.”

New Facebook Layout 2010 : New Facebook Homepage 2010. The aim of easing access to new users and introducing a more user friendly Facebook homepage, highly popular social networking site , is one again rolling out a new homepage layout design. It is expected that this around, there will be a few core changes in the look and feel of Facebook.

Redesign of Facebook homepage has already been rolled out to a group of users last Thursday, the day taht Facebook celebrated its 6th birthday. According to some Facebook sources, by Thursday evening the new look was rolled out to 80 million out of 400 million users of the social networking site.

Farmville Horse Stable has Arrived . We heard that FarmVille horse stables were coming this week, and they have arrived.. When you check into your farm, a pop-up notification announces that stables have arrived, and you’ll be directed to your gift box.

What happens when the horse stable is complete? It will work much like the chicken coops and dairy farms that will fill it with 20 horses and then harvest them every 24 hours for big bucks. Only one stable will be allowed per farm, and it will hold brown and gray horses, as well as the new purchasable Pinto Horse.

Blackberry Outage December 22, 2009 during starts of Holidays Season. According to Jamie Ernst, spokeswoman for Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the smart phones, a technical glitch apparently caused a massive nationwide outage of Internet service on the devices.

NBC Los Angeles reports that RIM has explained they’re aware of the outage and are working to fix it, but did not give a timetable. The front page of the Blackberry website has no message about the problem.

RIM’s Blackberry Outage December 22 due to Winter Solstice? The Globe and Mail are reporting a nationwide Blackberry outage. Blackberry outage December 22 has affected whole of United States of America . RIM’s BlackBerry service outage seems to have affected a large number of its users across the US. It is estimated that several thousand people are not able to login on the internet due to the outage.

Research in Motion has admitted that the services in many areas are affect. RIM’s Blackberry Outage possible reason for this is the number of people using their Blackberry phones while traveling in this terrible winter weather blanketing the East Coast and causing air travel delays.

Google Doodle Happy Holidays Logo Picture,Image. Today’s Google Happy Holidays doodle features the scene of a warm tropical paradise that will make many wish they were there. The holiday tropical postcard make up some of the letters in the Google logo.

The photo, the latest in a long line of tributes from Google, shows a picture of a palm tree on the postcard that replaces the second half of the usual multi-coloured logo.

Rackspace Outage Down not Once nor Twice but Many Times. Rackspace suffered networking problems in its Dallas data center on Friday afternoon, causing many of the Web’s hot sites to go down as well.

The official Rackspace blog had not confirmed the outage by Friday afternoon, but several sites affected either posted blogs or tweeted about the outage. Mashable and TechCrunch were affected.

June 29, 2009 – power failures at a data center caused an outage
July 7, 2009 – more power failures at a data center caused an outage
November 3, 2009 – Rackspace’s Cloud Sites and Slicehost went down due to power problems
December 18, 2009 – Unknown as of this writing (it only happened three minutes ago!)

Rackspace Outage, Twitter, Down, Cloud, Status and Trending Topic. Hosting company Rackspace suffered networking problems in its Dallas data center on Friday afternoon, causing many of the Web’s hot sites to go down as well.

According to PC Magazine the Rackspace outage lasted from at least 3:45 PM CST until 4:14 PM CST, “This is a networking issue affecting Cloud Sites in our DFW data center,” the blog stated.

Several sites such as Mashable and TechCrunch were affected while several others, went to their blogs or Twitter page to vent their outrage.

Twitter.com Hacked by Iranian Cyber Army Group. According to TechCrunch The popular micro blogging site Twitter has been hacked by “Iranian Cyber Army”. The same group seems to hacked the http://www.mowjcamp.org/ and has posted the same message.

Twitter does not have the best record with security issues. We have previously covered a number of incidents, and as recently as two months ago their web servers were misconfigured to reveal detailed internal network information.

Iranian Cyber Army Hacks and Controls Twitter.com, Twitter has been Compromised. The popular social networking website Twitter has been “hacked” by a group claiming to be the “Iranian Cyber Army”. The same group seems to hacked into another website http://www.mowjcamp.org/ and has posted the same message, as reported by TechCrunch.