Facebook's new profiles; Google&apos

Palo Alto social networking powerhouse Facebook has redesigned its site but again. In its latest change, Facebook has given your profile page a new look. CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the changes in an interview with Lesley Stahl on CBS's "60 Minutes." Software engineer Josh Wiseman as well provided details on Facebook's official blog. Facebook is rolling out the new profile pages by degree, nevertheless is inviting members to make the change but. "The profile begins with a quick overview of basic information just as where you're from, where you went to school and where you work," Wiseman wrote, "the kinds of conversation starters you share with people you've just met or exchange with old friends as you get reacquainted." It as well includes a row of photos along with the new biography, among other features, Wiseman wrote. In Hindsight's writer loves the new design, yet couldn't help nevertheless notice it clears more space on the right for advertising. As for Zuck's appearance on "60 Minutes," the 26-year-old CEO took questions on Facebook's privacy policy, how he was portrayed in the movie "The Social Network," and his legal dispute over Facebook's founding with Harvard University classmates Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.

The newest phone in its Android army

Mountain View Internet juggernaut Google unveiled the newest phone in its Android army. The Samsung-designed Nexus S as well will be the first device to run Google's new Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" operating system. "As part of the Nexus brand, Nexus S delivers what we call a 'pure Google' experience: unlocked, unfiltered access to the best Google mobile services and the latest and greatest Android releases and updates," Andy Rubin, Google's vice president of engineering, explained in a blog post.

In more Google news, the company launched its new eBookstore, competing in a crowded market with rivals just as Amazon.com, the Seattle online retail powerhouse and Kindle maker. Google licensed San Jose software maker Adobe Systems' digital rights management research for the new service, which is compatible with devices just as Sony's Reader and Barnes & Noble's nook e-readers. Notably, Google's e-books can't be downloaded to the Kindle.

In furthermore Google news, the company showed off its long-awaited Chrome operating system and revealed that Chrome notebooks from Acer and Samsung will be for sale by the first half of then year. "We taking everything into account have a viable third choice for an operating system," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at an event in San Francisco, according to a Merc report. The Chrome notebooks will be designed to get users to the Internet as quickly as possible, booting up from sleep mode in about 10 seconds. "Many people already spend all their time in a Web browser, and by building an operating system that is in essence a browser, we can make computers faster, much simpler and fundamentally more secure," Google executives Linus Upson and Sundar Pichai explained on the company's official blog. Though Chrome isn't ready for the consumer masses just but, the company invited would-be early adopters to apply for a public test of its "Cr-48" laptop.

Salesforce -- the San Francisco provider of "cloud computing" software for businesses -- revealed that it intends to buy Heroku for about $212 million in cash. Heroku provides online tools for creating applications in the Ruby programming language.