Facebook Launched India Election Tracker for 2014

Facebook India today announced launch of “India Election Tracker”, an app on Facebook that will give live information on how various election candidates and parties are faring on Facebook.
The launch of the app comes on the eve of Facebook Talks live that will be conducted on March 4th to 8th between 8pm-9pm.
The Facebook App “India Election Tracker” is a dashboard where app users will be able to watch the Candidates 2014 livestreams, take a poll about the issues that matter the most to them in the election as well as compare how much the Facebook community is talking about leading candidates and parties over time.
The app will provide a live stream, giving users a upto the minute view of various candidates and parties.

In regards to the Facebook app launch, Ankhi Das, Director of Public Policy for India and South Asia said; “Today, we have over 93 million people in India engaging actively every month on Facebook. We have always been focused on making sure that we give people the power to share, and to make the world more open and connected. This and the opportunity to engage actively and regularly with constituents have led campaign teams and leaders to use the medium, making facebook a core part of the political infrastructure in the country. Our new dashboard allows every Indian citizen who uses Facebook to see how the candidates and parties are trending from now until the election”
The way elections are fought now have gone through a sea-change, thanks to technology and internet. Previously, it was impossible for an ordinary citizen to interact with political candidates, but now they have numerous channels through which they can make their voices heard. Political parties like BJP and AAP have derived tremendous advantage through their Facebook pages and Twitter feeds.
While Facebook has already launched their political tracker, I am sure something similar will coming up from Google India headquarters as well.
General Elections 2014 is a major event for India,
 And I am sure companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter will make most of it as well!

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Where's My Phone?!? Google to Roll Out Find My Android Service

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We've all misplaced our phones for a period of time. Maybe it only took a few frightened glances next to the couch or a quick look back at the restaurant table to retrieve it. For some of us, however, the loss was permanent, as our little black and grey finger candies were snapped up by the first person who wandered by. And we spent the rest of the day oscillating between fear and anger.
If you've got an iPhone, you've been covered for years now simply by activating Find My iPhone, a service that lets you locate, down to a fairly small circle, where your device is awaiting your rescue (or remote data-wiping if unobtainable). For Android users, however, you've had to rely on third party apps with limited capability to lead you back to your errant device. That is, until now.
The Official Google Blog, has announced that devices running the Android 2.2 Operating System will soon receive a new service, called the Android Device Manager. The upgrade, due out later this month, will include a number of features that will put it on par with Apple's lost phone security system.

If you discover you've lost your phone, you can go to any computer and log into the Android Device Manager, which will be part of the Google Play Store. All that is required is your Google account login, the same one you used to activate your Android phone.
Choose your registered phone and push out a signal to ring at full volume, even if your lost phone was last put on vibrate or silent mode. If this doesn't do the trick, find the phone as a blip a Google Map.
If you discover that your lost Android phone is on the move and you don't feel safe going into full-on vigilante mode (or are worried it will get turned off soon), delete all data on the device using a special built-in wipe mode, to keep your data safe from prying eyes.
If, like many, you've jailbroken and modified your Android phone, the Google blog says they're also introducing an Android Device Manager app, so you should be covered no matter

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