Facebook has hired more than a half dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who were on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, to build the Facebook Phone, The New York Times reports.
Instead of posting job listings for the Facebook phone online, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his team are recruiting employees for the phone by hand, according ot the report. Zuckerberg is peppering former Apple engineers with very specific questions about the iPhone, too — including the types of chips used.
The Facebook phone project has been rebooted a number of times because the company only recently discovered it needed to bring in people with phone-making experience, according to the report. One Facebook employee told The New York Times that Facebook originally thought it could figure out hardware development on its own.
Here's the money quote from the story;
“Mark is worried that if he doesn’t create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms,” one Facebook employee said.

Hey friends do you know that.........YouTube has launched a Human Rights channel, with non-profit partner Witness and video playlist creator Storyful, the company announced Thursday. The channel will curate footage of human rights-related stories, uploaded by citizen users, shedding light on under-reported stories and, potentially, fueling activism.

Human rights organization Witness will be responsible for ensuring content is balanced and has adequate context. Storyful will source and verify all of the channel’s content.
Youtube link
http://www.youtube.com/humanrights

CURRENT AFFAIRS 2012 MAY. MONTH WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS


Answers-1] Talwar couple 2] Tokyo 3] Hampi Express 4] Perarivalan 5] Falcon-9 & Dragon 6] Guwahati 7] Speed Post 8] Glow Divine 9] 7.5 crores 10] Tim Cook(Apple)


Q.1 Name the convicts of the Aarushi Talwar murder case as said by a CBI report recently?

Q.2 Name the city which boasts of the world’s longest tower “Sky tree” which was opened for public access recently?
Q.3 Name the train which collided with a goods train recently at Anantapur in AP killing atleast 26 people?
Q.4 Name the accused of Rajiv Gandhi murder case who secured 92% marks in Tamil Nadu 12th board results which were out recently?
Q.5 Name the spacecrafts of a private Californian company(Space X) whose passengerless aircrafts were sent to space on Tuesday morning?
Q.6 Name the city where “The Coffee Alchemist Festival” was organized recently?
Q.7 Name the service of the Indian Postal Department which completed 25 successful years of its service in India?
Q.8 Name the latest brand campaign of Nakshatra jewelllery which was attended by its brand ambassador Katrina Kaif recently?
Q.9 What is the number of unemployed youths in the world as per the recent survey by International Labour Organisation (ILO)?
Q.10 Name the highest paid CEO of America as per a recent survey?

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Answers:- 
1).S Jaipal Reddy 2).49% 3).TurkmenGaz 4).Novak Djokovic 5).Copyright 6).Maria Sharapova


Questions
1.)Name the oil minister of India.


2).Bharti Airtel said it will buy a --------% stake in the Indian broadband business of Qualcomm for about $165 million in a deal


3).GAIL (India) Limited inked the gas sale and purchase agreement (GSPA) with -----------, Turkmenistan's national oil company, for the 7.6-billion TAPI project on 23 May 2012.


4).Rafael Nadal defeated world no. 1 ----------- to claim his sixth Italian Open Title on 21 May 2012.


5).The Lok Sabha passed the --------- Bill 2010 on 22 May 2012


6).Russian tennis star ------------- defeated Li Na of China to retain the Italian Open title on 20 May 2012.

Sony Mobile Communications has officially launched three new Xperia smartphones in the country: Xperia U and P, and Xperia Sola. The smartphones were initially unveiled at the Xperia S launch last month.

Sony Xperia U has a 3.5 inch scratch-resistant TFT touchscreen with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels and is powered by a 1 GHz STE U8500 dual-core processor. The smartphone runs on Google Android 2.3 operating system (upgrade to Android Ice Cream Sandwich promised). There's a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus, 16x digital zoom and LED flash. The phone has 8 GB internal memory and 512 MB RAM. The smartphone is priced at Rs 17, 399.
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