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Developers at BitTorrent have been working on uTorrent Labs to introduce a new feature to their uTorrent client that ensures a Secure web access and adds On-demand streaming under the project named Project Falcon. This feature was introduced in january on invite bases to check and after months of testing and feedback from the community, it has been made available to all the users in form of public beta.

Google has taken its search engine to another level by enabling SSL encryption on their search engine, understanding the basic needs of privacy and security while searching. Previously, Google offered SSL enabled connections on some of its products that include Gmail and Google Docs. Earlier this year, SSL enabled connections were made default for Gmail users.

Google announced the general availability of Google Wave – the real-time communication and collaboration tool as a Google Labs project during Google I/O conference 2010. The over ambitious service was introduced by google at Google I/O Conference last year. Google wave began as an invite-only service with a handful of apps and initial invitations were sent to 100,000 users.

Today is 30th anniversary of the World famous game of Pacman, and google has a pretty unique way of celebrating it. Google has placed a playable version of the game as today’s Doodle, retaining the originality of the game that includes its characters as well as sounds!

Songbird is probably one of the best open source software and cross platform media players available. Calling it the iTunes for Ubuntu, would probably be the simplest answer to describe its importance. But, the disheartening announcement came from Songbird’s staff that, they are giving a halt to their support for Linux.

In an announcement, Google revealed that it will provide file transfer feature to google chat in iGoogle and Orkut soon. Once this feature is active, you can transfer photos, documents and other files directly to other users. This will surely save time for most of us, since we donot need to attach file to Email, or use Gtalk desktop client to transfer files.

The much anticipated device, Apple iPhone 3GS is all set to launch in India on 26th March,2010. The date of launch has been confirmed by Airtel’s official twitter account. Airtel customers can purchase iPhone 3GS from Airtel authorized retail stores across India including selected Airtel Relationship Centres. Update- Pricing details have been announced.