Twitter! Its an everyday social networking site we use, or at least some of us do. While many of us thought that twitter was a hit on the Internet, allowing users to share every little detail of themselves or an event, twitter hasn’t been best at keeping its users online.

With so many competitions such as MySpace and Facebook, will twitter really survive with its only feature being broadcasting status updates and messaging back and forth?

Twitter’s user loyalty problem will have a great impact in its feature success… or failure. With 60% of Twitter’s users not returning until the following month to use Twitter’s service, Twitter is lagging behind Facebook and MySpace.

Now with Facebook also opening its stream to API developers, it now allows any developer to create new applications incorporating the real-time stream of Facebook. With so many Twitter applications using Twitter API stream created for desktop and mobile applications, Facebook has fired back allowing its API stream to be used by any developer, this means new competition for Twitter.

What do you say about Twitter’s future? Does it stand against today’s social networking giants Facebook or MySpace? We will have to wait and see who takes advantage of Facebook’s new API stream and how Twitter will respond back. Until then, Twitter remains head to head with Facebook.

MICROSOFT INTEGRATES WINDOWS XP ON WINDOWS 7
Reported by John Raul Joven II

Good news to all Windows XP advocates and all Windows users who refused to jump into Vista, Microsoft just announced one of the secret technologies embedded with its Windows 7: the next major Microsoft operating system will integrate Windows XP.

Windows XP remained popular up to these days because of its notable speed and compatibility — factors both worldwide businesses and consumers want that Microsoft failed to deliver when it launched Windows Vista.

Dubbed as XPM or XP Mode, Microsoft claims that the feature provides near-perfect compatibility of Windows XP applications in Windows 7. Considering that Windows 7’s system requirements are on par with Windows Vista, enabling the XPM however will require a more powerful machine with at least 2 GB of RAM.

Having built on same platform as Microsoft’s Virtual PC 7 product, XPM will take advantage of virtualization
technologies in-built from CPUs such as the Intel VT-x for recent Intel CPUs and AMD-V for AMD processors.

Through XPM, users will be able to install and launch Windows XP applications on Windows 7 desktop, and can even run alongside the same application of Windows 7 version, without affecting the core operating system. This means the inclusion of the XPM feature on Windows 7 will not undermine its speed, stability and security. Microsoft will include a full Windows XP SP3 license with every legal copy of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate for use with XPM.

A release candidate version of Windows 7 is expected to be available to the general public for download
on May 5th. The RC version means that Microsoft is now on the final stages of completing the operating system which will succeed the unpopular Window Vista.

NETBOOKS DON’T DESERVE APPLE LOGO
Reported by Richard Crake

I’m here today to talk about the Apple netbook – or at least the Apple netbook rumor. I reckon any speculations on the Internet for Apple will come out with a netbook laptop.

Many people speculates this as the market for netbooks as definitely there as there have been reports stating that netbooks have outsold iPhones.

Last time I checked over 10 million iPhones sold has a definite market for this device.

However, when interviewed Tim Cook, one of the main people of Apple, said quote, "All I see wrong with these product is cramped keyboards, cramped displays. Until we are ready to bring innovation to this industry we can offer nothing as of yet."

So, will they be making a netbook? There have been reports that Apple had been ordering lots and lots of flash memory and 10-inch touch screens, so if they’re gonna bring out something that match the cost of video players or bring out a good touch tablet device or something along those lines, we just have to wait and see. All I’m saying is watch this space.

FIND BARGAIN NETBOOKS AT EBAY
Reported by Tom Maxwell

Hi, everyone. Tom Maxwell here from Tech Conclave giving you a top tip. What I have here is an Asus Eee PC. This is the very first edition, the 701.

Although it’s a small size, this computer can still do, you know, deal a lot of tasks. For example, it can do word processing, Internet browsing, you can play games on it, you can watch TV, you can even use it as a security camera with its built-in webcam. I got my Eee PC for just 75 pounds – it’s a bargain compared to the 225 pounds they were a year ago.

Now, the easiest way to do this is by keeping a close eye on eBay.  Let me show you how to do this the easy way.

Okay, so now we have eBay loaded up, let’s type in "Eee PC." On the left hand side, you want to click on the Laptop section. This will get rid of all other categories that will come up with the search. Click the Buy It Now only tab. Now that’s loaded,  on the Sort By Selection, select Newly Listed only, this will show up the newly listed items.

Now you can see the bargains before the majority of other users allowing you to grab those bargains.

GEEK OF THE WEEK: NEIL PERRIN OF GEEKWITHGLASSES.NET
Reported by Beau Sinclair

Hello this is Beau here for Tech Conclave Geek of the Week.

This week’s geek is Neil Perrin. I believe that’s right. GeekwithGlasses.net, go and check him out.

Beau: Neil, what do you do and what skills that you have as a geek?

Neil: I am a long-time technical gadget user. I’ve been working  with computers since I was about ten years old so we are looking at about 24 to 25 years that I have been involved with the computer industry and technology and gadgets in general.

I work professionally in the DC area as a contractor and do computer work for the government, government and such. And I have a passion to all things computer-related, technical-related and gadget-related. I’m a gadget guy. I decided I wanted to go ahead and share my knowledge with the masses.

 Beau: Oh cool, awesome. This has been Beau Sinclair from Bright, Australia.

Click here to learn more about Neil and his live tech show, Geek With Glasses.

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