The Queen wants to master new technology, and to prove this, tomorrow Buckingham Palace will launch a Facebook page called “The British Monarchy”. This new page will highlight the latest Royal news, videos, photographs and speeches from Royal Family, and several other updates about day today activities of the Queen and other members of the family.

Most popular social networking site in the world, Facebook with more than 500 million users has created a special application for the official page of the Queen. “Near me” application will allow users to find out about events in the Royal family and searchable visits in the area on the map of the country.

But users can’t poke, send messages or send friend requests to the Queen, they can use “likes” application and they can be fans of the Queen by registering themselves. Users who “like” the page will start to receive updates about the Royal Family from there via their news feed. Users can post comments on the page and send messages to Royal Family by wiring on the Queen’s “wall”.

The record of official Royal engagements of the previous day, court circular will also be available on Facebook. According to reports the queen has personally approved these plans for her new page, this page will go live from tomorrow 8 a.m.

Gold rush released by the iPhone has served like a launch pad for the industry of videogame in Montreal, this is hoping to catch on the success of Apple’s smartphone. Two day Montreal International Game Summit opens on Monday in the big city of Quebec, hundreds of participants of this event will be waiting for better ways get benefits from gaming market.

iPhone has captured 20 percent of the portable gaming market and five percent of global videogame market in one and a half year, which is about 50 billion dollars per year. iPhone comes with an embedded camera, portable media player and internet capabilities along with normal cell phone operations. Not only that, it also provides third party apps via its App store which includes games, social networking and GPS navigation.

CEO of interactive entertainment developer Ludia, which is a company based in Old Montreal said, iPhone balanced access to games, and made it easy and affordable for consumers. App Store has more than 300,000 applications today. It is an extremely competitive market which puts lot of pressure on prices.

Apple sold 14.1 million iPhones in last quarter, which is 91 percent up from a year ago. iPhone 4 is the most successful product launched ever according to the company, with more than 3 million sales in the first three weeks after the launch.

According to a recent research, Criminals are abusing latest technologies with increasing efficiency, because of increase in the number of people using mobile internet. The survey conducted by mobile security firm AdaptiveMobile is saying that traditional spam email affects fewer than one million users with the predictions of smartphones outselling PCs in 2011.

Conversion rates of mobile spam are higher than one percent, one spam SMS text message can create more than $10 million in three days. Among the scams found by the firm included sophisticated attacks which affect capabilities of smartphone to connect to internet. And the results showed click fraud on ads and mobile viruses. Simple scams included things like SMS messages which claims that the recipient had won a cash prize and making them to replying through premium rate text or call.

Vice president of business development at AdaptiveMobile said, spammers have found the ways of avoiding the cost of sending bulk messages, but the barrier on receiving spam on mobiles has been taken off. Mobile phone is a personal device and people are basically trust communications through their handsets than emails. Mobile operators are fighting criminals on their level, but users have to play their part too if they want to be safe in this mobile world.

Western Digital Corp which is a hard drive manufacturer is concentrating on investing in products and strategies to serve digital home. Flash storage and computer devices like Apple’s iPad tablet, which do not use a hard drive have been challenging hard-drive makers constantly.

World number 2 hard drive manufacturer, Western Digital has experienced its share price falling 28 percent since the beginning. With branded products for consumers such as media player with built-in hard drive named WD TV Live Hub, the company is showing high hopes. This new device has been launched last month. It has also unveiled a new app for smartphones which allows users to access personal photos stored on their home networks remotely.

An analyst said that it is sensible for Western Digital to invest in all these new products because they have huge margins. Retails sales of Products of Western Digital such as the My Book hard drive, adds for 18 percent of the revenue of the company.

At the end of the quarter the net cash of Western Digital was $2.5 billion and According to CFO Nickl the company would always prefer to invest money in calculated options. If they can’t find a chance which makes sense, they will return the money. He said, “Our preference is doing it through share buybacks because this is still a volatile and cyclical business,” he said.

Today Facebook updated its Apps on Android platforms and iPhone to add “Grops” functions, Facebook introduced “Places” feature to Android platform in UK and also made an announcement that users of America who check in to particular shops will get deals, which includes free clothing from Gap and charity from McDonalds.

Henri Mossinac, Facebook’s head of mobile said, strategy matched a bid to make mobile world like a more social experience, and said that the social network included 200 million active users of mobile. They were found engaged with the site than their 500 million similar desktops.

Users can now download the updated apps through the iPhone and Android app stores. Apple version already has the new “Places” feature and will get groups function added to it. Android app gets both Places and Groups added at the same time and users in America will see the deals when check into particular outlets. First 10,000 customers are being offered to check in a free pair of jeans by Gap and subsequent visitors will get 40% off. $1 million will be donated by McDonalds to its foundation for each user who checks in at a restaurant. This deals will be launched in UK soon. Launch of Places function in UK followed its launch in America after six weeks.