Facebook and other Web services will be blocked by Google Inc from accessing the information of its users, this marks an intensifying rivalry between the two companies. Google will not allow other services to import the email contact of its users for their own purposes from now on, it wants the information to flow both the ways. Google accused Facebook in particular of carrying up contact data from Google, without letting the automatic export and import of information of Facebook users.

Facebook has more than 500 million users, it depends on email services like Gmail from Google to help new users to search friends who are already on the network. When a new user joins Facebook, he or she is asked to import their contact list from Gmail into the Facebook. Then it tells the user which email contacts are also there on the social network.

Google said, websites like Facebook leave users in a data dead end. When Facebook was asked for comments on this news, it did not say anything on Friday. This is an attempt by Google to protect the ability of its users to gain control of their personal information on the internet. This is the battle between the largest search engine of the world, Google and the dominant Internet social network, Facebook.

Research In Motion’s share came down more than three percent on Friday morning since investors annoyed the grip of BlackBerry smartphones on corporate communications was being destroyed by opposing devices. Citigroup and Bank of America have joined a huge developing crowd of financial institutions considering alternatives to BlackBerry for corporate email.

Software designed to make Apple’s iPhone secure enough for the messages of the company are being tested by the banks according to Bloomberg, considering three people who are familiar with this plan. The details of the report were confirmed by the source at Bank of America.

Smartphones of BlackBerry have been the device of choice for bankers, politicians and other executives from long time since they needed a secure access to email and internet when they are outside their business or office. But increasing popularity of consumer-oriented smartphones like iPhone and other devices which run of Android, brought together with the moves of their makers to increase security credentials, have been pushing down the dominance of RIM in the corporate sector.

Thousands of employees of Dell will be shifted by Dell Inc off BlackBerry from Research In Motion to Dell’s own smartphones according to the company. This is will be the money saving switch by the Dell, which is going to affect 25,000 employees of Dell who possess BlackBerry issued by the company. Dell employs 100,000 employees throughout the world. Company is introducing the effort to assure its business customers to switch to the smartphone of the company.

RIM did not comment immediately on this news. BlackBerry users of Dell will be transferred over to use the new Dell Venue Pro, this device runs on Microsoft’s Windows 7 software and he network on which this device works is T-Mobile USA. Decision of Dell to shift its employees off BlackBerry was a little surprising. Though the company was talking about using handheld devices as an entrance to sell and promote a broader series of services.

Dell entered the smartphone market late this year and it also launched its first device in United States, the Aero at the beginning of the year. Aero operates on Android software of Google and Dell’s new 5 inch tablet, Streak also operates on same system. RIM was the dominant player in the corporate smartphone market for long time, but the company experienced the market share destruction due to rise in gains of companies like Apple. RIM’s global smartphone market share came down more than 4 percent points in the third quarter.

Founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has been named as the 10^th most powerful man in the world, before Rupert Murdoch, Hillary Clinton and Steve Jobs. Forbes praised his work among 40 of the richest people in the world to declare most of the wealth to charities and other good causes. Gates stepped down from his role at Microsoft to focus on charity achievements of his Melinda Gates and Bill Foundation.

Gates has been ranked seven places higher than Apple’s chief executive Steve Jobs. Forbes recongnized him for his crazy creativity and ability to change multi billion dollar industry every few years with latest devices like iPhone and iPad.

Co-founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin come into sight together at number 22 in the list, but despite the popularity of Facebook, its founder Marck Zuckerberg is ranked 18 places lower, he is at 40 on Forbes Powerful People List of 2010. Chinese search engine Baidu’s chief executive, Robin Li is at 46, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is at number 66.

Mark Zuckerberg, one of the founder of Facebook answered saying no to the question, is Facebook making its own phone? But that doesn’t mean it does not want to be on your phone. Big news of Zuckerberg was not only about one product, feature or developer API, but that mobile phones would start to play a bigger role in overall goal to “make everything social” of Facebook.

Zuckerberg is happy to say that users can already access their Facebook profile on their iPhone, Android and BlackBerry devices. Not only these but any handset with mobile web browser lets you visit your Facebook profile. More than 200 million users of Facebook are doing that already when compared with 65 million last year.

Facebook is looking forward to all the cell phone users into Facebook users with the help of new features, ability to access into mobile app with the help of Facebook ID in one click, allowing developers of location check-in applications like Foursqure, hook Loopt and Yelp into Places feature of Facebook, which helps merchants offer specials to mobile Facebook users who have checked into their businesses.

Facebook can do anything and that has been proven again and again in all these years.