CNETAnalysis: If Facebook has been built today it would have been a mobile app rather than a website, according to the company’s CTO Bret Taylor. Facebook established itself online, but the rise of mobile devices has seen the social network embrace the brave new world and Facebook apps are among the most downloaded on the planet. According to the Telegraph Taylor said: “Facebook would have been a mobile application if the technology had been available when Mark Zuckerberg was building it in his dorm room.” Meteoric rise Facebook is not the first to talk about the increased role of the mobile device in our everyday connected lives. Google has been clear in its stance on mobile, and Apple’s Steve Jobs famously talked up the post-PC world as he oversaw the meteoric rise of the iPad. “Mobile devices are the best devices for Facebook,” added Taylor. “Now all the things that were already popular are much easier, from photosharing to posting a status update. “Over time it’s pretty reasonable to expect that there will be a lot of things that are possible that just aren’t possible on laptops.” Posted by: Maryum
CNews Karachi. July 05: A Pakistani Scientist in Britain has invented a new chemical for processing plastic (polythene) bags which has the quality of dissolution after its use in 105 days.A manufacturing unit for these plastic bags was being set up in Turkey while interest has been shown in the setting up of a big unit and manufacturing firm’s head quarter in Karachi which will be used to supply such dissolvable polythene bags to Asian countries. The Director of UK based firm Bio Plast Biodegradable Plastics GL Punn while leading a 15 member delegation called on EDO Municipal Services City Government Masood Alam. The Executive Director of Bio Plast Pakistan Muhammad Hanif Awan and M. Sultan Mehmood Awan was also present on this occasion. The Director of Bio Plast informed the EDO Municipal Services about the characteristics of new chemical. He said that the firm was going to set up its first plant in Turkey which will be operative in next two months. The delegation also praised the vi