Late News: SkyDrive Features Revealed, Facebook Hacker Gets 8 Months Jail Time, Google Chrome Password Generator

Screenshots revealing interesting details about Microsoft's SkyDrive app for Windows and Mac surfaced on the Web. According to a Gemind report, the newly leaked features are likely to be parts of the SkyDrive Wave 5 M3 (version 16.3). According to a LiveSide report the new SkyDrive app will be facilitating a perfect platform for its users to access any OpenOffice document file, including the ones with .docx, .odt, odp, pptx extensions alongside many others.

The student who successfully breached Facebook's security, a feat that seemingly threatened to bring down the $100 billion empire, has been jailed for a term of eight months. British software development student, Glenn Mangham, impersonated a Facebook employee and then hacked into three servers of the world's largest social networking website.

Google is looking to introduce a password generator in the future versions of its massively popular Chrome browser (via the open source Chromium project), the company announced in a blog post. According to Google, the new feature will be solely aimed at generating passwords on behalf of users which will be more difficult for hackers to break into, thus ensuring users a safer browsing experience.

In a bid to provide better protection against terrorism and to combat future terror threats, UK government wants to store details such as online browsing history, phone calls, text messages and emails of every individual in UK. According to the Telegraph, the government is working on a new and improved anti-terror plan under which mobile phone, land line and broadband providers will be asked to store their users' information.

Google has launched a test version of the Chrome browser that can run various programs written in Dart - the language Google designed for improving upon limitations of JavaScript. Dart was developed by Google for improving web programming and facilitating a better performance via a language the company believes is suitable for large scale Web applications.