Santa Claus fans all over the world can keep track of the Christmas Eve trip of the Big Man by using Google Maps' Santa Tracker feature, which is now ready to be used.

With Santa delivering gifts and toys to good children and to dutiful techies on his Christmas Eve trip the world over, his fans can keep an eye on his deliveries with the help of the Santa Tracker of Google maps.

China sensors blocking the users from searching certain kind of App Store apps have been thwarted by Apple, with the company having switched over to the hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) Internet communications protocol for App Store.

According to reports, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's new Facebook page - www. facebook. com/www. Khamenei. ir - created on Friday, December 13, has already garnered nearly 6,000 `Likes.'

The Kiel, north Germany-based Unabhaengiges Landeszentrum fuer Datenschutz (ULD) data protection agency has recently ordered social network Facebook to change its real name policy.

According to reports, Internet search giant Google appears to be poised to agree with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the issue of tweaking the way it displays its search results, in a move which will mark the end of the US regulators' anti-trust investigation into the company's business practices.

Apple's last Tuesday launch of its popular iTunes online store in South Africa is apparently no cause for worry for the local music retailers; with most of them reportedly unfazed by the move, and some of them being of opinion that the South African iTunes version will give a boost to sales even though it will offer music and movies at a much lower price.

At an online eBay Motors auction, the special, one-off edition of Nissan's GT-R flegaship supercar - the `Bolt Gold' GT-R, which has been autographed by Olympic champion Usain Bolt - fetched $187,100; an amount that is almost two-fold more than the car's list price at auction.

In a move which marks Facebook's newest attempts in the direction of addressing users' concerns about who can view their personal details, the popular social network commenced the roll out of a range of privacy controls on Wednesday.