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Josh Williams, the co-founder of Gowalla, who has been working with social networking giant, Facebook, is planning to resign from his job at the company.

Williams has been working as Facebook's product manager of location and events for about a year and half and has decided to leave the social networking company, Facebook said in a release. He has been working as the key person on social network's lead on local initiatives since Facebook integrated struggling startup Gowalla

Bill Gates, the founder of software giant Microsoft, has said at the opening of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit on Monday that we have entered a "golden age of computing."

He said that the connectivity, data and processing power have been increasing to levels that can help solve many of the world's major problems. Gates took questions from an audience of researchers regarding the works of his Gates Foundation and other developments in the computing world.

New Delhi, July 16 : Canadian mobile handset manufacturer BlackBerry Tuesday launched its Q5 smartphones here priced at Rs. 24,990.

"It is more affordable for the urban youth. It will be available from tomorrow (Wednesday) at all key BlackBerry outlets and the roll-out will be completed by July 20 across India," Sunil Lalvani, managing director for Indian operations, said while launching the product.

Earlier this year, the company launched two more products, which were priced on the higher side - Q10 for Rs. 45,000 and Z10 for Rs. 43,490.

Technology giant, Apple is believed to be working on a new technology to allow TV viewers to skip advertisements while watching their favourite shows.

Technology writer Jessica Lessin cited unnamed sources said that the company is in discussions with cable companies to pitch a service that will allow the users to skip ads on their television. The service will be offered as part of a premium service with Apple TV and the company will pay networks for skipping ads.

Tokyo, July 16 : Actor Hugh Jackman faced an embarrassing situation in Japan when he stripped down in a spa to relax, but realised it was not a usual thing there.

Jackman was shooting for his upcoming movie "The Wolverine" when he decided to take some time off to unwind and went to a spa.

"I was getting so hot and I'm using the towel they gave me to dip into the cold water and put it on my head, and I was getting very strange looks from everybody," thesun. co. uk quoted Jackman as saying.

The actor did not realise what was wrong until a local resident pointed out the problem.

Puri, July 16 : Visiting Odisha to pray at the Jagannath temple, Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP strongman Narendra Modi Tuesday sought to draw similarities between the two states and also spoke in Oriya, winning applause.

The chief minister thanked the people of Odisha for their contribution to the progress of Gujarat.