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Showing posts with label internet news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet news. Show all posts

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Skype Brings Video Calling Facility for Android Users

Skype Brings Video Calling Facility for Android Users

Skype launches a new version of Skype for Android app to enable its users to enjoy face-to-face video calls to other Skype users. Skype to Android 2.0 will also be Skype users to fixed and mobile calls worldwide. Skype has a statement today in this regard.

GoDaddy finds sugar daddies

GoDaddy finds sugar daddies

Web hosting company and domain registrar GoDaddy announced this week that it has been taken over by private equity firm KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures.

Google bid 'pi' for Nortel patents and lost

Google bid

(Reuters) - The auction for wireless patents Nortel Networks this week was Google's mysterious like $ 1,902,160,540 and $ 2,614,972,128.

Math whiz recognize these numbers as Brun's constant and Meissel-Mertens constant, but it surprised many of the people involved in the auction, after three people with direct knowledge of the situation on Friday.

Go Daddy, an Internet domain registrar, is sold

Go Daddy

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The parent company of GoDaddy.com, a top registrar of Internet domain names that have been sold to a group of private investment firms for $ 2.25 billion, a person familiar with the transaction told The Associated Press.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Inside Google Plus

Inside Google Plus

Google Plus is a new Google initiative, which aims to make your social exchange experiences and to facilitate people who do something for you in real life contact. But wait ... We have no Facebook, Twitter, and dozens of social sharing sites?

Yes, but Google as well have a different approach to social division and this guy has a better Privacy Control on the provided functions. Do not you hate it when a friend adds you to a random stupid Facebook group? Are you crazy when you mention tons of spam on Twitter? They are all public and everyone can find it by using a simple query [@ your_Twitter handle].

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Facebook and Twitter war for users

Facebook and Twitter

Earlier this month social media site Twitter, and Apple tech powerhouse together to make tweeting easier for iPhone, iPod touch users.
Apple owners will now be able to tweet directly from your camera, photos, maps, YouTube and Safari apps.

Twitter rival Facebook - partly owned by Microsoft - not expected to have similar functions to produce the iPhone.

Google now provides five more Indian languages

Google

WASHINGTON: Internet search engine giant Google announced Tuesday the expansion of its translation to include five Indian languages ​​- Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu - and so increase the range to a potential half million inhabitants.

"From now on it the linguistic diversity of the Indian subcontinent with Google Translate now supports five new experimental Alpha languages​​: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu," said Ashish Venugopal, a researcher at Google.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

we like Google but where’s Apple?: India

 we like Google but where’s Apple?: India

Infosys and Tata has covered an index of corporate "Thought Leaders in India - defined as companies that the attitude of customers, employees and stakeholders to change.

Apple UK & U.S. led similar lists were notable omission from India's top 20, but Google, Nokia and Japan, Suzuki made the grade. So what is needed for an Indian thought leader be?

SiteLauncher: Easy bookmarking for Chrome and Firefox

SiteLauncher: Easy bookmarking for Chrome and Firefox

Find your way in online som snart som du blir more and more important. Current net users ønsker zip from place to place utan HAVING two worry about Remembering addresses or two work out hvor de går stored in your bookmarks.

Website launcher for Firefox site and launcher for dets Chrome browser extensions, and a quick-access shortcuts to your: most popular sites. Det er allerede packed with useful bookmarks, men kan også customize your own and all the eksisterende ones.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Airtel Announces New High Speed Broadband Plans

Airtel

Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of new broadband plans, with a minimum of 2 Mbps broadband speed in the top 10 cities, and from 1 Mbps to exchange for other cities across the country. 2Mbps these plans will be offered in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune. For all other markets in its service areas in the country the new plans offer a minimum broadband speed of 1Mbps.

Google to digitise British Library collection

Google to digitise British Library collection

Thousands of books and papers of the British Library collection will soon be made available online through a new partnership with Google.

Google and the British Library will collaborate on the digitization of 250,000 out-of-copyright texts from the 18th and 19th centuries.

The British Library digital collection is expected to increase from 1.25 m to 50 elements in 2020 as it aims to find new ways for its collection accessible to scholars and members of the public, often free. Scanning texts without the help of Google's library would cost millions of pounds.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Nortel patents' bid: It's Apple vs Google

Nortel patents

PORTLAND: Apple Inc. has joined the bidders for a multitude of patents from Nortel Networks Corp., the bankrupt manufacturer of phone equipment, two people familiar with knowledge of the matter said.

Nortel, based in Mississauga, Ontario, said yesterday received "a considerable degree of interest" in the technology portfolio and the auction for one week to 27 June slowdown in demand to meet. People familiar with Apple's plan would not be identified because the bidding process is not public.

Mercedes-Benz First Car Manufacturer to Launch Its Website

Mercedes-Benz First Car Manufacturer to Launch Its Website

It is reported that Mercedes has a mobile website that will be catering to the rapidly evolving group of tech savvy customers launched. The site is easily accessible via various mobile devices including smart phones, robots and other feature phones capable of Internet browsing. With the launch of this site, the group has become the first automaker in India to launch mobile-optimized website.

It is told that the website simply as a showroom and graphic presentations, and users will want a showroom of their homes or offices to visit. It will inform users about new products, technical data, photo galleries, prices and information on local service centers and more.

‘Learn with Yahoo’ Program Will Make Its Way to Schools

Learn with Yahoo

Use of Internet in India is changing rapidly and there is more than 50% of new subscribers tier II cities. The requirement to learn to surf on the Internet is high, which is why Yahoo India has decided to launch his program "Learn to Yahoo 'to schools in the near future.

The program receives a good response from people in the first phase. There are plans to add to the program as it makes its way into schools.

FaceBook users don't take online pals seriously

FaceBook users don't take online pals seriously

Wondering what your real life friends will leave behind the use of Facebook? Well, it's not true.

A new study says that Facebook users than those who do not use social networking sites more intimate relationship with their offline friends, New Scientist reports.

Internet Usage up by 50% in Tier-2 Cities

Internet
Last year, the majority of users' interests in India in Metro. But thetrends are moving the Internet underground city.Senior Director Nitin Mathura, Yahoo India, had this to say:

"Internet penetration is very low compared to other states in India today. Specifically to the 24 crore in 2015, and the size of the Indian population would not be NOK. But we are seeing more and more people have access to the Internet through a mobile computer. Evennow, eight more than 2 crore, 5 crore mobile users to access theInternet. As 3G phones become cheap mobile Internet is the nextbig thing in countries who need the remote corners of the country "

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Hackers attack Malaysia government websites

Hackers attack Malaysia government websites


Hackers have dozens of government websites attacked in Malaysia, days after a hacking group criticized the country's censorship.

Malaysian officials said that attempts were made ​​to 51 sites to hack, and at least 41 had been disrupted.