Archive for January, 2009

Google About To Push The Pedal On Gdrive

Friday, 30th January 2009

Stories about the launch of Google’s online data storage solution, dubbed GDrive, have started appearing in the tech press once again. According to various sources the GDrive should finally be launched in 2009. (more…)

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AOL Rumoured To Sell Bebo

Thursday, 29th January 2009

The latest rumors doing the rounds are that AOL may be planning to sell Bebo for about $200 million, less than a year after it acquired the social network for $850 million. (more…)

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Is Google Ocean Next?

Wednesday, 28th January 2009

Google, it would seem, has already conquered the earth and the sky with Google Earth and Google Sky. What remains to be conquered is the ocean. If rumors are to be believed this may happen very soon. (more…)

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YouTube Wooing Big Media Companies

Tuesday, 27th January 2009

In what could be a win-win situation for all concerned, Google is planning to allow big media companies to start selling ads along with their content that appears on YouTube. (more…)

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Should Wikipedia Introduce Flagged Revisions?

Monday, 26th January 2009

The recent appearance of false reports on Wikipedia about the deaths of U.S. senators Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd during the inaugural lunch has started a serious debate on whether or not edits by unknown users should be edited by trusted editors. (more…)

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Google To Stop Print Ad Service

Saturday, 24th January 2009

Following closely on the heels of announcements regarding staff reductions and the closure of some of their offices worldwide and services such as video uploads, Jaiku, dodgeball, notebook and catalog search, comes an announcement from Google that they will now be closing down their Print Ads service. (more…)

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Facebook And CNN Connect To Deliver Truly Social News

Thursday, 22nd January 2009

Even as people turned out in millions, braving the weather in Washington, to hear the inaugural speech of  President Barack Obama in person, Facebook and CNN came together to allow users all over the world to witness the event live online. (more…)

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YouTube Allows Video Downloads

Wednesday, 21st January 2009

For the first time since its inception, YouTube has decided to allow users to download content from their site. (more…)

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Social Features Introduced In iGoogle

Tuesday, 20th January 2009

Google seems determined to compete with the popular social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. The search giant is now encouraging its users to utilise features added to iGoogle widgets via OpenSocial and share content from iGoogle with their contacts and friends. (more…)

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Google Launches Free TV Ad Creator

Monday, 19th January 2009

It just got cheaper and a lot easier to advertise products on television. Google has launched a free television ad creation service for AdWords advertisers. (more…)

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Google Downsizes

Friday, 16th January 2009

There is some bad news for the IT industry in general, and for Google employees in particular. It looks as though the recession is beginning to catch up with the search giant. (more…)

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It’s Not Web TV, It’s Connected TV

Thursday, 15th January 2009

When Web TV was first introduced in the 1990s, the TV set was connected to a keyboard and a set top box. Back then, it did not succeed quite as well as expected. But now it seems to be making a comeback in a modified form, with the keyboard and set top box built into the TV itself; And it’s now called Connected TV. (more…)

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Will The Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal Be Revived?

Wednesday, 14th January 2009

It looks as though there is no end in sight for the Microsoft-Yahoo! acquisition deal. (more…)

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Mozilla Replaces Google With Yandex

Tuesday, 13th January 2009

Google is the default home page for Mozilla Firefox browsers. This situation is likely to change in the near future in Russia. (more…)

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Live Search On Dell PCs And Verizon Mobile Phones

Monday, 12th January 2009

During his keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2009 last week, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, made some exciting new announcements about Microsoft Live Search. To begin with, Ballmer said that Microsoft has entered into a 3-year agreement with Dell. (more…)

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Google Blends Mobile Ads In Organic Results

Thursday, 8th January 2009

While Google has always been very particular about differentiating ads from organic search results by placing ads only at the side of the search results page or in clearly marked slots at the top of the page, the Google Operating System blog recently found Google Mobile Search displaying short text ads in the middle of the search results page. (more…)

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Google Product Search Races Ahead

Wednesday, 7th January 2009

When Google sets its sites upon a particular goal, they can really go all out to achieve it. Their product search engine, which was lagging way behind in the market has suddenly picked up steam and is fast closing in on its competitors. (more…)

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Mozilla Launches Improved Mobile Browser

Tuesday, 6th January 2009

For quite some time now, Mozilla has been struggling to introduce their own mobile browser. Their first offering Minimo, was wiped out and then reintroduced later as Fennec in the beginning of 2008. Even this version was not very well received as there was great difficulty in downloading it on mobile. (more…)

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UK Housewives Spending More Leisure Time Online

Monday, 5th January 2009

The results of a recent survey conducted by global market information group TNS reveals an interesting pattern, about free time spent online, by users across different countries. (more…)

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Google Asks For Product Ideas

Friday, 2nd January 2009

In their effort to gauge and fulfill the needs of their users, Google has launched a new website for product ideas and a blog to support it. (more…)

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