Posts Tagged ‘ Google ’

Youtube turns Five!!!

5 years ago Chad Hurley registered a URL that has revolutionized the way we see online videos… More than 20 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube… Personally i think that if it wasn’t for YouTube, we might not be as far down the road as we are with online video… From the YouTube Blog: When [ READ MORE ]

Google Takes on Social Networking with Buzz!!!

Google has announced a new social networking service called “Buzz” that looks like Facebook but feels like Twitter… Buzz basically integrates your Gmail account and based on your location lets you share links, photos and videos, status updates with your contacts from your mobile device (supports iPhone, Android and Google has released a new version [ READ MORE ]

Google Drops Support for IE 6!!!

In my mailbox is a nasty looking mail for Microsoft by Google today… Dear Google Apps admin, In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology.  This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5.  As a result, [ READ MORE ]

Google’s Super Bowl Ad!!!

As hinted by Eric Schmidt, Google debuted a Super Bowl ad Sunday… The ad tells the story of a romance helped along by a series of Google searches conducted by (one is left to imagine) a young man whose simple plan to study abroad in Paris ends with his need to know how to assemble [ READ MORE ]

Symbian goes FOSS!!!

Symbian 3 (the successor of previous Symbian versions, S60, S40 and others), the new version of Symbian OS, will mark the change of Symbian from being a closed OS platform to become an Open Source platform where anyone can download and modify it for free… The source code is published under the Eclipse Public License [ READ MORE ]

Steve Jobs on Google and Adobe!!!

Steve Jobs daring comments on Google and Adobe during Apple’s company wide “Town Hall” meeting at corporate headquarters, is surely gonna be criticized over this week… Taken from WIRED : On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t [ READ MORE ]

Rumor: Microsoft’s Bing to Replace Google As Default Search Engine on iPhone…

Businessweek reports that Apple and Microsoft are currently in negotiations to replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone with Microsoft’s Bing.com… The talks have reportedly been underway for weeks… Read the Article here… [ READ MORE ]

Google’s approach in China!!!

As many of us would be aware, Google has openly announced that they will take an active stance against internet censoring by China… I find this move by Google to be very interesting and feel it would have a huge effect in the near future on the freedom of speech in China.. This move makes it [ READ MORE ]

Bing Gets Its Own (Not So Short) URL Shortener (FAIL)!!!

Looks like Microsoft is also about to start a URL Shortening service…Its called Binged.it Binged.it is not yet public and is currently available only for internal use… Bing’s employee @fareologist has been using binged.it to shorten URLs when tweeting… I don’t see Binged.it gaining much traction… As compared to other URL Shortener its basically too long… Google’s [ READ MORE ]

‘Googlle’ opens technology certification ’school’ in India!!!

Read the title again….. ‘GOOGLLE‘ The website for the new school, found here, is as bogus as it gets. Not only does it rip off Google’s logo, but it even uses the same favicon, all whilst having dead links to various web pages. According to TechCrunch, Googlle offers two different certifications: the “GCPA – Googlle Certified [ READ MORE ]