Google has removed Pagerank data from its webmaster tools due to statistical imbalance. They clarified that, it had been done as part of Search Engine Optimization.
 
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the option of getting websites to rank higher based on the search engine query ...

Google has launched mobile SEO upgrades forits mobile platform to make search easier. It has also added extra search engine optimization (SEO) methods for the professionals.
 
As per its upgradation, the iPhone users can do localized searches through their Safari browsers. It has also added ...

India’s largest mobile service provider, Airtel has partnered with the blogging site Twitter to allow SMS access to Twitter messages. This is for the first time that such a service has been started by an Indian network service provider. However, it was available in the US, Canada, UK ...

Google is known for introducing new features to its already popular internet service. Recently, it has added Google Wave Notifier Add-on to create a wave among the chatters.
 
Google Wave is principally a combination of real-time communication platform, email, instant messaging and chat ...

Popular social networking site, Twitter has added a ‘Report as spam’ feature to fight the growing spams over the internet.
 
A company spokesman said, "Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profile they find questionable."
 
He also ...

Amino Communications, a world leading independent IPTV specialist, has announced the launch of an IPTV set-top box that is powered by the new Intel Atom Processor CE4100.
 
This new generation product will address growing consumer demand for TV-based entertainment from any source such as ...

Peruvian computer hackers invaded the website of Argentine national soccer coach Diego Maradona and called him a "crybaby".
 
Visitors to the portal www.diegomaradona.com Monday heard Peruvian folk music and on the home page saw a photo of Maradona from his playing days with the ...

Google has added folder sharing feature to its Google Docs. So the users can share the spreadsheets, presentations and document files with other people. Previously, Google had added the online sharing of documents in 2007.
 
The users also need not change the permission of each ...

Researchers have developed a new feature through which the browser can detect the computer orientation. This application will be useful for any number of gaming situations such as labyrinth-type games with virtual marbles rolling around boards.
 
This was announced in a press meeting by ...

According to an online audience measurement and analytics organization, Gmail has overtaken Yahoo Mail to become India's Largest Free E-Mail Service Provider. As per the sources, Gmail had 18 million users as compared to 16.8 million users in Yahoo Mail. Rediff Mail is at number three with 6.25 ...

According to a report from IDC, the excess use of Web 2.0 technologies by the enterprises and professionals can raise data leaks, malware threats and many more security challenges. So it has been advised to follow deep content analysis and classification, as well as new techniques for preventing ...

Online payment applications are creating much interest with the announcement of Paypal’s payment platform in San Francisco next month.
 
Its demand can be attributed on the fact that, only the attendees at the PayPal’s US conference will be given early opportunity to get the much ...

Google has started a new search service, ‘Google Flu Trends’, which will estimate the levels of flue within a country or region based on the search activity employed by the users.
 
The new model was created by correlating the popularity of certain Google searches with available ...

Sybase, Inc. has launched world’s first advanced messaging platform with IMS & IP messaging service. Sybase 365, the associate organ of Sybase, has come out with this technique using the long expertise in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services.
 
Sybase is the first software ...

Geocities had once been very common as the free web hosting service and was the home to the first websites of a host of users.
 
Goecities had been used by people to showcase their view in your own style. In the 90s it had been the MySpace, with the excess of absolutely whacky user web sites ...

Google has added another feature, ‘Formatted PDFs’ to its popular search service. Accordingly, the users can view formatted PDF files from within their browser.
 
Previously, the internet giant had added an option called "View as HTML" to view the documents using the ...

Google has launched the Street View Service for major Canadian cities including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa. Previously, this service was available only for five US cities.
 
Google Street View allows users to navigate between the places in as many as 14 countries worldwide. This ...

The Australian National University (ANU) has launched Web 2.0 into its health portal for providing online treatment options to the public. This is meant to offer better and quicker health service for hundreds of aspirants.
 
The Mental Health Research’s portal is reviewed by Beacon ...

Do you need a theme of your choice, when you visit the browser next time? Its possible now as Google Chrome has launched a bunch of themes. Google has added a large number of themes from the noted artists and designers to its Google Chrome service.
 
According to a market survey, the Google ...

Yahoo has confirmed that they are closing the free site creation site, GeoCities later this month.
 
According to a Yahoo press release, "On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and ...

Now the shoppers will have a one-stop shop here in Ask.com as the network has a new deal in the form of ‘Ask Deals’ to provide easy shopping to the customers.
 
According to Scott Garell, president of Ask Networks, there will be links to online coupons along with the search ...

The US regulators are devising new rules to crack down on bloggers’ activities and monitor bloggers earnings from the ads.
 
Recently, the Federal Trade Commission, FTC, had decided to implement a new modified law in place of the old one to check the vast world of blogging. It will ...

Twitter is a popular social networking site. But apart from that, it is also helping the people in shedding those extra weights they have gained in the form of healthy diet charts.
 
There is a twitter campaign, ‘Tweet What You Eat’, which is meant to provide useful information ...

According to sources, the real-time search company, OneRiot will launch a new feature called RiotWise, which will help the companies to push links for the search results to the OneRiot search page. In turn, the search company will make money from the Twitter search.
 
The RiotWise feature ...

Microsoft said that, fraudsters had exposed its Hotmail passwords of around 10,000 users but had to be taken down immediately on users’ complaints.
 
The phishing scam happened on Monday as more than 10,000 users couldn’t access their accounts due to this online fraud. However, ...

Leoxsys has launched the Wireless-N Storage Router, LEO-150N-BT with built-in BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download facility. This will help the users to download lots of data onto an USB device without using a computer.
 
The new Router is powered with a 384 MHz MIPS processor. It is designed in ...

Popular social networking site Facebook has launched a new voice chat application, Vivox to enable the Facebook users’ to exchange calls through the networking site.
 
Vivox will also provide online help for the virtual words used by millions of users.
 
To use of the ...

Facebook is wooing its users with its tricky applications. In this pretext, it has launched its new charting application, ‘Gross National Happiness Index’ similar to its trend-tracking product, ‘Lexicon’.
 
Gross National Happiness Index displays a graph of data ...

According to IBM, it has launched two technologies that will help the telecom operators to analyse the usage patterns of their subscribers and design various subscription plans accordingly.
 
Social Network Analysis (SNA) technology is the first one to help the telecom operators analyse the ...

Yahoo! has disclosed the fact that, it will no more provide any access to Xoopit for Gmail service and Xoopit Web service. Xoopit was responsible for aggregating media files from users’ Gmail accounts.
 
Earlier, Xoopit was acquired by Yahoo!  to provide plug-in support to both ...