Google is coming up with wireless Internet service on mobile phones with its Android software. Android software is taking against Symbian (Microsoft's Windows Mobile), and Apple Inc's iPhone. However, according to Andy Rubin, Director (Mobile Platform) Google, Android's success hinges on the ...

Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman has made YouTube ban terrorism training videos from its site. Also, now onwards, in addition to the ban on terror training videos, there would be prohibition on videos that incite others to commit violent acts; videos on things like how to make bombs; and ...

Google will turn 10 on Sunday 7th September 2008. In these ten years Google has become one of the most valuable brand names in the world. Google is worth $142 billion, employs 19,000 employs worldwide & should cross $20 billion in sales this year.
 
Google was started by Sergey Brin and ...

At a time when internet and consumer electronics companies are vying to match their competence with that of US cable and satellite providers, Amazon has announced its new 'Video On Demand Service' for movie buffs. The internet retailer informed that those who want to avail their new service can ...

Google chrome browser has been officially launched and can be downloaded from gears.google.com/chrome/?hl=en. Google has removed the cached page of Chrome download. It seems the browser was launched by mistake and as soon as the engineers identified the mistake, they removed the cache page. After ...

Carving a niche in the arena of web browsing, Google has launched its web browser Chrome, which would give a tough competition to Microsoft's web browser. Chrome, according to Google sources would be available to download from Tuesday in more than 100 countries for computers running on Microsoft's ...

Microsoft on Monday released a second test version of Internet Explorer 8 which has features similar to Mozilla Firefox.  The new web-browser promises to deliver a complete upgradation to the world's most widely used Web browser. Also, the market leader with 75% market share promised that the ...

After facing privacy pressure from US Congress, Yahoo Inc. announced that it will introduce a system to allow consumers to opt out of ads on its site that targets their web browsing propensity. The alteration, which will be effective in a few weeks, was declared in retort to an inquiry by the ...

Every year around 50,000 Indians sit for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and a number of them are unable to clear it, not because they are not competent, but because they are not used to taking computer based tests.
 
To help these students prepare themselves in a better way, the ...

Anna Patterson lent her expertise in building some of the foundation of Google search engine during her two year stint at the company. Now, in collaboration with her husband Tom Costello and some other former employees of Google Inc, Patterson is targeting to uproot her ex-employer. ...

Knol, a just introduced Google initiative, is all geared up to give Wikipedia on the internet a healthy competition. Just like Wikipedia, the pre-eminent and ubiquitous community encyclopedia over the Internet, the Knol too will provide information on virtually all topics under the sun. ...

If all goes as planned then one will even be able to watch Bengali flicks on YouTube soon as well as go through the literary works of noted novelists over the internet. This is because such a move is being planned by Google, the world’s biggest and most popular search engine. Debesh Das, the ...

This year’s MediaGuardian 100 power list is out and the top position has gone to Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, in recognition "of the all-pervasive impact of Google on the media". The list measures economic, cultural and political influence of people. By ...

In order to entice those netizens who are not really happy with their current e-mail addresses, the Yahoo Inc. is now proffering free e-mail accounts under two new designations. It is from Thursday onwards that this American company based at Sunnyvale expects to start registering new addresses ...

Now you can take a virtual 3D tour of the most popular US based recreational park, the Walt Disney World Resort even if you are living half a world away. This is because the Walt Disney World Resort has uploaded its videos on Google Earth that enables one to have a virtual tour of the recreational ...

Social networking website, Facebook is planning to undergo a revamp. Now that the said website has over 20,000 applications, it has declared its plan to redesign in order to clean up the users’ profile pages and enhance organization. Facebook announced that new applications will be arranged ...

Microsoft announced on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 that it will offer cash incentives to people who use the company’s search engine. Microsoft’s Internet search market has been steadily declining, hence the internet and software giant has planned to launch the new programme called ...

Netflix Inc, that offers DVD-by-mail service, started delivering movies straight off the internet to television sets through a new device, which boosted its stock by as much as 10.9%. This service was started by Netflix from Tuesday.
 
The device costs $99.99 and lets all the subscribers ...

The YouTube has been asked by a US senator to remove from its forum all videos posted by Islamic terrorists. Senator Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. has communicated this request in writing to the Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt. Commenting on the videos uploaded on the YouTube, the senator remarked ...

Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid, a twenty-two year old boy from Gurgaon in Haryana was arrested last Friday by the cyber crime cell of Pune for posting some inappropriate content on the social networking website Orkut about the Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Under the IT act, posting vulgar and ...

There is good news for all the laptop users. Now all laptop users who have subscribed to AT&T's 3G wireless data service can now avail of the free Wi-Fi at the company's 17,000 Wi-fi hotspots all across US, according to the announcement made by the company on Tuesday.
 
All laptop ...

There is good news for AOL mail and messenger users in India. AOL has announced that its mail and messenger users in India can now sent free messages and SMS to mobile phones through the network of AOL. The receiver will be able to reply back to these messages via AOL network.
 
PG Ponnapa, ...

Nokia has declared that it will add an improved mapping service to its internet portal ovi that provides a slew of services. The technology for this mapping service will be provided by Navteq, which has been newly acquired by Nokia. It is reported that the enhanced version of the mapping service ...

Microsoft Inc and Research in motion announced on Monday, May 12, 2008 that instant messaging services and consumer e-mail services from Microsoft would be available on Blackberry mobiles from later this summer. The new Blackberry Bold and products in Blackberry 7000 and 8000 segment also announced ...

A hacker who refers himself by the name ‘Anonymous Coward’ has posted the personal data of six million residents of Chile over the Internet in order to underscore the serious privacy problem in the country. The data, which comprises the names, addresses, telephone numbers and taxpayer ...

The state government of Rajasthan is planning to replace the outdated WiFi zones in its capital city Jaipur with WiMax technology. Only two other cities in India, Pune and Bangalore have WiMax zones. In fact in Pune the trials for the WiMax zone have been completed and the project is now in the ...

Though the internet has so many things to offer, it is sex which generates the maximum interest among the viewers. And now there are new members finding roles in it- insects. A video on You Tube showing two leopard slugs mating each other is the hot topic on You Tube. The video is creating ripples ...

Popular social networking site Facebook has recently revealed that it plans to launch a redesigned profile page aimed at making things more relevant and simpler for the users. The new profile page also promises to give better control to a user over their own profile. Facebook reveals that it ...

YouTube India was launched by Google on Wednesday. You Tube has debuted in India with a number of partners that includes Zoom TV (of Bennet Coleman & Co), UTV and Rajshri Group. All uploaded content on YouTube is protected by its digital hash technology, which safeguards all uploaded content on ...

Google, the world’s most popular search engine, on Monday, May 5, introduced an online service for its customers that will translate between Hindi and English.  Though this is a gutsy endeavor, it is low on utility since the translations generally turn out to be more hilarious than ...