Archive for January, 2009

January 31, 2009 / Announcements, Best of Web, Digg out

Google shares ‘Nightmarish Error’ with StopBadware.org ; Gets Slammed !

Google has literally committed one of the biggest mistakes of its decade long history.Google labeled every website on the web as 'malicious' for nearly 55 minutes(between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m.).

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January 31, 2009 / Acquisitions, Announcements

Travelzoo looking Recession-proof ; Acquires Fly.com for $1.8Mn

Travelzoo looking Recession-proof ; Acquires Fly.com for $1.8Mn

I strongly discourage lofty domain resales,in the sense that brands are built with quality of service and not a rememberable name(that helps to an extent but not at all necessary),the latest news

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January 30, 2009 / Digg out

Stronger hints about “GDrive”…Is its launch round the corner ?

Quitely discovered by Brian Ussery,a tech blogger,is another hint(this time,it's stronger and clear) about "Google web drive" or "GDrive"(what they are calling it right now) that has long been a hinte

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January 30, 2009 / Gadgets, tech world rumors

'Dell Smartphone' rumors bubbling out again ! May be true this time

‘Dell Smartphone’ rumors bubbling out again ! May be true this time

Back in April 2007,Dell was rumored to be working over a smartphone,which never materialised and then in December 2007,the same sort of rumors bubbled out but didn't have much truth in it.In early 200

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January 29, 2009 / Digg out, legal matters

Apple(and not AT&T) sued over

Apple(and not AT&T) sued over “Unrealistic 3G speed claims”

Jason Medway,a resident of California has filed a 14-page complaint in a Northern California court against Apple,representing not only him but thousands of other California customers who purchased iPh

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January 29, 2009 / Best of Web, Digg out

What kinda apps are best suited for 'Cloud deployment' : 4 Solutions

What kinda apps are best suited for ‘Cloud deployment’ : 4 Solutions

'Cloud computing' is a technology that will certainly change the way we deploy and run our applications,utilizing various resources in much efficient and economical manner.But as of now,the 'Cloud' te

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January 28, 2009 / Announcements

Apple gets patent for

Apple gets patent for “Multi-touch UI” ; Troubles for “Palm Pre” ?

Apple has finally been granted the patent for Multi-touch UI,which it filed back in april last year.Multi-touch screen,a technology that enables a screen to simultaneously recognise multiple touch poi

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January 28, 2009 / blogosphere

Should TechCrunch's Michael Arrington continue blogging ?

Should TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington continue blogging ?

What's latest on TechCrunch is something really embarassing for the whole startup community.Very recently,Michael Arrington,while walking out of DLD conference,came across an 'asshole entrepreneur' wh

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January 27, 2009 / Gadgets

Got a Camera Phone ? You might not be able to click

Got a Camera Phone ? You might not be able to click “Silently” !

It's something that everybody does....Taking pics from camera phone without letting anybody know about it(Don't we).Be it for fun purpose or turning a bit intrusive to somebody else's privacy,folks ge

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January 27, 2009 / Twitter apps, Web apps

140it : For all those Twitterers who often hit

140it : For all those Twitterers who often hit “140 Char” limit

There's a newly launched service called 140it(for a change,this time the twitter app isn't "tw........."),that lets you shorten your tweets if they are exceeding the 140 character limit in twitte

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January 26, 2009 / Announcements, funding

“ChaCha” raises $30 Million;But who’s “Dumb” ? Investors or TechCrunch

ChaCha,a free mobile answers service,has just raised Series C round of $30 million,adding to the earlier rounds of $6 Million(Series A) and $10 Million(Series B) and making the total investment in thi

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January 26, 2009 / aggregator, Startups

“Faayda” : An Indian Job Search Engine for Unified Job search

In these troubled days of recession,one online sector that's happily taking the cake away is "Job Portals".Layoffs,shutdowns and  every such mishap creates more unemployment which inturn makes p

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