Articles Archive for January 2009
Announcements, Best of Web, Digg out »
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.).Millions of users all over the globe were completely unaware and astounded of what had happened to the world’s most popular search engine.
Google,which has really become synonymous to ‘search’(Googling = Searching) today,wouldn’t have even imagined such a terrible situation in its wildest dreams.Precisely,Google started labeling every website on any given search with the message “This …
Acquisitions, Announcements »
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 from domain resale industry is a lot astounding.
In the days of recession,when companies are struggling to procure funds for survival,here is a decade old publicly traded travel site called Travelzoo,which has just announced acquisition of Fly.com for whopping $1.8Mn.
According to Travelzoo
“Fly.com will launch a new travel search engine within the next few weeks that …
Digg out »
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 hinted stuff from Google’s garage but didn’t materialise till now.
Now,with this hidden description of GDrive,the earlier presumptions seem to be quite right.As assumed earlier,GDrive will provide a way to store all our data(documents,photos,music etc) in Google’s servers and back-up the data on a regular basis as well.
This is the burried description of …
Gadgets, tech world rumors »
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 2008,the same old rumors caught up again and now exactly one year from now,the ‘Dell smartphone’ rumors are all over the blogosphere.
There’s hasn’t been any official announcement of Dell launching a smartphone but the rumors are looking stronger than before.According to some sources,Dell is trying out its smartphone prototype,both …
Digg out, legal matters »
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 iPhone3G last year.
According to Medway’s claims,the latest version of iPhone called iPhone3G has a defect which doesn’t let the the Apple’s smartphone users,get consistent 3G speed.Medway also highlights the fact that Apple is well aware of the problem as thousands of folks have repeatedly complained regarding the inconsistent high-speed connectivity but Apple has not taken any responsible action …
Best of Web, Digg out »
‘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’ technology doesn’t suit every kind of application that we use today.
Hence,below are the 4 basic characteristics of an application that suits ‘Cloud computing’ rather than conventional methods of app deployment and resource consumption.Take a look…
1. Which needs Flexibility
The best part about Cloud computing is that it provides flexibility,shared and automated management that distributes resources over …
Announcements »
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 points,was first implemented by Apple in Macbook and iPhone and now,it can be seen in Microsoft Surface and Asus EEE PC and few other gadgets as well.
But the highlight of CES 09,Palm Pre was indirectly accused of violating the Apple’s patent rights by Apple COO Tim Cook because one of the remarkable and most talked about …
blogosphere »
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’ who spat on his face and ran away into the crowd in a split of a second.
Arrington,on the other side,was quite astounded(rather shocked) with this mishap and has really spoke his heart out in his recent post.There,he has described the entire incident and few other life threatening incidents that happened to him in the past.
At the end,he has …
