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Breaking Path Online: Telegraph Looks Beyond Traffic Numbers
Evolving sustainable business models in the digital space is a point that pricks a lot of media companies, especially news and content driven web publishers. News websites have been in the news for all the wrong reasons, and it has been said enough that print publishers unless they adopt to new media will soon be [...]
Google v/s Indian Authors – The Story So Far
The huge Google Books fiasco began in 2004, when Google ambitious tried to recreate a digital Library of Alexandria. The aim, to scan and place on the Internet, every book that they could have access to, create a huge repository of books and printed material, that could be scanned and searched for from anywhere across [...]
Social Search Now Live To Everyone On Google
In October last year Google’s Marissa Mayer announced that Social Search graduated from Google Labs. Until last week, however, it was an opt in feature. But now anyone who searches on www.google.com (US) will be able to see Social Search results.
For the uninformed, Social Search means that any person searching the web will also be [...]
Google Launches A Voice App For iPhones
Google has released versions of Google Voice for the iPhone and Palm webOS operating systems. It works on the iPhone running the 3.0 operating system. It also operates on Palm’s Pre and Pixi handsets, and provides a large chunk of the functionality of the native Voice apps for Android and BlackBerry to your phone’s browser.
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A Revamped Bing Maps Has Raised The Bar – Can Google Match It?
Presently, Google is miles ahead of Bing in all spheres be it popularity or sheer usability. However, Microsoft is keen to make people consider Bing a force to reckon with in the ultra-competitive search market, and its fascination for new innovations and features could surely propel Bing nearer to Google.
To prove a point Microsoft’s Bing (the [...]
The Internet can be ‘Social’…Jaago Re!!
The Internet has often been criticized as a Mass Medium. Lack of accountability, credibility and content control have been cited as its greatest shortcomings. But, as is the case with any medium, the effectiveness of any medium lies in how well or badly it is used. January 12, unfortunately, gave the Internet an opportunity to [...]
Bing to replace Google on the iPhone?
In 2003, when Apple did the unimaginable and decided to make iTunes for Windows, they ran a poster campaign saying ‘Hell Froze Over’. It looks like another Cold day in Hell (no pun intended) could be around the corner. BusinessWeek has reported that Apple and Microsoft may be in talks to close a deal that [...]
Yahoo Sees Red In China! Trouble With AliBaba? CyberAttacks?
While Google V/S China is the big fight that has the entire internet world riveted, there is an interesting side story that could be developing.
Yahoo and AliBaba on the rocks?
Following cyberattacks aimed at accessing accounts of Chinese Human Rights Activists, Google announced on its blog that it would stop filtering its search results in China. [...]
‘My Name Is Khan’ Music Available Online, First Look At Subs.to – Subtitles Under One Roof
The time has come where Bollywood film makers have finally realized that music stores are more or less only for the elite sophisticated minority to buy new music releases. Indians known for it’s downloading abilities from the internet have got some strange news here. Karan Johar has made his new movie My Name is Khan’s [...]
Google Takes Steps To Secure Gmail After China-Censorship-Gmail-Hack Issue
Yesterday we told you how GMail’s servers were almost hacked as Google discovered an attack originating from China which got through its security measures and compromised some intellectual property. Google also expressed their unwillingness to continue censoring results on Google China Search. Today, Google went one step ahead and has taken a step that might [...]
Nexus One.. The SuperPhone arrives!
January 5 Twenty10 will perhaps be remembered as the day the SmartPhone evolved into what Google themselves are calling the SuperPhone!! Designed by HTC, dictated by and branded by Google, Nexus One has arrived.
Ever since photos of the device were leaked via Twitter, the hitherto super secret Google phone has been creating a buzz in [...]
Google Launches Contest ‘Hai Baaton Main Dum?’ To Drive Hindi UGC Content
Just yesterday we blogged on how its important to make investment in regional content and we also gave the example of Google and its Google bus which was taking the internet to the masses. Now it seems google has gone a step further and launched a contest to increase UGC content for hindi on the [...]
Now Google Is Also A Dictionary
The Google search engine is not just about finding information from other websites. One of the most valuable aspects of Google search is its ability to offer a wide range of information like exchange rates, stock quotes, movie timings, dictionary lookup, synonym search etc. from the website’s search results page itself. There are nearly 22 [...]
Google Will Limit Free Access to Paid News Sites: New Opportunity for Smaller Publishers?
Google has announced that it will limit a user’s access to content on a paid news site. According to BBC, Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google. Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can now prevent unrestricted access to subscription websites. Users who click on more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or registration pages.
Google Causes Market Disruption With New Free GPS Product
Google seems to be getting on the nerves of GPS manufacturers with their latest innovation. Recently in news, Google launched their GPS product as part of the Motorola Droid handset which is now being sold by Verizon Wireless. For now just in USA, but what if they happen to launch it globally to take on [...]