Category Archives: News

Google Mourns Death of the Delhi Gangrape Victim

Google, the search engine giant who answers billions of daily queries from users all around the globe, is mourning the death of the Delhi Braveheart, a 23-years old rape victim. … Read more

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Facebook Introduces Wheel Icon and Privacy Shortcuts

Facebook has recently made a couple of small but meaningful changes in the website’s interface. These changes make FB interface a bit more intuitive and also make the privacy options … Read more

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Airltel Emergency Alert Service: Fight Crime Against Women

India’s capital, New Delhi, is increasingly become insecure for women. Crime against women  have been on the rise since many years. With the gang-rape of a 23 year old physiotherapist … Read more

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One Pound Fish: New YouTube Sensation by Shahid Nazir

Hailing from Pakistan, Muhammad Shahid Nazir is a fish seller in London. He used to be nondescript but thanks to a very catchy song he invented for attracting customers to … Read more

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Arun Kumar Yadav Wins Doodle4Google 2012 Contest

On the occasion of Children’s Day, today, Arun Kumar Yadav of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Chandigarh, has been declared the National Winner of Doodle4Google contest 2012. Arun is a student in 9th … Read more

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Laptop Heat May Damage Sperms

If you are a man who uses his laptop computer keeping it in his lap –it is advisable not to do that for this may harm your sperms and may … Read more

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Google brings Indoor Maps for Museums

Google Art Project has taken another innovative step. The search engine giant has begin to include indoor maps of museums in Google Maps. If you’re inside a huge US museum … Read more

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Microsoft to buy Nokia?

Investment market is abuzz with rumors that the software juggernaut Microsoft may buyout Nokia. The Finnish mobile maker has lately been struggling to keep up with the pace of mobile … Read more

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Google Begins to Warn Chinese Users for Censored Keywords

Internet search leader Google has begun to warn its users in China about a possible temporary disconnection from Internet if they would search for a censored keyword. It should be … Read more

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Google+ Local with Zagat Scores

On 8th September 2011, Google acquired Zagat LLC for $131 million. Google planned to use the Zagat scores and related information to provide more free content to its users. Yesterday, … Read more

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Do Not Track: Twitter Will No Longer Track You

Twitter has announced that it will begin to honor the Do No Track HTTP header. The move will allow Twitter users to refuse being tracked by the popular micro-blogging website. … Read more

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The Casual Vacancy: JK Rowling Updates Her Website

Yesterday, Harry Potter author JK Rowling has updated her website and issued a teaser about her upcoming adult novel. The name of novel is going to be The Casual Vacancy … Read more

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Hackers Group Anonymous Warns China

The activist hackers group called Anonymous has warned the Chinese government of bigger and bolder attacks of their website. The group maintains that it is committed to unearth corruption and … Read more

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Facebook Buys Instagram for One Billion Dollars

Co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced that his company has acquired popular photo sharing app Instagram for one billion dollars. The two companies, however, will remain separate … Read more

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Pornography Accounts for 30% Internet Traffic

In a recent report ExtremeTech made some interesting revelations about how big is the porn industry on Internet. It is no secret that Internet pornography is universally watched –but not … Read more

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HTC One X Smartphone Has Been Unveiled

Taiwan based HTC Corp. has launched its latest smartphone One X. The company hopes that this phone will arrest the fall in its profit. HTC is facing stiff competition from … Read more

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Facebook Says Yahoo Lawsuit Could Harm Its Business

In the third amendment of its initial public offer (IPO), Facebook has admitted that the patent infringement suit filed against it could harm Facebook’s business, if an unfavorable outcome is … Read more

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JK Rowling Launches Pottermore to Sell Harry Potter E-books

This is for the first time in publication history that a major author has sidelined established online bookstores to launch a shop of her own. Harry Potter author JK Rowling … Read more

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Facebook considering Action Against Employers Asking Passwords

Recently, reports surfaced stating that some employers are forcing applicants to furnish their Facebook username and passwords so that they could login and check employees’ Facebook profile and interactions. Associated … Read more

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Google Launches Street View of Amazon Basin

You have seen those beautiful areas in movies and on Nat Geo and on Discovery. Many of you might have felt like going on a boat ride in the Amazon … Read more

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For One Day Google Chrome Became Top Browser

According to the data shared by StatCounter Google Chrome became the most popular browser in the world on 18 March 2012. However, it could not sustain the brief lead over … Read more

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Google Wage: Google Wave Does Typo Mistake

Today, Google sent an email to its users announcing that Google Wave has been put in read-only mode. Google had announced shutting down of this service in 2011.The service was … Read more

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Why is Facebook Down in India?

Dear Reader, If you are in India and wondering why Facebook is not opening today –don’t think there is something wrong with your computer, browser or Internet connection. The real … Read more

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Samsung is Going to Launch Galaxy Ace 2

Galaxy Ace, the popular smart mobile phone from Samsung is soon going to be available in market with upgraded specification. The new version shall be called Galaxy Ace 2 JK … Read more

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Google X: Future Investigating Super Secret Research Lab

In my yesterday’s article, I told you about a failed product from Google called “Google X”. But that was way back in 2005. Now Google has another “Google X” that … Read more

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