Archive for March, 2010

The mobile services of Google in China are slapdash on Monday, the first change in the availability of the company’s various services since the statement last week of its conclusion to move Chinese search to Hong Kong. Google also created a status page where it pledged to update Internet users on the availability of its services in China as part of that announcement. Some services, such as YouTube [...]

Yahoo Mail users will be able to update their Facebook status from their Yahoo Mail inbox starting later on Monday. Facebook users will be able to log into their accounts directly from the Yahoo Mail home page and will also be able to click to the Facebook profiles of friends when they receive e-mail from friends who have linked their two accounts in yahoo. It’s an interesting update to Yahoo [...]

The Apple’s iPad pre-orders seem to be going great. The company updated its Web site on Saturday indicating that any new iPad orders will ship by April 12, as pointed out by AppleInsider and other blogs. For those that have already placed their orders, the delivery date remains April 3. Pre-order customers had a choice of in-store lift up or delivery, an option that also appears to have been [...]

Godaddy – one company is ready to follow Google’s stance on doing business in China. During a congressional hearing later today to discuss Internet freedom and China, GoDaddy managerial plan to announce that they will stop registering domain names in China in response to a new government policy that requires extensive information about registrants. Starting last December, individuals and [...]

In beaumont, France, A Frenchman who broke into Barack Obama and Britney Spears’ Twitter feeds persevered Thursday he is no hacker but a “kind pirate” seeking to picture defense flaws. “I did not act with a destructive aim … I wanted to warn them, to show up the faults in the system,” said the 23-year-old, who was arrested Tuesday after an operation by French police [...]

A terrorist needs only about $50 to buy a GPS jammer, an electronic device small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, that can possibly fetch down an airplane. According to the report, in spite of life form unlawful and potentially unsafe, GPS jammers are cheap and willingly available online. With car thieves in the UK using GPS jammers to help their escapes, authorities say it’s only a stuff of [...]

According to the reports, Google will attempt to change the way people use their television sets by developing a new platform to bring the best of the internet to TV screens. The search giant is supposed to be operational with Sony and Intel to develop a system called “Google TV”, and has built an example set-top box in an effort to provide a better way for people to waves the web through their [...]

YouTube has strike a record viewership with the live streaming of the Indian Premier League. The number touched 7.1 million as of today and is still including. This number is the highest for YouTube worldwide and Google is now confident that it is ready to display case other international live games as well. Viewership in the first two hours of IPL screening stood at 4.5 lakh. This is the highest [...]

To promote fuel-efficient vehicles, twenty-seven teams of young Pakistani engineers from various universities have been selected to take part in a competition being held in Malaysia this year. Sample Fuel Efficient Vehicle The selected team in see-off competition organised by Shell Pakistan on Wednesday, as part of a Shell Eco-Marathon initiative, seeking to develop energy solutions, the competition [...]

Nokia is approving Skype making available for free the Internet-telephony (VoIP) app in the Ovi app store. Over 200 million Nokia handsets will now be able to download the Skype app and make cheap calls abroad while away from the computer. Skype for Symbian will allow calls on both WiFi and 3G data connections, though calls using the 3G connections will also come out of your contract data allowance. [...]