Archive : Web

This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot. Choose a building and touch a floor and it tells you more [...]

This little vid about kicking Facebook to the curb is actually pretty entertaining — the fake status updates, ads and other FB ephemera really amp up the entertainment factor. So whether you nixed the newsfeed or still persist in cherishing your shareable shackles, take a moment to laugh at the uproar. Oh, and Seanie actually has a totally legit point: Duckface is never OK.

Wireless transmission speeds in your home or business as fast as 7 gigabits per second. That’s the vision of the next generation of WiFi, called WiGig, offered in a cooperation agreement announced Monday between the Wi-Fi Alliance and the WiGig Alliance. The two industry groups said that they will share technology specification for the creation of a Wi-Fi Alliance certification for operation [...]

Google with business is Internet search, is making its first investment in a renewable-energy project, putting up a huge investment of $38.8 million into two wind farms in North Dakota. The company on Monday announced the funding, saying the two locations generate 169.5 megawatts of power, or enough to supply 55,000 homes. The farms, which were developed by NextEra Energy Resources, will reduce fossil [...]

Google has made a powerful decision on web of finally adding one of the biggest oversights to the Web-based version of its Google Talk service: size limit-free, P2P file transfers. The feature, which has been a part of the service’s desktop software since mid-2006, went live on the Google Talk widgets inside of iGoogle and Orkut on Monday. The endgame here–which Google says is coming, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]