Archive : Web

According to report Google’s YouTube is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood movie studios to launch a streaming pay-per-view online movie rental site before the end of this year.  The Rental site would be either be connected to YouTube or could be a standalone new service  which Google would promote directly to its massive search and video empires users. This new service will be a direct [...]

Now  you can make phone calls from Gmail without visitng  your Google Voice page. Google is bringing Gmail and Google Voice together with the launch of phone call integration within Google Chat and Gmail, the goods news doesn’t stop here – the calls are free to US and Canadian landlines only. The initial testing with Skype showed that the new Google’s service has better quality [...]

Mozilla has released a new beta version of its browser Firefox. Firefox 4 includes two very interesting features namely Firefox Sync and Panorama Tabs. The new features allow users to sync their settings and create tab sets. Firefox Sync, allows users to access the  bookmarks, history, awesome bar settings, passwords, form-fill data and open tabs across multiple computers and mobile devices including  [...]

ASUS, the Taiwan based  notebook and  motherboards vendor  announced two laptops in its N Series range — the 15.6” N53JN and and the 17.3” N73JN. The new N Series from ASUS is the first ever range of laptops to address the problem of sub-standard audio on portable PCs. Both models features the latest NVIDIA® GeForce 400M 3D chipset with Optimus™ technology for outstanding power source-optimised [...]

Facebook Facebook will implement a long delayed tab width reduction on Pages. The official reductions begins today. The change has been announced by Facebook back in October 2009, but was delayed. After the reduction, the maximum width for any Page tab is 520 pixels, down from 760 pixels. Applications and canvas pages will need to be reformatted or else they will appear broken. The change [...]

Twitter has launched a browser based tweet button that lets Twitter users  a simple way to click and share the web page they’re viewing with their Twitter followers. This is not a novel feature,  third-party applications and clients have offered bookmarklets for faster sharing for years now . Tweet button  is convenient for those  who prefer to use Twitter.com rather than an external program. [...]

Facebook Places is in the news since it launch yesterday, its popularity has rubbed off on Foursquare , who have yesterday seen a highest number of signups, thanks to Foursquare and its ilk, location based services have been around for quite some time now, even Yelp.com has joined the fray, nevertheless, this feature has now got tremendous exposure with Facebook’s 500 million user base. If [...]

Launch of Facebook Places in US has all the features of a Facebook feature launch – huge publicity in media, indepth discussions on blogosphere, scrutiny by privacy advocates and of course, large number of users trying it out. One unexpected  but, positive consequence is that Foursquare is experiencing record interest in the wake of the launch of Facebook Places. On Thursday, the location [...]

Google’s  annual developer conference held in May bought news of  an all new web apps store for its Chrome web browser. Chrome Web Store is designed to be a central location for buying and selling HTML5-based web apps.  In that direction, Google has launched the first developer preview, developers can access the developer preview of the Chrome Web Store through Google Code Labs. Information [...]

Facebook has  announced Places yesterday, the much expected  feature that brings location based functionality to the popular social network  site. Location-based services are the next big thing  at this moment with Foursquare and Gowalla leading the pack. This service will be initially available on the latest version of the Facebook App for iPhone . Facebook places will let users check-in [...]