Archive : Web

Google which gained its initial fame for its search, always had a simple and basic search page unlike personalization features which are available for iGoogle, Gmail and others, Google has changed that and has added more Bing ( oops bling) and color to its Search page by giving the option of adding a image to the background. Users can now choose any photo or image and add it to the background of [...]

Twitter has added a new feature called  “You both follow’, this feature lets a twitter user to see any common people that they and another user both follow. This was revealed in a  Tweet posted by Twitter engineer Nick Kallen. “We’re testing the “You both follow” feature (in the profile sidebar). Only 10% of people have it for now.”,he tweeted. This [...]

Mobile Software Developers are obviously not impressed or affected with Android based smart phones taking over iPhone in sales figures for the last quarter in the United States this is vouched by the fact iPhone and iPad has the largest number of developers working for iPhone and iPad platform. The iPhone dominates mobile app development with more than half of mobile developers working on the platform. [...]

Google Inc’s Chrome OS, the highly awaited upcoming open source operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications including Google TV will be launching officially in the last quarter of this year. Google’s VP of product management, Sundar Pichai, made this announcement at the COMPUTEX technology forums event . Chrome OS, announced by Google  last July, is [...]

Few days after reaching numero uno position and becoming the most valuable technology company in terms of market capitalization, Apple has joined the infamous club  of big companies –  including IBM, Intel and Microsoft – which got  investigated for antitrust allegations by United States Department of Justice(DoJ). The Department of Justice is  investigating Apple over antitrust [...]

Not contend with creating a landmark of selling a million iPads in 28 days,  Apple has sold over two million iPads in less than two months of its launch per claims made by the company. No doubt, that iPad and iPhone has  brought Apple loads of revenue. last week, the it surpassed Microsoft to become one of the biggest tech organization and the second largest in US in terms of makret capitalization. The [...]

TweetDeck, the popular Adobe Air’s Twitter and other SNS (Social Networking Sites) management tool continues to add features at a steady pace that too while its still in Beta  . TweetDeck has released version 0.34.2 which brings the location-based exploration and gaming platform Foursquare  into its fold along Google’s social-networking platform Buzz (yes, Buzz is still active, [...]

Apple’s iPad made it UK store debut this morning on Regent Street, London at 7am and it was a spectacular scene with  scores of  Apple fans  queuing all night, a  few celebrities  including Stephen Fry were spotted , and the media – more than 50 cameras at a rough count –   was out in full force. The line of fans stretched from the Apple store on Regent Street all the way [...]

Delivery date of pre-ordered Apple iPad which is launching in stores tomorrow in UK has been pushed back, the delivery of tablet device was postponed to June 7th a couple days after it started taking orders online and now it has slipped to mid-June ( no date specified), the reason Apple was forced to change the delivery date is due to the exceptionally high demand for the iPad for both Wi-Fi and [...]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had earlier this week promised simplifying privacy controls over the building resentment over its privacy policies, true to his words Facebook introduced a new set of privacy controls yesterday in an attempt to quell criticism that it was negligent about protecting users information. “We believe in privacy. We believe in giving people control,” said  Zuckerberg [...]