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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google has gone the Wikipedia way for its  Street View  by giving web users the ability to edit the locations of businesses that appear in its Street View service. It  will even allow users  to move the tags, many of which are badly positioned. Street View was made available in UK last year  is an add-on to Google Earth and  Google Maps   that allows [...]

Google owned YouTube which pioneered online streaming videos has started providing automatic captions to videos to make the site more accessible to the deaf and people with hearing difficulties. At present the feature is only available for videos recorded in English and Google says that more languages will be added in the coming months. Even though the idea and intentions are honorable, the limitation [...]

Twitter, the immensely popular social networking service which has made tweet synonymous with a short message posted online rather than of a bird chirping , has reached the milestone of 10 billion “tweets”, as announced by the tweets tracking service GigaTweet, which tracks tweets in real time. All this in less than 4 years of inception, it reached 1 billion in November 2008, and 5 billion [...]

The Digital Economy Bill which was first announced  in  2009 and reportedly is designed to curtail copyright   infringement by users sharing files and media online has been criticized and condemned severely by many people, as its complicated and extremely stringent laws including the one which allows Internet Service Providers to give customer information to copyright holders who could sue customers [...]

The internet search war has just taken its ugliest turn with Microsoft leaving no stone unturned to take on Google’s supreme dominance in the UK search market. The latest step in this showdown is Microsoft’s multi-million pound TV ad campaign to promote Bing. Known as the ‘Bing and Decide’ ad campaign, the three month TV ad campaign will not only showcase Bing’s strengths but will also [...]

Google Buzz – Google’s latest social networking tool is now available as an iPhone app called ‘Buzzie’. Buzzie is available for download from the Apple iTunes store. Since Google Buzz resides within Gmail and you can access it through a web browser as well, so an obvious question to ask is ‘Why do you need an iPhone app for Buzz’? Well, Buzzie answers that for you. It has a neat, stylish [...]

Recent research conducted by Sky HD reveals that the British have wasted nearly £52 Billion on gadgets which they do not know how to use or fully operate. It is astonishing that nearly 50% of the poll audience did not know that in order to get HD video on your HDTV, you need a HD device such as a Blu-ray DVD player. What’s even more surprising is that many people in the UK buy these gadgets and [...]

A recent report from ‘All Things Digital’ suggests that Twitter is all set to launch its much awaited advertising model. To start off, the advertisements will mimic tweets in terms of character length and will be limited to 140 characters. Twitter has not announced a release date or the pricing options for its ad model but it is widely expected that the micro-blogging site will have the ad model [...]

Twitter users have been hit by a phishing attack, the direct messages sent out say something along the lines of “This You????”, “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” or “LOL this is funny” followed by a link to a phishing site that looks like twitter which then asks you to enter your twitter credentials in. Video Explanation from Sophos: According [...]

An Italian court has convicted three Google Inc. executives on Wednesday for being criminally responsible for a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied. Though they can appeal against the verdict, the case highlights the broader problem related to Internet freedom. Google has responded strongly to the verdict saying that if the verdict stands, ‘The web as we know will cease to exist’. It [...]