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Image by d’n’c via Flickr As per a report from Wall Street Journal, Google is all set to resume talks with Chinese government officials to get more clarity on the future of its business in China. The earlier round of talks had ended on a rather ugly note with Google threatening to shut shop and close all its operations in China. All along, Google has strongly objected to censoring [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google has been publicly blasted by users as well as industry analysts for privacy invasion on Google Buzz. The results get even scarier if you are a parent who wants to control and monitor your child’s activity on social networks on the internet. Any Gmail contacts of your kid become followers by default and that’s not a good thing to happen. The status [...]

Image via CrunchBase DST (Digital Sky Technologies), the company owned by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner has outlined its plans for the next 5 years and it’s hardly surprising that the company plans to put in a billion dollars to further tap the potential of social media. Clearly, the phenomenal success of DST’s 2 major social media investments – Facebook and Zynga will pave the path [...]

Image by José Goulão via Flickr Some time back, Operation Aurora – the most ultra sophisticated hack attack ever was uncovered and the blame game between Google and the Chinese Government followed. While the spotlight shifted to the political picture, the scary part is that these attacks were far more brutal than what Google and others assessed. NetWitness – a computer security company [...]

Image via Wikipedia Google has recently demonstrated a new prototype of Google Goggles which can translate text captured in photos. The concept uses Google’s machine translation and image recognition capabilities and combines their intelligence to interpret the text in images. Google has a habit of pulling something extra ordinary out of its hat every once in a while. I remember when the Google [...]

It seems that the folks at Foursquare had enough of ‘Please Rob Me’ – the mock service that was setup to expose the danger of privacy invasion caused by tweeting about Foursquare check-ins. In the latest post on its blog, Foursquare has clarified its stand and with all due respect, shown the middle finger to ‘Please Rob Me’. Every location based service has its own challenges – more [...]

Image via Wikipedia It looks like Gmail will never see light of the day again in Iran. With the Iranian revolution anniversary around the corner, Iran’s telecommunication agency has ‘permanently’ suspended Google’s popular email service – Gmail, with immediate effect. Over the last few days, people from many cities in Iran have reported disruptions regarding Internet and Text Message [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google has formally announced its much awaited entry into the social media fray with the launch of Google Buzz. Though still at an early stage in development, it is touted to take on the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. Google Buzz runs within Gmail and can integrate with your mobile phone as well. It would be fair to say that it looks like a mix and [...]

Image by Samat Jain via Flickr It seems that the Chinese Government has finally started taking action on Google’s allegations over suspected Chinese involvement in the recent cyber attacks code named ‘Operation Aurora’. Chinese Police have shut down the country’s biggest hacker training site – Black Hawk Safety Net in Central China’s Hubei province. Three people have been arrested [...]

The red carpet has been rolled out by Mplayit to announce the top mobile games in its collection. Mplayit is the maker of the immensely popular Mobile App Catalog that powers Facebook and lets users recommend and rate its games and apps through Twitter and Facebook. Though an official report with the list of winners is expected later, the winners include Tetris, The Sims 3, Wheel of Fortune, Tap Tap [...]