Archive : Web

Google shows off a new Gmail interface for both Android and iOS, along with a new inbox experience for the web, a new inbox feature that offers automatic organization of incoming mail into groups. Category labelled “Primary” will house messages from friends and family, and the messages which do not land in other tabs.  “Social” tab will automatically contain notifications and [...]

Twitter allows popular individuals to verify their Twitter profiles to avoid fake profiles  through verification check marks, Facebook  is following Twitter’s lead and have on Wednesday announced Verified Pages feature, which will also make it easier for users to find the official account of celebrities and prominent people they want to follow. Profiles will be marked with a small blue icon [...]

The European Commission is planning to ask Google to make more concessions to their proposed changes to Google’s search services to  allay its concerns about the internet giant’s search and advertising practices to end its three-year anti trust investigation according to Reuters. European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia addressed the European parliament on Tuesday and said that Google’s [...]

Google is making constant efforts to integrate its various application, including Google Talk with Hangout was one such step, now native Chrome  apps are about to receive support for in-app purchasing, according to a Google evangelist François Beaufort. “Chrome is about to support in-app payments for Chrome Packaged Apps, thanks to the newly embeddable Chrome Wallet app,” wrote Francois [...]

Microsoft’s and Google’s spat over Windows  YouTube app seem to be heading towards a resolution, the two companies have agreed to team up and jointly create a native YouTube app for Microsoft’s mobile platform according to reports by The Next Web. Microsoft and Google have released a joint statement today saying that they “are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows [...]

Evernote, the popular note taking service is releasing updates to its Mac and iOS and Windows clients and have introduce native reminders, the need for the feature  has been widely discussed on the Internet. Evernote gave more information about the release in a blog post. For the millions and millions of people around the world that use Evernote everyday to achieve their goals, we’re excited to [...]

Google demonstrated conversational search for desktop version of Google Chrome browser at last week’s Google I/O conference, the  Google Now like voice search to the desktop is now available to users of its Chrome browser through the latest version of Google Chrome browser (27.0.1453.93). Conversational search works on natural language and semantic search and more built into it. To use the feature [...]

Tumblr got more than its share of attention this week, but, Yahoo did not forget Flickr, another beloved start-up when Yahoo purchased it eight years ago.  Yahoo has announced a new remodel to Flickr that puts more emphasis on the photographs plus Flickr users now get1 terabyte of space without shelling a dime. “At Flickr, we believe you should share all your images in full resolution, so life’s [...]

Tumblr is famously known for animated gifs and nsfw posts, since Yahoo’s acquisition rumours started last week, analysts have been predicting user discontent and crackdown on nasty posts.  Even before the news became official on Monday, 72,000 users migrated from Tumblr to WordPress according to WordPress’s founder Matt Mullenweg’s blog post. Here’s his post: It now looks pretty certain [...]

The worst kept tech secret of last week is true – Microblogging website Tumblr is being acquired by Yahoo. Marissa Mayer announced the deal today morning along with a “promise not to screw it up.” Yohoo! is coughing $1.1 billion for Tumblr, “substantially all of which is payable in cash,” Yahoo said. Yahoo is not absorbing its acquisition, Tumblr is going to run separately [...]