Tag Archives : Google

Image by StrictlyCircus via Flickr 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 [...]

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 [...]

Google’s Gmail playground – Gmail Labs has produced world class email features ever since it was introduced by Google 18 months ago. As has been the tradition earlier, Google picks the most popular features from Gmail Labs and integrates them into Gmail while retiring the experimental features which didn’t quiet perform up to the mark. Google has integrated the following 6 new features from Labs [...]

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 [...]

Image via CrunchBase Intel has recently confirmed that it was a victim of the recent ultra-sophisticated cyber attacks. Though Intel has refused to comment on the possible connection of these attacks being linked with Operation Aurora which targeted Google, the timing of the two attacks is astonishingly similar. It’s hard for me to believe that it’s a mere coincidence that both these companies [...]

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 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 [...]