Category: "Web"

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  • [Update] Delhi HC warned Google and Facebook, and threatened to confront ban over the sites in India

    Editor of Akbari, a weekly Indian newspaper filed a criminal complaint against Facebook India and Google India along with 19 other companies for publishing inflammatory images of some Gods and Goddess. Recently, Google India and Facebook India filed a petition to reject the complaint saying that they do not have any control over the accused sites mentioned... 

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  • Google tied up with O-zone to provide free Internet at hotspots across India

    Free Internet but it ain’t going to be full fledged, in case that’s what you have thought of. The cause of the tie up is probably Google India’s marketing campaign as the free Wi-Fi Internet will only be accessible to Google+ and YouTube. O-zone is going to implement this free Internet access from this weekend at all of its hotspot... 

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  • Free website builder tool – Ucoz

    Ucoz, a free website builder, lets you easily create a free website with hosting and feature-packed content management system. The CMS is comprised of system modules like Page Editor, Users, Forum, Photo Albums, Site News, Web Polls, Guestbook, Publisher, File Catalog, Blog, Web polls and E-mail Forms. For the start, you can simply register a website... 

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  • Browse through millions of files and download them free at General-files.com

    With over 500 millions of files shared for free downloading, General-files.com is the most widely used search engine for downloading files like books, music, movies, applications, etc. If you want to share files on General-files.com you can either upload the file from your computer or you can submit download links from file hosting sites like Rapidshare,... 

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  • Google India initiates free .in domain and site hosting for SMBs

    In partnership with HostGator, Google India is offering free website domain registration and hosting for India’s small medium scale businesses. Users will get a .in domain and hosting through HostGator for free-of-cost for one year. The initiative’s called “India Get Your Business Online.” “Our goal is to help 500,000... 

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  • Google India starts a voting program for Doodle4Google 2011 top entries

    On the b’day of Jawaharlal Nehru, i.e., Children’s day, Google India will be putting Doodle4Google winner’s doodle on its homepage (gosh, so many ..oo..!) Lots of pupils (1,55,000) have participated in this program. Out of all the judges chose 45 so Google India can ask public for veto till they get top 3 participants/doodles. The... 

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  • Google rolls out an update for search, doesn’t make you feel lucky anymore

    Google seem to be continuing it’s experiment streak, and this time - weirdly enough – it’s running on Google.co.in, and not Google.com, for us at least. This time, it’s a total redesign of Google, well most of the things. Features like “Advanced Search”, “Language Tools” and our favorite, “I’m... 

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  • Apple announces iCloud – and it’s free

    The most impressive announcement on this year’s WWDC is Apple’s new cloud service. What iCloud does is, it syncs your data like files, photos, videos, mails, contacts, calendar, etc. from one device to all compatible devices. It covers mobileME giving you 5GB of free storage. Devices includes iOS’, Macbook, and other Mac machines.iOS... 

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  • World IPv6 Day approaches on 8th June, people are still stuck with depleting IPv4 addresses

    ..well technically all the IPv4 addresses have already depleted but there are still few of them hanging around thanks to dynamic IP – but we are not here to talk about that. Anyway! IPv6 day is coming to hit fast and .. not-so-hard on 8th of June, but what is “World IPv6 Day” you may ask – well it’s the day when companies... 

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  • Apple to unveil iOS 5 and iCloud at WWDC 2011, preview some more Lions

    Yep – bit of a surprise from the secret-keeping company, Apple has announced that they will be introducing iOS 5 and iCloud on the first day of WWDC, next month.Although we knew we were going to see the next version of iOS at this year’s WWDC but this is the first time Apple has officially confirmed the name “iOS 5″, but what... 

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  • Google kicks off Street View project in Bangalore

    You got that right, Google India started the Street View project, officially in Bangalore – drives Street View cars and trikes from today.They say they’re driving cars first time in Bangalore. Many have witnessed similar cars on streets of Delhi, Mumbai, etc. However none have spotted any Google logo on those cars. So we go by Google India’s... 

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  • WordPress ditches IE6, world dosen’t stop working

    Finally the day has come, the biggest blogging platform has stopped supporting IE6. Forever. Although this is (for now) a beta update, but it’s coming reaaalllly soon – end of June, that is if everything goes as planned. The update includes several bug fixes, performance improvements making stuff faster and a new default theme, but the... 

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  • Opera releases My Opera Mail, works with your Opera account

    Your Opera account is what you use for your My Opera, Opera Unite and Opera Link – but with the new My Opera Mail Beta, that account just got a new meaning. So, if you have got a opera account, add @myopera.com to it – you just got a new email address. You can access the brand new My Opera Mail now by visiting https://mail.opera.com/. And... 

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  • Orkut blocking change of birth date after 7th April

    Did you login to your Orkut account (if you still have one) and saw a message like the one shown in the image below?The thing says the story – Google wants to consolidate the birth date data on its other products like YouTube, Google Profiles etc. So after the consolidation you will not need to put the same details on the different Google products... 

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  • India wants to ban .xxx domains – how wise is that?

    Last week ICAAN approved the “XXX” domain name, but Indian government is trying to block it all together in the largest democracy of world. “India along with many other countries from the Middle East and Indonesia opposed the grant of the domain in the first place, and we would proceed to block the whole domain, as it goes against... 

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  • Google fixes Flash venerabilities, while Adobe shows its usual delays

    Okay we know the news have been a bit slow around here, so here it begins – Google has patched a pretty massive vulnerability in Flash that Adobe found out around a week ago.Adobe has a history of not being very productive with it’s products, and that has caused a bit too much damage for people – so here’s how we fix that... 

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  • Government has it – Internet “Kill Switch”

    A recent report from ET says that we Indians may not commincate or share info via web on the times, when government would think it’s needy to shut down the most efficient mean of “freedom of speech” – Internet.A line from ET report, “The shutdown can happen in the interest of sovereignty and integrity of India, its defense,... 

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  • Discussions come to Google Docs – cleaner, simpler, better

    Today, Google launched a very new feature in Google Docs where you can discuss about any topic with your friends, from the doc itself or by e-mail. We always felt that the chatbox at side lacked many stuffs, but now we have those – interface is good and takes minimalistic space (much better than the chat box.) Discussions with a fellow editor... 

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  • Facebook updates again, now lets you comment directly by pressing Enter

    Just a couple of days ago, we reported that Facebook updated silently and now lets you mention your friends in your comment. And just now we noticed another change in the Facebook comment system. Now you can just type in your comment and press “Enter” to post it, just like the way it works in “Facebook Groups.” Previously, the... 

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  • Google released WebM plugin for IE9

    Here is a great addition for the folks already rolling with IE9. Google has released a plugin for IE9 to let users watch WebM videos. If you wonder ‘what the heck is WebM?,’ It is an ambitious project of developing high quality free & open video format which is supported by Mozilla, Opera, Google and even Adobe. More info about WebM... 

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