Category: "Web"

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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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  • Internet Explorer 9 vs. Opera, Chrome and Firefox

    Microsoft’s most ambitious browser project, the Internet Explorer 9 is now finished. The IE9 has been released for public and is available for download from Microsoft’s Beauty Of The Web site, or optionally the offline installers from here. Now lets have a look at what the whole new Internet Explorer 9 has in itself for you.Looks: To... 

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  • Google India VP says it – over 100 million Internet users in India

    At VC Circle E-commerce Forum held in Delhi, Google India VP of Sales and Operations Rajan Anandan discloses some awesome stats about Indian Internet users, including mobile and broadband users.Disclosed were some interesting facts and analysis – Currently, there are over 100 million Internet users in India. 40 million people uses Internet... 

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  • Facebook updates silently, lets you tag friends in comments

    Did you noticed this change? Even we did. What? You didn’t don’t worry, we are here to update you. What this small update does is, now it allows you to tag your friends in your comments. The same way you used to do in your status messages or any other posts. Looks like many people were using “@” to reply their friends comments... 

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  • Google now has Google Apps’ 2-step-verification for all Google users

    So finally, Gmail’s now more secure than any other free e-mail services. The 2-step verification to sign-in to a Google account is damn challenging to hackers. The feature’s rolling out to all Gmail users. You would see an option “Using 2-step verification” on your Account Settings page, and then you can configure it. It may... 

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  • Bing is copying Google search results, Micro guys denies, Google hits back with more proof!

    Microsoft is messing up with the giant search engine, aka big G, originally Google, Inc. And guess what, Google catches Microsoft for Bing Sting! At first Stefan Weitz, director of Microsoft’s Bing search engine commented on Google’s claim, to Search Engine Land, “As you might imagine, we use multiple signals and approaches when we think... 

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  • AWS launches Amazon Simple Email Service, an enterprise bulk email solution

    We know how it feels to you when your bulk or transactional e-mails doesn’t make their way to the customers… Well now you have an alternate solution for that. Amazon’s company known as Amazon Web Services today launched an effective e-mailing solution for enterprise. It’s called Amazon Simple Email Service (SES.) This e-mail... 

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  • How many emails Humans transmitted to each other in 2010?: 107 Trillion

    Yes you read the title right, you and your fellow human beings have sent 107 trillion emails in 2010, as the King of Nigeria.107 trillion emails, sounds like a significant number, and it’s quite surprising too – because that mean’s people have sent each other 294 billion emails, per day. Now this is surprising, but what is more... 

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  • Google’s URL shortener API available to developers

    Goo.gl can now be used in apps and webpages, as API has been released out to developers. It can provide tracking and analytics. It’s not yet completely done yet, as it’s still in Google Code “Labs.” More improvements will be seen in future, like auto-detection of spam contents.Till now, goo.gl was only available for shortening... 

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  • Google Bangladesh “OwN3D by TiGER-M@TE”

    It seem’s Google Bangladesh suffered from a DNS Hijack today, showing a.. weird hipster page playing a hiphop song, claiming that Google Bangladesh got “OwN3D by TiGER-M@TE.”Well, we did some research on this – the awesomeness of a tracert command tells us that “www.google.com.bd” works fine connecting to Google,... 

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  • Italy rules YouTube and other video sites are TV stations. What?

    Now this is something really strange – Italy’s Communication Authority has issued two resolutions stating that Youtube and other of the video hosting sites (Vimeo for example) are nothing but TV stations – the problem here is that it also strictly hold them liable for the content they are hosting.We all know anyone can upload anything... 

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  • A day With Project Phoenix

    Yup! We received a sweet surprise invite from AOL to try out Project Phoenix. Here’s a summary of our take on Project Phoenix. You get an E-mail from AOL, an invitation to sign up for Project Phoenix. Fill in your particulars, prove that you are a human and wham! You get hit by a beautiful interface. Your name appears above on the left side with... 

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  • SPB TV released for the web, PC and Mac!

    Yeah, you read it right! SPB the company behind amazing smartphone apps like SPB Mobile Shell, SPB TV (for smarphones) and more has just now launched SPB TV Beta for the Web, PC and Mac. If you would like to watch SPB TV right here, within your browser then visit desktoptv.spb.com. Here is the catch, the web version of SPB TV is based on silverlight... 

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  • WordPress for Windows Phone 7 website, app & video is now live!

    At the end of last month, the blog herald discovered a new website : windowsphone.wordpress.org and it took no time for them to figure out that it’s for the launch of a official WordPress app for Windows Phone 7. And it’s here, today the website went live and the app is now available in Windows Phone Marketplace. The app comes at a grand price... 

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  • Internet – IPv4 ending fast, will exhaust in coming March

    A twitter account username-d IPv4Countdown is performing a countdown for the end of IPv4. But there’s the alternate IPv6 readying to be implemented by ISPs. Hurricane Electric Internet Services is the source of IPv4Countdown stats which gives a real-time countdown. The availability of IPv4 addresses are rapidly decreasing while there’s... 

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  • HTC looking forward at cloud computing, at least for their phones: GSMA MAC 2010

    GSMA Mobile Asia Congress 2010 is going on, at Hong Kong. 1st day set out for some “not-so-interesting” keynotes, at the same time HTC‘s CEO stands up on his keynote talking about cloud computing with HTCSense.com.HTCSense.com was recently released with the announcement of Desire HD and Desire Z. What it does? The integration in... 

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