Archive for May, 2009

Yahoo! Buzz Launches In India

Friday, 29th May 2009

Yahoo! has been trying hard to reestablish themselves in the market in spite of tough competition and a global recession. To achieve this goal, they are making a number of changes in various aspects of their business. (more…)

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Microsoft Creates A New Decision Engine

Friday, 29th May 2009

Microsoft is planning to make some major changes in the way search results are provided to their users. In fact, they are planning to launch a conceptually new ‘Decision Engine’ that could revolutionise the way users think about search. (more…)

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Google Wave

Thursday, 28th May 2009

Google is in the process of developing a new communication tool called Google Wave, which will help users to better collaborate and communicate with each other. (more…)

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Vodafone’s New Mobile Internet Services

Wednesday, 27th May 2009

Mobile service provider Vodafone has recently announced a lot of interesting new services that will encourage the growth of new generation mobile Internet applications. This will be made possible by providing service developers with a single access point to Vodafone’s customers worldwide. (more…)

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Google Suggest Includes Links And Ads

Tuesday, 26th May 2009

Google Suggest has been recently updated to include link suggestions as well as sponsored links along with the list of suggestions. (more…)

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China Telecom Selects mInfo For Mobile Search

Monday, 25th May 2009

China Telecom was recently on the look out for a partner to provide search solutions to their subscribers. They have now announced that they have chosen Shanghai-based company, mInfo, as their partner to provide mobile search services to users all over China. (more…)

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No More Shouting On Digg

Saturday, 23rd May 2009

The Digg feature ‘Shout’, which allowed users to share stories with other users on the site itself has been discontinued. (more…)

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Facebook Uses OpenId

Friday, 22nd May 2009

Facebook has been in favor of openness for quite a while now, which is evident from their Facebook Connect facility. As a further step in that direction they have now joined the group of OpenId relying parties. (more…)

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Google Launches Barcode Scan On Android

Thursday, 21st May 2009

After the success of Google Product Search for Mobiles, which was recently launched, Google has now launched a barcode scanning service which can be used from the Android mobile handset. (more…)

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Google Search Options Panel

Wednesday, 20th May 2009

A few days ago, Google announced the launch of their new Search Options Panel. This new feature will enable users to have more control over their search results, as they will be able to sort out the results with reference to time and content. (more…)

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Women Favor Blogs Over Twitter

Thursday, 14th May 2009

The 2009 Women in Social Media Study conducted by BlogHer, iVillage, and Compass partners revealed some very interesting habits of women as far as the use of blogs and other forms of social media are concerned. (more…)

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Facebook Brings Live Updates To News Feed

Wednesday, 13th May 2009

Following the rule of demand and supply, Facebook has started supplying live updates on the recently re-launched home page news feed. (more…)

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Twitter Search To Start Indexing Web Content

Tuesday, 12th May 2009

Santosh Jayaram, the new V.P. of Operations at Twitter recently said that they will soon start crawling and indexing links that are posted on Twitter. This means that Twitter search results could include several web pages that are crawled from links within tweets. (more…)

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Mixx Debuts Ad Rating Service

Monday, 11th May 2009

The social book marking site Mixx has introduced a new service, called ‘the sifter’, which will enable “elite” members of Mixx to vote on five different ads of any format that an advertiser uploads, thus giving the advertisers an idea of which ad will be the most effective. (more…)

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Google Still Top Global Brand

Thursday, 7th May 2009

Brandz Top 100, a list of the world’s 100 most valuable brands, has recently been compiled for 2009 by Millward Brown a leading research company, which is a subsidiary of the WPP group. (more…)

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How Loyal Are Twitter Users?

Wednesday, 6th May 2009

It is a well known fact that Twitter has grown at an explosive rate lately – their unique audience was up 100% in March – however, the site does not seem to be very addictive to its new users. (more…)

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Phorm Whips Up Privacy Storm

Tuesday, 5th May 2009

The new online technology used by Phorm has created quite a stir and has upset advocates of user privacy. All the negative publicity has the company up in arms and representative for Phorm (who has requested not to be named!) has replied to our original post. His feedback has been shared here. (more…)

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UK Government Plans To Monitor All Internet Use

Friday, 1st May 2009

U.K. police forces have asked all communications firms, including internet service providers and mobile phone companies, to keep records of all Internet contact between people. (more…)

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