Archive for August, 2009

Yahoo confirmed Acquired Arab Internet Portal Maktoob.

Maktoobahoo-Yahoo has just officially acquired Maktoob, a very popular Arabic web portal that offers services including search, payments, social network, and auctions. Rumors of an aquisition have been building for months, and in the last hour they reached a head as news of an impending press conference broke. The price hasn’t been announced, but our [...]

Lazyfeed could be another Revolution on the web

Lazyfeed Goes Live For Everyone Insted of subscribing many rss feeds and going to many sites and remembering usernames and passwords, Lazyfeed is made for those lazy geeks like me and you and they are officially live for everyone from today. We’ve been seeing a lot of projects and startups trying to speed up RSS [...]

UK jailed its first teen ager for cyberbullying

In a week in which Google was ordered to reveal the identity of the “Skanks in NYC” blogger who may have defamed model Liskula Cohen, a landmark judgment was also reportedly reached in the UK. In Worcester Magistrates Court, England, an 18-year-old woman was allegedly sent to three months in a young offenders institute after [...]

Giants unite against Google

Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google’s attempt to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive. They oppose a legal settlement that could make Google the main source for many online works. [...]

Google is the largest search engine

Google Continues to Satisfy, News Publishers Don’t The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) shows that Google reigns supreme in the search engines and portal industry when it comes to customer satisfaction. This isn’t hard to believe considering Google’s share of the search market. There’s a reason why Google dominates the arena. Users are generally [...]

How to Submit URL to Dogpile

Have you ever tried to submit your URL to the search engine named Dogpile? Don’t waste your time. it is not required to submit there . Read this article that an expert has written about dogpile submission. Before I address how to submit URL to Dogpile you need to know the following. First off it [...]

Microsoft word sales banned.

A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m (£175m) for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i. The patent relates to the use of XML, a programming language that allows formatting of text and makes files readable across different programs. XML is integral to Microsoft’s flagship word processing software Word. [...]

facebook mobile version debut

Facebook one of the largest social network has begun tests on a new service tailored for mobiles and low bandwidth internet connections. Facebook Lite appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook and is aimed at countries where broadband is limited. The site is currently on trial in India and it is thought there are [...]

What is a mobile phone virus?

What’s a mobile phone virus? A mobile phone virus or mobile malware – malicious mobile software – is a computer virus specifically adapted for the mobile phone environment and designed to spread from one vulnerable phone to another. A virus is a program code that replicates by being copied to another program. Viruses can be [...]

Internet:Browse through a wall of images and video

The Cooliris Firefox plug-in (Mac or Windows)is one of the most popular extensions in our library. Fire it up once, and you’ll see why: Cooliris turns your image or movie searches into a 3D wall that is easy to navigate and just plain cool looking. When they came out with an app for iPhone some [...]

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