Yahoo Inc. today became the latest company to provide developers with the opportunity to build rich Internet applications with some desktop functions with its unveiling of a preview version of a new offering called BrowserPlus.The software, which in this so-called sneak peek release works only on Yahoo sites, is intended […]
Arun Sarin is leaving Vodafone. The chief executive departs as the mobile group’s profits pass £10bn for the year.
Vodafone made revenues of £35.5bn, up 4.2 per cent, and adjusting operating profit of £10.1bn in the year ended 31 March 2008. Earnings per share were up 11 per cent to 12.5p.
Sarin will be replaced by his […]
An Indian man is facing five years in jail for making an “offensive” comment after Google handed his personal data to local police. Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid, a 22 year-old IT consultant, was arrested after posting derogatory comments on Google’s Orkut social networking site. Vaid was posting in a forum called ‘I hate Soniya Gandhi’ and […]
An obscene message about Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on Orkut has landed a Gurgaon youth in prison. The message was allegedly posted on a community called “I hate Sonia Gandhi.”
The probe began when a Pune Congress activist saw the message and notified the authorities, who in turn asked Google to provide them with the […]
Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with “Friend Connect” on Monday. TechCrunch speculates that Friend Connect will be a set of “APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites.”
Google will join Facebook and MySpace, which launched ways to port user data to […]
Separating wheat from the chaff during Internet searches can be a challenge: major search engines tend to substitute quantity for quality, returning many thousand results few users have the time to go through.When it guesses that the user might be looking for more in-depth information, a new Yahoo tool provides, a lot of additional material […]
Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) has a long ways to go before it steps up to compete with Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash or AJAX or even Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Silverlight in building Web 2.0 applications. But it clearly has that goal in mind as it works on producing a version of JavaFX for the desktop, […]
Microsoft is considering buying the social notworking site Facebook.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the shy and retiring, softly spoken Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been running around with money burning a hole in his ample pockets after his failed takeover of Yahoo.
Volish bankers have been having a chat with Facebook to see if it […]
Popular video sharing site YouTube on Wednesday announced the launch of its local Indian site ( www.youtube.co.in) that features a localised homepage and search functions.
“YouTube India would allow users to create and share videos, discover the most popular and relevant videos in India, and connect with other Indian and global users. Over time, YouTube India […]
TO MAKE Google more acceptable amongst the Hindi speaking population of India, the internet search company has included Hindi in its popular Google translate application, which will allow automated translation between Hindi and English text.The Google translator is popular for providing translation services to the net users, and its addition of Hindi is much to […]
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