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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yahoo! yesterday announced its decision to combine forces with rival online giants (significantly, Google) to make the open online platform — OpenSocial, a success.
The project aims to develop a set of standards that can be used across all social networking Web sites, and will make it easier for software developers to write applications for Web […]
If you’re tired of boring old data sets that lack the pizazz of Web 2.0ocity, then Google has the API for you.
Meet the Google Visualization API, which gives developers a chance to add a graphical edge to their applications and data. The company this week dished the API out to the public hoping to “make […]
It’s no longer just a .NET or Java world when it comes to production-quality development frameworks — PHP is edging its way into developers’ affections. Now, the technology’s backers are planning further efforts to expand on its successes.
Zend, PHP’s lead commercial sponsor, plans Monday to release its eponymous Framework 1.5, the first major release since […]
28 February 2008 – 7:38 PM
In September, when we reported that Google was preparing to drag a multi-terabit communications cable under the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest search engine acted like it didn’t know what we were talking about. But yesterday, with a post to The Official Google Blog, network acquisitions manager Francois Sterin finally acknowledged his company was just […]
15 February 2008 – 11:50 AM
The world’s largest porn studio says that Google and Yahoo! should “erect stronger barriers” to keep porn away from the world’s children.
Steven Hirsch, the co-chairman and co-founder of Vivid Entertainment, is to deliver this message on Saturday in New Haven, Connecticut as he addresses an army of Yale University MBA candidates.
“Responsible companies in the adult […]
14 February 2008 – 12:09 PM
So, Google doesn’t like other people hijacking their web pages, but it’s more than happy to hijack someone else’s.
On December 8, the ever sneaky Canadian cable and telcom giant Rogers Communications was caught inserting Rogers-centric messages onto third party web sites. Since Rogers’s high-speed internet service is co-branded with Yahoo!, this included bastardizing Google’s home […]
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