Internet

Google

Google Bard vs ChatGPT AI Wars – The Story So Far

February 18, 2023 0 Akash M

ChatGPT and Bard are artificial intelligence language models from OpenAI and Google, respectively. While ChatGPT is already adding disruptive powers to the internet, Bard is considered as scary good by some, while others think it’s no match to the brilliance…

India

Lenovo Emerges as the Largest 4G Player in India among Mobile Brands

August 25, 2015 0 Arpit Verma

Lenovo has been notorious for bringing 4G LTE to pretty much every smartphone in its current lineup. This ensures that the users while buying their products are secured for the future with latest connectivity already on board. Therefore it comes…

Facebook

Facebook’s ‘Team Avengers’: ThreatExchange To Work Against Security Threats

February 13, 2015 0 Ronak

Although one might know the tech world to be fiercely competitively place but there is no scarcity on philanthropic projects too. Check the proceedings of Project Ara if in doubt. Or read more on the recent project of Facebook launching…

Google

Google’s Fiber Going Wireless? Upto 1 Gigabit Per Second

October 16, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Google Fiber is Google’s way of making the web faster, much faster than you can imagine to everyone. At up to 1,000 Mbps, Google Fiber is 100 times faster than today’s basic broadband, allowing you to get what you want…

Google

Net Neutrality And What it Means to Startup’s

October 15, 2014 0 Sharma Karan

The internet is today, one of the few level playing fields still available to companies. It allows startups to compete with established players without any partiality as all data is equal in the digital space. Net Neutrality ensures that all data…

India

Zuckerberg meets Modi: Will Internet.org fly in India?

October 10, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook is on a two day trip to India to address the first Internet.org summit in India. Mark is also going to meet the prime minister, Shree. Narendra Modi. He is primarily going…

Internet

Facebook Closes WhatsApp For 21.8 Billion Dollars

October 7, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Facebook has finally sealed the WhatsApp deal for a mighty 21.8 billion dollars. On 19th February, 2014, Facebook had announced its acquisition of instant messaging app — WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars. This amount shot up thanks to the rise…

Internet

Are You an AAPtard? Do You Like Feku or Pappu? New Words Added to English in 2013!

January 8, 2014 0 Rahul S

2013 was an explosive year when it comes to politics in India. Just a few months shy of the General elections, the barely year old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stormed the scene by perhaps exceeding their own expectations and winning…

Internet

On Day One Of GOSF, The Website Crumbles

December 11, 2013 0 Rahul S

India’s own online version of Black Friday shopping day and Cyber Monday, the Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF) kicked off from today. This is the second iteration of the shopping fest – with the first one having seen a successful…

Internet

Internet Subscribers In India Inch Towards 200 Million Mark

December 5, 2013 0 Rahul S

Internet usage in India is on a perennial upward swing, it seems. A few days after IAMAI released data pertaining to surging Internet usage in the largest cities in India, we now have official data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority…

Internet

Is Volvo’s New Viral Ad Inspired From An Indian Movie Scene?

November 19, 2013 0 Rahul S

Looks like I am watching a lot of viral videos these days. I had just written about the LG MiniBeam campaign earlier today and a few hours later I come across this! This is a recent video by Volvo who…

Internet

Mumbai Has 12 Million Active Internet Users; Tops List

November 7, 2013 0 Rahul S

While the commercial capital of the country has been fast losing out to other cities in terms of development and infrastructure, one area where Mumbai still reigns supreme is the amount of Internet users it boasts of. According to a…

Google

Google Talk Bug Exposes Private Chats To Wrong Recipients!

September 27, 2013 0 Rahul S

Were you by any chance using Google’s popular Google Talk  to chat with people earlier today? And were those conversations by any means “private” in nature? As in you might not want its content to be read by anyone else?…

BlackBerry

BBM For Android Delayed: Unreleased Versions Disabled!

September 22, 2013 0 Krishnan

BBM was all set to grace the Android phones and iPhones across the world. While iOS users were able to enjoy the app officially, Android users thought they will get the better of BBM by using the unreleased app. Well…

Internet

YouTube Changes View Count Display On Viral Videos From 300 Views To 301+ Views!

April 30, 2013 0 Hardik Shah

YouTube has a major issue when it comes to its view count on videos that go viral. Well, not much of a major issue actually – maybe a minor irritant. I am sure you have come across videos that have…

Google

YouTube Goes Back To The Eighties With “VHS Mode”

April 15, 2013 0 Rahul S

If you are an 80’s kid, I am pretty sure you have had your time with VCR’s and video cassettes. Although VCR’s have given way to DVD and eventually Blu Ray players, there is still an old world charm attached…

App (Marketplace)

SmartAds: An Indiegogo Project that Proposes to Give you Money for watching Ads

March 7, 2013 0 Harshit

Mobile ads are a necessary evil. All of us want to get rid of them, but also realize that app developers wouldn’t make much money without them. To make watching ads on your phone a little more tolerable, SmartAds, an…

India

Idea Introduces 3G Speed Booster Plans For Postpaid Subscribers

February 4, 2013 0 Rahul S

Idea Cellular has announced the launch of its new 3G ‘Speed Booster’ packs that would allow its postpaid 3G subscribers access to high speed 3G Internet access – all through their billing cycle – without having to worry about reaching the data cap. This will…

Internet

BSNL to Establish National Optical Fibre Network by 2014 Connecting Rural Areas

March 27, 2012 0 Rahul S

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India’s state owned telecommunications giant has kickstarted an ambitious plan to establish telecom links with all villages in India. The plan envisages taking the concept of e-governance to far flung, rural areas of the country…

Concept / Educative

ZTE Achieves Next-Gen Data Transmission Speed of 1.7Tbps

March 16, 2012 0 Hakimuddin

China based telecommunication and network solutions provider ZTE has achieved an all new high with field demonstration of data being transported at a speed of 1.7Tbps over optical network. This demonstration of speed is not only path-breaking, but also one-of-a-kind…

Internet

162 Million people witnessed Blackout: Wikipedia

January 19, 2012 0 Rahul S

The 24 hour long blackout that left frequent Wikipedia users without the site for an entire day has ended. Wikipedia claims that the move was a grand success and that estimated 162 million users saw the blacked out pages which…

Internet

Wikipedia goes black as 24 hour long Blackout Commences

January 18, 2012 0 Rahul S

The 24 hour long Wikipedia Blackout in protest against the SOPA anti piracy act that is being moved in the U.S House of representatives has commenced. As I type this, the Wikipedia home page looks like this:

Internet

Shammi Kapoor’s Twitter Account Hacked?

January 17, 2012 0 Rahul S

Shammi Kapoor’s, the Bollywood acting legend was quite an active Internet user. Being a fan, he was one of the few Bollywood people I used to follow on Twitter. While not frequent, he used to post from his Twitter account…

Internet

Wikipedia to go ahead with 24 hour blackout on January 18 against SOPA

January 16, 2012 0 Rahul S

It was late last year that the anti-piracy act SOPA, which is currently under consideration in the U.S House of Representatives, evoked strong response from Internet crusaders and free speech activists. The act would give the US lawmakers enhanced powers…

Internet

China has over 500 Million Internet Users Now

January 16, 2012 0 Rahul S

A Chinese industry group has said that the number of Internet users in the world’s most populous country has surged past the 500 million mark. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, the total number of Internet users in Mainland…

Internet

Delhi High Court to Hear Google, Facebook Petition

January 16, 2012 0 Rahul S

The Delhi High Court is set to hear a petition filed by Google, Facebook and as many as 21 other social networking websites against warning by a trial court that ruled that these websites could face a ban if they did…

Internet

Facebook expected to hit 1 Billion users by August 2012

January 13, 2012 0 Rahul S

As the world’s biggest social network, Facebook marches on – adding more and more people to its bandwagon, it keeps on hitting mind boggling numbers. We have been hearing about this ever since 2009 when the site really began to…

Internet

Facebook acquires Location Sharing Service Gowalla

December 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

While it was clear that Foursquare had already won the location sharing app wars long back, there is no doubt that another service known by the name “Gowalla” was fairly popular. But then, it could never match the popularity of…

Google

Google to retire Knol, Google Wave Services

November 23, 2011 0 Rahul S

As a web services company, Google is known for its extremely successful services, most of  which have been lapped up by customers from across the globe. However, not all of its services have been successful and Google knows it. In a…

Internet

More Photos Uploaded to Twitter’s own Photo sharing service than Twitpic, YFrog

November 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

This is not a happy news for you if you happen to be someone in photo sharing business on Twitter. Until very recently, services like Twitpic and Yfrog were the preferred means of sharing images on Twitter. In fact, just…

Internet

Opera Releases new versions of Opera Mini, Opera Mobile Browsers

November 3, 2011 0 Rahul S

It was just three weeks ago that Opera released a new version of its Opera Mini browser for Android devices. It’s now time for Opera to announce new versions of the browser for other platforms as well. Apart from Opera…

Google

Gmail Faces Outage; Returns Just as Quickly as it went Down

October 19, 2011 0 Rahul S

So, just hours after the announcement of the Ice Cream Sandwich laden Galaxy Nexus, Google’s servers seem to be acting up and from what we have been observing Gmail is either working very slow or has stopped working entirely for…

Internet

Now, You Can Convert Your 2D Videos Into 3D @ Youtube

September 22, 2011 0 Tassavur

Although, 3D televisions have flooded the market their sales more or less have been extremely poor which has got more to do with the lack of 3D content than with the technology or their prices. This is exactly what YouTube…

Internet

Yahoo Board Puts the Company for Sale!

September 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

Hours after the announcement of the unceremonial firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, reports are flowing in about the Yahoo Board of Directors deciding to put the company up for sale. A company official has reportedly divulged to the Wall Street…

Internet

Yahoo Fires CEO Carol Bartz; Internal Memo Leaked

September 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

Yahoo’s 62 year old as CEO Carol Bartz who had still a year left for her contract to complete has been unceremoniously fired by the Yahoo Board of Directors. The news which came to light a few hours ago has…

Internet

Facebook Partners with Vodafone; Launches “Vodafone Blue” Facebook Phone in India

September 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

Vodafone and Facebook have jointly announced the release of a new Facebook phone called the Vodafone Blue here in India. The device, designed to offer a complete, all-encompassing Facebook experience also gets a decent array of features making it a…

Internet

Caught In The Act: Microsoft Sued For Collecting Location Data Without Consent

September 2, 2011 0 Rahul S

The head honchos at Apple might be surely jeering at this one. Microsoft, which had, not long ago claimed the moral high ground claiming to not collect any location data without explicit user consent has been ironically sued by one…

Apps

Samsung’s ChatOn Has WhatsApp, BBM and iMessage in Sight

August 30, 2011 0 Rahul S

In a surprising move, Samsung has announced the launch of a brand new cross platform messaging service called ChatOn for smartphones and feature phones. The platform is in similar lines to the likes of Blackberry Messenger and WhatsApp both of…

Internet

Firefox 6 Lands; Throws In Slight Improvements

August 16, 2011 0 Rahul S

Barely weeks after Firefox 5 landed, has Mozilla taken the covers off the newest version of its browser for desktops in the form of the Firefox 6. This new version as always brings in a handful of feature updates and…

Google

India, US Lead Google+ Visitors List; Crosses 20 Million Userbase

July 23, 2011 0 Rahul S

Just three weeks after Google Plus opened its gates to users, the service has managed to garner over 20 million users. This makes the service way faster than either Twitter or Facebook to reach that mark. Earlier last week, Google…