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Mobile Advertising to be reincarnated with Apple’s iAd?

If the next big thing is, it’s got to be Mobile Advertising. If analysis’s seem correct then it’s lucid that the Cell Phone markets, especially the smartphone markets in terms of browsing and downloading content have grown 10 folds in the past 3 years. Apple too has contributed to the growth of the market immensely [&hellip

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Viacom-Youtube’s $1 Billion legal mumbo jumbo

One of the biggest media conglomerate, Viacom’s battle with the largest video sharing website, Youtube for a $1 Billion Lawsuit went public this thursday at the Federal Court. The whole case revolves around the arguments made by both the Giants and most exigent part constituent of the case is the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998). [&hellip

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Google is the Hungry Beast : Don’t be Evil, Google?

Google has seen immense growth, poking it’s nose in each and every sector, healthcare, biotech, cleantech, software, news delivery, books and nearly everything. Google is very hungry. It wants to capture everything that belongs to you, your entire digital life. From Email to health records online, from entertainment to books, Google wants to know everything [&hellip

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Yahoo partners with Twitter

Yahoo!, the so called internet giant which is losing its vigor due to immense competition from Google and Bing. If you were following the recent news, you might know that Twitter made few bucks signing a deal with Google and Bing, allowing them to index the tweets. Lately, we also came across the fact that even Yahoo was [&hellip

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Google Buzz to Buzz up your social networking experience online

Google rules all the market except one, Social Networking. They did try to tap it using Orkut which worked out only in Brazil and India and few other parts of the world. Facebook gained 400 Million users this week which proves Social Networking is a massive market and Google does not want to leave it. [&hellip

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Apple turning against Adobe while it seeks cover under Google

Apple and Adobe are having a kind of coldwar. This all started when Flash was not included in the iPhone OS and now not on the iPad OS too. Recently at a town hall meeting, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs slammed Adobe and called it lazy. There have been huge discussions, lengthy blog posts written, tweets [&hellip

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Multi Touch finally arrives at Nexus One officially via OTA update

No more missing multi touch interface on Nexus One, Google just issued a OTA (Over the Air) update for Android running on Nexus one’s which brings in multi touch capabilities to your Web Browser, Gallery and Google Maps. Earlier some third party patches had enabled Multi Touch only in the browser. This means all those [&hellip

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Google Apps to abandon Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 from March 1

Internet Explorer 6 has been a huge problem for developers from sometime as they (including me!) are having difficult time optimizing websites for a browser made in 2001 for websites developed in recent times as technology has evolved a lot in recent years. Google will be phasing out browser support for Google Docs suite and [&hellip

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Google Voice for iPhone has finally arrived [with hack] : F*** you App Store

Remember those days? Apple Vs. Google? Google submitted the Google Voice app for review to Apple’s app store and then it just got rejected. Things got worse and Apple was blamed for going along with AT&T’s decision of not accepting the app. FCC (Federal Communications Commission) looked into the matter and asked all the three [&hellip

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Nexus One Voice recognition blocks harsh words and converts them to ####

Voice to text sometimes can be embarrassing or even disgusting at times. If you want to text your friend, “Would you like to have chocolate fudge tonight?” and then the word Fudge is mistaken by your device and output is real disgusting, “Would you like to have chocolate fu** tonight?” and the * does stand for the [&hellip

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