BeatThatQuote, which was named as one of the fastest growing websites by Nielsen in 2007, is now acquired by Google. BeatThatQuote provides users with price comparisons on various products and services such as loans, utilities, insurance, legal services and other…
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Newborn Named “Facebook” To Celebrate #Jan 25 Revolution
It’s interesting how technology plays a vital role in the world that we live in. On one side, the American parents worry if their child is on Facebook, on the other side, Egyptian parents have started naming their children as…
Google Voice Introduces Mobile Number Portability
Google is testing out a new feature which allows users to port their existing cell phone number to Google Voice.This means that any user of Google voice just needs to have one number and that can serve as home, office…
Google Officially Posts Overview of Android 3.0 Honeycomb
Earlier today Google accidentally uploaded an overview video of Android 3.0 Honeycomb on YouTube and then withdrew it quickly. The video was recorded successfully before they removed it. Google has now officially posted the video back again and also mentioned…
VLC Media Player For Android Platform Soon
Apparently, the most famous media player on PC, VLC, is developing its application for the Android platform. Jean Baptiste Kempf, VLC’s chief developer was reported saying this to Gigaom, a tech blog. The application is already running with iOS. It…
Google Shuts Voice Search Service in India
Google has shut its voice search experiment in India because of negative result for search through voice responses. On this, Google India’s product head, Vinay Goel has said, “The experiment was wound up as we did not achieve scale and…
Yahoo pipped by Facebook in video channeling
In the third quarter Facebook claimed one more feat. It passed Yahoo, Bing and other search engines in trafficking online videos at media sites. However, Google still remains the top source that leads traffic to videos. This is simply because…
Google bothers TV manufacturers by delaying product launch.
In Las Vegas next month, Google was about to have a grand launch for their new Google TV software at the consumer electronics show which it has delayed for future. The reason, sources say, is that Google wants to refine…
Google to warn about hacked websites
This year has seen a lot in terms of failure of security. Many sites were hacked. Websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Gawker Media etc were some of the big names to be hacked. In some sites (such as Facebook )…
Over 3 million books to start with on the new Google EBooks store
Great news for readers as Google launched its web store called Google eBooks for digital books. It claims to have a library of over 3 million books and includes a lot of free books. Although the books are for the…