Archive : Internet

If you carry around a lot of Wi-Fi enabled gadgets, like to always be connected on the go and have a few extra bucks to spare, you’re in luck. Following the trend of Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspots becoming popular in other parts of the world, PTCL just released its own version of a portable Internet Enabled Wi-Fi Device. It’s called the PTCL EVO Wi-Fi Cloud and it breaks the shackles of slow speed, limited [...]

When Google released its search engine back in the 90s, it was in the face of fierce competition from established competitors such as Yahoo and AltaVista. When Gmail was launched by Google, it was once again stacked up against strong odds. When Google released its web-browser “Chrome”, doubts were once again raised due to strong competitors. Well, the current situation clearly specifies that Google [...]

A Swedish Internet company said Friday it had been helping whistleblower website WikiLeaks since 2008 by hosting its servers at a secret basement location in a Stockholm suburb. WikiLeaks “contacted us through a third party in Sweden a few years ago and … their traffic goes through us,” Mikael Viborg, the 27-year-old head of the PRQ Internet hosting company, told AFP. He said the [...]

Google on Friday announced that it has bought hot online networking application maker Slide as part of a drive to “make Google services socially aware.” Slide is the San Francisco-based startup behind playful or practical applications such as SuperPoke and FunSpace that have become hits on Facebook and other social-networking websites. “This is a really exciting day for me and my [...]

Internet Giant, Google has announced the suspension of Google Wave. It was basically a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. One year back, Google wave was launched with a great deal of hype around it. Initially its invitations were sold on eBay in $70. Even I also sent hundreds of Wave invitations [...]

LinkedIn, the social networking service for business professionals, said Wednesday it is buying a startup specializing in digging valuable information from mountains of digital data. Financial details of the acquisition of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based mSpoke were not disclosed, but the deal marks the first takeover for LinkedIn, which was launched seven years ago in Northern California. LinkedIn [...]

More than two million people follow the NBA on Twitter, a record for any US sport league on the social networking site, the league announced. NBA followers push the league ahead of the National Football League, which has almost 1.7 million followers on Twitter, or Major League Baseball, which needs about 30,000 more just to reach half of the NBA’s total. “Surpassing the two-million mark [...]

Bulgarian police have shut down four popular torrent websites in its largest ever action against Internet piracy, the international recording industry association IFPI said Monday. The file sharing websites — nanoset.net, rapidadd.com, 4storing.com and afasta.com — were accused of illegally distributing books, films, games, music and software, IFPI said in a statement. Run by an organised [...]

How do you build a New Media company in the digital era? Former Googler Jason Liebman thinks his startup, Howcast Media, which hosts one of the largest collections of instructional or “How To” videos on the Web, is the way to go. Launched in February 2008, Howcast.com offers 200,000 videos ranging from the prosaic “How to Paint a Wall” to the piquant “How to Kiss With [...]

Google does not know if the Chinese authorities were behind a disruption in the company’s services on Thursday, chief executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Schmidt said that although the Chinese government can “arbitrarily decide” the level of service Google can provide in China, the Internet giant does not know if it was responsible for the disruption [...]