Google, the world’s largest search engine, and one of the biggest internet brands,is understood to be eyeing opportunities in the third generation of mobile telephony, or 3G, in India.
Sources in the industry say Google is looking at broadband wireless access(BWA) in the country and may participate in the auction with an Indian partner. BWA ia also known as Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access, or WiMAX.
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The upcoming version 3.6 of Firefox will be able to tell if you’re listing to starboard–and pass that information along to applications running in the browser.
That’s because the browser will be able to detect the orientation of laptops and mobile devices equipped with accelerometers that can tell which way is down. The reason for the work: Web applications running in the browser will be able to use the information, useful for labyrinth-type games with virtual marbles rolling around boards, and any number of other gaming situations.
What would happen if you decide to print all the sites on the net today? I got a very interesting presentation as an answer for this question. Read it, share it!
Google has unveiled a new version of its search engine which it says will be faster and more accurate than ever before. This new architecture appears to include crawling, indexing, and ranking changes. For the first time, Google isn’t simply incorporating these changes into their existing infrastructure or replacing it. This search engine is called ‘Caffeine’. (check it here: www2.sandbox.google.com)
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The first shot in the Google Microsoft OS war has been fired. Looking at Google’s initial plans and ideas for implementation of the new OS, it’s pretty clear that it will be years before Google’s new open source OS is anywhere near a Microsoft competitor. But this announcement is clearly a shot across the bow of Microsoft, letting them know that change is coming. For years Microsoft has been sitting comfortably with its leading desktop market share. This isn’t just a Microsoft problem however. Sure, all OS developers both open source and proprietary have been bringing innovative ideas to computer users for years. Google, however, is looking to the future beyond the immediate future and planning to bring application development to the web where it dominates.
Still busy looking for free anti-virus, anti-malware or anti-spyware security protection product? Most Windows users do not have such a worry by second half of 2009, as Microsoft has announced plan to offer a no-cost consumer security offering to “address the growing need for a PC security solution tailored to the demands of emerging markets, smaller PC form factors and rapid increases in the incidence of malware”.
Microsoft recently announced it was doing away with its subscription-based consumer security suite, Windows Live OneCare. In its place, Microsoft plans a free, standalone antivirus product, code-named ‘Morro’, which, the company says, will meet the needs of emerging markets. Countries cited by Microsoft as being in this category include Brazil, China and India.
Any website can be broken down into two elements, the web design, and the web content. It is essential that for a professional image, that both elements are paid attention to, and that the design should be structured around the content.
So if good web design is all about the content, what is the aim of the web design? The answer to this question is that it enhances the content, and presents the information contained within it, in the most accessible way possible. In a nutshell that is it.
Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Here’s a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool. A wave is equal parts conversation and document.People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
The service seems to combine Gmail and Google Docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.

