On Wednesday, Google with two other non-profit organisations (New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) and the PlanetLab Consortium) has launched a website exclusively for the customers to check their internet connections and their performance. They are basically launched for the comforts of the customers and for them to check how their internet connections would [...]
New Online Lab For Broadband Testing Launched By Google
January 29th, 2009Google Steps In
January 28th, 2009Google Steps In Most webmasters have fought the battle of the SERPS against those who don’t play by the rules. Often the instinct is there to say “Does Google just not KNOW about this?” Most know that they can’t just run to Google and request the removal of another webmaster’s content from the search results. [...]
Gmail Can Now Be Accessed Offline
January 28th, 2009Google’s Gmail is trying to ward off one of the major disadvantages of the web based email services. All the major free web based email programs including Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail have to be used online and there are no offline usage facilities. Gmail however allowed downloading of its mails through POP and IMAP [...]
Twitter Worth $250 Million
January 27th, 2009Once again, a company that generates zero revenue as hitting it big, even in the midst of recession. This is one more shoring up of the fact that social networking is here to stay. Twitter has nailed down a third round of venture capitalist funding, which effectively boosts its value to as much as $250 [...]
Google Reports Spam Surge Again
January 27th, 2009Google has reported that there has been an increase in the spam level even after the shutdown of Internet Service Provider (ISP) McColo Corp. All the servers of this hosting company that were found to have spam rates between 40 to 75 percentage were shutdown in November 2008. Though there was considerable amount of slash [...]