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FCC frowns over Apple’s latest anti competitive move to block Google Voice

 FCC frowns over Apple’s latest anti competitive move to block Google VoiceApple’s latest move to ban Google voice has not gone well with FCC and users. While users are hot happy with this ban, FCC sees this as an anti competitive move “conspired” by Apple and AT&T. The conspiracy theory doing rounds in the web community elaborates on how Google VOIP and telephony product collides with interest of Apple and AT&T, its mobile carrier.  Apple, who has long guarded the application business notified Google of application’s duplicating features, AT&T doesn’t perceived it positively either as it offers free SMS and cheap international … Continue Reading

We duly contacted twitter before publishing the hacked documents, claims TechCrunch

 We duly contacted twitter before publishing the hacked documents, claims TechCrunchIn the midst of claims and counterclaims, TechCrunch today claimed that they contacted twitter before publishing the controversial documents. Reportedly TechCrunch published excerpts from “leaked”  confidential documents which claimed to be of a twitter employee. The document is said to be hacked to Google doc account and sent to TechCrunch is a zip file. The report which was said to be more than 300 pages has many document for twitter “internal” consumption  as it include twitter expansion plans, interview schedules, financial forecast and  many other sensitive documents.

TechCrunch claims that … Continue Reading

YouTube would now allow you to publish your video’s Insight Stats

YouTube logo YouTube would now allow you to publish your videos Insight StatsNow you can publish your YouTube insight stats to public. As per the latest announcement on Wednesday, YouTube would now allow the uploader to publish there ” insight” stats to public. Insight which is a free in-built analytical tool for analysis of the traffic and various other data like popularity, geographic audience, and viewer demographics. But this information was only accessible to the uploader till date.

But now these information can be viewed by all viewers by clicking a simple toggle button at the right hand side of screen. … Continue Reading

Twitterfeed server down

Sorry Twitterfeed server downToday twitterfeed server went down for a while, coincidentally just after i posted my post about twitterfeed’s new “robust” and “reliable” system. And before the speculation starts, i just want to clarify that, it not because of this post. But it actually reminds the need for twitterfeed to ramp up its infrastructure quickly to meet the growing usage of its services.

Infact till i checked last time, it was still not accessible. We have been trying to contact twitterfeed but till now no official reason has been given by them … Continue Reading

Twitterfeed revamped after invester’s renewed interest

twitterfeed Twitterfeed revamped after investers renewed interest Twitterfeed was one of the twitter application which has caught investor’s attention in recent weeks. After new round of funding by Betaworks and TAG, twitterfeed has improved on its backend making it faster and reliable. It has gone beyond just a project to a full fledged company of itself. And as per compete, in last three month the number of pageviews has gone up by 10%.

Besides improving on the reliability, twitterfeed has worked to create simpler login process for the users. Initially it

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338 million internet users that businesses can not ignore

 338 million internet users that businesses can not ignoreAs per latest report published by latest U.S. Census Bureau, number of internet users in china has crossed 338 millions users, which is more than entire US population. This was 13.4% jump from last year and the growth is likely to continue  as internet penetration in Chinese is still only 25.5%.

Despite the control and information and business overall which i talked about in my previous post about internet activism, business around the world cannot ignore the potential of hugh number of Chinese internet users. In fact it … Continue Reading

Google takes a shot at future (and at microsoft) with Chrome OS

google windows 1439540c Google takes a shot at future (and at microsoft) with Chrome OSAs professed by many, Google is moving closer to building a operating system based on web browser as platform. Many already have started talking about Google stack as it builds a series of application like Operating system, browser, google applications called Google apps, android and others.

In the process Google has also proved that it is moving closer to Microsoft in building a hype around its product launch. It is yet to be seen if Google as going Microsoft way in over committing early and under-deliver later and … Continue Reading

List of Squidoo and Hubpages Like Web Sites

squidoo logo List of Squidoo and Hubpages Like Web SitesFrom a webmaster’s perspective Squidoo and Hubpages like website could be very helpful for driving the traffic up. Here are some of similar websites where you can submit your articles. This is one of the popular way to get into the top of search engines like Google and Yahoo is by submitting article to these type of sites. Article can be either about your web sites, affiliate links, products that you are selling, tips and tricks or anything which in turn bringing massive traffics. You could bookmark this post for future … Continue Reading

Convert Powerpoint to Flash file

FlashLogo 10 Convert Powerpoint to Flash fileHere is another very handy tool for designers and webmasters. This application is called Point Lite and it enables the users to convert PowerPoint to Flash file effortlessly, which makes the converted presentation flash file easily shared on online video sharing sites. You may upload to Author Stream or Wiziq if you wish to sharing your presentation on the networks. There are two options either converting the PowerPoint file to .flv or .swf file. Author Point Lite retains the effect like sound, animation, narration and animated .gif so you get almost … Continue Reading

Download Piggy Mozilla Add On Extension

firefox logo Download Piggy Mozilla Add On ExtensionDownload Piggy is very useful tool which lets you download online flash video or other format. You can download from various of online streaming video sharing sites like Youtube, Veoh, Metacafe, Myspace, Google Video, Revver and more! In order to download this Firefox extension you have to register with Firefox which takes only minutes.

After successful installation, a little pink pig will appear on the right side of your browser window. Whenever you stumble a video and you wish to download it just click on the cute piggy and a prompt will … Continue Reading