Archive for 'Software'
Why can’t we create a folder by name CON?
Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by admin.
I’ve been asked this question many a times: Why can’t we create a folder by name CON? Although it seems a wonder or magic that we can’t create a folder by that name, in reality, it is not so. It has a definite reason, and in fact, a folder can be created using that reserved [...]
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Yahoo Loses The Brains Behind Boss
Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by admin.
The brains behind Yahoo Boss, a young engineer named Vik Singh, is leaving Yahoo to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. Earlier this year, Singh was named to Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 list at the age of 24. Singh is exactly the kind of talent Yahoo should be trying to hold onto, but [...]
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Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation
Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by admin.
eBay has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion. The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners and includes Joltid (i.e. the company founded by Skype’s original founders) and “certain [...]
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Say Goodbye to Voicemail, Hello To Ribbit Mobile (500 Invites)
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by admin.
First, there was Google Voice. And all was good, and not so good. But it showed that there is a better way to manage voicemails than to listen to 15 in a row just to get to the one you care about. Now, there is an alternative to Google Voice called Ribbit Mobile. And it [...]
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YouTube Gives Partners More Control Over Video Blocking
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by admin.
A source just tipped us on some interesting changes Google-owned YouTube has made that give its partners more control over the blocking of video content they upload to the service. Basically, there are two new buttons in the interface for partners. One says ‘Block by Country’ and provides content partners with the ability to geo-block [...]
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Yahoo Responds By Searching YouTube For Music Videos.
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by admin.
Last week Google launched the Music Onebox — a special new music search product that lets users stream songs in their entirety for free. Today, Yahoo Video is answering by improving its music video search offering. When you search for a song or artists, Yahoo will extract music videos of the most popular songs and [...]
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Ning Reaches 37 Million Users, Launches Developer Appathon
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by admin.
Tonight at a Ning’s developer event in Palo Alto, newly appointed COO Jason Rosenthal announced that Ning has reached 37 million registered users, as well as 1.6 million Ning networks created. The company also says that it grows another million users every couple weeks. Out of the 1.6 million Ning networks, 20% of the active [...]
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Google offers Commerce Search solution
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by admin.
Google, who tends to always be timely with new products, has released a new search product for commerce sites just in time for the holiday shopping season. Google Commerce Search allows websites to offer product search without having to host the feature themselves. Since the service is hosted in the cloud, commerce sites do not [...]
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Microsoft starts fresh with first major MSN redesign in over a decade
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by admin.
The first MSN redesign in over ten years is fresh and easier on the eyes. It features white background, half the links, Bing integration, and social feeds from Twitter, Facebook, and Windows Live. Microsoft unveiled a preview of a redesigned MSN homepage Tuesday. The software maker said it revamped MSN to be the “best homepage [...]
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Google opens up Wave federation
Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by admin.
Google just opened the Google Wave developer sandbox for federation. Developers can now begin prototyping tools against WaveSandbox.com. Google tested earlier versions of Wave with a small number of developers on the Wave sandbox and this server will now become the platform for testing interoperability between different Wave servers. Google also released a how-to document [...]