The New Yahoo! Search

Search Engine News October 2nd, 2007

The New Yahoo! Search
Yahoo has been working very hard on enhancing and improving their search engine service to become a major challenger to Google which has been dominating this market since a real long time.
With this updated search engine service, the company would be providing more suggestions to the user conducting a search.
This would help [...]

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Apple launches iPod Touch

Apple Computers, Digital Media, Digital Music - Players September 6th, 2007

Apple launches iPod Touch
The day has arrived and Apple has launched the much awaited full screen iPod for their fans.
The newly launched iPod has been named iPod Touch. Seems to be inspired from the HTC’s Touch mobile phone device.
The newly launched iPod Touch comes loaded with Apple’s Safari web browser and a built-in wireless antenna. [...]

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Maruti Swift Diesel launch next week

Automotive News, Brands, Business News January 20th, 2007

Maruti Swift Diesel launch next week
I have been personally waiting for this particular launch since a long time. I went ahead and purchased the LXI edition of the car last year because the diesel versions were delayed a bit too much.
Now, it is more or less clear that Maruti is going to launch the diesel [...]

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Google Code Search: A search engine for programmers

Internet, Networks, Search Engine News October 5th, 2006

Google Code Search: A search engine for programmers
Search engine giant Google has launched yet another search engine service. This time they are targeting the programmers who can use this tool to search for programming codes and snippets.
This new product is Google Code Search.
The company believes that this search tool can help the developers to improve [...]

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Good Technology targeting Lotus Domino users

Internet, Networks, Wireless-Mobile June 27th, 2006

Good Technology targeting Lotus Domino users
Good Technology has announced that they are now supporting IBM Lotus Domino with their Mobile Messaging service.
The company announced that they are now supporting a wide variety of networks. Rick Osterloh, Good’s vice president of products said in a statement: “We work on any network as long as it’s [...]

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Verizon Wireless launches Chaperone child location service

Brands, Networks, Safety News, Telephony, Wireless-Mobile June 13th, 2006

Verizon Wireless launches Chaperone child location service
Verizon Wireless has launched a new service to help parents locate their kids. This new service is called Chaperone and it displays the location of the kid’s cell phone on a map. Parents can access this service both on their mobiles and on the web.
This service comes after rival [...]

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Robert Scoble leaves Microsoft for PodTech.net

Blogging News, Internet, Personalities June 12th, 2006

Robert Scoble leaves Microsoft for PodTech.net
Robert Scoble is one of the most well known Blogger on the internet. He was one of the first ones from the Microsoft to start blogging, which resulted in thousands from the company joining the blogosphere.
Interestingly, Scoble is now leaving the software giant to work for a recently formed [...]

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X-Trail FCV: Nissan Motor to test drive fuel cell cars

Automotive News June 1st, 2006

Nissan Motor to test drive fuel cell cars
Japanese automaker Nissan Motor has said that they would soon offer its fuel-cell car for test drives in Japan for up to a year. The aim is to check out the practicality of driving such a car in normal circumstances.
The company said that they would allow consumers to [...]

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Chevrolet Spark (Daewoo Matiz II) coming next year

Automotive News, Brands, Business News May 18th, 2006

Chevrolet Spark (Daewoo Matiz II) coming next year
According to news sources, General Motors India would be launching the much-awaited next version of the Daewoo Matiz car sometime early next year. The car would now be called Chevrolet Spark and the company aims to capitalize on the Chevy brand.
Spark is expected to be launched in the [...]

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Hyundai 1.2-liter diesel small car for India

Automotive News, Brands, Business News, Market Rumors May 6th, 2006

Hyundai planning a 1.2-liter diesel small car for India?
With Suzuki Swift dominating their Hyundai Getz and Indica ruling the small diesel car market, Hyundai has finally decided to go on offensive.
Rumors are that the company is aiming at launching a small car powered with a 1.2-liter diesel engine by the end of the year.
The [...]

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WSJ reports that Microsoft might team up with Yahoo! to compete against Google

Business News, Internet, Market Rumors, Networks, Online Advertisement, Search Engine News, Software News May 4th, 2006

WSJ reports that Microsoft might team up with Yahoo! to compete against Google
After eBay was rumored to be talking with both Yahoo! and Microsoft separately to form an alliance to compete against the search engine and online advertisement market giants Google, we now have reports claiming that Microsoft and Yahoo! might form an alliance with [...]

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Google continues to gain more market share

Brands, Business News, Internet, Networks, Online Advertisement, Search Engine News April 19th, 2006

Google continues to gain more market share
Search engine giants Google are continuing with their domination in the online search market as they gained market share for the eighth consecutive month.
A Web metrics firm ComScore Networks reported that only Google and Ask were able to improve upon their market share in the last month. Yahoo!, MSN [...]

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Microsoft MSN Photo2Search

Internet, Networks, Search Engine News April 18th, 2006

Microsoft working on Photo2Search technology
Software giants Microsoft continues to work on improving their search engine capabilities. The latest news coming is that the company is working on a technology they call Photo2Search.
This feature would enable the user to mail the company an image taken using a camera phone and the service would return results of [...]

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Not all Hybrids are best sellers

Automotive News, Brands, Business News April 16th, 2006

Not all Hybrids are best sellers
Customers around the world love Hybrid cars for what they are, fuel-efficient. And now the automobile manufacturers around the world are finding out that if they compromise this factor to improve the performance in hybrid versions of the regular mainstream models, they no longer are interested enough.
The best selling hybrids [...]

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Beatles songs coming online for sale!

Brands, Business News, Digital Media, Digital Music - Players, Internet, Networks April 13th, 2006

Beatles songs coming online for sale!
As per incoming reports, The Beatles have finally permitted to sell their songs online. This decision comes after years of refusing to take part in the digital boom, which has seen a huge spurt of sales for music companies.
This information was revealed in the media by the head of [...]

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General Motors planning to enter smaller cities in India

Automotive News, Brands, Business News March 21st, 2006

General Motors planning to enter smaller cities in India
World’s largest automobile manufacturer General Motors finally has a respectable line of products, which can actually interests the regular auto customer in the Indian market. Products from the Daewoo range branded as Chevrolets have finally enticed the Indian customers to go for GM products.
GM currently has [...]

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Avoid Sify Broadband like Plague

Opinions - Speculations September 20th, 2004

Full saga at:
Sify Broadband Blog | Sify Broadband Forum
My last 5 months with Sify Broadband
Let me tell you the basic mantra of this page. DO NOT TAKE A SIFY BROADBAND CONNECTION. Why? There are loads of reasons and this page explains few of them. I have been a customer since December 2003 and I can [...]

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Microsoft and the history of missing deadlines

Main News August 7th, 2004

After a long wait, Microsoft’s much hyped Windows XP Service Pack 2 is finally out. Out to the beta testers on the Windows Beta website and is available for download to them. The file size of this monster of a service pack is said to be around 266 Megs! And Neowin has reported that pirated [...]

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Web Browsers, Search Engines and now Blogs… Microsoft does it again

Main News August 6th, 2004

Microsoft is known more for their late arrivals in the fields of technology than for innovations. Most of the fields they are now leading or competing are where they entered late. Internet and Web Browsers was one field when they entered too late but well, they shattered all the competition and still hold most of [...]

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Mamma mia… A Linux Notebook from Hewlett Packard

Hardware News August 5th, 2004

Linux is going main stream. It’s getting l33ter day by day. And I love it. this is the beginning of a new era. A major PC maker is launching a laptop that would be sold with preloaded Linux instead of the monstrous MS Windows! This is a big day…
Lets hope competition learns something from this. [...]

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