This is interesting to see that Lahore High Court has once again ordered to ban 9 sites including Google, Amazon, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Youtube and Bing in Pakistan. Quite interestingly, 3 of these are popular search engines and usually do not have content of their own. According to a news article, the decision has been […]
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Google Wave – Now you have a reason to use it
It has been a year Google has launched Google Wave. Since it’s a communication tool, it doesn’t make much sense without many people using it. While the product has been its preview mode from Google Labs, you don’t expect many people being online when you log on to your wave account. That is why I […]
Google Latitude API Now Available
We’ve covered Google Latitude in the past. Google Latitude is an-add on to the Google Maps and a location based service that allows you to share your location with your friends and family. In case of mobile version of Latitude + Google Maps, you control who gets to see your location but with Google Latitude […]
RIM’s BlackBerry has the largest smartphone share in US
According to an independent marketing research firm named comscore, BlackBerry has the largest smart phone share in US. Google has shown some serious improvement to 9% and Apple has been steady. This comparison shows the strength of RIM in the region. Those who are planning to build their business around BlackBerry should have additional level […]
Send Free Text Worldwide. Free SMS for life
This sounds too good to be true but things are moving in that direction. To promote the use of text messages on cell phones in my country, I remember cell phone operators were giving free SMS to subscriber around a decade ago. Once they started using it, it has never been free. Today I will […]
Google search has 4 out of 5 senses if you are on Android
You can touch, you can see, you can hear when you are searching Google on Android phones. Human beings are said to have 5 senses including touch, see, hear, smell and taste and then some of them have a sixth sense too. Android phones can search based on what they see through their camera, what […]
What is Google Voice?
After my last article on Google Voice and accessing it from outside US, I got several emails asking me more about Google Voice. Come on guys, you could google that, couldn’t you? And then I saw Google’s post on their own good blog that explains it. So watch this video if you are still not […]
Unicode has taken over!
I remember several years ago when Unicode started taking over in comparison of ASCII text, it was quite a bit of resistance from the developer community in the beginning. This latest graph by Google shows that UNICODE has clearly taken over the web overtaking all other standards in 2008 and reaching 50% of the web […]
Google to phase out Internet Explorer 6 for Google docs
Google docs will no longer support Internet Explorer 6 and other older browsers. On march 1, 2010 these older browsers will start working either very slow or will not work at all with google docs. This step has been taken in favor of new high speed docs site with newer standards like HTML 5. The […]
google for a joke
A localized joke on Google : Google may be a great search engine but it can't search my chappal I lost in the mosque. sms joke shared by Badar.