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‘Technology’ News

Rumor: Is Google laying off 10,000?

Monday, November 24, 2008 20:44

Lot of business and technology websites are rumoring a big layoff at Google. Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be cut according to sources. Since August, hundreds of employees have been laid off.  Source: http://www.webguild.org/2008/11/google-layoffs-10000-workers-affected.php.  We definitely know that Google is controlling ...

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Setback for Europeana, website goes online and now offline until mid-December.

Setback for Europeana, website goes online and now offline until mid-December.

Saturday, November 22, 2008 17:35

Europeana is European Union’s highly ambitious search platform to a collection of European digital libraries with digitized paintings, books, films and archives.  Website went online on Thursday 20th November and was taken down immediately because of overwhelming requests.  Website’s software ...

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Goodbye PC Magazine

Goodbye PC Magazine

Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:18

I still remember, back in 1993, during my college days, I was regular reader of PC Magazine. Those days internet was luxury in Pune, India; very few people had the access to the internet. As a student, Magazines and newspapers ...

Lost Opportunity

Lost Opportunity

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 21:07

India is world’s fastest growing and second largest telecom and handset market. Apple absolutely miss calculated the Indian market. Apple only planned to sell about 50,000 iPhones in India by 2008 year end. But so far Apple could only sell about 11,000 ...

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Finally, Yang to Step down as Yahoo CEO

Monday, November 17, 2008 21:11

Good News for Yahoo shareholders. According to Wall Street Journal, Yahoo’s Chairman and CEO, Jerry Yang, will step down as soon as company finds his replacement. Yahoo has already started searching for new CEO; company has hired Heidrick and Struggles to hire new CEO.

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Google SketchUp 7 Released

Monday, November 17, 2008 20:10

Everyone knows that using Google SketchUp one can create, modify and share 3D models. Today Google just release SketchUp 7 with some really brilliant functionality. Check out the Youtube Video for demonstration or visit Google ...

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India’s First Lunar Probe Lands on Moon

Sunday, November 16, 2008 14:28

The first lunar probe from India landed on the moon Friday, November 14th. Moon Impact Probe (MIP) were carrying Indian tricolor. Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) mounted on Chandrayaan-1 has been taking breathtaking pictures. Click here to view the latest images of ...

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White House Youtube channel coming soon to your computer

Sunday, November 16, 2008 0:52

US Presidents always updated American public via their weekly radio addresses to the nation. President elect Obama will be giving weekly video addresses along with radio addresses. These videos will be uploaded to the world’s largest video portal, Youtube. Today the first of those video was released....

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Google uses search queries to track the flu outbreak

Google uses search queries to track the flu outbreak

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 18:49

Millions of user around the world uses Google search engine to search online health information. Google.org, the company’s philanthropic unit, has developed the web tool which will be predicting the flu trends using flu related searches made on its search engine. The new service analyses the searches as they come ...

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Blackberry Storm Pre-Launch on 20th November?

Blackberry Storm Pre-Launch on 20th November?

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 23:32

BGR is reporting Blackberry storm Launch and Pre-Launch dates. According to the document provided by tipster to BGR, Verizon is planning to pre-launch Storm on November 20th. Verizon is really planning to get Storm in stores before thanks giving sale. I am sure loyal Verizon wireless customers must be ...


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