Thanks to it’s bylanes, and the cultural tendency to navigate by directions, lack of proper signposts, etc. India is the first country to get landmarks in driving directions on Google Maps.
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It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online.
so starts the open letter from mark Zuckerberg.
And with that is also the news that Facebook plans to tighten its privacy policy [...]
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With the LinkedIn Developer Network, LinkedIn is opening out to let developers integrate LinkedIn into their business applications and websites according to the LinkedIn blog.
So far, LinkedIn has gone down more the collaboration/ partnership route for integration – think Microsoft’s integration of LinkedIn into its 2010 version of Outlook e-mail, LinkedIn for BlackBerry, Amazon.com, shows [...]
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We have answered you on web, mobile, SMS, WAP, USSD, twitter, chat and many more mediums. Now we are also available on voice. We got a brand spanking new number.
33-555-555 ( double three triple five triple five )
says the AskLaila blog.
So, the next time you’re in Bangalore and want to know movie timings, or local [...]
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In a significant development for deaf and hearing impaired Internet users, Google has announced that videos on YouTube can now automatically generate captions and subtitles in English, with more languages planner in the future. Captions can also improve search and even enable users to jump to the exact parts of the videos they’re looking for.
“Google [...]
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“Launching Urdu and Punjabi has been a true labour of love for our team. Urdu brought with it some unique challenges: since it is written right to left, we needed to ensure that editing functions such as backspace, tab, etc all work as expected… ” says this post on the Google India Blog.
And with that, [...]
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Dial 54999 – Sing along, record and dedicate. Thats what the new “Karaoke Messaging service” from Loop Mobile promises.
Subscribers can listen and select from a database of popular bollywood songs, sing the song along with the right music accompaniment and the exact lyrics, listen to their recording and then send it to anyone, anywhere in [...]
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With this little enhancement, you will now be able to search the web from Gmail without leaving your Gmail window.
Turn it on from the Labs tab under Settings, you’ll see a new search box on the left side of your inbox.
Type your search in, and a window (like a chat window, but a bit bigger) [...]
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YouTube has begun testing a new feature that lets users download videos posted to the site from partner institutions — including colleges — rather than just watching the videos in a streaming format. That means people can grab lectures from Duke and Stanford Universities and several institutions in the University of California system to watch [...]
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With Oceans, Google has lifted the lid on its first major upgrade to its global mapping software, Google Earth.
The new edition of Google Earth uses photographs and video of fish and other marine life from partners including the National Geographic Society, to allow Web surfers to dive under waves and glide over the sea floor. [...]
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