Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Software Turns Mobiles Into Wi-Fi Hotspots

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Here's a cool use for a phone that has both cellular broadband and Wi-Fi: Turn it into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot so your friends can surf the Internet on their laptops. A couple startups have created and made available software like this in the last year. But a more established software ...

Firefox 500 Million Downloads Celebration

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

The Firefox browser has been downloaded more than 500 million times, according to SpreadFirefox website. Mozilla is celebrating this by raising 500 million grains of rice on FreeRice. Which is enough to feed 25,000 people for a day. In honor of the 500 million download mark we're celebrating by raising 500,000,000 ...

Another Feature From Google: Search Within Search

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The most popular search engine Google added one more feature to its search, where you can search within a search. If you type in popular company/website key words, like 'amazon', 'wikipedia', 'intel', 'microsoft' on Google, it brings up the relevant result at the top and immediately underneath is a second ...

TestFreaks: Electronics And Gadget Reviews

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Generally whenever I buy any gadget, I tend to check up reviews from friends and on internet. Today I came across a web site called TestFreaks, which will be helpful whenever you plan to buy digital camera, camcorder, gaming consoles, mobile phone or any other electronics gadget. TestFreaks aggregate all possible ...

Microsoft Bids For Yahoo!

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Microsoft Corp. announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. Microsoft’s proposal would allow the Yahoo! shareholders to ...

YouTube Contributors Given Share Of Ad Cash

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

YouTube users in the UK will be given the chance to make money from the videos they post on the site. The project is already up and running in the US and is now being extended to other countries, starting in the UK. In the US some contributors are already earning ...

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