| Get your word's worth | 21-NOV-09 |
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| In the beginning was the Word. Then the species became needlessly talkative and new words had to be invented and added to the lexicon. This went on happening for thousands of years until one day it seemed that the process was set to reverse itself, with Internet chat-sites and SMS jargon encouraging the abbreviation of existing words into near-unrecognisable forms (“gr8 2 c u!”). Surely dictionaries will become passé now, we thought. |
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| 'Bhuvan should be accessed by different organisations' | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Bhuvan, an indigenously developed satellite mapping tool similar to Google Earth, should be widely accessed by different organisations and agencies for their programmes, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said today. |
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| Rich Jaroslovsky: Google Goliath confronts David in BT's Ribbit | 15-NOV-09 |
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| If a telephone company had a heart, Google Inc would be inspiring terror in it. As the newspaper, book and video industries can attest, Google has a knack for invading established markets and turning them upside down. Next up are the phone companies: Google Voice, still in testing, provides a free, powerful suite of Internet-based services that makes it a personal communications hub. |
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| Street View service lands Google in Swiss court | 13-NOV-09 |
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| The Swiss Data Protection and Information Commissioner today said it is taking Google to the Federal Administrative Court over the search engine's refusal to conceal privacy of the people/places in its 'Street View' service. |
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| Google to acquire AdMob for $750 mn | 10-NOV-09 |
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| Eyeing to enhance its expertise in mobile advertising, internet giant Google Inc is all set to acquire mobile display ad technology provider AdMob for $750 million. |
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| Discover your Plan B | 10-NOV-09 |
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| Ask an entrepreneur, if he had stuck to his original business plan and done well. The answer most likely will be “No”. Most well-known companies — say, Google, Starbucks, PayPal or even Pantaloon in India — have done well only after making radical changes to their original business plans. |
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| Choosing the right technique | 08-NOV-09 |
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| For investors and traders, who want to do technical analysis, there are a number of software packages for intra-day charting and end-of-day (EOD) software. |
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| Internet body petitions CCI on telephony | 03-NOV-09 |
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| Frustrated with an almost seven-month delay in the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) response to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) recommendation that the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should be permitted to use telephone lines to make internet telephony calls, the Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) has moved the Competition Commission of India (CCI). |
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| Google world's most attractive employer | 03-NOV-09 |
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| Internet search giant Google has emerged as the most sought after company for business as well as engineering graduates, according to two surveys, which term the company as the world’s “most attractive employer” followed closely by rival Microsoft. |
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| Google world's most attractive employer, Microsoft is next | 02-NOV-09 |
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| Internet search giant Google has emerged as the most sought after company for business as well as engineering graduates, according to two surveys, which term the company as the world's "most attractive employer" followed closely by rival, Microsoft. |
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| Google offers faster, new Orkut | 30-OCT-09 |
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| Internet search engine giant Google has launched a faster and easier to use Orkut built entirely on the more efficient Google Web Toolkit. |
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| Google searches 3G prospects in India | 27-OCT-09 |
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| Google, the world’s largest search engine and one of the biggest internet brands, is understood to be eyeing opportunities in the third generation of mobile telephony, or 3G, in India. |
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