Compete has reported their numbers for February 2011’s search market share and the results are interesting. To quote their post: - With fewer days in February, search query volume across the 5 engines was down nearly 12% MOM. - The trend for search market share continues with Google losing incremental share (-0.7ppt), while Bing [...]Post Author: samzbest. Continue Reading

At 9:00 p.m. PST last night at SXSW in Austin, Texas, the final version of Windows Internet Explorer 9 was released and is now available for download. We were proud to be joined by sites and companies like Hulu, Groupon, Huffington Post, eBay, Slacker, ESPN and Foursquare, web luminaries like Ze Frank, and hardware partners [...]Post Author: samzbest. Continue Reading

Thanks to internet we all belong to a global village now. According to a Digital Media research an average person uses internet for at least 13 hours daily. It is a part of our life. But do you know what the internet is?   The IE9 team at Microsoft went on the streets to find out the same… Checkout this cool video     In simple words an internet is a cluster of interconnected computer networks that uses a standard protocol i.e. TCP/IP to communicate. In short, it’s a Read more Continue Reading

Microsoft is giving away a free Windows Phone FREE with purchases of $499 items or more at Microsoft Stores.   All the handsets on offer seem to be 1st-generation Windows Phone devices: HTC Surround LG Quantum HTC HD7 Dell Venue Pro The bonus is that no carrier strings are attached to it. Interested? Check out your nearest Microsoft Store. Read more [...]Post Author: samzbest. Continue Reading

The authorized biographer of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson, came on 60 Minutes yesterday and revealed some interesting things about Jobs. Tomorrow being officially released, the Official biography of Steve Jobs, some excerpts have already spun of on the web such as “Mr. Jobs told Mr. Isaacson that he was either going to be one of the first ‘to outrun a cancer like this’ or be among the last ‘to die from it,” “None of us has any idea how long we’re gong Read more Continue Reading

  On 16th October 2011, the government of California officially celebrated Steve Jobs day. And Apple Inc itself celebrated “Remembering Steve” in a special event on the 19th of October 2011, when Apple stores from all over the world were closed and employees in Cupertino and elsewhere joined to cherish the co-founder and ex-CEO of Apple Steven Paul Jobs.     See the whole 80 minutes event that happened on the 19th of October 2011 at Cupertino. Let us know your thoughts… Read Continue Reading

Today StumbleUpon iintroduce their new marketing platform: StumbleUpon Paid Discovery Presently they are offering  offer two new campaign types, Standard and Premium, which provide: Targeting by device across Desktop browsers, iPhone, iPad or Android Advanced reporting* with viral sharing and engagement metrics, traffic analysis and website quality score. Accelerated serving priority, allowing your stumbles to [...]Post Author: samzbest. Continue Reading

Since the beginning of Facebook, your profile has been the place where you tell your story. People use it to share everything from the small stuff, like their thoughts on an article, to the most important events of their lives, like the photos of their wedding or the birth of their child. Over time, your profile evolved to better reflect how you actually communicate with your friends. Now you can can share photos of what you did last weekend, and updates about how you feel today. But since the Continue Reading

Everyone who is acquainted with the emerging technologies is well aware of the contributions of Steve Jobs. He was a genius, a visionary who believed in inventing a better future. His key driving forces were diversification and innovation with perfection.   His demise is shocking and devastating news for almost everyone in this world. As today we all are totally addicted to our iPhones, iPads and iPods. The man behind the revolution of smart phones, tablet computers, operating systems, Continue Reading

It was 27th September 2011 the Supreme Court’s website got hacked again! According to Television News this was done by 2 individuals from a small Town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Their hacking ID is “zombie_ksa” and their group’s name is “Pak Bugs.” This makes me wonder is the   Supreme Court’s website so vulnerable that it can be hacked easily? Why didn’t government officials bother securing their websites at first place? I hope they are aware of techniques like encryption, Continue Reading

So here I come again with some more excellent news. We are proud to bring on Afroze in our team as a regular contributor adn Editor at Large to The Technology Cafe. She would be writing on technologies at heart that bring change in peoples lives. Technologies that we ignore most on a daily basis. She has interests in Management and technology fusing together and I truly believe she is going to Rock at The Technology Cafe. She has done her MBA and Bachelors in Computer Science from SZABIST. She Continue Reading

Hi people, So the Technology Cafe was say it out of order, or incompetent to do what it said or be is also said closed down etc etc Yes I believe all this happened during the past year. We came down sometimes the site shutdowna and sometimes dead silence. The fact being we were too clumsy to attain out goal of the Technology Cafe. We learnt our lesson and hence today we start of with the late Steve Jobs quote, which has inspired us yet again. "Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. Continue Reading

SAP AG, Nokia Corp. and Giesecke & Devrient GmbH (G&D) announced plans to form a new company, named “Original1” Original1 will deliver product authentication and anti-counterfeiting services across the globe. The services will be aimed at protecting companies and consumers in a wide range of industries from product piracy and counterfeiting, help them maintaining brand values, revenue potentials and profitability of branded goods, according to the three companies. Original1 will Continue Reading

  Happy Birthday, Firefox   On November 9, 2004, Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 debuted and quickly became a serious contender in the ongoing browser wars. At the time, Microsoft's Internet Explorer dominated the market with a 99 percent market share. Five years later, Internet Explorer still reigns at 65 percent, but Firefox comes in second with an impressive 23 percent.     Firefox currently has 330 million users worldwide, and celebrated its 1 billionth download in July. The celebration Continue Reading

The eReader market is just expanding phenomally. From Amazon to Barnes and Noble. And today  Bridgestone has released its all-color touchscreen e-book reader. It’s no Kindle but slightly much better we think as its is is about 5.8mm thick, features a 13.1-inch touch-sensitive e-paper display and has wireless connectivity built within. The most intriguing feature is that the whole eReader is bendable. Here is a video of the ePaper technology that Bridgestone is using in the eReader… Continue Reading