Yahoo has announced that it is blocking sex searches for all those on the Indian subcontinent. Its decision came after a similar statement from Microsoft’s Bling, er, Bing last week. Latest reports suggest that Yahoo search engine, Microsoft’s Bing search engine, and Flickr, recently made alteration to their setting by which Indian users will not be able to switch off the safe-search facility. Same type of blockage is also expected in READ MORE...
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Yahoo, Microsoft and Flickr on Anti-Porn compaign in India
On January - 1 - 2010
Microsoft, IBM And Yahoo offer help in India’s Unique ID Project
On November - 11 - 2009
The ambitious project to provide every citizen with a unique ID card would receive an initial funding of Rs 100 crore. The project would address security concerns and top IT firms like Infosys, Wipro, and TCS would get orders worth crores. It would be a giant leap in e-governance. It appears that both Yahoo and Microsoft are ducking it out to help power the technology for India’s Unique Identification project. Earlier this year, Microsoft READ MORE...
Ask.com for Sale – The Search Wars On (With Less Competitors)
On October - 28 - 2009
Just a couple of day’s ago we covered up the new ASK.com “Who Wants a Deal? We Do, We Do!” commercials. Yes they were good indeed. But only a few days after IAC, the company behind Ask.com has mentioned that they would be open to a sale of Ask.com search engine. Now that a significant use , given that Microsoft Bing and Yahoo recently partnered up for a Single Search engine against Google. Ask.com currently has 4% market READ MORE...
A tribute to Yahoo GeoCities – A platform that helped form the web…
On October - 27 - 2009
Remember Yahoo GeoCities, the hyped about webpage creation service that helped people like me and you create web pages instantly before the web 2.0 era? Well today Yahoo! is officially discontinuing GeoCities after a decade. "We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways," the company said. READ MORE...
CNN.com gets a Revamped Improved facelift…
On October - 24 - 2009
I being amid blogger and a reader go do different sites everyday, and one of my destinations is www.cnn.com . Today CNN has released its new customized, more modular, more streamlined and call it a more social design website. And the verdict : I Love it. Lets take a look. The news is much more streamlined into proper categories and I really like the section for its segments, that is really merging the web and the TV together. Besides that the site has READ MORE...
Yahoo TVWidgets – TV 2.0 – The Complete Review…
On October - 14 - 2009
Who said Carol Bartz was doing nothing. Let’s say it, we all love the old “idiot box” and bartz taking a note at that is trying to do what Microsoft wanted to do for years, amalgamate the PC, The Web and The TV. Today Yahoo has launched its new Internet-ready TV widget ecosystem. “We’re combining the best of broadcast TV today…with the best of the Internet,” “Connected TV and desktop” This clearly indicates that huge READ MORE...
