Orkut Now Available in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil and Telugu
Yes Yes Orkut is now available in 5 Indian Languages. Orkut has taken the next step forward in its goal of being the most popular social network in India. Orkut also recently won the MTV Youth Icon Award. Orkut has been busy offlate rolling out a new design for its users. And now they have done it again by making Orkut available in Over 5 Indian Languages that will surely bridge the divide that exists between Technology and Communication. Here is a brief rundown into what the Orkut Team posted... Read The Rest →
Google Crushed By Storm : The Virus Cannot Be Stopped
Believe it or not over a 1000 blogs on Google’s Blogger have been infected by a worm called Storm. What they are perpetrators of the Storm Worm are trying to do is to trick users into clicking poisonous links with some titillating messages. The links are shown to link to a Video hosted on Youtube while it actually takes you to an infected computer that makes a part of the botnet. Over 500 blogs on the blogspot domain are infected with this infection.. The Messages that link to the infected... Read The Rest →
Google's Next Target : GoDaddy
Yes it seems that Google is apparently planning to buy the World’s largest Domain Registrar GoDaddy. While it is pure speculation but I seriously believe that Google would be willing to buy GoDaddy that could indirectly remove spammy search engine results. Google Watch Reports that GoDaddy has been on a patent spree, appplying for over 50 Patents in the last few months. Notably Godaddy applied for a patent that would enable to present search engine results based on Domain Reputation Data. Reading the patent data reveals that Godaddy definately has... Read The Rest →
Orkut gets a Fresh Look
Finally Google has turned its eyes back onto social networking. To start off with Orkut will be getting a fresh design that sticks with traditional Google policy to keep things simple. While Google is still working on the design slowly a few users are starting to see the new design.. Old Design :
Make Orkut Super Stylish
Orkut which is one of the most popular social networks out here in India and Brazil has a rather boring and a cluttered look. I myself got bored of the orkut design long back. Today while I was getting bored something in my mind said, if Google reader can have wonderful userstyles then why not Orkut. I then went hunting for orkut userstyles and here are some of the uber cool ones that I found. Microsoft Office 2007 Style
Something is Cooking at Google
Well today is independence day here in India, and the official google blog has posted an announcement regarding something coming very soon for Indian Users. Here is the announcement posted by Googlers M T Raghunath and Gokul Nath Babu Manoharan.. Happy 60th birthday, India! We can’t wait to celebrate, but we’re going to wait a few days for the formal unwrapping of our gift to Indian users. Check back and we’ll have news shortly. I can’t wait to see what google has done for Indian Users. Maybe they are planning... Read The Rest →
Google building its own Alternative to iTunes
Well how many companies are working round the clock to eat a bit of the share that Apple’s iTunes has on the online music market. And now finally there is one more that you can add to this growing list of companies trying to challenge iTunes. And its not a nobody who is doing that but it is our very own google. Google is in final stages of building an alternative to iTunes which willl be called gBox. The program, which will be quite different from the model that iTunes... Read The Rest →
GMail Now Gives You Extra Storage
Yep Google is finally giving a paid upgrade to extra storage on Picasa Web Albums and Gmail. With a Google shared storage plan, you won’t have to worry about deleting files, pictures, or emails. After purchasing a storage plan, some of your individual Google services (e.g. email and photos) will share a single new storage space. This is a good news for all those people who have almost filled up their inbox. If you are one of those go ahead and buy yourself extra storage.. here are the plans
