Posts Tagged ‘google’
The Blogs are Here: Umair Naeem
Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:41 No CommentsThe advent of the Internet and digital media as an information gathering tool is something that has been mentioned time and time again; and their importance only increases as Pakistanis move forward and become more internet savvy. I wrote about Viral Marketing and its implication as a marketing tool in an earlier column, and this [...]
Give me Web2.0, and I’ll give you everything [plus the Kitchen Sink]
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 19:56 No CommentsThe internet was meant to be an interactive platform. Even in the days of the DarpaNet, the classical versions of the online medium, were all about allowing people to exchange ideas with one another. Ignore the fact that the most people considered Java to be a great cup of coffee, or the fact that we [...]
Google Announces $10 Million Android Developer Challenge
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:57 No CommentsMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (November 12, 2007) – Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million to developers who build mobile applications for Android™, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. The Challenge is designed to support the developer community and spark innovation on the Android platform by awarding cash [...]
Microsoft launches free enterprise search software
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12:21 No CommentsMicrosoft is targeting the entry-level enterprise search market with its free Search Server Express 2008, a standalone version of SharePoint 2007’s enterprise search component. Search Server Express 2008 utilises the OpenSearch standard to collect results from sources including Live, Yahoo, Google or Wikipedia, as well as internal company resources, including blogs and knowledge centres. The [...]
Android or G-Phone?
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 11:52 No CommentsGoogle just keeps surprising the world with its exceptional visionary actions. Next time when it is Google make sure to expect the unexpected because just when you think you know what they are thinking…. they prove you wrong.
Before Monday (5th Nov 07), it felt as if Google would be launching a new phone (G-Phone) next [...]
Google spruces up corporate e-mail service
Monday, October 8, 2007 12:08 No CommentsISLAMABAD (October 08 2007): Google Inc is sprucing up its corporate e-mail service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of e-mail boxes.
Underscoring the online search leader’s ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market, BBC TV reported.
The changes, to be unveiled on Wednesday, mark Google’s first attempt [...]
Global Web Privacy Rules Needed in 5 Years
Monday, October 1, 2007 11:06 No CommentsOTTAWA: National regulators need to agree on a basic set of global privacy protection for the internet within the next five years, a senior official with web searcher Google said on Monday.
Peter Fleischer, the firms global privacy counsel, said three quarters of countries had no internet at a time when the amount of sensitive personal [...]
Online Communities: The Good, Bad & Ugly!
Saturday, December 9, 2006 6:35 No CommentsHumans are social animals, and the said aspect has become a part and parcel of their daily lives. As they go on through life, they tend to stick within communities, relate themselves to their peers, create friendships and form various cliques. It is with these communities, cliques, peers and friends that they interact and communicate, [...]