Microsoft’s Bing has made some really impressive progress over the past few years in making itself a preferred search engine. Today it crossed the 20 percent mark in the US search market share, eating away most from Google & Yahoo.Google took the top spot with 64.5 percent, followed by Bing with 20.1 percent and then Yahoo with 12.8 percent finally ... Read More »
Google’s pet social child Orkut which has been a buzz among teens last decade is all set to say Goodbye! Its official folks, Google has decided to shut down Orkut platform on September 30,2014. In an email sent by Google to the Orkut users, Google says the dawn of YouTube, Blogger and Google+ has made Orkut take backseat on the ... Read More »
Google has recently been in a gobble spree acquiring all the nice companies out there. Just few weeks back Google announced it acquired cloud monitoring service Stackdriver. Now, Google has taken-over Divide, a cloud-based device management technology that will help corporates manage BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Devices) policies. In a post on the Divide website (via Re/code), the company says: We’re thrilled to ... Read More »
Google has announced that it has acquired cloud monitoring services provider Stackdriver. Google is looking to enhance its cloud services with this newly available technology. “Stackdriver has built a leading service to help developers intelligently monitor the apps and services they’re building and running in the cloud,” says Google product manager Tom Kershaw. “This allows customers to have more visibility ... Read More »
Your passwords stored in many sites were not safe and could have been easily compromised thanks major security flaw which was left unseen for the past 2 years! The shocking part is this has affected banks and other secure sites which we have been told many times in the past that when a pad-lock appears on the address bar the ... Read More »
The next dawn of Internet technology is fast coming – at a speed you can’t even imagine! Google is exploring the next big thing – 10 gigabit per second connections that are over 1,000 times faster than the average connection in the US today. “After one gig, it would be 10 gigs so we are already working on 10 gigs,” ... Read More »
Google’s Gmail service just came out of a short downtime that really scared the crap out of many users. People both for personal and business relay on Gmail for their email communication. Gmail going down is like all hell breaking lose for people who heavily relay on email service for their communication. At about 2:15 p.m. eastern time Friday, Gmail users ... Read More »
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