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Banyan Tree Infomedia (BTI) has announced the global launch of Answerify, its premiere question-answer portal. The beta version of the portal was launched not too long ago, but thanks to the extraordinary response from its users, BTI has ensured that the full-on portal is launched ...

Here comes the shocking news from much-addictive social networking website, Facebook. Facebook is mulling over charging money to its users for holding an account, according to sources. But yes, there is also a free account holding option, which provides you limited features.
 
A source ...

Online multi-player games publisher UTV True Games has announced the launch of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) Mytheon.
 
The game can now be downloaded and played for free from the official website, www.mytheongame.com. Players of age 13 or above can play the game ...

Gmail’s recently introduced Priority Inbox feature has been extended to iPhones web app as well, the company announced today. This is really cheerful news for iPhone users as the feature segregates important mails from the unimportant ones.
 
Earlier, the Priority Inbox service was ...

Samsung Galaxy S smartphone will now come loaded with Opera Mini software, the most used mobile web-browser, sources said.
 
The Opera Mini software will initially be launched in few markets following which the company plans to expand the services to other markets. The browser will come ...

Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo has displayed an attachable display for glasses that uses Augmented Reality technology to provide navigational services and other location-based information to the user.
 
The device has been developed jointly by DoCoMo and camera manufacturer ...

The Pirate Bay, the most popular website, is reported to have come down by its rankings after police raided many locations across Europe.
 
According to sources, European countries including Sweden, Germany, Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Czech Republic, Hungary and Belgium were raided under ...

Vodafone has launched the highly anticipated Android 2.2 update called Froyo for HTC Desire users on its network. This is said to be a smart step that is likely to be noticed by the rival carriers in due course.  
 
Vodafone has also made certain changes in its smartphones. Accordingly, ...

Google is planning to launch an online music service to compete with Apple's iTunes. The hints came from the recent I/O conference.
 
According to analysts, the online giant is preparing to invest largely in the digital music market by providing a better music experience for its ...

Google is known to customize the search options and now, it has enabled customization of its search engine homepage by which users can add their own photo and wallpaper backgrounds.
 
This is one of the significant moves that the online giant has taken till now to its search engine user ...

Google has released the 5th version of its Chrome browser for beta testers with faster speed and other feature additions. The Chrome browser has acquired a significant portion of market space within one and half years of its entry into the market.
 
Google Chrome was released for the users ...

Google has announced that the UK users can now use the suffix '@gmail.com' instead of the usual ‘googlemail.com’.
 
Earlier, Google was forced to use the ‘googlemail.com’ pattern after objections from a company which claimed to have the same suffix in the ...

Twitter has planned to add embeddable tweets called Quotes that will help the tweeters to embed updates in a webpage.
 
The so called updates come with efficient HTML code that needs to be pasted on the website's code.
 
Twitter has instructed its users about how to start Twitter ...

Opera Mini browser for mobile handsets has shown a strong growth in India with a rise of 260.3% on year-to-year basis. At the same time, it has also shown 260.6% rise in unique users during the period that ended March 31, 2010. 
 
Opera Mini browser is managed by Opera Software. ...

Facebook has shut down its Lite version of the social networking site. The Lite version was the stripped down version of the original site in September 2009.
 
The company had launched the Lite version for low bandwidth connections and for those who faced issues accessing the full version of ...

Twitter’s homepage has been revamped again with the homepage highlighting the latest trends and happenings all over the world. It was last modified in July 2009.
 
The new Twitter home page is designed to attract the users by putting latest trends and popular tweets. Many of us find it ...

Online major Google has inked a deal with Intel, Sony and Logitech for a project called Google TV. The project is expected to give a boost to viewing web applications easily via a TV.
 
When asked about the tie-up, the online giant has expressed that it wants better knowledge integration for ...

Google has recently launched a new web search called Cocodle.com that works on a unique model to generate support for under-privileged and differently-abled children.
 
Google implores it’s users to use Cocodle.com and assures that by doing so, Google “will contribute towards ...

Alcatel revealed the OT-909 One Touch Max at the Mobile World Congress. The phone is a quad band phone and would be released by the August end this year. The one touch phone from Alcatel offers a resistive touch screen with accelerometer sensor for UI update. The phone contains a 3.5 mm audio ...

Google has unveiled a free navigation system, Satnav for mobile phones. This will help the users to buy the navigation equipment in lesser cost than the expensive devices from the firms like TomTom.
 
The Motorola Droid phones will use the Google Maps Navigation including many of the ...

Mozilla Foundation clocked 5 million downloads of its new browser in the first 24 hours after it released. A lot of bugs have been spotted and will be rectified in an upcoming patch.

Mozilla’s security patch is expected to release in three weeks and will kill at least three bugs and ...

After announcing new privacy settings for the social-network Facebook, the company is also slated to release a new and improved Facebook application for the iPhone.

Facebook has a lot going on this summer: it just became the most popular social-network in the US, beating MySpace for the first ...

Social networking site Facebook is testing new privacy settings to replace existing ones that are currently required for different applications and content.

Users will be given a transition tool to help them move their settings across to a new page after which the old one will be ...

The new version of the Internet browser Firefox was released Tuesday which offers its users more speed and privacy and greater compliance with new Internet video standards.


The release of Firefox 3.5 came as the open source browser is proving an increasingly formidable challenger to ...

Swedish founders of popular torrents-download site ThePirateBay sold their brainchild for 60 million Swedish Kroner or Pounds 4.7 million.

For long the four founders, Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstorm, have come under heat from everyone to lawyers to record ...

Mozilla recently announced the release of its latest update for Firefox 3.5 is now available. A previous article on the slated release is also available in this section.

The RC in Mozilla Firefox 3.5 stands for Release Candidate and is now officially available for download with many bugs on the ...

One of the leading online portals of the country, Rediff.com India Limited on Wednesday (November 26), launched its new “Web-in-mail” service. With the introduction of the new tool, users can access internet content using email clients like MS Outlook, Outlook Express and ...

Google, the world’s most popular search engine, on Monday, May 5, introduced an online service for its customers that will translate between Hindi and English.  Though this is a gutsy endeavor, it is low on utility since the translations generally turn out to be more hilarious than ...