If everywhere, everyone has been flooded with this image showing an article on INSOMNIA, it is so because KNOL is out for the public now. KNOL is Google’s knowledge base ( a way to tackle Wikipedia) of articles written by people ranging from specialised ones to bloggers to anyone stung by the writer’s bug. As [...]

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Rub your eyes, pinch yourself and still it will be true. Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing Truphone, a new Application available for FREE on the Appstore and with which you don’t have to worry about that international roaming when you want to call back home. For frequent flyers, or people who are always on the move [...]

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With the launch of the GMail Labs last week, GOOG has already started rolling out the first set of what Labs has to offer. To enable Labs, go to Settings, and then the Labs Tab. You’ll get a list of the available tweaks and all you need to do is enable them as you wish. [...]

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GMail has been on a roll with its continuous enhancements and additions to its ever-existent good value. Sounds like I’m selling it to you and Google is paying me to do it. LOL. No. GMail IS the preferred free mail service of the geeks (which means pretty much the world of internet for me). Frankly, [...]

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So what’s new about this. Nothing actually, only it’s faster. GMail Blog has put up the details. But anyway, I am gonna tell you exactly the same. And may be a bit more as well. Remember the old days when a friend added you on Gtalk and his Email ID used to show on the [...]

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There has been a notifier above my dashboard for quite some time. Initially, I had just ignored it. But it was quite some time now and I thought, a Sunday afternoon would be good to upgrade to the latest Wordpress version. I had a 2.3 version running and had plans of upgrading to the latest [...]

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American Idol Season 7 is on and the Final 12 have been just announced. However, that is not what I’m gonna discuss here. American Idol has been associated with iTunes or vice-versa since this season. And this has actually spawned a business of its own. Take a look at this example. The contestants perform a [...]

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Yeah we all do agree that YouTube rules. In terms of the user-base, no.of videos available, no.of videos being watched, geography, and most importantly the availability of almost anything when you search for it. It has become the video version of Wikipedia integrated with Google. But yeah, the downside is that the Video quality still [...]

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Now Mixx has been around for quite some time now. I have been an avid user of this social bookmarking/networking website and I quite loved the services that it provided. It’s user friendly interface and user-base made up for almost all of its shortcomings. But yes, the need for a Mixx Mail Service was felt. [...]

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Yeah, I know. Yet another half fried post on the entire episode of Microsoft’s bid for the slumping Internet giant Yahoo for a whooping $44.6 billion. Clearly, Microsoft is desperate enough to acquire Yahoo. But amongst all this, the question that remains is, is Google worried? Let’s chase it point by point as to what [...]

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