Tweet New legislation to combat online piracy has created outrage in the tech community. Google ChairmanEric Schmidt, as well as a slew of bloggers and large tech companies, have spoken out against the proposed bill. The House’s Stop Online Piracy Act–as well as its Senate counterpart, the PROTECT IP Act–would give copyright owners broad new powers over their
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Tweet Tests are being conducted including very limited number of Facebook users Popular social network Facebook s Like button has given birth to thousands of serial likers (Yes, I just made it up). Apparently to live up to the true motive of liking and sharing user-generated or uploaded content, Facebook had introduced new Share button
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Tweet Access, edit Microsoft Office docs from anywhere Microsoft Office Web Apps has been launched in India. Web Apps is Microsoft’s equivalent of Google Docs, which lets users create, access, edit, and share documents from the Office suite, which includes Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote, from any PC equipped with an Internet connection. The best
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Tweet After a week-long shutdown The anti-government protests against President Hosni Mubarak‘s 30 year regime have spilled onto the Internet. Aware of the journalistic role of social networking websites like Twitter played to bypass the media blackout imposed by the Iranian regime, the Egyptian government had pre-emptively blocked access to Internet throughout the country. Google
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Tweet Bing denies copying search results and states that it learns from customers. The Search Engine scene that has been dormant for a while has suddenly became active. Yesterday, Danny Sullivan, Editor of Search Engineland, posted an exhaustive account of how Google undertook a sting operation to check if Microsoft Bing was copying its search
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