Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Google challenges Kayak, Bing Travel with new flight search tool

Google on Tuesday launched a new flight search tool that integrates with Google search and will challenge Bing Travel and travel-intensive sites like Kayak and Orbitz.

Read here: VentureBeat

RapidBiz: app development tool for non-developers

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Amazon releases a web-based Kindle Reader

Amazon has a Web app that will let users read Kindle books directly from their Chrome and Safari Web browsers -- including the version of Safari used on the iPad.

Friday, 22 July 2011

Google+ Off to a Fast Start with 20 Million Visitors in 21 Days


According to Comscore, most of those visitors -- 5.3 million -- are from the U.S. More surprising is that number-two country India already has 2.8 million unique visitors, almost half as many as the U.S. All other countries are way down the list with less than a million.

Read more @ Businessinsider: Google+: Big In India

Thursday, 30 June 2011

In US, Smartphones Now Majority of New Cellphone Purchases

Smartphones continue to grow in popularity. According to Nielsen’s May survey of mobile consumers in the U.S., 38 percent now own smartphones. And 55 percent of those who purchased a new handset in the past three months reported buying a smartphone instead of a feature phone, up from 34 percent just a year ago.


More @ Nielsen Wire

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Facebook growth slows for second month in a row | Technology | guardian.co.uk

The number of people using Facebook during May fell in the US, UK, Canada, Norway and Russia, according to new data.

That means the site's growth has slowed for the second month in a row, even as it approaches 700 million users worldwide.

Technology | guardian.co.uk