If you have been on net searching for some trivial issues or how-to things, there is hardly a chance you might have missed Answers.com, which is probably one of the biggest Q&A sites out there. Its been around for 6 years now and 5.5 million members it was doing pretty good year after year. Today Answers.com was acquired by AFCV Holdings for $127 million in cash or $10.50 per share. Good news for all the people invested in the company(it was public) and same for Founder, CEO Bob Rosenschein who deserves all the accolades for this success. More Info At
Read MoreGoogle have finally unveiled the web based Android Market at the Android Honeycomb event in the Google Headquarters. The web-based Android Market was first showed off at the Google I/O 2010. Earlier it was not possible to browse different apps from your browser(any), but Google went a step ahead and launched the Android Market webstore. It allows you to browse different apps, for an easy installation on your Android smartphones. The Android Market webstore shows the featured apps, top paid apps and free apps on the homepage along wit best selling games. There is a search option too, from where you
Read MoreThe History of Social Networking - Being connected to the world around us has never been more easy and accessible than it is today. But it didn't start out that way. After the internet made it possible to reach people around the globe with merely a click of button, social networking exploded into one of the biggest industries of our time.
For a long time it was under the wraps and Microsoft left no stone unturned to keep it under wraps all we had was rumor on the web without visual stuff. Now we have small screenshots which somehow got leaked from Microsoft’s high security zones. Check the two screenshots with the post of Windows 8! The screenshots are of the installation process. Notice “Copyright © Microsoft 2012“ release date 2012 :). Have a glimpse of the Windows 8 deployment.
Wikileaks now need no introduction famous for leaking information. Its an ideal platform where whistle-blowers can submit leaked information. Then Wikileaks will analyze and publish them on their own site. But, OpenLeaks is going to change this! They are hoping to provide a bit more legal and a safer way for the whistle-blowers to release their information! OpenLeaks is going to divide the two phases Submission and Publishing. They are going to provide free drop boxes for their users to submit the information. These drop boxes will be handled by third parties such as non-profits and news organizations. Then, anyone
Read MoreFacebook now improves its security with Social Authentication - Social authentication has been introduced to ensure that a user can monitor his/her log in/log out sessions. Thus, if a user is observed to log in New Delhi in the morning and Bangalore a few hours later, they may be asked to verify their identity so as to confirm that the account has not been compromised. While many sites use a challenge-response test called CAPTCHA in their registration/purchasing flows to verify that a human being and not a code is trying to access their system, Facebook may use the social authentication
Read MoreSamsung has announced Android 2.2 powered Galaxy S 4G smartphone. This handset is the 4G variant of the popular Galaxy S smartphone. Samsung already managed to sell more than 10 million units of the Galaxy S and it is the only Android device to cross 10 million milestone. The Samsung Galaxy S 4G will be exclusively available on the airwaves of T-Mobile in the US. According to T-Mobile, the Galaxy S 4G will be the fastest smartphone and the company’s first smartphone capable of delivering download speeds of up to 21 Mbps. At the time being price and release date
Read MoreA new Apple ad boasts that the iPhone 4 is now available on both Verizon and AT&T and shows the phones on both networks performing at the same speed. The ad features a side-by-side comparison of two iPhones, which execute functions like web surfing, e-reading and updating Facebook statuses as Johann Strauss’ “The Blue Danube Waltz” plays. There is no narration. At the end of the ad, a line of text reads: “Two is better than one.”