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eQuake Alert Addon for Firefox For Earthquake
eQuake Alert!!! Folks, did u ever thought of getting alerts on land disasters like earth quake, right on your dekstop . eQuake is the solution for that. What is eQuake Alert? eQuake alert is a handy addon for firefox, which alerts you with the basic information (date, location, and magnitude) of each earthquake. By default […]
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Facebook Is Building Their Own Search Engine
Is Facebook building a Google rival — one that would use your location and your friends’ tastes? Managing over 850 million users, the world’s largest social network, Facebook is now reportedly working on building their own search engine to dominate the internet in Facebook style. According to the reports from Businessweek, more than 20 Facebook engineers are now building a much […]
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Wibiya Conduit – Boost Your Website With Interactive Features
Wibiya provides a FREE, powerful solution that enables blogs and websites to quickly and easily integrate the most popular and exciting web applications – games, Facebook and Twitter buttons, live chat, video & image galleries, and more – directly into their site. Wibiya also gives publishers the power to manage their bar’s performance in real […]
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Google Transliteration IME is Google Input Method Editor: Type anywhere in your language
Google Transliteration IME is an input method editor which allows users to enter text in one of the supported languages using a roman keyboard. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Transliteration IME will convert the word to its native script. Note that this is not the same […]
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Facebook files Yahoo Countersuit
Not one to be bullied by Sunnyvale sourpuss Yahoo, Facebook is fighting fire with fire. The social network, valued at $104 billion in a recent private auction, filed counterclaims to the Yahoo suit Tuesday, alleging that its Valley foe is actually infringing on 10 Facebook patents. “From the outset, we said we would defend ourselves […]
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Cloud Technology, Portable Computing and a Challenging Economy
Reports on the 2011 studies measuring the effects of technology on higher education are in, and the consensus is unequivocal: distance education at the college and university levels will become the new norm in 2012. This news, according to the latest Horizon Report, confirms that the evolution of cloud computing and revolutionary growth of electronic […]
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How to Make a Region Innovative
To foster economic growth, innovation clusters need to draw on the power of an interrelated “quad” of sectors: public, private, civil, and academic. In 1893, J.R.N. Tata, the founder of Indian multinational company Tata, and the maharaja of Mysore met by chance on a ship sailing from Japan to Chicago. They agreed that science would […]
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Khan Academy in the Classroom – Education Needs A Human Element
A few weeks ago, 60 Minutes aired a feature on a nonprofit organization called Khan Academy. Its mission statement is bold: “A free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” As a website, KhanAcademy.org contains a free supply of over 3,000 short video tutorials on any classroom topic imaginable. The tutorials aren’t simple recordings of a given […]
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Internet Security Better, Exploits Worse
IBM said it found surprising improvements in Internet security such as a reduction in application security vulnerabilities, exploit code and spam, but it also noted that those improvements come with a price: Attackers have been forced to rethink their tactics. IBM’s security group, X-Force, released its 2011 Trend and Risk Report which surveys some 4,000 […]
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Why Google is Right to Be Paranoid
Google is still master of the search domain, but that hasn’t stopped the company from looking over its shoulder. The latest survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 83% of American Internet users say they use Google as their primary search engine, vastly more than any other individual search engine. Yet […]