Google Apps For Business To Go Paid From May 10 In India

Google Apps For Business Google Apps for Business, the browser-based office suite that revolutionised the way start-ups and SMBs use e-mail and productivity applications at work, will soon go paid for any business with more than 10 users in India. Google Apps offers online solutions for e-mail, document editing, spread sheets and calendar...

Microsoft profit expected to rise

Microsoft Microsoft Corp is expected to report an 18 per cent jump in quarterly profit, as its reliable Windows and Office franchises keep growing. But that may not be enough to rouse its shares from a decade-long slumber or ease fears that its dominance of personal computing is waning. The world's largest software company has sold a...

Social media: The new battleground in Singapore elections

Social media The odds are always stacked against opposition candidates in Singapore elections and for Nicole Seah, a political novice contesting in the backyard of a popular former prime minister, they should be overwhelming. But are they? The winsome 24-year-old is already the city-state's second-most "liked" politician on Facebook and...

John James Audubon's 226th birthday celebrated by Google

John James Audubon google doodle. Photograph: Google John James Audubon was born on this day 226 years ago. Unlike previous Google doodles, such as the interactive submarine which celebrated the birth of Jules Verne, this time Google has kept things simple. But while the specially designed logo on the search engine's home page boasts no...

Twitter to move to new office

Twitter said it has inked a deal to move into a new nest in a chronically downtrodden part of downtown San Francisco that local officials are eager to rehabilitate. "Happy to say that Twitter is staying in San Francisco," spokesman Ali Rowghani said in a message fired off at the popular microblogging service. "We've signed a lease to move...

PSLV launched, 3 satellites in orbits

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Google: Map your own neighborhood

Googel Map Maker Google Map Maker, the crowdsourced mapping Web app launched in 2008 and available in 183 countries, is finally coming to the United States. It's an important addition to Google's mapping services here and could make for maps that are vastly more detailed and useful than they are currently. In some countries (like Romania,...

Microsoft's Office 365 Beta Launches Worldwide

Microsoft's Office 365 Beta Microsoft has launched the public beta of Office 365, a major part of its "all in" strategy for cloud computing. Microsoft's rivals in cloud include Google. Microsoft has introduced the public beta of its Office 365, the company’s cloud-productivity offering and current best chance for driving back the threat...

Chinese swap skills on internet

Everyone knows the internet is a useful place to conduct business. The Chinese have gone a step ahead. They are now swapping their skills on the web to learn new ones. Resourceful Chinese internet users are saving money, as they exchange skills like English language for piano lessons and driving for cooking. Offers like that have become...

Google's new CEO 'under watch'

Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page The investor spotlight will land squarely on new Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page, overshadowing decent, but uninspiring first-quarter financial results when the company reports its earnings on Thursday. Less than two weeks after the Google co-founder officially took the CEO reins, investors are...

Cricket fever back on YouTube, brings live streaming for IPL 2011

Cricket fever back on YouTube After inveigling cricket enthusiasts with a spine-tingling, gripping streaming of Indian Premier League last year, YouTube has got more to offer. The company has girded up for this year’s IPL excitement as well by bringing users all the action straight from the pitch of the cricket extravaganza. In collaboration...

Microsoft attacks Google over security

Microsoft Corp. is lashing out at Google Inc., extending hostilities between two of the most prominent corporations in the technology industry. Microsoft claimed Google has been misleading customers about the security certification of its suite of software programs for governments. Microsoft's deputy general counsel, David Howard, blogged...

Indian embassy joins Facebook in Nepal

Indian diplomacy is set to make friends and woo youngsters by joining the social networking platform. The latest entrant to join Facebook is the Indian embassy in Kathmandu, one of the biggest Indian missions abroad, and currently, with the ruling Maoist party stepping up its anti-Indian propaganda, in need of loyal friends. On Friday,...

YouTube gets stage for live events

YouTube has added a stage for live events as the world's leading video-sharing website continued its effort to woo viewers away from television programming. YouTube Live launched online at youtube.com/live, letting people subscribe to watch shows or events streamed by the Google-owned operation's partners. A "Digitour" performance by...

Facebook now wants a say in computer hardware

Facebook, the world's largest social network, wants to get in on computer hardware as well. The company that revolutionized social networking on the Internet has teamed up with some of tech hardware's biggest names - Hewlett Packard Co, Dell Inc, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel Corp - to launch the "open compute project." CEO Mark Zuckerberg...