Amazon Kindle Tips and FAQs

Got the new toy from Amazon? Want to play with best selling toy in Amazon.com?. Get started playing with your Amazon Kindle. Here are some useful tips to get started. How to Connect Kindle to Your Home Wi-Fi network? All Kindles have Wi-Fi connectivity and here is the step by step instruction to set up [...]

How To Make Phone Calls Using Gmail?

Google recently integrated its Google Voice and Gmail to let Gmail users make any phone calls right from the Gmail inbox. One of the nice features of the phone calls in Gmail is that it is free of charge in US and Canada (at least till the end of the year). The international calls are [...]

Google Beat: Get the Hottest Google Search Trends

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If you are a power Google user and want to know the hottest trends in the Google search, Google has two nice services, Google Trends and Google Insights for Search. Using these two services one can check search trends,  a detailed search patterns across specific locations, categories, and time frames. What if if you are not a [...]

Google Buys Angstro and Beefs Up Google Me Social Team

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Google added Ångströ to its this week’s shopping cart.  With this buy, Google adds Angstro co-founder Rohit Khare to beef up its Google Me social team consisting of Vic Gundotra and Max Levchin. The acquisition was first reported by LA Times, but the financial details of the acquisition is not known. Rohit Khare announced the acquisition [...]

Google: 1 Million Calls from Gmail in 24 Hours

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Earlier this week Google launched a new product integrating Google Voice and Gmail to make any phone calls right from the Gmail inbox.  If anybody is wondering about how successful was the launch of new product, here is the answer. Google tweeted that more than 1 million calls were placed from Gmail with in 24 [...]

Bidding War between HP and Dell over 3PAR Goes On and On and On

HP announced today that it is increasing its proposal to acquire 3PAR to $2 billion or $30 per share in cash. The new offer is $200 million more than the current offer by Dell. This is the third time HP is proposing to offer more than Dell’s offer to acquire 3PAR. It all started last [...]

iPhone and iPod Touch Get Free Netflix App

Netflix announced today that Netflix App for iPhone and iPod Touch is available now. The free Netflix App lets you watch movies from your Netflix account, either using Wi-Fi or 3G on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Till recently, Netflix streaming of movies were available only in TV and computers. In April, Netflix introduced an [...]

Google Realtime Search Gets A New Home

Last year, Google started adding relevant real time feed from twitter and friendfeed for search queries in its search results page. Today, Google announced that they have enhanced the real time features by adding more tools to access them and giving a new home called Google Realtime Search at www.google.com/realtime. (Try this link, if it [...]

Yahoo! has Gone Bing. Microsoft’s Search Take Over is Complete

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Yahoo! and Microsoft announced this Monday that the transition of Yahoo organic search from Yahoo to Microsoft technology is complete in US and Canada. Now, almost all forms of Yahoo search, including Web, Images, and Video search on computers and mobiles are powered by Microsoft platform. What this means for users is that for any [...]

Was Google Not Planning to Launch Phone from Gmail Today?

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Google announced today that it is launching a new feature that will enable making phone calls right from Gmail inbox. Even before the product was launched, the new service was first caught by CNET today. CNET reported that Google is testing this on a select users randomly. It is a routine of Google to run [...]