Last week at its I/O Conference, Google made an announcement about one of its most ambitious and innovative products – Google TV. The company says that the driving force behind this product is that the current television lacks the capability to connect the viewer to the web. Therefore, it seems appropriate that Google chose the tag line TV meets web, …

Have you heard about ‘Google Places’ or ‘Google Local Business Center’? If not, you are missing out on a great opportunity to revamp your business. Google Places is a tool from Google which offers a fantastic way for local businesses to reach out to more customers. It lets your business quickly establish a presence on Google Maps and attract customers …

Apple’s preview of iPhone OS 4.0 was expected to be all about how the future iPhone will allow users to multi-task and do many things at the same time. However, the iPhone OS 4.0 is not just another multi-tasking mobile operating system and it offers great business capabilities targeted at enterprise users and IT departments. From what I’ve seen of …

On Wednesday the 17th of March, the BOSTON (Reuters) reported that Hackers flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information. According to anti-virus software maker McAfee Inc, The emails tell recipients that the passwords on their Facebook accounts have been reset, urging them …

This week, Hitwise broke the news that Facebook topped Google to become the most visited U.S. Web site in the Facebook vs Google battle for the internet, at least for the week ending March 13th. Facebook accounted for 7.07% of U.S. Web traffic that week, while Google received 7.03%. According to media experts, the continuous rise in Facebook popularity emphasizes …

Google announced today its intention to become your next ISP provider with an experimental ultra high-speed broadband network that would enable them deliver internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most people currently have access to. At this level of speed, 1 gigabyte per second, anyone could possibly stream three-dimensional images and download a high-definition, full-length feature film …

Google announced this morning the official launch of its intended Twitter killer, Google Buzz, a Google approach to real time sharing of your content. According Google’s VP of Product Marketing, Bradley Horowitz, “It’s something exciting…”. Google Buzz is built right into Gmail. It will help surface your social graph by allowing you auto-follow the people you communicate with most via …

The age old marketing mantra, “sex sells” was even more obvious this Sunday at the 2010 Super Bowl. As Youtube uploaded all the Super Bowl Ads as soon as they aired Sunday, one wouldn’t help but notice a common trend among many of the ads – Sex Appeal. GoDaddy generated a huge buzz from its “Too Hot for TV” campaign …

To mark its sixth birthday on Thursday, Facebook announced there will be 400 million people on Facebook this week. This number has more than double its user base of just 150 million active users barely a year ago. This level of growth has proven the year 2009 as its best year yet. What’s next for this social networking giant?

The iPad is meant to be the “perfect” device for e-books, movies, email, and photos. As true as that subjective statement may prove, there’s no reason for people who already have a laptop or, better yet, an iPod Touch, to even consider getting the iPad. The iPad is simply a glorified iPod Touch, one with a large screen that can …

Facebook started rolling out its new design to users this week. This new design is not currently available to all users yet; it’s a great improvement over Facebook 1.0. The new design is targeted more toward updates than any thing else. Updates to the To Menu The Home, Profile, Find Friends links, and Account menu, which include your Edit Friends, …

Twitter, in its surging popularity as a micro-blogging platform, is becoming the center of gravity for various scams and get-rich-quick schemes. According to the Better Business Bureau, scammers are having the time of their lives on the social media website, luring the unemployed and other victims who are tempted by get-rich-quick and work-from-home schemes. Such unscrupulous companies are on the …

On August 6, 2009, millions of Twitter and Facebook users saw their accounts come to a sudden standstill. Most of them couldn’t log in or send messages. Facebook users couldn’t upload pictures or notes, and Twitter fanatics experienced delays in posting updates or couldn’t access their accounts at all. Hackers took down the websites with an old-fashioned hacking tool called …