Posts Tagged ‘Tech’
Google enters travel market
Search engine giant Google has entered the travel market after acquiring flight information firm ITA Software996 by a team of MIT computer scientists "What we're going to do is build new flight search tools that focus on end users," said Google chief executive Eric Schmidt However, he said that the firm would not be selling airline [...]
Facebook bans nude doll pictures
Facebook has threatened to take action against an Australian jeweller for posting pictures of an exquisite nude porcelain doll posing with her works Victoria Buckley, who owns a high-end jewellery store in Sydney, received over the weekend six warnings from Facebook saying the pictures of the doll, which show little more than nipples, constituted [...]
Bharat Bandh tops Twitter trending topics
The all-India strike called by opposition parties against rising fuel prices made quite an impact on the virtual world too, with 'Bharat bandh' being the top trend topic on Twitter, beating the American Independence Day0 'trends', which calculates the frequency of certain phrases used on the social networking tool2 tweets per minute on Bharat [...]
Apple to fix iPhone signal woes
Apple Inc, following complaints about reception problems with its iPhone 4, discovered a software problem that has displayed inaccurately high signal strength since the original device was introduced in 20077 million of the devices in its first three days on sale Verizon Wireless, the largest US mobile-phone carrier, is set to begin sales of [...]
IT cos hiring from social networks
Nearly half of new middle-and senior-level staff at top tech firms including Accenture, Cognizant, MindTree, HP-Mphasis and Wipro are going to be hired from social networking sites such as LinkedIn, company executives and experts tracking the sector say Tech firms are now realising that middle to senior level managers and leaders are best [...]
Google forced to change China approach–again
Google's delicate balancing act in China appears to be coming undone Google publicly declared its intention in March to move its Chinese-language Internet search operation in Hong Kong in hopes of bypassing censorship laws for companies that operate in mainland China, but the public showdown with the Chinese government never seemed destined for [...]
