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About Vineesh Mohan

A Technical Support specialist with strong customer service and good communication skills. I live in the city of Cochin, which known as the Queen of Arabian Sea.

Google to spend $773 million on Dutch Data Center

Google has announced plans to build a new data center in Europe (Location is in Eemshaven, a seaport in the Netherlands). Google says it has put aside $773 million to build the new data center, and will be its fourth


PayPal Partners with Bitcoin Firms BitPay, Coinbase, GoCoin

Atlanta-based BitPay is teaming up with Paypal Inc. to expand the adoption of crypto-currency bitcoin. BitPay is a payment service provider that specializes in Bitcoin digital currency. The company develops software tools that allow online merchants to collect payments over


A free tool to find the top sites in each domain extension

There are so many web sites on the web serving advice for how you should name your website/company, but sometimes the very best recommendation is to look at what is most popular. Domain Name Wire recently found a great site


Facebook to launch a New Ad Network Soon

Facebook is expected to unveil a new online advertising service next week aimed at helping advertisers better target and measure the impact of their ads while helping it better compete with Google, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new


Adobe acquires photo editing platform Aviary

Adobe has announced plans to acquire Aviary, the maker of a photo editing Software Development Kit (SDK) used by a number of third-party apps. Aviary has achieved over 100 million downloads during its history. Aviary will continue to support its


Check a web service down for everyone or just you?

A quick check on whether a web site/server is down just for you, or for everyone. Go to below url and enter the name of the web site in the box and click on ‘or just me?’ or press enter.


YouTube adds minute-by-minute analytics

YouTube has added new real-time reporting to its analytics dashboard that provides view counts down to the minute for your videos. By default, the new dashboard section shows your last five published videos, but you can search for older videos.


Twitter will no longer show embedded tweets on its Desktop Service

Here’s a bad news for Twitter users who appreciated the Social Network Twitter.com showing embedded tweets, as the feature now appears to have been removed. Back in July, The Next Web spotted that embeds were appearing on the desktop version


Google Play Services Updated for Testing Google Fit Apps

Google has begun rolling out Google Play services 6.1 with a set of new APIs for developers. The new features include an Enhanced Ecommerce extension for analytics, improvements to Drive support, and testing capabilities for the upcoming Google Fit platform.


Facebook revamps App Settings page

Social Media Giat Facebook has redesigned its app settings page, making it easier for users to manage app permissions, as well as delete Facebook apps they don’t use anymore. By going to the settings screen, then apps, users can see