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Google wants to sell domain names

Google already is a major player in search, online mapping, social networking and other key functions of the Web. Now it wants to sell domain names, too. The Internet giant on Monday announced the launch of an invite-only service, Google


Google buys music streaming service Songza

Google Inc has acquired streaming music service Songza, the Internet search company’s latest move to play a bigger role in the fast-growing online music business. Google said on Tuesday it would explore ways to incorporate aspects of Songza into its


Facebook Testing ‘Missed Call’ Ads in India

Facebook has created a new “missed call” product for advertisers in India, marking the first time that the social network has designed a special ad format for a single country. When a mobile phone user clicks on one of the


The Best and funniest Viral Babies in Youtube

MTS Internet Baby Full Version A newborn baby grabs a nurse’s phone to take a selfie seconds after being born – in an hilarious viral video hit for advertising an internet provider. The advert for company 3GS shows a husband


Angry Birds Epic Review

There is no doubt that Angry Birds is to Rovio what Mario is to Nintendo and Sonic is to SEGA. The company has tried to dabble with other IPs in the past but hasn’t had the same level of success


NO-IP outages caused by Microsoft.

Just got following email from NO-IP We want to update all our loyal customers about the service outages that many of you are experiencing today. This is NOT A TECHINCAL ISSUE WITH NO-IP. This morning, Microsoft served a federal court


Google is saying goodbye to Orkut

Google Inc will shut down its early social-networking service, Orkut , which was launched ten years ago but has failed to put Google ahead in what has become one of the Web’s most popular businesses. Google said it will shut


TimThumb.php Vulnerability in WordPress blog

Few days ago, WordPress security vulnerability in timthumb.php reported on one of our blog http://filmnews.bizhat.com. timthumb.php is a script that is used by hundreds of WordPress themes to resize images. I searched in google with ‘timthumb.php vulnerability fix’ and found


Google cars with Android Auto software

Google Inc has said the first cars running Android Auto for navigation, music and messaging will hit showrooms later this year. The search giant has signed on 40 auto-industry partners for its car-software development alliance, but Google did not say


Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users

Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users to understand “emotional contagion” in a study that prompted anger and forced the social network giant on the defensive. For one week in 2012, Facebook tampered with the algorithm used to place