Twitter May Know Your Friends

A social(read Facebook and Google plus) or a professional(read LinkedIn and ApnaCircle / Viadeo) site will always want you to grow your network for your and their benefit. So you see these sites suggesting friends to connect with. More commonly known as 'People you may know' or 'Members you may know'. So while these are more of the widgets kind that sit on some right, left nav bar, Twitter has decided to offer you suggestions right in to your inbox. Twitter...

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Apple, Google, Maps and Steve Jobs

We don't worry about what these two big shots are up to, but hey we sure are interested! Launch of iPhone5 has settled now, broke quite a few records; promised quite a lot; disappointed some part of the market. Still made it easy with the Wall Street gain. Makes us think everything is as easy and perfect as it used to. Really ? With Steve Jobs around there were expectations of innovation and perfection; things that changed Apple from what it was after he rejoined the company 14yrs back. Steve, iPod, iPhone and iPad changed the way Apple was seen...

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Google Buys Nik In War Of Photo Uploads

The news about Facebook acquiring Instagram went berserk in April earlier this year (the deal by the way got closed earlier this month) and then Facebook went ahead with a redesign of photos page on the site. If anything, the steps were clear enough on the dominance the social network giant has as far as the photo upload preference is concerned. The site gets around 300 photo uploads per day, much more than any other website. With these news and...

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LinkedIn Enhances Career Pages

After an upgrade to the company pages on LinkedIn, which are still rolling out to all the company pages on the site(till end of year), the company has now started looking at their Career pages. The news about the new updates to the Career tool was announced on company' talent blog by Thomas Sexton. "As with many LinkedIn products, our goal is to make both our members and talent acquisition customers more successful. When candidates are more engaged,...

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LinkedIn Company Pages Gets A MakeOver

LinkedIn has made a major update to their company pages, suggesting that the company is now trying to make a balance for both the individual and the business users. The upgrade was announced on LinkedIn official blog around 10 days back and it is expected that more people should start seeing the changes now after an initial roll-out on a few of the companies like Philips, Citi and Dell. Social media experts are also of the opinion that its the...

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Should You Buy iPhone5?

The wait was finally over a couple days back when the iPhone5 (the first iPhone after Steve Jobs)was formally launched at the Apple event on 12th of this month. Butterflies finally settled down and people started caring about the other routine work they are normally busy with when they are not listening to the launch events. This all happens, Yes! Irrespective of the part of the world you are in. The story is same. People go crazy and that's understandable....

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Google Drive Updated For Android & iOS

Google has been pretty serious on the updates it currently is providing our on the smartphone apps. We saw the new standalone YouTube app for iOS devices carry more or less the same features as on the Android version of the app. With these updates, Google is making sure its not leaving out the large section of users which are on the iOS platform and side by side making sure to keep itself in the run as far as the Apple vs Google war for dominance...

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Standalone YouTube App for iPhone & iPad

A new iPhone(iPhone5) is expected to be released tomorrow and thus the timing couldn't be better for Google to announce (and make available) a new standalone YouTube app for iOS platform. This new standalone app will be able to replace the native YouTube app that till now was available for Apple users and was initially build by Apple only. The native app is also rumored to be left out of the new version of the iOS (i.e. iOS6) as well as this...

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Wishfree Tech Blog Award 2012

There isn't a need for a "prize" all the time. Is it? We leave it to you to decide that but we tend to agree with the lot who decides to do things for fun instead, most of the time ;). FYI however that Wishfree is currently among the other contests, running a Tech Blog Award 2012 contest on their site. The contest is open for all to join. In fact, you could either participate in it for your own blog or you may also nominate others that are...

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NewsPaper on Smartphone with PressReader

How often does your newspaper lay in the same state the delivery boy left it in during early morning hours? Or how often you feel the lack of time that prevents you from spending some minutes to catch up on the news on that online news site? If you are also like us who keep blaming the business of life then we just got the right app for you. PressReader is an online newspaper reader app that your smartphone is missing even if you  are able...

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LinkedIn Smartphone App Updated With Real Time Notifications

The smartphone apps are getting popular as a way of access-on-the-move within the business of our lives. LinkedIn understands the nature of people using the smartphone app and that is why you see their mobile population grow more than 2 folds in the last year since they provided a completely new LinkedIn app for the Android(s) and the iPhone(s). The reported figure grew from 10% to 23% since 16th August 2011. Not surprising, as the new app launched...

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Google Maps Brings Voice Navigation To India

Google Maps gave the Android users searching the transit routes a sigh of relief last month when they enabled the schedule tracking of quite a few form of transits like train, metro etc. And now they make it easier for people on Android to use the navigation feature inside Google Maps from yesterday onwards. Gogle Maps android app received an important update thereby enabling the voice navigation on Indian roads, something that was anticipated...

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Create ShortCuts in Google Analytics

Having to deal with multiple clicks, especially while you are to draw out a report, is always frustrating, tiring and annoying to say the least. It would be a dream come true to be able to get to a report in a single click thus saving time for that extra coffee break in the day. Google agrees with you and thus now provides a way to create and use shortcuts in Google Analytic to be at ease with your reports extraction.Google announced the feature...

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Google Closing Feedburner?

Google continues to make acquisitions and further continues to make changes to its services and then sometimes it also decides to retire a few of its services. This time its the FeedBurner! No official announcement yet but to what you and we see and read it seems it will be pretty soon. The Google Adsense for Feeds blog has announced that its closed. The last post, by Emily Wood from the Google blog team, around end of July this year said "we recognize...

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Biking Navigation in Google Maps Gets Half a Gig Meter Boost

If you are a rider who loves to jump on the bike and get ready for a trip, chances are you either already know the route or already tucked a paper map in your back pack. If that's event partly true, you are in for a good surprise or rather a gift from Google' Android team. Its time you forget the paper maps and not worry about getting lost on a trip to an unknown path. Its time you pull out your android device and plant it right in front of you...

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