July 2009 - Page 2 of 4

Face Detection Feature in Orkut Photo Albums for Photo Tagging

July 18, 2009

Google launched face detection feature on all new photos uploaded to orkut. Orkut automatically detects faces appearing in the photos. You can now add tags to those detected faces, and make the photo tagging process much faster. When you start typing a friend’s name, the auto-fill feature suggests names from your friends list. Only your friends will be able to tag you in their photos. To keep your privacy, you can remove all tags if you would prefer not to be tagged in this manner. […]

Voice Based Internet Search on Indian Mobiles – Google India

July 18, 2009

Google India launched free voice-based internet search facility on mobiles, built entirely by the Google’s India engineering team. Th is feature is currently available for 400,000 Blackberry cellphone users only. This search service is currently available only in English. To use the voice-based mobile search, a user log on to the internet on the handset, open Google search page, and “ask” for a particular location, like pizza joint, taxi stand or florist while driving a vehicle. […]

Google Voice – About, Benefits, Cost, Savings

July 17, 2009

Google Voice is a unified voice communications service for consumers and solves the problem of having multiple contact points. Google Voice lets you switch wireless carriers without sacrificing your phone numbers and keep the same Google Phone Number as your mobile identity. Google Voice has a ‘follow-me’ service that unifies both wireless and wireline communications. Google Voice provides one number for voice calls. Google Voice also serves as a hub for SMS as it lets users send text messages from any of their devices or even from their computer. […]

India’s First SMS Novel – Deaf Heaven by Pinki Virani on Reliance Mobile

July 17, 2009

India’s first SMS cell novel ‘Deaf Heaven’ written by te National Award winning writer, Pinki Virani will be condensed into a pack of 90 SMSes and Reliance Mobile will make this novel available through a sms subscription pack. Subscribers will receive the entire novel thru a series of SMSes, 3 per day, spread over a period of 30 days. This SMS novel will be available by August. […]

ICICI Bank TV Banking – ICICI Active on Dish TV – Channel 98

July 17, 2009

ICICI Bank in association with Dish TV has introduced Television banking, for the first time in India. TV Banking has revolutionised banking by bringing it right into your living room. The service is called ICICI Active, and available on Channel 98 in Dish TV.

With ICICI Bank, you can get quick look at New offers and updates from ICICI Bank, Savings and Deposits, Loans and Credit Cards, Investments, Insurance and other Additional Services like financial counselling, interactive features like calculators for loans and premiums, and lots more, directly on your TV while you’re watching your favorite show. […]

Microsoft Office 2010 Web Applications – Free Online Office Productivity Suites

July 16, 2009

Microsoft has released the technical preview version of Microsoft Office 2010), the successor of Office 2007. Microsoft Office Web Applications are the online companion to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications, which allow you to access documents from anywhere from the Windows Live. The Office Web allows you to even simultaneously share and work on documents with others online. You can view and share documents across PCs, mobile phones, and the Web, create new documents, and do basic editing using the familiar Office interface. […]

Google Updates Available on Twitter

July 12, 2009

Google has now officially announced the Twitter accounts the company uses to keep users up-to-date on various programs and initiatives of Google. You can find the full list at Google’s official blog. @google is Google’s central account. Other important accoutns are @blogger, @GoogleNews, @GoogleReader and @YouTube […]

Firefox 3.5 Starts Up Very Slow on Windows – Workaround / Solution

July 12, 2009

Do you face issues with the slow start up of Firefox after the recent upgrade? Sometimes Firefox 3.5 takes long startup time of the order of 10 seconds to a few minutes. This is identified as a bug and is expected to have fixed in Firefox 3.5.1, in a few weeks time. The workaround is to have a noticeable improvement by deleting temporary folders and Internet Temporary Files. […]

Koobface Worm on Twitter and Facebook – Protection & Removal Tips

July 12, 2009

Koobface is a computer worm popular among the social network sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, hi5, Bebo and Friendster. Koobface is an anagram of Facebook (koob -> book). Te worm targets users and gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers from the victims. The Koobface worm has been around for the last one year. […]

Desktop and Portable Hard Drives from Seagate – FreeAgent

July 11, 2009

Seagate FreeAgent Desktop and Portable Hard Drives give the fastest data transfer rates available and a sleek, stand-out design. These devices are good for storing photos, music or other files, available in portable and desktop options. Capacities of the devices range from 250GB to 1.5TB. The devices come with automatic backup software and software encryption. It is easy to sync between FreeAgent drive and other drives. All these devices support fast data transfer with USB 2.0 interface. The storage devices are preloaded with software, no setup needed. The devices are equipped with smart utilities that rest your drive after 15 minutes of idle time and save energy. […]