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Yahoo! Buying Sports Company Citizen Sports

Yahoo! Buying Fantasy Sports Company Citizen Sports. Yesterday Yahoo! said that 'Citizen Sports will be integrated with content from its sports news and information site, Yahoo Sports, and vice versa'. Citizen Sports offers fantasy leagues for sports such as soccer and basketball that fans can manage online at social-networking sites and through mobile applications for Apple's iPhone and smart phones running Google Inc.'s Android operating software. With Citizen Sports, Yahoo [...]

Methane discovered under Polar Ice

The ecosystem in our Poles has been a subject of tremendous fantasy and interest in equal measure. What has managed to captivate biologists and scientists alike is the presence of water and the lack of it amongst thick sheets of ice. But what is currently keeping the scientific fraternity on its toes in the possibility of a Methane factory in Antarctica. It is believed that presence of water in liquid [...]

Top 5 PayPal Alternatives in India

Paypal is certainly one of the most preferred online payment processor all over the world. The current tiff between Paypal and the Government of India has been a disaster to many small and mid level business in India. People in India cannot withdraw money from their Paypal accounts till they get IEC Code. We all how fast this kind of work in India is. From personal experience the filing of documents itself took [...]

Facebook Addiction leads Mafia Boss Behind the Bars

All of us have probably heard about the use of social networking sites used for keeping track of the street gangs and criminals by spying onto their tweets and status updates. But this story that took Italy’s one of the most wanted criminals behind the bars because of his addiction to Facebook has its own dramatic twist. The 33 years old Pasquale Manfred , who is the boss of the [...]

Kindle for Mac on the Wheels, Hop On

The Kindle for Mac has finally arrived after much anticipation giving Mac computer owners across 100 countries round the globe, a free access to the 450,000 Kindle books. The announcement that came shortly after the application was launched on its website, will work on Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Readers could initially access the e-books books using compatible software for Windows, iPhone/iPod touch, and BlackBerry. The [...]

Panda confirms another HTC magic with Preloaded Malware

A few days ago Panda Security firm notified that the HTC magic sold by Vodafone had preloaded malware at the time it was delivered to the customer. The wireless network operator dodged away the claim stating that it was an isolated incident leaving the security firm amidst questions of hyping the issue unnecessarily, with others grumbling when Vodafone discontinued the sales of this Android handset in Spain two days later [...]

Why Google employees are optimistic in China ?

We all are still waiting for the final countdown of the departure of Google from China. This brings a lot of questions, not only for the future of Google and China relationship, but also about the current Google employee in China. Are they going to lose their job? With head on head collision of Google and the Chinese governance, its natural for the employees to panic about their future. But it [...]

Dubai Companies Pay 40 Times More For VPN Connections

The Telecommunications consultancy group, TeleGeography, has recently released a report where it says that firms in Dubai pay astoundingly high charges for establishing connection to their offices in other countries through VPN. The lack of competition in Dubai's telecommunications sector has been mentioned as the main reason behind this. Virtual Private Networks are used to connect an employee to his office network, and is often used as an alternate, low-cost [...]

Offbeat: Lets Have Some Fun with 14 Awesome PJs

1. What is height of Fashion? Ans : Pantie with a mobile pocket 2. What is height of Secrecy? Ans : Offering blank visiting cards. 3. What is height of Active laziness? Ans : Asking for a lift to house while on a morning walk. 4. What is height of Craziness? Ans : Getting a blank paper Xeroxed. 6. What is height of Forgetfulness? Ans : Seeing the mirror and [...]

Google Buzz launch was Irresponsible Conduct, says FTC Commissioner

Google Buzz we know was too unimpressive to actually create a buzz in the social media arena leaving the search giant’s social efforts surrounded by the criticism that follows after unmatched expectations. We won’t sit down to give our critical analysis on what Google hasn’t done or could do and on and on as it would be too harsh after Google's Todd Jackson’s subsequent apologies for the privacy concerns raised by [...]

The Pros and Cons of Online Insurance Policies

The Internet has revolutionized the way we live. Now that may be an old cliche, but if you come to think about it, it applies well to online insurance life policies. Forget about life policies, the Internet has now scores of policies to offer in every aspect- life, health, car, home and what not. Gone are the days when an insurance agent arrived at your doorstep with a mile-long brochure [...]

Alert: Facebook Password Reset Notification is a Spam

The 400 million user base of Facebook is under the threat of a cyber attack as the hackers deluge the internet withtheir malicious code eyeing the financial and banking credentials of the Facebook users. The email scam reported by McAfee aims to draw out the sensitive information and banking passwords as its requests the users to retrieve their reset passwords. According to McAfee, the users are receiving an email notification [...]

Is journalism a PR publicizing exercise?

Many people would argue that news has become more opinionated than content driven nowadays. But opinionated news would not do much harm if it came from people who knew their facts well and reported unbiased stuff. But there is something because of which we ignore opinion driven information and discard them without slightest consideration. This is not only because they are irrelevant but also because we refuse to act as [...]

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