BigNews: Ask’s take on Google News/Techmeme
In the last few days we have seen rumors about Ask.com working with Digg to create a white label Digg like site. The project is “BigNews” and is not a Digg clone but rather a Google News/Techmeme like news tracker.
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Google: Microsoft-Yahoo deal threatens Internet Innovation
Google posted some thoughts on Microsoft’s $44.6 billion hostile bid to take over Yahoo. It sounds like Google is worried about the deal.
David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer at Google posted on Google blog:
The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. A good idea [...]
Anonymous P2P file sharing with MUTE
I love to use P2P for sharing files and downloading from torrents, but you never know when you will be sued by RIAA.
Mute is a simple file sharing tool for protecting your privacy while sharing. Usually File sharing clients make direct connections between peers, MUTE avoids direct connections with your sharing partners in the network [...]
Dell and Google to reveal a Android based Phone?
Last year we have seen lot of rumors about the possible launch of gPhone, but finally Google released Android software for mobiles. Now Marketing Week is speculating that Dell and Google may reveal a mobile phone next month.
Neither of the companies have confirmed this, but there is a lot of discussion happening about this [...]
Wordpress for Blogs, Talkpress for Forums
Wordpress founder Matt recently wrote about plans to offer hosted forums much like Wordpress.com blogs at Automattic.
Today on a phone conversation with Houston Chronicle’s Dwight Silverman Matt said the the upcoming forums will be called as “Talkpress”.
Talkpress is built on BBPress, the forum board software from Wordpress. According to Matt the Talkpress will [...]
Windows 7 Screenshots ?
There is a much talk recently regarding Windows 7 release dates and some leaked screenshots. Speculation is that it may be released in 2009.
Recently there is a forum post about windows 7 with information on Neowin forums. Today Windows 7 screenshots appeared at Thinknext a Chinese blog, these looks legitamate, of course we are not [...]
Kantaris Media Player
VLC media player is the best free media player available on the net, it can play almost any video file. While it is a great player, some may not like the interface, for those of you who want a pretty VLC player Kantaris is here.
Kantaris is a new media player based on VLC code and [...]
Yahoo and Blogger to provide OpenID
OpenID is the next big thing for bettermanagement of online identities with different sites. If you are new to OpenID here is a quick explanation, you select a OpenID provider and then using this ID you can login to all OpenID supported sites with out ever bothering about registrations.
Both Yahoo and Blogger announce that [...]




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