Category Archives: Tech News

25 things that changed the internet

Posted on May 3, 2007 by vrreddy

USAToday on its silver jubilee year celebrating with 25 lists for 25 weeks that have influenced us one way or the other. In this series this week they have come with 25 things that changed the internet. This is quite … Continue reading →

Push Email for Indian Mobile Users

Posted on May 2, 2007 by vrreddy

Push is a mobile application which will allow users to access 5 emails in one mobile phone. Push is a product of Consilient, it adds Blackberry type functionality to normal mobile phones. With push one can access Yahoo Mail, Gmail, … Continue reading →

Community revolt at Digg

Posted on May 2, 2007 by vrreddy

What happened yesterday at Digg is a community revolt, the story behind the revolt is someone posted a key to crack HD-DVD content protection. The story got 50,000 diggs and the digg management took off the story from the front … Continue reading →

Loki: Location based Search

Posted on May 2, 2007 by vrreddy

Loki is a location based search tool, which helps in finding where you are in a new place and deliver the information like local news, local businesses, weather forecasts etc. To use loki you need to install their toolbar and … Continue reading →

Apple fixes Quick Time flaw

Posted on May 1, 2007 by vrreddy

Apple released a patch for the flaw in Quick Time used to hack a Mac book at a security conference. The vulnerability lies in Quick Time Java and can be triggered to hack the computer when the computer user visits … Continue reading →

Yahoo to acquire Right Media

Posted on April 30, 2007 by vrreddy

Yahoo announced today that it agreed to acquire Right Media Inc., which runs an advertising marketplace. Yahoo invested 20% in Right Media in 2006 and now Yahoo will acquire the remaining stake for $680 billions. Right Media runs an advertising … Continue reading →

Finally a Yahoo Clone

Posted on April 27, 2007 by vrreddy

Have you ever seen a yahoo clone, its here. AOL has given a web2.0 look to its portal, but it looks like they have redesigned their site based on yahoo home page. Found via Techcrunch

Sony enters in to japanese video sharing with eyeVio

Posted on April 26, 2007 by vrreddy

Sony is entering in to japanese video sharing network with eyeVio, eyeVio will be go live from Friday. ZDNet reports that this may be a first step from Sony to challenge Google’s Youtube. Currently eyeVio is available to japanese users … Continue reading →

Adobe to Open Source Flex

Posted on April 26, 2007 by vrreddy

Adobe is planning to open source Flex, a development framesork for building Flash and Apollo based applications. Adobe is expecting the open source community will contribute to evolutions of Flex framework. The Flex source code is expected to release under … Continue reading →

Google Releases Patches for MySQL

Posted on April 25, 2007 by vrreddy

Google is a big fan of the open source MySql relational database, it uses this for its applications. Google made some patches to the relational MySql database for better manageability and reliability, google has released these patches for the community, … Continue reading →