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  • Browser based bugs of Google Chrome corrected

    google chrome

    29 Apr 2010

    Google has recently issued a course of improvement for the stable version of its browser Google Chrome. Apart from the correction of JavaScript slowness and issues in Java plug-in that Google Chrome faced in its previous version, it has also complet... More

  • ISPG opens second development centre in Bangalore

    20 Apr 2010

    ISPG recently opened its second development centre in Bangalore. This new office of ISPG was inaugurated on 31st March 2010 at Jayanagar. The first development centre was inaugurated on May 7th 2009. According to the CEO Mr. K.G. Sajith, this new de... More

  • Search icon for Gmail users

    Many of you might have noticed the new search icon in the ‘Compose Mail’ window of Gmail, the free web mail service of Google. This helps users to run search queries and add results and URLs in to their drafted e-mails or open chats. This new icon ... More

  • Here is Google home page with its new look!

    Google search

    07 Dec 2009

    Have you noticed a change in the homepage of Google? It has a new look now, which is a modified version of the classic page of Google. The most important feature of the newly created homepage is that it “fades in”, when the page gets loaded first. Th... More

  • Google acquires reCAPTCHA

    CAPTCHA, google

    19 Sep 2009

    The latest news from the search engines giant Google is the acquiring of reCAPTCHA Inc. The company is famous for the invention of CAPTCHA, a well-known fraud preventing system used in websites and emails.For those who need a basic idea about CAPTCHA... More

  • Google Translate Available In 51 Languages

    Google Translate

    10 Sep 2009

    How are the Googlers living and working in non-English speaking countries finding out information through the internet? The answer is very simple. They make use of Google Translate, and translate the necessary information that they receive. A simple ... More

  • Google launches audio search engine for Android

    Here is the latest addition to Google Labs, which is going to be of great advantage for Android users. Google Listen (http://listen.googlelabs.com/), the latest addition to Google Labs, is an Android application that helps to search web audio content... More

  • Easy Bookmarking For Google Chrome

    Google recently launched ‘bookmark sync’, a new feature for users on the dev channel of Google Chrome. This new feature will help to keep the same list of bookmarks on all the computers that you use. You can also store them along with your Google Do... More

  • Choose The Best Search Result

    Blind search tool

    10 Aug 2009

    Michael Kordahi, a developer evangelist has created a ‘blind search tool’ that gives Google, Yahoo and Bing searches in a single page, separated by three columns. But the user won’t be able to know which column contains which search engine, until th... More

  • FreeAppAlert To Inform You About Free iPhone Apps

    iPhone applications come in plenty nowadays , and hence it’s very difficult to update ourselves with the price changes and new releases. FreeAppAlert makes our job easier. Alerts can be set up in http://freeappalert.com/ to inform through email, twi... More

  • Google Latitude comes to iPhone

    Google Latitude

    24 Jul 2009

    Google Latitude, the feature that helps you to find close by friends on a map, is now accessible on the iPhone. Are you happy? Don’t get too much excited! This feature is only available as a web application. Hence it presently doesn’t work with Googl... More

  • New York Attorney To Sue Tagged.com

    Looks as if the recent news paper articles on the spammy social networking sites have revived the spirits of many people around the world, and one among them is Andrew Cuomo, the attorney general of New York, who recently announced his intentions to ... More

  • Google Starts Welcoming New Users To Voice Service

    Google Voice

    06 Jul 2009

    ‘Google Voice’ aims at providing a simple way to manage phone calls, voicemails and text messages. This is an innovative development of ‘GrandCentral’, which Google had bought two years back.This application acts like a front- end for all your phones... More

  • Pricing for Windows 7 Announced

    windows 7

    03 Jul 2009

    Microsoft announced the pricing details for Windows 7 OS on 25th of June. The rates announced by the company are much less compared to its Vista version. According to NY Times, the expected prices in US are:• Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade) - $119.9... More

  • Twitter message could be cyber criminal at work

    Cyber criminals have now set their eyes on those tools that can carry malwares at a lightning speed. Panda Security from Spain, one among the leaders in antivirus making, has been continuously monitoring the new moves of the hackers. They have come u... More

  • More about Futz.me

    futz

    09 Jun 2009

    Futz.me (http://futz.me/site/); is an easy to use reminder and book marking service that lets users send sites, images and notes to e-mails or mobile through the address bar of the browser that they use. A registered user has to add futz.me/USERNAME ... More

  • Mover – iPhone App to share contacts and images between iPhones

    Many iPhones users have expressed the need for an application that helps to transfer contacts or images between two people. “Movers”, developed by Infinite Labs (http://infinite-labs.net/mover/ ) is the most appropriate solution for this, as it is hi... More

  • Bing launched!

    microsoft, Bing

    01 Jun 2009

    Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, designed to compete with the lead players of the industry, was unveiled by CEO, Steve Ballmer on May 28th. The ceremony took place at San Diego. According to Microsoft Bing is the full-fledged substitute for Live... More

  • New Yorker iPhone cover raises the sale of Brush App

    The ecstasy of artist Jorge Colombo who drew the ‘dreamy, nocturnal cityscape’ of Manhattan on his iPhone, for the June 1 cover of The New Yorker, knew no bounds, when a software engineer Steve Sprang developed Brushes, the iPhone application that ch... More

  • Here is a speedier Google Chrome

    google chrome

    29 May 2009

    Google has added some of the most requested features in Google Chrome recently, making the web browser speedier and more user-friendly. An updated version of Chrome, along with the updates, was released by Google in March. Google has been continuing ... More

  • New Google Logos

    google logos

    26 May 2009

    New logos have been added to some of Google’s web pages like Google labs, Google moderator and Google code. According to the official blog of Google , the company hopes that the designs of the new logos will help in giving a brand new look to the sit... More

  • NileGuide’s new iPhone application for tailor-made travel plans

    NileGuide (http://www.nileguide.com/), the well-known travel planning site has launched a new iPhone app for its portal. This new application helps the users to create a customized trip itinerary through their iPhones. It also helps them to view the ... More

  • Hackers attack Facebook again

    200 Million Facebook users landed in trouble on 14th May when a few hackers launched an attack against the site, and managed to gather the passwords of many of the users. Barry Schbitt, Facebook spokesman said that the site started the cleaning proce... More

  • Advancements in search engine techniques

    It can be undoubtedly said that Google dominates the search engine world. Yahoo can be seen next to it and Microsoft trails even far behind. According to the latest reports from comScore Inc the market shares of the three companies in April are as fo... More

  • Google confirms problems with reaching its services.

    Sources from Google have confirmed that there was disruption of access to some of its services on Thursday morning. The trouble was brought to notice after reports started coming in, that users had difficulty in accessing Google News, Gmail, Google ... More

  • Google Squared gearing up to make Google a better research tool

    Even after the announcement of Wolfram Alpha, the much awaited change in online searching, it can be undoubtedly said that Google is best research tool, so far discovered. However finding out truly useful results can be challenging, from the millions... More

  • Xmarks - Firefox add-on for a better browsing experience

    The latest iteration of the much admired Foxmarks add-in is Xmarks. This lets the users to synchronize the book marks and passwords across multiple computers that have Firefox, even those which run on different operating systems. But this set of add-... More

  • Windows Live Hotmail Available on Nokia Messaging

    It’s easy access Windows Live Hotmail on Nokia Messaging now. Nokia Messaging is a service that allows people to access their personal email on their Nokia devices. It has been announced that Nokia Messaging will also be supported by the Nokia 5800 X... More

  • 'Kosmix' - New search engine is ready compete with Google

    Another name has been added to the list of online search engines. Kosmix, a private company in Mountain View, California, has come up with a new search engine that helps users explore the web by topic, and presents the search results in the form of r... More

  • Dad I need an iPhone to do my homework

    Nowadays you cannot find out even a single child without cell phones. The turn of iPhones is on the way, say experts. A report in NY times says that about one third of the students in a NJ public school have cell phones. As the citizens of the 21st c... More

  • Hackers using Excel files to attack PCs

    Microsoft has confirmed that hackers have started using Microsoft Excel sheets to attack PCs; the problem has been detected in all the versions of Excel including Office 2007. “There is a flaw in Excel sheets that hackers are exploiting. They send pe... More

  • Microsoft Releases IE8

    microsoft, IE8

    20 Mar 2009

    The race to provide the best browser has taken a new turn when Microsoft released IE8 with the newest features and best security. Although the major browsers have been competing to provide a fast and full featured web browser, one among the chief iss... More

  • Certain endangered iPhone applications

    iPhone application

    20 Mar 2009

    The software updates in 3.0 iPhone, announced by Apple earlier this week, is ready to bring about 100 new features. But the free updates will make many of the paid applications (that are in high demand now) in App store obsolete. Voice recording and ... More

  • iPhone OS 3.0 is ‘jailbreakable’ says experts

    Noted tech experts of the Dev-team Blog say that Iphone OS 3.0, released by Apple recently, is 'jailbreakable'. A short notice appeared in their blog, just hours after the release of OS, stating that ‘jailbroken iPhones will not be left out of the 3.... More

  • Web Inventor Says No To Internet Snooping

    internet snooping

    17 Mar 2009

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, expressed his grave concerns about the future of online privacy, while addressing members of the UK Government, in Westminster last week. He said that third parties, including commercial companies s... More

  • Potential Bidders For Satyam Computers

    The Indian government and the newly appointed corporate board, struggling amid the mess-up, are trying hard to save Satyam from bankruptcy or dissolution. They have asked the bidders’ interest in buying a 51% stake, even the future of the company is ... More

  • Kumo Vs Google

    Microsoft has announced that the testing of their new search engine is going on in their corporate network. If it’s found successful the search engine will be rolled in to http://www.live.com/ or perhaps introduced as a new search engine. The compa... More

  • RDFa with Dreamweaver

    dreamweaver, rdfa

    09 Mar 2009

    One of the biggest obstacles in using the newest technologies is the unavailability of good tools to work with. It is the same with RDFa too. Hence web designers have welcomed the launch of the RDFa extension for Dreamweaver version 8 to CS4 with mu... More

  • Appeal to make online maps blurred

    This comes from a law maker of California. He wants Google Earth and similar services to blur images of the “soft targets” like schools, hospitals, churches and government buildings so that they remain protected from terrorists. Joel Anderson, a Repu... More

  • Open Source, The New Rage!

    03 Mar 2009

    According to a recent survey among 360 web developers conducted by Evans Data Open Source Development , 40% of them, working on open source projects prefer to provide web service applications through cloud providers. Among cloud users 28 % of them... More

  • PC Sales to Fall Faster Than Ever Before!

    According to the leading IT research and advisory firms like Gartner, the sale of personal computers will fall by double digits during 2009. This huge fall would be for the first time in history.According to the reports from Gartner, the shipments of... More

  • All is not lost!

    According to world’s leading information technology research and advisory firms like Gartner, the sale of personal computers will fall by double digits during 2009. This huge fall would be for the first time in history.According to the reports from G... More

  • Ning heading towards a notable change

    Ning, one of the famous social networking sites is planning to introduce a new chat functionality, thereby giving the Ning network administrators the ability to integrate a rich chat environment similar to the one one on Facebook. This Flash based n... More

  • Google Unveils Tool bar 6 for IE

    02 Mar 2009

    Internet search giant, Google, has recently launched its latest version of toolbar, Toolbar 6 for Internet Explorer. The toolbar is aimed at making search & navigation faster & easier. Google has announced that the tool bar will be available... More

  • The Future Of Gaming Has Arrived!

    02 Mar 2009

    3D Gaming giants, Id Software, has launched Quake Live, an updated version of 10 year old critically acclaimed Quack 3. This version is free and can be played directly within a browser anywhere, anytime. Within a few days of its launch, the game has ... More

  • Microsoft,The Dethroned King!

    02 Mar 2009

    In yet another controversial ruling, European courts have up held European Union’s (EU) decision that Microsoft has violated anti trust law by bundling Windows Media Player with Windows Operating System. Google has recently joined the bandwagon again... More

  • G-mail crashed!

    Leaving the users in the brim of anxiety, Google’s online e-mail service, Gmail, ran out of service, for several hours, on Tuesday morning. The error occurred for users worldwide. This is not the first time, but this episode was wide spread. British ... More

  • E- Governance To All

    25 Feb 2009

    Cochin: Government of India has announced its plan to set up more than 1 lakh IT enabled Common Services Centres (CSCs) with an aim of developing a platform that can enable Government, Private& Social sector organizations to work for the benefit ... More

  • Generation Next Savior!

    24 Feb 2009

    Cochin:Microsoft has launched a brand new website, Elevate America for improving the access to job training tools. The site aims to help individuals gain technical skills needed for acquiring jobs like how to use internet, send email, create a res... More

  • Another Fake!

    These days no one would be ready to believe the saying that a camera never tells lies. With Photoshop, you can now manipulate any picture in your own way, to speak anything you want, and it needs a skilled eye to tell whether any of them is true. The... More

  • Tublr back-stepping – lifts ban on the critical blogs

    According to the reports from the Silicon Alley Insider, Tumblr, one of the much sought after blogging platform, is planning to revise their decision to shut down the five blogs that faced the criticisms of other bloggers. Eric Krangel from Silicon A... More

  • IE6 In Deathbed …

    24 Feb 2009

    In 2003, Internet Explorer enjoyed a monopoly of 95% of the market share. Since its inception in 2001, it has taken IE less than 2 years to become uncrowned king of World Wide Web. Reasons for IE’s unparalleled monopoly were many. It was free and un... More

  • Top Social Networking Sites In India.

    23 Feb 2009

    Marketing research giant, comScore Inc has recently released a list of top 10 social networking websites in India. It was found that the number of visitors to social networking websites has jumped from 10 million to 51 million visitors in last year a... More

  • Atlantis spotted

    The launch of Google’s much celebrated globetrotting software, Google Earth, followed the discovery of a treasure trove of odd findings, which include unique images of anthropomorphic landmasses and giant pink bunnies.But does that include the mythic... More

  • Red Hat & Microsoft Join Hands.

    19 Feb 2009

    Cochin: Red Hat Inc, a leading provider of open source solutions, recently announced in a press conference that in response to growing customer demand, it has signed reciprocal agreements with Microsoft so as to enable increased interoperatability f... More

  • A new era has begun!

    19 Feb 2009

    New Delhi: The Ministry Of Communication & Information Technology has announced has announced the launch of Center of e- Governance (CeG) to spread the awareness about e-Governance initiatives in India. The upgraded centre was opened by The Mi... More

  • Another innovation from Transcend!

    18 Feb 2009

    Cochin:Pioneer in digital storage industry, Transcend Inc announced the arrival of its new 2.5 inch portable hard drive, StoreJet 25 F in India. This new hard drive measuring around 113.8 mm x 80.9 mm x 15.9mm, is mainly intended for the use of busin... More

  • Twitter’s Twestival

    Twitter, the San Francisco based social networking service, has started allowing people to post updates, or “tweets,” up to 140 characters in length. This is being adopted to organize a global fund-raising event called Twestival. The site has been co... More

  • ‘TalkTalk’ remains silent

    talktalk

    17 Feb 2009

    E-mails of the customers of TalkTalk broadband company have become inaccessible since last Friday. The issue began with a power outage at the server that the firm has at Manchester. Problems still continue as the firm has discovered that it has been... More

  • Insider attacks to go up

    The top rated software makers have warned companies to anticipate a sudden increase in the “insider” security attacks, by the unhappy, laid off workers. Microsoft has said that these attacks will worsen with the ongoing layoffs. According to Microsof... More

  • iGoogle

    From the time when iGoogle was launched (two years back), the company has been receiving interesting stories about the interesting ways they use their personalized Google home page. Some have found certain gadget extremely useful where as the others ... More

  • Google does it again!

    The search engine giant, Google has launched a new service, Google Sync, in the market. Google Sync allows the users to automatically update dates, calendar & other contact information directly to mobile phones. For the first time in the history,... More

  • An external gamepad for iPhone

    Iphone, gamepad

    11 Feb 2009

    Cochin - Innovations are ongoing in the field of mobile gaming, making it bigger and better day by day. User-friendly gaming handsets are being designed by the various companies, to meet the growing demands of people. As of now, one of the better gam... More

  • Facebook turns five

    Cochin - This is the victory of a student who started a website, to stay in touch with his friends. Facebook, one of the top rated social networking websites celebrated its fifth birthday last week, making billion dollar business throughout the world... More

  • Another setback for Google!

    Google has recently announced that it has upgraded the Google search engine to index the text embedded within the Flash Action Scripting. This vague announcement from Google was received by much criticism in the web world.Some puzzling excerpts from ... More

  • Cochin port becomes India’s first ePort!

    10 Feb 2009

    Tata consultancy services (TCS), a leading IT services & outsourcing firm, has announced that ERP implementation of Cochin port is completed in record time, Cochin thus becoming country’s first ePort.This prestigious project named ‘e thuramugham’... More

  • Doodle 4 Contest – Make a colorful wish

    Google has announced its second annual Doodle 4 contest in US. Google doodles are specially made logos that they usually use in their home page for holidays and other important events. Doodle 4 Google is a unique chance for children to have his/her a... More

  • Here is a little wizard!!!

    Most of the kids of his age would go for papers and crayons while nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, enjoys a special canvas – his IPhone. Lim who is in fourth grade now, provides innovative applications for Apple’s popular IPhone. His newes... More

  • Facebook losing the friendly face

    Cochin – Facebook, one of the top rated social networking sites, is a popular way to reach out and be in touch with your dear ones, in the cyber world. But Bryan Rutberg, never expected the worst among the night mares, when he accidentally shook hand... More

  • Google brings e books to your mobiles!

    09 Feb 2009

    The search giant, Google has recently announced that it is making its vast online library of e books available in mobile phones. These new mobile editions are optimized to be read in small screen. The feature will be currently available on Apple i p... More

  • A boom in online sales

    05 Feb 2009

    Many of the top rated companies are experiencing an immense increase in online sales, as the cost – conscious shoppers have started thinking more about the conservation of gasoline, these days. The CEO of Nike, Mark Parker, addressing an annual meeti... More

  • Jail time for Google’s executives

    05 Feb 2009

    Four top executives of Google are facing trials since Tuesday, at Milan, on a serious criminal charge of uploading an offensive video that was posted on the Italian site of the company. This three-minutes cell phone video was posted in 2006, where fo... More

  • “This site may harm your computer”

    05 Feb 2009

    Every site that turned up in the Google search between 9.30am and 10.30 am on the 1st of February might have welcomed you with this erroneous message. It’s a very simple “human error” said the company officials and apologized for the inconvenience. G... More

  • Adobe Presents Life Cycle Developer Express

    04 Feb 2009

    Adobe systems recently announced the release of Adobe life cycle developer software express. This latest innovation is developed using Amazon elastic compute cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon simple storage service (Amazon S3) technologies. Vice presiden... More

  • $ 10 laptops on sale!

    04 Feb 2009

    $10 laptops, nicknamed Sakshat laptops are soon to be launched. Indian National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) announced that Sakshat model scheduled for display in Tirupathi has 2GB expandable memory, Wi-... More

  • Read your mails offline

    04 Feb 2009

    Here is an end to the biggest drawbacks of web based software that support your e-mails. Google has come up with its new technological innovation that helps you to read your mails offline, say while you are on an air plane or on a road without Wi-Fi ... More

  • Conficker Worms Infects Millions Of Computers Worldwide

    02 Feb 2009

    Cochin: Here is a word of warning for the net savvy’s. A new set of viruses are posing serious threats to the millions of internet users; presumed to be the first step of a multi stage attack. Even the world’s leading computer experts are in a state ... More

  • No more vandalism!!! Common man’s encyclopedia making tighter rules

    30 Jan 2009

    Cochin: A fatal stung of criticisms has entangled Wikipedia, the mammoth online encyclopedia, after the shocking incident where vandals changed Wikipedia entries, erroneously reporting that Senators Edward Kennedy and Robert Byrd were dead. As per th... More

  • Throw Your Hard Drive Away, Google's G Drive Arrives In 2009

    28 Jan 2009

    Google is all set to revolutionize IT world as we know now. This search giant is all geared up to change the way we use computers. Google is now one step closer to over haul the monopoly of windows. Inside sources reveal that Google is geared up to l... More

  • 5 Common Myths Of Web Development

    24 Jan 2009

    A recent survey conducted by independent market researchers among of 100 IT managers & directors has revealed common misconceptions & mistakes related to web development. It was shown that around 60% of top IT managers & directors beli... More

  • A prospective Canadian tie-up for Development Guruji

    23 Jan 2009

    Cochin - Development Guruji‘s association with Nick Murray , a professional vendor of wireless broadband services, from Canada, has created a handful of mid to large sized projects, http://bullfrogwireless.com/ being the prominent among these. Nick v... More

  • X’mas & New Year bash at ISPG

    06 Jan 2009

    Cochin - Another X’mas & New Year in ISPG family. With decorated X’mas trees, glittering stars, colorful balloons, ISPGians welcomed this year’s X’mas & New Year. They believe that no X’mas celebration is complete without spreading the joy w... More

  • They are back!

    06 Jan 2009

    Cochin - A long term associate of Development Guruji, the brain child of ISPG, Robert Dayton and his wife Luey Dayton visits Kerala, once in six months to enjoy the warmth and hospitality as well as to monitor the progress of their works. Loyal Dog, ... More

  • Privacy Nightmares

    30 Dec 2008

    Cochin: Privacy the crucial move in every browser game, and hence Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari all compete to give users the most control over their privacy and the best protection from maliciou... More

  • Another Crowning Glory For Microsoft

    23 Apr 2008

    Cochin: The makers of the most promising changes in IT, Microsoft has announced a data storage and web software system, called Live Mesh that allows files and folders to be shared across multiple devices. Live Mesh consists of a software component th... More