Category: News & Articles
Voice Search Chrome Extensions – Search using Your Voice
Voice Search, a Google Chrome extension provides a method to search by speaking. For example, just click on the microphone and say “kittens” to search for kittens. If you specifically want pictures of kittens, say “google images kittens”. Want to learn more about World War II? Say “wikipedia world war two”. The author of this extension [...]
LG Electronics will Unveil the World’s largest FULL LED-backlight LCD 3D TV at CES 2011
LG Electronics (LG) has announced that it will unveil the 72-inch LZ9700, the world’s largest FULL LED-backlight LCD 3D TV at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 starting January 6 in Las Vegas. The LZ9700 gives viewers life-sized action with a beautifully crisp picture in both 2D and 3D.Fitted with LG’s innovative FULL LED technology, the LZ9700 is illuminated [...]
The History of YouTube
YouTube, now one of the most popular websites in the world, hosting billions of videos and playing more than 2 billion videos every day was founded by three PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, in April 2005.Later it was sold to Google for the sum of USD1.65 billion. Here is an interesting infographic explaining the complete History [...]
Interesting Facts About the Wild World of Robots
Here are some interesting facts about ROBOTS. The first robot, called “THE PIGEON” , is said to have been constructed by the Greek Mathematician Archytas in 400BC which was powered by steam and it flew 200 meters The word ROBOT means – ” COMPULSORY LABOR” In 1979, first time a Human was killed by a [...]
New MacBook Air -The Thinnest and Lightest Notebook
Apple has released the next generation of Laptops called MacBook Air. It features all-flash storage, a Multi-Touch glass trackpad, a long-lasting battery with up to 30 days of standby time, and a high-resolution display. Now available in 11- and 13-inch models starting at just $999. Watch the new Macbook Air video and enjoy. Apple claims [...]
Top 10 Most Expensive Cities to Live In 2010
Each year the Mercer survey draws on data from each country in the world to develop their Cost of Living Survey on the most expensive cities to live. Take a look at this infographic on the Top 10 Most Expensive Cities to Live in 2010. In 2010, the Mercer survey ranked the top 10 [...]
Apps that will be available on Google TV
Your smartphone has apps. Now your TV does too. Here’s a sneak preview of the apps that will be available on Google TV It’s been almost five months since Google introduced Google TV to the world at Google I/O, and now they are back with some more updates for it. For those who haven’t yet [...]
Flickr reaches 5 billion photos
According to Media Culpa a blog that apparently obsessively tracks these things, photo-sharing site Flickr has hit the 5 billionth photo milestone by Sept 19, 2010 with the above, uploaded by Flickr user yeoaaron. Update: Kullin shares some of the methodology behind tracking the milestones. Flickr gives each photo a serial number and they have [...]
List of Safest and Dangerous places in the world to use the Internet
During the last week of July, AVG researchers compiled a list of virus and malware attacks by country picked up by AVG security software. They have compiled data from over 127 million computers in 144 countries to determine the incidence rates of virus attacks by country. List of Safest and Dangerous places in the world to use [...]
How Many Servers Does Your Host Have?
A recent infographic on Intect shines a bright light on a statistic many hosts would like to keep secret: the number of servers they operate. Whether they fear they might be seen as too small or too large, many hosts keep this information buried. However, Intec was able to compile numbers on 15 of the [...]
