Whether you started your blog to discuss the issues that you find most important, you saw it as a way to connect to like-minded people and share your thoughts and ideas as part of an online community, or you set out to make some money doing something you love, you might be looking for a [...]
Articles posted by Mani Karthik
How to protect your social media accounts
It used to be a hacker’s dream to crack the password code for someone’s email account. No, thanks to social media, they have all kinds of ways of attempting to get into people’s private information because, for better or for worse, social media accounts don’t just include casual correspondences between friends, but tons of sensitive [...]
Britain’s broadband among the slowest in Europe
You may remember the riots in London last year following the police shooting of Mark Duggan (bringing to mind shades of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles nearly 20 years earlier). At the time, rioters were thought to be communicating and coordinating via wireless networks, namely BlackBerry Mobile and Twitter. At some point there [...]
Text4Baby campaign for moms
With so many moms keeping their mobile phones within reach at all times, Johnson & Johnson is taking advantage and developed a free app to help new and expecting mothers. Text4Baby sends moms updates, alerts, and health information. Lasting until your baby is one year old, the app also gives counsel on prenatal concerns, labor, [...]
Is Google Drive the future of the cloud computing?
Last week, Google jumped into the cloud computing world with their Google Drive, a cloud-based storage system that they hope will compete with similar releases by Apple and the other technology heavyweights. It is truly an incredible technological breakthrough. Imagine a world where you no longer need a hard drive. Physical storage is obsolete, and [...]
An iPhone App to measure customer experience in Smile or Scowls : Namkis
Namkis is a new iPhone app that aims to re-invent the way consumers connect to retail businesses and businesses market to customers. A platform that allows customers to review and give their ratings of businesses in a very simple and interesting way – in the forms of smiles or scowls. As for businesses, its cost [...]
Free group video chat on mobile & browsers
Facetime will sound like from the 90’s with this – a seven way group video calling feature on your mobile (iPhone, Android). Plus, its cross browser compatible, cross platform compatible, works seamlessly over browser and mobile and supports SIP compatible phones. That’s what friendcaller does precisely. It makes the whole thing about group calling so [...]
The best uptime monitoring tool: Pingdom
You know when you sign up for your website hosting, they always give you that 99.9% with conditions. Basically, a 99.9% means that your site should not be down for more than 43.2 minutes in a month. The total number of minutes in a month is about 43200 minutes or 720 hours. So, 0.1% of [...]
Try Bing Desktop Search (No reason why)
Well, too many questions here. First, Google had a similar product earlier, the Google Desktop. Which sat on your computer indexing all your files and additionally letting you search the internet right from the desktop. It was a nice idea but not something that people found really useful, as probably they already had gotten used [...]
AdWords Ads will be better than ever: Says Google
So, Google announced earlier today that its cracking down on scammers on AdWords more aggressively than ever. The blog post claims that Google will not be accepting or publishing ads for illegal products such as counterfeit goods or harmful products such as handguns or cigarettes. Also it has upped the standard bars for fighting most [...]
