According to VISA’s survey, Indians usually spend online on airlines and travel tickets. The money spent on an average is 700 dollars per year. The other results of the survey is: 1. Indians have said that they preferred shopping online for: the freedom to shop at their own inconveniene (75 percent), ‘the ability to compare [...]
Published on: 11th November, 2009
picture courtesy: official Orkut blog If you thought that Facebook had relegated Orkut to obscurity, think again. Orkut has decided to revamp totally and come with a new look. Only a few people can access the new Orkut. As you read on, you will come to know how you can make it to the enviable [...]
Published on: 1st November, 2009
Gmail, the most famous email service provider, which has been constantly reinventing itself, has made sure that people who email do not goof up or make errors. Here are some ways you can avoid Gmail mistakes and goof-ups Sending mails to unintended recipients: Google has included an ‘error free’ tool that catches misdirected Gmail messages [...]
Published on: 5th August, 2009
India is poised to be the third biggest Internet market by 2013. USA and China will be the biggest Internet markets in the world while India will take the third place. These findings are documented in the “Global Online Population Forecast, 2008 To 2013”, a report by Forrester Research. Forrester has stated that the current [...]
Published on: 5th August, 2009
A survey of online habits of high school children between the ages 12 and 18 were done by Tata Consultancy Services, India’s number one IT solutions provider. Here are the online surfing habits and modern aptitude of high school children in Indian cities. 93 percent of high school students are aware of social networking. You [...]
Published on: 22nd May, 2009
The online password that we use to access our accounts can be pretty vulnerable and keep the door wide open to hackers and miscreants, if we are not careful enough. According to a report released last year in Washington, one out of every thirteen people lost their funds because of online scam that involved password [...]
Published on: 30th April, 2009
Though Japan has no cases of deadly swine flu as of now, a computer virus called ‘Swine Flu Virus’ is doing the rounds online. Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) said on its website that a suspicious email message with an attached file called “information on swine flu” is being circulated online. “The email [...]
Published on: 24th April, 2009
Yahoo! said that it will close its GeoCities service that provides people a free online locale for home pages. Yahoo’s decision to do so is this reason “”As part of Yahoo!’s ongoing effort to build products and services that deliver the best possible experiences for consumers and results for advertisers, we are increasing investment in [...]
Published on: 22nd April, 2009
Recently, Google launched Offline Gmail. It allows you to access your Gmail Account without an internet connection. Google had promised that accessing Offline Gmail would give you the same experience as if you are accessing Gmail with an internet connection. Google had set high expectations and guess what, they have surely lived up to it. [...]
Published on: 22nd April, 2009
Whenever we have any hardware or software issue on Microsoft Windows computer, we can rely on the good old Microsoft’s Knowledge Base to fix the problems. However, it may become a tedious task to follow all the steps correctly. Keeping this in mind, Microsoft developed an automated problem solver called Microsoft Fix it Solution Center. [...]
Published on: 22nd April, 2009
Offline Gmail allows you to access all your Gmail messages offline without an internet connection. If you would like to send an email, you can compose and hit the Send button and it will be saved in the Outbox. Once an internet connection is available, the Outbox messages will be sent immediately. To view your [...]
Published on: 22nd April, 2009
Think search, think Google. Google is ranked as the number one website in many countries across the globe by Alexa rankings. Recently, Google released its new product ‘Google Me’, a feature that allows you to get control over what appears on Google search when someone searches your name. When someone searches for a name on [...]