Posted by Godfrey Wilson on Monday, February 8th, 2010 in Business, Design, General, Web.
Businesses today are compelled to have active presence in popular social media sites. And when we say social media, its Facebook, Twitter and Linked in. Facebook has some 100 million users and its pretty easy to spread the word virally. Twitter is convenient for sharing news and real time events. Linkedin enhances professional identity and reputation. In addition to Facebook page, Linked in profile and Twitter updates, Ning community is also becoming mandatory for businesses.
What is Ning?
Ning is an online platform for creating social networks. More than 2.5 million networks have been created so far and there are 41 million registered…
Posted by Rasmy Kiran on Thursday, January 28th, 2010 in Blog, Business, Design, Gadgets, General, Google, Open Source, Utilities, Web.
After months of anxiety and speculation Apple has finally launched their latest creation, the iPad Tablet. Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, unveiled the breakthrough product in a grand meet held at San Francisco on 27th Jan 2010. Apple’s iPad is developed for people on the go to ease their online usage and other PC related tasks.The iPad is neither an iPhone nor a PC but a gadget that bridges the gap between the two. With its small size and touch screen technology, Apple’s iPad is all set to create a new era of Tablet Computing. Although the device lacks complex functionalities…
Posted by Rasmy Kiran on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 in Blog, Business, Business Intelligence, Gadgets, General, Social Networking, Utilities, Web.
Apple is all set to unveil their breakthrough product Apple Tablet / iSlate. Amidst the uncertainties and rumors crawling around the product, technology addicts are eagerly waiting to get a glimpse of the device. The launch is planned for 27th January 2010 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.
Posted by Godfrey Wilson on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 in General, Google, Web.
When Google announced its intentions to become a universal search engine in 2007, the very first step it took was to index all videos in the web. It seems, the web giant had predicted that video would be the pick of the world in search among all sources. Suranga Chandratillake took the same initiative when he started his video search website, Blinkx, which has today become the world’s largest single index of rich media content on the web and probably the best video search engine. Senior Analysts in eMarketer say that online video content is on a clear upward trajectory….
Posted by Rasmy Kiran on Monday, January 11th, 2010 in Blog, Business, Business Intelligence, Gadgets, General, Open Source, Search, Social Networking, Utilities, Web.
Ever Thought Of Locating Your Twitter On Your Mobile Phone Even Without a GPRS Subscription?
This concept has become a reality in India with the Shorthand mobile SMS browser introduced by the Shorthand Mobile-India(www.shorthandmobile.in), a subsidary of Smarttouch mobile Inc.. The browser once downloaded will connect you to your desired web content just through a text sms. Yes, it’s that simple!
The desired web contents are stored as SMS Apps and are listed in the Shorthand browser for easy scroll and click. The users have to just scroll down to their SMS App and click the same to access the online network….
Posted by Rasmy Kiran on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 in Blog, Business, Gadgets, General, Utilities.
Make your smartphone work even smarter!
Mophie, the powerhouse of iPhone and iPod gadgets and batteries is unveiling the hottest iPhone-centric Credit Card Reader at the 2010 International CES proposed to be held at Las Vegas from 7th to 10th Jan this year. To gear up for an even smarter shopping experience you just need to swipe your credit card into the Mophies iphone compatible credit card reader. The transaction will be processed with the help of a third party application.
The Credit Card Reader can be slipped into your iPhone just like the Mophie Juice Pack Air, the external rechargeable battery introduced…
Posted by Karthika Pradeep on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 in Career, General, Google, Open Source, Web.
Google comes up with so many innovative as well as user friendly ideas at reasonable price. When compared to Lotus notes or Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps provides tools at a very low price. Services provided by Google App engine makes it easier for an employee to work smoothly and efficiently. What makes Google Apps special ?? 
. Answer to that question will be ” Google gives good quality services to any person or organization at affordable cost “.
Google Apps provides many services. Among them the most widely used and appreciated tools include
Posted by Mahadevan Sreenivasan on Monday, November 16th, 2009 in Gadgets, General, Google, Utilities.
Over the years since Apple released its iPhone, many other manufacturers have come up with handsets that were supposed to become ‘iPhone Killers’. None has succeeded so far to say the least. From what we have seen so far, the Motorola DROID can be a serious contender to the crown of the iPhone 3GS. Both phones are available from their respective carriers at $199 with contracts. So the battle will be fought not in terms of price, but in terms of specs and overall usability of the devices.
Internals
The DROID runs on Arm Cortex A8 CPU 550 MHZ processor, 256MB of…
Posted by Indu Sasikumari on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 in Gadgets, General, Open Source.
Who wouldn’t want to trigger their sixth sense, if it is as easy as wearing a pendant around your neck? With this ground breaking invention from Massachusetts Institute of Technology you can do just that if you are willing to spend a meager $350. Soon you will check emails on your palm or a nearby wall, show pictures to your friend standing next you in a crowded street or take snaps with your bare hands.
The project pet named “Sixthsense” is the brain child of Pranav Mistry an Indian Grad student at MIT and his project guide Pattie Maes, at MIT…
Posted by Prathap Sethu on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 in Database, Security.
Web applications often accept input data from users and pass it to database systems. Problems happen when such data contain characters that have special meaning to the database. For example, the single quote (’) is used by most database systems to terminate a string. Different databases have different such meta-characters. Hackers skilfully exploit the use of meta-characters to run SQL commands in the database.
Consider this code fragment that accepts an employee id from a web form and fetches employee details from the Employee table:
$empId = _GET["employee_id"];
$query = ”SELECT * FROM Employee WHERE emp_id = ” . $empld
If a user fills…
