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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
AOL India has launched its Video portal focused on Indian audience. The portal is powered with AOL’s video search technology, Truveo. As per AOL, Truveo has indexed over 170 million videos from 16 countries across the world. The content on AOL India Video site is more aligned towards movies, music and celebrity news. There is [...]
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Microsoft is trying to prove its point of being more and more open. In line with these efforts, it has introduced support for PHP in Expression Web 2. The developers can now use various PHP features while creating websites and web applications with Expression Web 2. Some of the PHP specific features that are supported [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Google had launched its web page creation service, Google Sites, for Google Apps customers earlier this year. Now, Google Sites service has been opened for all and anyone can create websites with an easy to use wizard. To create a website with Google Sites, you just need to enter the name of the site, select [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Minggl, which calls itself a “Social Activity Manager,” is a browser toolbar which lets you manage all of your social networking profiles and activities thereon from a single place. To begin with, Minggl allows you to log into all of your social networks at once and update your status across all services. Another feature named [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Indian Railways, after seeing an impressive growth in the number of online ticket reservations, is about to launch “Dial-a-Ticket” service. People will be able to book tickets by dialing a short phone number which will be provided by IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation). There is no surety about the payment mode to be [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Foneshow is a service which lets you listen to podcasts from various categories such as news, technology, entertainment etc. from your mobile phone. You do not need a smartphone for using Foneshow and there is no requirement of a data plan as well. To listen to the podcasts on your phone, all you need to [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Thomson Reuters has launched a WordPress plugin, Tagaroo, which provides automated semantic tags for your blog posts. The inclusion of these tags makes the blog post search engine friendly as well as more convenient for the users to find information. Apart from the metatags, Calais Tagaroo also provides a real-time Flickr photo search which suggests [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Newstex, a content aggregation and delivery network, has launched a new service named NewsTwits. The company also has similar services for aggregating blogs, news, financial content, entertainment etc. meant for content distribution networks and enterprises. The new service collects licensed Twitter content from select Twitter users and then uses its to aggregate and deliver to [...]
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008

In an effort to clean up the image of video games for being unhealthy and making people lethargic, Nitendo will launch a game named “Wii Fit” on Monday. Wii Fit is priced at $90 and is already very popular in Japan where it has sold over 2 million units. The game is intended to move [...]
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I came across this tool which could be handy for people who still use paper to draw graphs. Using this tool, you can create a graph sheet with your specifications and print it. The tool allows you to define the paper size, measurements of graph grids, size and color of dots and to download the [...]