Posted by Vikrant
Entrepreneurship
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
A small business cannot play around with huge volumes for making big profits. As an entrepreneur, you should always look for improving efficiency in your business to make more profits with smaller volumes. Often businesses resort to cutting down costs to increase profitability but that might not be the best work around and increasing sales [...]
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Technology
Friday, May 16th, 2008

ZamZar is an online service which lets you convert and save your files in different formats. The files can be uploaded to ZamZar from your desktop or from a URL. The service supports large number of file formats for almost all types of all files. The conversion options include 16 Document formats, 8 Image formats, [...]
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Technology
Friday, May 16th, 2008

Sony has integrated the YouTube API in its PlayStation 3 games which will allow the developers to create games with added YouTube related features. The integration will allow for creating games that enables the users to upload in-game video captures directly to YouTube. Mainichi Issho, a popular PS3 game in Japan, is the first to [...]
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Technology
Friday, May 16th, 2008
IBM and Research In Motion (RIM) have introduced a range of collaboration, information and business intelligence solution for BlackBerry smart phones. BlackBerry users can now access Cognos 8 Go, Lotus Notes 8.01, Lotus Connections, Lotus Sametime, the WebSphere portal and dashboard software on the go from their smart phone. With these software for BlackBerry phones, [...]
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Business
Friday, May 16th, 2008

eBay has integrated PayPal Pay Later option for U.S. buyers to purchase qualifying products priced between $50 and $199. The Pay Later option will be available for the customers while checking out and if the customer is not a registered PayPal user, he/she can sign up to avail the credit service immediately during the checkout [...]
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Technology
Friday, May 16th, 2008
If you wanted to talk to your friends while playing multiplayer games together, Mumble is an application which can help you do that. Mumble is a voice chat application using which you can talk to your friends while playing games like World of Warcraft (WoW) and Battlefield. Mumble, built using Qt cross-platform Rich client development [...]
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Technology
Friday, May 16th, 2008

AOL Indian has launched a service which allows for sending free text message to any mobile phone in India using the AOL IM as well as AOL Mail. The people to whom the text message has to be sent need not be registered users of AOL. The process of sending SMS from IM is simple. [...]
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Technology
Friday, May 16th, 2008

AOL is planning to open its email API for the third party developers to develop and deploy applications. The plan is to open the content part of email using which developers will be able to build communications and social networking applications which can be added to email interface. Richard Landsman, VP of Technology at AOL, [...]
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Business
Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Ask.com has acquired Lexico Publishing which owns the reference sites like Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. As part of the acquisition, Ask will acquire all the reference properties of Lexico Publishing Group LLC. Ask.com, a search engine owned by IAC/InteractiveCorp, has less than five percent share of total U.S. search market. With the acquisition of Dictionary.com [...]
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Technology
Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Google Docs has released a new feature in its Spreadsheet application which allows for embedding the Forms in web pages. Earlier, the users were restricted to sending forms and inviting others to fill out the form through email. It is a handy feature for creating and embedding polls and surveys in your website as it [...]