Google Apps since its launch in 2006 has managed to acquire 25 million users including companies, organizations, government organizations and big brands across the globe. The customers of Google apps includes Jaguar Land Rover, National Geographic, Motorola Mobile Devices, Huffington Post to government bodies such as District of Columbia Government, Los Angeles etc. Google is also giving personalized Laptop Stickers free for a limited time if you are already using Google Apps or even if you are planning to join. If you are already a Google App user you may put yourself or your organization over the Google map here Also, more interesting ...

Microsoft has revealed the preview-only/test version of its all new Internet Explorer 9 far better than any of its earlier versions and especially because the standards IE used to follow are way back than any modern browser.  At MIX 10, a interactive gathering event of Microsoft and  innovative web professionals, Dean Hachamovitch presented the insight depth of "early look" phase of IE9. This preview of IE9 is more targeted towards web developers/ designers to let them know and take advantage of new things they can do while developing web apps or websites.  Developers can have early look at IE 9 development here. The ...

At recent Google's own event Campfire Gmail has announced Gmail contextual gadget are available, currently in labs for Gmail users and also announced to soon open Gmail contextual gadgets as a new extension point for developers. These gadgets will smartly fetch information from the web and based on the content of an email message users can perform relevant actions  without leaving the Gmail inbox. Currently, one can see it in action by enabling the Gmail Contextual gadget in labs tabs under setting of all gmail accounts, theafter if anyone send you a youtube link or picassa album link you can see the ...

In a recent update from Paypal it will resume the much anticipated Indian bank withdrawals for plenty of businesses who uses Paypal for their services and goods from 3rd March'10 onwards. Noticeably Reserver Bank of India (RBI) has allowed Paypal to continue local bank withdrawals after Paypal made changes on how to move money to India as per Indian regulations for foreign inward remittance. Apparently on March 1st will get the needful instructions from Indian regulatory bodies and most probably from March 3rd 2010 Paypal India users can withdraw their money to their Indian bank accounts. However as part of the ...

In a major step towards the alliance of two big internet companies - Microsoft & Yahoo, they announced that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and will now turn their attention to beginning the process of implementing the deal and the deal which is considered as more of united alliance of two major competitors of Google so as to consolidate their resource as one and start work to give real tough fight to Google. Implementation of the deal is expected to begin in the coming ...

Imagine a situation - you are seeing a thing that you don't know anything about, say for example a restaurant menu in some foreign language or a historical monument but you know very little about it or a painting and you can't even search it on Google because you can't describe it in words than you think there needs to be a device which instantly get you all the information you need just in time when you seeing it. It might be very futuristic like that of a sci-fi movie but Google Goggle is a new app (although a prototype) that ...

Better late than never and thus Sify's consumer Internet and Enterprise services in India announced launch of its SLA driven utility based On-Demand storage services and the platform is powered by Hitachi Data Systems. Sify offers a 99% availability guarantee on the storage system. The availability of Cloud storage services will affect the hosted services by the Sify itself however the Amazon S3 services competitive rates and trusted & used services and other old and trusted Cloud storage services is the main barrier to any new services in the same sector. however, the question is how the Indian cloud storage services ...

Google has released Chart tools and APIs that will enable anyone to add live & interactive charts to any web page for free of-course. Google chart tools is an attempt from Google to consolidate all of Google's charting tools and put it in one location.However, there are no new code or new APIs its actually a consolidation of already available Google Chart API and the Google Visualization API. What is new for developers that will be much more comfortable and interesting to work with are documentation and new feature such as - Revised documentation and a new page that lists all parameters ...

Microsoft Live labs' at the TED2010 conference in Long Beach shows its new technology called Pivot. Its an experimental technology that allows to visualize the data and sort, organize and categorize it dynamically with dash of interactivity and at the same time informative and fun. Pivot visually manipulate, sort, filter and examine related data that are anything from pictures, videos and maps to financials and business data into large collections. In this way, the data itself can help shape and inform the way it is presented. Pivot’s most compelling feature is its ability to smoothly and quickly arrange collections according to common ...

Kolkata based InfoSoft Global has released a PowerPoint add-in called oomfo to add visual effects, charts, interactivity and animation from a simple GUI within PowerPoint. oomfo is powered by FusionCharts, an open source data visualization app for web applications. As the visualization done is on top of flash technology omfo requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or above to view the chart, presently in beta its totally free and supports Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010. The company plans to release the add-in app in standard and premium version and later being the paid one. oomfo provides the ease to build animations, charts, ...