Archive for November, 2008

Today there’s an interesting report about terrorists using BlackBerry mobile devices during Mumbai attacks to watch the world reaction to their actions. I myself can hardly understand why people seem to be surprised about such things at all as it is quite obvious that in this world technology is accessible to just about anyone with [...]

Do you remember the Facebook group “I bet I can find 1,000,000 people who dislike George Bush!“? The group easily attracted more than a million people with Facebook members joining willingly and spreading the group’s popularity virally to all their friends. It all looked like an innocent way to express one’s feelings about the president [...]

Today we are seeing an interesting idea from the team behind ShopSavvy, the Android application that allows you to scan the bar code of a product and see if there are better prices available nearby or online. It is understandable that many people will go shopping today looking for the best deals and those already [...]

A few hours ago bloggers noticed that Apple’s US online store was down and the obvious conclusion was that it was to prepare for Black Friday sale. Bloggers were pretty certain about what we should expect Apple to offer for Black Friday in the US after the international online stores showed absolutely similar discounts.
Now that [...]

It looks like web users know one place where they will be sure to find just about everything they may need - and this place is Google. It is always fascinating for me to watch Google Trends offering new subjects people are interested in every day. What’s more, I often feel that if you are [...]

I just got an email from Livestation, a website for high quality live TV streaming and radio online about the move that might help some people get better news from Mumbai if they don’t want to rely on Twitter for their news from the terrorist attacks site. Various sources mentioned today that probably the best [...]

As you have certainly heard already, a new terrorist attack took place in Mumbai, India with terrorists attacking multiple locations, including hotels, café, and a hospital. The attack left more than 85 people dead and 200 injured - and there are also people taken hostage by the terrorists (mainly US and Britain citizens). Mumbai [...]

It is a much-discussed problem that OpenID still lacks support from the biggest players in the internet industry: while everyone admits that the concept of OpenID will only be efficient when a person will really be able to login to absolutely any website using the OpenID credentials he already has instead of creating a login [...]

Last week Google rolled out the SearchWiki functionality for its flagship product - Google Search. The functionality allows every registered Google user to customize the search results for every search query - and get exactly the same results next time this user performs a search for the same term. SearchWiki involves voting links appearing in [...]