Microsoft has finally woken up to the potential of free services on the internet with the announcement that it will release the online version of the office suite, Office 2010, for free.

RK Swamy Digital Direction recently won a bronze at the Internationalist 2009 Media Awards for their execution of the ‘Siemens Answers’ campaign in India. The campaign was run online between October 2008 – September 2009 with “We have the answers to the World’s toughest questions, this is our tradition since 1847.” as Siemens’ core communication.

Google has recently launched a mobile variant of its movie search option that’s slated to be compatible with all mobiles running the Andriod platform, Palm webOS and Apple’s iPhone. This latest offering by the search giant promises to make it easy for movie goers to plan their trip to the theater while on the run.

Facebook has incorporated the latest changes to the home page & news feed sections as per their recent announcement. The revision will see a revert to the algorithmically chosen top stories, instead of the real time stream and some important changes to feed stories and feed APIs that are crucial to developers.

Opera Software, the Norway based browser maker has finally launched their much awaited web browser Opera 10.10.  The unique feature of Opera 10.10 is that along with web browsing, the end user can avail of various other activity options, like stream music and media content. One can also share files, photos, documents from the opera [...]

Microsoft may have to rush with an emergency patch ahead of their scheduled (December 8th) update for Internet Explorer browsers, following an attack code posted by a hacker that has the ability to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Cloud computing is the next step in connectivity, accessibility and everything cutting edge as virtualized resources are quickly gaining momentum and will soon change the way we think of/portray the internet entirely. With such advances come obvious questions of security issues as the interface involves a customer’s data existing entirely on ‘virtual machines’ that make [...]

Thekkiam, an online company based out of Bangalore runs an interesting monthly contest/quiz called ‘IAmAGenius’ that’s spread over 3 levels with a total of 12 questions. The website was launched in October 2008 and receives visitors from around 58 countries with an average of 800 hits per day. “Almost 95% of the people who visit [...]

Adobe Systems have released two eagerly awaited products, the Flash Player 10.1 and Air 2.0 both of which are available under the ‘beta’ tag on major operating systems like Windows, Linux, Macintosh and x-86 based notebooks; however variants for Windows mobile, Android, webOS and Blackberry are still in the books and should roll out by [...]

Google’s tactical tango with Microsoft has been an interesting spectacle this far as the search giant slowly inched into the OS segment with its Andriod OS for phones. Keeping pace with its plans to eventually dominate a fair share of this segment, rumors have it that the proposed Chrome OS (Google’s operating system) should be [...]

Pearl Uppal, ex Director Sales at Yahoo! India and Harish Bahl, founder of Smile Interactive Technologies Group have partnered to launch an online retail venture called Fashionandyou.com. Harish Bahl is the founder and chairperson at Fashionandyou.com with Uppal as the co-founder and CEO.

In a bid to understand a viewer’s response to ads, Google has incorporated a ‘skip this ad’ feature on the pre-roll ads run before select video clippings on YouTube. The feature will be utilized as a learning curve in understanding a viewer’s reaction to ads run before videos on YouTube.

ViziSense, the online audience/traffic measurement tool by Komli Media has added a new bit to its bag of goodies called the compare feature. This new tool will let ViziSense users compare multiple data fields across multiple websites on a single graph.

The digital networking platform in India is growing and diversifying at an exponential rate as niche offerings emerge with an aim at revolutionizing the way we connect. One such example is the Indian Regional League, a Basketball and Volleyball tournament initiated by Indiakhelo.com (a website dedicated to promoting sports at the grass root level) in [...]

AdMob has announced signing a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google for $750 million. This deal is a major step by the search giant into venturing towards the mobile ad market in its plans to hold equal prominence in both, the mobile advertising space as well as on desktops/laptops.