• Google, Internet, News

    Posted on June 22nd, 2010

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    Google enables OCR for PDF and Image files

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    Previously we have featured many tools that extract Text from PDF Documents, so you can Edit them without having to re-write the entire document. And today Google has enabled OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to Google Docs, it can read the text from PDF and Image Documents that you can save as a Google Document to [...]

  • Featured, Internet

    Posted on June 12th, 2010

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    Are Bing and Yahoo trying to trick Comscore results ? !!

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    Folks at Comscore are bit skeptic about the steady growth of Bing and Yahoo, the two most popular Search Engines after Google. Bing has turned One! The little baby is growing steadily yet not very fast. In the month of May 2010 it grabbed 12.1% Search Share of US Market as compare to 11.8% in [...]

  • Internet, News

    Posted on May 30th, 2010

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    Facebook Banned in Bangladesh

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    Following the Ban on Facebook in Pakistan, another Muslim majority Country in South East Asia Bangladesh has blocked access to Facebook in the country over drawing of Prophet Muhammad and local politicians. A spokesman for the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) told AFP Facebook had “hurt the religious sentiments of the country’s majority Muslim population” [...]

  • Internet

    Posted on May 26th, 2010

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    Finally Pakistan to Lift Ban on Facebook and Youtube !

    Finally Pakistan to Lift Ban on Facebook and Youtube !

    It’s being reported by local News Channels that PTA is finally lifting up the Ban on Facebook and Youtube and only would restrict access to blasphemous content. Draw Muhammad day led to ban on Facebook and several other popular Websites in the country as Facebook had denied to remove the page from its site in [...]

  • Featured, Internet

    Posted on May 25th, 2010

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    Yahoo acquires Koprol an Indonesian Location based Social Networking site

    Yahoo acquires Koprol an Indonesian Location based Social Networking site

    Yahoo is making headlines everyday, Yesterday it announced partnership with leading cellular phone maker Nokia and today it acquired Koprol a location based social networking site in Indonesia similar to that of Foursquare or Gowalla. Yesterday in an Interview with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch at TCDisrupt Carol Bratz CEO of Yahoo also pointed out Yahoo’s [...]

  • Internet

    Posted on May 24th, 2010

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    Finally Google reveals the Adsense revenue share for Publishers !

    Finally Google reveals the Adsense revenue share for Publishers !

    It’s always been a mystery to Adsense Publishers that How much share does Google keep out of the total revenue generated by their Websites. And Today finally Google reveals this ‘secret’ that It had kept since the launch of Adsense. Google says it pays 68% out of the total revenue generated on the Content Network [...]

  • General, Internet, News

    Posted on May 21st, 2010

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    Breaking: Twitter banned in Pakistan [Update#2]

    Breaking: Twitter banned in Pakistan [Update#2]

    PTA has blocked over 1000 Websites and Twitter is the most recent one to join the list. Earlier as we reported Facebook is banned in Pakistan Since 18th May and further more Youtube, Wikipedia, and Flickr are some of the Important Websites which access has been restricted in the country. We will update this post [...]

  • General, News

    Posted on May 20th, 2010

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    Breaking: Facebook removes blasphemous Fan page !

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    There are reports over the Web and users from different countries are confirming over Twitter. That finally Facebook has removed the ‘Draw Muhammad Day fan page’.  Facebook was banned in several Muslims countries today including, Pakistan, UAE, and Saudi Arabia. We will update this Post as more details become available to us. Update #1 Correction: [...]