Archive for March, 2007
Gmail Size Upgrade?
2004 Google announced they will introduce their GMail service to the world. Just another email service? Google proved it’s not. While other email providers were proudly granting few mega bytes per user, Google have raised the bar to 1 GB!. Something that have left competitors in a very bad shape. One year later, Yahoo announced [...]
Google Tackling Privacy Concerns
Following the continuous raise of concerns from the public, Google have reported on their official blog that while it is important for them to keep server log data for research and to improve on their services, these logs will be anonymized after 18-24 months of time. With the Personalization of Google, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google [...]
The Ugly Prince is for SALE!
Danish adventure game Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Prince Duckling which hit europe stores last year will be available for shipping from The Adventure Company for a $19.99 price according to Adventure Gamers. The game, though still does not have rating for it on GameSpot and Amazon, seems like a very good choice for adventure [...]
Mac Under Fire…
WikiSearch?
Wikipedia, the world’s largest community developed encyclopedia have announced they will be launching their own search engine next year, with 5% market share target. The new search engine, to be called Wikiasari (weard name), will base it’s success on human based factor of sites ranking. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, aims by doing this to [...]
AJAX – Good For User, Evil For Spiders
Many new sites are adapting the new technologies that makes it easier and faster for the end user to browse their site. Gmail is the best example of useful application of the AJAX technology. You don’t need to refresh the whole page to search, browse, open nor send emails. So good that it became even [...]
KEMS Blocks Blogger in Kuwait!
I was just writing a long article about Blogger accounts being blocked by KEMS. Just before I hit the Publish button I thought of giving it another shot, and it worked. This still doesn’t explain the silly move of blocking it. How did this block happen? By mistake? I doubt. Either they quickly decided to [...]