Google launches Latitude

Google on Wednesday introduced a new feature for its Maps service, Google Latitude, that allows users to share their geographical location with friends and family. Apart from sharing your location, you can use Latitude to track your friends’ whereabouts in real time. With this tool, you can even you can contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call. You can use Google Latitude both on your phone and computer.

What about your privacy with Latitude? You can maintain complete control over your privacy. You can share, …

Firefox 3.0.6 released

Mozilla on Tuesday released the first Firefox update of 2009. Firefox 3.0.6, the new version of the popular web browser, now comes with fixes to several security bugs and stability issues. All total of six security vulnerabilities, one of which Critical, two rated with a risk impact of High, one Moderate and two Low, are fixed in Firefox 3.0.6. Mozilla strongly recommends all Firefox users to upgrade their installation to this new version.
The most critical issues fixed in Firefox 3.0.6 are the bugs in the browser’s JavaScript …

Save time with Phone Number Hunter

Looking for more information about a particular area code? Want to know about the location of a US area code? What you will do to know more about a phone number? I am sure that you will search a directory. Now you can save lot of your time with the help of a website called Phone Number Hunter.

Phone Number Hunter provides information about different area codes. You can use it to know more about the area codes and location of the exchanges within that …

90000 sex offenders removed from MySpace

Popular social networking site MySpace has removed 90,000 registered sex offenders from their site. Responding to a subpoena from Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, MySpace revealed the names on Tuesday. This is definitely a bold step towards making social networking sites safer and all other social networking sites must learn from this.

“This shocking revelation – resulting from our subpoena – provides compelling proof that social-networking sites remain rife with sexual predators,” said Attorney Blumenthal said in a statement.
This recent …

Your Own Website and Web Hosting Services

In this age of Information Technology, having an online presence in the form of a website is a must for all businesses. Your website will not only represent you and your brand, but will also help you in driving more customers or sales. That’s why, if you are a business owner, get your own website as soon as possible. This is the demand of time.

In fact, getting your own website is a very easy and inexpensive process. It involves just three simple steps – get your …

Human Error Hits Google Search Warning

On Saturday morning, between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST, Google search returned a bogus warning on each an every search results. Uses who performed search queries during that period saw the message “This site may harm your computer” for each and every search result. That message is normally displayed when a malicious website appears in the search results. So, what does it mean? Google identified all sites as malicious, during that period!

What actually happened? According to Google, it was a simple human error that …

M-Lab : Open Platform for Internet Measurement Tools

Want to know more about the performance and quality of service provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP)? Is it your broadband ISP, the application, your computer, or something else that is causing a drop in your internet speed? Mind it, it is not always your computer or a software that causes problems. Sometimes ISPs deliberately blocks some kind of programs. Now Google, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and academic researchers are here to help you with a open research platform called the Measurement Lab (M-Lab)….

Google rolls out Offline Gmail

A good news to all Gmail addicts! Google Labs has released an offline version of Gmail, the popular email service from Google. What does it means? It means that with the help of this new feature now you can browse and read your emails even when your are not connected to Internet. Is it not interesting?

To use this experimental feature, you need to go to “settings” section and then enable “Offline” in the Google’s “labs” section on your Gmail account. Once you turn on the offline …