Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 |
Yahoo! to protect Internet users from e-mail scams, today announced the filing of a lawsuit against “Yahoo! Lottery Spammers” for unlawfully sending e-mail messages to Internet users for the purpose of deceiving them into believing that they have won a lottery or prize offered by Yahoo!. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City, under the Federal Trademark Act, the Federal CAN-SPAM Act, and related state laws.
The complaint alleges that without permission or authorization, and with full knowledge and notice of Yahoo!’s trademark rights, the spammers willfully masqueraded as Yahoo!, and sent e-mails claiming that the recipient had won a lottery, prize or other award from Yahoo!. Yahoo! does not offer any such awards and has no affiliation or any connection with the spammers or their e-mail communications. (more…)
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 |
Microsoft Corp. officially launched the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is now available at http://www.worldwidetelescope.org. It is a service free of charge from Microsoft lets students and lifelong learners tour the night sky using high-resolution images from the world’s best land and space-based telescopes.
The application itself is a blend of software and Web 2.0 services created with the Microsoft high-performance Visual Experience Engine, which allows seamless panning and zooming around the heavens with rich image environments. WorldWide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies and displays them in a way that relates to their actual position in the sky.
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008 |
Yahoo! India, a leading global Internet company, today announced the launch of a new concept for Yahoo! India Search called Glue Pages Beta, available exclusively at www.yahoo.in. This new search experience collates and integrates the most relevant information from across the Web onto a single “visual” search results page. Glue Pages Beta, which aggregates text, images, and video content, is available for select search terms across categories such as health, sports, entertainment, travel, technology, and finance.
Designed to save time by offering a new way to find answers quickly, Glue Pages Beta is ideal for topics with broad coverage across a variety of information sources. (more…)
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008 |
Google has come a long way from its first Indic transliteration release to the current support for transliteration in 5 languages — Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu — for a broader set of Google products. Google also released its very first English to Hindi translation service. Indians can now use these services to create, communicate and search in the 5 languages offered by Google.
One can now also try out googles brand new English to Hindi translation service, and the translated search feature that lets you query in Hindi, obtain search results for the translated query in English, and then see the Hindi translations of these results. Google release sad that, of the total literate Indian population, only about 13% are English literate. Keeping this in mind, this launch is a step towards ensuring that Hindi speaking users in India can benefit from the richness of the Internet, regardless of their familiarity with English language.
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