Tech News Update

GetFugu app to Feature on Windows Phone 7 Series

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:38:00 +0000

Getfugu Inc., the company behind the intelligent next generation mobile search tool, has announced that it has signed an agreement with InterKnowlogy,which is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Does this mean that the Windows Phone 7 Series would be featuring Getfugu’s browser? Yes indeed, InterKnowlogy will create a brand new version of GetFugu’s product which will make it productive enough to work on the smartphone itself.

Todd Brix, Senior Director Microsoft Corp. confirmed:

We are very pleased to have a commitment from GetFugu to build on Windows Phone 7 Series. We look forward to seeing GetFugu’s augmented reality search solution as one of the great new applications available on Windows Phone 7 Series phones.

GetFugu has been working on the product for quiet sometime and is redefining the way consumers access the web on their smartphones. The company brings in a brand new design of the browser which brings in the convenience of eliminating to type the website address or search term into the browser.

GetFugu offers four unmatched services:

ARL (See It) – recognition of images through mobile phone camera
VRL (Say It) – voice recognition to feed data into the browser
GRL (Find It) – GPS System Integration
Hotspotting (Get It) – Enables consumer to purchase or retrieve information featured in a video.

InterKnowlogy has already recieved Microsoft’s Application Development Partner Of The Year Award. The company has already provided a variety of custom built software solution using the Microsoft’s tool and applications. InteKnowlogy has experience working with industries in the area of healthcare, life sciences, financial services, retail, hospitality, automotive and food service.

Michael Solomon, Chairman GetFugu, said:

Getfugu is already available on several major platforms including iPhone, BlackBerry, J2ME and Android. A version designed for Microsoft’s newly announced phone platform that uses the Microsoft Bing(R) Decision Engine is the next logical step for us. We are delighted to have engaged InterKnowlogy as they have the necessary experience and skill-set to help us create another world class application.

Now with more and more apps pouring into the Windows Phone 7 Series cloud, it will be only some time before the platform becomes a true competitor to the iPhone and Android in terms of apps.

Tata Docomo launches Innovative Daily Plans

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:02:00 +0000

Tata Docomo is already well know for its user friendly prepaid traffic plans and products. The Next innovative product launched is named as Daily Plan. According to Docomo every day is different and needs different plan, these plans are based on local, STD, Night calling, GPRS, Music and Entertainment.

Launched product names and their traffic usage are as follows:

Talkathon:

30 local minutes at Rs.5 on same (Tata Docomo) network
30 local minutes at Rs.12 across Networks
30 local/National minutes at Rs.14
10 local minutes at Rs.5

Night Birds:

Includes 60 free local calls on Tata Docomo network.

GPRS:

This pack includes 10 MB free internet browsing at Rs 5.

World Calling:

Provides calling plans to other countries like.

10 minutes to USA or Canada at Rs.20
5 minutes to USA or Canada at Rs.10
3 minutes to Gulf at Rs.20

Entertainment:

Get 15 minutes FREE music at Rs.5
Cricket alerts at Rs.5/day

Products in this plan can be activated by typing *141# and choosing among the services to be subscribed. The subscribed service will be activated within 15 minutes and the plan applies till mid night 12 am. So it is beneficial to subscribe the plan at 12 am so that you can make most out of it till next day 12 am. You can choose single or multiple plans on the same day.

For more information visit official Tata Docomo website.

How to watch MIX10 Keynote Live Online?

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:08:00 +0000

MIX, the annual gathering of developers and designers who focus on technologies built by Microsoft from all around the world is about to begin an hour.

MIX10, which starts today at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, will continue till 17th March and will comprise of keynotes, seminars and workshops focused on Microsoft-specific technologies such as Windows. This year, it is expected of Microsoft to reveal information about the Internet Explorer 9 at MIX10, along with in-depth preview, demos and details about the Windows Phone 7 Series.

The live-stream of MIX10 will be available at its official website where enthusiasts from all around the world can follow MIX live. Also the event can be follow at Twitter with the hashtag #MIX10

Follow the link live.visitmix.com to follow the event in real-time, or even at Microsoft. The keynote shall kick-start at 9AM PDT. The schedule for MIX can be checked here, care not to miss it!

New Digg is Better, Cleaner and Blazing Fast

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:02:00 +0000

For all social media activists out there, get ready as Digg is about to reveal a new version of the website that is better, cleaner and blazing fast.

Mashable reports:

At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site is getting a major overhaul, teasing the audience about new features such as personalized feeds and the return of the Digg leaderboard.

Not much was revealed about the new version of the website except that the new version was “five years in the making”. The shout feature may make a return, along with a cleaner interface and better personalization options.

Head over to Digg.com/New to get a sneak-preview of the new UI along with a subscription option to be notified when the new version is available.

10 Basic Tips to Increase Your Website Visibility

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:10:00 +0000

There are hundreds of ways out there on how to improve the visibility of your websites or blogs, and at times that information can drive you out of your focus on your Search Engine Optimization campaign. To prevent what we usually call as “information overload”, I have set up a brief 10 to-do list.

Do the actions listed below for a consistent three months and see the results for your websites or blogs:

Constantly update your content: if you want more traffic, you have to continuously update your content. People will not visit your websites if they do not have good and high quality content. Without a constant update, there will not be any returning visitors as well.
Apply good design and layout: if your website is messy on its designs and navigations then visitors will leave at the very moment they arrive on your website. Make sure you apply good design, content-focused with proper color schemes.
Use your own domain name: using a professional looking top level domain name will make you look more professional and will then make visitors to trust you more as a serious business entity. The cost of a domain name is as little as US$8 per year and it can make a serious difference than having a free domain
Use StumbleUpon: I have had a lot of success using StumbleUpon for my websites, especially those specifically talk about a specific niche, such as soccer. When you put an interesting article from your website on StumbleUpon, then people will rate it higher and in turn make the article more popular. Remember to also make friends and connections in StumbleUpon to increase your personal popularity and credibility on the website.
Become a guest poster: offer your unique writings and articles to other people’s blogs. People love to get free and high quality blog content. In your article, make sure you put a link back to your website. Again, make sure that the article you submit as a guest blogger is unique and cannot be found on any other blogs.
Put keywords on images: if you use images on your blog posts, then it is crucial for you to give them relevant title and tag them with relevant keywords. In my soccer website, a large portion of my visitors come from people looking for soccer wallpaper from Google’s image search.
Comments, comments and comments: when you give comments, people will know that you give notice, and they will appreciate that. However, please do not spam. Some people just love to put comments such as “Hi, nice blog, how about visiting mine?”. Those kind of comments will be removed without question and you will only offend your blogger peers.
Use MyBlogLog: sign up to MyBlogLog and join to all the communities available there and you will see visitors start coming from MyBlogLog.
Do not waste your time: don’t waste your time with “get rich quick scheme” promises. Concentrate on giving quality content, then the traffic and the money will come.
Most important, always review your stats: by reviewing your sites’ statistics using Google Analytical tool, you will find out what kind of keywords that your visitors use to come across your site and which articles that are the most appealing for them. The results of your review can then be used for more effective and efficient future campaigns.

10 Common Bad Habits Of Bloggers

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:25:00 +0000

“Pobody is Nerfect”. This rule applies to bloggers too who work hard daily to explore new things on the web and give new information through their blog. But lots of bloggers do mistakes in their early stage of blogging. It’s hard and rare to accept those mistakes. I want to explore some common blogging mistakes by bloggers which results in loss of productivity. One should avoid these habits.

1. Social media addiction

Social media is good to bring traffic on blog. But involving too much in social media and forget your original work (generating content) is not good for your blog. Try to avoid too much social media involvement. Remember that content is the king and it is responsible for traffic. Social media is secondary thing.

2. Work from bed

There are many bloggers who work from bed and they stick to this habit. If you work 1 hour then it would not a serious issue but if you are giving 7 to 10 hours daily for your work then it is a serious matter. For those people we already give some tips to setup office at home for professional blogging.

3. Never proofread articles

I already told you that proofreading article is a best way to find your errors inside the post. Try to read two or three times to find mistakes of your post. Also ensure that don’t start editing your post while writing it.

4. Giving current news

If your blog has some decent traffic then providing breaking news is not incorrect because your post will get a good exposure. But if your blog gets a fever traffic then it is not a good idea to show current news through your blog. Remember, there are several good blogs which are doing this work properly and efficiently.

5. Too much coffee

Coffee is good when you take breaks during your work. But consuming too much coffee (nicotine) is not good for your health and for your work. It will effect your mind and overall productivity.

6. Working in cluttered space

Either you are working from home or you work in office you need to take care of one thing that your work space should be separated from rest of your home. If you are making your bed room as your office then make sure that your room should be spacious, having windows for natural lights and free from any disarrangement.

7. Being non social

My friends always complain that I never find too much time for them. I involve in my work so much that I never found time for any social activities which is actually not good. I am trying to improve my habit. I generally take break from my work (on Sunday) and plan movies and dinner with friends.

8. Working late night

Bloggers love to work late night. Probably this is because in night they found no disturbance. They free to do all their pending work in silence. But I suggest you to work in day time. Try to wake early morning and start working with fresh mind. You don’t need to follow strict 9 to 6 office time but completing all work early in a day would invite some relief to you.

9. Drinking habit

We came up with post Why Bloggers Drink and How to Avoid Drinking in which we discussed about rise of drinking and smoking culture in bloggers. We also give ideas to get rid of this habit.

10. No vacations

Working all the time causes lots of strain inside our brain. It increases stress level and you may lose your interest from your work. Vacation give us opportunity to recharge and regenerate our power. Try to schedule your post in wordpress and fly off somewhere. In this period do not do any work instead of checking important mail and replying to clients.

Planning to start a business website?

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:01:00 +0000

If you’re planning to start a business online, you definitely need to plan your website carefully. Things like design and functionality of your website contributes a lot on how your business will go. But before thinking of hiring a web designer or developer for it, there are some things that you need to decide first, such as your domain name and which hosting provider to choose.

Your domain name will be your website’s address and will be the name for your business. You then need to decide which web hosting provider to go with. This is so you could have a virtual space where your website will be hosted and be available on the web for others to visit. There are many web hosting providers around but not all of them are reliable enough which may cause a lot of downtime issues for your website. And if you’re planning to run a serious business, then downtimes are not usually tolerable.

One of the leading domain name registrars right now is Doteasy.com. They have been around since 2000 and continue to provide a reliable and at the same time, affordable web hosting packages. They currently have a promo right now where you can register any domain name like a .com,.net, .org for only $5.95. To enjoy this promo, use the coupon code: 100223DN. And with that, you already get a free hosting package along with great web tools completely free. Their free web tools and application can also make creating your website much easier. They are all very easy to use and manage.

This is a really great deal especially for those who are just starting up. And as your business grows, you can easily upgrade to a much higher hosting package such as to their unlimited hosting anytime for only $9.95 per month.

You can also use Coupon: 1003BPM to register a new domain for $7.95. If you feel that their domain renewal charges are high, then you can transfer your domain anytime to a different registrar. You may wish to disable the Domain Auto Renewal option.

How To Find Current Physical Location Of Any Website’s Server With FireFox

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:56:00 +0000

Recently a friend of mine was about to purchase something online. Since he was inexperienced in shopping online, he consulted me and I told him to make sure that the site was reliable. I helped him determine whether or not the website should be trusted. We started off with finding any user comments on other trustworthy websites about that online store – we failed to find any. Next I tried out a more simple approach. The store claimed to be based in Canada; but with the help of a great Firefox add-on I found out that its IP address belonged to China. Needless to say, my friend did not go on with the purchase.

Checking if a site’s server is where it claims to be can be a quick way to measure the site’s reliability. Although not all security decisions should be based on the server’s location alone, it can give us another thing to factor in our decision. Today I will be sharing with you the tool I used to perform this task – Flagfox.

Flagfox is a great add-on for the Mozilla Firefox browser. With it installed, we can view a website’s server’s location country’s flag in the address bar.

For example, let us consider a website I frequent everyday: FileHippo. Here is what Firefox’s address bar looked like when I opened FileHippo after installing the extension:

You can see the flag of America. If we click on this flag, more specific details about the server are opened in a new browser tab.

Apart from security purposes, this nifty extension can be used for finding similar sites/reviews, SEO research, diagnostics like pings/traceroutes, Whois/DNS information, page code validation, and copying a server’s IP address (or other information).

Key features include

Site safety and malware checks
Finding similar sites and reviews
Automatic translation to your language
SEO and web development research
Diagnostics like pings and traceroutes
Whois and DNS information
Page code validation
Quick URL shortening
Copying a server’s IP address or other info
or you can create your own custom actions

Using very little system resources and never getting in the way, Flagfox provides an impressive set of uses and it should be installed by all Firefox users.

NameCheap Domain March 2010 Discount Coupon: NCSPRING

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:09:00 +0000

My friend already told you I host my domain and webhosting separately. Personally I prefer namecheap to host my domain. Though sometime I miss amazing discount coupons of Godaddy, as namecheap discounts are very less compare to what Godaddy offers. Still I find the user interface of namecheap better, and that’s the reason I host my domains there and every month I offer you discount coupon of Namecheap.

This month discount coupon is : NCSPRING

PayPal Will Resume Bank Withdrawal for Indian Paypal Users From 3rd march

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:24:00 +0000

This is sign of relief for Indian paypal users, as Farhad Irani from Paypal team has announced in a blog post that Paypal will resume local bank transfer in India from 3rd March.

Till now Indian paypal users were trying to take out cash using alternative method, and I personally tried Xoom which worked for me and later on even Xoom stopped working. Right now you can request money using check option.

Here is what official paypal blog has to say about the latest development :

I’m pleased to tell you that the RBI has now allowed us to resume bank withdrawals for settlements for exports of goods and services. We are currently making changes to comply with Indian regulations for settlements for exports of goods and services, and we anticipate that as of Wednesday, March 3rd, we will be able to resume the bank withdrawal service. As part of the changes, you will be required to fill out a new field entitled ‘Export Code’ when you request a withdrawal. This information is required under the current laws of India in order to identify the nature of cross-border merchant transactions. On Monday, March 1st, we will be back in touch with specific instructions on how you can move your money into your bank account. I will be posting another blog then.

Though as we can read there will be something new here in terms of PayPal export code, which we will get to know about on 1st March.

Another thing which is clear that personal payment will take time to resume in India. Though 3rd March is tentative date, and I will suggest paypal users to wait for the official announcement for the resume of service to avoid any hassles.

Most of paypal users like me, also received an Email from paypal about this latest development.

Meanwhile I will love to know about your reaction on this latest update from paypal team.