Google announced yesterday, it is adding VoIP calling to Gmail for U.S. users. Desktop calls to any phone in the U.S. and Canada will be free at least until the end of the year, and international calls will be billed at rates as low as two cents a minute. Using a combination of Google voice and video chat, this new phone calling feature from Gmail will let users dial numbers right from its web... 

Having multiple accounts has been a pain for GMail users for a while. You have to log out of one account and log back in the next. Now, Google has introduced a way for you to link up to three accounts to your Google account, so you can sign in and switch between them at will – or even open a different tab for each account. Wow! According to the Gmail Blog, everyone should now be able to... 

Google is constantly been ‘attacked’ by privacy advocates over their Google Street View feature. Apparently people do not like other people taking pictures of the streets they live on. So Google Japan decided to show the public how Google Street View really works (see video below). They wanted to give people the idea that it is just the cutest thing. And, that they are working late at... 

Sometimes things are better off dead than alive. Google introduced Wave, it’s real time collaboration tool with much fanfare at the Google I/O conference last year but has now announced to stop developing Wave “as a standalone project.” Google Wave was one of Google’s most prominent new services. Now it is one of its most prominent flops. The reason for it is quite obvious – not enough... 

Those of you who always wanted to upload videos longer than 10 minutes on YouTube are in luck. YouTube announced yesterday that it has increased the maximum length of uploaded videos from 10 minutes to 15 minutes for all users. 15 minutes will allow amateur filmmakers to post their videos on YouTube without worrying about the time limit. It may seem like a small change, but YouTube is perhaps testing... 

With all the hype surrounding Apple’s iPad, virtually every computer manufacturer is evaluating their own version in an attempt to ride the tablet wave. Deja vu? The tablet market seems to be repeating the history of smartphones, but there is a key difference this time: Apple doesn’t have quite the competitive edge they had when the first iPhone was released. Android has already made a big... 

It is the Open Source nature of the Android Market, that makes it stand out as unique. It is like an amazing gift that anyone and everyone with a coding brain may contribute to the Android marketplace with their brilliant applications for Android phones (and non-phone Androids too). This is one fact that gives Android market the competitive edge and helps it take a step ahead than the giant Apple store,... 

A large number of cell phone models have been launched recently. It is easy to get confused about the pros and cons in different models just because there are so many of them. If you fall in that category of  people, here is a list of top 5 most discussed latest mobile phone releases. Actually it’s really difficult to select just 5 cell phone models from the list of  literally hundreds. So while... 

A little over a year ago, Google released an early preview of Google Voice, the web-based platform for managing communications. It was intended to have one number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada, low-priced international calls and more—the only catch was you had to request and receive an invite to try it out. 3 days... 

I have been reading queries in various forums regarding this very topic – How to know if my GMail account has been compromised and hacked and what to do to get it back. Thankfully, Gmail has an in-built feature, which helps to determine suspicious login sessions. I am going to provide here 5 steps to determine whether your Gmail has been hacked or you are on the safe side.  Read More →

A new fashion seems to have come into existence from the search for new and creative tattoos. Some people have started using the space in their bodies to depict their obsession or unconditional love towards technology. Things from different aspects of technology are taken for the purpose of tattooing and it can be anything of the range from programming language and logos to keyboard symbols. Though... 

The three mentioned in the title are the most popular internet browsers around the world, with Firefox topping the list.  Internet Explorer used to come as standard for all PC users, but now with new PCs it comes as an option with a few more ready to choose from.  Safari is Apple’s trademark on the Internet Browsing web.  It is also the Browser used on the iPod and iPhone.  However there are... 

Google TV was announced by the company at its annual I/O conference in San Francisco last week. With it, Google plans to bring the internet into the loungeroom of every TV-owning household in the world, with an ambitious new service that lets people mesh television viewing with surfing the web. So finally, Google has done it again. They have successfully combined Television with web access. Oh yeah!... 

Google has found that selling its Nexus One Android smartphone online wasn’t as easy as it thought it might be while launching Nexus One. Google says its iconic Android-powered Nexus One will be sold in retail stores and its experiment with online sales will end. Google’s Andy Rubin admitted consumers want a hands-on experience before buying a smartphone. An unlocked Nexus One costs $529,... 

I believe in the saying  “nothing is useless and everything serves its purpose in one way or another“. I had always wondered about Internet Explorer’s purpose of being in the world till I saw this image that brings out the purpose of the browser (who said that IE is the most infamous browser and is of no use?): The ONLY thing Internet Explorer is Good for is Downloading Firefox... 

As you probably already know, Google Search has undergone somewhat of a face lift over the last week and the whole (well, almost) internet has been buzzing about this news. To say there has been an uproar over the latest update would be a lie, but there are plenty of people (as with any change) that would like to see the old version of Google Search back. If you are one of those people who miss... 

Google has the great mission to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. However, do you know some of the true facts about Google? 35 Interesting But Little Known Facts about Google 1. In 1997, Google’s prototype was named “BackRub”. 2. The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were... 

Steve Jobs may hate Android (and Google) but this doesn’t stop Steve’s iPhone from running on Android OS. As unbelievable as it may sound but, iPhone hacker and Linux fan PlanetBeing has finally managed to run Google’s Android operating system on the iPhone. You can now dual boot and run Android on your iPhone. He says flash MAY also be supported. PlanetBeing claims to have ported a... 

Google put out a pair of small, but useful Gmail updates on Thursday that make it both easier to use and more integrated with the company’s free Calendar service. Notably, both have skipped a trial through the service’s “labs” section, and gone straight through to the final product. Gmail added support for a HTML5 feature that has been recently included in Firefox and... 

Google Android isn’t just the name on everyone’s lips when it comes to mobile phones. The open-source OS has also made it on to mobile internet entertainment devices, netbooks and other gadgets. An android device is not necessarily a Phone; not always. It can be anything from the categories given below. Here is a list of 7 non-phone gadgets that run on Google’s Android OS but aren’t...