The World Cup and the credit crunch have all influenced the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English. The vuvuzela, a horn instrument blown by football fans during the World Cup in South Africa, is one new entry. And recent financial problems led to the introduction of toxic debt – debt which has a [...]
Between playing ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ as a Stingerweb Internet Development software installed on my laptop and as a game show presented by Frank Edoho on Nigeria’s NTA (Nigerian Television Authority) one learns to differentiate between illusion and reality in using what one knows to get what one wants. In a country where [...]
A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy. Vascular surgeon David Nott helped the 16-year-old while working 24-hour shifts with medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Rutshuru. The boy’s left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and [...]
Google Unveils Image Search Ads — Your Ads Now With Picture Thumbnail. At its search event today, Google launched a new product that’s a part of Google Images: Google Image Search Ads. Basically, this allows anyone to advertise alongside Google Image searches in a new, more visual way. “This allows you to reach hundreds of [...]
China has said Google‘s decision to stop censoring Chinese search results is “totally wrong” and violates its promise to abide by local laws. The US giant is redirecting users in mainland China to its unrestricted Hong Kong site, although Chinese firewalls mean results still come back censored. Beijing said the decision should not affect ties [...]
U.S. Web Searches Top 10.2 Billion in January The Nielsen Company today reported January 2010 data for the top U.S. Search Providers. Google received 66.3% of all searches, Yahoo 14.5%, Microsoft/Bing 10.9%, AOL Search 2.5% and Ask.com 1.9%. The total number of searches in January 2010 was 10,272,099,000. See full stats below Top 10 Search [...]
The world’s biggest social network has revealed details of a stripped-down, text-only version of its mobile site called Facebook Zero. The low-bandwidth site is aimed at people viewing Facebook on their mobile and will launch “in the coming weeks”. The social network recently said that more than 100 million people now access Facebook from their [...]
Google has admitted to BBC News that testing of its controversial social network Buzz was insufficient. The firm has had to make a series of changes to the service after a ferocious backlash from users concerned about intrusions of privacy. The BBC understands that Buzz was only tested internally and bypassed more extensive trials with [...]
There was no lack of, well, buzz about Google’s new Buzz social-media platform last week, but more important were a series of moves that suggest the search giant is ready to take a tentative step toward fixing one of its longest-held gripes: the speed of Internet connections in the U.S. In a blog post on [...]
Amidst the very public outcry over current hacking and cyber attacks originating from within China, the country has revealed that it has shut down a major hacking site. Reporting that they had made arrests of three individuals who ran the site, they revealed that the Black Hawk Safety Net website gave lessons in how to [...]
Google’s 2009 Zeitgeist has been released and offers a unique perspective on the year’s major events and hottest trends based on global searches. According to the search company, Nigerians surfing the webs showed varied interests on education and online tools to international and local musicians, adding that the results reflected the growing importance of finding [...]
In an effort to allow search users to go through large volumes of data more quickly, Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new feature on its search engine, Bing, which it calls Visual Search. The feature allows users to browse through images rather than text snippets. Unlike image search, long a feature of most search engines, [...]
For many of its users, Google offers Web search results that are customized based on their previous search history and clicks. For example, if someone consistently favors a particular sports site, Google will put that site high in the results when they look up sports topics in its search engine. But there has always been [...]
TOKYO — In 2001, a fledgling Internet company named Google opened its first overseas office in Japan, eager to tap a huge technology market. But after eight years, Japan is one of a few major countries Google has yet to conquer. The Web giant still trails far behind Yahoo Japan, the front-runner here, operated by [...]
