Feng Shui Bamboo

Feng Shui uses certain objects called cures to increase the flow of positive energy called chi in your home. Bamboos are one of the most popular Feng Shui cures, but they are only effective when placed properly in the home and cared for well. Here are instructions for using Lucky Bamboo in your home. [...]

Woman Arrested For Facebook ‘Poke’

A woman in Tennessee has been arrested for ‘poking’ someone on Facebook, who had taken out an order of protection against her.

Shannon Jackson used the Facebook ‘poke’ feature which sends a quick note to another person to grab his/her attention. The order of protection restricted “telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with the petitioner”.

Jackson [...]

Google Wave–The Beginning of a New Era?

Search engine giant Google recently introduced a new service known as Google Wave. Google believes that its new service will revolutionize online communication. Google Wave can soon replace email. This service stores conversations as a thread of data on a server using “Wave Protocol”. Google hopes that the new service would email obsolete as the [...]

Windows 7 Cleared for Takeoff in EU

The European Commission and Microsoft have reached an agreement with respect to inclusion of Internet Explorer in Windows 7. Windows 7 has been cleared to ship with Internet Explorer preinstalled later this month.

Microsoft announced that Windows 7 will be shipped as planned. Users will get Windows 7 and then sometime later they will [...]

FTC’s New Rules for Bloggers

The FTC has announced new rules for bloggers–now bloggers have to disclose paid endorsements to their readers.

Many bloggers receive a small fee from companies for reviewing their products. Under FTC’s new rules, bloggers engaging in this practice have to disclose that they are receiving a fee for the blog post. Bloggers also have to [...]

Apple and Eminem settle out of court

Eminem and Apple had a dispute–this was over money and so like most other civil disputes, this was settled out of court.

After a trial that lasted for five days in a Detroit federal court, Apple and Eminem’s publisher, Eight Mile Style came to an agreement to settle the case out of court. However, neither [...]

Google Celebrates its 11th Birthday with a Special Logo

Google celebrated its 11th birthday with a Google doodles — a special Google logo that it puts on its homepage to mark the occasion. The special logo contains an extra “l” to form “11″ which represents the search engine giant’s 11 years of existence.

There is some confusion about the exact date on which the [...]

Google Finally Explains UFO Doodles

Google has finally provided the answer to the series of UFO doodles on its homepage—HG Well’s 143rd birthday. Earlier, there were many speculations about this—we had many speculations as well—ranging from UFO sightings to alien-abduction movies.

Google also sent a cryptic clue on Twitter about the doodles. Conspiracy theorists went haywire after that. However, Google [...]

Google Acquires reCAPTCHA

Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, one of top providers of CAPTCHAs. If you don’t know, a CAPTCHA is a string of letter or words that you may have to enter while signing up for a web service. These are used to block spammers from creating large numbers of accounts.

Google is not interested in reCAPTCHA’s CAPTCHAs. [...]

What is Google’s “unexplained phenomenon”?

Today, Google’s search page logo has a UFO abducting one of the O’s with a laser beam. If you click on the logo, you will be pointed to search results for “unexplained phenomenon”.

Similar gimmicks are not new to Google. On all major occasions, Google displays similar logos which when clicked provide information on the [...]