Posts Tagged ‘Tech News’

uTorrent 1.8 Released

uTorrent is one of the most feature rich BitTorrent client. It is small in size, consumes less memory and CPU and offers all the features which you want. After a gap of more than 6 months, a stable uTorrent 1.8 is out which contains some significant improvements and updates.

Cuil Search Engine : Not so Cool

On Monday, the Cuil (pronounced “cool”) search engine was finally launched. And since it has been developed by ex-Googlers, it was bound to be compared to Google. But with an impressive index of more than 120 billion web pages, it still needs a lot of work if it wants to beat Google.

Gmail becomes more Secure

Google seems to be paying more attention to Gmail security. A few days ago they added an option for remote log off and account tracking. Now they have added a new “Browser Connection” feature which allows users to use the “https” protocol while using there email.

Google Launches Knol, Wikipedia Competitor

Google has opened Knol, a user generated encyclopedia or we can say, a competitor to Wikipedia for general public. ‘Knol’ which has been dubbed as a unit of knowledge was earlier available only to a selected users through invitation. However, unlike Wikipedia, users can earn profits from there articles by putting ads on the articles [...]

Google launches Lively, Virtual Social Networking

Google has made another addition to its Services with Lively, a 3D virtual social networking service similar to Second Life. Users can create there own Avatar, enter chat rooms and chat with others in 3D graphics. I tried this but was unimpressed by this service. Google has a lot to do if they want to [...]