Edunology - Saumya Aggarwal

The much-awaited Facebook email service (Project Titan) was finally announced on Monday. Facebook email is actually part of a larger, simplified communication system called Facebook Messages. Facebook Messages will have email, SMS, chat conversations with your Facebook friends under one thread. I have to respectfully disagree with my...

Analysts are sceptical about the relevance of mobile number portability — which will start from November 25 — because of the growing popularity of dual and triple SIM cards. “In the current environment (of dual SIM phones), people do not worry about numbers as was the case few years back, when they were reluctant to change their numbers,”...

Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users' information , highlighting an intensifying rivalry between the two Internet giants. Google will no longer let other services automatically...

  A lot of Gmail users are noticing a major drop in the performance of the user interface in the recent times. A small trick which can really help in slow connections:  Turn on Offline Gmail. Turn on Flaky connection mode. That’s it.  This process would cache the recent emails on your machine. They would be loaded from...

The biggest search engine in the world has decided to take on the US government, suing it for anticompetitive practices. Certainly big news, it still isn’t much of a shocker, as Google seems to be rather justified in its stance. Google is suing the Department of Interior (DOI) for not considering Google Apps for its web-based document...

Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, spoke about the importance of India to the future of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) on his recent trip to the country. Calling it “Goal 2015”, Mr. Wales said he wanted Wikipedia to have “strong and healthy India based projects” within the next five years. Urging Indians to contribute to the growth of Wikipedia...