Archive for the 'internet' Category

Google fined for providing free maps!

A French court has fined Google whopping US$ 660,000 for providing Google Maps for free to businesses in France, because the complainant; a French Mapping Company, Bottin Cartographes, charges a fee and thus saw Google’s free service as predatory and anti-competitive and thus filed a case against it in the French Court and won! (You [...]

Google still rocks!

Lately, there has been way too much talk of Facebook giving stiff competition to Google, changing search forever and what not. But as I found out today, Google still rocks, even when it comes to finding how to use Facebook’s features properly! To cut a long story short, I had been looking to add a [...]

BCP for a Home Office

Running a Home Office is always a challenge, more so when your livelihood depends on the internet and especially when you’re living in country like India, where even in the national capital, one can’t be assured of finding basic things like uninterrupted power supply and internet connectivity. This is where the requirement for a good [...]

StarCJ Shopping Experince

Yesterday morning (around 11am) I had ordered a Canon MP287 Printer, Scanner, Copier from StarCJ.com and since it was my first time ordering stuff from StarCJ, I wasn’t quite sure how it would turn up. While the transaction went smoothly, by late afternoon, I also received an SMS update that they had shipped the product! [...]

Serious threat to freedom of Internet

In what is surely to be a serious threat to the neutrality and freedom of internet and shocking and dangerous thing for website owners and staff, a court in Italy has convicted 3 Google employees in a case, where a school girl had uploaded a video on YouTube, which showed her schoolmates bullying an autistic [...]