India will be ready to have internationalised domain names (IDN) on the internet in Hindi by June next year.You will be able to write Internet addresses in Hindi . Currently, Internet addresses are limited to Latin characters from ‘A’ to ‘Z’. As of 16 November 2009, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is accepting applications for internationalised domain names (IDN) country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). They represent country-specific names in the language-native writing system consisting of non-Latin symbols. “In a phased manner, we will have domain names in all the 22 scheduled Indian languages,” Tulika Pandey, additional director, information technology, told The Hindu Business Line.
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June 2010 :India Get Hindi Domain Names
November 28th, 2009What The Movie(new upcoming website)
November 27th, 2009
This is a fun little website to test your skill in recognizing screen shots from various movies. You can also register to keep track of your score. You can pick certain category or go randomly. There is also option to pick easier movie so that you can get some scores.
After that you can talk around at the shoutbox below with other people who are registered.
URL: http://whatthemovie.com
What’s Microsoft’s Bing Strategy?
November 14th, 2009In launching Bing as a successor to Live Search, Microsoft has decided to focus on providing searchers with a little extra assistance in making decisions in key areas like travel and shopping, hoping those tweaks would draw more visitors even if Bing’s broader search results aren’t always as good as those of Google.
Bing is a limited start, but for a reasonable set of queries, it is better,” says Dan Weld, a computer scientist and search researcher at the University of Washington. “Will that cause them to gain market share? That’s a much harder question to answer.”
For most searches, Bing comes across as a competent but weaker version of Google. A search for “photovoltaics,” for example, produces much the same list of links to Wikipedia and government sites as Google, although Google
also offers a book about the subject. A search for “Zurich tours” offers the same list of websites as Google, but Google also offers a map of Zurich with links to different tour operators. For many other searches, the results are barely distinguishable. Thiswebsite provides a way to compare Bing and Google search results side by side.
Bing does, however, deploy some interesting tricks in a few key areas. Its most obvious distinction is the way that it attempts–subtly, for the most part–to act as an intelligent intermediary for shopping, travel reservations, health advice, and local information.
Clicking the Bing shopping channel provides product listings and links to reviews, as with Google’s shopping channel. But Bing also provides a tool on the left-hand side of the page that provides insight into the contentof reviews. Reviews from sites including Epinion and Amazon are analyzed using a natural-language engine developed at Microsoft Research.
Access Your Google Docs and Calendar in Gmail
November 4th, 2009After all the enjoyment and masti last evening, I guess all are back to work. Here’s news for all the extensive gmail users. This week Gmail Labs introduced 2 new features i.e. Google Docs and Google Calendar to its Gmail window. These featuresenables Gmail user to access google calender and Docs without opening the hosted application.
Like Mail Goggles, these two features are still under testing phase hence to access them you need to enable these features first. According to Google’s engineers with these features Gmail users can see recently accessed Google Docs and also gets event alerts within Gmail.
Google Calendar and Docs are two of the highly requested features. Though opening Google calendar or docs is easy but access within Gmail is a time-saving feature. Moreover you get Calendar notification, which automatically alerts user of its coming event or meeting.
Once enabled, you can see these features in the sidebar below the labels application. Along with these features Google Labs released another feature called as “Add any gadget by URLâ€. With the help of this feature you can add any gadget by pasting in the URL of its XML spec file.
Truly speaking I have already enabled these two latest features and I feel they are worth enabling. I personally liked the Google Docs feature as it makes my daily work quick and easy. What you have to say about these features, use the comment section and please feel free to share it with me.
New Google Music Service Launch Imminent
November 1st, 2009Google will soon launch a music service, we’ve heard from multiple sources, and the company has spent the last several weeks securing content for the launch of the service from the major music labels. One source has referred to the new service as Google Audio.
We’re still gathering details, but our understanding is the service will be very different to the Google China music download service that theylaunched in 2008. That service, which is only available in Chin
a, allows users to search for music and download it for free.
This new service will be available for at least U.S. users, our sources confirm, although it isn’t clear if it’s a download or streaming service, or both. Google already has a decent (if little used) music search engine that can be accessed by simply typing “music:” before a query (example). But songs are not available for streaming or download from those searches.
