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Gmail Priority Inbox Launches

Google and their Gmail team never quite stop to amaze me. They had made email fun and easy from the time of launch when it was still in beta. Better spam filter, ever growing inbox memory (at a time when a competitor gave just 250 mb of space) and lots more. They launched multiple inbox [...]

Sumo Wrestlers are given iPads as they are too fat for mobiles

Japanese sumo wrestlers have been given iPads to communicate because their fingers are too fat to use a standard mobile phone reports the Telegraph. It is amazing to see how people find out innovative and interesting ways to use Apple’s products. The Japan Sumo Association is distributing 61 iPads amongst it’s 51 wrestlers and officials. [...]

Verisign will give you big bucks for your .COM story

Verisign is offering up to US$10,000 in cash prize for your story on how .COM changed your life in How Do You .COM contest. Also up for the grabs are $5,000, $2,500 and 10 iPads. .COM here is taken in context as the Internet phenomenon and not just a TLD. The .COM age changed the [...]

Innocent way to spam Twitter

We all loved Christopher Nolan’s movie Inception. It has been trending on twitter even before it released. Now think how to take advantage of people tweeting and searching about the movie Inception. Simple, use the word as a part of sentence and promote it. The Last Exorcism movie makers have used this trick to good [...]

Gmail’s interface is revamped

As mentioned in earlier blogpost, Gmail’s interface has indeed been changed today. It looks cleaner with contacts link and an ability to sort contacts by first name , last name and phone number. Here is the blog post Future design changes to Gmail.

Delhi police using Facebook to track errant drivers

Delhi police have started a facebook page to help ease traffic problems in the capital city of India. From NYT The traffic police department started a Facebook page two months ago, and almost immediately residents became digital informants, posting photos of their fellow drivers violating traffic laws. As of Sunday more than 17,000 people had [...]