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Now to Apple has agreed with Microsoft's and Google's to insert functions in their mobile phone operating systems which can make mobile phone thefts pointless. Leading public prosecutors of New York and San Francisco explained on Thursday, the enterprises would integrate in future so-called doing in Switches into Windows Phone and Android. The new software should enable to make stolen Smartphones from a distance useless. The commercial basis would be taken away from thieves' stolen goods would be at best still usable as a door stopper. Apple had already inserted with the iOS 7 published in 2013 an activation barrier in their iPhones and iPads. It blocks the use of a stolen device so long to whose owner announces itself on it with his Apple account and Apple password. The fact that the method functions, the figures which were published in the first annual report of the US initiative Secure our Smartphones (SOS) (PDF) book. Therefore, the number of the iPhone thefts dec

White hat SEO or black hat SEO? That's the question. From the moment that there was talk about optimizing a website for search engines, it's not clear whether black hat SEO is or is not a convenient way to achieve better results. We can indeed see black hat techniques as applying optimization techniques in a way that it really should not. In this article I will explain exactly what is the difference between the two forms of and especially whether or not it is wise to go to the "Dark" side. There have been several discussions about whether or not to follow black hat in recent years all over the world. Basically, it's is nothing more and nothing less than a collection of tricks that make it possible to mislead Search Engines so that they still get a better position in the search engine results page also known as SERPs. A familiar example is in the placement of keywords in a specific location in your page as the same color as the page background. Visitors

How to get your website "slapped by Google"? It's pretty simple. Try to bend the rules of SEO even slightly and all your hard work in gaining backlinks and authority for your website goes to waste. There is a catchy term webmasters use for this - Black Hat SEO . Search engine marketing is an important part of  internet marketing . Ideally you want as many visitors angling towards your website as soon as possible for maximum profit. To accelerate that process, website owners do some crazy things that makes the the big brother G unhappy. Here are 5 tips which you should implement if you want your site or blog to get slapped by Google and get little to literally no search engine traffic at all. Tip 1: Keyword Stuffing: Use excessive keywords in your text. In the SEO training, I explain that it is important to use your target keywords to an optimum level of about 2-3% in your text . If you insert a keyword many times in your website, Google will treat it as spam an

Courtesy:luborp.com Google first acquisition this year is Nest ; a company that designs products which help in home automation like thermostats, devices which connect your home to the Internet, etc,. The news was broken by Google Senior VP Sundar Pichai with a tweet. Welcome @tfadell and team, really excited to have you all part of Google. Love using your products http://t.co/rofgHVUJ1h — sundarpichai (@sundarpichai) January 13, 2014 For people who are concerned about privacy and other issues about Google, here is some good news for you. Tony Fadell , the founder of Nest says the acquisition wont affect the day-to-day operation of Nest nor will it change it's branding. Tony Fadell was also the primary designer of the iPod. Google is showing keen interest in acquiring hardware companies since the last year. This was clear with the acquisition of many robot development companies like Boston Dynamics.

The search engine giant Google , which makes an estimated profit of $430 billion annually introduced it's new logo today. The changes made are very subtle- The logo is changed from 3D to 2D. The colours are muted just a little bit. The new logo was used since many years in advertisement banners. So, it's not entirely new. Google's new logo is slick and neat. What do you think of the tweaked logo? Will it make any difference? I hope the world can handle this change.

Google Chrome , even though not rated as the most-used browser yet, has certainly captured the public’s imagination. Savvy Windows users are preferring Chrome over other browsers. One reason for this is that Google's Chrome has an enviable list of extensions that even beat Firefox! Read on. 1. Session Manager: If you’re halfway entering information on some site after having logged in, click Session Manager and your session will be saved for later. Just click the link in the add-on to return to the page. You can bypass the login menu and go directly to the page you were working on. 2. Google Mail Checker: Shows how many unopened emails you have in your Gmail via a small icon on your Chrome address bar. You’ll have to set Gmail as default email in order to enable this. 3. Stop Autoplay for YouTube:   Stops auto play of videos. Silently buffers the video, so that you can play it later if you want. No more suffering slow loading stutte

A search engine is a computer program used to retrieve data, files, and documents from a database, and the best known database is the internet, this computer software is capable of bringing the best quality information for us in the blink of an eye; this is why they are so special, because these giants perform an incredibly enormous task, they index all the information that is stored in the internet and present it in a handy, practical, and friendly way to be read, and just like search engines, social networks store information as well, but this information is related to people, businesses, or brands; social profiles are also indexed and presented in the same friendly way to any user that looks for someone. This is one of the main reasons to think that social networks are also search engines, but the truth is that there is much more than that, and if you want to know more about this keep reading to find out. Search engines started as we know them today when the giant Google u

What is the ‘Art Project’? The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and 151 acclaimed art partners from across 40 countries. Using a combination of various Google technologies and expert information provided by museum partners, Google have created a unique online art experience. Users can explore a wide range of artworks at brushstroke level detail, take a virtual tour of a museum and even build their own collections to share.

The CeBIT, held in Hanover, Germany. The fair welcomes around 4,200 exhibitors showcasing the inventions of the future, from tech behemoths such as Microsoft and Google to one-man-bands with a quirky gadget. Participating exhibitors rated CeBIT 2012 as a highly successful show. Surveys revealed yet another rise in the number of business contacts initiated and leads generated, and exhibitors reported lively visitor traffic throughout. Once again this year, more than seven million business talks were held at CeBIT.

Search engines are the most valuable discovery of this century acting as a bridge between millions of web pages and web users. It is really impossible to imagine web world without search engines. Millions of web pages will be converted into a chaotic disordered jungle without search engines. Useful websites may be hidden from the users and what information received will be of no use.Search engines work non stopto gather valuable information underlying in the million of web pages scattered on the internet.

By  Daniel Sperling Google  has announced that it will now display concert listings when users search for their favourite bands.  As of yesterday (February 23), results pages for musical acts show dates at nearby venues and links to sites offering tickets for sale.  Google product manager Kavi Goel said of the update in a  blog post : "To me, music is best heard live, so it's always exciting to find out that a band I love is coming to town. 

Bloomberg: Google Inc. will allow a "do-not- track" button to be embedded in its Web browser, letting users restrict the amount of data that can be collected about them. The world's most popular search engine will join with other Web companies to support the anti-tracking initiative, which prevents an individual's browsing history from being used to tailor ads, according to an e-mailed statement today.

Coming down heavily on the India based unit of the American Internet giant ' Google Inc ', the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has served notice to Google India Private Limited for illegal mode of money transfer from the country. Taking serious note of the issue, the ED initiated probe into the matter and found that Google India has swindled Rs 12 crores in the last six years. As informed by one of the senior ED official, Google India has been transferring the income generated in India to its Ireland office without keeping Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the loop. Recently, Google India hogged the limelight when Delhi High Court sought removal of objectionable content from the search engine. As a matter of fact, the Google India generates crores through advertisements which it directly transfers to its associate body in foreign countries without paying the tax to the RBI. Interestingly, to transfer the revenue, Google India has established two other companies in the countr

Following Twitter's decision to begin censoring the messages of users based on restrictions of their respective countries, Google has followed suit and announced that it will begin a similar practice with its own blogging service - Blogger . Blogger , the web-log service run by Internet giant Google, will begin censoring the personal posts of its users in order to comply with local laws rather than encouraging an internationally open Internet. While the company has previously allowed users of the World Wide Web to post wide-open opinions on its Blogger site, it will now allow individual jurisdictions to govern what can and can't be posted on the Web. Under Google's new policies, personal pages hosted on Blogger will be redirected to country-specific URLs, such as ".in" for India and ".au" for Australia. The company writes that "Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while provi

YouTube users now upload an hour of video to the site every second - making a decade of video every day. Videos on the site are viewed four billion times every day - a rise of 25 per cent in the last eight months. The amount of video uploaded to the site has multiplied tenfold in just four years. The site also has four billion video views per day. The equivalent of half the world's population watches a video on YouTube every day. The site was bought by Google for £1 billion after it was started by three people in a garage in 2005. 'Since the dawn of YouTube, we’ve been sharing the hours of video you upload every minute,' said the site via the official YouTube blog. 'In 2007 we started at six hours, then in 2010 we were at 24 hours, then 35, then 48, and now...60 hours of video every minute, an increase of more than 30 percent in the last eight months.' 'There are now as many video views as there are US $1 bills in circulation, the same as number of years