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Earth Hour 60+ Application for Saving The Earth

Commemorating Earth Hour this year which falls on March 26, 2011, will be more exciting. Annual Campaign World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has now supported with cell phone application. Unfortunately, this application named 60+ is only available for iPhone. The WWF’s goal of creating this application is to lead users to do the little [...]

The .xxx TLD for Porn Sites has been Approved by ICANN

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally approved the use of .xxx sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) with the ICM Registry. The .xxx domain is purposed for pornographic content sites. It has been on the table for 11 years and now it has been approved for legal use. In the final vote, nine [...]

Western Digital Mergers with Hitachi

WDC has announced an agreement with Hitachi Global Storage. WDC will pay cash and buy 3.4 billion dollars worth of shares owned by Hitachi. Hitachi Japan will sell its hard drive business units 3.5 billion dollars and 25 million WDC shares worth 750 million dollars. The value of shares in the transaction calculated $ 30.01 [...]

False Alarm: Google Not Launching Google Circles

Last weekend, a rumor has spread that Google would launch its new Social Network product called Circles. According to ReadWriteWeb, Google would probably launch it on Sunday. They have detailed information about the product. It is said that Google would likely unveil it in some form at South by Southwest Interactive. Unfortunately, the rumor was [...]

YouTube Adds Staff by 30% in 2011

YouTube has said that 2010 was a great year for the website. As a result, in 2011, Google wants to recruit more people to work at YouTube. About more than 30 percent people will be recruited and it will make it the largest hiring year in YouTube’s history. There are about 600-700 staff members working [...]