Google goes from Kazakhstan

Written by Emma McAlpine on July 1, 2011 – 2:05 am

Google has announced its de facto withdrawal from the market in Kazakhstan. As explained in the blog Google Russia Bill Curran, senior vice president and head of infrastructure search Google, a month ago Kazakh Network Information Centre notified the company about a new order of the Ministry of Communications and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan. According to him, all the domain names in the zone. Kz, such as google.kz, should be placed on the server hardware is physically located in the country. This requirement means that Google will be forced to redirect all queries with google.kz on servers located in Kazakhstan, whereas now the requests on any domain are handled by the most rapid way, regardless of geographic location or national borders. Full Article…

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Schedule of transport in real time in Google Maps appeared

Written by Emma McAlpine on June 30, 2011 – 12:09 am

Google has updated its desktop and mobile version of Google Maps and charts now displays the time of arrival of public transport. In this case, the information displayed in real time and data are relevant, even if the bus is late. Thus, the passenger will not have to spend precious time waiting for public transport – will be enough to learn about the time of his arrival from Google Maps. This will allow him to plan a route based on actual conditions.

While the new feature works not in all cities: the U.S. is Boston, Portland, San Diego and San Francisco, and in Europe – Madrid and Turin. Full Article…

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Facebook Credits For India To Launch Today

Written by Emma McAlpine on June 29, 2011 – 10:54 am

Facebook just can’t stay away from the limelight these days. After successfully launching in several countries, the social networking giant is going to launch the payment system known as Facebook Credits for Indian users today. Using this system, users will be able to spend the virtual currency on the website on games and applications.

Deb Liu, Facebook’s Platform Marketing Manager had stated on the company’s official blog in January, “Starting July 1, we will require all social game developers on the Facebook canvas platform to process payments through Facebook Credits. Full Article…

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Summer Web Hosting Coupons

Written by Emma McAlpine on June 28, 2011 – 1:06 am

As a global provider of quality shared, VPS, reseller and dedicated servers, Host Color recently announced several new discount codes for money off of web hosting packages. The coupons apply to a variety of hosting products and services including the company’s new 100 Mbps Unmetered plans.

The SUMMERTIME Coupon Code

One such discount coupon code is SUMMERTIME which decreases the price of shared hosting by 25 percent with instant savings upon signup. This coupon applies to “Blog Hosting”, “CMS Hosting”, “Social Web”, “Multiple Domain Hosting” and the “Web Mall” service plans. As a result, the Blog

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Google Takes On Facebook With New Social Network

Written by Emma McAlpine on June 27, 2011 – 7:10 pm

Internet search giant Google has launched its new social networking service called Google+. This is part of yet another effort from the company, to claim a share in the lucrative social networking space dominated by Facebook. Google+ not only lets users post photos, videos, messages, comments, etc, but also will bring “real-world interactions” and “real-life sharing” online, according to the company.

Google’s Senior Vice President for Engineering, Vic Gundotra said in a blog post, “Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Full Article…

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