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(CNN) --
Facebook and Google, two of the world's biggest and most influential online companies, are duking it out in a very public battle over who should control the Internet.
That war of words continued on Thursday, when Google wrote a rebuttal to responses on its joint policy proposal with Verizon about an open-Internet standard known as "Net neutrality." The rebuttal comes a day after Facebook said it disagreed with the substance of Google and Verizon's pact.
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August 12, 2010
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By Mujtaba
Facebook is standing at the foot of a virtual cash mountain. The social networking behemoth recently announced a plan to expand the Facebook Credits program beyond its beta confines. A network-wide rollout of the virtual currency application would streamline transactions online and, in effect, pave the path to the world's first global currency.
It's also going to help Facebook scale one of its last major economic hurdles - monetizing its millions of international users.
July 21, 2010
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By Michelle Murdoch
Before I give you any tips on becoming a billionaire, let me clear you that I'm not even a millionaire. And you bet if I knew how to become one, I'm too mean to share it with you, or I might share, who cares anyways after making it too the billionaire club.
Actually last night I was going through an article that I found interesting and I have been too busy to complete my article for Pakistanacca this week so I decided to share that article with you. I'm borrowing the ar
June 25, 2010
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Web search engines make our lives easier: They connect us with what we're searching for in a matter of seconds, and sometimes they bring us to places we didn't even know we were looking for.
But they can also teach us a lot about ourselves, as more than half of adult internet users already know.
About 57 percent of adult internet users in the United States said they have entered their name into a search engine to assess their digital reputation, according to a new Pew Research Ce
May 29, 2010
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(Propakistani) -- Google Translations, a tool to translate from one language to 57 another languages, has added Urdu in the list. Meaning that, now you can translate 57 languages into Urdu and from Urdu to 57 well known languages of the world.
This remarkable achievement will greatly help in localizing the content by presenting foreign language websites in Urdu language through Google’s web page translation tools.
Just to add, Google Translation allows users to upload documents and g
May 14, 2010
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By Bilal Siddiqui
Google is too busy fighting with Facebook and started to amuse people. Google search results have been a discussion of controversies for years. For instance, if you type "complete failure" in Goggle in 2004, the giant search engine results will lead you to the website of Former US President, George W. Bush!
I am not sure about Bush but Google came search results came under limelight after that.
Interesting Facts
If you misspell google.com in your web br
May 3, 2010
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The search engine giant, Google, plans next month to unveil a new software package to help developers better display the internet on TV sets, according to the Wall Street Journal, which quotes unnamed sources familiar with the announcement.
Google TV, an android-based software platform, has drawn interest from TV makers, the Journal says.
Google is expected to break the news at the Google's I/O conference, which will be held May 19 and 20 in San Francisco, California, the newspap
May 1, 2010
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Internet activists, tech geeks, private-sector information technology companies and foreign policy wonks have joined hands this week in an initiative that sounds more ungainly than it is. For the first time, the United States is officially encouraging its Internet and technology companies to align themselves with American diplomatic policy, giving them new tools to operate in places where repressive governments reign.
Based on recent experiences in China, Egypt, Iran, Sudan and elsewhere, mem
March 9, 2010
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The very thing I love about the Google is that they substitute the word search with their name in dictionaries. Google, after its inception, never look back and start acquiring small firms and adding multiple services in their basket. The latest venture were NEXUS, a cell phone. Although I think last time I checked, its not available in Pakistan.
Now a days, Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp., according to people familiar with the matter
March 9, 2010
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