The researchers, who sought to discover the underlying cognitive processes, examined the search habits of 72 participants, spread over 426 such tasks.

There are two options – you can either buy a router or, if you are looking for something more simple and don’t want to spend money on new networking hardware, you can connect the two computers using a commonly-available cable. The latter method doesn’t involve any complicated network settings and you will still be able to share files, internet connection, and even printers between computers.

The only catch is that users of the service need to have an open profile with Google that includes personal contact data.

Once those conditions are met, the user can access the service at the Google Labs. Typing in “New York” will yield a list of friends in the user’s social network who have posted items from the Big Apple. Settings can be altered so that only postings from close friends and acquaintances are included in the “social graph.”

By now all you tech freaks would have probably heard that Google is working on its own operating system called Google Chrome OS. Earlier this year, Google announced that it will be releasing the operating system at the end of this year. Now there are rumors going on that Google will be releasing its highly anticipated OS next week.

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Beating a good 4,000 other competitors, Puru Pratap Singh’s doodle is based on the theme ‘My India – Full of Life’.

A Google doodle is a creative Google logo that appears on some special days, to commemorate scientific and artistic achievements, historic or seasonal events, and other local occasions.

Both Windows 7 and Vista scored above the best add-on programme. Windows 7 rated 2.84 on a scale of 1 to 5, with lower scores better than higher ones, and Vista rated 2.97. The best add-on programme was rated 3.03.

The device also supports Line in recording, voice recording and FM radio and provides seven advanced equaliser effects to choose from, including a special user-customisable option.

Only 17% of the total 610 educational institutes, organizations etc have used the latest internet addressing technique. This new technique is called IPv6.

This commission had conducted survey on institutes and organizations in the following global regions: Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Though theaddresses we are talking about here are not the names used on the url bar. These are the addresses behind the url names you put to browse your favorite institute’s website.

“The application is equipped with speech recognition technology to understand Indian accents. Its software enables users of Nokia S60 handsets to access information on the internet by voice search,” Google India said here in a statement.

The announcement came in the form of a tweet sent out by Lilly in which he boasts that the web browser has been doing great for the past eight weeks attracting 30 million new monthly users and bringing up the total to around 330 million. This isn’t an exact measurement as Mozilla does a bit of estimating to arrive at the figure. Still, it is based on solid numbers, Firefox’s daily active users, which are now at around 113 million up from 103 million.

Perhaps the “dumb bird” reputation is the reason behind the tale that during a rainstorm, turkeys will stare up at the sky with their beaks hanging open, transfixed, until they drown. Although turkeys sometimes do tilt their heads up at the sky and remain there for several moments, scientists say the idea that turkeys drown that way is just a myth.

The phones, “Satio”, “Aino” and “Yari”, will set the trend for the new age smart phones, said Anil Sethi, president of Sony Ericsson Mobile India.

He said the company would focus on the smartphone category for the next two-three years to boost sales.

The Sandora Prototype 1.0 is a tracking system which sends live timetable information and a Google Map showing the location of the vehicle, direct to mobile phones by SMS. Commuters can obtain the information either before their trip or while waiting at a stop.

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In line with the company’s commitment to releasing a new OS at periodic schedules, Windows 7 is designed to be more reliable and responsive, delivering a simplified PC experience for consumers.

Announcing the Windows 7 launch, Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India reportedly said, “Proactive engagement and feedback thereof with partners and consumers was fundamental to the development of Windows 7. It has helped deliver what is the highest quality OS in the history of Windows. It enhances the user experience by its sheer simplicity and caters to their connected lives across work and play. We are delighted by the initial reviews from partners and the technology community.
Over 90% of testers from around the world have rated it as “good” or “extremely good” and consider Windows 7 to be responsive, simple to use and stable.”

As there is lot of value addition in the new version, I upgraded Firefox at work place too. All the fun with the new browser ended when I saw a flashing message showing Firebug plugin is not compatible with the new version of Firefox. I extensively use Firebug for web development and without that web development came to stand still. I was left with no option other than downgrading Firefox 3.5 to 3.0.

The SOS in the shape of a declaration was approved at the 25-minute cabinet meeting presided over by President Mohammad Nasheed.