How to optimize images for Google?

Google Image Search Optimizing images for Google search is very important for Search Engine Optimization of any website or blog. But lot of us don’t realize how optimization for images can bring in huge targeted traffic to one’s website or blog provided if the images are optimized accordingly. So I am penning down this article which gives few tips about Google Image Search optimization that helps Google to index your images in a better way.

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April 6th, 2009 | Comments

Companies now pay heed to Twitter rants

twitter Can you imagine a microblogging site like Twitter can influence companies offering wide range of services ? Yes, now big companies including Westpac and Common Wealth bank etc are monitoring Twitter for customer complaints and comments about their services and “tweeting” back to offer resolutions confirms a Sydney commuter daily mX. Telstra BigPond’s email support team and international companies with Australian bases such as Starbuck, Dell, General Motors and Kodak also monitor Twitter constantly to find customer feedbacks and rants to improve their service.

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March 31st, 2009 | Comments

Indian languages now available from Gmail

hindi email Google today has officially announced a new feature in Gmail which makes it easy to type email in Indian languages which includes Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. This new feature allows the users to type words the way they sound in English and Gmail will automatically convert the word to its Indian local language equivalent.

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March 31st, 2009 | Comments

Chinese spy network breaks into computers across the world

Chinese Spy Network It has been reported that Chinese cyber-spy network has been breaking into computers across the world accessing documents, files from government and private organizations including Dalai Lama’s office. “GhostNet”, the name of the spy network has penetrated 103 countries accessing systems containing sensitive information in top political, economic and media offices according Canadian group Information Warfare Monitor (IWM). The Canadian researchers found this as a result of conducting a 10-month investigation over the cyber-espionage claims against the Tibetan exiles.Ghost Net is said to have infected 1295 computers at NATO, foreign affairs ministries, embassies, banks and news organizations.

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March 30th, 2009 | Comments

Conficker C variant set to strike on April Fool’s day

Conficket Internet Worm Conficker became famous last year by exploiting the loop holes in the Windows operating system and I wrote a article sometime back in January about Conficker Internet Worm. Security experts around the world has warned that Conficker worm could strike on April 1st, the Fool’s day at all the infected computers. The recent released variant called W32.Downadup.C with increased strengths is set to infect large number of systems across the world and experts has already started taking precautions. The first two variants of the Conficker worm have done enough damage infecting lot of computers across the world before being controlled. The funny thing about the new C variant is, nobody knows what the new Conficker.c is programmed to do.

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March 25th, 2009 | Comments