Iran to block Gmail plus more on TechVi Now Morning Edition
Iran are planning to block Gmail, Bill Gates shares his thoughts on the Apple iPad plus Twitter hires ex Pixar executive, Ali Rowghani, as their CFO. All that on the Morning Edition of TechVi Now.
Google to create ultra high-speed network in the U.S.: TechVi Now Afternoon Edition
Thanks to Google, thousands of people will be able to access Internet speeds of up to 1Gb per second (also known as really really really fast). Why is Google getting into the broadband business? Find out about that story and more on TechVi Now.
Twitter to crowdsource translation
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Twitter has announce a new project to help the company translate the site into other languages by letting its users do the translation. Those who participate in the project will be giving a badge on their page and will be given ranks based on how much they have translated.
Google adding trending topics to search
Google has said it will start adding trending topics (in Google terms: Hot Trends) to search result pages which include one of the top 100 searches. This move maybe a first step into real-time search by Google in an attempt to compete with trending topics a la Twitter.
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JahJah opens phone-over-Twitter service
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JahJah, a VoIP telephony company, just launched a service that allows Twitter users to make free phone calls between one another. Users who have accounts with both companies can use the service, called JAHJAH@Call, with standard @ reply functions of twitter. The caller's phone will then ring, and connect out automatically to the receiving party for a maximum call length of two minutes - an amount of time that JahJah considers to be a relative length to a tweet.