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Today (01-January-2013)Google is celebrating New Year’s Day 2013 with a special Doodle. Today’s doodle is continuation of yesterday’s one.Yesterday’s doodle depicts New Year Eve party with lot of guests. If we see the today’s one party is finished. Cleaning process is started. Guests are gone to their places. Every year Google is putting doodle for New Year.But this year’s doodle is very cute and interesting.  

Today (December 31st, 2012) Google is celebrating New year’s Eve with special Doodle. Today’s doodle is a unique one.It’s a collection of all 2012 global Google Doodles. Google did this kind of doodle for closing ceremony of London 2012.But every element (doodle) in Google’s New year’s eve 2012 doodle is clickable.If we click it it will show the corresponding doodle page. We can Nicolas Steno’s 374th Birthday doodle to 200th Anniversary of Grimm’s Fairy Tales….

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi tripped on the social network’s privacy settings. Randi Zuckerberg, older sister of Mark, posted a photo on Tuesday to her private timeline, showing her family’s reactions to the social network’s new Poke smartphone app. Callie Schweitzer, a marketing director at Vox Media, saw the picture in her Facebook feed and, thinking it was a public photo, reshared it on Twitter. Randi had posted it…

On December 22, 2012, Google India celebrates the 125th Birthday of Srinivasa Ramanujan with a Doodle.It also marks the National Mathematics Day. Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on December 22, 1887 in Erode, Tamil Nadu. At the of five Ramanujan…

Today (December 20, 2012) Google is showing a Doodle for celebrating 200th Anniversary of Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales.     The Doodle is created by showing more than 20 slides which can be shown one by one by clicking Back and Forward arrows buttons. These Slides tell entire story of “Little Red Riding Hood” or “Little Red Cap” The story revolves around a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, after…

Facebook’s photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users’ photos to advertisers without notification. Instagram has announced that it is updating its terms of service and privacy policy.The changes were will be effective on January 16, 2013.The photo-sharing site promised that photo ownership and viewership will not change. “To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a…

Sprint announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire the shares of Clearwire for $2.2 billion, or $2.97 per share.  Sprint already owns slightly more than half of Clearwire. The company said owners of 13 percent of Clearwire shares – Comcast Corp, Intel Corp and Bright House Networks LLC – had agreed to vote for the deal. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said, “Today’s transaction marks yet another significant step…

Ray Kurzweil, the famed inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist has joined Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing.Aside from futurology, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. Here is the report published on his website: Ray Kurzweil confirmed today that he will be joining Google to work on new projects involving machine…

Pope Benedict XVI sent his first tweet from @Pontifex on Wednesday.   Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart. — Benedict XVI (@Pontifex) December 12, 2012 “Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you…

Google, Facebook ,Twitter and Yahoo all just released their year-in-review reports.If we see back Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about Whitney Houston ,royal princess, the latest iPad, iPhone,Gangnam Style,  Hurricane Sandy and a record-breaking skydiver Felix. Google: Google had released the Top Search Terms in this year 2012 as “Zeitgeist 2012″.   Whitney Houston was the “top trending” search of the year, according to Google.Korean rapper PSY’s “Gangnam Style” music video…