The ongoing Internet activism against SOPA/PIPA is an inspiring reminiscence of the epic movie Avatar where Jake Sully decides to lead from the front and fight a war against the military establishment to save the rich woodland and the native Na’vi tribe. Even as the Congress has already scheduled a day to kill SOPA to mark the day for the Internet censorship, the Internet fraternity spearheaded by the likes of Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, TwitPic [...]

Facebook Timeline is finally here! Facebook has officially rolled out the Timeline layout for everyone, months after previewing the new look at its f8 conference for developers. Users have seven days to review what they want posted to the scrapbook-like look of their new profiles before anyone else can see it, the company said in a blog post. The new layout displays stories — statuses, pictures, shared links, notes, etc. — that branch off of [...]

Back in 2006, I heard about PayPal for the first time and was pretty curious to know what it was all about. It turns out PayPal is nothing but a way to make payment or get paid over the Internet. In 2007, I created my own PayPal account and started using it for receiving small payments from my clients. Small payments were mostly for writing content for my offshore clients. I was never worried about [...]

If you’re reading this article, chances are you’re either desperate to buy an official iPhone4 (8GB) or the all new iPhone4S in India. Either way, it’s a bad news for you: Airtel just announced that the iPhone4S is going to cost you a fortune, no matter whichever model you choose. Worse, if you thought you could go for a lower-version 8GB iPhone4 instead, you would still need to break your bank. Yes! An iPhone4 (8GB) [...]

This Black Friday will never be the same again! Never again! Never again! Why? According to a new survey by The Nielsen Company, nearly one in five Americans will shop the Friday after this Thanksgiving 2011 and roughly 61% of them will shell out anything between $100 to $500. Well, this isn’t a small amount if we consider the current economic climate across the United States. So what are the consumers buying this Black Friday? [...]