‘Tweet’ is now an official word in Oxford Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), in its latest edition, has included the definition of ‘tweet’. It is defined as- a.) To make a posting on the social networking service Twitter. Also: to use Twitter regularly or habitually. b.) To post (a message, item of information, etc.) on Twitter. Also: to post a message to (a particular [...]

Google Doodle honours Julius Richard Petri’s 160th birthday

The Google on Today celebrates 160th birth anniversary of the scientist Julius Richard Petri with a doodle of his invention, the ‘Petri dish’ on its home page. The Google doodle shows six colorful Petri dishes in a row. A gloved hand appears when you click on the yellow dish. It stirs the dishes and in [...]

Google doodle pays tribute to Saul Bass

Google on Today paid video tribute to American graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass on his 93rd birthday with a doodle on its home page. Saul Bass, Born on May 08, 1920, in the Bronx, New York, he was best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. He [...]

YouTube set to launch pay channels soon

The video-sharing website YouTube is all set to launch a series of channels that will require payment within a few weeks. The content on the new paid channel subscriptions will be in addition to the millions videos viewers watch for free on YouTube but It’s not clear whether the paid videos will come with advertising [...]

Google celebrates Satyajit Ray’s 92nd birthday with doodle

The search giant Google on Today celebrates Legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s 92nd birth anniversary with a doodle on its home page. Google doodle honored with showing a scene from his iconic movie Pather Panchali. Satyajit Ray, was an Indian filmmaker, writer, director, graphic designer, illustrator and music composer. He was one of the great auteurs [...]

Google doodle celebrates ‘Labour Day’

The search giant Google on Today celebrates “International Workers’ Day on 1st of May 2013” with a doodle on its home page. Labour Day is a national holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers, the Labor Day  to celebrate more than 80 countries and unofficially in many other countries. The presented various cartoon characters doing [...]

Google doodle celebrates India’s first passenger train

Google doodle on Today celebrates the 160th anniversary of the India’s first passenger train journey, The train chugged out of Bori Bunder, in Bombay (now Mumbai). The Google takes its visitors on a short journey into the Indian Railways history, with a train pulled by a steam engine along the palm-lined railway track. The first [...]

Google doodle celebrates Leonhard Euler’s 306th birthday

The Google doodle celebrates pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler’s 306th birthday on Today. He was of a surety the most important mathematician of the 18th century and one of the most prolific mathematicians ever. Euler spent most of his adult life in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, Prussia. Leonhard Euler was born [...]

Mozilla and Samsung collab on next-gen Web Browser Engine

Samsung and Mozilla have announced that they have joined hands to build a brand new Web browser engine. This new Web browser engine, dubbed ‘Servo’, will take the benefits of the ARM architecture Mozilla’s Chief Technical Officer, Brendan Eichneed mentioned that both the companies feel the need “to be ready to take advantage of tomorrow’s [...]

YouTube shuts shop in April Fool’s prank

In an elaborated April Fool’s prank, YouTube announced last night the end of the video-sharing website and that the site was merely an eight-year contest to find the best home video on the Internet. The world’s most popular video-sharing web-site would close at the end of the day to review all the video submissions it [...]

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