India Calling Cards

Posted by Amit Singhal, Google Fellow (Cross-posted from the Google European Public Policy Blog ) Yesterday’s news that the European Commission has opened a preliminary inquiry into competition complaints from three companies has generated a lot of questions about how Google’s ranking works. Here, Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow responsible for ranking, who has worked in search for almost 20 years, explains the principles behind our algorithm. Pop quiz

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This stuff is tough

Ok having explained that we started Ebaying in a previous Blog, and deciding this was the way to go to make a living. We were at that time completely happy with Ebay as a selling platform. Firstly, we had to find a reliable supplier of quality garments and items, it took several months of really researching what was out there, we travelled far and wide, and finally found several excellent suppliers

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Our Life with Ebay

Posted by Matt Sucherman, VP and Deputy General Counsel – Europe, Middle East and Africa (cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police. We also worked with the local police to help identify the person responsible for uploading it and she was subsequently sentenced to 10 months community service by a court in Turin, as were several other classmates who were also involved

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Serious threat to the web in Italy

Have you always wanted to meet someone who lives in Finland?  Please welcome Antti Kokkonen from zemalf.com with his answer to a question I’ve been wondering about. As I’ve visited blogs, I’ve noticed certain bloggers enjoying lively discussions with their readers – all taking place in the comments section of their blogs

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How to turn blog comments into discussion

Posted by Julia Holtz, Senior Competition Counsel (Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog ) As Google has grown, we’ve not surprisingly faced more questions about our role in the advertising ecosystem and our overall approach to competition . This kind of scrutiny goes with the territory when you are a large company.

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Committed to competing fairly

Posted by Steve Grove, YouTube News and Politics (cross-posted from the CitizenTube blog) Chris Wallace at Fox News Sunday came to our DC office last week to do a piece for his Sunday show. Every week, FNS does a feature called “Power Player of the Week” – this week, Chris chose YouTube

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YouTube on Fox News – Power Player of the Week

Being in France one got used to all sorts of creatures running around in the garden (and the house of some occasions) from very large Toads to Lizards and Snakes plus the occasional Wild Boar and Bull (from the next field, who liked grazing in our orchard rather than their own field). I have some wonderful stories about one particular Bull which I named Daisy (I know the name doesnt suit) I’ll cover this soon.

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The Wonder of Nature

Another New York Fashion Week has come and gone, and if you missed out on what’s hot and what’s not for Fall 2010, get updated by reading the following blog posts. Beauty – Cult Beauty Blog reports that the grunge look is making a comeback this fall and eye shadows were the main cosmetic focus of the fashion runway.

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New York Fashion Week

Samsung further consolidated its position as the world’s no.2 handset manufacturer, as it has recently reported a record number of cell phone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2009, pushing its global market share beyond 20 percent.

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Samsung Posts Another Record Handset Sales in Q4, Aims to Triple Smartphone Shipments in 2010

Released for AT&T , the Pantech Impact P7000 is a feature phone targeted at the texting crowd. Taking advantage of its unique side-flipping form factor, the Impact boasts a full QWERTY keyboard, a large internal display and an impressive external OLED touchpad for optimized text messaging, web browsing and other multimedia options

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Pantech Impact P7000 – Made for Quick Messengers and Social Networkers

OK If you read my previous Blog, then you may have guessed what we now do to keep the wolves from the door. Its that four letter word that has become a household name. Having spent the majority of money that we came back from France with on a very modest house – we had very little money to play with, but we felt a permanent residence was better than renting, at least the money we had would not quietly diminish

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As Time Goes By

Google announced an over-the-air software update for its Nexus One smartphone, bringing the much awaited multi-touch support, 3G improvement and some other enhanced software features to users. The lack of multi-touch functionality had been criticized as one of the weaknesses of the Nexus One

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Google Nexus One Gets Multi-touch and Software Updates

My Math Department is building a website with resources to help incoming (and existing) freshmen with some of the math skills that will help them be successful in high school mathematics. At this time, they are focusing on three areas: Fractions (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing) Integers (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing) Order of Operations We would really appreciate it if you would share websites (either explanatory or skills practice, or both) that you think are helpful for students in these areas. If you have a website you think would be really helpful that doesn’t fall into one of these areas, feel free to add that as well, as they hope to expand on this site in the future

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What Are Your Best Pre-Algebra Websites?

Did you know that when someone wants to visit India to attend a conference, the person has to : obtain Conference Visa from the Indian Mission concerned on production of either the invitation letter from the organiser, event clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs, administrative approval of the nodal ministry, political clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs or clearance from the State Government/UT concerned.

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Illiberal India

Are you interested in effective collaboration and communication practices to help you build a framework for change in your school or district? Then please join us for the 2010 TIE Colorado/ISTE Leadership Bootcamp . The physical event will be held prior to the ISTE 2010 conference in Denver on Saturday, June 26th from 8 AM – 5 PM at the Denver Hyatt Regency Hotel , with an additional gathering on Friday evening, June 25th from 5-7 PM.

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ISTE + TIE Leadership Bootcamp

With my stint in Houston a few days behind me, and a much needed vacation stretching out before me, all I’m left with are the few freelance jobs I’ve taken on to keep me busy.  So waking up early is….well, just an option.  I can meander from under my covers as early (or late) as I want, and while enjoying the benefits of my new found liberty, I wondered how the rest of Blog Catalog feels about waking up. The discussion topic this week was simply, “What’s the First Thing You Do When You Wake Up?”.  The responses came in a pretty wide variety.  Going pee first thing was a trending response, as was saying a quick prayer.  HaplessHermit even said he cries first thing in the morning.  But the most common answer seemed to be ignoring (or abusing) that good ole faithful alarm clock. Scenexg responded that he’ll “hit the snooze button 7 times” before he gets out of bed every morning.  Jaspuri chimed in that his alarm, which is an app on his mobile phone, won’t allow him to hit the snooze button until he’s solved a maze and a math puzzle!  My praises go out to Jaspuri for having more strength than I.  I punch my blackberry when it doesn’t open Google fast enough, I can only imagine what I’d do if it wouldn’t shut up at 5 AM

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The Rise-and-Shine Discussion

One of the problems with selling phone cards is that the phone card issuers (the companies that make the phone cards) still largely play the same games. They come out with a new phone card every month or so for each region of the world. When a new phone card is released the issuing company proclaims the new phone card as the best thing since sliced bread

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POSA – Alternative to physical phone cards

Latel you must have found a lot of comments on various blogs and voip forums about Muftphone, claiming to offer free 10 minutes or free 2 hours of international calls. On Free Pc to Phone calls too, many comments have been posted by some users about… This is only content summary.

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Muftpone Review : voip service does not work

Almost every week I get calls from my vendors telling me about their new phone cards for calling Africa, or their new phone cards for calling mexico or central america, philippines or somewhere in the world. I publish the image of the phone card here and also post the phone card poster. Most of the major phone cards companies have gotten into trouble over the past few years for advertising minutes that are not real

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Phone Card Comments Welcome

Anmol Sethy will do a talk on our work on testing, dating and monitoring exchange rate regimes at the R/Rmetrics Singapore Conference 2010 , including some recent progress on parallel computation.

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Talk at R/Rmetrics Singapore Conference 2010 on measurement of the exchange rate regime

Posted by Pablo Chavez, Managing Policy Counsel Last Tuesday we introduced Google Buzz , a new way to start conversations and share updates, links and more. In the days since we launched, we’ve heard a lot of feedback about how Buzz works. We’ve heard your concerns loud and clear, and we’ve already taken steps to address them

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Using your feedback to improve Buzz

Blue Nile Africa phone card has just been released this week as ATI’s newest Africa phone card for calling home to all places in Africa. The minutes advertised on the poster for calling home to Africa are guaranteed by ATI until March 10, 2010. Any phone card distributor or any store located within an African community should get the Blue Nile African phone card while they are fresh

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Blue Nile Africa phone card poster

Windows 7 had came up with many good features and GOD MODE is one of them What is GOD MODE : Its a virtual copy of control panel ,containing module which are in use and other 278 commands to control and manage your Windows 7 front and backend. How to enable the GOD MODE:- 1. Make a folder on the desktop

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Enable God Mode In Windows 7

The Samsung SGH-a657 is a rugged and well-balanced handset made for AT&T customers who have to constantly face harsh conditions. Built to withstand bumps, shock and elements like extreme temperature, solar radiation and humidity, the phone is a reliable companion that can help you get through a rough day. The SGH-a657 is all about durability instead of fashion

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Samsung SGH-a657 – Well-built for Tough Work Environments

The world’s largest phone maker Nokia decided to slash the prices on handsets across its portfolio by around 10 percent in late January, according to Reuters, just a few days after posting strong sales for its October-December quarter of 2009. The Finnish company does not provide exact pricing for specific models, but it is believed that the price cut will bring its smartphone models more in line with the mid-range offerings from its competitors, Samsung and Sony Ericsson . But even without reducing its handset prices, Nokia was able to deliver solid numbers for the previous three-month period

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Nokia Shaves its Phone Prices after Reporting Satisfactory Q4 Shipments

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Given how important broadband capability is to economic growth and job creation, it’s no surprise that it’s become a major topic of discussion in Washington. The FCC is currently finalizing its National Broadband Plan to present to Congress next month

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Experimenting with new ways to make broadband better, faster, and more available

Posted by Jamie Davidson, Associate Product Manager (cross-posted from the Official You-Tube Blog ) Diversity of content is one of the great things about YouTube. But we know that some of you want a more controlled experience. That’s why we’re announcing Safety Mode , an opt-in setting that helps screen out potentially objectionable content that you may prefer not to see or don’t want others in your family to stumble across while enjoying YouTube.

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Safety Mode: giving you more control on YouTube

Presented By Joanna Sutter, fitnessandspice Too many women die each year because they are unaware that heart disease is their #1 killer. One in three women suffers in silence, and almost one woman dies every minute of this largely preventable disease. Friday, February 12th is Blog Your Heart Out Day …a day when bloggers around the world can SPEAK UP about heart disease.

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Blogs with Heart: Going Public about Heart Disease

Those of you using MetroPCS Unlimited Calls Service in USA, are mostly satisfied with their service. However we received complaints from users that they can’t all specific Indian numbers. Our Reader, Kunal has sent some tricks to make all India numbers work again!.

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MetroPCS VOIP Service Review and How to Call Indian Numbers

Fraud call 'THIS IS NOT A BIG POINT OK!' says Martin Parker from Platinum Holiday Scam call 'THIS IS NOT A BIG POINT OK!' says Martin Parker from Platinum Holiday, when I asked him how he got my number!!! FOR FULL STORY VISIT sumod-sunny-joseph.blogspot.com ….His number is 'UNAVAILABLE' on the CID. This fraud caller uses a phony name of Martin Parker from a company called Platinum Holiday….on inquiring as to where he got our number from, he gets irritated and responds by saying 'This is not a big point ok!!!'…..Are you a victim?

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Fraud call ‘THIS IS NOT A BIG POINT OK!’ says Martin Parker from Platinum Holiday Scam call