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71%  of Tweets generates zero replies or retweets

71% of Tweets generates zero replies or retweets

For all the people who thought that you are getting heard and noticed by your twitter followers have got this wrong. Findings from a research from social-analytics company Sysomos reveals that  tweets have fleeting value over the course of a day. After analyzing over 1.2 billion tweets, the Sysomos team found that only 29% of tweets actually produce a reaction – a reply or a retweet. According [...]
Gmail to introduce non-threaded, chronologically ordered emails

Gmail to introduce non-threaded, chronologically ordered emails

I loved Gmail and everything about it, except the disability to view each individual message in chronological order, reportedly that is going to change.  Google is set to  announce the functionality to disable Gmail’s conversation view e-mail threading feature, conversation view has been one of its most hotly debated features since Gmail’s launch. Google is apparently trying to woo corporate [...]
Twitter retiring @EarlyBird Deals

Twitter retiring @EarlyBird Deals

Twitter’s COO, Dick Costolo announced that Twitter would be retiring its Early Bird advertising product, which partnered with retailers and e-commerce companies to offer discounted deals to Twitter users. “We had tremendous early success with it,” Costolo said, citing deals with Virgin America and Disney. “But it needs to be reworked or rethought.” Most of the deals offered were [...]
Comparing iPad, PlayBook, Galaxy Tab and Streak

Comparing iPad, PlayBook, Galaxy Tab and Streak

Apple reinvented the Tablet computing landscape with its Tablet iPad, competition soon followed with Dell launching Streak, Samsung  joined the fray with Galaxy Tab, Blackberry became the latest entrant with its PlayBook tablet launched earlier this week. We bring you a feature comparison of these four models BlackBerry PlayBook Apple iPad Samsung Galaxy Tab Dell Streak Screen size 7 [...]
TechCrunch Disrupt on uStream

TechCrunch Disrupt on uStream

If you’re bored and want to watch something fascinating, check out the TechCruch Disrupt event. TechCrunch incidentally just merged (acquired) by AOL.
Nokia N8 To Launch Next Month

Nokia N8 To Launch Next Month

Nokia N8 is all about entertainment. You can browse the whole web and watch flash videos online, store your favourite HD movies on the 16GB internal memory or on a microSD card (up to 32GB), and even enjoy on-demand Web TV, on your mobile phone! The exclusively customised BBC iPlayer app lets you catch up on your favourite BBC shows, and you can access TV channels online, from CNN to Paramount, and [...]
Kindle for the Web

Kindle for the Web

Amazon has announced ‘Kindle for the Web’ beta, which allows book samples and snippets to be read directly from a web browser without any Kindle software. Customers simply click the “Read first chapter FREE” button on a book product page on Amazon or on other websites, and the first chapter will open within the web page. Customers can change the font size and line spacing, [...]
Amazon to Launch Kindle App for New BlackBerry PlayBook

Amazon to Launch Kindle App for New BlackBerry PlayBook

Amazon has announced a  Kindle App for the new BlackBerry PlayBook which was announced yesterday. Amazon already has a Kindle app for BlackBerry, so it’s not surprising that it announced an app for BlackBerry Tablet. “When you buy a Kindle book, you can already read it on iPhone, iPad, Android, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and of course on your Kindle, Kindle 3G, and Kindle DX,” said Dorothy [...]
Online Retailers to Offer Facebook Credits as Shopping Incentives

Online Retailers to Offer Facebook Credits as Shopping Incentives

If you are a regular user of Facebook Credit, soon you may not have to spend as much as you are normally do, thanks to e-tailers(online retailers) , who could offer the credits as shopping incentives. Ifeelgoods, an e-commerce promotions provider for online retailers, has integrated Facebook Credits into the online shopping experience, by which its e-tailer  clients can use the credits to incentivize [...]
BlackBerry announces PlayBook Tablet

BlackBerry announces PlayBook Tablet

At the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco yesterday , Research In Motion’s CEO Mike Lazaridis announced the company’s new tablet named PlayBook. The Tablet PC will hit US stores early next year and  with rollouts after April  in the rest of the world. The PlayBook will run on  an OS created by the recently acquired QNX, it will be called BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK, the mobile [...]
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