French artist-physicist-inventor Louis Daguerre, widely credited for successfully capturing permanent photographs on a commercial scale lines a long list of inventors, artists, scientists that Google honours by showcasing their doodles on their search engine page.
His voice is now softer than before, making it difficult to deliver long monologues.
On his 100th birth anniversary M F Husain, one of the best known painters in modern and contemporary India, has been honoured with a Google Doodle.
Microsoft, the world's largest software company, is all set to launch its Internet search service from Thursday, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Google has placed a rainbow version of its logo on its search page, increasing pressure on President Vladimir Putin over Russia's 'gay propaganda' law at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
US-based search engine Google plans to launch a free telephone service that would link users via a broadband Internet connection using a headset and a home computer.
India's mutual fund (MF) industry had barely any retail footprint when it completed 50 years in 2013. MFs had Rs 7 trillion in assets under management (AUM) in March 2013, of which around Rs 5 trillion was in institution-focused debt funds. By comparison, bank deposits in the country stood at Rs 67.5 trillion around the same time.
Google's comments echo figures released recently by AT&T and O2, which carry the iPhone exclusively in the US and UK respectively.
Wojcicki, 54, said in her blog post that she will focus on "family, health, and personal projects I'm passionate about." Wojcicki, who was previously a senior vice president for ad products at Google, became CEO of YouTube in 2014.
The country has comparatively fewer Internet connections but is the second-largest mobile market in the world after China. And, the Internet is being increasingly accessed on mobiles. India and China together account for over 1.2 billion mobiles of the 4.6 billion global mobile users.
A key Google password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company's web services, including e-mail and business applications, was stolen when the search engine was hacked in an attack emanating from China, according to a media report.
The company, which has been acquiring mature companies across the world, is doing something different in India taking the angel investing route in an effort to tap ideas and talent pool.
Popular Internet search engine Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt and founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were offered a raise in their salaries, which they declined to accept saying they would continue taking the token amount of $1 annually.
Symantec said most of these fake accounts followed a specific pattern.
Microsoft, responding to the rights group's allegations, said a system fault had removed some search results for users outside China.
Here's the Google Zeitgeist list of the most sought-after cars in India. Seven cars from different car manufacturers top the list.
A dozen state-owned local research institute or mapping bureaus, obtained a class-A license from State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping.
The aim is a vast improvement in quality that would lead to a surge in demand for low-end Android phones
Net revenue has risen to $5.50 billion in the March quarter, compared with $5.18 billion in the same period a year ago. However, sequentially the net revenue saw a decline of 3 per cent, compared to $5.70 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, a first ever since Google went public in 2004. Google' total costs and expenses, which include research and development and sales and marketing, saw a drop of $14,409 million to $3.62 billion.
According to a web information company, Alexa, Google dominates the charts but Bing is already at 19th position with about 5 per cent of users from India accessing internet to visit Bing.
At 6,499, the VR headset offers a comfortable and immersive VR experience, but it could have done much better with more supported smartphones and apps.
Her project aims to clean waste water by flowing through different layers of corn cobs which is a cost-effective and simple technique of cleaning water.
The National Investigation Agency carried out searches at the premises of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, his NGO and a few associates for the third consecutive day on Monday, even as it blocked the website of outlawed Islamic Research Foundation founded by him.
While the government's recent moves may have been necessary in some cases, these would have an adverse impact on the investment cycles of some of these companies. The marquee global names are suddenly finding themselves out of favour as local flavour is gaining currency in the run up to 2019 elections.
Miss World 2024 will be crowned in India soon. Long before Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra, Yukta Mukhey and Diana Hayden, a beautiful woman from Bombay was crowned Miss World. In 1966. Reita Faria was India's first Miss World. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/ Rediff.com met the 80 year old in Dublin recently, still as elegant, still as attractive as she was all those years ago.
Security agencies are not too thrilled about the Election Commission's decision to share its data with interns from the United Nations
Modi said the aim was to turn India's villages into smart economic hubs and connect our farmers better to markets, making them less vulnerable to the whims of weather.
Many app makers have stopped work on their projects or abandoned them, mostly because of the lack of customers or limitations of the device.
Facebook and Google together accounted for over 66 per cent of the global mobile ad spending in 2013, that rose over two-fold to $17.96 billion, compared to 2012.
With faster broadband, you are going to see a new wave of entrepreneurship in India says Karim Temsamani.
Pichai will visit India accompanied by the heads of various Google business units
As a tribute on 67th Republic Day, search giant Google's doodle on Tuesday showed a march of a richly caparisoned camel contingent of the Border Security Force, a major attraction at the annual parade at the Rajpath on January 26.
Indian workforce prefers to work for companies operating in sectors like IT, followed by BFSI and retail & FMCG.
Tech giant Apple has stopped accepting payments via debit and credit cards in India. Apple has stopped accepting cards for subscriptions, and purchases using credit cards issued by banks in India. Apple will also not accept payments for ad campaigns on Apple Search using credit cards issued by Indian banks. All campaigns will be put on hold from June 1.
The state government had recommended the name of Justice S R Bannurmath as the next Lokayukta. However, the Governor sent the file back stating that he required clarifications on the same.
Here's how beginners can follow a very practical approach for finding stocks for long term investing and building a decent portfolio.
How many of the apps downloaded in India deliver the GPT technology they say they are?
'Everyone is sitting here peacefully, no one is talking about 'khoon-kharaba.' On Twitter, a lot of things happen, everything's twisted'
The court orally observed that the 'right to be forgotten' depends on how far it has to be stretched.
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