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Search engine major, google add 10 more languages in its language translation tool for the smooth and efficient flow of information. The newly added languages include Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.

By using google translation service, the users can translate web pages and text as well as perform cross-language searches between any two languages. The company has also added a “Detect Language” option, which helps the viewer to automatically identify the language of the text you’re trying to translate.

It really is a good news for Internet users around the world using translation services for their work and was not getting the language translation for their particular language, hope they will find their desired language in these added 10 languages.

WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is one of the few telecommunication technologies that will provide the users a fast way to access the Internet with their communication devices or laptops. For end users, this revolutionary technology means there will be new devices that will easily connect to the Internet.

WiMAX is based on the IEEE 802.16 standard and also known as WirelessMAN. In this technology, WiFi-like data rates are easily supported, but the issue of interference is lessened. It operates on both licensed and non-licensed frequencies, providing a regulated environment and viable economic model for wireless carriers.

Recently US leading wireless broadband internet and phone service providers Clearwire and Sprint Nextel tie up their hands to develop a high-speed mobile network based this kind of technology. The companies are planning to launched their WiMax network launched by the end of this year and covers approximately 10 to 15 million people in the United States.

Search engine giant Google Inc. (GOOG) aims to work with International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and its associates to sell its desktop applications to large business houses.

Addressing to a congregation of IBM’s key industry partners in Los Angeles,  Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said that this partnership would be a “key plank” of a strategy to popularise IBM’s desktop applications among the business customers.

Google has already announced its partnership with Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM), a leader in designing Web-based applications for sales executives, for distributing Google’s desktop products, including word processing and spreadsheet tools, to its customers.

Mr. Schmidt further adds that this partnership with IBM will definetely benefits google in reaching its target audiences. Currently some IBM applications are already embedded with Google technology.

The recent development in the business strategy of the search engine giant reflects the shifting of its business model and generating revenue from its desktop products, besides Internet search advertising.

Lat year, Google and IBM,  launched an alliance focusing on making so-called ” cloud computing” available to college faculty members and students. Cloud computing, a new term which gained importance in 2007, used to describe computing that is made generally available on a publicly available IP basis (i.e. the Internet) — “in the cloud”. (Agencies)

In today’s digital age of digital camera having higher mega pixels capacity and other advanced fuction such a video recording, etc. one don’t even think of having an old model of film reel camera and wait long for the development of the reel to see the taken pictures through camera. As the prices of digital cameras of some good companies are not too high, people from world are enjoying them and this is the reason why photo sharing sites like flickr are getting more popular and people from world are more interested to share their best capture moments with others.

The next stage is, Online Printing, getting the prints of your best captured pictures, shutterfly, kodakgallery, etc. are the sites which people are using online to have prints of their digital images, now you can forget those to go to the nearest photo studio to order prints, and go there again to collect them.

Online Printing in India is also getting more popular these days as lots of websites offering online printing services from India at low cost. Not only the Regular Prints of the Pictures some of these sites are also offering Photo Calendars, Photo Mugs, Photo T-Shirts, Photo Mousepads, Collage Posters, Photo Greeting Cards, etc. Photo Sharing and Online Photo Printing Services can be the next big boom in Indian online market.

Some websites offering these services in India includes:

Picsquare : Banglore based Picsquare is the brainchild of two motivated young engineers: Manish Agrawal and Kartik Jain. At, Picsquare you can upload, view, share and order high quality prints of the digital photographs online. Create your own personalized photo gifts such as calendars, cards, mugs and T-shirts and get them printed and delivered to your loved ones, conveniently.

Prices for Sizes 4 x 6″ Rs. 2.99 (INR)
Shipping Prices for 1 to 50 Prints Rs. 36.0 (INR)
Tax: Appropriate sales tax will be applied to all orders.

itasveer : It has been in operation since April 2006 and was set up by four IIT Delhi alumni. Here you can upload & share photos, order professionally developed digital photo prints in India. The exciting feature is the Doodlepad, you can use it to design something cool online and make great products like T-Shirts, Mugs, Collages and more to send them for prints. PC World Magazine in their May 2007 issue have adjudged itasveer as the Best Indian Website in the category Photo Printing.

Prices for Sizes 4 x 6″ Rs. 2.90 (INR)
Shipping Prices for 1 to 50 Prints Rs. 30.0 (INR)
Tax: Service tax or VAT will be charged as applicable.

Printcamp : Chennai based Print Camp is a subsidiary of IRS Soft (International Research and Software Pvt. Ltd.) – a brainchild of eminent entrepreneurs. It is an online photo camp that delivers high-quality digital photo prints of your cherished memories, to your near and dear. You can order Photo Prints, Photo Mugs, Photo T-Shirts, Photo Calendars.

Prices for Sizes 4 x 6″ Rs. 5.00 (INR) (from 1-40 Prints)
Shipping Prices for 1 to 50 Prints Rs. 35.0 (INR)

Rangeelaphotos : Based in Maryland, USA, Rangeela Photos is an online photo printing and sharing service and is the most trusted way to send photos to India. The main target of this site is NRI’s who wish to send photos to their loved ones in India.

Prices for Sizes 4 x 6″ $0.10 (Prices for prints delivered in India)
Prices for Sizes 4 x 6″ $0.22 (Prices for prints delivered in USA )
Shipping Prices $1.49 any number of prints (Prices for prints delivered in India)
Shipping Prices $1.49 (0-25 prints) For each additional 25 prints $1.00 (Prices for prints delivered in USA)

Merasnap : Bangalore based MeraSnap is a subsidiary of Knowledgeworkz Consulting, an information management company. MeraSnap’s services are targetted to the digital camera users who would also like their family members in India to enjoy the photographs, in a printed form.

Prices for Sizes 4 x 6″ Rs. 4.40 (INR)
Shipping Prices for 1 to 50 Prints Rs. 35.0 (INR)

Snapgalaxy : Online Photo Sharing and Printing site SnapGalaxy has offices both in India (Vadodara) and USA. You can order prints to USA and India. The site facilitates users to create personalized items such as mugs, photo gifts, photo books, cards, DVDs, frames, calendars and much more. It provides user a choice to choose from different size prints alongwith paper type - glossy or matte.

Prices for Sizes 4 x 6″ Rs. 6 (INR)
Shipping Prices for 1 to 50 Prints Rs. 35.0 (INR) - Rs.15 for each additional 25 prints

Photomasti : Banglore based PhotoMasti an online digital photo printing website is the brainchild of Alok Jain (28) who is MBA from a premier business school in India.

Prices for Sizes 4 x 6″ $0.19
Shipping Prices $0.99 Anywhere in India.

All these sites are working on the improvement of Online Printing Services in India and are getting success in their goal.

As Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers to display relevant Google ads in forms of text and images (banners) on their website’s to earn money, Google now introduced the newest member of the AdSense ad family i.e. click-to-play video ads. Although it is not very much clear how much money website publishers will make from these video ads, but as google introduced, it will defenately increase revenue potential for publishers.

Google Video ads are dedicated to show a whole new type of video advertising that is relevent to publishers website users same like the other text and banner ads of google. Website Owners can place google video ads in various ad formats that support video ads such as : 300X250 medium rectangle, 336×280 Large Rectangle or 250×250 Square.

So publisher using google adsense as text and banner images can also go for the very new and exciting google video ads to increase their revenue share. In order to qualify, publishers also have to be based in the United States and have English language sites.