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Shanky Baba

Shanky Baba has written 235 posts for BAWAAL!

Twitter founder Jack launches revolutionary mobile payment solution – Square

Consider these scenarios below and then you will realize how “Square” will change the way a common person will use cash in future. Ever had a problem in selling your stuff because your customer didn’t had the cash? Craigslist sellers will agree with me. Ever won a bet but the loser gets away because he/she [...]

Webby’s – The Ten Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade

Here is the Webby’s top ten most influential internet moment of the decade (2000-2009): Craigslist (2000): In 2000, the free classifieds site broadened its reach outside of San Francisco into nine additional U.S. cities. Today Craigslist serves free listings in more than 500 cities in 50 countries, serving as a model for no-frills business and [...]

Black Friday 2009 Deals – Download the Excel Spreadsheet

Having  an excel spreadsheet which compiles all the deals across all the major stores is definitely very handy and is most useful thing you can have when you are looking for the best deals. From last few years I have seen quite a few versions of excel spreadsheet floating around the web and for our [...]

Google Chrome OS (now Open Source) – It is all about Web, Security & Speed!

The simplicity of Google Chrome is somewhat scary! Well, time will tell if the minimalistic approach taken by Google actually pays off in longer run. Though I believe it is a brave out-of-box thinking done by Google and they need to be commended to bring out a new model of Operating System. On 19th Nov [...]

Preview: The Lost JFK Tapes – Kennedy’s assassination

Watch: The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination, airing on November 23 at 9 PM ET/PT on National Geographic Channel. For over 45 years, news footage and radio reports of Kennedy’s assassination and the days following have quietly languished in Dallas – first kept under wraps by the news stations who owned them, then in the [...]

Another product from Google Labs: Now explore images with Google Image Swirl

Google today launched an experimental feature in Labs called Google Image Swirl, which builds on new computer vision research to cluster similar images into representative groups in a fun, exploratory interface. Once you find the group of images you’re interested in, you can click on the thumbnail and a cluster of images will “swirl” into [...]

Man steals bus and posts the video on YouTube – Now video is evidence against him in court!

In an interesting piece of news, a man steal a bus and then video tapes his adventure and then upload the video to YouTube. The same video has now been used as an evidence against him in the court. According to WCAX, “Thirty-eight-year-old Jacob Rehm of Morrisville was arrested for allegedly taking the $500,000 bus [...]

Microsoft Tweets – Google exec: Don’t quit Microsoft Office for Google Docs

Microsoft happily Tweeted the link to a blog which quotes a Google executive admitting that Google Docs simply isn’t good enough yet for prime time. “We wouldn’t ask people to get rid of Microsoft Office and use Google Docs because it is not mature yet,” Dave Girouard, president of Google’s enterprise division recently admitted. He [...]

Please stop this Dolphin slaughter in Faroe Island, Denmark

Every year in Faroe island, Denmark the sea is stained in red, and it’s not because of the climate effects of nature. It’s because of the humans killing hundreds of the famous and intelligent Calderon dolphins. In this slaughter the main participants are young teens. WHY? To show that they are adults and mature! In [...]

Google Movies: Now you can search showtimes and location for movies in Google

Today Google announced that they’re making a few improvements to movie results on Google, including more detailed movie pages, genre filters and a new map view. Now you can immediately discover movie times and locations by typing a simple search on Google? For example, search for [where the wild things are] and you’ll see times [...]

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