It feels rather strange that Google decided to retire the Google Labs section of their site which often showcased new Google services and features that at least sometimes were turned into full blown products at a later time. Strange because the end of Google Labs was not the end of Google experiments. One of the [...]

Categories: Google, Online Services, travelling geek

Traveling is a pure pleasure and in the present technology-driven world, traveling has become all the more easy, user friendly, and exciting. Unlike the old days, when traveling meant just packing clothes and leaving, today’s travel includes a lot more. Rare is the traveler who travels without the technological essentials of today: the iPod, the [...]

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Traveling is one thing that keeps you connected with the world: you explore new places, get to see, eat, and feel new things, meet new people, and a lot more. Everyone likes to travel, and the perfect journey cannot be complete without a few essential things which include a perfectly planned itinerary, your phone, bare [...]

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Since time immemorial, experimenting and technology have been a vital factor behind man’s progress. His thirst for knowledge has exposed the unheard secrets of the universe. Our home, earth has been left in no part to be explored by him. This thirst for knowledge made him travel intensively far and wide. Initially he tread on [...]

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There are many books and websites available on the net today that offer planned nature trips at the lowest possible prices, but for those with an independent streak who don’t want to carry a book everywhere with them, there are options too. . Wikitravel is one such website that is frequently visited by travel lovers [...]

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Traveling with technology requires a certain je ne sais quoi, that sense of something that the French sum up so well with a simple “I don’t know”. These days, it seems all of our travel is involved in some sort of high tech process, whether it is the jumbo jets navigation system or the toll [...]

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One of the hardest things about this time of the year is finding the right gifts for the people you love. Sure, it’s easy to buy a tie for the men and perfume for the women, but do you really want to go that route? A far better way is to think of the kinds [...]

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Did you notice that many governments who are very keen of introducing new electronic means of identification have virtually no idea of what they are actually introducing? They claim it will make identification easier, securer and thwart document forgery. But whenever they introduce new means of identification, they are usually ridiculed by security researchers who [...]

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I personally think this is outrageous. Border Agents in the United States can not only search your laptop, mobile phone or any other electronic device that you might be carrying while traveling to the United States; They can also download computer contents or keep it for further examination. There are no written rules yet on [...]

Categories: Security