Washington, Feb 3 : Fascinated by the blue ocean, but don't know how to swim? Well, take heart, for Google has launched Ocean in Google Earth that allows users to navigate underwater in unprecedented clarity.
Ocean builds on the free, popular 3-D mapping software Google Earth, the company''s virtual Earth model.
With the help of the latest version of the Google Earth software, users can clearly see the oceanic mountain ranges, trenches and abyssal plains.
It might be a bit sad to know but the hard fact is that latest technology always takes over the old, making it completely extinct from the scene. In a similar fashion, rumors are spreading all around that the desktop computer might be killed if Google's service "GDrive" comes to the scene, which would let the users access their PCs from anywhere with just an Internet connection.
As of now, Google has not confirmed GDrive but it has been learnt that it might be launched this year. It is being seen as the most awaited product by Google so far.
In its latest report, a top internet marketing research firm comScore revealed that the global number of internet users has crossed nearly 1 billion mark during the last month (December 2008), with 41.3% coming from the Asia-Pacific region.
The comScore survey looked at Internet users aged above 15, who accessed the net from their home or work PCs during December 2008.
San Francisco - Google posted the first-ever decline in its quarterly earnings Thursday but still beat market expectations in the withering economic climate.
The web search giant said that it earned 382 million dollars, or 1.21 dollars per share, in the three months ending in December - a drop of 68 per cent from the same period in 2007. But the profit was hit by a 1.5-billion-dollar charge for write downs on investments like AOL and Clearwire and the cost of issuing new stock options to employees whose existing warrants were below the company's share price.
Jet Airways, the nation’s largest domestic carrier, has rolled out an affiliate marketing program in the market, as part of the company’s new digital marketing strategy to increase its revenue.
During the announcement, the company said that the program will be managed by Shoogloo Affiliate Marketing.
Under the program, the Jet Airways Affiliate Program provides Affiliate Partners with websites the opportunity to partner one of India’s leading brands, and generate revenues per conversion by promoting the airline’s web sales.