The search engine giant and the world’s most popular search engine, Google has gifted PoK (Pakistan occupied Kashmir) to Pakistan once again. ‘Google Insights for Search’, is a tool which shows search volume patterns, has shown a map which excludes India with PoK missing from it.

A reputed newspaper has discussed this issue with Google India and they have received a mail regarding this by a Google India spokesperson saying that, they are looking into the matter and will alert the relevant product group for further action.

This is not the first time that Google has jumbled up with the map of India Product Manager of a leading website said, “A few months ago Google Analytics, tool to check statistics for websites, showed a similar map of India with PoK marked in Pakistan’s territory,”

In the past Pakistan is not the only area over which Google’s maps have caused disputes. A year ago, Google Maps showed parts of Arunachal Pradesh marked in Mandarin instead Hindi or English, which looked like as if they were the part of China.

Google Map is deviation of Maps which is published by the Survey of India. An official of Survey of India from Dehradun said in a statement, “No changes have been made in the Map of India since 1947. On the internet, if there is any site which with a different image of the map of India, and it is brought to our notice. Strict action against guilty will be taken.”

Software giant Microsoft on Thursday afternoon sent invitations for the launch of Internet Explorer 9 beta. The company has fixed September 15^th for the launch of IE9 in San Francisco. The invitation sent out to the event is called “Beauty of the Web”.

Previously Microsoft have disclosed that IE9 beta would be released in September this year.

The IE9 developers have focused on two main objectives of speed and standards support. So IE9 takes the advantage of graphics hardware acceleration using the Direct X version which is present in Windows Vista and Windows 7. So Windows XP users can’t take the benefits and advantage of  the new latest faster browser from Microsoft.

IE9 will be compliant with the upcoming latest web standards that support HTML5, SVG, and CSS3. Speculation spread that the latest browser may have Google Chrome like “tab on top”. One another idea came up that the new IE9 can have user interface which may resemble to Zune/Windows Phone 7 “Metro” look.

Let’s see how the latest browser will perform in the market and will tech pundits pass it as “the most fastest browser till date”. IE9 will have direct competition by rival ‘Google Chrome’, ‘Firefox’, Netscape Navigator’ etc.

The 1^st ODI between India vs New Zealand is being played today in Dambulla and New Zealand have finished their innings and have made 288 runs. This tri-series in Sri Lanka is being played between India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand. India and New Zealand haven’t played with each other for a quit some time. Last time the two side faced each other in ODI was in the Compaq Cup.

In this India vs New Zealand match both the teams are not up to their level as key players are missing from both the side.

Today’s match is crucial from India’s point of view also because if India loses today they can be dropped to No. 6 in ICC ODI Ranking.

Talking about today’s match New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat first on the pitch which is helpful for pace attack at Dambulla.

New Zealand has scored 288 runs and was all out in 48.5 overs. Scott Styris and Ross Taylor were top scorers with 89 and 95 runs respectively.

To watch live streaming, scorecard, live score of India vs New Zealand match visit allcric.info. To watch live commentary of the match visit cricinfo.com. 

July 13: Intel Corp. reports its largest quarterly net income in a decade as the chip maker benefits from a stronger computer market and more sophisticated factories.

July 15: Search Engine Google Inc.’s earnings misses the targeted profit. The letdown stems from Google’s expanding payroll and a run-up in the U.S. dollar that has been driven by fears that the euro will crumble if governments in Europe default on their perilously high debts.

July 19: IBM Corp. beats earnings expectations in the second quarter and raises its guidance for the year, but reports revenue rising only 2 percent, falling short of Wall Street’s estimates. IBM says currency changes hurt revenue.

July 20: Yahoo Inc. reports lackluster revenue growth, overshadowing a surge in net income. The company says the second quarter looked fairly strong until June when several large advertisers suddenly reduced their spending.

Apple Inc. says net income in the latest quarter rose 78 percent, thanks to sales of its iPhone and the new iPad tablet computer. And unlike many other technology companies, Apple also saw strong revenue — up 61 percent in the quarter.

July 22: Microsoft Corp. says its net income surged in the most recent quarter, the latest sign that businesses are again spending on technology. Strong sales of Windows, particularly to Microsoft’s corporate customers, and of Office 2010 helped boost results.

Amazon.com Inc. says net income jumped, bolstered by shoppers who spent more with the online retailer even as consumer confidence fell overall.

Among these technology companies earnings status more are coming soon like Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp.

There are still some questions and web searches that can’t handles and answered by Google. When we search query like a famous person’s birthday or other type of search then Google provides lot of different links.

Like we take a example that when we search keyword “Boston” then Google provides all top links for the city in Massachusetts but actually Boston is also name of the Band and other 26 cities across the world.

So Google has been buy Metaweb website to improve tricky keywords search on the web. Google will maintain the Metaweb site freebase, database.

Metaweb helps web sites link information based on connections between people, places and things, instead of words. Web sites can tap into and use Metaweb’s technology.

Metaweb gets information or database from all over the world which is called freebase. Metaweb volunteers already have been entered 12 million things on this site including movies, books and companies information.