India is different – a nightmare for a map maker. Google Maps now talks in the language of India. Read complete article.

At right around 10 pm PST Twitter was hacked and defaced. The site was offline for a while.
Via- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/

Google today launched a new, free DNS service—called Google Public DNS—aimed at making your web browsing experience even faster. Here’s how it works:
For those of you who are unfamiliar with DNS (and it’s cool if you are—as long as DNS is working, most people never need to know what’s going on), Google offers an explanation:
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This might surprise you, but Google has made their “fade-in” homepage variant – or more precisely, one of the several prototypes they were testing – their official homepage design now, as they announce at their blog. This is a major redesign for Google.com: at first when you see the page, you’ll only be looking at [...]