Google appears to have conceded defeat to the iPhone in the mobile devices hardware market with its decision to stop selling its Nexus One phones. Less than a year ago, Google had announced its entry into the mobile devices hardware market with its launch of Nexus One. Right after the launch they used their muscle [...]
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Google gives 68% to AdSense Publishers
May 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · General News, Online Advertising
Google disclosed today for the first time in their history, the percentage of advertisement amount that they pay out to the publishers via their AdSense platform. AdSense along with AdWords is the primary revenue generating engine for Google. All these days, the publishers on AdSense network had no clue about the percentage of cut that [...]
OpenX 2.8.5 Download Ready?
March 18th, 2010 · Comments Off · Auro News, General News, Online Advertising
As announced earlier, we have been using OpenX as our advertising engine and we are quite happy with its performance, despite the limitations we have found in the product. An interesting thing happened last week. We realized that Openx 2.8.5 is available for download, though there was no official announcement about it. The home page [...]
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AdSense Certified Ad Networks?
March 18th, 2010 · Comments Off · General News, Online Advertising
Google AdSense has now made a significant enhancement by allowing publishers to show ads from other Ad Networks who have been certified by Google. These ads currently are only for image ads and appear to be only for CPM based ads (We are yet to verify this). Adsense does give the publishers the ability to [...]
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Apple launches iPad
February 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · General News
Apple’s Steve Jobs has launched iPad, Apple’s version of the tablet, which has a very sleek design – as usually expected from Apple after their successful launch of iPod, iPhone, iMac and iTouch. iPad is just half an inch in thickness and weights just 1.5 pounds. It has a 9.7 inch touch screen interface and [...]
Google Launches Nexus One
February 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · General News
Nexus One is the latest phone device from Google, which is being called by many as iPhone Killer. The Nexus One phone has a few good features such as a very sleek design with a 3.7 inch screen supporting a resolution of 800 by 480. With the weight just at 130gms, this phone is slightly [...]
Thank You and Happy New Year
February 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Auro News, Auro Team, General News
As we come to the end of year 2009, on behalf of the team at Auro Infotech, I want to thank all our clients for providing us an opportunity to serve you. We take this time to thank you with sincerity. Without each one of you, we would not be where we are today. We [...]
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WordPress 2.9 CARMEN version released
February 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Auro News, General News, Open Source, Social Networking
WordPress announced the release of version 2.9 which is code named CARMEN after the jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. Besides the hundreds of code improvements they have made (a full list is available on the WordPress website, the following are some of the key enhancements handled in WordPress 2.9 Carmen release: – Upgrade all plugins at [...]
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Squareup – Site to watch
February 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · eCommerce, General News, Website Recommendations
Square up is a new website that has been launched by one of the founders of Twitter. This site is gaining a lot of public attention, not only for its high profile founder, but also for the fact that it satisfies a need in the market today. Squareup allows payments to be accepted from mobile [...]
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Horde Mail issue with Internet Explorer 8
October 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Auro News, General News, Web Hosting
We identified that there is some known issue in horde when it is used in Internet Explorer -8.0. When we browse horde in IE8, the left menu panel doesn’t work and it keeps on refreshing the page when clicking on it. We got this back to the cpanel team and here is there response. “This [...]
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