Top tech usage ranking – Sweden beats U.S

United states dropped down one place from the top tech usage ranking. Then the question comes,  who the top rated one is? That is none other than Sweden. Sweden is toped the rating list by beating up U.S in the usage of telecommunication technologies like cell phones, networks, computer usage and gadgets.

In the last year’s survey Sweden is placed second next to U.S, rated the top.

This report is announced this Thursday.

"Sweden not only has the best current mix of attributes, but it also shows few signs of losing its lead," said Waverman.

Ratings for top 10 "Innovation Driven Economies" measured in the study, from scale 1-10 are as follows :
1. Sweden 7.95
2 .United States 7.77
3 .Norway 7.74
4 .Denmark 7.54
5 .Netherlands 7.52
6 .Finland 7.26
7 .Australia 7.04
8 .United Kingdom 7.03
9 .Canada 7.02
10. Japan 6.73

Google Buzz – A new social network launched by Google

After the popular social networks like facebook and twitter doing well in the web content and picture sharing . It’s now Google’s step into the social network, which is called Google Buzz. This is launched yesterday. Google has just started rolling out his new social network. Its is said to be rolled out in few weeks.

Google Buzz is integrated with Gmail, hence all the Gmail account holders can access this easily for sharing their interests, pictures, mails and some more with this new social network option. If you have friends contact list in Gmail; you can get in touch with them easily and share your thoughts. It also has options to import all the contacts from facebook and twitter.

Google Buzz will be having all the missing features of facebook and twitter.Google also launched mobile phone applications to use Buzz in Apple's iPhone and in smartphones powered by its own Android OS.

As this is not a new idea or initiative work by Google. There are quite a lot of social networks available already. But it is a very special and must watchable one, because Google is the name behind this and they are capable of giving out their products as their best with lot more new features.

Read the complete story in Google’s official blog

Did you check you Gmail account for Google Buzz?  How it looks ?

McGraw-Hill punished by Apple for leaking iPad info on CNBC

On Tuesday McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw told about the new release of Apple Tablet. In the interview Terry was asked on the publishing exec about the new Apple Tablet. He breaks the suspense, he told the viewers that there is going to a ipod launch on Wednesday it will be using iphone OS and it will be transferable and cost around %500. He also adds “So what you are going to be able to do now is we have a consortium of e-books and we have 95% of all our materials that are in e-book format the tablet is going to be just really terrific”.

Steve will keep things quiet until the official announcement. So the Apple’s CEO punished McGraw-Hill by removing the logo of McGraw-Hill.

This is the slid that shows five companies name, but in this McGraw-Hill was also present until Terry McGraw told every thing in the interview about the new launch from Apple.