Google ignores Bhutan's national dish

The ever-innovative geeks at Google have recently launched Recipe View, an advanced search service which helps find recipes on the web, with options to filter results by ingredients, caloric value and cook time. Pretty nifty - at least in theory. While the new service is able to find almost anything, from falafel to pavlova, it failed miserably when I searched for ema datsi. Too spicy?

Accelerating photo uploads (K2 #9)

Question of the Week
When I'm trying to upload a photo to Facebook, it takes a very long time. Sometimes it fails completely. What am I doing wrong?
-- Pema T., Thimphu

Protect your privacy online (K2 #8)

Question of the Week
My friend told me that any Facebook user can see my photos. Is this possible?
-- Rinchen Pem, P/Ling

Will we change our SMS habits?

The average teenager in the United States sends more than 100 (!) text messages a day. Voice calls in the U.S. are on the decline. Apparently, many Americans prefer texting to talking. Some sociologists assume different types of people prefer different types of communication, so the trend might reflect changes in the U.S. culture. Anyway, In Bhutan SMSing never really took off. In an effort to make text messages more attractive, Bhutan Telecom is reducing the price of a single SMS from Nu 1 to Nu 0.45 (B-Mobile to B-Mobile) and Nu 0.70 (B-Mobile to TashiCell). TashiCell is offering 50 free SMSs for Losar.

Will these promotions jump-start SMS in Bhutan (one of the more profitable streams of revenue for all telecom operators), or will Bhutanese keep refraining from SMS in favor of voice? Time will tell.