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D conference, 6th edition of digital Pandora's box! 2008-05-30 03:29:00 All things Digital is the yearly conference
of the tech world, hosted by Wall Street Journal and has been going on since 2003. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher shoot questions mercilessly at the opponent, be it the richest man on earth, Bill Gates, or his most innovative counterpart Steve Jobs.The D6 or the 6th edition, was held from 26th to 29th of May and was eagerly watched over by the Geeks. It Read more:Pandora
Review: G.ho.st OS...nothing haunting about it. 2008-06-01 22:58:00 Recently I came across a variety of online virtual desktops, which claim that they are Virtual Operating Systems and give you the ultimate experience across PCs. In fact, one of the early birds in this category was Desktoptwo. Desktoptwo came into limelight almost 2 years ago, and now we have a dozen more competitors which are fighting for the spot. At first I thought of comparing each of them, bu
New look to the my blog, thanking all my readers. 2008-06-05 07:33:00 For the past 1 month, I have taken my blogging very seriously and I am investing a lot of time into it as well. I am in turn being encouraged by increased traffic. My heart felt thanks to all the visitors. I felt the blog needed a makeover. So I have put on a new template and also bought the domain is only a beginning, I would keep on improving my blog, so that keep my visitors happy. And did I Read more:readers
Review: Ubuntu 8.04, a definite show stopper! 2008-06-04 14:23:00 As usual, as May approached, I went to the ubuntu portal to get my copy of new Hardy Heron, for the past 4 releases, this has been the modus operandi. I get my copy, try it out, explore the feature, be happy for some days, but it used to fade out soon, for some reason or so. Butby the time 7.10 released, I had got my laptop, and Ubuntu
refused to run on it. So I was away from the tux for quite a Read more:definite
Review: G.ho.st OS...nothing haunting about it. 2008-06-01 22:58:00 Recently I came across a variety of online virtual desktops, which claim that they are Virtual Operating Systems and give you the ultimate experience across PCs. In fact, one of the early birds in this category was Desktoptwo. Desktoptwo came into limelight almost 2 years ago, and now we have a dozen more competitors which are fighting for the spot. At first I thought of comparing each of them, bu
D conference, 6th edition of digital Pandora's box! 2008-05-30 03:29:00 All things Digital is the yearly conference
of the tech world, hosted by Wall Street Journal and has been going on since 2003. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher shoot questions mercilessly at the opponent, be it the richest man on earth, Bill Gates, or his most innovative counterpart Steve Jobs.The D6 or the 6th edition, was held from 26th to 29th of May and was eagerly watched over by the Geeks. It Read more:Pandora
Post Yahoo!, Cashback challenge from Live. 2008-05-23 23:36:00 Post Yahoo
! debacle ( I don't consider it a debacle though), Microsoft is working hard, it seems. Their creative brains are being squeezed to get innovative and useful ideas for the net. This time around I would try to cover some of the new innovations and improvisations by Microsoft.Live Search Cashback
How did Google own the web? Search engine and ads related to that. Yes, and this is what Micro
Merge your Identities over the web 2008-05-18 00:18:00 let me ask you a simple yet confusing question, how many identities you own in the internet? It would not be easy for most you to answer. The yahoo, Google, AOL, MSN, blogger and so on. There are many services over the internet, and each time you register for a service, you are adding another identity. Haven't you felt this is getting unmanageable over a course of time? At least some people felt i
Xobni, Nitroboost your Outlook! 2008-05-09 01:06:00 I was going through the unsuccessful takeover attempts by Microsoft in the recent times. Along with big guns like Facebook, Yahoo, etc I saw a lesser heard, weird name, Xobni. If you are wondering about the strange name, Xobni is inbox written backwards. But, except the name everything else about Xobni is clear and straightforward.Xobni is a plugin for the Microsoft Outlook
, which helps you organi
Yahoo! bid for Microsoft: spoof 2008-05-03 09:20:00 Here is a blog which gives you a funny view of the Microsoft
-Yahoo
! deal, in fact the spoof
is about Yahoo! bidding for Microsoft. Makes nice reading.Yahoo! to bid for Microsoft???Codevalley
Live Mesh, seamless sharing across devices. 2008-05-01 13:45:00 Think about this, you have a new business idea, and you create a rough plan from your home PC, then while travelling you refine the plan from your PDA and simultaneously your colleague also adds his ideas to the document and it instantly reflects in your versions. I am not presenting you my new idea, but this is what Microsoft presented in their latest Web 2.o conference, and they called it the Li
The iPhone, Tube and Windows Mobile 7 2008-04-14 02:15:00 iPhone started it all, but will it prevail at the end?Once upon a time, the cell phone was meant for calling and maybe SMSing as well. But, with the advent of the iPhone, the cell phone turned out to be a pocket PC, it could chat, mail, read your daily news feed, prepare your presentations and what not?I am not telling you cell phones did not have these feature until iPhone was launched, but iPhon Read more:iPhone
, Windows
, Mobile
, Windows Mobile
Sony Ericsson's Show stopper: Xperia 2008-03-23 04:55:00 Xperia, though not even out in market, has already gained many nicknames, like iPhone killer, show stopper, ultimate mobile experience are to just list some of them. For all those mortals who are still scratching their heads on what is this all about, Xperia is the new mobile phone from SonyEricsson
. A a company which was formed just over 7 years ago, is already making their presence felt in the Read more:Sony Ericsson
Digsby, the new IM cloud. 2008-03-23 00:14:00 People might have heard about twitter, it is a place where people can maintain an online, public diary. People could write whatever they want directly from the twitter portal or even through various IMs by adding twitter ID as buddy and sending them IMs. The service is really unique (and wierd, some may think), but nevertheless very popular. It even won the South by Southwest Interactive Festival
AMD out from Hibernation, but Intel never slept? 2008-03-19 01:30:00 By this April AMD
will roll out its long famed Barcelona Quad cores, onto the retail market. They were supposed to do this by the end of 2007 [read here], but unfortunately, some issues like Visualization problems and breakdown at high workloads kept them from going. But, now they have filled in new silica and are all set to challenge the blue chip maker. Barcelona is the code name for the new qua Read more:Intel
, slept
Google's android, the new mantra or a damp squib? 2007-12-22 03:41:00 There was a time when we would relate the term Google
with "web searching". Even the Oxford dictionary has added a verb "Googling" which means searching something online. But, since the, Google has grown too big. Their web presence virtually spread to all around the spectrum from banner ads, social networks, Video hosting and what not. But it seems, Google is not ready to stop with what they have.
Road "Vista to Vienna", begins from Mini Kernel... 2007-10-20 14:03:00 Sounds too cryptic? First of all my apologies for my absence for over 100 days, my life shifted gears as I am now a Software Engg. in Bosch. So was busy with the new seat.Anyway, let me unlock the riddle. Most of you know that Vista
is the latest buzzword in the desktop market (I agree it was a damp release). Now, the successor of Windows XP, took almost half a decade to hatch out, after a bunch r Read more:Vienna
Google search for Linux Desktop. 2007-07-08 06:24:00 The Google
desktop search was one of the first of its kind, when it was launched for Windows, even as its fighting the desktop space with the likes of MSN desktop search, Coppernicus etc, they have launched the same for the Linux
desktops. Not to forget that they had released the Desktop
search for Mac. This Linux search can help you find files from your system and even retreieve your GMail and ot
AMD trying to pull Transmeta out of woods? 2007-07-08 05:48:00 A few months ago, I had written about the AMD
- Raza deal,AMD selling off its Alchemy range to Raza and also stopping its Geode division, now it seems they did that to help Transmeta with their Crusoe and Efficeon family which where directly in contention with the formers' market. Now, they have gone a step further by granting a mammoth 7.5$ cash for preferred stock deal with Transmeta.Transmeta wa
Sony Ericcson to take over Motorola?? 2007-05-19 04:37:00 Motorola has one the oldest tradition when it comes to mobile phones.. Martin Cooper of Motorola is widely considered to be the inventor of the first practical mobile phone for handheld use in a non-vehicle setting. While, Sony
Ericsson is the new kid in the block, a company established only in 2001. But, it seems the kid is going to take over the big daddy of mobile phones. At least that is what Read more:Motorola
AMD's new desktop PHENOMenon 2007-05-15 23:50:00 AMD has said last month that Barcelona range of processors will get them their lost glory. Now, they have moved a step forward from dream to reality, as they announced that later this year they would be launching their new range of powerful desktop range of Quad Cores and Dual Cores named Phenom. Atleast the name looks appealing than the Core2 from Intel, for now. But we will have to wait and wat Read more:AMD
Microsoft annoyed with Linux 2007-05-15 23:30:00 Microsoft lawyer Brad Smith, in an interview with Fortune said that Open Source violates over 235 patents. It said the Linux
kernel itself violates around 42 Microsoft patents, while its UI and other elements around 65. The Open Office also violates 45, and 83 more by other Open source softwares. The allegations come as a surprise as Microsoft had lately signed a deal with Novell to work on bridgi Read more:Microsoft
Intel going for the kill?? 2007-05-05 10:47:00 Two weeks ago, at Bejing, Intel
revealed its new plans, which revolved mostly around a new chip, codenamed Larabee. which is actually dubbed as a processor for consumer devices, which uses an array of cores running in parallel to give trillion floating point instructions per second. The processor is also x86 compatible and hence easier to program, according to Intel. The processor would go public
e-mail eats Internet time, says Stanford 2007-04-12 11:09:00 Recently Stanford University had conducted a survey on Internet
and its usage patterns. It has revealed that around 90% of people use Internet for emailing primarily, followed by general information, and surfing. The survey finds that still E-mail rules the internet. It says the Internet today is a giant public library with a decidedly commercial tilt and the current Internet is also emerging as a
Google My Maps!! Simple mashups for everyone. 2007-04-05 02:45:00 The Google
maps service lately has introduced a new feature, the new My maps mashups lets you create your own version of My maps, where you can tag your favourite cafeteria, restaurant, hang outs and add your own descriptions, picture icons and labels to them. That too with a few drag and drops and cut-pastes. It is so simple that any person, with no coding experience can create his own mashups in Read more:Simple
, everyone
Apple all set to release torrent client : iPirate 2007-04-05 02:40:00 Well, the name might look a little bit out of the box, but the features of it are going to be awesome. The whole thing is still in alpha testing phase, but I managed to get a screen shot of it from the internet. The Mac OSX exclusive bit torrent client would include built-in private tracker search, Pirate Bay and Mininova RSS feeds, bandwidth limiting, automatic RIAA and MPAA detection to ensure y Read more:Apple
More Vista WoWs! 2007-04-05 01:54:00 Sorry, I meant woes. Vista
has been released under much hype and expectations and Microsoft had a very hefty campaign to get it to the mass, the "wow" being their advertising keyword. But, it has not been all that smooth for them with over a month and a half after Vista's release, it is still not on track.Animated cursor? I am afraid of it.Those who have been closely watching the Microsoft the ear
iPhone 2.0, double the performance, half the price. 2008-06-10 05:10:00 iPhone 3G or the iPhone 2.0 was revealed yesterday here by Steve Job and it has already been creating hype with so many diggs and search results for the same. I don't believe in rehashing information, but I thought I should let my readers know what is actually different in the new iPhone compared to its older sibling.The looksThe new iPhone looks little bit thicker but shapier compared to the ori Read more:iPhone
, double
, price
Let’s bury the iPhone, Omnia unfolds an era 2008-06-12 06:48:00 Samsung’s growth and rise as a mobile phone market major went unnoticed, until earlier this year when they surpassed Motorola to become the World's 2nd largest Mobile phone manufacturer. Lately Samsung has been putting a very strong and challenging competition even to the market leader Nokia. With constantly launching new handsets with rich features and presenting those with competitive prices Read more:iPhone
Yahoo! divorce’s Microsoft for Google. 2008-06-13 00:07:00 RecapIt looks pretty much like a prime time soap. For month’s Microsoft
had been negotiating and proposing to Yahoo
!, first came with a 31$ buyout offer, later raised it to 33$ trying to make ends meet. But finally Yahoo! pulled off. Again with the help of Icahnn, Microsoft tried to acquire the strategic search portion of Yahoo! The final talks happened on Thursday, and reportedly, Yahoo! were r Read more:divorce
, Google
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