Microsoft giving free lappies to Bloggers

  http://scobleizer.com/2006/12/26/microsoft-sending-free-computers-to-bloggers/ Microsoft AMD and Acer are giving free laptop to the blogger for the review of their new operating system.... I dont know what the heck is wrong with the people crying about their promotion of their products... I...

Trip to SATNA

collage.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x640 pixels) Pics taken on the way to the Satna for attending the marriage of Ashish.... Check out the following link for the pics http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/talksandy/AshishSMarriage http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/flying.death/AshishSMarriage...

Love Letter (Funny)

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Microsoft opens up to Open Source

Ray Noorda died last month. A legend in the software business, Noorda came on board with Novell in 1983 and turned the company into a powerhouse in corporate networks. His arch-nemesis, of course, was Microsoft which he tried to crush with his own Office suite. But as we know, Bill Gates prevailed....

Google released Writley/SpereadSheet as Google Docs.

[Quote= Copied from Wall Street journal] Just as Microsoft Corp. is about to roll out the latest version of its cash-cow Office applications, Google Inc. is beefing up efforts that could win away some of the customers Microsoft is targeting. Google's latest move, expected to be announced...

Orkut in trouble over "I hate India" community

Google’s online community web site Orkut has run into trouble for “spreading hatred against the country”. The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court, comprising Justice AP Deshpande and Justice RM Borde, issued notice to Google last week following a public interest litigation initiated by 22-year-old...

Google acquired YouTube

[Courtsey: Wall Street Journal] With its $1.65 billion agreement to acquire YouTube Inc., Google Inc. may be able to broaden its online-advertising business and boost its video offerings to meet the rapidly changing viewing habits of consumers. The all-stock purchase announced...

Foul play: Your Google Video will play on any player but Windows Media Player

Google Video as you know lets you download the video to your system. So the file downloaded(*.gvb) is not the video file but the URl locator to the actual media file which Google Player (VLC) use to download the actual *.gvi ( actually avi ) file. This file you can play on any system any media player...

Top Business schools

Michigan has retaken the top spot this year. But the winner's circle also includes two newcomers. Reference : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115860376846766495.html Download the complete ranking from WSJ.http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/MB_06_Scoreboard.pdf   [Quoted from Wall...

Bachelor

  It seems so dreadful to stay a bachelor, to become an old man struggling to keep one's dignity while begging for an invitation whenever one wants to spend an evening in company, to lie ill gazing for weeks into an empty room from the corner where one's bed is, always having to say good night...

Live Search engine can do math for you

So http://www.live.com has a math engine working behind the scene. Give it a BODMAS equation and you have the answer. Give it a try... type 25 * 5 + 45 / 78 - x + 9.2 = 56.7769231 on ur favorite search engine... http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=25+*+5+%2B+4... and find out the answer where...

No more youtube Just msn SoapBox

Microsoft launched a new service called SoapBox to compete with video uploading service like youtube and Google Video. So be ready with your cameras to shoot the video and upload it to the SoapBox...

Wearing hemets 'more dangerous'

Cyclists who wear protective helmets are more likely to be knocked down by passing vehicles, new research from Bath University suggests. The study found drivers tend to pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than those who are bare-headed. Dr Ian Walker was struck...

Pirate in jail

The owner of one the US's largest Internet software piracy Web sites www.iiBackups.net was sentenced yesterday to more than seven years in prison. Story (Reference) : http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0911/piracy_ap.ht... Nathan Peterson, 27, of Los Angeles, sold products copyrighted by companies such...

Microsoft IDC celebrated its 8th Anniversary on 19th August 2006

On Saturday,19th August we all at MS IDC were Rocking over the beats of Euphoria. We celebrated 8th anniversary of Microsoft India Development Center. Organized @ International convention center, Hitex, Hyderabad it was a spacial occasion for all of us to celebrate as the IDC has been expanded to the the...

Where will you host your project ? SourceForge or Google Or Microsoft

Seems like everyone wants to host the open source projects. SourceForge is no doubt one of the biggest and oldest host of open source softwares. Google and Microsoft are also following the trend with the launch of CodePlex from Microsoft and Google Code. Just a thought if they could ever...

Planet is no more undefined. We've 12 of them now

There never was a formal definition of Word "Planet" in the astorology books so IAU decided to fill the void and came up with the proposal that increases the tally of planets in our Solar System to a dozen.. This is what International Astronomical Union defined what is...

I love this companyI Love this company. See the enthu of the guy..You know who he is...

Microsoft Re-Designs the Ipod PackagingFunny video ...

Krrish caught the attention of western blogs

One of the most viewed blog talks about a blollywood movie Krrish in their blog. This is a huge success to the bollyowood. I still didn't get a chance to see the movie, but I still dont think that it should be anyway comparable to the hollywood's productions. Read more atthe NYT.com...

Orkut is down

Orkut is down tonight............

Duet Release

Ah!Finally we released something..........

Old memories

old_tehri_ Originally uploaded by Neeraj Rawat. This is the place where we use to go some weeke...

Reservation Issue

On the burning issue of reservation someone came up with the following idea.I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let's start the reservation with our cricket team.We should have 10 percent reservation for Muslims....

Evil vs. Good cont.

Something from the blog post of Brian Krebs from Washington PostIn the following snippet from an online conversation Reshef had with a sponsor known as "ATM," the spam operator reluctantly acknowledges that scrubbing his lists of Blue Security users' addresses is the most expedient solution. ATM: We...

Evil vs. Good : Evil won the war this time

A company that was protecting its customer from spammers by spamming them and making a denial of service attack has been thrown in the towel following a massive attack by a Russian spam organization. Here is the story from Washinton post .Eran Reshef had an idea in the battle against spam e-mail that...

Symantec sues Microsoft

Surfing round the net I found this information.SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Symantec Corp. sued software rival Microsoft Corp. on Thursday, accusing it of misappropriating trade secrets to develop its own competing features and products, including the next version of Windows.The lawsuit filed in federal...

Word 2007 includes blogging support.

It’s a great feature that I’m trying to test from within Word 2007. Now I don’t need to go to the blogging portal or use some other blogging tool. I can just write/edit in the word and click publish. Wow Cool product. Kudos to Word team they have done a nice job. It has a cool look some big icons I’m...

Rediff.com Still sending the clear text password to the server

I was just testing if rediff.com still sends the passwords in clear text. I found that out once in my college days while sniffing the college network. I thought that they might have patched it so today while playing around with gmail's I thought to give Rediff.com a try And see what I found. This is...

Some Microsoft ADs

Hope you enjoy these Microsoft AdvertismentsThis is the banned ad of Microsoft Office One more ad of XBox 360...

Google afraid of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta (IE7B)

Google is afraid of Microsoft in the long run for search engine champion trophy. As published in a article in the NYTimes Google started lobbying in the Washitongton against MSFT for removing MSN as default search engine provider in the IE7. I dont why they forgot to remove Google as default seach engine...

Amazon finds Live.com better than google.com search

Amazon.com choose Microsoft's Live.com search engine over Google.The Amazon division's chief, David Tennenhouse, said Google search was removed from the site at the weekend after the contract expired. But Microsoft still has a long way to go to challenge market leader Google and smaller rival Yahoo.Read...

Google earning money from your typos

You never knew that just a typo can get some money to Google. Read the news at WashingtonPost.comLink: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/29/AR2006042900279.html[Snip]Google Inc., which runs the largest ad network on the Internet, is making millions of dollars a year by filling...

Google sketch up

I dont know where google is heading towards but one thing for sure they are soon gonna be the indutry leader in fastest software development at least smallest s/w development life cycle.They are releasing product almost on a daily basis and nobody knows for sure (ofcourse except...

Kashmir fact

What is the authorities answer to this video. I dont want to ask the question about it.This is you have to comment abo...

Dhoomricated

Dhoomricated : This word means "Filled with Smoke"Origin - Hindi word Dhoomra(Smo...

Riya.Com is up for its beta customers

Riya.com is open for its beta customers. I was also the one lucky guy to get it for testing. Right now I'm trying it lets see how it performs. May be they guys did it better after getting rejected from Google.This is not just another photo uploading service but an intelligent application that recognize...

On10 More hype than Origami

Robert scoble talks about 10. A sister of Channel 9.This is meant for geeks to show their videos. 10 is built from the ground up using ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005 with a simple, easy to use design. Jeff sandquist talks about it in his blog.Discuss 10 at Channel...

Is this the Microsoft pay guidelines

I myself am not aware about the salary about my colleague or boss. But somebody outsider does. What do you think. Dont ask me if they are real.Link to original imageRead the story at my previous post or here(Seattle Intelligen...

Controversy over MS IDC and outsourcing

Now they are complaining against offshoring their job. Read the story from SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERA Seattle-based labor union is seeking to use newly obtained internal Microsoft Corp. documents to fuel the debate over outsourcing and draw attention to its assertion that the company is shifting fundamental...

Rising Frustration with Microsoft’s Compensation and Review System

http://www.washtech.org/news/industry/display.php?ID_Content=5041Wash Tech a seattle labor union got hold over some Microsoft confidential documents and now trying to unionizing microsoft. Read the story from WashtechDefections by high-level engineers have stung Microsoft in recent...

Origami - what is the hype all about

Here is the Origami launched by Microsoft I talked about earlier in my posts.http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS4596527542.htmlMicrosoft launched a new category of mobile computers Thursday, following several weeks of teasers on its Origami Project website. "Ultra Mobile PC"...

Apple: Finding the Root of the Problem

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2006/tc20060308_032391.htmHack-My-Mac Challenge Leaves System ShipshapePlug pulled on Mac hacking challengeThe second potentially major Mac security incident in as many weeks has thankfully been debunked. Earlier this week I wrote a blog entry about...