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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Top search keywords on top search engines for year 2007

This is the time to review the top trends in search in 2007. Major search engines like Yahoo, Google and Ask released list of top queries of the year 2007. You can get idea of what’s hot in search right now and major events that happened in year 2007.
Top fastest growing queries in US on […]

Web will make TV less fun

More television viewers are turning to the Internet to watch videos, films and TV episodes, according to a new survey.
In the past year, YouTube has widened its lead as the top destination for online videos, while search engines and television networks have gained ground.
Approximately 65 per cent of the 2,455 US adults surveyed by Harris […]

Politically Correct

The prime Minister of China called President Bush to console him after the
attack on the Pentagon:
‘I’m sorry to hear about the attack.It is a very big tragedy. But in case
you are missing any documents from the Pentagon, we have copies of
everything.’
Musharraf calls Bush on 11th sept:
Musharraf: Mr […]

Portuguese worm attacks Google and Orkut users

Google’s Orkut social networking site was hit by a quick-spreading worm that managed to infect a large number of users when they viewed messages that came from friends who were already exposed.
Infected users became part of a community dubbed “Infectatos pelo Virus do Orkut,” which loosely translates from Portuguese to mean “infected by the Orkut […]

Google Hacks

Google Hacks is a compilation of carefully crafted Google searches that expose novel functionality from Google’s search and map services. For example, you can use it to view a timeline of your search results, view a map, search for music, search for books, and perform many other specific kinds of searches. You can also use […]

Dell may sell its BPO Business

Here’s another blockbuster deal which is waiting to be lapped up. Intelenet and Blackstone seem to have joined the race to acquire Dell’s non-US BPO business, which is on the block.
Interestingly, even as Dell maintains that it was not contemplating any such move, sources said that Intelenet (which was recently acquired by […]

PHP vs Java vs Ruby

With Sun GPLv2’ing its Java software this week, a lot of focus is on the other open frameworks that have risen during the same era, and their comparative value in a post open source Java world. One such take is from well-known Sun insider, Tim Bray, who spoke at last week’s International PHP Conference in […]

Opera Revives IE Complaint About Microsoft

Following the European Union’s Court of First Instance decision in September completely upholding a 2004 European Commission ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position, many observers felt it was just a matter of time before new antitrust complaints arose against the firm. They didn’t have to wait long.
Thursday, Opera Software, the Oslo, Norway […]

Running Web application with Ruby on Rails

Introducing Rails
The first thing to understand about Rails is its model/view/controller (MVC) architecture. While this approach is not unique to Rails — or even to Web applications as opposed to other programs — Rails provides a very clear and focused MVC way of thinking. If you stray from the MVC approach, Rails becomes far less […]

World’s Famously Wrong Predictions

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Theoretically, television may be feasible, but I consider it an impossibility–a development which we should waste little time dreaming about.
- Lee de Forest, 1926, inventor of the cathode ray tube
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas J. Watson, 1943, Chairman of the Board of IBM
It doesn’t matter what he does, […]