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New features coming to Digg

Due Credit: DailyBits

A list of new features that are expected to make it to Digg this year definitely mark the transition that bookmarking sites are making from the Web 2.0 space to a general representation of the pulse of our times.

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December 31st 2007 @ 11:29

Posted By: Arun On Technology - Category: Software, Tech News

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Yahoo into mobile search in big way

Due Credit: DailyBits

Yahoo has been quite active in the mobile search arena. Taking a different strategy from Google, Yahoo has been keen on expanding its partnerships with Telecom service providers.

Since mobiles are expected to really take off in the coming year, it will be interesting to watch the top search giants fight it out in the mobile space.

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December 31st 2007 @ 11:23

Posted By: Arun On Technology - Category: Software, Tech News, Goggle/Search Engine

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Bookmarking search reults via BookMach

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For users constantly in the need for updated information around a given topic, BookMach is a must try.

The search engine functions as a normal type-ur-keywords-view-results and as a personalized internet search engine as well.

The technique used here is that you could set a 'BookMach' to search the innumerable blogs and other online portals for information on a particular theme and let the results get updated themselves as new information matching the keywords appears on the web.

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December 28th 2007 @ 00:39

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Visual search on Like.com

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If searching for keywords is based on the fact that the keywords in a text are indexed then it only follows logically that searching for an image should also take into consideration the characteristics in the image.

Unfortunately the world of image search is not so simple. Most of the image search engines today rely on meta-data for image files i.e. on the information that the person uploading the image mentions in the image name, description, tags etc. It does make sense to have that approach since why would you ever want to fill in wrong information for something you want others to find? But it is a fact that when left to the discretion of the user, exact data or perfect classifications are never undertaken sincerely

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December 28th 2007 @ 00:34

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Perl 5.10 released

Due Credit: TechRepublic

After a gap of five years, the Perl foundation has announced a major update to the Perl language. Version 5.10 includes more flexible regular expressions and also many more dynamic features.

Initially developed as a language to manipulate text it has grown to be a full fledged language with a wide fan base

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December 27th 2007 @ 18:00

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2008 : The year for mobile banking

Due Credit: TechRepublic

Mobile banking debuted last decade but failed to catch-up owing to the spread of telephony, atleast affordable telephony among the masses. Now, with mobile computing set to take off, mobile banking is also becoming the upcoming buzz in the financial industry.

Already several banks in the US are rolling out services available via mobiles and many are predicted to follow suite. While mobile as computing platforms are yet to take off, what matters is how devices handle the security aspect well

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December 27th 2007 @ 17:32

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A brief walkthrough on Google's doodles

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The logo that shines on the front of Google's home page is most viewed entity on the Web. And that shiny logo has a history of its own. Every now and then to commemorate a great event in history or very much in the present, Google adds changes to the logo that make it the topic of discussion the world over.

This article talk about the doodles and how they came to be on the home page of the search engine. Its great the the company showcases how it is alive to the times of the world. Perhaps a feature that many other companies would also do nice to implement

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December 27th 2007 @ 01:58

Posted By: Arun On Technology - Category: Software, Tech News, Goggle/Search Engine

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Data Leak Prevention tool from Websense

Due Credit: TechRepublic

Data leak prevention is the new area that is being secured with a number of security products entering the market. Essentially it refers to enforcement of company policy around copying and transmission of data within and outside the organization. Data leaks are a definite scare to organizations. And it is also a fact that most of the leaks are accidental rather than intentional.

To that extent DLP software help in monitoring the transmission of sensitive data across an organization and enforce in real time the policies within the company. So for employees it is like a means to keep in check all the policy requirements. And when some errors do occur, the software will cause an error to pop up indicating the reason for not allowing the particular data transmission

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December 26th 2007 @ 16:37

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FBI's $1 billion database to store biometric data

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FBI has made public its plans to spend $1 billion on a database project to store and compare in real-time data on individuals such as fingerprints, ear lobe size, facial features, walking and talking style and iris patterns.

In one of the largest projects being undertaken by the FBI it is predicted that the database would make possible the detection of people using facial features from upto 200 yards

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December 26th 2007 @ 16:14

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Coming soon : Google Profiles

Due Credit: TechRepublic

Google will be soon making available a single access for profile information that gets reflected across all of Google's products. While the move seems like an extension to the single-sign on feature that is present with Google Accounts, this may also be more like a weaving content around the Social networking concept.

FaceBook has already shown how consistently people can be retained on the site by having applications reside alongside buddies. With OpenSocial also up and gunning, perhaps Google has a few acts up its sleeve

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December 25th 2007 @ 07:19

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Vianet brings CCTV over 3G

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Vianet, a company specializing in mobile to mobile communication has taken the concept of CCTV to mobiles with the service running over 3G technology. The technology enables wireless monitoring of cameras and does away with the hassles of trying to find wires to lay out cameras in out of reach areas.

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December 25th 2007 @ 00:54

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IT carbon footprint calculator

Due Credit: TechRepublic

Logicalis's IT carbon footprint and power consumption calculator is a tool that enterprises can use to obtain an estimate on their power consumption and the benefits that will accrue from the use of virtualization technologies.

In recent times the issue of green data centers has cropped up quite often. IT infrastructure costs also include the cost it takes to power the data crunching machines. Scalability is one factor that gets hit when the compounded costs of data center power consumption is taken into consideration

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December 23rd 2007 @ 18:43

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Semantics in email from IBM

Due Credit: TechRepublic

Semantic search is the next technological frontier. Computers parsing information to extract information that is relevant, not just plain text matching and copy-paste but actual computation of concepts such as events, contact information, presence information etc.

Semantics has been a hot topic in general Web Search. Hakia and PowerSet are two of the major efforts to bring semantics based search mainstream. IBM has recently announced its free e-mail search tool that brings the advantages of semantics based search to emails
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December 23rd 2007 @ 12:56

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Solar energy made cheaper than Coal !

Due Credit: TechRepublic

Coal is the bane but the dark horse of the industrial world. The cheap and most obnoxious of pollutants is also the material of choice for producing electricity.

Now, Nanosolar, a privately held firm has come true on its commitment to develop solar technologies for producing electricity more cheaply than coal. The solar panel are going to be deployed in Germany for a project to deliver 1 mega watt of electricity

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December 22nd 2007 @ 13:48

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Broadband users need more choice

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The report from the Consumer Panel at OfCom has come to the just conclusion that consumers need to have more information on the realistic speeds they can expect from their net connection and also need to have a choice to make a switch in the package or opt out the contract as a whole.

The report has been submitted to the Chairman of OfCom and he also supported the changes but in abstract terms. Advertisements from ISPs usually refer to the high side of the connection speed but in reality users seldom get to enjoy those

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December 22nd 2007 @ 13:40

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Yahoo to be platinum sponsor for Apache Software Foundation

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Yahoo will be a platinum sponsor to Apache Software Foundation. The partnership will see the search giant providing financial and hardware resources to the non-profit outfit that manages some of the most high profile and collaborative open source projects on the planet.

Yahoo's committment to open source is evident in the contribution of its employees to the open source community

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December 22nd 2007 @ 10:15

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IBM acquires Solid Information Technology

Due Credit: TechRepublic

Solid Information Technology, the makers of in-memory databases will be acquired by IBM. Thus IBM adds more value to its line of data services. There are some issues here for MySQL which will now have to look for other solutions for transaction engines.

The transaction engine from Solid is what MySQL database depended on. MySQL is working on its own transaction engine called Falcon that is expected to be out with version 6.0

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December 21st 2007 @ 20:07

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GTalk talks more languages !

Due Credit: DailyBits

Google's brought out a great new year and Christmas gift for its users with the translation bots for GTalk. So now users have to only add the bots that are specific to their language conversions and whatever is typed to the bots is converted to the other language.

The bots are named in the format that refers to the source language first and then the destination language. Also, adding the bots to the groups will enable translation within a group chat session as well

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December 21st 2007 @ 19:25

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Open sourcing router code

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Cisco and Juniper made one-upping announcements last week and it all came to naught when the fact of the announcements was brought to light. The issue started with Juniper announcing that they had open sourced their code and it was up for extension. It was later that a blogger detailed on how the process was not exactly open source as it was not possible to obtain the source code by just downloading but would require for a developer to go through lengthy un-encouraging processes to just get to see the code.

Cisco, even before the details of Juniper's announcements, announced that it would also be open sourcing the IOS code in the near future. Now, the millennium development goals would be met in the near future. The developing nations in the world would be all developed in the future as well. So, Cisco's code would also be open in the near future

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December 21st 2007 @ 03:06

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Sophisticated trojans can mimic online money transfer, pilfer funds

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This was coming. The only question was when rather that how. Trojans are now able to even mimic online transactions by noticing the activity of users during banking transactions. While the programs have not got to the level where they are able to start transactions by themselves, they lay in the background as daemon process and once the user goes online, the funds are transferred to other compromised accounts.

Not only that but the amount from the compromised accounts also keeps shifting to avoid detection. The transactions are performed so smoothly that at the banker's end its difficult to make out a human initiated transfer from a program initiated one

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December 21st 2007 @ 02:52

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Alliance for smaller chips

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Software is free on the Web. When was the last time you paid to have your mails, messages, voice, images and video uploaded onto a storage you did not own and streamed from servers you did not pay for? Well, it call comes for a price, the price of your privacy but that is another topic. The point is, more features mean more crunching (bit crunching) at the silicon level and that means more R& D in to better technology that can get those electrons past the ever shrinking layers in the transistors.

And this R& D does not come cheap. Processors are a costly business. And now, the chips giants ( Not all of them actually), have decided to form an alliance for research and development of the processors based on the 32 nanometer process. Of course, the real biggie here, Intel, has decided to chart its own path

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December 21st 2007 @ 02:37

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AMD rolls out roster of plans for coming years

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Its been a bad year for AMD. Intel has been just doing the right stuff at the right time and AMD has been finding the wrong in the right at the wrong time. I am of course referring to the much delayed Barcelona chips and more delays due to some critical bugs getting discovered.

Nonetheless, AMD execs were crooning to financial analysts at their Analyst Day with plans to bring some of the best tech to processors in the coming years. While the whole announcements included lot of code names, the important thing is this - they will be in business

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December 21st 2007 @ 02:22

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Israeli firm says its tech can solve spam

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Spam is the single most costly bane to the online world. A majority of the e-mail sent across globally constitutes unsolicited mail. And what adds more to these attacks is the fact that connectivity is on the rise. Meaning more zombie PCs to add to the spam menace.

A firm from Israel says it has developed a technology that can be of help in detecting zombie PCs on the web. Essentially, this would help is preventing mail from those systems from entering an enterprises networks increasing the bandwidth and ofcourse resulting a fewer cluttered inboxes

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December 21st 2007 @ 02:12

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Trojan replaces Google Ads links

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Few weeks back there was a furore when Google search results were found to contain malicious links listing high in the first few pages. The web search engine immediately took action to have the bad links removed (though there still continue to be new links surfacing every once in a while). Now, the Google Ads system is being targeted by malware that resides on the systems of users browsing the web.

The Trojans play with the hosts file that is used to match domains with IP addresses. It replaces the text ads that originate from the Google Adsense server with ads pointing to several other suspicious sites
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December 21st 2007 @ 02:01

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Zuula : Tabbed search across multiple engines

Due Credit: SearchEngineJournal

Zuula, the meta search engine provides an option for users to search across multiple search engines with the result displayed in adjacent browsers.

There are results returned from top engines for blogs, images, news etc

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December 18th 2007 @ 22:29

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Reversing CO2 to Fuel

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Researchers at the Sandia Laboratories are working on designing on an innovative reactor that converts carbon-di-oxide to carbon monoxide using concentrated solar energy. The carbon monoxide generated can be used for generating fuel in due process.

The result of the research may perhaps be the best thing to happen to arrest the increase of greenhouse gases

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December 18th 2007 @ 17:59

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Searching for yourself on the Web?

Due Credit: DailyBits

The survey by the Pew has uncovered some curious results as to the frequency at which people search for themselves online. Technically referred to as ego-surfing, the global trend seems to be more towards people looking about their profile online.

Online identity is more critical when it comes to applying for a new job. Its common practice for firms to search online for the prospectives candidates just to have a glimpse on the online activities of the individual. With social networking and blogging picking up pace, more and more content that can at times be private and opinionated goes online

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December 18th 2007 @ 17:23

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Social Networking APIs wars

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FaceBook has responded to the challenge posed by OpenSocial by announcing that it will be making its platform available to third party networks for a licensing fee. One of the leaders in the social networking segment, FaceBook's decision has created quite a buzz in the online world.

Already online firms are vying for developer attention. FaceBook's release of its platform early on ensured that the applications on the site were well on the way before the other social networks got together with Google to announce APIs for third party development

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December 18th 2007 @ 17:15

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Microsoft Vs VMWare

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Microsoft's announcement of the release of its Hyper - V virtualization product beta is being perceived as the first salvo towards the virtualization industry leader VMware. Its a fact that Microsoft does not consider any technological turf as out of reach.
Virtualization technology is emerging as the best solution for enterprises that cannot afford to dedicate server resources for seperate tasks and are looking to squeeze the most out of the available server infrastructure.
Virtualization enables separation of the server hardware from the software running on top of the server. Essentially making a single hardware perform the functions of several different servers

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December 18th 2007 @ 17:00

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Zumobi changes the UI for mobile internet

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Zumobi, the firm that licenses technology from Microsoft research has found out a novel way to bring in advertising and also to enhance user search experience over the web.

Browsing from the mobile phone is gaining traction but the traditional methods are not exactly best for the right experience. With a limited screen size and bandwidth, research is required in the area of alternative user experiences for the mobile internet

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December 18th 2007 @ 16:49

Posted By: Arun On Technology - Category: Software, Tech News, Mobile Phone

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OLEDs not to come from Toshiba in 2009/10

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Toshiba has announced it is shelving the project to get OLED displays mass produced in the year 2009/10. OLED displays have been touted to be the next big thing to happen to displays.

Sony had unveiled a prototype of a 11inch OLED display sometime back. But the fact that even a major player such as Toshiba is backing out of a mass production plan implies that the markets will have to wait for a period of three to five years to expect OLED displays at affordable prices

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December 16th 2007 @ 18:55

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Amazon gets DB into the Sky

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Amazon's database in the sky concept is a new addition to its web services portfolio. The new services lets enterprises store and manipulate data in a database in the sky. Termed as SimpleDB, the concept is a whole new twist on cloud computing concept.

Accompanied with Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) and Simple Storage Solution (S3), the new service is an attractive package for new start-ups that don't wish to invest in physical infrastructure

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December 16th 2007 @ 18:47

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Just SMS for an answer

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AQA (Any Question Answered) is a really nifty idea. The service answers questions that are SMSed to its list of researchers who respond back within a time span ranging from 15 to half hour in most cases. The brain child who once held the reins of Symbian.

The service charges 1 pound per query is a novelty with sufficient profits as of last year. There are competitors to it also. But I feel that on a local basis, this idea is food for thought for several really targeted services. Surfing the web is a luxury that comes with high end phones only. Ofcourse, the trend is catching on but for the whole market of phones that exists with support for SMSs, there is a lot more steam left in this segment

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December 16th 2007 @ 18:26

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Adobe furthers Internet Apps developement by open sourcing technologies

Due Credit: ZDNet, InforWorld

Adobe will be open sourcing its AMF (Action Message Format) format and remoting technologies that will bring functionality for developers to hook push-based technologies to their PHP, .NET or other back ends.

The move is being made to further the adoption and ease the development of Rich Internet Applications. Most companies are developing their own proprietary formats since XML is not suited for streaming of data over HTTP

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December 15th 2007 @ 21:40

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Software to help enterprises calculate carbon footprint

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IBM along with its partners is developing a software that will help enterprises estimate the carbon footprint of their enterprise IT infrastructure. Working on top of the IBM WebSphere, the GreenCert will be able to calculate the carbon estimate from the metrics relating to software usage.

Enterprises have begun to take renewed interest in the 'Green-ness' of their IT infrastructure owing to the accruing benefits from implementing energy efficient data centers and reduction in carbon footprint

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December 15th 2007 @ 07:51

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Phishing attacks target flaw in Microsoft Access DB

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Flaws in Microsoft's Access Database is the butt of attacks following from phishing attacks. The alert was issued by the US-CERT team. Access DB files are not the popular attachments that one comes across while browsing through e-mail. But never the less, the exploit could lead to remote code execution on the system, essential leading to innumerable malicious activities.

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December 15th 2007 @ 07:48

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Microsoft acquires UK Map services firm

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Google Earth and Maps have made mapping data an essential ingredient of an online life. The new features add the much needed dimension to real world online world interfacing. And with their expertise at getting content to inter operate over the web, Google's APIs have provided users with several avenues to very easily integrate Map into their websites and applications.

Microsoft has been trying to play catch-up with Google ever since the firm galloped ahead in search market share and used it overflowing coffers to make one key acquisition after another. Every time Microsoft follows with another usually costly acquisition itself. This time, the acquisition of MultiMap, a UK based mapping firm a long time after Google itself got into the business with the acquisition of KeyHole (Yes, that is what Google Earth was previously

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December 15th 2007 @ 07:24

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Google doing a Wikipedia, Squidoo and Mahalo?

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Google has a clear vision. To index the whole information of the world and make it accessible universally. It also has another strategy, that of never owning content but only indexing them. Perhaps Google has been very ardent about it ever since Yahoo started facing bad times after its transition into more of a media company.

Now, with project Knol, Google seems to be following the social path to knowledge creation. So far, its algorithms have been mining the net for information. But with the net burgeoning with content, perhaps a refined approach is the only way that relevance can be truly achieved

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December 15th 2007 @ 07:15

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Cisco's Entertainment OS

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The networking dark horse has been getting raved up on the recent success of several web based companies. No longer wanted to be just a plumber of the network, Cisco announced its social networking initiative that is about letting media creators distribute content over a platform dedicated to their fans or communities. Cisco will provide the tools, distribution and the targeting of content to the communities of users. Revenues will be ad based.

Social networks have been springing up around user generated content. So in this matter the move is clever as it seeks to bring the best of content to consumers and consumers to media. The question is whether the new move will add real value to the online world or is this just another twist to the ocean of social networking

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December 14th 2007 @ 03:11

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Mahalo adds social network twist to search

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Think Digg combined with Google. Ok, that is pretty great but exaggerated. Mahalo, a search engine that claims to be highly relevant and is human powered has added a new social network feature that lets users submit links to the engine and if they meet the quality standards of the site, they get lists and the users gets credit by having his name listed at the bottom of the search result.

Now, I thought that social bookmarking sites were already doing this. And that too on a highly intuitive manner as indicated in this article on the algorithm that powers Digg

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December 14th 2007 @ 03:09

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Second Life CTO quits

Due Credit: Yahoo (AP)

Linden Labs, the makers of virtual life game Second Life will be doing away with its CTO, Cory Ondrejka. Cory was an essential part of the initial team that created the game that has evolved into an alter identity for netizens.

Second Life is cool for its position on letting users have rights to their own IP. This has resulted in the popularity of the platform not only for recreation but also as a commercial entity. Several companies such as IBM are known to have virtual offices and also field virtual interviews

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December 13th 2007 @ 18:10

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Paper based computing platform

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Think computing and you think desktops, laptops, notebooks, ultra mobiles and snazzy smartphones. Well, a company called Livescribe hopes to change all that with its Paper based computing platform.

The technology they are introducing is a combination of SmartPen with micro-dots based paper. The SmartPen is a device that can associate text that is written with audio that it records or with video as well. The micro-dots embedded in the paper enable a sort of co-ordinates based recognition system for the SmartPen so that it can associate audio and video with the text written on the paper

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December 13th 2007 @ 18:06

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Google Trends API

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Google will be rolling out another API for Web Programmers that will make it easier to incorporate data on the trends of the searches. The Google Trends API will make available a number of features such as the jot keywords that were searched on a local basis, the frequency of search on the key words etc.

The Trends API would be a great tool for marketers to collect data on the popular trends and to also verify the effectiveness of their campaigns in capturing public attention. Google has a way of making available programming APIs that ease the process of development over the Web. Earlier APIs from the company include the Map API, the Google Gears API for offline online data syncing, the recently announced OpenSocial API for sharing of profile data across various social networking sites

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December 13th 2007 @ 08:29

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OpenSPARC T2 RTL processor designs released

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Sun Microsystems seems to be following in the footsteps of IBM in continuing with its program of open sourcing processor designs to foster a community of developers who can build applications optimized to the processor as well as create derivatives on it.

OpenSPARC T2 RTL designs follow an earlier release of T1 design by Sun Microsystems

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December 13th 2007 @ 08:27

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AskEraser from Ask.com

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Search engines are the workhorses of the internet. But in the search for relevance, most engines keep a log of user activity and search. There have been several privacy concerns relating to these but the rules are very gray.

Now, Ask.com, a search engine that occupies about 5% of the search engine market has come out with a solution that it hopes will lure people to use the engine more frequently. With a feature called AskEraser, users get to delete their search history from the servers with a guarantee that the data will get erased is a matter of hours. Google has a policy to retain customer search information for 18 months while Yahoo and Microsoft retain search data for 13 months

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December 13th 2007 @ 08:23

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Dell announces Latitude XT Tablet PC

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Dell has announced its foray into the Tablet PC segment with its Latitude XT Notebook PC. The Tablet PC is a small niche in the notebook market but Dell's entry is good news for customers as it means a reduction in the price of the systems with increased volumes.

There are several new technologies in the interfacing space that have come to focus lately. Apple's iPhone and the Surface PC demoed by Microsoft are indicators of the radical innovations waiting to happen in the UI space. Also, there has been news of Dell eyeing its own portable computing device in order to make the most of emerging expanding markets for personal computing devices

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December 11th 2007 @ 15:40

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Microsoft on the Web : Office Live Workspace

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Its the cash cow for Microsoft. Though famous (or rather infamous) for its Windows OS, Microsoft's real revenue earner is also its Office Productivity Suite. With a number of firms such as Zoho and Google providing completely online alternatives for office productivity applications, Microsoft has had to come out with its own offering, Live Workspace.

The belief is Software-as-a-service. And Microsoft seeks to complement the same with its online productivity program. Users with Windows Live ID will now be able to collaborate and access word, powerpoint, excel, spreadsheets and PDF documents over the Web

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December 11th 2007 @ 15:33

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Ruby on Rails 2.0

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The next version of the Web applications development framework Ruby on Rails has been released. Web programming has received immense focus this year and will a number of frameworks looking to solve the time it takes to develop complex web applications, there is lot of choice available for programmers. Ruby on Rails is a framework that focuses more on convention that configuration and to that extent has gains for security and rapid web application development.

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December 11th 2007 @ 15:24

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Top US Labs targeted with Phishing

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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Lab in US was the latest target of phishing attacks that were found to have originated from Chinese servers.

While the intention of agents behind the attacks is yet to be ascertained, data equivalent to records of names of all visitors (between 1990 and 2004) along with their DOBs and social security numbers was what got compromised

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December 10th 2007 @ 19:58

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Developer Platform and Web 2.0 facelift to LinkedIN

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First it was FaceBook that opened its social networking platform to developers. This was followed by MySpace opening it to developers and then came the OpenSocial initiative headed by Google. Now LinkedIN, the social network targeted at business professionals has announced its own Intelligent Applications Platform that is compatible with OpenSocial.

The advantages here are that profile data can be used inside and outside the site. An example being the partnership with BusinessWeek that lets users of LinkedIN visiting the site to see profiles of individuals from their list who are associated with the company

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December 10th 2007 @ 19:55

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Offline data, online targeting

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A media marketing company called Axciom is adding a new twist to targeted advertising, taking offline user data to target users with online content. This is another permutation of Face book Beacon like targeting.

So, while no one would like their marketing patterns to be observed, the ultimate result of the program would be exactly that. As online advertising gains more and more attention, more and mote of individual activity will be logged and used to generate targeted ads

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December 10th 2007 @ 19:51

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Linux greener than Windows

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A UK Government sponsored in 2004 came to the conclusion that investing in open source technologies would result in greater good to the environment and be light on pockets.

The report comes to the conclusion based on the result that open source software runs comfortably on lower end systems, avoiding the need for frequent up gradation with new releases and this results in over all reduction in e-waste and consumption of resources for more resources

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December 10th 2007 @ 19:47

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Yahoo announces new Tech Ticker

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Yahoo finance has been a great success for those who live on financial news. Breaking stocks news is as important as your money can be. Now, Yahoo is seeking to reap the benefits of streaming video to get more out to its users in the form of video streams related to tech stocks.

While the intentions of Yahoo are definitely to hold on and add to its user base, the new service has come in for some flak from users who complain that the streaming services are receiving more prominence than the breaking news heaadlines and also more often than not the information in the streaming news cast is of little relevance to the actual company

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December 10th 2007 @ 19:32

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Processors with 3D transistors could delivers 20Ghz to 50Ghz speeds

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Fujio Masuoka may not be a name you will recognize immediately. But its courtesy to him that we have the solid state memories to waltz around with. The inventor of the Flash memory in now backing his company Unisantis Electronics of Japan to develop 3D transistors in partnership with the Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore.

3D Transistors could reduce the form factors of present day transistors making it possible to cramp more of the units on present day processors. The result could be speeds ranging from 20 GHz to 50 GHz

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December 9th 2007 @ 18:45

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Grisoft makes Web Centric Acquisition

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These are indeed great and dangerous times for technology. On one hand, with the general improvement in connectivity, more and more services are going online. As more and more services go online, a large chunk of confidential data in going digital as well. With so much convergence and integration of technologies, the chances for one weak access point or one flaw has the potential to affect the whole system.

It is this sort of scenario that faces the Web. With new developments in Web 2.0 features, new flaws and bugs in browsers and spam based attacks are also increasing in frequency. Traditional database driven detection techniques have a wide window of application and that time gap can prove very costly

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December 9th 2007 @ 18:31

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HTML 5 Specification

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HTML, the mark up language of the web has its own history of woes and victories. On one hand, its remarkable on how the technology and the related technologies around it have been able to deliver on the growing demands on the Web front. On the other hand lies the problem of incorporating standards that are acceptable to all the stakeholders in the browser space.

Already, users of IE and Mozilla FireFox may have heard about several features that the browsers handle differently. While web programmers usually factor in the requirements for compatibility with all browsers, the problems arise when more compleities arise in designing standards for the Web

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December 9th 2007 @ 18:05

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E-mail and IM while you are in flight

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Connectivity is the life blood of business today. Disconnecting completely from the world when it comes to traveling is one major discomfort for businesses. Now, JetBlue Airways, Yahoo and RIM are teaming up to bring WiFi based connectivity to flights.

Passengers will be able to access Yahoo messenger and Yahoo mail and also use e-mail services over their Blackberry 8820 and Curve 8320. There are several limitations as in browsing as such is not allowed and also attachments are a no-no

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December 7th 2007 @ 17:17

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Alternative Search Engines : A UI and a social approach

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Recently I covered two Search engines that stood out with respect to two trends that I believe will be core to the next big search engine. It is an oft-quoted statement that there are many search engines available in the market but nothing comes close to competing with Google. With the slush of funds and the best of minds perhaps that is true for the time being but lets not forget that there have been many competitors who have gone the same path.

Coming back to the topic, Yoople is an engine that retrieves search results from Yahoo and lets users rank the results according to what they feel is relevant. There are some checks in place to prevent too much manipulation of results but the idea is great cause it brings the social angle to search results, The combination of Man and machine. I came across a video today that had a researcher at MIT comment that Google and Wikipedia were the first among the new series of entities based on collective intelligence. Essentially it means leveraging the best of man and machine. To that extent, Yoople's customization of search results is a great feature

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December 7th 2007 @ 02:23

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Multimedia Conferencing 5.0

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The new conferencing tool from the partnership born out of Microsoft and Nortel is an affordable solution for companies not wanting to depend on Microsoft's products. The software does need an IBM x3550 server to run.

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December 6th 2007 @ 13:23

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Web Development on .NET Framework using Microsoft's Volta

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Web applications are the rage of the application development world. Every zany developer looks forward to utilize the latest releases of platforms for developing large scale applications for the web, and there are a number of platforms in that regard.

AJAX, the use of which gained popularity when Google used it for the Gmail's interface has fired a stream of new UI level interactivity from Web interfaces. But there are several road blocks when it comes to developing applications to take advantage of AJAX. The client side needs Javascript coding while the server side can be done on JSP, or any other of the many platforms. Developers struggled to get the functionality part right while several issues came up in getting the disparate languages to communicate effectively

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December 6th 2007 @ 13:18

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Single Sign on for your network and physical access

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Security is an imperative for any enterprise. In this age where information travels at the speed of light and businesses have to go global by necessity, managing security across an enterprise is a complex task. Enterprises implement several check points to log employee access. Chief among them being network login passwords and Id cards. One takes care of the network security while the other is more of a physical authentication.

With the increase in the number of internal access points ( such as intranet, customer site, personal database) companies have been implementing single sign on technologies that let users maintain a single authentication identity that can be leveraged across all sites

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December 6th 2007 @ 13:03

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Top Technology Innovations

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Top technology innovations of all times is the list of 100 technologies that MaximumPC thinks have defined the progress of technology. Top on the list is USB and followed by MP3, Ethernet, And a whole roster of computer games.

What do you feel about this list. I do feel that Google and a lot of innovation on the Web front deserves to top the list

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December 5th 2007 @ 16:06

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AIM on Gmail

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Good news for Gmail and AIM users. Now you can chat with your AIM buddies from right inside Gmail. The feature is great news for lot of business users especially since AIM is very popular with the business segment. The option to sign into your AIM accounts occurs in the same list as the chat option for Gmail.

So is this the beginning of the merging of platforms. Open integration among products is perhaps the best thing for customers. Think about it. No matter what product I am using, would it not be great if my contacts and all my data are accessible just the same

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December 5th 2007 @ 16:04

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Remote control your Mac

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LogMeIn Free and LogMeIn Rescue are two remote management products that will make it possible to remote control your Apple Mac from a Mac, Windows or Linux Machine. LogMeIn Rescue is a SaaS ( Software-as-a-Service) offering that lets a technician get control of a Mac for repair or control operation.

LogMeIn has similar offerings for Windows platform but with the increase in the share of Macs in the market, makes perfect sense to get out these products

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December 5th 2007 @ 16:02

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Laptop for $249 from Zonbu

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Zonbu announced its Laptop offering that comes with a support subscription of $14.95 per month. The offering follows Zonbu's immensely popular mini desktop. The configurations are a treat for the price that the company is asking and also with the software and the 50 GB online storage, its worth a buy.

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December 4th 2007 @ 15:58

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Intel announces XML Software Suite

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Surprise, Intel is getting into software with its XML software suite that enhances the common functions of XML. The utilities are a set of libraries for Java and C . The efficiency gains can be obtained on any x86 platform.

Intel seems to be eying the SOA space with probably more such optimization solution coming down the pipeline as SOA catches up with the Enterprise

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December 4th 2007 @ 15:56

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Enterprises aren't optimizing their data centers

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A startling report by the ComputerWorld UK reveals that IT organizations are mostly clueless about the carbon emissions and more necessarily the utilization of their data centers. Data centers hog power and energy resources, essentially growing with the organization.

In recent times Google has been one company that has shown the way when it comes to innovative power solutions and data center utilization. Also, there are several virtualization and cooling solutions available in the industry that provide better efficiency in data centers

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December 4th 2007 @ 15:53

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Data Leak Prevention product from Trend Micro

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Trend Micro announced its first ever product in the Data Leakage Prevention space, LeakProof 3.0. The segment is touted to be one among the largest growing sectors in the software segment. Trend Micro is definitely following the trend, with its acquisition of Provilla.

Data Leakage Prevention products provide organizations with greater control over the data that

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December 4th 2007 @ 15:50

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LiveJournal sold

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Six apart has sold blogging platform LiveJournal to Russian media firm Single User Portal. The offloading is attributed to Six Apart's intention to concentrate on its core areas. The company was the pioneer in blogging technology and was instrumental in making blogging a common channel for communication.

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December 3rd 2007 @ 12:23

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Microsoft acquires WebFives

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The Redmond giant continues its acquisition spree with WebFives, a firm started by an ex-Microsofter but having not lifted off in a big way. The site was meant to be a social networking domain for mobile users and now the technology will go to enhancing Microsoft live services and MSN Spaces.

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December 3rd 2007 @ 12:20

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Web service to catalog open source projects

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Open source projects are great for the development industry. But along with them the problems of proliferation of so many projects and the inherent complexity in the projects has made managing projects a grave issue.

Now, technology called CloudSmith hopes to make finding, sharing and configuring open source software projects easy with its web service that does the configuration for the user. So users can obtain a working configuration or distro and gain on time

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December 3rd 2007 @ 12:17

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The $18 billion video game company

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Activision and Blizzard the two leaders in the console and the multi player games segments have joined hands to form Activision Blizzard, a $18 billion entity that is a direct competition to EA( Electronic Arts).

EA has had a history of backing great titles and it is to be seen if the new entity can compete with EA on that front. Not to forget that with great processing power coming packed into most of the mobile devices, gaming is just waiting to take off in a big way

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December 3rd 2007 @ 12:14

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Wirelessly charging devices

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Wires are a bane to mobile connectivity. While data has long gone the wireless way, the one cord that technology has been unable to get rid of is the power line. The technology from WildCharger may be a good start in that front.

The device from the company is a mouse pad shaped platform which charges devices that just have to be simply placed on them. The only problem is that separate devices need separate chargers but hopefully that will change in future

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December 3rd 2007 @ 12:10

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A device for viewing Widgets

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The Chumby from Chumby industries is an ideal device to stay in an always on mode to the internet. With a Wifi Connection and touchscreen, the device can be used to receive latest headlines, feeds and a lot more.

Its a device targeted at hobbyists with an open framework so you can create your own device on top of the Chumby

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December 3rd 2007 @ 11:54

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IBM System Z running with OpenSolaris

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IBM's partnership with Sun Microsystems will see the OpenSolaris being ported to IBM's System Z mainframes. Running on the virtual environment of the mainframes, the port will provide greater flexibility and choice to customers of mainframe systems.

Partnerships between rivals often does result in great results for customers

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December 3rd 2007 @ 11:41

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Propeller : The easy way to social bookmarking

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Propeller, a social news experiment from AOL is showing impressive results, partly owing to its appeal to the not so technically inclined user. The site offers bookmarking of content but follows a system where the editors and the top submitters actually get paid for their submission. The method seems to be working so far and is emerging as a good competition for Digg.

So, how do you find the site? Better than Digg

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December 1st 2007 @ 12:41

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Google will bid for Wireless Spectrum

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Finally, Google has made public its intention to bid for the 700 MHz wireless spectrum. The move is their next big wave after releasing their android SDK for mobile applications. With its cash reserve that extends to an estimated $13 billion, the Web Giant may be all set to redefine the telecom industry as we know it.

Google's business is ads. And mobile phones are the next entry points for access to the internet. So, acquiring a stake in the wireless space may be more alligning to the web firm's core competency than one makes out. It is also a fact unless they own the spectrum, several key advantages may be lost

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December 1st 2007 @ 12:32

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