Archive for May, 2007


Bloggers unite for Good Fundraising Challenge

Monday, May 28th, 2007 - 12:01 am

The goal is to raise $25,000 for schools around the country, many of which are in New Orleans. The hope is to blow this goal away and raise far more money. If bloggers can do this, it will set a precedent that will enable the blogging community to do a bunch of good for other causes in the future.

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Microsoft, McAfee, Symantec charge cards repeatedly

Friday, May 25th, 2007 - 1:26 pm

These days, most antivirus and other security products come with a subscription to update your virus definitions. Signing up usually means forced automatic subscription renewal, in which your credit card is charged every year, and it’s not easy to opt out.

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Techies Productivity: Americans 10 times better than Indians

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 - 1:33 am

Despite the rapid development of India specially in the IT field, research and study have revealed that the Indian Techies lacks way behind than their US counterparts. An American Techie is about 10 times more productive than an Indian Techie.

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Indian companies against Microsoft’s anti-piracy drive

Sunday, May 20th, 2007 - 12:01 am

“We are against piracy but we don’t like the way Microsoft is working to stop it. Moreover, if they want to do business in India then they should change their prices and policies according to the Indian market.” - SITA against Microsoft

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Microsoft’s smart preemptive tactic by buying aQuantive for $6 billion

Saturday, May 19th, 2007 - 2:39 pm

We have seen Rumors and Suggestions galore across the Internet space on how and why Microsoft and Yahoo! should join forces to fight the overwhelming success of Google. Although, Microsoft and Yahoo! are very unlikely to join hands anytime soon, they are doing their bit on their own to be able to compete with Google and fare well in the game - particularly search and advertisement. Microsoft’s purchase of aQuantive is in direct response to the recent acquisition of DoubleClick by Google.

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Congratulations; Fabrik raises $24.9M

Friday, May 18th, 2007 - 1:52 pm

Unlike these other companies, Fabrik has expanded into hardware. Last February, they dropped $43M to buy SimpleTech, a major provider of external storage devices, (hard-drives, USB flash drives, etc). Until then, it had partnered with Seagate (makers of Maxtor).

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Adobe replaces FreeHand in favor of Illustrator

Thursday, May 17th, 2007 - 11:50 pm

Adobe does not plan to develop and deliver any new feature-based releases of FreeHand, or to deliver patches or updates for new operating systems or hardware. Adobe will, however, continue to sell FreeHand MX, and will offer technical and customer support according to our support policies.

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A blog article knocks $4 billion off Apple Market Cap

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 - 11:22 pm

A coveted and dedicated team of hackers hacks into some of these über famous blogs - TechCrunch, GigaOM, Engadget, Boing Boing, et al and took them for just 24 hours (may be even less should do). An organized blog article with striking difference but similar topic is posted across these blogs.

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I helped Joost get 1000+ new users

Monday, May 14th, 2007 - 12:01 am

I’ve been busy this weekend inviting anybody who commented on any of my blog’s article or contacted (email) me for a Joost Invite (last weekend, it was the same busy routine).

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Jobs - Developers, Designers in Mumbai

Sunday, May 13th, 2007 - 11:17 pm

Currently, we’re looking for programmers, designers, artists, hackers and geeks.

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“Being American” Made Easy - The Joost Way

Friday, May 11th, 2007 - 10:46 pm

Joost will be a perfect tool for BPO, Call-Center and Industry in India as new employees, recruits can be familiarised with the idea of “American Way of Living” easier, quicker. Joost TV Channels can be one tool for Indians workers to learn the American Living and thus facilitate serving the Americans much better. Get Joost, be American!

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Adobe releases Flash Player 10 (Mac, Win & Linux)

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What a bad team can do to a Startup?

Flash/Flex developer, Orian Marx, started his Startup with much zeal and enthusiasm but had to give-in to failures because of none other but the team - the founders involved. His article outlined the story so ...13th Oct, 2008

Introduction to Adobe AIR (NetTuts)

Nettuts have a nice Introduction to Adobe AIR which focus on using HTML/JS to build an AIR Application. It covers -- Adobe AIR Architecture, How to install AIR, Get the development SDK, Configurations, gets on to ...2nd Oct, 2008

Decide Team Type from Books

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What do investors look for in a startup?

A great video Interview with Venture Hacker Naval Ravikant answering the age-old question: What do you look for in a startup? Investors look for two things that are paramount above all: # Great team: It's obvious. It's a ...27th Sep, 2008

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