Let her live like “Sonia” she is not “Gandhi”

Published in March 23rd, 2006

Posted by arun in General, News Storage, Personal Diary

Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi resigned from Lok Sabha and as Chairperson of the National Advisory Council. She has set a fine example of political “Moral Values”.
Media in India is in search for a scoop every day. It is a good feed for them. Every one is moving one-step ahead in “praising” her move. Some […]

FAME AND SHAME AT MELBOURNE

Published in March 17th, 2006

Posted by arun in General, Leisure Times, Sports

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Veteran Kunjurani Devi lifted the gold for India in the 48kg event at the 18th Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. The overall lift was 166 kg including 72 kg in snatch and 94 kg in clean and jerk. This is a new games mark.
Vicky Batta of India also won the silver in the men’s 56 […]

Q1: Samsung’s Handheld Laptop

Published in March 11th, 2006

Posted by arun in Consumer Corner, General

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Samsung and Microsoft have come together to launch a new device that combines a Laptop and a Media Player. Called Q1, it uses a special edition of Windows XP and is an output of Microsoft’s Origami project.
The device weighs just 1.7 pounds (779 gms) and is 9 inches by 5.5 inches, just about an inch […]

Is Hotmail into Blogging ?

Published in March 8th, 2006

Posted by arun in Consumer Corner, General, Marketing Slug, Search Engines

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Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia Monday announced the beta release of his latest venture * Blogeverywhere.com *, a new utility to enhance users’ online experience with a multipurpose, browser based toolbar that can be downloaded by users.
“With Blogeverywhere, we hope to create a parallel Internet of sorts consisting of user generated content that would encourage users […]

Microsoft vs. Google - Microsoft backtracks on Google claims

Published in March 7th, 2006

Posted by arun in General, Google Gooddies, News Storage, Search Engines

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Microsoft’s top Vole in Europe, Neil Holloway claimed that the Vole is ready to take on Google on search has been dismissed as hype by Redmond.
Holloway said last week that in six months’ time Microsoft will be more relevant in the US marketplace than Google.
It was not as if he could have been misquoted, […]

Can you hack Mac OS X in 30 minutes ?

Published in March 6th, 2006

Posted by arun in Consumer Corner, E-commerce, General

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A competition was set up by a Sweden-based Mac site called “rm-my-mac”.
The competition set up a Mac mini as a server and invited hackers to break in and gain root control of the box. The winner, identified as “Gwerdna”, claims that he exploited a “vulnerability that has not yet been made public or patched […]