Tech Spending drastically decreasing

With economic hardships reaching into business and financial sectors around the world, it was only a matter of time before we saw the tech industry affected. Techtel Corporation released findings today announcing that overall tech spending has fallen drastically over the last four quarters and that only an estimated 3.9% of companies are expected to increase their IT spending. Michael Kelly, CEO of Techtel, remarked: “Tech’s hesitation about future demand is well-founded. U.S. IT spending is slowing and expected to continue doing so. It appears we may enter a period of declining IT spending during the second half of 2008.”

YouTube needs some home cleaning

Reports in todays UK tabloid newspapers indicate that members of the UK parliament are demanding that YouTube cleans up its video network.

Kids as young as eight are finding images of porn, violence and horror on internet video sites like YouTube. According to a commons report, one in six schoolchildren has seen “nasty, worrying and frightening” content. It also revealed video sharing sites like YouTube do nothing to protect kids from such content.
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“A Dollar A Month” for information highway in rural Nepal

It was one of a hot days of August, 2007 when I was real excited to write about ‘one in a million’ humanitarian MAHABIR PUN on another blog of mine. His contribution is mainly geared towards connecting every poor village to today’s information highway. Today, once gain I’m writing some words on behalf of him and this time about his plea. His plea is all about one dollar a month with which he’s planning to bring connectivity as soon as possible to rural areas of the country.

The following is his interview as it is :
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Easily unlock your Apple iPhone

Apple iPhone 2 is the next version of current iPhone as many have speculated. Current iPhone doesn’t support so many cutting edge features but still it’s damn stylish and one of it’s own kind in phone world. There are so many things that keep it separate from other phones in the world. Despite these features, to overcome some major issues, iPhone 2 is already planned. Just have to wait and watch when they’ll announce it’s sale. For now, Apple iPhone is hotcake and to be true Apple’s iPhone is one of the most sought after electronic gadget of the year 2007. When iPhone was originally sold, it’s price was way too much for average householders. Within two months of it’s sale, Apple reduced the price of iPhone almost to half. Those people who bought it earlier felt ripped off. Sympathetically, Apple gave $100 rebate to all those earlier iPhone shoppers. iPhone is still out of reach for many because, it’s still too expensive and the most nagging part of iPhone is it’s two-year contract with Apple’s designated phone company AT&T. So, if you buy iPhone, you’ve to be the part of 2 years contract.
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WAMP - Apache, MySQL, PHP on Windows

If you are a web programmer,student or developer, then WAMP is a must. WAMP is for windows operating system and latest version is WAMPserver 2.0

With this software installed and running as services, you could test/load/experiments all kind of web scripts you develop or you install. So, if you want to test the scripts before installing on your remote server, WAMP is the right tool for you. If you want to learn how scripts work, then WAMP is for you. If you want to test try and hack your own server, this is the ideal playground for you.
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A-Squared : Malware killer

Scans your computer for malicious software (Malware), including Trojan Horses, Dialers, Worms, Spyware, Adware and more. a-squared is specialized in finding and removing them securely. The disk scan checks all files on your system disks for Malware.
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War of the ’storage’ Worlds

Dot Com Way

Microsoft | Yahoo | Google

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