Tech Spending drastically decreasing
July 31, 2008
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.”
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YouTube needs some home cleaning
July 31, 2008
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
June 29, 2008
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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Windows Search 4 preview
March 28, 2008
If you are a Windows Vista User, then you’d know how painfully it is slow to search files on your desktop. Seriously, I’ve been using Google Desktop search but that too been giving me headache most of the time due to some unresolved local DNS stuffs and sometimes, crooked Firewall setups. Really it’s so sluggish search system in Vista, I’ve to admit.
Windows Search 4 is the latest updates to Vista according to vista blog. It’s 33% faster, improved indexing, it even indexes web mails, bugs fixed blah blah blah. Searching has never been so easier before Window Search 4. It’s them saying, not me. I’ve gotta try it yet. Last time, I updated my system with SP1 on my vista and my system went berserk. My laptop didn’t connected to internet, it didn’t even detected my router. I dunno what went wrong but It’s for sure that everything happened after the updates. Evil updates. I tried everything to my knowledge to overcome but wasted many hours without satisfactory updates. Finally had to resort back with the system restore. At least I like system restore, it’s something which gets deleted files back to life, real resurrection .
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Yahoo is passe
March 26, 2008
Latest revelation of unsatisfied Yahoo Employees is really dismaying. Is it a sign of company’s liquidation? A symptom is enough to figure out where Yahoo is heading. Yahoo will not sustain long in the business. My prediction somewhere on this blog seems working one more time. I estimated that gradually, employees will move out. Yahoo! it’s time to BuHooooo!!!
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Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 released
March 19, 2008
After lots of hassles and buzz, finally Microsoft Corp released much hyped and awaited Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 for download.
All the major issues have been fixed according to Microsoft. And, the hardware incompatibilities were lessened to much extent which obviously means that automatic plugNplay devices would be of no problem anymore to run on Vista SP1 enabled system. Driver support for over 54,000 devices has been added that means, no more ‘drivers not found’ messages. Lots of security and drive encryption features were improved. It looks really alluring. Albeit, some big corporation are not yet ready for this update. For them, Microsoft has provided a tool called : Windows Service Pack Blocker
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Is it really Web 2.0 age??
March 16, 2008
It has become difficult to keep up with the meanings of all the new phrases and terms generated by modern technology. One of the most commonly used phrases on the world wide web (www) today is “Web 2.0.” It seems like every web solutions company is using this phrase to sell its stuff. So to the average Joe who’s not a geek, what is “Web 2.0″?
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Download ‘ Made-in-Nepal ‘ Drupal ebook guide for total non-technical starters
March 13, 2008
Drupal is an extremely popular and efficient open source content management system(CMS). It allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including Community web portals, Discussion sites, Corporate web sites,Intranet applications,Personal web sites or blogs,Aficionado sites,E-commerce applications,Resource directories,Social Networking sites.
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Samsung MiCoach Music Mobile phone
March 10, 2008
Latest Samsung miCoach music-mobile phone is going to be extremely cool device for athletes or anyone who is health-conscious and keeps working out.
What it does and why it is special from other phone is the only question that might be popping in your mind, right now. It keeps the track of heart rate, telling runners the distance covered, track of workout session, calories burned and all that info resonates on one’s earphone. Isn’t that cool?
While you jog, it let’s you know your physical stamina and encourage you to maintain the constant heart beat rate which is pretty useful for any fitness program.
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Wii is winning the race
March 1, 2008
Nintendo’s Wii system is on number one lead for it’s best selling consoles. This is not me saying so, it’s Latest Japan harware charts that reveals this statistics.
Given the fact that Wii is Out of stock here in most of the stores in United States, it is obvious that this Wii thing is doing some incredible business within a year. Once I got a chance to play this over a friend’s apartment and that was the moment, I felt this is the ultimate gaming consoles. It requires one’s whole physical movement. It is no more an indoor game, It requires you to have the same level of physical activity that you would need while you’re on outdoor games.
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