Friday, 25 Jun 2010

150 milion copies of windows 7 sold- windows live essentials beta debutes

Bill Gates must have been thinking that why Windows latest version wasn't beennamed  windows 8 or 10 -  as microsoft says officially that Windows '7' sells '7' copies per second (hope you got the pun I am trying to make ) .

In a official windows blog post it was announced that Windows 7 has sold 150 million licenses to-date which works out to be seven per second.Windows 7 is by far the “fastest selling operating system in history,” according to Microsoft. Microsoft estimates that 75 percent of enterprises are currently evaluating Windows 7. Any guesses on how fast we get to 300 million copies sold?

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Date: 25 Jun 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Technical News, Internet News / Views: 164/Rating:0

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

Google from web surfing to wind surfing-invests in new technology wind mills

In a recent blog post Posted by Rick Needham, Green Business Operations Manager of Google, it was declared that Google made first direct investment in a utility-scale renewable energy project — two wind farms that generate 169.5 megawatts of power, enough to power more than 55,000 homes. These wind farms, developed by NextEra Energy Resources, harness power from one of the world’s richest wind resources in the North Dakota plains and use existing transmission capacity to deliver clean energy to the region, reducing the use of fossil fuels. 

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Date: 4 May 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Energy, Internet News / Views: 374/Rating:5

Saturday, 24 Apr 2010

Facebook all set to rule the Web world

Now a days it's the virtual world every where. Anything that happens in real world happens here - you make friends, find your first love and also the clinkering breakage of hearts do take place. It's the web world - the web 2.0 - the social media. Facebook and Twitter are no doubt pioneers in this part of world.

And moreover Facebook, the largest social networking site set out its stall to unseat Google and be at the heart of the web experience as it becomes more social. It has already  overtaken Google as the most visited US website.

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Date: 24 Apr 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Internet News / Views: 284/Rating:5

Thursday, 22 Apr 2010

Citizen journalism-Guerrilla reporting- news by the people for the people

In the digital era, where cameras have become a house hold thing , many people are now capable of covering breaking news. So the way we are watching news is changing day by day. We can experience it in elections, natural disasters, human disasters. Almost any event happens in todays world has a chance of getting  up. Now a days when we search for some burning issues on Google it shows latest news from pouplar news agencies like BBC and some unknown sites together. With social sites like twitter,orkut,facebook dissemination of breaking news was so fast that with in moments news blast out. This all paved way for the "Citizen Journalism" where news are not only "for the people" but also "by the people"..

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Date: 22 Apr 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Internet News, International Happenings / Views: 234/Rating:0

Sunday, 28 Feb 2010

TwitterJacking- Phishing of Twitter accounts

A direct message in my inbox showing a phishing message- it is not the fault of the sender, it is because his account is compromised
Over the past few days, Twitter has been helping folks victimized by a phishing attack. Phishing is a deceitful process by which an attempt is made to acquire sensitive information such as Twitter usernames and passwords. 

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Date: 28 Feb 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Internet News / Views: 455/Rating:0

Friday, 26 Feb 2010

Microsoft shuts down the global spam network with court order

Microsoft has won court approval to shut down a global network of computers which it says is responsible for more than 1.5bn spam messages every day..

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Date: 26 Feb 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Computers, Internet News / Views: 346/Rating:0

Sunday, 3 Jan 2010

Orkut Introduces -orkut share- bookmarklet

Twitter has revolutionized the social web and is used by many as viral marketing tool. The good thing with twitter is, on many blogs there is "tweet me" button, which lets the reader(if finds the article interesting and worth sharing) to share it with their friends. Now orkut is trying to add this feature for it's users.....

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Date: 3 Jan 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Internet News / Views: 582/Rating:0

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