Archive for May, 2008

HP is about to Acquired EDS for 13.9 Bilions

EDS Consulting Corp (Electronic Data Systems) which helps their clients find perfect fit candidate for job, is about to be acquired by HP for $13.9 Billions. This will maximize HP’s profit and growth
If the acquisition should go through, HP would have a stronger competitive hand against IBM as they compete for business customers. Thanks to [...]

Quick Review BlackBerry Ex-9000

Phones are changing every day with new extra tools and for some phone geeks or business people is hard to keep up. But Blackberry Ex-9000 has it all. Here is small review on Black Berry ex-9000 (bold)
BB ex-9000 just got released and it will be available by AT&T for sure due to capability of 3G [...]

Must See I Can Has Cheezburger

Last week I was on Technorati looking up some Top 100 blogs and for a change noticed on 10th place I Can Has CheezBurger. At fist I thought who would come up with such domain name yet is 10th on popular 100 technorati.
Out of interest I had to click on it and since the first [...]

Microsofts Acquisitions For Past 11 Years

Awesome chart by CNET News.com about Microsoft past Acquisitions in last 11 years.

Company
Year
Estimated cost

Fast
2008
$1.2 billion

Aquantive
2007
$6 billion

Tellme
2007
$800 million

Navision
2002
$1.33 billion

Great Plains
2001
$1.1 billion

Visio
1999
$1.3 billion

Hotmail
1998
$400 million

WebTV
1997
$425 million

Source: CNET News.com

Facebook Removing Friends Limit of 5000

Facebook gone wild this month with all kind of news about them. Well today I read few articles on Facebook removing the 5000 friends limit. See I am not that popular like Tila Tequila who got her things just because of the MySpace account yet has nothing better to do then take naked picture [...]

iPhone Why Not HiPhone?

The iPhone is one of the hottest new things out there, but why is the iPhone so popular. The iPhone which runs anywhere from $499 to about $699 depending on size of storage is Apples baby . The iPhone sells extremely well disregarding the fact it costs a fortune. So why pay so [...]

Facebook Privacy Policy

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg founder and CEO of Facebook whose networth is $1.5 billion and rising is not only in it for the money but for the love of social networking. Facebook today has roughly 70 million users and is still going strong as the second biggest social networking website. Facebook is competing against MySpace who [...]

Windows XP vs. Windows Vista

Was there any particular reason for Microsoft to upgrade their software? I don’t think so…Of course it’s fun to see new features on occasion as we have come a long way from the early 90’s.
Microsoft brands its name on the highest quality of production and they have literally done everything to give the consumer what [...]

Zemanta Update

This morning I open Firefox and Zemanta 0.2.1update popped up. Only thing I wish I would know is that what changes have been made in each Zemanta release.
In case you don’t know what zemanta is please check Zemanta Cool Firefox Plugin For Wordpress

Here are updates on Zemanta Changelog:
Image and articles browsing with history
Improved tool-tips
LiveJournal support
Firefox [...]

Bloggers That Attended SoBCon 2008

SoBCon 2008 is something I missed this year and I regret it. But I am happy that there is always going to be next one SoBCon 2009. Main reason why I wanted to attend SoBCon08 is because I wanted to meet Chris Garrett in person and have my Problogger Book Signed!

List of 104 bloggers that [...]

Things I Hate About Twhirl Review

So by few of my favorite bloggers I was told to use twhirl in order to keep up with all tweets and FriendFeed. At first I liked Twhirl it does everything I want it to do, send messages to friendfeeds updates FF with my RSS feeds and I keep up with all others that subscribed [...]

Twitter Black Lists Spamers

Check out this website which is NOT official twitter black list yet lays out a good format of twitter black listed spammers.
Spammers are usually blocked by many people and that’s how twitter protects it’s service and members.
Twitter Black List is also good and updated on regular basis.
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Grand Theft Auto 4 Made Over $500 Millions

Grand Theft Auto 4 made over $500 Millions in sales this week alone, I guess people love to drive under influance! hope you liked my last post Mothers Against Grand Theft Auto IV - 4 Due To DUI
Image by Great Beyond via Flickr
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Dont you hate this error message

Ill just post picture and you will know exactly what I hate!

Share Anything Anywhere with Google Reader

Google just announced today about new feature that they added to Reader. Namely you can share anything anywhere even if the website does not have rss feeds. I think it’s cool feature but some people don’t will see reaction in few days after blogsphere calms down.
More about it read at google reader blog

Here is some [...]

T-Mobile and 3G Releases

Yes T-Mobile (My Carrier) is going 3G. For right now they will offer 3G network only in New York but by end of the year, T-mobile will release 3g in all cities.
Most likely you will see 3g T-Mobile first at cities that have more Data Subscribers.
Company Launches UMTS/HSDPA Network in New York City on its [...]

Microblogging Sites Similar To Twitter

For past two three weeks Twitter has been up and down very often and believe me many bloggers are looking into other MicroBlogging sites. Introducing Jaiku Pownce and Yappd
If you feel same way here are few sites you might like more then twitter.
Jaiku - Now owned by GOOGLE!
What is Jaiku?
A. Jaiku is an activity [...]