“Will I go to hell?” takes on whole new meaning on googling!

December 24th, 2008 Gmail, despite being the simple and effective email companion for most of us, takes a hell lot of time to load at start up. This is very annoying for them who don't have a broadband or a slow internet connection.

April 27th, 2005 I remember the early days of Java Open Source Software. We all used to keep track of any new OSS release and literally salivate at being able to use something for free.

September 27th, 2006 Allen Holub (Author of Compiler Design in C and famous OO Guru) said: "XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design.

March 17th, 2005 I am eagerly waiting for my copies of Ubuntu. The site says that it was sent on February 22.

March 2nd, 2006 In a rather sad story a Googler (Google employee) narrates his misery with paltry salary and poor chance of a raise. Apparently in Google you can get a raise (merely 5-8%) with only a promotion.

November 25th, 2008 The Canon EOS 5D Mark II is one hell of a gadget While it begins U.S. shipments to dealers today (Tuesday, Nov.

February 2nd, 2004 One of the reasons I moved out from blogspot, to my own server, was because I couldn't create a RSS Feed of the blog easily. Today I found that blogstreet provides a simple way to do so.

August 29th, 2006 Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is earmarking Y300 million in its 2007 budget to produce what the Asahi Shimbun terms a lie-detector for online information. It would be an automated fact-checker that draws on related information to spot how likely something is to be a load of bull.

October 2nd, 2006 Remote XT technology, a UK firm designed a cell phone security system which sets off a high pitch scream, permanently locks the handset and finally wipes all data if the cell phone is stolen. They hope it will halt the spiraling rise (190% increase) in phone theft.

December 1st, 2008 Steve Ballmer will talk about it, Google will say how anticipation is creeping in and Good OS has finally launched it with minimum of fuss. I am talking about their release of a cloud-based version of the OS, simply named Cloud! Cloud runs a hybrid browser/linux kernel, offering quick startups and minimal lag.

April 18th, 2006 Burst.com has filed a countersuit against Apple Computer claiming that the iTunes software, the iPod and the Quicktime streaming software all infringe on patents held by Burst.com. Burst is asking for royalties as well as an injunction.

September 30th, 2009 Xerox in $6B deal to expand tech services businessNEW YORK — Xerox Corp. said Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc.

July 9th, 2009 LONDON - British scientists have developed a software program that can enable computers to learn sign language by watching TV. It learns sign language by absorbing TV shows that are both subtitled and signed.

May 10th, 2006 There are four different integration options in order of complexity and your requirements. They are as follows: Multi-port Integration Run Apache (with PHP) on default port 80 and Tomcat on default port (8080).

October 11th, 2008 If you have a computer and unfortunately you live in a power-cut prone area, by now you know this subject is of your utmost interest. And ours were just that.