Microsoft Makes a Mess Out of Silly Laptops Giveaway to Bloggers

May 12th, 2009 Laptops are the most used gadgets after mobile phones. The wide usability of them have given birth to different sections of laptop users.

February 6th, 2008 I accidentally discovered a super-cool re-direction feature embedded in WordPress 2.3.x. Any blog may have multiple url pointing to the same blog.

April 29th, 2005 A tale highlighting the slim differences between bloggers and reporters. After publishing the story on New York Attorney General filing a lawsuit against a California based Spyware Company, NYT reporter decided the title (New York Sues Internet Company Over use of Spyware) was gramatically dubious.

November 22nd, 2008 Old desktops are getting too big and spacious to be true. So it is understandable if you wish to switch to a perfectly desktop replacable laptop now.

July 21st, 2005 Report Summary: As the prevalence and social influence of weblogs continue to increase, the issue of the ethics of bloggers is relevant not only to the blogging community, but also to people outside it. This study explored ethical beliefs and practices of two distinct groups of bloggers--personal and non-personal--through a worldwide web survey.

April 12th, 2005 In a surprising turn of events eight US newspapers and Associated Press Agency filed a court brief which says they should be allowed to protect their sources. In March, Apple won the right to see the bloggers' e-mail records to find out who leaked information on upcoming products to them, which they published.

August 18th, 2006 The ambitious One Laptop Per Child program, which began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, to provide low-cost laptop computers to poor children around the world is about to take a big step forward. More than 500 children in Thailand are expected to receive the machines in October and November for quality testing and debugging.

April 28th, 2009 After having an exciting news of $10 laptops shaping up in India, last month we had an embarrassing disclosure of a device that was anything but a laptop.  For Rs. 500 you would have got a 2GB of storage memory, WiFi connectivity, Ethernet port(s) and USB connectivity and without a screen.

December 11th, 2005 I want to create a list of Java blogger's in India or of Indian origin. If you are one please state so with your url in the comment below.

January 16th, 2009 Microsoft is getting on with Apple's ubiquitous touchscreen device. This time its up with another cutting edge application to make  iPhone users happier.

September 23rd, 2008 This blog is actively protected by Comment Guard Pro, WordPress Comment Spam protection plugin for pro-bloggers and semi-pro bloggers. We don't allow any spam, even apparently innocuous ones in this blog.

May 27th, 2007 Google GMail increased the attachment limit of individual emails to 20MB. On the other hand the total space inches closer to 3 GB; it is currently at 2857 MB of which I am using only 3%.

October 8th, 2007 One implied restriction on commenting on this site: I will allow commenting by a minor so long it it appropriate. However I will never allow displaying their emails or any other personally identifiable information in their comments.

August 25th, 2009 Analyst says Intel 2010 prospects 'look good'NEW YORK — A Raymond James analyst said Tuesday that Intel Corp.'s prospects for 2010 "look good," and kept an "Outperform" rating on the chip maker. Analyst Hans Mosesmann said in a note to investors that an enterprise upgrade cycle — that is, businesses upgrading their computers and other technology products — "is in the cards over the next one to two years in our view." The analyst added that adoption of Intel's Atom chip in netbooks "continues to be good and has stabilized, with cannibalization not the issue anymore." Atom is Intel's first microprocessor for "netbooks," which are mini-laptops that do less than regular laptops, but are very popular because they also cost less.

December 21st, 2004 Excerpt from the best spam of 2004: In 1977, Kaplan Education LTD was sued by the Federal Trade Commission at Federal Trade Commission v. Kaplan Education, LTD, et al, 433 F.