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- Global outsourcing benefited US firms: Nasscom
BANGALORE - Indian IT industry body Nasscom has reacted cautiously to US President Barack Obama's remarks on outsourcing, saying global outsourcing had benefited US firms that generate over 50 percent of their business overseas.
'American companies generate more than 50
- Obama tax move won't affect Indian firms, Murthy to president
BANGALORE - Indian IT firms would not be impacted by the tax reform proposal of US President Barak Obama, Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy told President Pratibha Devisinh Patil Friday. 'Obama's tax proposal will not impact
- Tired of Email Spam & Fighting Back...
I finally grew tired of email spams, having to delete several thousand spams a day while fishing out for valid emails is no fun. Occasionally I deleted valid emails too in the process. I realized I was wasting valuable productive
- 300 Million Apps Downloaded from Apple Store. How Many do You Have?
Everyone was aware of Apple being one of the front runners in mobile phone industry, but no one could have guessed the acceleration with which it is turning the heat. The recent news is Apple has touched a ginormous 300Million
- FDA Warns about Suicidal Thinking in Children and Adolescents on ADHD Drug - Strattera
The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors on Thursday about reports of suicidal thinking in some children and adolescents who are taking Strattera, a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Manufacturer Eli Lilly & Co. announced that
- Downloading 1 of 4538 Mail Messages
I have just started downloading my email and guess what - I have 4538 email messages in queue, most of them obviously spam as even Bill Gates isn't that popular. Unfortunately my new stopgap setup doesn't have a bayesian filter
- Spammer Wins: Blue Security Shuts Down
Blue Security came with an innovative solution to target spammers - by spamming them with opt-out requests. It worked surprisingly well and spammer's were naturally not happy.
Unfortunately the company has decided to call it quits following the series of attacks
- Infosys' Murthy pulls back as IT advisor to Sri Lanka president
BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy has declined to be the IT advisor to the Sri Lankan government, the IT bellwether said Wednesday.
In a letter to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Murthy said he had
- SATA vs PATA Hard Disk Drives: A Guide
With the advent of new SATA drives, as you probably know, there was a big naming issue. The old IDE drives needed a name to distinguish it from SATA drives and so the name PATA was born. The P in
- Software exports from Kerala grows 43 percent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - While India's overall software exports have slowed down on account of the global slowdown, those from Kerala grew 43.41 percent till February-end, fetching a revenue of Rs.2,300 crore.
'While the STPI (Software Technology Parks India) figures for the country
- When An Engineer Speaks Honestly To Management...
All hell breaks loose! Imagine this: "Most of us are only pretending to work while secretly hoping the project gets canceled after you get fired by the board". Today's Dilbert is a bit of fresh air after days of stale
- Court adjourns hearing on SEBI plea on Satyam fraud
HYDERABAD - The Andhra Pradesh High Court Thursday adjourned to Friday hearing on a petition by the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) seeking permission to record statements of disgraced Satyam Computer founder B. Ramalinga Raju and
- Free Shopping Mall To Display and Sell Your Products
Internet shopping malls / shopping carts aren't new. Today we will review a quality but free shopping mall to display and sell your products.
Mals-e
Mals-e is a remotely hosted free shopping cart application built with designer & marketers in mind. It helps
- How To Run Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 6, 5.5, 5.1 in Linux
Are you a developer or QA engineer, in an all Linux workplace, always looking for scarce Windows machines to run Microsoft Internet Explorer for testing your product and services? You could also be the manager who is eager to switch
- How to unrar multi-part rar files (*.r00) in Ubuntu 8.10 in Two Simple Steps
Rapidshare is one of the most used file sharing servers in the web. But Rapidshare is not that liberal to set every service free. For people who don't like to pay to download a file, it doesn't let him download
- How to Open and Edit Google 3D Models in Adobe Photoshop
The latest Photoshop CS4 comes with an outstanding image editor. The CS4 marks the Photoshop's entry into the third dimension. For those appetent to edit 3D models on 2D layers here's your call. Apart from the .3DS and many other
- Panada Internet Security Free for 3 months
One of the top antivirus featured in our list of top 5 Free Antivirus software, Panda Internet security has a reputation of annihilating most nefarious Internet threats. Panda Security has released the free Panda Internet Security 2009 that provides complete
- What would be the Features of an Ideal Blog Software
What features would you like in your dream blogging software?
Let me know your thoughts.
Here's what comes to my mind:
Commenting with:
WYSIWYG with shortcuts and buttons and spell checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion)
Strong Spam Protection through:
Blacklist
Trackback Moderation (Should Trackback even be there?)
Keyword (regex)
- JSP / Servlet - PHP Integration Options
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). They can run on the same machine with different
- How To Create Your Own Search Engine in Opera?
You can easily create your own search engines and even assign keywords to them in a minute or so. This mini-tutorial will show you how you can add any WordPress blogs search as one of your search engines. This is
- Satyam banned from dealing with World Bank for 8 years
NEW DELHI - The World Bank has said it has banned leading software vendor Satyam Computers from all business at the bank for a period of eight years - and that the ban started in September, according to a US
- Mafia game muscles into Twitter's commercial-free zone by selling a helping hand to players
New mafia game hits up Twitter players for moneySAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc.'s founders still haven't decided how to cash in on their popular Internet messaging service — to the delight of a rapidly growing audience. But the deliberate approach
- Samsung & LG Join Indian Outsourcing Bandwagon
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, Korea's two global electronics makers, have reduced their Indian workforce in India, opting instead to outsource its operations to India.
"We work project-by-project, so we move between India and South Korea. We don't stay here for
- Goku versus Cell (DragonBall Z) & Frieza: Music Video
Nice music video of the fight between Goku & Cell. In case you are wondering Goku (Son Goku) is the main hero of a popular Japanese animation series DragonBall Z. Next is the video featuring Goku & Frieza.
BTW: Was the
- Fusarium Keratitis (Contact Lens Fungal Infection) in 17 States Caused By Contact Lens Solution, FDA Warns (Precautions included)
The FDA and the CDC have issued an alert to health care professionals and patients about Renu lens solution that can cause a rare eye infection caused by a fungus, Fusarium Keratities. The infection is rare, but serious - and
- Furl is destroying Google rank of websites with 302 redirect
In Furl when you visit any individual's archive page you will see that the sites are not directly referenced to.
They are redirected from a jsp script using the dreaded 302 redirect. It has the effect of potentially replacing your
- How to Fight Against (sub?) Human-Written Comment Spam
All the comment spam plugins of the world do not protect you against spams which are written by humans. No amount of comment spam prevention plugins or .htaccess tricks protect you against them. So how do you fight when humans
- Microsoft Ventures Into Robotics With Microsoft Robotics Studio
Microsoft Robotics Studio aims to create common technological underpinnings for relatively fragmented robotics industry. It is intended for use with a wide range of robots, from those in factories to the growing number of consumer oriented robots. In short BASIC
- Digital River forecasts 2nd-quarter earnings shy of Wall street's expectations
Digital River forecasts 2Q earnings below views
MINNEAPOLIS — E-commerce software service company Digital River Inc. said Wednesday it is "cautiously optimistic" about its outlook for 2009. The company expects second-quarter earnings of 27 cents to 30 cents per share or,
- Now discounted designer clothes on a website
LONDON - There is good news for shoppers hunting for a bargain. A new website outnet.com promises to stock designer labels at heavily reduced prices.
The project is being masterminded by Natalie Massenet, who founded the luxury online fashion retailer net-a-porter.com
- Is Ruby very syntax rich? Do you like it? I don't.
I tried delving into Ruby couple of times in the past. Every time I had this weird feeling of what am I doing here when I am already very well conversant with a simpler language - Java, which gives me
- Free iPhone Photo Uploading
Phanfare unveiled a new camera application for the iPhone that allows users to easily share photos on the web. Phanfare provides 1GB of free online storage for photos (without advertisements) with paid option for unlimited storage.
Once users take a photo
- Windows 7 Release Schedule
The word is out. We broke it just when it came out of the horse's mouth. Windows 7 has always been one of our primary targets in feeding you with all the news, views and releases. This time too, we
- WordPress Wins Pwnie Award for Mass 0wnage (For Many Many Security Vulnerabilities)
WordPress wins the dubious distinction of Mass 0wnage Pwnie Award for an unbelievable number of WordPress vulnerabilities, over 140 as of today.
It seems like hardly a week goes by without a new vulnerability
- Gmail up and running after giving users hard time
NEW DELHI - Thousands of tweets and hours later, the Gmail malfunction that led to hue and cry in the Internet community Tuesday seems to have been resolved - more or less.
'A number of users have had difficulty accessing Gmail
- Digital River shares rise after JMP Securities analyst upgrades company to 'Market Outperform'
Digital River shares jump on upgradeNEW YORK — Shares of e-commerce software service provider Digital River Inc. rose nearly 5 percent in afternoon trading after a JMP Securities analyst upgraded the stock to "Market Outperform" from "Market Perform," citing strong
- Amazon (on Laptop) and Apple Gives Amazing Discounts for Holidays
There are two offers that you can not refuse at this moment. Because they are from Apple and Amazon. Take a look.
1. Do you want to buy anything from Apple store? Well today is the day. Because apple is actually
- New Zealand welfare agency uses Facebook to catch fraudsters
WELLINGTON - New Zealand's government welfare agency has confirmed it examines internet social network sites like Facebook to catch benefit fraudsters, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Lauren Kaney, 22, of Mount Maunganui, was convicted in court last week of getting three times
- Review: Sony VAIO mini
Sony VAIO, mini is perhaps the most talked about notebook of the town. Sony has left no stone unturned to promote it like a darling as well as making it as fashionable as it can get. While most of the
- How To Run Apache Ant Recursively From Any Sub-Folders
The following command will recursively search for ant build file in the directories and then its parent directories, till it finds it; and then executes it. In short you can use this command to manage your project from any subdirectory
- Subscribe To Blog Comments
I have added a plugin to allow you to subscribe to comments on my blog and track it in real-time with email.
Subscribe to blog comments plugin ( link ) allows you to follow the discussion on articles you like
- The Apple iPhone App of Our Choice in This Christmas
Christmas is just about here and I know you must be travelling to a lot of places and will inevitably try out some cool restaurants in the locale. So where to go and how good it will be remains the
- Is there a method to Google's madness?
Is there a broader plan behind latest Google innovations? At first sight some of them seems random addition to the Google family (20% effort or not) and somewhat unrelated to its search focus.
Lets scan Google News lately:
Google Maps now
- How To Configure BSNL ADSL Modem (UT-300R & UT-300R2) for Multiple Users on Windows NT / 2000 / XP, Linux, Mac
Have you ever tried to configure your ADSL Modem to automatically connect to the internet without requiring to connect from a computer? Are you a BSNL Broadband user? I have played without success with the ADSL Modem manual before I
- 24 Indians make it to 'World's Richest' club
WASHINGTON - Two dozen Indians made it to the Forbes list of 'World's Richest' with four of them among the top 10, as Warren Buffett dethroned Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who held the top slot for 13 straight years.
Steel czar
- MySpace Banner Ad Spreads Spyware
Millions of visitors to Myspace.com and other web sites have been infected with spyware by a banner advertisement according to iDefense, a Verisign company.
iDefense, an Internet security company owned by Verisign, said the spyware infects unpatched versions of Windows using
- Why Did I Create Simple Thoughts Blog?
Dean asked me:
Hello, im 21 looking to build a website for the first time. I've been looking into adsense and have been interested for a while. I was wondering if you built your website for that sole reason? to make
- Too many agencies probing Satyam scam: BSE chairman
KOLKATA - Too many agencies simultaneously probing the Satyam Computer Services scam might not be the best way to bring out the truth, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) chairman Jagdish Capoor said here Thursday.
'I am not sure whether all the agencies
- America's Economy: Why Jason Calacanis' 120% Solution Won't Cut It
Jason Calcanis has a simple solution for America's woes. To summarize his eminently readable article in his own words:
What made America great was our ability to innovate and create world-class products, ideas and services that people around the globe fell
- Defense Secretary Robert Gates approves Pentagon's creation of new cyber command
Gates approves creation of new cyber command
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates has formally ordered the creation of a new military cyber command that will coordinate the Pentagon's efforts to defend its networks and conduct cyberwarfare. A memo signed by
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