Sony reports $1 bln annual loss, first in 14 years

TOKYO — Sony Corp. reported its first annual net loss in 14 years and forecast a bigger loss this year, saying the pressure from sliding sales, competition in gadget prices and a strong yen was expected to continue.

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Facebook like Orkut has integrated chat with friends' list. In a way its very useful as you can chat and talk normally in facebook with friends under one single window. But again, you may want to add any people to your profile but chat with very few. Once you have added them, there is no way you can stop them from buzzing you at chat which is terribly annoying. So how can you be selective about whom to chat and whom to not? Turning chat off for all is a dumb solution. So here is a trick.

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I am sure even if you use Fedora or CentOS, you have had fair share of irritation caused by system hangs. Of course no one can doubt Microsoft Windows' supremacy in this event but still, any kind of system hang interrupt our whole process of working and thinking in a big way. What happens with most of the system hangs caused by software is, some of the running processes take too much of CPU resource by themselves. One of the main culprits have been Firefox (which can be solved from our guide to kill and restart non-responding Firefox). So basically we have a way out by which you can avoid the fate of a non responding system.

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There are millions of Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets users who rarely care to  look for the best side of it, I mean hacks.  There are a wide range of functions performed on Microsoft Excel from calculations to analyzing data to integrating information, the list continues. With a fluent interface rich data visualization, and PivotTable views MS Excel is now easier to use. There is lot to do with MS Excel, if you wish to be one of those Excel gurus. Well,  I have some cool ideas to excel your MS excel performance. Here are my MS Excel hacks to improve you MS Excel experience.

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With an entirely new interface setup and advanced features you might find it difficult to catch up with MS Word. Even if you are a seasoned pro there are new stuffs to explore with Microsoft Word 2007. Well there are a myriad of hacks if you can explore but I have the top 10 hacks for MS Word 2007 that can really make the word processor more productive.  Full article (1444 words) »

Setting up a DNS server (with software like Bind) has two major components, the first being setting up the server itself and adding all the records. I will not delve into it as it has been discussed ad-nauseum on the net. After you have setup your DNS servers (say ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com), there remains the task of appointing your DNS server as the the DNS server for your domains. Sounds confusing? Well it is, so read on for details.

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While scrolling through Will hadcroft's Anne Droyd  I was thinking when would Google's ebooks make it to the mobile phones. For a welcome surprise, with Amazon flooding the mobile ebook markets, Google couldn't wait to toe the line. Google would allow 1.5 million of its free ebooks accessible on mobile devices. Be ready to hop through those millions of ebooks on your iPhone or other mobiles.
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Things kept will rot if you don't stitch in time. This is for those of you not in a habit of cleansing you hard disk. This piles up system errors. If you ask me, I know a problem shared is a problem halved. Suggestions and ideas pour in like nothing. But where do you land up? A hornets' nest? I'd sort out things for you. Just a small aggregate of methods would be my simple blueprint to free up you hard disk space.

Mind it, these ideas are exclusively for Microsoft OS users.

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Do you want to know virtually everything about Google? Did you ever know how Google wants to own the internet market and monopolize it to a fierce extent? if we remember Microsoft and how it had branded all the computers in the world under their OS, Windows, (until of course Linux came into rescue), is Google up to the same venture? Imagine a world where you don't have an alternative but Google.

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Facebook has a new face now and lemme tell you this face is not gonna be forgot amongst thousands of others. I am talking of Facebook Connect, which is the next evolution of Facebook Platform.

What's New at Facebook Connect

Facebook Connect brings in the concept of web-wide log-in. It lets you use your Facebook ID and password to sign-in to third-party sites. It uses the concept of OpenID into effect. OpenID, if you're not familiar with it, lets you use a single username and password to log on to numerous sites.

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