Meltdown 101: Why do earnings warnings matter?

NEW YORK — It's report card season on Wall Street and investors are bracing for bad news.

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Google finally does the inevitable, the most anticipated and talked about project in the tech world as far as they are concerned. They have designed an OS that has their name, i.e. Google Chrome OS. As we must quote Google here, "It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be." This is perhaps the most significant Google announcement after the Google Wave show-off in public. So, let me take you to the heart of the matter asap and give you 7 points that are worth mentioning in their upcoming OS.

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Search is at the heart of everything we do. Our engineers work every day to solve the hardest search problems, and thus improve your online experience. Here's a glimpse at what they do, the features they've built and the remarkable user stories that inspire our work

When you get such quotes right up, you know that only Google can be that dedicated and that passionate about what they do the best, Search. As you can see in the picture over there, Google has brought out all the existing feature under one roof by the concept of Discovering the Web. So what is it actually? It is nothing but prime features of Google search under one place.

So why now? Bing.
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Remember pay per post? yeah right, the controversial ad initiative that used to pay bloggers to write about products almost as if promoting it. The news is, they are at Twitter now and wants to make a new business model of the same kind and has named it Pay Per Tweet. So what they mean is very simple. They are developing a Twitter ad platform called Sponsored Tweets that will offer Twitter users the option of sending their followers messages about brands and products. Twitterers will get paid based either on the number of clicks they receive or on a flat fee per Tweet. Ted Murphy, Izea's (formerly PayperPost) CEO said it will take another month to launch this. So whats up guys? People who already have a good bunch of followers can start earning decently. Though I donno how well the felllow followers (@ twitter) will take it if you bump up with survey ads and mommy's kitchens' menu in the morning. However, considering the human resources and real time online projection that twitter has, I am sure PPT may catch up with the hot trends pretty soon.

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Six years ago, when Psion announced their netBook, it was an irreplaceable breakthrough for mobile enterprise market. Excuse the geeks for they must have hallucinated of the next big thing, probably a cloned descendant of Mactini. So what could be the future of post-netbook world? The notebooks had paved the way for netbooks and now they would be conceding the legacy to their generic offspring nomenclatured as smartbook. Well, genesis of the term seems to be an extraction from the amalgamation of smartphone and netbook. This obviously is a breaking news for those conformist with the broadest opinion accusing netbook to be an unfeasible piece of vendor-speak.

There was a conscious exposition of the new thing last November in a speech by a marketing executive from hard-drive maker Western Digital. What could be deciphered from the speech was that the smartbook would be a computing device similar in size or slightly smaller version of netbook equipped with smartphone like features.

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Suppose you are doing some research work at the internet from wikipedia and various other sources and want to copy bits and pieces of information from all the webpages in your doc. The annoying part is, if you simply copy them, there is a chance that many junk codes (like: hyperlinks, ad on hovering your mouse on a certain word etc) can come and disturb the way you want to save them or just won't let you copy that easily next time. You will have to strip them off for a normal mode which is more tedious. So what if you had an option just to select plain text from any portion of the webpage you want to copy? No associated HTML/ XML code will get copied with it even if its there. Here is a simple Firefox add-on that will help.

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People are saying that perhaps Microsoft has done things right for the first time in many years. Reason? Windows 7. Despite having seen different operating systems being launched every year, we don't recall any Windows, Linux or Mac OS has had such popularity even before being launched, so many communities dedicated to the breaking news of a yet to be an official product and uncountable positives coming out in form of Microsoft's relatively liberal approach and reviews of tech pundits. So what exactly does this signify? To be fair, Windows 7 deserves much of its credits because it really has proved to be far superior than the previous version of half baked Windows Vista. But the question is, will it affect the Linux community?

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After writing a detailed guide of tips and howtos about Xfce (a free desktop environment for Unix and other platforms such as Linux, Solaris and BSD) we started our expedition on Xfce and soon encountered a problem that we had no feasible and complete solution to. One of our developers was having some problems with the Xfce panels. It was not being shown and somehow there was no help at hand anywhere. But anyway, we solved it quickly and it was pretty easy like any other problem is, after being solved. So here is the way to restore top and bottom toolbars for Xfce environment in your Linux distro.

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Trent Reznor, the leading man of Nine Inch Nails and a digital music visionary, thrashed Apple the other day because the NiN app was disapproved off an update on the grounds of "objectionable content" (read: too many F-attacks). But anyway, Apple's concern surprisingly was not with content that much but with the song "The Downward Spiral" that can be streamed to the updated NIN iPhone App. Which is ridiculous like their dubious App approval policy is. TR didn't sit back and chose to take it on and spoke his hearts out about the bizarre app policy of Apple. Full article (704 words) »

Always but always our laptops run out of juice just when we needed to make the vital presentation at the seminar or had something really worth doing. It doesn't depend upon the models these days because even a Macbook Pro can leave you stupid if not religiously charged every day and to the full. So what do you do to dodge past this obvious phenomena?

There aren't any to ignore it fully but you can help yourself by correcting some measures you possibly don't. Gadgetophilia has done an extensive research on different laptops from different brands and have compiled a list of 15 simple ways you can improve your laptop's battery life. Take a look. Some of the more popular ones are

1. Hibernating your computer
2. Running less background processes
3. Compromising on resource hungry processes when the battery is low
4. Auto shutdown of monitor when left idle for a while and etc.