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Is Google Readying Wi-Fi Service?

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:38:05 +0400

This PC World article on Google's interest in Wi-Fi services reports any diversification by Google.

Now these guys has lots of cash (remember the IPO?) and though search alone will help in sustaining, its not sufficient for growth.

So why not cashin the GOOGLE brand. People are biting whatever thats Google.

What is Zotob

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:00:00 +0400

One more Worm on Windows platform.

Looks like theres help around for those affected.

CNET: Microsoft offers Zotob removal tool

RSSOwl - high ratings from me

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:20:00 +0400

People who are into blogsphere for their daily dose of gyan & happening, a good RSS collecting tool is a must. Its too tiresome to go to various blogs to checkout whats new. I recommend using RSSOwl, an Eclipse based product that gathers new weblog post from your favorite blogs or photo blogs.

RSSOwl has all the required features a News syndicate tool should have, and it works really nice for me. I started off with 1.1.3 preview copy, and due to some bug once lost all my favorite links. Though the tool provide options to export your RSS links in OPML format.

A 4-star for RSSOwl!!!

Net Quote

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:34:54 +0400

From the web:-

As I was listening to the news about Bernie Ebbers' 25-year jail sentence - longer, AFAIK, than many people get for murder - I felt a comparison stirring.

B. Ebbers: Told a pack of lies, wasted $11 billion of other people's money. Jailed for 25 years.

G.W.Bush: Told a pack of lies, wasted several hundred billion dollars of other people's money, invaded a country illegally, ignored the Geneva Conventions, and caused over 100,000 deaths. Honoured, respected, highly paid, enshrined in the White House.

Isn't "dumbocracy" wonderful?

Google Search no more!

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Mon, 23 May 2005 08:07:32 +0400

With a host of services that now are part of Google, Google is search no more. Its fast running on to become your web portal. With the launch of Google Personalize at Google Labs, the company is testing a new tool to provide personalize view of various content and services that Google hosts.

Apart from search I am a regular user of various other google services which includes Google News, Gmail, Google Suggest, Search History, Web Alerts, Google as a word dictionary, Image Search, and sometime the Translation facility.

And all these features provides a very high value to the web users. Like Search History facility for an example, at times I am looking back and searching for a thing which I had in the past but now I am not able to recall the keywords used. So Search History helps in performing a Search Redo :)

Google News is another marvelous site as it saves lots of time for a web user in visiting various news websites looking for news. With Google News in single page you get to see content from thousands of news sources.

The ACID Test

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:51:00 +0400

The Webstandards.org has released a new version of their web browser standard conformity test.

Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by The Web Standards Project (WaSP). Using this test page the web browser vendors can ensure their product supports features that are part of the existing Web Standards. And the challenge is to render the ACID2 page correctly. If the browser supports the standard features, the smiley face will appear and if something is wrong the face will be distored.

The ACID2 desired result

Firefox 1.0.1 Result

IE 6.0 Result

And that's Broadband!

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:14:04 +0400

In this e-age, the net conectivity is definitely coming out as a Standard of living factor. And it should no longer be a luxour for chosen few to receive GPBS speed for home net-usage.

The news here is, the Hong Kong residents are having affordable 1GBPS broadband access.

And now this makes people like us who are still in kbps and mbps look so poor :)

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Wow - The ultimate Domino Case Study

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:53:35 +0400

Got this info from Ed Brill. Someone happend to come across an M$ Site.

The fact that this web page seamlessly merge with ASP shows the Domino Advantage, and more over its done well with Release 4.6. But someone have to tell M$ to move to R6.

Follow up this post@EDBrill.com

IBM doesn't like peer-to-peer

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:50:00 +0400

I always had doubts on Groove's P2P architecture and its good to read IBM not going that way for Collaboration.

Read More: Search Domino Article

Skype nears 100M downloads for software

noreply@blogspirit.com (Subhan SATOPAY) — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:45:00 +0400

Wow!! so Skype is in News again...and for good. It has achieved a great milestone. And 100 million downloads is no little achievement.

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