Category: Information and Communications Technology
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What is Microsoft doing right, and wrong for Windows Phone?
Well to those who know me, I am an Windows Phone fan, so much so that my entire family now has windows phone (I bought them). But off late, I am unhappy about a few things that I need to voice it out. Windows Phone 8 showed immense promise to the world, with its Metro UI and…
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All new Chrome tab with Google Search integrated, and how it benefits Google?
For one, this saves a huge chunk of data costs for Google. But this will also mean Google’s number of hits to the domain homepage will reduce as much. Will this indirectly cause Google to loose the No. 1 spot on global rankings?
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Problems with Add-On domains on CPanel
PS: This is a post which is a direct outcome of a discussion on IndiBlogger forum. The question was whether Google and other Search Engines treat Add-On domains differently? The direct answer is no, but it does affect your SEO efforts. The culprit here being CPanel, the trusted and proven Web Hosting Manager used by…
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That rape thing is not good… media banks on a story yet again!
It is another gang rape, this time in Mumbai. We have been unable to wake up even after 16th December tragedy with Damini. The recent news of gang rape in Mumbai struck me like a bolt, that too in an area like Lower Parel at 6.30 PM in the evening. The place was secluded, the property…
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The craze for wild life, travelling and science TV Channels
I am sure most of us have had faced this situation. At home, your dad / wife / mother / sister have all their time slots defined. At 8 it could be a serial at Colors, 8.30 at Zee, 9 at Star Plus and 10 at Life Ok (of course, for Mahadev). Do not go…
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Money for Inter Galactic transactions now? What next?
Ruffling through the news paper today, I found a rather interesting piece of news. What will be the money used by Aliens / humans in space? Wait, what? I did not understand the need for us to think what money will we use for inter galactic transactions. Who needs them now, when we don’t have…
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Blackberry is not in a mood to put down the fight
From a company that is in doldrums and in the ire of its stakeholders for not keeping up with its competition, mounting losses each quarter and job cuts and losing their developer base to iOS and Android – this was something I never expected.
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Aviation: a century and a decade
What led me to write about it? I stumbled upon a wikipedia article on Concorde and had the time to read it through. The most interesting part is what I read afterwards. Over the coming weeks, I am planning to research a bit about these and compose them for all of us to read. I…
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Blackout is the online Satyagraha
With news breaking out that one of Indian websites have been taken down due to the government censorship is exactly when the news started getting heating up in the western world. The two new legislations / regulation that are in the process of getting approved in the US Senate are now under fire from major…
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Advantages of using Analytics for blogs and websites
Advantage No.1: Statistics: It tells you how much your blog is visited and from where. This is in particular useful to guage two things. One the amount of revenue your site can get, two to see viability of the website. By viability, I mean, to see how much are you getting in return for your…