Microsoft’s new search called ‘Bing‘ is made public today. I just played around with a varied set of tests on Bing and here is my review based on my findings. As always, my very first search query is ‘http’ and the very first impression for me was a total disaster. It was damn faster though! […]
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Twitter : The good, bad and ugly
I have been using twitter for about 3 months now. With all my experimentation and observations with twitter, I am convinced that twitter is everything one can think of in the current social network realm. It can be good, bad and even ugly depending on how an individual uses. To illustrate each of the situations, […]
Yahoo! HackLite at GIDS Bangalore
Yahoo! will be conducting an online hack event called “HackLite” at ‘The Great Indian Developer Summit‘ (GIDS) 2009 from April 22-25 at IISc, Bangalore. With HackLite, the hacking concept is the same as Yahoo!s Open Hack Days – that is, building great applications and widgets using Yahoo! Open APIs. But unlike Open Hack Days (where […]
Koobface worm targets facebook
If you are regular on facebook, it is time for you to be a bit more cautious now. Facebook is the largest social network on web and it is no alien to worms anymore. ‘Koobface’ is the name of the worm, not sure what made the author of the worm to name it that way. […]
Tata Indicom and Rural India
To stay connected to web at my convenience during the vacation, I took Tata Indicom Vdatacard from office. It is a PCMCIA card that has a small antenna. I had the appropriate drivers to install this device on my HP nc6400 notebook. I doubly ensured the functionality, working condition of this datacard before carrying it […]