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Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Though I would hardly like to cover pizza deals on this blog but this one caught my attention as it was related to the U.S. recession. Domino’s Pizza has launched an innovative offer meant to tackle people’s bad habit of skipping meals during the recession, the 444 Deal. Patrick Doyle, President of Domino’s USA, said, We [...]
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Technology
Friday, March 28th, 2008

Japanese phone company Sharp has released a new phone, the 922SH targeted at bloggers who can now update their blog with the phone. The phone is available for purchase through Softbank Mobile, Japan’s number three cellular provider. The phone can only be used on the Softbank network in Japan and there are no plans at [...]
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Business
Friday, March 28th, 2008

There is an interesting argument going on between Robert Scoble of Scobleizer and Dennis Howlett of Irregular Enterprise over Google’s failure (or success) in providing Enterprise class applications. Scoble is claiming that Google will eventually make it to the enterprise eliminating Microsoft especially in Outlook, Office and Sharepoint whereas Dennis is saying it will not [...]
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Technology
Friday, March 28th, 2008

Hitwise has released a report according to which out of total traffic coming to Wikipedia, approx 10% goes back to Google and over 3% go to MySpace. It is well understood that people searching for reference articles and information come to Wikipedia from Google (Google contributes to 51% of Wikipedia traffic) and other search engines. [...]
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Technology
Friday, March 28th, 2008

Google Webmaster Tools now have a Robots.txt generator. We all know how important robots.txt is for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but often people do now know how to create it. The tool present on Google Webmaster site provides an easy way to create a Robots.txt for your website. Once you have created the Robots.txt file [...]
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Technology
Friday, March 28th, 2008

Open Office 2.4.0. has been launched and is available with the new features, which are really impressive, reports Andrew from OOONinja.com. Here are the major highlights of the latest release: Chart Enhancements Draw Regression Curve and show equations and R-squared value Draw reverse axis Number format for data labels Display both value and percentage in [...]
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Business
Thursday, March 27th, 2008

LinkedIn has announced partnership with BusinessWeek.com to extend the benefits to business professionals using both of these services. Basically, it is an integration of LinkedIn API by Business Week on their story pages. It is a two-way agreement under which BusinessWeek.com has integrated a LinkedIn widget to show a user’s connections at companies mentioned on [...]
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Business
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Microsoft has announced the launch of a pilot program for U.S. publishers for serving ads in video using Sliverlight Streaming Service and Microsoft AdCenter. The program will allow select Silverlight Streaming account holders to take Silverlight videos and automatically insert contextual advertisements into the end-user video playback experience. The publishers will be required to provide [...]
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Technology
Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new features for its EC2 (Electronic Computing Cloud) service which are Multiple Availability Zones and Elastic IP addresses. These two features, as per Amazon, will help developers build failure resilient applications in the cloud. Basically, EC2 now has become a cloud CDN (Content Distribution Network) which places [...]
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Business
Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Mobile phones have become an integral part of business as everyone needs to remain connected, communicate with customers, employees and business partners and retrieve and transfer information on the go. There are different kind of mobile phones providing different sets of features for making it easy to do business while you are on the move. [...]