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• Article on Microsoft's proposed offer to Yahoo!

  SearchEngineLand has a nice write up about this proposed acquisition. It discusses the event in detail and portrays a nice picture of what is going on and why. Definitely worth a read. There are also live blogged notes from the Microsoft conference call... Posted Feb 01 2008, 09:18 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: General, Search

• Microsoft's offer letter to Yahoo!

  Steve Ballmer's letter to the board of Yahoo! is available for us to read at the Microsoft Presspass site . Definitely worth a read. I skipped the financial figures, and tried to find out what is Microsoft looking after with this acquisition. Search dominance... Posted Feb 01 2008, 09:03 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: General, Search

• Microsoft proposes to Yahoo!

  Definitely one of the biggest news I have seen in my career. Microsoft today proposed to acquire Yahoo! for $31 per share. That puts the value of Yahoo! at approximately $44.6 billion. Financials apart, this will have a BIG effect on the search and online... Posted Feb 01 2008, 08:43 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: General, Search

• NewsGator for Free

  One of the biggest new announcements I have heard in a while. Newsgator which is the leader for RSS Clients, has recently announced that it is making it's clients FREE. Yes, you heard it. They are free to download and use. Yipeeeee. This includes FeedDemon... Posted Jan 10 2008, 07:46 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: General, Blogging

• Happy New Year

  Wishing all my readers a very Happy New Year. May this year bring lots of joys and happiness into your lives, cause after all, those are the things which matter most. I am not a person who religiously makes resolutions and tried to keep them, but this... Posted Jan 02 2008, 08:38 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: General

• New laptop

  As promised I am back. My development laptop has arrived. It is more like beauty and the beast put together. ( A real beauty to look at and work on while performing like a beast ). Many people have asked me more details about the laptop and I will try... Posted Oct 30 2007, 05:10 AM by amar with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: General

• Hello Everyone

  I know I have been unable to keep my promise to start writing to this blog again. There are several reasons for that. After so long on not updating my blog, I was thinking that I will hardly have any readers left but all your comments proved me wrong... Posted Oct 02 2007, 05:10 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Still Here

  For those who are wondering where I have been, and why my blog was down, there is some good news. I still exist and do plan to write again soon in around 15 days time. The blog was down due to some technical problems with migrating Wordpress to another... Posted Feb 06 2007, 12:02 AM by amar with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: General

• Be careful of Domain Sharks

  I am recently dabbling more into live internet sites, and have been making some disturbing observances. Just want to warn you all to be very careful from where you search for the availability of a domain name. Certain observations have made me to believe... Posted Nov 28 2006, 11:11 AM by amar with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: General

• GoDaddy Problems - stay away if you can

  I recently had a very very strange problem with godaddy for registering my domain. Never going to use them for anything and will never recommend them. Just want to share it with all of you so that you guys don't face it. I registered a domain name from... Posted Nov 27 2006, 12:11 PM by amar with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: General

• Fun Thing

  I got this forward today, and it was real cool. I was surprised to see how human mind read things. Try to read the paragraph below and see for yourself. "i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the... Posted Nov 23 2006, 08:11 PM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Server Move

  I will mostly be shifting this blog to its new home next week. So there will a bit of downtime while the actual domain transfer and a server shift happens. If this blog disappears for a bit, don't worry, I am very much around, and will be back online... Posted Nov 23 2006, 01:11 PM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: General

• A new milestone for the Web

  Just started the day with Techmeme and was plesantly surprised and nostalgic with this article over at CNN . The Web reached 100 million domain name sites. I built my first website in 1995 when the internet first came to India in a mass scale. Have gone... Posted Nov 02 2006, 09:11 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Virtual PC is now free.

  Just heard that Microsoft has made Virtual PC free. Download Virtual PC 2004 SP1 here . Edit: If you are installing on a laptop, make sure you get the laptop patch here . Posted Jul 13 2006, 09:07 AM by amar with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: General

• Light a Candle for victims of the Mumbai Attacks

  Please visit the CNN-IBN site and light an e-candle for the Mumbai Victims. For every candle lit - CNN-IBN channel is giving 1 Rupee to the victims. Thank you for you time and efforts. Posted Jul 13 2006, 08:07 AM by amar with | with no comments Filed under: General