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Who is the most Popular YouTube user?

September 28th, 2008 at 1:31 pm » Comments (2)

YouTube is no doubt, the most popular video website on internet. But have you ever thought who is the most popular user on YouTube. Today I have come with the answer of this question. So the most popular YouTube user is universalmusicgroup with around 449,000 subscribers and 16,103,626 channel views. Universal Music Group consists of record [...]



Corruption has increased in India

September 23rd, 2008 at 5:20 pm » Comments (3)

According to latest corruption report released by global watchdog Transparency International, Somalia is the most corrupt nation in the world. The report has been prepared on the basis of surveys conducted in 180 countries by 13 international agencies associated with Transparency International. Somalia has not any central government since 1991 so the whole country is [...]



Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir and India

September 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 am » Comments (5)

Kashmir is considered as heaven on earth. Yeah, it is right. But for India it is more than a hell. It is one of the root causes of most of the militant activities in India. There are many special privileges given to this state by the Government of India and all due to article 370. [...]



New Home Page design for Yahoo

September 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm » Comments (2)

So this time it’s Yahoo. World’s most popular web portal Yahoo.com is all set to change the design of its home page. The new home page is under testing phase. This time, the aim behind this change is to include more and more third party content on the home page. For example, after this change [...]



Future of gaming industry in India

September 21st, 2008 at 4:45 am » Comments (1)

In one of the recent bollywood film Bachna Ae Haseeno, the protagonist Ranbir Kapoor played the role a game developer. From there I got the idea to find more on status of gaming industry in India. Our children and young generation love to play computer and video games. But there are many people who convert [...]



Bill O’Reilly hacked : See the proof

September 20th, 2008 at 6:15 pm » Comments (0)

An unknown hacker has claimed that he has cracked the restricted zone of the web site of Fox news commentator Bill O’Reilly. He accessed the subscriber list of the website which includes their names, e-mail addresses, city and state, and the password they use for their registration to the site. The hacker has also sent [...]



Farhan rocks with Rock On

September 20th, 2008 at 5:32 pm » Comments (0)

This weekend I visited PVR to watch hindi movie Rock On. It is one of the few hindi films based on struggle and challenges faced by a rock band called Magik. Rock On has Arjun Rampal and debutantes Farhan Akhtar and Prachi Desai in the lead roles, along with Luke Kenny, Purab Kohli, Koel Purie, [...]



How to Grow your business with Google?

September 20th, 2008 at 8:04 am » Comments (0)

Google is not only growing due to its products. At present, its revenue is around 17 billion dollar. One of the main reasons of its fast growth is its contribution towards the development of businesses of other small websites and blogs. Google helps other businesses in three ways. 1. Reaching new customers, 2. Enhancing the [...]



Google co-founder Sergey Brin started blogging

September 19th, 2008 at 8:09 pm » Comments (0)

Finally Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started blogging on blogger.com. He has only one post on his blog. He claimed that his blog reflects his life outside of work. His first blog is actually more promotional where he has tried to promote the 23andMe which is a privately held personal genomics and biotechnology company based [...]



Shyam Benegal to return with Welcome to Sajjanpur

September 18th, 2008 at 7:03 pm » Comments (1)

Three years after the release of “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero”, one of my favorite directors Shyam Benegal is back with “Welcome to Sajjanpur” starring Shreyas Talpade and Amrita Rao in main roles. Actually this is his first comedy film so all his fans including me are eagerly waiting for the its release. [...]



Bill Gates is still the richest American

September 18th, 2008 at 2:49 am » Comments (0)

Microsoft founder and former chairman Bill Gates is still the richest American with property, shares and cash worth 57 billion USD. He is followed by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett with 50 billion USD. Actually six months before, Bill Gates was at second position and Warren Buffett was first. But Berkshire Hathaway shares are [...]



Lehman’ bankruptcy will hit Indian IT companies

September 17th, 2008 at 2:52 am » Comments (3)

The business community of India is busy in discussing the impact of finance giant Lehman Brothers’s bankruptcy on Indian economy. Still business experts are analyzing the status of Indian finance market after this biggest incident of bankruptcy in world history. I, as a software professional, trying to find out its impact on Indian Software outsourcing [...]



How Lehman Brothers became Bankrupt?

September 16th, 2008 at 7:21 pm » Comments (0)

15th Sept 2008 has become a black day in the history of financial market with US fourth-largest investment bank Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy. Already Merrill Lynch has been acquired by the Bank of America and AIG is also verge of bankruptcy. How it happened? How 158 years old finance giant became bankrupt? Today I [...]



HP will cut 25000 jobs after EDS acquisition

September 16th, 2008 at 3:24 am » Comments (0)

Yesterday Hewlett Packard Inc. has announced that it has future plans to cut around 25,000 jobs over the period of three years. It is going to combine its workforce with EDS (Electronic Data Systems), the company HP has recently acquired. Still the figure is not clear how many employees of the combined company would lose [...]



Top 20 most popular free windows softwares

September 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pm » Comments (3)

Wikipedia CEO Jimmy Wales once said on the success of Wikipedia that The best things in the world are free. This statement is valid for internet also. For example, the best search engine Google, the best webmail service, gmail, yahoomail etc, the best online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the best internet browser, Firefox are all free. Today [...]