Devang Gandhi

Whether you are looking for local weather forecast or solutions to mathematical equations, Bing makes it easier.

I read this article that compares the two internet giants. A nice read indeed.

Something really bizarre happened just now. I was typing in the address bar of firefox 3.0 and all the letters started appearing backwards so devang appears gnaved.

After googling, I figured others have experienced this before too. So I did what they did. I disabled the addons like Google toolbar and firebug and shut down firefox. I actually had to kill the firefox process from the task manager window.

I got firefox back up, enabled my addons and everything was fine.

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Their best feature is one-click installs using which you can have dreamhost install applications like wordpress, joomla, phpbb and many more for you. You do not need to be a programmer. With dreamhost one-click installation you can have your wordpress blog or a phpbb forum up and running in minutes.

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Microsoft plans to wage a proxy fight against Yahoo. Microsoft sees a real benefit in acquiring Yahoo – a benefit large enough to make it deviate from its two fundamental policies:

• Microsoft doesn’t buy large corporations
• Microsoft doesn’t go against the will of the other company, if it doesn’t want to get bought.

The way proxy fight works is that Microsoft will request Yahoo investors to remove Yahoo’s board of directors. Yahoo, on the other hand is apparently seeking other options to counter the possible hostile takeover.

Starbucks has partnered with AT&T to provide free wi-fi access. However, the two hours a day free wi-fi is only for customers who have a Starbucks gift card. It is like prepaying for your coffee but you get free internet too. The AT&T customers will enjoy unlimited access at these starbucks hotspots.

For those who do not want to use a starbucks card, the price is $4 for a two-hour session (T-Mobile charged $6 per hour or $10 per day). I wonder if AT&T will replace T-Mobile hotspots at the hundreds of airport across the country. One more step in the right direction (of making internet free).

It’s been four days since Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo and no real response from Yahoo yet. As Jim Cramer says, Yahoo seems arrogant. Google’s senior VP David Drummond has already voiced strong concerns over what could be Microsoft’s attempt dominate the Internet that the way it does with the PC.

On the flip side, Microsoft and Yahoo together could pose serious competition to Google, who has long enjoyed the lack of it. Competitive markets have always been beneficial to the customers and it is time that online advertising and search become competitive.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told The Associated Press that his company is innovating a technology that delivers data as fast as 160 MBPS. Comcast is also developing a service that will pop up caller-id of incoming calls on TVs and computers and a phone that lets users access email. So in the near future we can hope that a TV won’t be just a TV and a phone just a phone.

Here’s a nice article that shows how you can sort pages created in wordpress. The default is to display the pages titles in the sidebar in an alphabetical order but you can define your own order as well.

It’s not about a new social network, instead this time Google is launching a platform that will provide programmatic access to various existing social networks like orkut, facebook and linkedin. Google’s OpenSocial provides a set of APIs that will let developers create social applications that work across multiple social networking websites (those that support the Opensocial APIs). All that a developer needs to know is JavaScript and HTML to create a social application.