Archive for March, 2008
Lara’s ‘living’ it up
Lara Dutta has left for a 10-day Art Of Living workshop trip to New Zealand, the Fiji islands and Australia.
Says a source close to Lara, “She is an Art Of Living instructor and makes it a point to attend such events. She will attend the special convention called Youphoria Youth Forum in Auckland.
The actress is […]
What will Jerry Yang do when Microsoft buys Yahoo!?: 5 questions on the eve of the acquisition
Microsoft made a $44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo! on February 1, 2008, and since then we’ve been waiting to see what happens next. While nothing officially has been announced, there is speculation that the deal may be nearing its next phase. Yahoo! hasn’t come up with a miracle deal to save the company, and […]
10 million Wikipedia articles, but missing China’s contribution
That’s right, Wikipedia now has 10 million articles. But participation in this global brain-share is restricted in China.
Wikipedia being blocked is news to no one in China, but there’s a bit of a catch-22 even for those users who use proxies to get around the restrictions: Many proxy urls and anonymizers are banned from editing […]
Apple’s iPhone ready to have a boom in Latin America
Apple continues to spread the iPhone craze all over the world, and it looks like Mexico will be among the countries to get the sleek handset in the near future.
According to the on-line edition of El Universal, an important Mexican newspaper, the iPhone will be available in the Central American country starting June 2008, […]
AMD’s Phenom X4 9750 and 9850 processors
Most of you are aware by now of the problems with AMD’s quad-core Phenom processors. As we have chronicled closely, the chips were late to market and debuted with unexpectedly low clock frequencies. As a result, their performance was underwhelming compared to Intel’s Core 2 offerings. Worse yet, shortly before its release, AMD discovered a […]
Optimize Google Desktop for Search
The latest version of Google Desktop probably because it uses too many resources. I thought this is a good opportunity to list some ways you could improve Google Desktop’s performance, especially if you want to use it as a search engine and not as a widget engine.
When you install , above the web search results. […]
