Igniting Social Change

Microsoft together with AMD gave out some really nice Christmas presents to a bunch of bloggers this year. Brandon LeBlanc got one, Scott Beale got one, Barb Bowman got one, Mauricio Freitas got one, Mitch Denny got one, Zen.Heavengames got one, plus many other bloggers who did not even write about it (shame on them). They seem to have covered everyone from A-list to Z-list, a first in the industry with such a valuable gift, kudos for thinking about the little guys.
I have played a lot with the Vista Beta and it was amazing though not all the apps i used worked

Aside :: Can i get the laptop and install Suse on it

Robert Scoble is comparing this to PayPerPost, but i think it is Loyalty award and Cisco and Juniper please pick hints from Microsoft .

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Over the past couple of years, a bunch of ISPs have started (usually quietly) applying traffic shaping efforts to slow down your high bandwidth applications like BitTorrent. This is part of what the whole network neutrality debate is about, but this has more to do with the ISPs trying to keep out services that use up more bandwidth then they budgeted for. What it really represents is the inability of ISPs to recognize a simple fact: if you offer people bandwidth, they’ll figure out ways to use it. The ISPs got into this big race with each other, and all promised unlimited bandwidth at cheap prices, making the calculation that the demand for bandwidth wouldn’t increase very much, and most people wouldn’t use very much at all. They were wrong. But, rather than admit that they made a mistake, they suddenly pretend that the “all you can eat” broadband they sold you is something different — one where they can arbitrarily limit what you can do with that bandwidth. They sold you one thing, with the belief that you wouldn’t actually use it, and now that you are, they’re shoving in place temporary fixes to stop you from using what they sold you.

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Powerful quakes measuring 7 on the Richter scale have struck southern Taiwan and caused damage to undersea communication cables, disrupting telephone and internet services in several parts of Asia. The quake comes on the second anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and triggered tsunami warnings. Human casualties, however, have been low so far.”

Now lets wait and see how much spam does reduce from Taiwan

A lot of spam comes in from there …. pls dont bash my mail box

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Search-engine marketing solves a basic need of connecting potential buyers to sellers, but until recently, it has lived a low-profile life in the media and advertising world.
 

Statistics

1.About 80% of internet traffic begins at a search engine, according to Harris Interactive,
2.DoubleClick reports 41% of web users use search for simple navigation, typing a query to find a brand rather than typing a URL directly into their browser
3. Search Engine Marketers Spent $5.75 Billion in 2005, According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO)
4.The latest figures from Forrester indicate search marketing will be a $7 billion business this year.

The rise of search engine marketing has seen a rise in frauds. We have mentioned some of these latest threats.

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Well..In my first post, I would like to introduce, whats termed as the server ready to be a part of Internet part-2. The next generation internet where we would have Video on demand, heavy gaming, virtual worlds e.t.c.

SUN microsystems had recently launched a server - code named “THUMPER” with a capacity of 24TB internal storage and throughput of 2 GBps from disk to memory and 1 GBps from disk to network.

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CafePress.com, which provides online stores for thousands of blogs and web sites, has been hit with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) which has disrupted service for many of its merchants during the critical final shopping days before Christmas. (more…)

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In any organization, the role of a department can either be divided into cost centre or profit centre. A cost centre is a department that adds to the cost of the company. A profit centre is a centre that creates profit for the company.

The aim of both the departments is to add something to the bottomline. The profit centre achieves this by generating profits for the company. The cost department tries to reduce costs which effects the bottomline indirectly( A penny saved is a penny earned). (more…)

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Remote infrastructure management (RIM) is being called the next “mega” IT trend by industry analysts and gurus. However, what is not being talked about enough is the exciting career opportunities offered by this industry which are unique not only in its growth opportunities, but also in the challenging mission-critical work environment that it offers.

**Estimates from IDC, Gartner and others indicated that as much as 80-90% of the infrastructure management can be done remotely. **

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Everyone wants to please his boss. Most effective IT managers want to please their bosses to achieve organizational objectives which is a positive approach. However, the same approach becomes venemous when you start neglecting your team members at the expense of pleasing your boss.

Have you ever reported to a boss who seemed like he was never free to talk to any of his staff members. You would call, send e-mail, to talk to him, whatever you thought would work. He would always be busy talking to the MD or some important strategic partner, which would be fine, but you’ll always miss out on the attention and guidance at our end. Such people fail to admit that they have too much on their plate which doesn’t make things any better at your end.

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I have written this article by referring various sources from the web. Referrer URL’s are mentioned at the end of the article.   A team inside the SQL Server database unit is building an end-to-end, P2P data synchronization platform, code-named “Harmonica,” designed to connect data across both Windows and non-Windows-based devices and services — much the way the WinFS team was hoping to do.  Unlike some of Microsoft’s other “anytime, anywhere” schemes, Harmonica doesn’t seem to be complete vaporware. Microsoft’s Windows Live Favorites synchronization capability is based on Harmonica.  

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