Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Microsoft has revealed a new feature that will ship with Internet Explorer 9 to help users avoid the online tracking that is now widespread on the Web and is used to power behavioral advertising. The new Tracking Protection Lists will tell the browser which third-party content to permit and which to prohibit.
Tracking Protection Lists...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The latest increase in intake for Institute of Managament Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad’s PGDM programme has prompted me to write this article. The total intake has crossed 500 and mind you its IMT and no IIM. I will look at it in two perspectives:
1. Decrease in percentile for admissions
2. Sacrifice on job quality
There has been tremendous...
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The holiday season came one day early for Facebook this year, as Santa bestowed the company the title of "third largest website ever." New metrics from comScore indicate that Facebook has finally passed Yahoo for third place, pulling in 648 million unique visitors for November 2010 versus Yahoo's 630 million.
Only Microsoft, with 869...
Sunday, November 21, 2010
The much-awaited Facebook email service (Project Titan) was finally announced on Monday. Facebook email is actually part of a larger, simplified communication system called Facebook Messages. Facebook Messages will have email, SMS, chat conversations with your Facebook friends under one thread.
I have to respectfully disagree with my...
Sunday, November 21, 2010 0
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Analysts are sceptical about the relevance of mobile number portability — which will start from November 25 — because of the growing popularity of dual and triple SIM cards. “In the current environment (of dual SIM phones), people do not worry about numbers as was the case few years back, when they were reluctant to change their numbers,”...
Saturday, November 6, 2010 0
Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users' information , highlighting an intensifying rivalry between the two Internet giants.
Google will no longer let other services automatically...
Friday, November 5, 2010
A lot of Gmail users are noticing a major drop in the performance of the user interface in the recent times. A small trick which can really help in slow connections:
Turn on Offline Gmail.
Turn on Flaky connection mode.
That’s it.
This process would cache the recent emails on your machine. They would be loaded from...
Friday, November 5, 2010 0
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The biggest search engine in the world has decided to take on the US government, suing it for anticompetitive practices. Certainly big news, it still isn’t much of a shocker, as Google seems to be rather justified in its stance.
Google is suing the Department of Interior (DOI) for not considering Google Apps for its web-based document...
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, spoke about the importance of India to the future of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) on his recent trip to the country. Calling it “Goal 2015”, Mr. Wales said he wanted Wikipedia to have “strong and healthy India based projects” within the next five years.
Urging Indians to contribute to the growth of Wikipedia...
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Adobe is set to release new products on 18th September, 2010. It is probably related to Adobe Acrobat 10! As an exclusive reader of www.saumyaaggarwal.com, you get to see the invitation of Adobe.
Note: It is open for all. A must attend for sure.
Date: 18th September, 2010Time: 11a.n. onwardsVenue: Yantra, The Park Hotel, 15- Parliament Street,...
Saturday, October 16, 2010 2
The company is offering their connection for just Rs. 888 (plus Rs. 300 for installation) that comes with one month long subscription of their diamond package.
There is another option that costs Rs. 1390 (plus Rs. 300 for installation). It comes with four month subscription of their diamond package.
The diamond package itself is worth...
Friday, October 15, 2010
Opera has announced a full-fledged Opera Mobile browser for smartphones running the Google Android OS. Opera Mobile for Android, which is slated to arrived within a month, will feature hardware acceleration and pinch-to-zoom functionality.
So far the company offered only Opera Mini for Android, a scaled-down version of its browser,...
Friday, October 15, 2010 0
Facebook Inc expanded its partnership with Microsoft Corp.s Bing search engine, letting people automatically see what their Facebook friends think about the topics they're seeking information on.
Bing's new search screen also will let users become a person's friend on Facebook or send a message to the social- networking service, Microsoft...
Nokia today announced that it was launching the C5, an inexpensive touchscreen phone that runs the Symbian^1 OS found on phones like the 5800 XpressMusic and the N97. Nokia made the launch announcement through its blog, Nokia Conversations.
The blog clarifies that today's launch is the C5-03 variation of the Nokia C5 model and will have...
Internet Explorer ebook tips and tricks ebook authored by me. Please promote it.
IE9 - Tips and Tricks ...
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Opera has released its State of the Mobile Web, August 2010 report, which shows India has 3rd most Opera Mini users in the world. Since the month of August 2009, pages-per-view of opera mobile users in India has grown by 397 percent, while unique-users have grown by 339 percent. The State of the Mobile Web, August 2010 report also states...
Sunday, October 3, 2010 0
While Google launched its own URL shortening service quite a while back, it has finally given it its own website, namely, http://goo.gl. So while you can now access the Google URL shortener much more easily, without resorting to the Google Toolbar or Feedburner, Google also says they have improved the service in many ways. Here’s how,...
Friday, October 1, 2010
Google has probably made one of the toughest decision regarding Gmail by offering an option to disable conversations view.
Conversations was one of the innovations of Gmail and it changed the way a lot of us deal with emails on a daily basis.
However, there are still users out there who prefer it the old way. Just like we have it on...
Friday, October 1, 2010 0
Friday, September 24, 2010
The browser company which has been taking a bit of hit these days in its main offering has come up with hottest mobile phone concept 'Seabird'.
The device aims to address some of the frustrations people have when interacting with small devices.
"While mobile CPUs, connectivity and development platforms begin approaching that of desktops,...
Friday, September 24, 2010 1
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
That's a million dollar question! Undoubtely Internet Explorer 9 beta is the one of the major releases of IE since long time. With this Microsoft gave away cluttered User Interface and seems to be following route of other browsers with adherence to Web standards.
IE9 is a crucially important browser for Microsoft, and hopefully it eventually...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 0
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Last month, Nokia India tweeted that Nokia C3 will hit the market mid september, and today, it has announced via Twitter again that the Nokia C3 has hit the stores. The affordable messaging phone, the Nokia C3 comes with a full QWERTY keypad and optimized social networking feature. The Nokia C3 with its different color options and its...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 0
I found this interesting video of how actually a USB Flash drive is made. It is pretty interesting and elaborates the process. The video depicts trip to Kingston Production Plant. Must watch!...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Data Source: Nielsen
Microsoft's decision engine Bing has grown older. It has become No.2 search engine in US, according to the latest data from The Nielsen Company. In August, Bing grew from 13.6 percent to 13.9 percent of the US search market while Yahoo shrunk from 14.3 percent to 13.1 percent. Meanwhile, Google's share was up from 64.2...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 1
Friday, September 10, 2010
US web surfers, the best of all as many say are spending more time on Facebook than Google according to research conducted at comScore Inc.
In August, people spent a total of 41.1 million minutes on Facebook, comScore said, about 9.9 per cent of their Web-surfing minutes for the month. That just barely surpassed the 39.8 million minutes,...
Friday, September 10, 2010 0
Microsoft Dynamics CRM team has reached a key milestone as it releases the beta of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, for both cloud-based and on-premises deployments.
Announced today, it is available for download and testing in eight languages (English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese) and 36 markets, this release...
What is in WebMatrix?
WebMatrix is a 15MB download (50MB if you don’t have .NET 4 installed) and is quick to install. The 15MB download includes a lightweight development tool, IIS Express, SQL Compact Edition, and a set of ASP.NET extensions that enable you to build standalone ASP.NET Pages using the new Razor syntax, as well as a set...
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Today, Google has launched its latest update to search technology. It has improved the original Web search tool that formed the foundation of its business. Google has introduced Instant Search. Instant Search does away with the need to hit enter when you search. As you type, Google will automatically search. Search results are updated as...
Thursday, September 9, 2010 0
Sunday, September 5, 2010
I spend most of my day checking the analytics of the website and how it has done in recent past. I am quite impressed with the results.
Here is the summary of my findings:
1. Top most site on both Bing and Google with key word "saumya aggarwal"
2. Top most referring sites Facebook and MeraWindows
3. Top traffic destinations
4....
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Saturday, September 4, 2010
Freecharge.in is new service that enables users to recharge prepaid mobile phones in India. Major telecom companies are on its list. It has been launched by Mumbai-based Accelyst Solutions. According to the company, its offering is unique in the sense that the amount paid by the user for recharge is returned in the form of shopping coupons...
Saturday, September 4, 2010 1
Friday, September 3, 2010
With era of all types of social networking sites, here come the consolidation. The giant 'Yahoo!' has taken a lead and come up with integration. Unlike following competition and launching all new platform it will use exisiting popular networks. They call it Yahoo! Pulse.Though currently only facebook has been integrated with Yahoo accounts,...
Friday, September 3, 2010 2
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
I went for Aashayein with my MSP friends (why did I listen to them) and thought it could be a good watch with Nagesh Kukonnor reputation.
The movie started with Rahul (John Abraham) earning huge amount of money on cricket gambling. After that the movie is all negative.
Nafisa (Sonal Sehgal) is looking good but has too short an apperance....
Monday, August 30, 2010 2
Friday, August 20, 2010
Apple new patent application describes methods that may enable the iPhone and iPad to "sense" the user, detecting voice prints, faces, activity patterns and even heartbeats. If unauthorized use is detected, many security measures could be activated.
If the iOS device detects that the user is not authorized, it can start taking photos and...
Friday, August 20, 2010 0
It was a pleasure to be part of Microsoft Boot Camp in GOA from 16-18 August, 2010. The trip started on 16th morning with me taking flight with other Microsoft Student Partners who were invited for the event.
The flight was complete fun, Thanks to Neetika for her all time masti. Infact I was wondering if flight stewart throws her out...
Sunday, August 15, 2010
August 15th - India 's 64th Independence Day
Happy Independence Day to my countrymen all over the world.
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Friday, August 6, 2010
We’ve seen what Nokia-Intel’s MeeGo OS for handsets looks like, a while back. Now, we’ve got a glimpse of how Nokia plans to use it on their handsets, in the below video. With its large and crisp fonts, we’re somehow reminded of the Metro UI of the Windows Phone 7 OS, though of course, that’s just the beginning. The one and half minute...
Friday, August 6, 2010 0
Product Category: Bluetooth Headeset
Manufacturer: Jabra
Price: $116.99
System Requirements: Bluetooth Headset Profile 1.1, Handsfree Profile 1.5, Right Ear
Specifications: 10 meter operational range; Pairing with up to 8 devices, 2 simultaneously; 2 hours talk time, 8 with charger; headset weighs 7 grams, charger weighs 26 grams;...
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