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Google to quit China?

Aditya — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:39:45 +0000

The latest blog post on Google’s official blog caught my attention. Due to recent cyberattacks, originating from China, resulting in the loss of some of their intellectual property (fancy term...

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Murdoch: Web sites to charge for content – CNN.com

Aditya — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:29:53 +0000

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch claims the current Internet businesss model is “malfunctioning” and says that NewsCorp-owned web sites will start charging for content within a year. His empire...

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Logging on to Facebook causes employee to be fired

Aditya — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:51:32 +0000

This is one of the most shocking pieces of news I’ve heard in the recent past. An employee of a Swiss insurance agency called in sick, and was later fired since she logged in to Facebook on her...

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Kutcher has almost 2 million followers – 1,995,884 followers for Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) on Twitter ??

Aditya — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:46:20 +0000

ashton kutcher (aplusk) on Twitter. Obviously this looks like a bug or someone just ran a megascript, but check this screenshot out (not doctored). Taken at 10:41 p.m. PDT Almost 2 million followers...

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Official Gmail Blog: A new mobile Gmail experience for iPhone and Android

Aditya — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:40:03 +0000

Google recently announced a new look for the GMail client on the iPhone (and Android). The new interface is pretty intuitive, and pleasing to the eye. However, since GMail supports free IMAP, I use...

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Conficker Worm Exposes IT Policies (or Laziness or Ignorance) Worldwide

Aditya — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:27:30 +0000

The April Fools’ Worm, or Conficker has been in the news for a few weeks now. This is one of the few times since Y2K that a date was important. People around the world braced for April 1, 2009...

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Computer Shuts Down Within Seconds of Booting (Fixed!)

Aditya — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:35:22 +0000

Last weekend, I was watching an online video, when my custom-built desktop machine suddenly shut down. I attempted to boot it up, and it shut down within 5 seconds. It was apparent that it was a...

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Wikipedia Almost Reaches $6 Million Target – Just Add Ads Already!

Aditya — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:55:37 +0000

Interesting Wikipedia stat: 98.3% of registered Wikipedia users are inactive. While researching for a topic, I was led to Wikipedia. I noticed that they had almost reached the $6,000,000 figure they...

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10 Reasons Why HTML 5 Will Change The Web (And 1 Why It Won’t)

Aditya — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:30:15 +0000

HTML5 is currently in the draft stage, and the latest specification is available at the W3C web site. User experience on the Internet will change for sure, and here’s why: 1. Persistent Local...

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Slashdot :: Yahoo! Opens Its Website To Third-Party Developers

Aditya — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:29:17 +0000

Yahoo! aims to have a more social web page. This is a desperate attempt by Yahoo! to get back into the portal business. Some of the business decisions by Yang & Co. have come under fire in the...

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Apple – Sixth Largest PC Manufacturer (and Rising)

Aditya — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:30:21 +0000

Apple has now risen to the 6th largest PC manufacturer in the world, and 3rd largest in the United States, behind Dell and HP, according to Gartner's latest report on the topic. In the United States,...

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iTunes to sell 1 billion Apps faster than songs : TechCrunch

Aditya — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:45:56 +0000

Steve Jobs recently indicated that over 100 million downloads of apps have already been recorded, with 70 million in August. At this rate, 1 billion will occur sometime in 2009, within a year of the...

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What would you like to see in Firefox and Chrome ?

Aditya — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:38:26 +0000

Google’s Chrome captured the browser world headlines this week as the fastest browser with a bunch of cool features. Chrome was released as a software Beta, and according to Google, is only the...

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Google Mail (Gmail) allows default ‘Reply to All’

Aditya — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:36:31 +0000

In addition to other features in Gmail labs introduced recently, there is one feautre which I like the best – the default ‘Reply to All’. How many times have we replied to an email...

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Google Chrome and the Blue Screen of Death – BSOD

Aditya — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:13:39 +0000

After a couple of days of heavy use of Google Chrome, the annoyances have started. Having a link in the page’s HTML source ending with a special character causes the while browser to crash. So...

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Google Chrome – Initial Review and Comments

Aditya — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:33:43 +0000

So, I managed to snag Google Chrome 8 minutes before noon PDT (the official release time). The link was live, and I downloaded it in a flash. Currently, people are reporting that the server is under...

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TechieLife is one year old

Aditya — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:30:35 +0000

Techielife is one year old.... No related posts.

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Long Hiatus – TechieLife is back!

Aditya — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:46:04 +0000

TechieLife is back. No related posts.

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iPhone = hype-phone. Check out HTC Touch Cruise

Aditya — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:25:00 +0000

Since the Motorola RAZR, no phone has generated so much buzz as the iPhone. Congratulations to Steve Jobs & Co. for once again showing off their marketing skills and generating so much...

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Welcome to TechieLife

Aditya — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:55:13 +0000

Welcome to TechieLife. So, what is TechieLife? One thing for sure, it’s a blog launched in late August 2007. A blog is the commonly-used shortened version of ‘weblog’ (which was...

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