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FareCast.com: Da Shiznitz in AirFares websites
Now *This* is Coolness! Everyone whoz anyone knows that the chances that the person sitting next to you in an airplane is paying the same airfare as you is extremely low especially in the US airfare industry. There have been several interesting websites Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 10 Comments

Vista and my Laptop - Where Love and Hate Collide.
Chalk this one on my list of Stupid things to do. Given that Office 2003 on XP was running as fast Daffy Duck on a marathon - what was I thinking when I decided to upgrade to Office 12 on Vista at that. The pointed Fingers are aimed at a certain Felipe Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 6 Comments

Visa Beta 2 - Bit Torrents bends the line between official and unofficial...
Before u read any further - do realise this post is more a reflection with interest and NOT an endorsement, support or remark of any kind. Last week's update when we opened up Vista Beta2 Download came with a usage warning on June 9th that high demand Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 2 Comments

Google Current: Google comes to a TV Near You!
Google Current - a brief really hip TV Segment on what people are searching for online being showcased on Current TV an interactive cable channel. Shouldnt be long before this becomes pop-culture and behavioral trends of searches and reasons to search Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 2 Comments

Really cool RealEstate Valuation Mapping technology at Zillow.com
Talk about Killer apps - this one is da bomb. Zillow.com takes in your address and spits out the evaluations of the houses in and around your locale all this on a really cool Satellite/Hybrid Map. Love it. Thanks to Business2.0 to point me towards this Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 3 Comments

Google Desktop 3 should raise eyebrows on privacy.
True to form - Google released its Desktop Search 3 beta tonite - 2 hrs ago, while I was having dinner. And yes the launch was through its Blog . The new version is loaded with features that I have seen some internal beta versions of some tools that MSN Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 4 Comments

The "Desi" Answer to Google....
Two Indians, who were among the co-founders of web database company 'Junglee', hope their deep search technology Kosmix can improve upon Google's one-size-fits-all approach with categorization. Currently they have categorizations along 3 lines - Health Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 0 Comments

Your Cellphone records are now for Sale! for $95 SCARY.
A couple of days ago - SunTimes ran this article that cellphone records are now for sale to anybody for a price. Potential scenarios for shortlisting customer segments and therefore positioning strategies were also stated: Criminals: To expose a government Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 3 Comments

Want to test out Windows Live Messenger BETA?
Beta invites are far and few and Frank La Vigne our .Net Developer has some available here.... Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 3 Comments

Office 12 Preview Invites...
'Tis the season to open up Beta-Invites I guess But the New Office 12 invites are available here . ofcourse you register now and get invites later on.. Word from the friends I know at Office who have been dog-fooding Office12 have raved abt the functionality Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 0 Comments

Intel changes logo - and responds to a "Ur new logo sux" Email
Sure everyone has heard of the Intel Logo change by now. Ofcourse Computer Associates also did the same late last yr moving to CA instead. But this story that I read in BoingBoing was quite funny. The story goes that a Blogger wrote to Intel: Subject: Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 2 Comments

What is the opinion of bloggers on a topic? Ask OpiniMind!
This tool was sooo cool when I tried it a few weeks ago - thanx to Business2Blog . Especially great in collecting data for opinion-debates based on the blogosphere, Opinmind gets a return on the positive and negative opinions across the blogosphere. For Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 0 Comments

FileSharing? C'est bonne : say the French parliament
Another update from Xeni at BoingBoing :: Last night, the French parliament voted to affirm the legality of filesharing free music and movies on the Internet. If the amendment survives, France would be the first country to legalize so called peer-to-peer Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 3 Comments

Marketing Innovation??? A$$vertising and How!!
When Xeni Jardin wrote about this new "derriere media placement" strategy by Kodak in Ukraine.... my marketing mind went "wow" and "you gotta be kidding" at the same time. But then I find there is a whole company running this campaign! Whoa.... Enough Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 1 Comments

Microsoft Research catches "gaming" in Google AdSense by Typosquatters
Ryan Naraine at ZiffDavis writes about how we have uncovered a large-scale, typo-squatting scheme that uses multi-layer URL redirection to game Google's AdSense for domains program in this article by eWeek . This was part of Microsoft Research labs' HoneyMonkey Read More...

by Pradeep U.N. | 3 Comments

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