Recently I was introduced to the concept of the “Third Space” and the war to gain control of this space. Apparently, if the “hard” competition in business and economics is about capturing emerging markets, the “soft” competition is all about capturing the third space and frighteningly, whoever captures and controls this “third space” will eventually […]
Orkut ‘worm’ attacked 7 lakh sites
A fast-moving worm that infected more than 700,000 users on Google’s social networking site Orkut. in just 24 hours. Anyway, the search giant Google has reportedly repaired the prolific spam worm launched on orkut. The Portuguese language attack exploited a vulnerability in Orkut’s scrapbook feature to post malicious JavaScript code on a user’s page. On […]
Google Plans On Launching ‘My Stuff’ – A Free Data Storage Center
Google is working on offering people free online storage space, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. Some little details need to be ironed out, but the launch of the service called My Stuff is imminent, the paper reports. My Stuff will be partially free of charge. If you want more than the […]
Ex-Hotmail Owner Launches Live Documents, a Microsoft Office Competitor
Ex Hotmail owner Sabeer Bhatia is the latest addition to the competition that is raging for Microsoft Office products. He is launching a free internet based office suite competing with Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel.Bhatia will use some of the millions that he has made selling the web mail service to devise the free, online product, […]
Best Method to Back up Data?
This being the age of internet, chat rooms, blogging and innovative hackers, their expectation never gets fulfilled. The news always leaks out or is methodically publicised by a rival or a gleeful hacker. Thereafter, insult is added to their injury as irate customers and the eager press demand explanations about every unsavoury detail of the […]
The Future of Google Adsense
There are many ideas springing up concerning what AdSense will look like in the future and how the system will change as opposed to what it is now. Firstly, it’s clear that targeting algorithms will become even better and more powerful then they are now. This has clearly been seen with the Google search engine […]