Cable cut fears

February 8, 2008

Looks like peo­ple are get­ting wor­ried that their Inter­net con­nec­tion may get cut off any time soon because of unprece­dented dam­ages to the under­sea cables (does not affect US Inter­net users). While a sev­ered cable may impact the speed of Inter­net access, Inter­net Ser­vice Providers will quickly re-route Inter­net traf­fic to health­ier traf­fic. So, ideally […]

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Predicting Super Tuesday results using Google trends

February 6, 2008

Google seems to have a nice tool that is pretty accu­rate at pre­dict­ing future elec­tion results. Google trends, which col­lates the total num­ber of searches for a spe­cific term has a nice lit­tle abil­ity to pre­dict stuff, accu­rately too.

Using Google trends, you can search for “clin­ton, obama, rom­ney, mccain” (they are the top 4 candidates), […]

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Wordpress 2.3.3

February 6, 2008

 
Within 7 days from the last secu­rity update, Word­press has issued yet another secu­rity update. This update fixes a prob­lem that may allow other users to edit your posts. This prob­lem can be fixed eas­ily by replac­ing the xmlrpc.php file with a newer ver­sion. Alter­na­tively, you could always upgrade your Word­press install to the latest […]

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Google stocks fall below $500

February 5, 2008

It looks like bad news for Google as Google stocks hit to a new low. The value of Google stocks has fallen steadily for the past month, appear­ing as the top 10 losers in Nas­daq sev­eral times in a row. Microsoft’s pur­chasal of Yahoo came at a time most pun­ish­ing for Google. Of course, it […]

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Google criticises Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Yahoo

February 4, 2008

 
In response to an (not so) unex­pected offer by Microsoft, Google has decided to counter Microsoft’s attempt at becom­ing a dom­i­nant pres­ence on the Inter­net. Ear­lier a few days ago, Microsoft offered Yahoo an inter­est­ing $44.6 bil­lion to acquire it. Google was play­ing along silently until 2 days later.
What Google says
“The open­ness of the Inter­net is […]

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Microsoft considers buying Yahoo for $45 billion

February 3, 2008

 
Seems like Google will be fac­ing a whole lot more com­pe­ti­tion this time round. While this idea is not new, it is was just spec­u­la­tion amongst web­mas­ters on dis­cussing whether Google will still stay king of the net. Some jok­ingly said that the only way Microsoft ever get close enough to Google, is to buy […]

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The problem with the phishing filter

February 3, 2008

It seems like even secu­rity experts make mis­takes at times. Trend­mi­cro is one of them. Aside from spread­ing the men­tal­ity that cook­ies do much harm to your com­puter (which is incred­i­bly impos­si­ble), they decided to “help” you fur­ther by giv­ing you that extra phish­ing site detec­tor. The prob­lem is, it doesn’t work some­times.
What do you […]

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Temporary Announcement: Server Downtime

February 3, 2008

Due to an unfore­seen prob­lem, Tevine’s server was tem­porar­ily shut­tered. So, this left Tevine server-less for a while. Because this came quickly and unex­pect­edly, a 3 day down­time can­not be pre­vented. Well, at least the good news is that the host­ing is back online, and bet­ter too.
Since this is a tem­po­rary announce­ment, expect it to be […]

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Webmasters tools — crawl stats update

January 30, 2008

Google has updated the crawl stats for PageR­ank allo­cated in each site, view­able via Web­mas­ters tools. Well, that’s about all the news, noth­ing much really. Though, an inter­est­ing point of note is that Google hadn’t done the Jan­u­ary update in the way it used to. It might be a tiny update, prob­a­bly sep­a­rate from the major ones, […]

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Content vs speed

January 25, 2008

Speed­ily updat­ing a site is a nice way of get­ting vis­i­tors to stay on your site, how­ever don’t let that be a pri­or­ity. Updat­ing a site often is not a fea­si­ble thing to do if you are work­ing alone. Rather, you should “invest” or ven­ture into other areas that are able to get you a […]

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