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Archive for February, 2009

Weekly Wrapup: Nokia Entering into Laptops, Gmail to GFail, Yahoo! India R&D Quits & Few More

February 28, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Industry News

As always, here are the weekly wrapup stories from 22nd-28th February, 2009 in whatever happened in Web, technology and few more interesting stuff.
So last week’s happenings are as follows:

Nokia considering entry into Laptop Industry: The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia is eyeing to enter the laptop business, its Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an [...]

The Lady Who Can Fix Yahoo!

February 27, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Strategy

You bet she can! I’m talking about the present CEO of Yahoo, Carol Bartz. Yeah, I’ve never been sure about this company’s future until now. You ask why? Now hear me out before placing your bet on me being crazy. The reason is simple – you care about customers and in turn customers care about [...]

Twitter To End Global Poverty (Tweet-A-Thon)

February 26, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Microblogging, Uncategorized

Yes! Isn’t that fab? Now wait a minute. Twitter is just the medium. We all have to do our bit too. All we got to do is tweet, tweet and more tweet!
Just tweet “#apowerfulnoise” (remember the Hashtag) anytime from March 2nd to March 5th, and NCM Fathom will donate $.10 for up to 50,000 Tweets [...]

Welcome Google To Twitterverse!

February 26, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Microblogging, Tech 2.0

Yes, Google is on twitter now! They created an official google account on twitter and announced their arrival with a string of 0’s and 1’s (Interesting huh!). There are already other Google twitter accounts (though authenticity is debatable on some) such as Google Reader and YouTube which are worth checking out.

It’s great to see Google [...]

The *Slumdog Mania* After its Oscar Feat

February 26, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: India, Uncategorized

After “Slumdog Millionaire” swept the Oscars on Monday Morning (IST), it’s time to check what are the after effects of the movie. I dubbed it as *Slumdog Mania*.
Lets take one point at a time (source):
1. The hype during and after the movie got oscars truly reflect that interest over the film and its content peaked [...]

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