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Here is an amazing video of passengers from inside the Qantas plane that had a big gaping hole from an explosion. The passengers seem to be very calm and composed for an emergency landing.
Today Microsoft launched a hosted Exchange solution to counter Google Apps. Is this a slow and steady response to the Google threat?
When the world’s biggest company launches a subscription based online/offline software of it’s core product you that Subscription based software and Software as a Service has arrived into the mainstream. Microsoft today launched a subscription based service of Microsoft Office Home and Student edition. It will be available starting Mid-July and is mainly targeted towards the lower end of the consumer spectrum. Clearly Microsoft still wants it’s enterprise customers locked into it’s desktop software. Understandably so, enterprise customers will be more apprehensive about sending their data into the ‘cloud’ without secure and reliable storage channels.
However with this new service Microsoft is clearly targeting the SOHO and casual users community which might be looking at Google Docs or Zoho type of services for their daily word processing and spreadsheet needs. It remains to be seen whether this experiment by Microsoft will succeed and if they will ultimately port the Professional edition also onto the SaaS platform.
Download FireFox 3.0 now! Go for the record!
A reminder!
Download FireFox 3.0 on Tuesday.
For a long while now, Google has not released a new version of the GTalk client for Windows. This seems to be a well thought out strategy of moving everyone to their web based GTalk client - TalkGadget. All new features - invisibility, group chat, AIM interconnect have been introduced only in the web based client. Why is it so? I think this is because they are unable to monetize from the standalone client whereas they can show targeted ads in the web based gadget or through the client built in Gmail. Their plan eventually might be to migrate all users to the web based version. But the web based version is missing two critical features - Voice Chat and File transfer. Unless these two are ported I doubt the full scale migration will be complete
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Applying the principle of Wikipedia to search? This is what Wikia is trying to do. The first version was unsuccessful but a newer upgrade promises a bigger search index and better tools to edit search results. Does this have the potential for abuse? You bet! But so does Wikipedia but the community ends up moderating results in most of the cases.
