If you are wondering what made Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer to yell at Google that he will kill the Google during the legal battle regarding Microsoft Employee joining to Google. But no one had any idea what plans he had in mind.
According to the article from The Register, buying all or part of AOL may be the first part of the master plan from Steve. Here is the quote from the article:
One estimate suggested that Google would lose as much as $380m of advertising revenue if AOL dropped its search engine and took on MSN’s. That would cut Google’s profit by something like 25 per cent, potentially giving its huge share price something of a tumble. No wonder Google is thought to be entering the bidding to partner with Time Warner on AOL instead of Microsoft.
For more info, check the source article from The Register.
Last week when Opera announced the availability of its Opera browser for free without any adds, everyone surprised thinking what made Opera to take a decision like this. They might have taken this decision to compete with growing Firefox, so that they can take the second slot after IE. But where the revenue is going to come from ?
The answer is from Google. Yes, Google is funding for Opera. It is not direct funding, but Opera signed a search referral deal with Google; that funds everything similar to what Mozilla is doing.
Does this sound like “indirectly Google is trying to help other browsers to compete with Microsoft IE” ? 
Download Link: Opera Free Browser (already crossed more than a million downloads within 48 hrs).
I have three Yahoo!, two Gmail and zero hotmail accounts. I used to have one hotmail and one MSN account long back..but they do not exists any more due to in-activity.
I use Yahoo! mail everyday and it is my all time favorite online mail client at present; and desperately waiting for the new beta version to explore more features. Last week I asked Yahoo! mail team to send me access to the new beta version, and will get one very soon.
Anyway, coming to the point, Google Gmail sucks!. Want to know more, why it does ? check the following links:
Normally I use only Yahoo! maps for all directions info. Even though am too late in the race of experimenting with MSN Virtual Earth; thought of doing it today. Interestingly both my office and home adress were listed as unknown from Virtual earth where as both recognized in Google Maps.
But after playing a while found that I entered ‘OFFICE name’ in What field and ‘the real address’ in Where field. But even after I deleted the OFFICE name and made it empty by keeping the where box data, still reports as No results were found in the current view.
After playing a while I could able to get the virtual earth search to work. What I did is simply closing the browser and reopening the virtual earth search and this time entered only the address in WHERE field by leaving WHAT field empty. That displayed accurate results.
Funny that Virtual earth does not refresh the left pane when it found successful search entry after a failure or atleast it should not report an error when it finds the WHERE field address even when WHAT field name is not in there database. Here is the screen shot. In the screen shot you can find that the virtual earth is able to recognice my office without ‘INC’ specified and when ‘INC’ is specified it did not recognise it
Today when am checking the news found an interesting item telling 10% of Indian population owns phones and 2.74 million mobile phones and 270,000 land lines were sold in India in August. Also, article claims that India has emerged as one of the fastest growing phone markets in the world, with monthly sales of more than two million connections.
This could be a news; but truly my claim is even more % has phone usage in India. When I visited India last year, found that almost 5-6 people from 10 are using mobile phones; and note that all incoming calls for any mobile or land-line carrriers are FREE. This could also be making a point in the rapid growth towards mobile usage.
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