“Oracle accquires SUN Microsystems for $7.8 billion”.

The Original Accusation
Sun had been suffering in past and was making every effort to make an accusation happen for it.  The Oracle-Sun deal came more than two weeks after I.B.M. ended its talks with SUN. I.B.M lowered its offer to $9.40 a share from $10 and Oracle bid was $9.50 a share.

MySql Goes to Sun and Sun Goes to Oracle

Oracles’ chief executive, said in a conference call Monday morning that Sun’s Java programming language and its Solaris operating system were the main attractions. But that might not be the case as Oracle was more intersted in MySql then any one else. In 2008 Sun Microsystem annouced a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL the worlds fastest growing open source databases for $1 billion. Which accelerated Sun’s position in enterprise IT to a $15 billion database market. Though many people looked at the accusation with a controversial eye stating that MySql could have had a bigger value then what SUN offered, Google, Yahoo & Microsoft could have paid much more. (more…)

I do wonder what Google’s Gmail is evolving into few day back they released Gmail offline mode which we covered and today they have launched yet another lab’s edition ‘Gmail Multiple Inbox’. Which makes me wonder if gMail is evolving into a full scale business application.

As the name say’s Multiple Inbox does not give you ability to have Gmail inbox for seperate email accounts which we are using with Gmail, this was the first thing that came in to my mind. Though Multiple Inbox gives you ability to divide your inbox into portions and help you sort your email easily. Simply after installing Gmail Multiple Inbox you can go to setting and set up rules for the multiple inbox i.e. any mail that is marked with a star  ‘is:stared’ show it separately in you multiple inbox panel also you can configure where you want to place your multiple inbox i.e. on top , or on left or bottom.

So Multiple Inbox is the ability to divide your inbox into portions based on your own settings. A good feature to sort your mails but adding to many labs feature does give issues with performance, specially the initial loading of gMail is becoming problematic in Firefox.

Source: Google Blog > Multiple Inbox in gMail

Today the Gmail team has announced another exciting Gmail Labs feature “Access Gmail in an offline mode”.  

Now you can access your Gmail even if their is no internet. Gmail primaralary being used via browser, one feature that lacks there is the ability to access email even if you are offline. Maybe you are travelling and you cannot gain access to Wifi but you would like to sort the emails that are already in the inbox.

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YouTube announced officially of making videos available in High Definition. Well the demand of high defination has been around for ages, its quite annoying once you spend a ridiculous amount of bandwidth to stream a video and the quality turns out to be total turn off. So keeping that in view YouTube has taken an initiative to offer videos in HD now remember when you ask for more quality you have to pump in more bandwith and for me on a 1MB connection its was quite slow to stream in an HD video. A good example to test is to watch “Where the hell is Matt” or you can simple search on YouTube using HD as the keyword.

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There is excitement in the air after the Bush Era, the two war’s and the global financial ciaos we are all looking forward to Obama. Adding to excitement is the fact the Obama is going to be the First African American President ever in the history of United States who is going to sworn as the 44th President of USA.

Huge Crowds are expected to pack Washington’s Nation Mall as Mr Obama takes oath to the office at exactly 1200 (17oo GMT). Those who can’t make it of course can watch it online live so far here is the list.

Top  Placed to Watch Live Streaming of Obma’s Oath Ceremony

1. Hulu.com
   Hulu has just the ticket. They will be offering a live stream of the inaugural events, courtesy of Fox on Tuesday, January 20 at 9 a.m. EST and runs through 1:30 p.m. EST.
   http://www.hulu.com/spotlight/obamapresidency
2. CNN Live
   CNN is ofcourse going to cover the event so you can grab your seat there at
   http://edition.cnn.com/live/
3. ABC News
   You can watch it live over ABC News they have set up a main page video scroller
   http://abcnews.go.com/
4. C-Span
   Visit C-SPAN’s Inauguration Hub, a one-stop shop for LIVE video of the Inauguration. Access our online control room to watch all the events taking place on Inauguration day, including the Inaugural Ceremony at the Capitol, the Presidential Procession, the Inaugural Parade and Inaugural Balls; as well as updated information on event schedules.
   http://www.c-span.org/politics/c-span-inauguration-hub.aspx

Google is now offering “Google Apps Reseller program” enabling technology solution providers to sell Google Apps to business around the world.  According to Dave Girouard President of Enterprise Google “This program gives IT solution providers an easy way to introduce cloud computing to their service offerings, while helping more businesses make the transition to this new era of technology.”

So far more then 1 million business & 10 million users benefit from Google Apps, using Gmail™, Google Calendar™, Google Docs™, Google Sites™, Google Talk™, and Google Video™ for their business.

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BMW is currently working on a replacement for the Z4 Roadster. Codenamed E89, the new Z4 will be a conventional soft-top and will come as a competitor for the next generation Porsche Boxster and Mercedes SLK-Class. It will be priced somewhere around $40.000.

Here is a leaked picture taken from a BMW dealership, where a movie (Solitary Man) with Michael Douglas is being shot. 

2009-bmw-z4

Courtesy Zpost.com

This is an interesting fact, Google and Yahoo have released the top keywords used in 2008 for searching information and both have totally oposit results.

Let look at what People have been searching on Google

Top & Popular Keywords of 2008 by Google

1. obama
2. facebook
3. att
4. iphone
5. youtube
6. fox news
7. palin
8. beijing 2008
9. david cook
10. surf the channel

Top & Popular keywords of 2008 by Yahoo

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)
3. Barack Obama
4. Miley Cyrus
5. RuneScape
6. Jessica Alba
7. Naruto
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Angelina Jolie
10. American Idol

So what does it tell us ?

Well this data does show an insight on what kind of people use Google and what kind of people use Yahoo so here is what i think :

1. People using Google are more interested in global events, spend most of there time online watching tv / news & videos
2. People using Yahoo are slaves to Hollywood celebrities & Entertainment.

So what do you have to say on this ?

Dot be scared from the title its not a scam. Microsoft Corporation has launched a campaign called “SearchPerks” where you start earning tickets towards exciting prizes whenever you search the Web, oh did i mentione that the lines “whenever you search the web” actually means “whenever you search the web using Microsoft Live Search, on a Microsoft Windows using a Microsoft IE6 or above”.

So whats the fuss about, well SearchPerks is a short lived campaign by Microsoft where they are making an effort to study how the users use the search engine to search the web, sort of lab rat experiment that’s what i get out of it so far. (more…)

Google today announced a new feature of integrating your AdSense account with a new or existing Analytics account. Thus giving the publishers reports on how and where to optimize there site not only to generate good traffic but a good revenue as well. The feature is so far invite only and a very few bunch of publishers will be invited but as the feature gets pass its testing phase hopefully we all will be invited to it.

The integration is no doubt a positive step in terms of publishers, we know where the traffic comes from but where we make the most revenue is not yet clear and with this new feature rolling out i am sure its going to help us in improving not only our site traffic but its revenue stream as well. According to Google : (more…)