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Imagine, if you will, that you are under a mountain of debt. Credit card bills, car payment, a big mortgage, and who knows what else. Of course you still have to meet regular life expense obligations, such as food, utilities, and clothing. After much stress you sit down one day to try to figure a — Continue reading »

Years ago SUN proclaimed that the network was the computer. Nowadays, one can also say that the Web page is the application, thanks to AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML). When I think of creating an application, my first instinct is to create it as a Web application. I have been using that approach for some — Continue reading »

As I remember from my biology classes of decades ago, food is what gives us energy. Suddenly this seemingly common-sense belief had been turned on its head thanks to the bevy of new drinks sweeping the market, known as energy drinks. The other day I saw a can of Tab in the grocery store with — Continue reading »

There was a time when being a database vendor was easy money. Today database management systems have become dime-a-dozen commodities, thanks to widespread availability and the number of competing vendors peddling their products. This sea-change is of course not just limited to databases. Commercial software in general is rapidly marching towards the open source model. — Continue reading »

I have been writing a few entries about the Microsoft Live products in my blog. This entry is about Windows Live Mail. A few days ago I had registered for the beta version of this product, and yesterday I received the invitation in my Hotmail account to join, and join I did with some reservation. — Continue reading »

Today I received an email from Amazon touting the release of their new storage service, Amazon S3. This is a new addition to Amazon’s arsenal of Web services, dubbed AWS (Amazon Web Services). S3 (which stands for Simple Storage Service) offers online storage to users at relatively cheap prices. It is the latest in the — Continue reading »

Last week’s news of Google settling the adsense lawsuit for $90 million dollar, finally put to rest the dark cloud that was hanging over Google for quite some time. Click fraud is a known and abused strategy by which scammers can generate revenues while unscrupulous competitors can drain advertising funds from each other. The settlement, — Continue reading »

Microsoft’s nascent site, live.com, made yet another milestone today, announcing a new, polished search engine. The new search engine release comes only about a year after Microsoft’s much touted MSN search. MSN search was supposed to be the Google and Yahoo killer, but it was never able to live up to its hype. Windows Live, — Continue reading »