Google to buy video site YouTube for $1.65 billion

posted by   sunil (135)   26 months ago (today.reuters.co.uk)

Finally, it is official. Google is buying YouTube. Does this mean Google Video was a failure?

Anyway, now Google becomes the no. 1 player in the user generated video front & can concentrate on its video advertisement to monetize this untapped market.

India's oil refineries lose money because of price controls

posted by   sunil (135)   26 months ago (money.cnn.com)

High crude prices may be fattening profits at oil companies around the world, but in India state-controlled refiners and retailers are losing money hand over fist. In the fiscal year that ended in March 2006, those companies lost a combined $8.6 billion. And Merrill Lynch (Charts) estimates they will lose another $12 billion to $20 billion this

Scientists on Religion

posted by   sunil (135)   26 months ago (www.sciam.com)

Theist and materialist ponder the place of humanity in the universe.

An Extensive Database and Portal on Malayalam Cinema

posted by   sunil (135)   27 months ago (www.cinemaofmalayalam.net)

Web resource on Malayalam cinema. Also contains a big database of all Malayalam movies released till date, including those who have won national and international acclaim.

MeeraFans :: Actress Meera Jasmine fans

posted by   sunil (135)   27 months ago (meerajasmine.uni.cc)

Online fanclub for the Malayalam movie actress Meera Jasmine. Complete with news, wallpapers and photogallery.

Aanavariyum Ponkurisum: English translation of famous short story by Basheer

posted by   sunil (135)   27 months ago (bradley.bradley.edu)

Read on to experience the unique style of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer.

For non-Mallus/starters, here is a primer on Basheer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaikom_Muhammad_Basheer

MalluForum - Online community portal for malayalees

posted by   sunil (135)   27 months ago (www.malluforum.com)

MalluForum is malayalis own family forum. Online community portal for malayalees. Discuss about malayalam movies, music, sports, news, current affairs and politics.

Surya Namaskaras: with illustrations

posted by   sunil (135)   27 months ago (www.astrojyoti.com)

More about Surya Namaskara and how to perform Surya Namaskara with illustrations using images.

"There are twelve positions in Surya Namaskara. Twenty-five such Namaskaras form one Avriti (frequency). Surya Namaskara must be performed preferably in an open and airy place. Perform Surya Namaskara slowly without exerting too much or panting and

Home page of C. Radhakrishnan, Malayalam Novelist and Author

posted by   sunil (135)   27 months ago (c-radhakrishnan.info)

Information about C. Radhakrishnan, Malayalam (South Indian, Kerala) novelist, author. Some of his famous novels include 'Munpe parakkuna pakshikal' and 'karal pilarum kalam'

First time I am finding a malayalam novelist online!!

Planet Bollywood: portal on Bollywood movies

posted by   sunil (135)   27 months ago (www.planetbollywood.com)

Complete source of News, Information, and Entertainment from Bollywood, The Film and Music Industry of India.

Quiz: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.malevole.com)

Interesting quiz. I scored 6/10. Try that out.... more »

Vi Advanced Cheat Sheet

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.lagmonster.org)

Somewhat advanced cheatsheet! I learned some new stuff.. nJ is good... more »

India's top 40 companies

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.forbes.com)

Reliance Industries and ONGC take the first two spots. For the IT biggies, TCS is at 9, Wipro at 12 and Infy at 15. Interestingly, ICICI bank pips all three IT biggies and is at 6th!.. more »

India's 40 Richest - Forbes.com

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.forbes.com)

Forbes has published 'India's 40 Richest'. Here are the top three: 1. Lakshmi Mittal; 2. Azim Premji; 3. Mukesh Ambani.. more »

GigaOM : » Mobile Visual Radio Makes Indian Debut

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (gigaom.com)

Indians listening to FM radio on their mobile phones can now watch visuals while listening to their favorite Bollywood songs, as Nokia, Hewlett Packard, local station Radio Mirchi and mobile operator Hutch have launched a new service called ‘Visual Radio.’.. more »

Supersonic missiles: India is the king

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.rediff.com)

The Indian Army will become the first force in the world to field supersonic cruise missiles by operationalising the Indo-Russian 290-km range BrahMos surface-to-surface missile by September 2007... more »

Live webcasts from UCBerkeley classrooms

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (webcast.berkeley.edu)

Live webcasts from UCBerkeley classrooms. Attend one of the best schools in America, free and from the comfort of your living room. cool stuff!.. more »

Todos: How to get brain damage on your Mac

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (dbachrach.com)

Todos ia an application which shows you all your applications in a complete dock. See the image & you will understand :)... more »

The Future of Computing: farewell to GHz CPUs

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.ddj.com)

Software is becoming big and bloated - to use up advantages faster and faster hardware offers. Max Fomitchev, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Penn State, argues that big, hot, and insanely fast CPUs will die out due to natural selection. He argues that energy costs and code optimization efficiency will drive this... more »

Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.rollyo.com)

Rollyo allows you to create personal search engines using only the sources you trust... more »

Read/WriteWeb: Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.readwriteweb.com)

Article about what could be the next generation of search technologies: "Third-generation search technologies are designed to combine the scalability of existing internet search engines with new and improved relevancy models; they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user experience, and many ..... more »

Top 10 free and cheap productivity tools - Lifehacker

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (lifehacker.com)

Lifehacker picks the best free and cheap productivity tools. "We've reviewed thousands of time-saving applications and gadgets here at Lifehacker over the past year and a half, but a handful of really shine when it comes down to getting your stuff done, and most of them are simple, widely available, free or almost free.".. more »

Sify's Former CEO Ramaraj To Turn To Venture Capital

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.vccircle.com)

R Ramaraj has quit as the CEO and the MD of Sify Ltd (its chairman Raju Vegesna of Infinity Capital has taken over as the CEO and MD). Ramaraj is joining the growing list of corporate honchos who are moving out of operations and joining the venture capital/private equity world... more »

SlimTimer - web based time-tracking application

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (slimtimer.com)

SlimTimer is a new web based time tracking service. It’s simple, elegant and could prove quite useful. Unlike other services focused on time sheets, SlimTimer works more like a sophisticated stop watch on the web... more »

Mumbai beggars earn Rs 180 crore a year

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.rediff.com)

3 lakh beggers in Mumbai earn Rs 180 crore a year, the state legislative council was informed Wednesday!!.. more »

Guide to Useless Services (Windows XP SP2)

posted by   sunil (135)   28 months ago (www.techtree.com)

You can get rid of some useless "Services" on your Windows XP SP2 system to free up some memory and CPU and gain some performance out of it. This article lists no less than 29 useless services hogging the memory... more »

Kerala: A Case Study on Sustainable Development

posted by   sunil (135)   29 months ago (www.ashanet.org)

Demographically (in terms of health and other indicators), Kerala mirrors the United States on about one-seventieth the cash. One-seventieth the income means one-seventieth the damage to the planet. So, on balance, if Kerala and the United States manage to achieve the same physical quality of life, Kerala is the vastly more successful society... more »

RBI Banning Wallet365

posted by   sunil (135)   29 months ago (www.business-standard.com)

The highly hyped Wallet365 is getting banned in India? "The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed a leading internet-based financial services provider to stop operating “electronic purse schemes”.".. more »

Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats

posted by   sunil (135)   29 months ago (www.codinghorror.com)

"All teachers of programming find that their results display a 'double hump'. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve. Almost all research into programming teaching and learning have concentrated on teaching: change the language, change the application ..... more »

India, beware the China R&D boom

posted by   sunil (135)   29 months ago (ia.rediff.com)

India is slipping while China is making big strides in R&D.
"Tradition has it that while China is the factory of the world, India is going to be the laboratory of the world, and while we've already shown our skills in software, the next level of work will involve pharma R&D, and so on.
That comfortable stupor, however, has just been punctured by ..... more »