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Microsoft on Yahoo Deal: “Nobody Gets It”

By Sharafat • Aug 1st, 2009 • Category: Technology

Yesterday, Yahoo and Microsoft finally announced the big deal that would transform their “search platforms into a market competitor.” Microsoft will power Yahoo Search, while Yahoo gets a revenue sharing agreement. How did Wall Street react? While Microsoft investors and shareholders had a mildly positive reaction to the deal, Yahoo shares sunk. By billions [...]



Bing Will Power Yahoo Search

By Sharafat • Jul 28th, 2009 • Category: Technology

It’s already been more than a year since Microsoft’s deal to outright acquire a Yahoo for a staggering $44.6 billion fell apart. But much speculation has remained as to whether or not the two companies would still end up working together in some capacity, with comments from executives on both sides adding fuel to the [...]



Bing and Google Rock : Where is Yahoo Search ?

By Sharafat • Jun 6th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing, Microsoft’s new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.
The company’s analysis for Thursday finds that in the U.S. Bing overtook Yahoo to take second place [...]



The Power of Perception & IT

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Misc

IT still has a perception problem. In some organizations, we continue to be seen as geeks that play with expensive toys. Sure, these toys power the business, but their necessity is often not indicated in a way that’s “business friendly.”Reality and perception are very different animals. Well-chosen words and a positive demeanor [...]



An outage: Lessons learned

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Misc

I was going through the series of articles on TechRepublic , I found this article which will be helpful for us in our current working environment too and we can adapt those some of tips which is giving in the article to prepare ourselves……………..

Westminster College does not currently have a backup generator protecting its data [...]



MS vs. open source: Are Both of them SECURE

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Misc

I already know that you’re going to hate what I have to say. You’ll no doubt send me strongly worded e-mails and post critical comments which is fine by me . Everyone has its view point and I respect it.When you read about the security problems of some open-source applications and operating systems, some of [...]



Happy Valentine, said Internet

By Rohail Butt • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

It’s 14 February again, the much awaited date for the lovers to say each other Happy Valentine and share some nice presents, even on internet we observe many writers and bloggers taking notice about this loved event in their own ways even some social websites and community blogs greet their users with the valentine theme.
This [...]