20m Vista Copies Sold

Tilak | Web/Tech | Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Microsoft Corp. has sold 20 million consumer copies of the new Windows Vista operating system worldwide in February, but analysts said the data shed little light on the programme’s popularity during its first month on the market.

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Dell’s low-cost PC in China

Tilak | Business | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

According to Reuters, Dell Inc. the world’s second-largest personal computer marker, unveiled a low-cost PC on Wednesday for China, its fastest-growing market. The PC is priced from 2,599yuan to 3,999 yuan (about $335 to $520), the company said in a statement. Dell ranks third in China behind homegrown powerhouse Lenovo Group Ltd and Founder Technology York Li.

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Barclays, ABN Rapid Takeover Talks

Tilak | Business | Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

British bank Barclays and Dutch bank ABN AMRO aim to agree to tie-up within 30 days. Barclays and ABN said late on Monday they were in “exclusive preliminary discussions”. No details of any deal were released, but Barclays is likely to have to pay more than $80 billion for its rival. It would be Europe’s biggest ever financial services deal and create a bank work more than $160 billion.

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Is Ajax Search Engine Friendly?

Tilak | Web/Tech | Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Past few days I am seeing lots of questions are rising about search engine friendly Ajax.

Search engines cannot read Ajax, because most search engines do not execute JavaScript so if you want to use Ajax and SEs to access information you will have to present it to them in an alternative way.

A good alternative would to design a linked based alternative that somehow has some of these filtering options.

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