I got my hands on Samsung Omnia during the first week of it’s launch. PRO B7320 appears to be a European version of the existing Samsung i637 Jack phone, available on AT&T Wireless. In truth, the Omnia name really doesn’t fit here. Sure, the B7320 has GPS(read as Google Maps), but …

Imagine a blonde girl sitting on that left corner of a starbuck outlet with her laptop and an evil smile. Yes she is your twitter whore.

I joined twitter over a year ago, when I was a sophomore. That was when the ‘Twitter’ hype actually started creeping in. I have posted around 5,600 tweets till now and counting and I must say I have come across various set of people. No, I am not doing a major in psychology, but I can still analyze and optimize people.

When twitter was …

Do you love free wifi? Article Explains how to ethically hack a wifi wireless internet connection using free hacking softwares, tools and commonly used default passwords.
Whenever I am travelling or move into a new vicinity I expect the usual hassles of living without a net connection. Mobile gprs can be quite crappy and slow at times, but then this is when where the genius inside me begins to start thinking. So here is a blog post explaining how to break into secured wifi networks with common sense.

How to …

Masoom Tulsiani is an entrepreneur based in Mumbai. Masoom is the founder of Seo Donuts Inc and works as a freelance web developer and search engine consultant.
People know me as a 20 year old internet enthusiast and quirky computer geek who loves beer ,churns out poetries and does not wear glasses so often ;-) I am currently pursuing my engineering in Information Technology from University of Mumbai and have started up with Seo Donuts Inc - a search engine optimization based company in Mumbai, India.
I know you are wondering why …

It’s been a few months, since Weboobie was launched. We redefined the web 2.0 world with some great blogs.I am so glad to say that weboobie has the innate quality that makes men hone in on her like bees to roses. ;-) Thanks for all the visitors and RSS followers who kept abreast of the latest buzz via weboobie. Finally the time has come to spill the beans. We are moving over to beta and working on a new Social development project which will also use Silverlight 3 Technology.
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Microsoft Popfly built on SIliverlight technology let’s you create cool mashup’s in less than 5 mins. The best thing about Popfly is that it does not need any additonal software, and can be completely made on the website. The popfly blocks leverage the web2.0 services like Facebook, Digg, Twitter & Virtual Earth. So if you are in a mood to create an interesting web service, popfly might be the thing you are looking for.
Steps for creating your first popfly application:
1.) Go to http://www.popfly.com
2.) Sign in with your Windows Live ID
3.) …

Imagine having coffee in your table, and transferring content from your tabletop surface to your mobile. Sounds unreal, think again. Welcome to the Star Trek Era. Surface computing is a new way of working with computers that moves beyond the traditional mouse-and-keyboard experience. It is a natural user interface that allows people to interact with digital content the same way they have interacted with everyday items such as photos and music their entire life: with their fingertips.
I just happen to see the live demo of Microsoft Surface at a promotional …

I just got my hands on the Dreamspark software CD this morning. I got myself verified from my local NIIT franchisee and this software became mine. It comes with a pink glossy CD cover with bold letters inscribed ” ENTRY FOR DREAMERS ONLY.”
Let me share with you something about this Endeavor.As shown in MTV, Microsoft unveiled the DreamSpark™ Program in November - a software giveaway for an estimated 10 million eligible students in India. DreamSpark will provide students access to the latest Microsoft developement and designer tools at no …

Thumbtack is the latest innovation from the live labs. I used it for 10 minutes, and I am in love with this product. It makes it so easy to organize my web life. You can now save links, photos, and text that from different Web sites to a single place.  Just Grab the stuff you want  by selecting and copying it, drag it into a Thumbtack collection, then get to it from anywhere you can get online.  Share it with your friends, or just keep it for yourself. It’s way …

One of the most exciting events of Microsoft’s marquee contest - The Imagine Cup’09, Egypt is the IT Challenge.
Students are challenged to develop, deploy, and maintain IT systems that are elegant, functional, robust and secure. This demanding competition requires engineering students and those from the field of science to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in the science of servers and networks like Windows Server 2003/2008, IIS 7.0,VPN, ISA 2006 ADS & Hyper V & Client technologies like Windows Vista & Windows Movile. They canow their analytical abilities …

Search Internet giant Google beefed up its Web-based email service Gmail this week by adding online video and voice chat making it the most interactive mailbox ever
It seems like the people in google labs love to play around with Gmail. First it was the chatbox which showed a list of contacts from the address book online that were online at that moment checking their inbox and allowed instant messaging exchanges. And now it is the Video Chat feature which will let Gmail users with Web cams to talk to friends …

One of my really beautiful friend is preparing for the Microsoft Student Partner test. I call her my muse, yeah she is too demure, cherubic. Okay, I am falling short of words to describe her beauty here..which is rare for a writer(blush blush) :P
She wants me to tell her about the latest microsoft products. And she doesn’t wanna strain her beautiful eyes surfing through hundreds of webpages. So to make sure she doesn’t go through her blonde moments, Weboobie comes into rescue. Yes Weboobie is always sweet to pretty lasses.
So …

Microsoft Released Silverlight 2, today which an update to the company’s browser plug-in that allows users to view and interact with rich media on the Web. In addition to the plug-in release, Microsoft will also release development tools for Mac developers.
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.

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Silverlight delivers a Flash-like Web experience to users, allowing them to interact with elements of a Web page, including watching video. Although the technology competes with …

Masoom Tulsiani Digg’s inside the Microsoft Live labs which was formed in 2006 and tells you what goes inside the most renowned software research laboratory in the world.
Based in Silicon valley, is the Microsoft® Live Labs, a research partnership between MSN® and Microsoft Research.
First look, and you know why it is the pre-eminent applied research laboratory for Internet technologies. All the revolutionary and cutting edge prototypes are built here. The Microsoft research scientists believe in developing cutting edge Internet products and technology. Their vision is to bring together the online …

I just came across MashUp while registering for the Microsoft Imagine Cup’09. Mashup is an individual entry for this year’s Imagine Cup to be held in Egypt.  MashUp has made a big impact in the world of web 2.0 and has become a popular in recent years due to an increasing number of companies and social networks making some of their data available through the use of programming interfaces and RSS feeds. The fact that it has been featured this year in the world’s premier student technlogy competition like Imagine …