Nokia on Tuesday announced it is going to buy the rest of Symbian (a company which develops operating system for mobiles).

Nokia currently owns 48% share of the company, and will pay $410 million for the rest.

This deal does not come as a surprise if we look at these figures:
Nokia paid $250 million in licensing fee to Symbian last year, so it makes business sense to acquire the whole of it in $410 million.

But it is not the sole reason for takeover. Nokia was more worried that Symbian’s structure will erode its competitive position.
Currently Symbian is being challenged by number of new contender like Google’s Android platform.

To compete with Google’s Android, Symbian will also become an open source based platform.

Nokia expects the acquisition to be completed during the fourth quarter of 2008.

Apple announced this month that it will launch the new 3G iPhone this month with $199 tag. But how can it afford such a killing price?There are two reasons why Apple can charge so less for the new iphone:

1. The handset service providers will subsidize the handsets by paying $300 per unit to Apple.
2. The second reason is the low cost of the materials going into handset.
   The most expensive component in the 3G iphone is the 8GB flash memory storage costing $22.8 . The nest one is the touch screen for 20$. The chips and other components add upto 164$. Apple is paying 9$ for the assembly of the device.
   This brings down the total cost to 173$.

But these initial estimates does not include the cost of software, shipping, distribution, packaging and the cost of accessories.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, stepped down from the company officially.

Gates leaves his full time duties as chairman of Microsoft.

According to Gates, he contributed whatever he can to the software giant company and now wants to spend most of his time in philanthropy. He will now be actively involved with the activities of philanthropic organization he founded with his wife in 2000 “Melinda Gates foundation”. The foundation boasts of being the biggest of its kind in USA in the financial report of 2007

This is in accordance with the Gates vision of creative capitalism.

Mere starting of a weblog, commonly termed as “BLOG”, is not enough.

The success of your blog entirely depends on various factors, which in turn bring more traffic and make your blog popular and successful.

Some of the important factors are:

1. The readability of your blog
   This is as simple and straight as it sounds. You need not show your high-level English skills in your blog.
   The language should be as simple and appealing as it can be. Before writing your posts, just imagine whatever you are going to write, is for a “lower-kindergarten” kid. Simple and straight approach always wins.
   An interesting tool to check the readability of your blog:
   LINK: http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx
2. Marketing of your blog
   This is not as simple as it seems. I take for granted that most of the starting bloggers, like me don’t have money to spend on top-level SEO (search engine optimization), to gather traffic from search engines.
   The best tools of a blogger to popularize his blog are pinging, submitting to article directories, quality link exchange, submission to blog search engines like Technorati.
   A tool to to check the total worth of your blog:
   LINK: http://www.business-opportunities.biz/projects/how-much-is-your-blog-worth/

WTF: :grin: The tool to check the worth of your blog is entirely based on tagging and the activity record of your blog on Technorati, so if you try to check the worth of even Google , the result would be 0$ !! :lol:

The real time download stats for Firefox 3 is going on and on.

Link: http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/

Download Firefox 3: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

If you have downloaded Firefox 3, show the world, get a personalised certificate

Link: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/certificate_form

Egg 1: Credit to the developers

Type “about:credits” (without quotes) in the address bar of Firefox 3 and press enter, and here is what you get:

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Egg 2: Robots

Type “about:robots” (without quotes) in the address bar of Firefox 3 and press enter, and here is what you get:

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Firefox 3, the latest release of one of the most popular browser is here.Some of the new features as being boasted by the developers include:

1. new password manager
2. one click bookmarking
3. improved performance, speed and memory usage.
4. smart location bar

You can download the latest Firefox ver 3 here

LINK: http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0&os=win?=en-US

You can track down everything about new Mozilla Firefox at

LINK: http://www.spreadfirefox.com

Q: What is Firefox?

LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox

Egg No -1:

Open Firefox browser. Click on the address bar and type “about:mozilla” (without quotes) and hit enter.

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You get a red colour screen with the quote:
“Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.”
from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9 (10th Edition)

Click on the image to zoom:

Egg No-2:

Open Firefox browser.
Enter the following in the address bar:

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

press enter. What you can see is “Firefox within Firefox”. You get as many browsers within browser, as many times you type the code and press enter.

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Gmail is undobutably one of the most powerful and feature rich email facility on the internet today.

Keeping and managing, multiple accounts with a main account, is very simple and easy.

1. login to your gmail account and click on the settings tab:
   
2. click on forwarding
   
3. checking the radio button for forward a copy, enter the gmail id and select the option for keeping a copy in the same account or not:
   that’s it. Next you will have to confirm by clicking on a link from other account, and DONE!

After that, whenever you need to compose a new mail from the main account, you will get option to use any one of the multiple id’s:

Windows PC can be transformed into Mac (visually), without going into hassle of installing many visual themes, windowblinds, docklets….and the list goes on……
The solution is a simple all-in-one installer FlyakiteOSX.

“FlyakiteOSX is a transformation pack. It will transform the look of an ordinary Windows XP+ system to resemble the look of Mac OS X. The installer simply automates the process of replacing critical system files, setting registry tweaks, and installing extras such as cursors, sounds, visual styles, etc. FlyakiteOSX DOES NOT contain any spyware or ad-ware of any kind. All files needed for FlyakiteOSX are stored in the Windows directory in a folder named ‘FlyakiteOSX’ that is hidden by default. All registry values for FlyakiteOSX are written to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\FlyakiteOSX.”
All the documentation and FAQ’s about installer can be found at:

http://www.flyakiteosx.com/
http://osx.portraitofakite.com/

The installer is very simple, the whole visual system is light on the CPU, and is completely safe to install and remove.

Screenshots:

Download:

http://www.flyakiteosx.com/files/FlyakiteOSX%20v3.0.zip