First of all I was thinking of a name for the MS Yahoo deal. Micro-ahoo doesn’t sound too good. Please suggest some creative names…Will be fun.
Anyways the Question is where does the deal lead us? How’s it gonna effect the today’s win-win situation of the Internet? Some say that MS has in a way accepted that it can’t beat Google on its own that’s why it needs Yahoo’s support. Now the question arises …even if MS accepts it’s defeat from Google, will it be able to defeat Google after the …

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux Operating System, thinks that OS X Leopard is worse than Windows Vista in some aspects.
Geek enough to be interested?
Read on here.

GDB (Acronym for GNU debugger) is considered to be one of the best debuggers among the geek community. i generally prefer debugging my programs without any debugging tools , i.e by mental inspection and printf()s. I feel this is the best approach for a student…It makes you learn a lot. But when you have to debug a more than 1000 lines code and you have deadlines to meet you practically can’t do without a debugger.
GDB is a command line based tool but really powerful and helpful.
I found a great …

JP Morgan’s research report on investment ideas in the internet space has just come out. The document is quite comprehensive, actually too comprehensive and technical. However if you are game for some serious reading then you can download the pdf here

Newyorktimes is reporting that IBM has asked close to 700 employees to leave after they failed to perform well in newly introduced performance tests. Asking people to join a company and then asking them to leave is absolutely criminal in my opinion. If a company has to perform some performance test, then they will be better off doing so before asking the person to join.
You can read the details here

If you are a startup, looking for funding for your company, then it may be a little difficult to find the contact details of venture capital funds. Here is a list of venture capital fund in India.
Aavishkar India Micro Capital Fund
Adharshila Venture Capital Fund Limited
APIDC Venture Capital Limited
Auto Ancillary Fund
Anand Rathi Realty Fund
Aureos India Fund
Axis Venture capital Trust
Avigo India Private Equity Trust
Ativir Venture Capital Trust
BTS India Private Equity Fund
Canbank Venture Capital Fund Ltd.
CIG Realty Fund
Dhunn-Carr Management and Research India Private Limited
DHFL Venture Capital Fund
Eureka Venture Fund
Edelweiss …

Looks like all is not over for microsoft on internet. Yesterday Microsoft offered 44.6 billion dollar for buying Yahoo. Half of the amount shall be paid in cash and half will be paid in stock. You can read the entire offer details here. The bid price of 31$ per share represents more than 63% premium on the last closing price of yahoo shares. This may be master move by microsoft against google and because of anti-trust laws google shall not be eligible to bid for yahoo. It will be really …

Whenever someone starts using Linux he comes across so many names like Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse…(The list is long).
What are all these ?
These are called Linux Distros. The word Distro is kind of abbreviation of the word Distribution. But what do we mean by distro? You can think of a distro as a pizza. There are so many variations of pizza to choose from…extra cheese, thick crust, thin crust, a hell lot of them.
A Linux distro is a similar thing. Just as per your taste you eat a …