Here is yet another acquisition rumor and the valley is pumping out at least one such thing on a daily basis. Plaxo an online contact management service started by Stanford guys has supposedly accepted a $200M bid and it is from none other than Google. Plaxo is a well backed up company with funding from Sequoia, Globspan and a few others.
Data portability is an important thing now a days as people want to work multi tasks and the data portability project aims at bring things things together as a single entity. For instance the open ID has clicked on very well and looks like it will make it big. Many of the top notch web sites and service are joining the data portability project and the recent one to join the list id Digg!
The man who played the famous role of Ennis in the film Broke back mountain and also the much acclaimed “joker” in the batman film The Dark Knight was found dead in his bed. The police have not found any suspicious cause and seems he was normal and had dinner the previous night.
Audio piracy is the ever ending things and attempts to curb it in years have turned futile some way or the other. CD has become a thing of the past and also pay and download has not clicked on well. The ultimate solution is to provide the music for free legally and Qtrax a digital service with 25 million songs in its catalog is doing it!
People are sure crazy and come up with different things. We all know that the Americans are getting fatter and down the line i guess the lower waistline size costumes would become history. There has been a consistent increase in the waist line of most of the peeps and check out this map which was released by CNN. Map of obesity.
The Aussies have given a strong reply to the score piled by the Indian team and the day 4 of the fourth test is in progress. Ricky Ponting and Micheal Clarke completed their centuries. Earlier Matthew Hayden scored a century building a strong foundation. With the fourth day in progress not even 2 innings have got completed and looks like the match will end in a draw.
Within two days of the company virgin Galactic announcing about the space tourist ship and opened up the sots at a price of $200000, about 200 people have registered from more than 30 countries. It will definitely be a great experience for the rich tourists and also they get to meet some of the other rich men in the world!
I guess every one knows about the lolcats if not you should go and check out those weird looking cats at icanhascheezburger. If you get the humor in it then you will get attracted to it very much. A new study by psychologists at Yale has proposed that the funny imagines will control your mind.
The final and the deciding test match has begun at Adelaide between the world champions Australia and India. In the first session Mitchell Johnson had a good spell and picked up two wickets. Now Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar are on the crease. At the end of 26 overs India have scored 89 runs for the loss of two wickets.
Many of the popular web sites are falling prey to the hackers and now next in the line is the RIAA website. The entire database has been wiped off but it seems like it has been restored at one point but some other sources say it is still in the same state! This has become a growing concern and the web admins should take the necessary actions to prevent such things.