Another week, another battle. Google and Microsoft besides loaded wallets also seem to have enormous energy levels to be battling out with each other week after week. Last month matters reached over the top, literally, when the Chief Executive Officer of the world’s largest corporate, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer reportedly said “’I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill Google.”
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Speed dating, you probably heard about it in some magazine or surfed through it on internet or probably read about it somewhere. But chances are like most others you haven’t had a first hand experience at it. Two years ago when I wrote about speed dating in my column it was an alien concept in India and many of my readers found it an obscure concept. In an age when Maggi - the 2 minute noodle rules the stomach, the heart too can’t wait any longer. Speed thrills and love sells. Combine them both and you get a super combination of love in the last lane, speed dating. Read more

This was originally published on August 24, 2005

The battle for desktop dominance seems to be heating up with Google launching Google Desktop 2. It is the second version of an application launched recently. By using Google’s trademark search software, it aims to be a more personalised version of products such as Apple’s Dashboard and Yahoo’s Konfabulator, programmes that deliver icons to the screen and keep photo, alarm clock, scheduling, music, currency converters and news applications running while the computer is in use.
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