Microsoft fined – Not good when they are looking to take over yahoo!

This the hot news today (see below). This fine is not going to do any good to Microsoft’s image as a monopolist. Yahoo might have a chance to use this image and slip out of the acquisition bid.
RK
 http://theindiastockmarket.blogspot.com/ – Indian Stock Market News
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft was fined a record 899 million euros ($1.35 billion) [...]

Ad fears down Google shares

 Here is a news item from reuters that caught my eye. Interesting how one month’s data could have such a big effect!
RK
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 Full Report:-
Google Inc shares fell as much as 8 percent on Tuesday after a U.S. industry report published this week showed a decline in a key measure [...]

Microsoft stops HD DVD drives for Xbox 360

As anticipated Microsoft has decided to stop support for HD DVD drives for their Xbox. See this post(http://yourmitra.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/its-official-hd-dvd-has-died-a-quick-death/) if you want to know the background
Here is the full news report
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it will no longer make HD DVD drives for its Xbox 360 video game consoles.
The much-anticipated announcement comes in [...]

Indian Premier League – Shameless display of Extravagance

IPL (Indian Premier League) took the center stage last week when it auctioned the 77 top-class international players for the teams involved in the league. I was not surprised by the amount of media coverage it got and also by the amount of money that the different teams were ready to cough up to [...]

21 – Feb -2008 : Indian Stock Markets will open higher

US closed positive, Asian Markets as good followers are doing what they were supposed to do. And Indian markets being different will open higher
That said, here is the some of the important news items
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Sensex could bottom out around 16K levels: Experts
Maintain a range in mkts for next 3-6 months: Kotak Sec
Direct tax rate cut may [...]

Its official – HD DVD has died a quick death!

Its official now, Toshiba has decided to stop promoting HD DVD format. Check my earlier post about the reasons
http://yourmitra.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-end-of-the-high-definition-format-war/
An update to the original post
Reuters says, “General Electric Co’s Universal Pictures, one of a few studios using the Toshiba Corp-backed HD DVD format, said on Tuesday it will switch to the rival Blu-ray format now [...]

Microsoft set to launch WorldWide Telescope

There are news reports that Microsoft will be launching a desktop application called ‘WorldWide Telescope’ which will be competitor to Google sky and is expected to be much better than that.
It lest you zoom through the night time sky, as far as it can allow. It is supposed to make use of Hubble and other [...]

Indian Stock Market – http://theindiastockmarket.blogspot.com/

Check out this blog everyday for a round up of some of the important news related to the Indian stock  Market
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Blu Ray vs HD DVD – End of the high definition format war!!!

If you have been reading the news then you will know that we are near the of a hard fought multi-billion dollar high definition format war between Blu-Ray and HD DVD.
Blu-Ray has finally won! As you may know, Blu-Ray was backed by Sony and HD DVD was backed by Toshiba.
This is one war which was [...]

Principles that lead to better Object Oriented Design

The previous post mentioned the ‘7 deadly sins’ of  OO design and this post lists the principles that will lead to a better OO design. Its taken from the same “OO Primer (Object Oriented Principles Explained)” by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz. You can use http://www.rgoarchitects.com/files/ooprimer.pdf for the complete article.
Principles :
Protected Variation/Open Closed Principle
Cohesion–Single Responsibility Principle
Interface Segregation principle
Dependency [...]