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Come 2010 and there will be more tweets on this planet than the tweeps that exist. This is what it seems like if we go by the number of tweets Twitter users post each day. Oh, if you you're all new to this Twitter fad, tweeps are nothing but the twitterised term for people on Twitter.
So, what we are on about here is that Twitter seems to have recently crossed the 5 billion tweets barrier with a Twitter user Robert Sloan managing to post the tweet numbered 5000000000. Now, it certainly does mean it was the tweet number 5 billion, but was it really the five billionth tweet considering there were millions of deleted tweets and of course pre release test tweets on the site? We never know unless of course Twitter comes with a detailed blog post on how it counts tweets. Anyway, that doesn't seem to matter here anyway as long as the tweet is numbered 5000000000.
The Pentagigatweet as Robert Sloan has named the hapless five billionth tweet was eventually deleted by him making things more confusing. So, the 5000000000th tweet no longer exists on Twitter and we do not have a clue who's tweet was next in line to Robert's so that the person can be given due credit.
Now, for some mind boggling facts. The five billion figure mark for any website in terms of anything is impressive. Be it the page views, status updates, number of users or anything else for that matter. That taken into consideration, it was just in November 2008 that Twitter had passed the measly one billion updates mark! In the 11 months after that, there has been more than fourfold increase in the number of tweets. Going by the way things are moving it could be just a few months until there are ACTUALLY more tweets on the planet than there are humans. So, what are you doing?
Microsoft is banking on Windows 7 to breathe new life into a PC world where most computer users are running XP -- an operating system that was released in the early days of the Bush administration.
Experts expect that PC users will change their operating system for the first time in about eight years when Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) launches Windows 7 on Oct. 22.
Microsoft's last operating system, Windows Vista, was a disaster when it was released in 2007. Vista was plagued by bugs, software incompatibilities, sluggishness and annoying security alerts. The episode nearly destroyed the tech giant's reputation with consumers.
"The stakes for Microsoft are astronomically high after the Vista debacle," said Scott Anthony, managing director of Innosight Ventures, a venture capital and consulting firm. "There is a lot of hunger for computing power around the world, and this release will be a real test for Microsoft."
Positive reviews for Windows 7 have been pouring in. Computer experts say that Windows 7 is good -- if not perfect -- and has a shot at eventually usurping XP as the world's most prevalent operating system.
Right now 71.5% of PCs are still running XP, according to OS market share tracker netmarketshare.com, while 18.6% of PCs are running Windows Vista.
"There was lots of negativity around Vista, and Microsoft lost a lot of goodwill with its customers," said Ken Allen, a portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price who manages a tech fund that includes Microsoft as one of its holdings.
Microsoft has aggressively been rolling out products and services (think Bing and Zune HD) to boost its sales, which have declined in the previous two quarters. Its third quarter ended March 31 marked the first time sales fell in Microsoft's 23-year history as a public company.
"The 'bad will' that Microsoft engendered could be reversed if Windows 7 is well received," said Allen.
It appears Microsoft is on the right road. Demand for new computers is starting to heat up again, and many users are looking for an operating system upgrade. Windows 7's release coincides with holiday season shopping. With the economy showing signs of recovery, consumers may be more willing to loosen their purse strings. 0:00 /5:04Next great Windows OS?
What XP users can expect: Windows 7 is faster, more secure and easier to network with other computers than XP. Microsoft has also added a number of features to simplify tasks.
For instance, Windows 7 unveils a more efficient task bar allowing users to switch more easily between programs than the current Alt-Tab function in Windows XP. It also allows users to preview programs by hovering over icons on the taskbar.
Users will also be able to simply shake their mouse to unclutter their desktop rather than having to minimize multiple windows.
"Windows 7 is a far superior product than previous versions, and no one will be disappointed if they use it," said Vishal Dhar, co-founder of iYogi, a global tech support company for consumers. "At the right price point, [consumers] will upgrade for the new features."
Dhar said people used to XP will be most pleased with Windows 7's video editing capabilities, which XP did not accommodate, and speed. He also said the $119 upgrade price is likely low enough to lure people to upgrade.
But there's one hitch and it's a biggie: upgrading is far from easy. XP users who choose to upgrade their computers to Windows 7 will have to either wipe their hard drives or re-install all of their applications. That means finding the product keys and old CDs. As a result, some experts say XP users interested in Windows 7 are better off just buying a new computer.
Slow boost to PC sales: While many experts expect a brief pop in PC sales from Windows 7, most anticipate the bulk of those sales to occur next year.
"Adoption of Windows 7 may take a while longer than some expect," said Scott Anthony, managing director of Innosight Ventures, a venture capital and consulting firm. "A lot of consumers are going to wait because they heard about people getting burned on Windows Vista."
Tech analysts also expect businesses to delay adoption of Windows 7 until next year.
"We don't expect the release of Windows 7 to significantly influence PC demand at year-end," said George Shiffler, analyst at Gartner. "At best, Windows 7 may generate a modest bump in home demand and possibly some added demand among small businesses."
Shiffler said he doesn't expect most larger businesses to start switching to Windows 7 en masse until late 2010, and believes vendors have overestimated how many people will be interested in the product right off the bat.
Even Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said earlier this month that the rise in PC sales as a result of 7's release "will probably not be huge."
Experts say it will be difficult to judge the success of Windows 7 for a year or maybe more, but what's clear is that Microsoft has a lot riding on the latest update to the world's favorite operating system
Mumbai/Chandigarh/Itanagar, Oct 22 (IANS) A triumphant Congress retained power in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh in the first national popularity test following the Lok Sabha ballot of May, leaving a divided opposition licking its wounds.
In the most crucial of all three states, the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost the battle for power for a third time in a row and conceded defeat to the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance just four hours after the vote count started at 8 a.m.
Political analysts said the Congress-NCP alliance could end up with some 140 seats in the 288-member Maharashtra assembly. Independents, rebels and smaller groups could corner over 40 seats. The Shiv Sena and BJP would not touch even the 100-mark.
The Congress swept the 60-seat Arunachal Pradesh as widely expected but, contrary to what most pundits had predicted, managed only a slender win in Haryana, where it had been supremely confident of bagging two thirds of all seats in the 90-member legislature.
Nevertheless, celebrations erupted outside Congress president Sonia Gandhi's house and the Congress headquarters in the heart of the Indian capital. Congress supporters set off firecrackers while others raised slogans and waved posters of Sonia Gandhi and her son and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.
In Mumbai, India's financial capital, Congress Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who took charge of Maharashtra only after the November 2008 terror attack, said the Congress-NCP alliance would form a government again and his own party would be the single largest in the house.
His statement came as the Congress put up a strong showing all across Maharashtra, eclipsing its own ally the NCP, while the BJP suffered a rout in comparison to its fighting ally the Shiv Sena.
Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) put up an impressive show weaning away traditional Shiv Sena votes -- as it did in the Lok Sabha election.
Among the first victors in Maharashtra were Muslim cleric Maulana Mufti Ismail, who won from Malegaon, and MNS candidate Mangesh Sangle in Vikhroli (Mumbai northeast). The Malegaon winner is from the Jan Surajya Party of the Republican Left Democratic Front alliance of 18 parties.
Shiv Sena stalwart and former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi as well as Maharashtra's BJP leaders accepted defeat saying they needed to ponder why they lost the Oct 13 assembly elections.
State BJP secretary Vinod Tawade said the Shiv Sena and BJP would do a lot of 'soul-searching'.
BJP's Smirit Irani added: 'We are going through challenging times. There are many reasons to rethink.'
But BJP leader Muqtar Abbas Naqvi struck a discordant note in New Delhi, blaming the electronic voting machines (EVMs) for its defeats, saying the EVMs had become 'electronic victory machines' for the Congress. 'It is a sponsored victory for the Congress.'
In Arunachal Pradesh, a sprawling state in the northeast, the ruling Congress surged ahead in 31 of the 60 seats. Balloting took place Oct 13 for 57 seats after three candidates were elected unopposed.
The three included Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and two more Congress members, Tsewang Dhondup and Jambey Tashi. A total of 154 candidates were in the fray, the Congress alone fielding candidates in all seats.
The Congress inched towards a simple majority in the 90-member Haryana legislature, with officials stating that it could win 45 seats, which is the midway mark.
Only hours earlier, a seemingly overconfident Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had declared that the Congress could sweep the state and win a 'two-third majority'.
The Congress won 67 seats in the February 2005 elections. To Hooda's shock, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) fared much better than expected and was poised to win in nearly 25 constituencies.
In contrast, the BJP, which broke its alliance with the INLD just before the elections, suffered a drubbing.
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‘COLORS’ will be launched on Indian television screens on July 21st 2008, 7.00 p.m. onwards. The channel got a huge popularity just after its launch and due to its successful ratings, it received a 2nd position among other Hindi general entertainment channels for a little while, such as Zee TV, Sony TV, STAR One, and Sahara One.
The channel’s production partners include Endemol India (for Fear Factor – Khatron Ke Khiladi), Meenakshi Sagar Productions (for Jai Shri Krishna), Shakuntalam Telefilms (for Bandhan Saath Janmon Ka).
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Group A:– Deccan Chargers, Trinidad & Tobago and Somerset
Group B: – Eagles, New South Wales and Sussex
Group C: – Royal Challengers Bangalore, Cape Cobras and Otago
Group D – Delhi Daredevils, Wayamba and Victoria.
According to the schedule there will be 23 matches to be conducted in different parts of India at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi including Kolkata.The highlight of this tournament is the Six million USD as the prize money. ESPN Star Sports are the commercial right holders for T20 Champions League for a period of 10 years.
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