How Yahoo Blew It . The way Google and Yahoo charge advertisers for their marketing campaigns is very different and explains the fate of the 2 companies. I have had an Google Adwords account for a long time, and and you are billed only when someone actually clicks on their ads. I don’t bid much, [...]
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Getpaid4sms – SMS scam
March 1, 2007 – 8:15 am
Conmen in Rs 400m SMS scam arrested in Mumbai. Thousands of people have lost their money in the scam, if they had not been greedy and lazy, they would not have been cheated. Most people looking for work at home jobs do not even bother to read instructions and always looking for “shortcuts” for earning [...]
Another blackout in Mumbai
February 27, 2007 – 8:08 am
There was no electricity for 3 additional hours on Sunday due to a blackout – no electricity for more than 7 hours that day . Work gets affectly badly but do the concerned persons really care? When I was working on NTPC, Simhadri power plant many years ago, the chief minister of the state wanted it to [...]
Cradle scheme for baby girls in India
February 25, 2007 – 6:35 am
India Acts to Save Female Babies – by starting a cradle scheme to adopt baby girls, who will be otherwise killed by their parents. Nothing is going to change unless atitudes in Indian society change and that is not going to happen soon. At times, I feel my parent’s generation , who grew up in newly [...]
Is your domain name safe?
February 24, 2007 – 12:32 pm
One assumes a domain name is safe with an ICANN approved registrar, and when you pay the domain registration or renewal fees, the domain is actually renewed or registered. But it seems this was not the case at RegisterFly, one of the larger  registrars. Money paid for domain registration by customers seems to have been used [...]