Apple iPhone. Will it blend? Yes, it blends! Watch this YouTube Video. In which an Apple iPhone turned into powder.

Microsoft Corporation on wednesday announced it has agreed to acquire Chicago-based Parlano, maker of MindAlign, a leading application for enterprise group chat. Microsoft expects to add Parlano’s group chat functionality as a new feature of Microsoft® Office Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator, Microsoft’s server and client software for presence, instant messaging, conferencing and VoIP.

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Microsoft on tuesday released  an update that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista. I have tried that but I didn’t see any tweak in performance. Now its your turn, try that and post the result here.

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Google AdWords gives you a cost-effective way to advertise your business on Google

Google AdWords is a proven, cost-effective way to get your business noticed and drive interested customers to your site. Just set up your AdWords ad campaign, control the price that you want to pay for each click and keyword, and you’ll soon see customers interested in your product or service coming to your website.

• Show your ad to prospective customers looking for your services or products.
• Once you are setup, only pay for your ad when someone clicks on it.
• Have complete control over your ad campaigns and budget.
• Target your ads by region, state, city, or neighborhood, or run a broader campaign.

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Yahoo has taken the “beta” label off its new mail. Here’s an overview from the Yodel Anecdotal blog. The new Yahoo Mail, said Yahoo, offers new speed and performance enhancements as well as an expansion of the search refinement features.

Yahoo! Mail and its biggest competitors, Google Inc.’s Gmail and Microsoft Corp.’s Hotmail, are adding features to attract and keep users. Yahoo is the first of the three to offer free text messages, after adding more storage and instant messaging in February to match some features provided by its rivals.

Arguably the most interesting aspect of the new features is the inclusion of the capability of sending text messages to mobile phones from Yahoo Mail. The service is currently available to mobile phone users in the US, Canada, India and the Philippines.

The text messaging feature is integrated into the interface and works in almost exactly the same way as standard emailing, but users enter a phone number instead of an email address. Each message is limited to 150 characters.

Unlike a traditional email inbox, the system creates an instant message style interface to allow users to track the course of the conversation.

Users also have the option of connecting to their contacts via Yahoo Messenger or Windows Live Messenger through the Mail interface.

They can also convert email messages into IM chats or switch to a text message dialogue if the person they are chatting to comes online or goes mobile.

Moreover, in the U.S., the new Yahoo Mail will also gain a feature called Shortcuts that has been available in the “classic” version of the service. This feature lets the system automatically recognize things such as dates and addresses, giving people the option of adding the information to their Yahoo Calendar or Contacts list, launching Web searches and displaying a map inside the Yahoo Mail interface.

What is Tafiti according to Microsoft?

Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search.

Tafiti, is an experimental demonstration site that combines Live Search with Silverlight and has just been launched. Here is the screen shot of the  search results.

Tafiti uses Silverlight 1.0 RC and AJAX to provide rich, cross-platform user experiences.

In today’s world of competition no one can succeed without really improving oneself in every aspect of our lives. Be it your career, relationship with your family, your friends or foes, it all necessitates constant improvement in our side. Instead of thinking that we are perfect and that it’s others who must improve or behave themselves, we must try to understand fellow human beings, or why they behave in a particular manner. This would actually make the road towards self improvement easier. Be willing to bring a change in yourself!

Improving one’s self is not as easy as it seems!
Self improvement is all about enriching our lives with some values and following a few guidelines which we create to make us a better person. Once a foundation is made, the road to self improvement would become a smoother one.

Firstly we must have proper focus or we should concentrate on what must be improved in us! It might seem to be simple, but it is not.

Proper planning is very important in this. We must analyze ourselves and find out which aspect needs improvement in the first place. Is it our career, relationship with your family, financial aspects, health or any other factor which seeks up most attention?

Decide which one is to be dealt with first.

Once a list is ready, move on with it and mentally prepare yourself for the change in you.
Decide on what is to be done. You can also ask for opinion from your close family or your friends whom you trust. And also remember that a deadline to meet each criteria in the made up list is as important as making up the list. If you take your own time, it might as well never happen.

A decision made, just focus on the result part. Once an objective in the list is fulfilled just go ahead to the next one and keep re focusing and organizing yourself. You are doing this to make yourself a better social being!

Have confidence in yourself and move ahead in the right direction to make a better you!