Hi,

Heres a lot of applications on the touch-screen enabled Windows 7 PC. I still doubt the authenticity, but if W7 keeps its promise, it would really change the way OS is looked at.

Watch the video in fullscreen mode and it doesnt have any Audio (except for the Piano part). Comments welcome.

Regards,

Bhavik Vora

Hi,

I am really sorry for writing this bolg post really late. But we have done it ! Novices@Work have won the Imagine Cup 2008 Software Design Invitational India Finals. Well we had 3 teams in the national finals - Team SKAN, EcoWarriors and ourselves Novices@Work.

Our project - Kalpavriksha was Building low cost sensor network that monitors the agricultural field parameters and then analyse the data and build an expert system to guide the farmers to make decision.

Team SKAN and Novices@Work got qualified to the top-3 teams, where they gave presentation on-stage. Both the teams were good in their prez, well couldnt have made a choice between the two.

To read more about the success stories -

1. Imagine Cup article in 'The Hindu'
2. Article by Lakshman Srikanth
3. WebIndia123.com
4. YouTube Pic Slideshow
5. Microsoft.com
6. MyNews.in
7. Professor Sadagopan’s Weblog

A superb commentry on the proceedings of the 3 days at Bangalore is available on Karun's blog. Well the above links are also his contribution. ;)

Well we'll be representing India in Paris in July :). And aha.. myname not featured in the list - cos i am da team Mentor ;)

Wish us all the best for the world finals.

Regards,

Bhavik

Hi,

I am bloggin after such a long time. Well, while using Internet on my laptop, I came across an interesting feature of Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta. You can now sign in at multiple places onto the messenger. Previously when you sign into messenger at another place, your previous login would get disconnected. Now you can actually login multiple times onto multiple supported devices.

Heres a screenshot:

 With this feature, you can log out from the previously signed computers too from the currently signed in computer. Well there are 2 catches to this feature:

1. If you recieve a message when you are signed in at multiple places, it will be received by both the messengers.
2. Well, if you sign in on a version of messenger that doesnt support this feature, you will be signed out of all the other devices.

Regards,

Bhavik

Hi,

I got many queries asking for help in the preparation for Microsoft Internship Interviews. So i thought to put out the reply i sent over here.

I'll firstly inform you that i was selected for the interview for internship through Imagine Cup 2007. We were top-11 National finalists and we got a chance to get ourselves interviewed.

The interview was telephonic and was around 45-mins long. You can expect a variety of questions ranging from creative to technical to HR. Also the technical qns were C/C++, AOA, Data Structures, OS and CN based. But all of them were purely practical. Also if you have programming skills as .NET, you may expect a cuppa of qn's on the same.

The most important part is your resume. You wont be asked a single thing outside your resume. So do not claim anything you dont know in your resume. Also the projects/technical papers form the basis of the interview.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Bhavik.

Hi,

This article is adapted from an article on TALK BACK from CNN.

Marat Glazer, a software developer in Los Angeles, writes:

Look at it this way for a minute.

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) bids for Yahoo Inc. (YHOO); Google Inc. (GOOG) shows fear. Google is now under pressure, and should remain under pressure as long as the Microsoft deal is on the table. Google doesn't like pressure (e.g., they don't give earnings guidance). Why would Microsoft rush to "sweeten" its bid? Microsoft has Google right where it wants it, and all Microsoft had to do was send out a few memos and press releases.

Now Yahoo is scrambling for higher bidders, trying to outsource search to Google, thinking about a merger with AOL, all while deploying new initiatives to hold up what it knows is its soon-to-be declining stock value.

No matter how many articles Yahoo writes about reinventing mobile social networking, it won't hold its stock at $30 a share. I don't think such lackluster news is even worth $20 a share. At this point, Yahoo shareholders only have one thing on the brain: "Show me the money!" It's my opinion that Microsoft won't show them that money.

In its statement, Microsoft said its offer was "full and fair" (indicating it would NOT raise its bid over $31). I'll take Microsoft at its word.

Microsoft also made hints at a potential proxy fight. Based on Tuesday's Yahoo stock activity, I don't think Yahoo shareholders are ready for a fight. If Yahoo was getting ready for war, then the price of Yahoo stock should go higher as core Yahoo shareholders move to ratchet up outstanding shares in the market. That's NOT what happened Tuesday. Yahoo went sideways-south.

Microsoft is now playing the waiting game. I believe that after Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang and his company board's arrogant and greedy response to Microsoft's generous offer, Yahoo shareholders will be waiting a long, long, long time for anything over $31 from Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft may lower its bid, or withdraw it entirely.

If I were Microsoft, I would wait about a month or two, as Yahoo, Google and Time Warner Inc. (TWX) stocks flail about. Then I would either lower or withdraw my bid, citing "a lack of perceived value." The aftermath of this move would be CATASTROPHIC for Yang and the Yahoo board. It would also cause internal turmoil for Yahoo shareholders and staff, as Yahoo employees who WANT the Microsoft deal are disgruntled. Basically, Microsoft lowering or withdrawing its bid spells big trouble in little Yahoo. And that's good for Microsoft.

In the end, however many ways you toss this salad, Microsoft comes out the clear winner here. Whether it gets Yahoo or not. Yahoo and Google are the clear losers, and I'm inclined to believe that's exactly what Microsoft had planned all along.

It's genius!

Hmm.. another side of story !

Regards,

Bhavik Vora