A very sad news hit me today, when I was going through the web. Yes, to sum it up, the title of this posts says it all. Symantec has released the data on top searches by kids in 2009 and it reveals that the terms such as “sex” or “porn” was in the top 5 list. With the media intoxicating with such things in children makes such search terms acceptable to an extent in “teens.” But the following search results that Symantec has released is giving a very scary picture.
Kids Searching For “Sex” & “Porn” On The Internet
December 21st, 2009 
Sarosh Waiz 
Posted in News, Research 
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1 Comment »Alvarez Lands A $30 Million Deal Through A $300 Youtube Video
December 21st, 2009 Sarosh Waiz One of the Youtube producers, Fede Alvarez, landed a deal worth $30 Million USD from Hollywood after he uploaded a $300 budget film on Youtube. The film is called “Ataque de Panico” or “The Panic Attack” and features gigantic robots entering and capturing the city of Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. The robots try to gain control of the capital through destruction as the citizens flee for their lives.
Posted in News, Videos, Youtube Tags: 30 million, 5 million, Alvarez, amp, Argentina, Ataque, attack, budget, budget film, capital, capital of uruguay, citizens, City, city of montevideo, control, deal, destruction, Fede, film, Ghost, giants, Hollywood, House, Million, million times, Montevideo, Panic, panic attack, Panico, producers, robots, sci fi thriller, Uruguay, USD, video, work, www youtube, Youtube 1 Comment »Steve Ballmer Fires A Microsoft Employee!
December 21st, 2009 Sarosh Waiz Recently, there has been this video floating on Youtube and other video sites in which an ex-employee tells that he was fired by Steve Ballmer for not being enthusiastic enough about Bing. In the video below, the ex-Microsoft employee tells that he was fired because Ballmer wanted everyone to be enthusiastic when they even said “Bing”, and since this guy didn’t sound enthusiastic enough… he was fired on the spot!
Posted in Videos Tags: Bing, employee, everyone, ex, fired, Google, guy, job ex-employee, Language, Microsoft, microsoft employee, search, show, spot, Steve Ballmer, video, video sites, Warning, www youtube, Youtube No Comments »Detective Takes Out A Gun After Being Hit By A Snowball!
December 20th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz 
Posted in News, Twitter Tags: Ali, angry words, area, Ball, car, City, cops, corner, D.C., detective, driver, event, Facebook, fight, fun, fun event, genius, gun, having fun, Hummer, image credits, Maroon, Mathew Bradley, number, personal blog, plain clothes, police, purpose, rock star, Snow, snow ball fight, Snowball, snowball fight, snowballs, Someone, streets nw, Twitter, U Streets, US, washington post, yesterday, youngsters, yousef ali, Youtube 1 Comment »Pay-Per-View Channels To Be Launched By Justin.TV
December 20th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz 
Justin.tv is one of the big live internet video sites, that claims to have roughly 35 million monthly views is all set to launch a pay-per-view service. The service will be launched next month with selected content creators and partners for the first quarter. The plans will then be executed for the complete site by the second quarter of 2010. This the first time that one of the big video sited is implementing a pay-per-view service.
Posted in News, Strategy Tags: advertising, authentication, beet, clever content, competitions, content, content creators, Evan Solomon, fee, first quarter, inappropriate content, instructional classes, intellectual property, Internet, interview, Justin, justin tv, live sports, marketing, monetize, month, music sports, pay per view, payment, quarter, revenue, second quarter, service, SITE, sopcast, system, time, video, video sites, view, viewing, way No Comments »Firefox 3.5: The Most Popular Browser Worldwide
December 20th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz Firefox 3.5 has just crawled above Internet Explore 7 and Internet Explorer 8 as the most popular browser worldwide. Although Internet Explorer version 7 and version 8 combined are still the most popular browsers, but the total share of IE 7 has been going down because people are upgrading to IE 8. Check the stats below from StatCounter:
Posted in Browsers, News Tags: 3.5, approx, billion page views, browser, Chrome, Explore, Explorer, Firefox, Google, ie 7, information, Internet, internet explore 7, internet explorer 8, leader, market, market leader, Microsoft, microsoft browser, moment, page, part, popular, share, StatCounter, trend, trend lines, version, worldwide No Comments »Yahoo Is Going Bonkers!
December 19th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz Yahoo is still the world’s third most visited website and the company has not been doing well since quite sometime now. They have been low on revenues, have been cutting costs to increase profitability, and have also dropped in their search share. The worse part is that the company seems to have lost its passion as it has shown consistent lack of innovation. They have outsourced their search to Bing and have also outsourced all the “social plans & ideas” to Facebook recently.
Posted in News Tags: America, amp, base, Bing, company, core, core strategy, cycling, cycling team, enthusiasts, Facebook, innovation, Kevin Klein, lack, Management, nonsense, part, passion, profitability, search, share, Silicon Valley, silicon valley professionals, sponsorship, Strategy, Team, toes, user, website, world, yahoo No Comments »Google Playing Around With A Browser Login Option For Chrome OS
December 19th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz 
Posted in Google Tags: browser, Chrome, Chromium, computer, Connect, consumers, day, Feature, Friend, Google, half, industry, Internet, launch, login, login interface, logs, netbooks, open source operating system, os system, second half, security, simplicity, source, speed, storm, system, toes, weight, yahoo 1 Comment »Dragon Search – The Killer iPhone Ap!
December 18th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz After a successful iPhone ap called “Dragon Dictation,” which was a speech-to-text transcription software, Nuance gets into the market again with another cool application: Dragon Search. Nuance describes this application as a “fast, accurate and a smart way to search online content on an iPhone.”
Posted in iPhone Tags: accuracy, amp, application, application press, Bing, content, Dictation, Dragon, dragon dictation, dragon search, entire web, first software, Google, great software, iPhone, itunes, market, Mashable, mobilecrunch, Nuance, online, search, search query, software, speech, speech recognition, techies, technology, text, text transcription, transcription, transcription software, Twitter, ultra, user, way, Wikidpedia, Youtube No Comments »WordPress 2.9 Out Now!
December 18th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz 
Posted in Wordpress Tags: 140, 2.9, 500, amp, behalf, blog, bloggers, bugs, Built-in, Carmen, Carmen McRae, Carmen WordPress, Compatibility, contributors, download, Easier, Editor, enhancements, Feature, functionality, Global, great news, image, image editor, Jazz, jazz vocalist, loyalists, Matt Mullenwag, new features, News, Plugin, release, release addresses, theme, Trash, Undo, video, vocalist, Wordpress, wordpress blog, WP, WP 2.9 No Comments »
