HP acquires Mercury in a $4.5 billion deal

Seeded on Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:04 AM EDT (Computerworld)

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s deal to acquire Mercury Interactive Corp. is winning praise from HP software customers and analysts as a smart combination of system and application management tools.

technology, acquisition, mercury, hp

Web based notepad, online bookmark manager and more

Seeded on Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:51 AM EDT ()

TECHSLASH Labs is our technology playground, where we try and build our innovative ideas and concepts, into simple solutions that consists of many lightweight, reliable and powerful web based applications.

web2-0, technology, notebook, internet, bookmarks, bookmark-manager, microsoft-net

Why Blame only Microsoft for monopolizing?

Seeded on Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:34 AM EDT ()

Google unviels Paypal killer. Well. Aren't they monopolizing? All you Microsoft bashers.. read this.

google, technology, monopoly, internet, microsoft, google-checkout

Microsoft Robots are coming

Seeded on Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:18 AM EDT (www.techslash.com)

The latest product from Redmond: a Windows program for creating robot software. Microsoft software is ubiquitous -- it's in most desktop PCs and laptops and even some PDAs and phones. And now it's headed into robots.

technology, robotics, microsoft, robots

Future of E-Mail

Seeded on Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:18 AM EDT (TECHSLASH)

With the right technology, the right policies and a little slice of your budget, you can pretty much manage the messaging madness.

technology, internet, e-mail, web

Google Fatigue Sets In

Seeded on Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:08 AM EDT (TECHSLASH)

Users are reacting to Google's new online spreadsheet with a big yawn. Is the company searching for a strategy? Can there be too much of a good thing? Some Google watchers are beginning to think so.

google, technology, internet, web, google-spreadsheet

An attempt to tag and link to all the files available in the Internet

Seeded on Thu Jun 8, 2006 12:48 AM EDT ()

This anonymous upload site, apart from allowing users to upload and tag files, also allows users to post link to files found anywhere in the web.

web2-0, technology, tagging, folksonomy, net, file-upload, file-hosting

The Hard-Disk That Works Only Under Water

Seeded on Thu Jun 8, 2006 12:40 AM EDT (TECHSLASH)

Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes of information. Imagine an iPod playing music for 100 millennia without repeating a single song or a USB thumb-drive with room for 32.6 million full-length DVD movies.

technology, physics, storage, harddrisk, ferroelectricity

Scientists Create Invisibility Cloak

Seeded on Thu Jun 8, 2006 12:32 AM EDT (TECHSLASH)

Using a new design theory, researchers have developed the blueprint for an invisibility cloak. Once devised, the cloak could have numerous uses, from defense applications to wireless communications, the researchers said.

technology, physics, invisibility, cloak, metamaterials