It’s been hyped for the last 15 hours all over the internet about Justin Bieber song U Smile getting slowed down 800% resulting in a 35 min epic music. What’s the big deal?
Even Shamantis, the author of this music work, is not fascinated by what he did, not claiming “to be any sort of MY OWN talent resonating. All I did was put the song through Paulstretch. Anyone can do that” as he posted on soundcloud

and here’s the original version

The slowed down version went viral with over 500,000 plays in less than one day, but there are actually 2 other players in this story that got hyped even more.
Of course, Justin Beiber himself because it’s obvious that one would want to listen to the original song and since most people haven’t heard about it earlier so you can image the number of hits and searches.
The other player happens to be PaulStretch, the open source software which was used to create the slowed down version.
Here you can see the trend

Octazen Solutions is a two employees startup company in Malaysia developing a contact importer software that allow sites like Facebook to grow exponentially in users. A feature like Friend Find where a registered user, by simply entering his email address and password, will be able to send an invite to his entire contact list. No wonder that Facebook has more than 400 million users where 250 million added in the last year alone.
Last week, Facebook acquired Octazen Solutions. This “talent acquisition” as described on GigaOM, means that Octazen engineers are going to shutdown their business operations to join Facebook as it says on the company’s website. Read More »

Number 7 used to be my lucky number or at least a number that I feel optimistic about until Microsoft decided to call its latest Windows release: Windows 7. I got this strange feeling about Windows 7 already when I was announced back in 2007.
I thought they might add some fancy icons and give it more glance and fresh look but underneath it will be the same old crap. Some people might say, well Windows XP was a stable operating system, probably the most stable operating system Microsoft ever made. How good is the performance of an operating system when it crashes hundreds of time everyday, eats up all the processor capacity and the memory available?

Many of you have probably heard the joke about having a “virus” on the computer called “Vista” !

The engineers at Intel scratch their heads everyday to improve their processors and the manufactures dumps more and more memory into the PCs, for Microsoft to run their latest Windows. Read More »

Google released their Q3 earnings report, which seems to be very good.

Here’s briefly some of the figures from the report

EPS $5.89 (better than analysts predictions)
Net revenue of $4.4 billion
Revenue up 7% sequentially
Google Sites revenue up 8%
Paid clicks up 14% sequential
Price per click drop a modest 6%
Free cash flow was $2.5 billion

If you are interested in more details , you can check the complete report here

However, what is really interesting to show is actually the graph from SiliconAllayer Insider showing Google’s free cash flow trend.

If this trend continue they will reach Microsoft in about a year.
Microsoft has been dominating the software market for personal computers with their windows and office packages. Their dominance is not going to last long and I have several reasons to prove it. Read More »