Monday, January 23, 2012

The Wall of Death


Possibly Bangladesh is the only country where lives have lesser value tags attached to them when compared to the value of the cattle crossing the border. Bangladesh is the only country where the powerful need to be protected and the powerless killed in order to maintain a balance of survival.


Microsoft's Windows battles slack PC sales


Microsoft Corp's fiscal second-quarter profit fell very slightly as lagging computer sales to cash-strapped consumers in the United States and Europe hurt its core Windows business. Companies and emerging markets are still hungry for new PCs, according to the latest data, but customers in mature markets are ditching their Windows-powered netbooks in favor of Apple Inc's iPad, Amazon.com Inc's Kindle or postponing a PC purchase until the economy improves.

"There's really three things that impacted the consumer side," said Peter Klein, Microsoft's chief financial officer, reflecting on the dip in computer sales.

The World's 30% Population is Active Internet Users?



Now, among the world's total population about 30 percent is of active Internet users. Swedish traffic to the site pindama - theodolite result of the recent one says, the world's 210 million people are now actively using the Internet. News sin-eta-off.

Pindama the survey says, in 2000 the number of Internet users was 36 million in the world. But within 1 decade it stands to go. Among the 7 continents the most Internet users is in Asia. The continent's millions of active Internet users, the number are about 940 million. The second location in Europe – off there are about 476 million  active Internet users . The third of the continent is North America and in North America there are about 280 million active Internet users.