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At the moment, there are two major sport events in progress. One is IPL-5 ( Indian Premier League – Season 5 ) and another is WCC-12 ( World Chess Championship 2012 ). I am more than sure that 95% of Indian population knows about IPL for one or the other reason and only less than 5% of the Indian population is aware of WCC-12.  No doubt with a right (?) mix of Cricket and Bollywood, IPL is a grand success and it is truly enjoyable to watch the matches on ground. I experienced the IPL magic during very first match on Pune’s brand new stadium. It’s a complete package of entertainment and as IPL-5 gets into the play-off round from today, there will be even more enthusiasm on Pune’s stadium and the match between Veeru and Gambhir promises to be a terrific one. The television viewership will be at all time high and the rest of IPL-5 will receive a lot of India’s attention (media, common man, Bollywood, gamblers and all…). At the same time, Vishvanathan Anand is battling hard against Bori

bing l e On Thursday, 10 th May, Microsoft announced to introduce a set of changes to Bing that it says will improve searches with help from loads of information available with Facebook. In order for the search results to be relevant and personalized, there is no better data source than Facebook as of today. Seamless integration with Facebook will definitely an advantage to Microsoft. This new version of Bing is the biggest update to the search engine since Microsoft introduced it in 2009. Google has already integrated the data from Google+ in its search engine. At this time, Google serves two third of US web searches compared to 15% for Microsoft’s Bing. This is a wide gap and Google more than dominates the search space; to the extent that ‘Google’ is synonymous with ‘Search’. There is no doubt that majority of the internet users remember Google when it comes to searching content on internet. Microsoft is trying to bridge the gap as much as possible with collaboration w

Good News…There is a Better chance to get a Tatkal Ticket on Indian Railway Site How many times have you tried to login to the Indian Railway Official website for a Tatkal Ticket and got it successfully? I have more often than not failed to get a Tatkal ticket from IRCTC . One of the known reasons is that during peak travel times, the agents book all the tickets by logging in right at 8:00 AM. For a personal user like me, there was always disappointment in store with the Tatkal tickets. The site gets very slow at 8:00 AM and finally when you login, the tickets are over. If you have had same experience in the past, there is good news, Indian Railway website has implemented a new feature by which only two transactions are allowed per IP address between 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM. That means, people who are bulk blocking the tickets, cannot do that on the same scale anymore, giving that much more chance to personal users like us to get tickets. Well done Indian Railways, IRCTC