Openning multiple Gtalk instances

Most of the time we come across situations when we want to open multiple accounts in our Gtalk or want to chat with our buddies who are on multiple accounts. For such situations we have one simple solution to it and It is a simple procedure and using it we can open our multiple gmail accounts in gtalk and use them simultaneously. Just follow the following steps:



1. Locate your G-talk executable file.

2. Create a short-cut

3. Now add following at the end of Target :

/nomutex

Like this:

Click OK.
This is all that is required.

4. Now Rename the file to something meaningful:

5. Now open any number of instances of G-Talk and log-in using your multiple accounts.

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Google in talks to take over Twitter

WASHINGTON: US Internet giant Google is in negotiations to acquire micro-blogging sensation Twitter for over 250 million dollars, technology blog TechCrunch reported on Friday.

Citing two sources familiar with the matter, TechCrunch said Google would be making an offer below the $500 million Facebook proposed to Twitter a few months ago, and would pay in cash or publicly valued stock.

"Why would Google want Twitter? We've been arguing for some time that Twitter's real value is in search," said the blog's Michael Harrington.

"It holds the keys to the best real time database and search engine on the Internet, and Google doesn't even have a horse in the game."

But a third source told TechCrunch, which is a partner of the Washington Post's website, that the acquisition discussions were still at an early stage and both companies were mulling working together on a Google real time search engine.

Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen a dizzying surge in popularity since it was launched in August 2006, but has been unable so far to generate revenue.

But Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said last week that he expected finding ways to pump cash in the fast-growing free service, including possibly charging fees for commercial accounts used by businesses.

Stone said that Twitter remains focused on growth. The California-based company claims to have more than six million users and a "phenomenal growth rate" of 900 percent in the past year.

Harrington noted that if the deal goes through, it would be the second sale by Twitter's founders to Google. Five years ago, the micro-blogging site had sold the blog-making website "Blogger" to the search engine.

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Google hopes to take on Microsoft using resellers

<People ride their bikes past Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2008. REUTERS/Kimberly White

By Yinka Adegoke

Web search leader Google Inc took another step on Wednesday toward direct competition with Microsoft Corp by recruiting IT resellers to market its Web-based applications to business clients.

From the end of March, authorized resellers will be able to sell, customize and support premium versions of Google Apps, which includes word processing, spreadsheets, calendars and email.

Google Apps is broadly similar to Microsoft's top-selling Office package except that Apps is completely Web-based and is part of Google's push into so called 'cloud computing' or software-as-a-service. Microsoft said in October it is also looking at adding Web-based features for its Office applications.

Since it launched Google Apps in February 2007, Google has only sold directly to business users over the Web. Analysts said the move to work with third parties is necessary if Google hopes to compete seriously with Microsoft or IBM.

Microsoft, which is the world's largest software company, sells more than 95 percent of its software through more than 440,000 third party resellers, according to Gartner Research, and intends to spend around $3 billion on managing those sales channels in 2009.

By comparison Google has so far only dipped its toe in the water, but sees a great opportunity after running trials with more than 50 resellers in 25 countries. It also has a 9-month old relationship with Salesforce.com Inc.

"We feel that Google has had limited success in winning customers with a singular sales channel," said Tiffani Bova, an analyst at Gartner Research, who estimates Google has around 200,000 Premier customers.

IT resellers typically sell services such as Web hosting, setting up servers and backing up data, as well as software to hundreds of thousands of end user businesses of all sizes.

"This is a chance for those types of companies to get into the cloud computing revolution," said Dave Girouard, president of enterprise at Google.

To win over new resellers, Google said partners will buy the Premier Edition at a 20 percent discount and keep the recurring revenue for the lifetime of their customer relationship.

The search leader already offers a basic package of Google Apps for free to consumers, prompting some industry watchers to see it as a major threat to Microsoft's profitable "Office" business.

But Rebecca Wettemann, an analyst at Nucleus Research, said Google is a long way from hurting Microsoft.

"We've seen in the applications space that Google is a strong email competitor, but so far it is only a complement to Office -- not yet a replacement," she said.

Google's move to offer applications is part of a wider drive to diversify its revenue base, which has been completely dominated by hugely profitable search advertising technology.

As the advertising market comes under pressure from a slowing global economy, investors will likely be paying more attention to Google's small but growing businesses.

credits: Thomson Reuters
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Search Google and Yahoo - SearchBoth.com

SearchBoth.com today announces the ultimate search engine for students, doctors, lawyers, researchers, and anyone that searches multiple sites.

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SearchBoth.com became popular for enabling users to search both Google and Yahoo at the same time on one split screen. The company has now taken the site to the next level by enabling users to search all of the internet's most popular sites at the same time. SearchBoth.com users can search both Google and Yahoo or any of their two favorite search engines (MSN, Ask, Live, Alta Vista, LookSmart, WebSearch), or Wikipedia and Encyclopedia, AT&T's YellowPages.com and Verizon's SuperPages.com, or Monster.com and HotJobs.com, or Dictionary.com and Answers.com at the same time side by side on one split screen.

SearchBoth.com also provides relief for users that search travel sites, apartment rental sites and comparison shopping sites as well. With an exclusive relationship powered by YELLOWPAGES.travel, users can search all of the top travel sites at the same time on one screen with a click.

Users of apartment rental sites such as Apartments.com, Rent.com, Move.com, ForRent.com, CraigsList and more can now simply search once and get the results of all of the major rental sites on one screen, one click at a time powered by an exclusive relationship with RentCompare.com.

Users of comparison shopping sites will also be relieved to know that they can search the top comparison shopping and auction sites such as Shopping.com, eBay.com, PriceGrabber.com, Amazon.com, Buy.com, Overstock.com, PriceRunner.com, Shopzilla.com, WalMart.com, Target.com and many more at the same time on one screen with a single click with an exclusive relationship with DiscountMore.com.

SearchBoth.com is the nation's ultimate search engine making life easier for all internet users. SearchBoth.com is a non-profit 501 (3) (c) charitable organization which donates the revenue generated from searches performed to multiple charities.

source: SearchBoth.com

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