* Posts by Vinod Raghavan

7 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Oct 2007

Reg Hardware Reader Awards 2010

Vinod Raghavan

HTC Desire

Bought one for my wife for her birthday - I have a Hero. It is just 100 times better than the Hero, mainly because of the performance and size of screen.

I hate iPhones mainly because they have to sync using iTunes - I don't think it is intuitive or good design despite what everyone assumes about Apple products (the phones themselves are fine).

Reg Hardware Reader Awards 2010

Vinod Raghavan

Google Maps +1

Easily the best multi purpose mapping application and its free...

Google accused of hard-coding own links in search

Vinod Raghavan

They all do it!!!!

I went to yahoo.com and searched for CSCO. The first result was from Yahoo Finance.

I then searched for "Edinburgh" and the first result was from uk.travel.yahoo.com.

In fact Bing was probably the best on this. They came up with Comstock, Google then Yahoo on the CSCO search, but I think Comstock was "hard coded" as another search for "csco finance" came up with yahoo then google. Microsoft clearly have a contract with comstock.

The point is that the search providers are trying to give users the information they want. To give the level of information they put on that first entry on the list, they have to choose one information provider as otherwise they would have to call multiple API's depending on the users preference and they would have no control on the speed of getting the data. By using their own servers to give the information they have control of the users experience.

As others have said, the choice is there as users can go to yahoo, bing or any other search provider. The only thing you could possibly accuse google of is not labelling the search result as being prioritised to give the user appropriate information.

Apple threatens Java with death on the Mac

Vinod Raghavan

Comparisons with Linux

For those trying to compare linux with OS-X, it is an invalid comparison. There are far more server based linux platforms in corporates that require java, therefore they need to support it. It is not really fro those who use linux as a desktop platform.

Infosecurity is very much like...

Vinod Raghavan

@Pete James

"The banks won't put up with users losing their details so easily for all that much longer. At some point they're going to start telling users that it's THEIR fault that they allowed their account details to be stolen and so hard luck sunshine - by the way here's a fat charge for going overdrawn."

Unfortunately for the banks, it is difficult to prove that it is the users fault. If the bank uses systems that enable a customers details to be stolen, then it is their fault. Unless they are willing to have their systems openly analysed in court, they would almost certainly be forced to pay up. I doubt any bank would want their security arrangements to be out in the open likle that.

Elonex £99 Eee PC rival to arrive in June

Vinod Raghavan

Re: Fugly or what!!!

I think you'll find that a 12" or 13" screen uses much more battery power. Therefore you'd need a bigger battery, therefore the weight of the machine increases.

eBay employee 'torpedos' fraud trial

Vinod Raghavan

@Neil Weller

Actually I think you'll find that we are in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I.e. UK is made of GB and NI.