$149 Laptop!!
Yeah, you read it right, a brand new laptop for $149 and no, its not that $100 laptop I’m mentioning!! I’m talking about a 1.5Ghz Celeron M powered, 15″ Toshiba laptop with 256MB RAM and 60GB Hard Drive that CompUSA was selling for $149 last Sunday at its retail stores, as c|net reported.
The laptop which [...]
WordPress 2.0 is almost here!!
Yep, WordPress 2.0, the one helluva of an update to WP1.5 that we WordPress users have been waiting for, which is currently in the RC(Release Candidate) status, is not far from being tagged as final v2.0 release. Matt announced it himself on the WP-Hackers list that it’ll probably be out on 21st or 22nd December [...]
Cell Phone PC!!
Come January 2006 and DualCor Technologies will unveil its 6.5 inches long, 3.3 inches wide & 1.2 inches thick cPC which is a cross between a WinXP PC and a smart phone running Windows Mobile 5.0, reported c|net.
The cPC having a 5 inch diagonal screen will be aimed at sales representatives and executives who travel [...]
Times Persons of the Year!!
Bill and Melinda Gates, along with U2 rocker Bono, have been named “Persons of the Year” by the Time magazine, reported c|net.
The honour came for the Gates couple due to their humanitarian work around the globe with Gates Foundation which is the world’s biggest charity organisation worth $29 billion. Managing Editor of Times, James Kelly, [...]
New Home!!
Welcome to the new Home of the diGit Blog, www.diGitBlog.com
If you remember, I promised some changes around here recently. And this is the second of them, the first being the change of the looks & layout.
So its not just the change of the URL, its change of servers as well. We are now [...]
Yahoo Release DOT ID’s
Yahoo have released DOT ID’s so that ordinary people like you and me can now get their preferred names more easily. Yahoo have one of the largest user ID databases of anyone, and getting a good name these days was next to impossible. But hurry, there’s a mad rush for these names. The Yahoo announcement [...]
Intel’s Processor Naming Conventions Explained
In some ways, the older days were better, the more the Megahertz, the better the processor, and of course, Intel ruled the roost, so there was no Intel-AMD battle to choose from. With the introduction of technologies such as 64 bit computing and dual core processors, AMD gradually made up ground, and Intel seemed to [...]
New Looks!!
Yes, as you can see, we now sport a new look!! This is just the beginning of some changes that we’ve planned and kept aside for the end of the year!! :shh: So, don’t be surprised if you find any more changes etc. around these parts of the blogosphere!!
Whether you like this [...]
Airtel launch Music@Ease
Airtel has just launched Music@ease, an online music store for it’s broadband subscribers. The service is powered by Soundbuzz, whose own site is very similar to the interfact Airtel make use of. The selection of music is better at Soundbuzz, but Airtel’s version can get you better prices, especially if you’re buying Hindi music, but [...]
del.icio.us to Yahoo!!
In a not so surprising move, the popular social networking tool to share one’s favourite URLs, del.icio.us, has joined Flickr & Upcoming.org as recent Yahoo! purchases into the social networking arena!! A post by founder Joshua Schachter regarding this acquisition was made on the del.icio.us blog.
But the (financial)details of the acquisition hasn’t been made public, [...]