Why not a branded PC?
Ok, before I begin my rant, I’d like to point out the major companies dealing in branded PCs in India. They are HP/Compaq, HCL, Dell, Zenith. There are some other plyers as well like PCS, Intex etc.
Now to begin with, what is a branded PC?
A PC is referred to as branded when its offered for [...]
Fashionable Laptops??
Why does laptops have to be dull black-grey or boring white? Surely they need not to be a synonym of corporate executives since they are no longer their luxury. Just like most things in tech world, Apple is the trend setter here as well as it made pretty looking iMacs & iPods, and now Intel [...]
$100 Laptop, just 1 year away!!
The much awaited $100 laptop being developed by MIT is expected to be available to poor countries by the end of 2006, reports c|net.
The final design(see pic above), which was shown last month in a UN summit in Tunisia will have a low power display that can run upto 40 minutes in black-n-white mode with [...]
Skype goes Video!!
Yeah that’s right, Skype 2.0 has video calling feature in it, which has long been expected by users. And what’s more, a new goodie to the pack will be a toolbar for Microsoft’s email client Outlook, using which users will be able to dial & connect to their contacts using the address book in Outlook!!
Skype [...]
Akismet Anti-Spam for Wordpress
After using Akismet on my Wordpress.com blog for a while (and getting good results), I decided to put it through a more stringent test at the Cyberia Weblog which gets exponentially more spam, and so far, it has performed admirably.
It is a product of Automattic, run by Matt Mullenweg, and Akismet is it’s first plugin. [...]
Sun on Open Source Road!!
Sun Microsystems, of Java fame, is on the road to Open Source softwares!! Earlier it open sourced its operating system Solaris, it has already made the Java Studio Creator available for free, and now it’ll be offering Java Enterprise System server middleware, Java Development tools and N1 provisioning and management tools, reports c|net.
But these softwares, [...]
Xbox still on hot run!!
The next gen gaming console from Microsoft, Xbox 360, continues to sell like hot cakes. Its already in severe short supply in US alone where it was launched on 22nd November 2005, despite the reports of many people that its defective and is heating up in 30 minutes of gaming. Now is the turn of [...]
Single Letter Domains?!!
ICANN board will meet this weekend in Vancouver, British Columbia, to decide on the proposal to allow single letter domain registrations, reports Yahoo! news. :shh:
Now this can turn out to be hottest real estate in the cyberspace, since everyone would love to get hold of a single letter .COM or .NET or .ORG!! Heck, I’d [...]