Airtel Broadband Doubles Night Speed
Once again, it’s good news for Airtel broadband customers ! Airtel have doubled speeds for (almost) all subscribers during the night from 10:30 P.M. to 6:30 A.M. Many Airtel customers claim to have received a letter from Airtel conveying the same information, but many (myself included) have not. However, I have noticed that my speeds [...]
$100 Laptop, Destined to Fail ?
There’s been a lot of hype surrounding this project that is the brainchild of Nicolas Negroponte, but one look at similar attempts from the past shown that the future of this project may not be as rosy at it seems. In the past, there have been several efforts to bring affordable computing to the masses, [...]
A Terabyte of Bandwidth!!
Are we seeing a surge in web hosting deals or is it just some hoax or marketing gimmick? Surfing around, I came across DreamHost’s website & was quite shocked to see that they’ve multiplied the storage & bandwidth limit on all their plans many times over!! Their $9.95 per month “Crazy Domain Insane” plan which [...]
Google Pack!!
Its true, the rumoured Google Pack is a reality!! Google is distributing a suite of free softwares that intends to make your computing experience easy & memorable. Following are the contents of the suite as yet:
Google Earth
Google Desktop
Picasa
Google Toolbar(for IE)
Google Pack Screensaver
Mozilla FireFox(with Google Toolbar)
AdAware SE Personal
Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition(6 month trial)
Adobe Reader 7
Except [...]
Introducing the Intel Viiv!
Intel continues to expand horizons and it’s latest venture is something that you could very much expect from Intel in this day and age as they seek to move beyond the PC - home entertainment. Intel is coming out with Viiv, a platform that is optimized for use as a Media Center.
The Viiv PC’s will [...]
$11 billion fine!!
A Florida(USA) man was found guilty of sending out about 280 million spam emails with their return addresses pointing to CIS Internet Services, a small Iowa(USA) based ISP. The judgement? The guilty, James McCalla, has been banned from accessing the internet for three years and a nominal fine for every spam email sent, which incidently [...]
Microsoft patches early!!
Microsoft delivered a Windows patch earlier than expected, for a vulnerability(WMF flaw) that has been hounding the users for the past 10 days & have had hackers gloating at the gullible, reported Washington Post. :tup:
The patch was expected to be released next week along with other regular security updates, but was instead released yesterday. Director [...]
Unix & Linux more vulnerable!!
In its Cyber Security Bulletin SB2005, US-CERT(United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) recorded more than 5000 security vulnerabilities in 2005 in which almost half of them were present in Linux, Unix and their variations(like MacOS X), meaning that the security flaws in Linux/Unix operating systems outnumbered Windows by 3 to 1, as reported by TechWorld. [...]
No Google PC!!
Yep, that’s right & straight from the horse’s mouth. A rumour flew sometime back(reported in Mumbai edition of Hindustan Times) that Google will be unveiling its line of low cost PCs, actually thin clients connected to Google’s servers for their storage etc. :think:
But Google has quashed the rumour that it plans to fight tooth and [...]
An evening with Bloggers!!
I’ve my reports on Delhi Bloggers’ Meet, the Jan 2006 special edition, online in English and Hindi. Read up on what happened when I came across the famous Amit Varma(nothing except a few discussions, to be honest)!!