Posted on April 17th, 2008 by dhirender
Individual taxpayers can now track the status of their income tax refunds online at https://tin.tin.nsdl.com/oltas/refundstatuslogin.html according to the Business Standard. To begin with, the facility has been made available in six cities, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Patna, and will be extended nationwide in a phased manner. Status will be available only for those [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by dhirender
Buckling up further in its fight against Google, Yahoo! recently acquired enterprise-level web analytics service provider IndexTools, and as this post by Dennis Mortensen, COO of Index Tools, states, intends to open it for free use, starting with the existing clients and partners who accept the standard Yahoo! agreement. This is similar to the move [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by dhirender
The largest publication of Darwin’s papers in history, comprising some 20,000 items and 90,000 images, recently went online at darwin-online.org.uk. “This release makes his private papers, mountains of notes, experiments, and research behind his world-changing publications available to the world for free,” said John van Wyhe, director of the project. “Darwin changed our understanding of [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by dhirender
As it strives to fend off rival Facebook, MySpace has finally launched its Indian Avtaar, just a couple of days after launching its South Korea version. MySpace first went international by moving into Europe in 2006 and now has websites serving 25 countries including France, Russia, Australia and Japan. MySpace and its roster of approximately [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by dhirender
After coming close to settling a suit by Harvard classmates, (brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and their colleague, Divya Narendra), accusing him of stealing their idea back in 2003, when they were all at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, now has another suit slapped on him. In a petition filed Tuesday with the U.S. [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by dhirender
An emphatic yes, by 25%, if you believe this article in Mint. According to the article, there has been a sharp increase in women subscribers, especially from countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, apart from US, UK, UAE and European nations, for social networking sites. Convincing women used to be a [...]
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