Thursday night, and Firefox clocked 1 billion downloads – earlier than expected. Admittedly this tracks the downloads from 2004 and across versions, but it is still impressive (and if you want some random stats to wrap your head around the figure of 1 billion, the guys at Mozilla, have provided us with some rather dandy [...]
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In a move that could serve as a major set-back to India’s target of 20 million broadband subscribers by 2010, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recently proposed that the Government should redefine broadband services making it mandatory for operators to offer at least 2Mbps speed – up from the current 256 Kbps.
Sure, 256 [...]
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OneIndia and Sprice, have partnered to allow visitors to Oneindia.in to search hotels, check reviews and make instant booking. The offer will be extended to the visitors of Oneindia.in regional language portals in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu says this article.
Clicking on the Travel Link on the English version of the website leads to [...]
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Bigflix.com, the online DVD rental firm owned by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), is contemplating launching movie downloads via a set-top box – which will allow dowloading and streaming of movies and other video content from its online portal and play it directly on the television. BigFlix’s movie download services are currently through computers [...]
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Junk email or spam accounts for as much as 200 billion messages daily, approximately 90% of email worldwide, according to a Cisco Annual Security Report.
The United States is the biggest source of spam, accounting for 17.2% of the messages. Turkey and Russia ranked second and third, accounting for 9.2% and 8% of spam respectively.
This rise [...]
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Online ad network Komli has recently launched its premium Auto Channel – a collection of over 15 niche, top Indian auto Web sites that will enable large and small advertisers to exclusively target the auto enthusiast & auto buyer audiences. They claim to have access to about 3 million users per month. Sites include Gaadi.com, [...]
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Soon after Tasks and SMSes on Gmail, you will now get a View links for PDF attachments on your Gmail account (much like how you used to get it for Word attachments).
Clicking on the link, opens the PDF in Google Docs … and its pretty fast.
As the GmailBlog states:
Clicking “View” quickly opens the PDF inside [...]
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Google has released a new feature that allows users to send SMSes from with Gmail chat itself.
To enable it, you would need to click on Settings, and go to the Labs tab. Scroll down until you see “Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat” and select Enable and Save Changes.
Currently it is available only for phones for [...]
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Since we first released Google Chrome, the development team has been hard at work improving the stability and overall performance of the browser. In just 100 days, we have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We’re excited to [...]
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We are selling our websites Tripmela.com and Searchmela.com, as well as our 80,000 opt-in email addresses.
Says this notice on eBay. The current bid, at the time of writing this, was Rs. 5,000/-
On sale, is the content management system that powers the deals website, the search technology that allows users to pick the sites to compare, [...]
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