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Friday, December 17, 2010
BackPacking To Paradise Contest
Here is a chance to win various gifts like HP Min Laptop, IPod and other goodies at Inkfruit.com. Inkfruit & AIR FRANCE presents Backpacking to Paradise Design Contest where you can vote for submissions and even submit your own designs based on travel, inspired by sights and scene and get a chance to win exciting gifts.
1st Prize: One HP mini laptop + Rs. 10000 in cash & a winning design Tee!
2nd Prize: One iPod Nano 8GB + Rs. 5000 in cash & a winning design Tee!
3rd Prize: Free Shopping vouchers of Rs. 5000 + Rs. 5000 in cash & a winning design Tee!
Last Date for Submissions: 20thDecember 10
Last Date for Voting: 25th December 10
Winners Announced: 8th January 11
To enter in contest you just have to enter your e-mail id and vote for a design.
To participate please Click here.Security concerns hamper 3G services in India
When it comes to National Security, Indian Government has been quite stern on putting down rules and regulations. Things like Mobile phones with no IMEI numbers are now thing of past due to this.
Even a company like RIM [Blackberry Makers] had to bow down to demands of Indian Government on opening up their messenger services. Indian security agencies wanted to gain access and intercept any message / conversation of any subscriber whenever required !!
Now, with Telecom Operators launching 3G services, government wants to ensure that it has absolute control over the services offered to ensure that anti-social elements do not take advantage of it.
Infact, Security Agencies have gone ahead and asked Telecom Operators to shut down 3G services as they are unable to track the data flowing through their Network. Tata Docomo and Reliance Communication have already started offering 3G services in some parts of the country .
This is a serious blow to Telecom Operators who have spent thousands of crore rupees to gain 3G spectrum and invested in setting up infrastructure to offer these services.
Although, the notice has already been issued to this effect by DoT, 3G providers have not yet gone ahead and shut down the services. The 2 operators however have agreed only partially by keeping out video calling services as law enforcement agencies cannot intercept video calls in real time, which can become a grave security threat.
Stopping Video calling services will have far more impact on Bharti Airtel who have have been advertising this feature feverishly over past couple of weeks
[Remember, the TV commercial where Boy meets girl again and again..]
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Mark Zuckerberg — Not Julian Assange? — Is Time’s Person of the Year
Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. He edged out Julian Assange, the overwhelming reader favorite who — unlike the billionaire CEO of Facebook — really could have used whatever street cred still comes with this honor, as he cools his heels in a British prison cell.
It’s been a big year for the 26-year-old, who dreamed up Facebook before dropping out of Harvard a mere six years ago. The social network cracked 500 million members, “The Social Network” just garnered six Golden Globe nominations, and Zuckerberg himself has been the story for much of the year over Facebook’s fealty to the privacy of its members.
But if the editors of Time were entirely serious about the sentiments expressed in their letter — “There is an erosion of trust in authority, a decentralizing of power and at the same time, perhaps, a greater faith in one another” — the more obvious, though exponentially more controversial choice, would have been Assange, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wikileaks, who embodies anti-authoritarianism and who also happened to top a reader’s poll in which Zuckerberg came in 10th.
Still, the fact that both have a strong background as programmers — let’s not call them hackers — illustrates how central technology, and more specifically, the internet, has become to our lives.
Zuckerberg joins a very short list of technologists who have won the award, including Andy Grove, the former Chairman and CEO of microchip pioneer Intel, and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, the internet commerce giant. And of course, “you” won in 2006, in a nod to the rise of the internet and the user-generated content revolution that has made YouTube and, well, Facebook, into cultural touchstones.
“The computer” won the the award for “Machine of the Year” in 1982. It might as well have been given jointly to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who shared the distinction in 2005 with his wife, Melinda, and Bono as “The Good Samaritans.”
Will anyone remember this in a few years? Probably not. Winners of such things are often tied to events that seem like a much bigger deal at the time. Does anyone recall why Vladimir Putin won three years ago?
In Zuckerberg’s case, the trophies he has yet to collect will likely be much more significant.
Twitter Now Worth $3.7 Billion after $200 Million Raise
Twitter, the micro-blogging startup turned internet phenomenon, has just closed a huge investment round, which values the company at an eye-popping $3.7 billion, according to multiple reports.
Twitter has received a $200 million infusion led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the premier venture capital firms in the world, and a key early-stage investor in a little company called Google.
Kara Swisher at AllThingsD broke the news (again).
The new investment round reinforces Twitter is one of the most important communications companies in the world, often mentioned in the same breath as Facebook, the 800-pound social media gorilla which has about 10 times the valuation. On paper Twitter is now theoretically worth more than even The New York Times, whose parent company is publicly traded.
In the last year Twitter users sent 25 billion tweets and the company added 100 million new accounts. Twitter now employs over 350 people, up from 130 a year ago.
In a blog post, Twitter said that Tellme founder Mike McCue is joining its board along with David Rosenblatt, the former CEO of Google’s DoubleClick ad unit, who left the search giant last year. Tellme, a voice recognition company, was bought by Microsoft for $800 million in 2007. DoubleClick was bought by Google for $3.1 billion in 2008.
“The experience these new directors bring to Twitter, along with this renewed investment, will help us continue to grow as a company and business,” Twitter said in the post.
A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment beyond the posting.
The company had previously raised $160 million, which means that its total venture capital raise is nearing $400 million.
Monday, December 13, 2010
AxisRemit is fastest and easiest money remittance service
Axis Bank provides online money transfer facility from foreign geographies to India under the name AxisRemit Online. Remittance can be sent from 8 geographies viz. US, UK, Euro-Zone, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and UAE to India in the form of account credit or a DD in the name of the Indian beneficiary.
An individual willing to send money to India through an online channel may choose to register on AxisRemit Online by providing necessary personal details and choosing a unique user-id and password. Once registered, customer may transfer money to any beneficiary account in India by any one of the following means:
ACH Facility (online mode of transfer for USA customers) – This is an efficient online fund transfer facility for US remitters where the remitter allows Axis Bank to pull funds from his local bank for the amount instructed.
Online Transfer (for geographies other than USA) – It is a completely online mode of fund transfer where the remitter books a transaction on Axis Remit and subsequently transfers funds through the net banking facility of his/her local bank.
Smart Wire – This is the usual Wire Transfer facility with additional advantage of online fund tracking. The remitter can book a remittance transaction online and instruct his local bank to transfer funds. This facility is available for all geographies mentioned earlier.
Using Axis Remit has unparalleled advantages over offline methods. A few of them are:
Competitive Foreign Exchange Rates
Online Money Transfer Facility from the convenience of the remitter's home
Tracking Status of Transfer at any time through transaction reference number
Facility to send money to over 53,000 branches of nearly 100 banks in India
Reliable & Prompt customer support through telephone and e-mail
Global security standards adopted to ensure safety in online transfer
The remitter has to simply register on Axis Remit Online by providing basic details on the form and choosing a loginID and password. He can further immediately remit money by providing his/her beneficiary details in India and funding the transaction under any one of the transfer facility. Axis Bank will then take care of the rest for him.
In addition to the online mode of money transfer, Axis Bank also provides others means of inward remittance viz. through Wire Transfer, Foreign currency cheques and tie ups with various correspondent banks and exchange houses.
An individual willing to send money to India through an online channel may choose to register on AxisRemit Online by providing necessary personal details and choosing a unique user-id and password. Once registered, customer may transfer money to any beneficiary account in India by any one of the following means:
ACH Facility (online mode of transfer for USA customers) – This is an efficient online fund transfer facility for US remitters where the remitter allows Axis Bank to pull funds from his local bank for the amount instructed.
Online Transfer (for geographies other than USA) – It is a completely online mode of fund transfer where the remitter books a transaction on Axis Remit and subsequently transfers funds through the net banking facility of his/her local bank.
Smart Wire – This is the usual Wire Transfer facility with additional advantage of online fund tracking. The remitter can book a remittance transaction online and instruct his local bank to transfer funds. This facility is available for all geographies mentioned earlier.
Using Axis Remit has unparalleled advantages over offline methods. A few of them are:
Competitive Foreign Exchange Rates
Online Money Transfer Facility from the convenience of the remitter's home
Tracking Status of Transfer at any time through transaction reference number
Facility to send money to over 53,000 branches of nearly 100 banks in India
Reliable & Prompt customer support through telephone and e-mail
Global security standards adopted to ensure safety in online transfer
The remitter has to simply register on Axis Remit Online by providing basic details on the form and choosing a loginID and password. He can further immediately remit money by providing his/her beneficiary details in India and funding the transaction under any one of the transfer facility. Axis Bank will then take care of the rest for him.
In addition to the online mode of money transfer, Axis Bank also provides others means of inward remittance viz. through Wire Transfer, Foreign currency cheques and tie ups with various correspondent banks and exchange houses.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
New IE9 Preview Arrives, Now With More JavaScript Power
Microsoft pushed out another preview release of Internet Explorer 9. This is not a new beta — we’re still months away from the official arrival of Internet Explorer 9 — but we’re definitely approaching the finish line.
Wednesday’s release, dubbed Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7 (whew) includes a big performance boost with a newly revamped JavaScript engine inside of it.
The last preview release of IE9, which only arrived a few weeks ago, saw increased support for web standards. But Microsoft made it clear to us during a phone briefing that Wednesday’s release is all about speed and performance.
To that point, PP7 contains an updated version of the Chakra JavaScript engine. This new engine for IE9 was first introduced at Microsoft’s PDC developer event in November 2009. During the last year, the company has been improving Chakra to the point where it’s now scoring more than 300 percent higher on the WebKit SunSpider benchmark than it was at launch.
Microsoft’s Ryan Gavin from the IE team says the new release scores 234.6 ms on SunSpider’s JavaScript execution performance test. Read more about the testing stuff on the IE Blog.
While some browsers are certainly faster than others, the major browser vendors continue to tweak their internal workings and make speed improvements. JavaScript performance is particularly important, since modern web applications like Gmail, Facebook and Twitter rely heavily on scripted actions. A faster browser means a snappier web app. Just last week, Mozilla released a new beta of Firefox 4 that included revamped code for its JägerMonkey and TraceMonkey JavaScript engines.
You can download this early version of the next IE browser directly from Microsoft. It’s available for PCs running Windows 7 and Vista. Also, this platform preview can be installed alongside IE9 Beta or IE8 with no problems.
Facebook Profiles Get a Facelift
A large percentage of net users’ online identities will be getting a facelift in the coming weeks as Facebook is rolling out a new profile page with more visual elements and, you guessed it, more pictures of faces.
The new design is currently opt-in, but Facebook says it will roll it out to the world by early 2011. Those who want it immediately can go to the new profile explainer, which will walk you through the new pages and let you adopt it now. But be cautioned, there’s no undoing the choice.
The top of the page will now include a basic intro to a user, such as location, job, school, partner, etc. And directly underneath that is a bar of photos that you have been “tagged” in, increasing the number of pictures of the person’s face you see on the page. In fact, the photo algorithm doesn’t just show the photos you are tagged in, but zooms in on your face to make it fill the small square.
Here’s hoping you are ready for your close-up. You can choose to remove photos by clicking on them, and the option remains to “untag” yourself from any photo, no matter who took it.
Nearly everything on the page gets the same, more visual treatment.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Date.com Review
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Date.com, "the new way to date," was launched on Valentine's Day, 1997. The site has more than two million male and female members worldwide who actively use the site because it offers a convenient and safe way for singles to meet. The site is adding new members at a rate of between 120,000 and 200,000 per month. Thus far, thousands of couples have begun successful relationships through Date.com, with at least 50 marriages taking place during the past year.
Once inside Date.com, you can search their database of millions of singles. Search by location, age, interests, and over one hundred other personal preferences. Show interest in other members by just clicking a button. All of this is free.
When you decide that you are ready for more personal contact, you can upgrade to a gold membership and communicate with millions of members via IM, email, or chat. Gold membership fees range in price but can get as low as 25 cents a day.
You might wonder why someone would choose to pay a fee to communicate with other singles on the net when there are so many chat rooms online where you can talk for free. It's because of the quality of their members. Singles who subscribe to Date.com are professional, educated, and are serious about finding a healthy, happy relationship.
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Positive Features- Their custom toolbar allows instant access to the site, even while you are surfing other sites on the internet
- Date.info is their online magazine that contains very good information on how to write profiles, relationship advice, etc. –it’s not the normal fluff you usually see
- Current advertising targets singles from large cities. If you live in one of these cites, chances are you will find lots of singles. See below for a list of the cities in both USA and Canada
- Date Mobile is a unique feature that allows you to search for profiles, receive mail and communicate with other members via SMS over your cell phone
- Geared toward the serious dater that is looking for a long term relationship
Negative Features- While the interface may not be as fresh as other dating sites, it is easy to navigate
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