iPhone goes to China
The Apple iPhone is slowly spreading its wings all over. After the launch of iPhone in the US, UK and Germany its now time for China to get the iPhone or atleast IDG news thinks so. Ofcourse there have been rumors regarding the availability of iPhone’s in Canada as well. While Apple has already announced that it will sell iPhone’s in Asia starting mid 2008, no formalized partners or locations have been discussed. Here is what the article says : China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the... Read The Rest →
India Finally to get 3G, WiMAX coming too
Finally the Indian Government has decided to auction the 3G Spectrum. The Government has decided to allow Indian as well as foreign players to take part in the bidding. The Spectrum that is being auctioned belongs to the 2100MHz band which should make it compatible with most 3G networks world over. I believe the spectrum that is going to be auctioned should be able to hold atleast 5 Carriers. I would expect Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance to pick up spectrum. I am not sure about the foreign players, but I... Read The Rest →
Zune 2 Launched – Ordering Process Unveiled
Microsoft has just announced the availability of Zune Originals . Users who order from the Zune Originals site will be able to customize their Zune with Laser Engraving on the back of their Zunes. A series of 27 artworks from the “Artist” series will cover the entire Zune. Alternatively, a series of 20 artworks from the “Tattoo” series will allow for up-to 3 lines of text. Finally, without images, you are allowed a maximum of 5 lines of text. All this right behind the back of your Zune. This offer... Read The Rest →
Rumor : Digg May be for Sale
The Rumor mills are at work again, and this time its Digg which is making the rounds. Apparently Digg is up for sale for about $300 Million. Valleywag editor Owen Thomas tells that "a source rules out all the big Internet players–not Microsoft, not Google, not Yahoo, not News Corp.," and that CBS had "taken itself out of the running." Thomas also went on to speculate who the actual buyers might be, and he thinks it might be the New York Times, or the Washington Post. The reason you are... Read The Rest →
Withdraw Your PayPal Funds to Your Indian Bank Account
I was pleasantly surprised this evening when I received an email from PayPal that said : Now you can add your Indian bank account to your PayPal account, so you can withdraw your money directly to your bank. It saves you time and gives you faster access to your PayPal funds! Plus, there is no charge to withdrawal amounts over INR 7000. So, go ahead and add your bank account today! Which means that I don’t have to wait for a month for PayPal to send me a check and... Read The Rest →
Google to Connect to Different IM Networks Very Soon
Google seems to be giving GMail quite a push these days isn’t it? First we had the additional storage, then the rollout of IMAP, then a new interface, and now possibly the ability to chat with friends on multiple IM networks using the Jabber Transports feature. Ionut Alex Chitu over at Google System, while looking through the GMail code found stuff that was related to features not released as yet, which includes, Colors for Labels Detaching Messages from a Conversation And the ability to connect to multiple IM Networks like... Read The Rest →
Apple Sells 2 Million Copies of Leopard in its first Week
Apple on Tuesday said that it has sold over 2 Million copies of Mac OSX Leopard in its first week since its launch worldwide on October 26th. The release of Leopard has outpaced not only Mac OSX Tiger which was best selling OS from Apple in its History, but has also outpaced Rival Windows Vista. Sales included the ones from Apple Retail Stores, Authorised Apple Resellers, copies that came bundled with new Macs. In comparison it took nearly 6 Weeks for Tiger to reach the same milestone. If Steve Jobs... Read The Rest →
Automattic Acquires Gravatar
I am sure you have all seen some pretty avatars floating almost all over the web in countless blogs, forums etc… It was made possible thanks to efforts of Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars), but offlate Gravatar seemed to have scaling issues with its amazing rate of growth. This is when it became an automatic choice for Automattic to acquire. Automattic with its vast experience with Server scaling and architecture thanks to Akismet and WordPress.com are going to be of tremendous help to Gravatar. If you haven’t noticed here are some... Read The Rest →
Windows Home Server OEM Leaked
Well the file sharers have done it again. The OEM version of Windows Home Server has been leaked on BitTorrent and is now available on all major Torrent search engines. Well I’m not going to point out the direct links to the torrent files here, but if you are really interested then you can search for the leaked version all by yourself. Trust me, its not that difficult. Well all you need to do is search for Windows Home Server on any torrent search engine like Demonoid, Mininova, PirateBay etc..... Read The Rest →
Demonoid is back – But not ready for Prime Time as Yet
After nearly a week of being down, Demonoid is back up and running, but there are issues that are being ironed out as we speak here. If you are wondering why Demonoid was down, then here is the official response to the downtime. We received a letter from a lawyer representing the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience. I am sure many of the Bittorrent users worldwide would... Read The Rest →
