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Yahoo comes with new features

by Santosh Mishra August 25, 2009 Internet News

Yahoo has announced updates to its e-mail and instant message services, Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger, adding a bevy of applications, many designed for use on social-networking sites.

According to a Sfgate.com report Yahoo’s Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president of labs, stressed that the agreement only encompasses back-end search technology.
New mail features include: integrated applications including [...]

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Bhuvan is not up to the mark!

by Santosh Mishra August 22, 2009 Internet News

ISRO’s Bhuvan is reportedly not up to the mark, specialists find out. It’s a mapping application that enables users to zoom and view locations along with their geographical details.

The Desi answer to Google Earth isn’t making a loud noise though, but tech savvy people say that it’s not up to the mark.
The site wasn’t available [...]

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Fake Internet postcards linked to most prevalent U.S. computer virus

by ANI July 27, 2009 Internet News

A University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) expert has warned that fake Internet postcards circulating through e-mail inboxes across the world are carrying links to the virus called Zeus Bot
Gary Warner, director of computer forensics at the UAB, says that Zeus Bot has been named America’’s most pervasive computer Botnet virus by Network World magazine, [...]

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Express Yourself

by night_surfer July 16, 2009 Internet News

Freedom of expression is one of our basic first amendment rights. It says that we are free to express ourselves however we see fit within reason. What better way to increase your business awareness than to apply your first amendment right to your promotional products? Promotional products are meant to raise awareness and increase traffic [...]

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What Women Want….

by night_surfer May 22, 2009 Internet News

What women want in a man at age 22:
1. Handsome
2. Charming
3. Financially successful
4. A caring listener
5. Witty
6. In good shape
7. Dresses with style
8. Appreciates finer things
9. Full of thoughtful surprises
10. An imaginative, romantic lover
What women want in a man at age 32:
1. Nice looking (preferably with hair)
2. Opens car doors, holds chairs
3. Has enough money [...]

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Lemniscate by Gaynor McGrath

by night_surfer May 13, 2009 Internet News

Verisimilitude is one thing, but Gaynor McGrath’s novel Lemniscate reads so much like a memoir, that it’s hard to believe it didn’t all happen verbatim. Elsie is a young Australian traveler, exploring a world in a way which was popular in the 1970s, and is not really possible anymore.
Elsie is backpacking throughout the Middle East [...]

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Electioneering for final phase of LS polls ends today

by Agencies May 11, 2009 Asia

Campaigning for the final phase of Lok Sabha elections ends on Monday across nine states and Union territories, even as political groupings strove to make friends out of foes ahead of the 13th May polls.
Campaigning for the final leg of LS elections reached its peak on Sunday in nine states and union territories, even [...]

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Gwen Araujo: A Girl Like Me

by night_surfer May 9, 2009 Internet News

Gwen Araujo is the transgender woman that the Lifetime Television movie “A Girl Like Me” was based on. Check out pictures, video, and a Gwen Araujo biography here.
Gwen Araujo was a transgender woman who was murdered, because of her adopted way of life.
She is also the inspiration for the Lifetime Network Movie titled “A Girl [...]

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Four Convicted in Sweden in Internet Piracy Case

by Santosh Mishra April 18, 2009 Internet News

A Swedish court has convicted four men linked to an Internet file-sharing service, the Pirate Bay, of violating copyright law.

They were each sentenced to a year in prison and were also ordered to pay 30 million kronor (about $3.6 million), in damages to leading entertainment companies.
The verdict has given the music and movie industries a [...]

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