Vodaphone has announced iPhone prices today. The 8GB phone costs Rs.31,000 and 16 GB, Rs.36,100. I feel that these prices are far above the general expectations. The question is whether people will be tempted to change their service provider, given these exhorbitant prices. There is not much difference in cost between two phones. Obviously, potential buyers will be attracted towards 16 GB phone.
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I feel distressed by the way in which the main stream media in India is covering the Jammu incidents. There seems to a deliberate callousness on the part of media. I suspect that the government has issued strong directives to media against publishing any news related to Jammu prominently fearing communal tensions throughout India. One can understand the appeasement policies of the present Government, but the way the media has responded to the Jammu incidents is unpardonable. It is difficult to understand why media is towing the line of govt. being well aware of what really is happening in the region. Yasin Malik gets more coverage in media than the public outrage in Jammu since last 40 days. The people of Jammu have met injustice since long. This is the right opportunity for the main stream media to expose the grave injustice meted out to them.
What is strange here is that even the pro-hindu parties have been subdued in their responses to these incidents. May be these parties are mindful of the coming elections.
Fortunately, one can have glimpse of what is actually happening in Jammu through the blogosphere.
Read what is happening in Jammu through these blogs:
http://satyapravah.wordpress.com/hindu-intifada/
http://jammuburning.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/latest-on-jammu-burning-events/
Source: bp3
The life for the software engineer couples has become quite difficult. Read how Dinesh, in his hilarious post written in a software development jargon, explains how non-cooking spouse’s dinner request of Venn Pongal and Sambhar is met by the cooking spouse.
Any news related to browsers nowadays attracts my attention. In my earlier post I discussed about two most popular browsers of the market—Firefox and Opera. when it comes to speed, the competition seems to be neck and neck. I feel that that opera 9.5 scores over Firefox 3 as far as speed is concerned. That is my personal opinion and I have not really tested which one is really fast. Kevin Purdy at Open Sorcery had similar doubts. He ran some tests to compare the speed of four browsers—Opera, Firefox, IE and Safari. The results substantiate my opinion, but only partially. As far as start up time is concerned, Opera 9.5 seems to be clear winner followed by FF. Surprisingly, Safari stood first when it comes to the time taken for loading Java script and CSS and Opera in a close second. Firefox left other browsers far behind regarding the use of memory. It took only half the memory of what others did.
These are the mixed results. The overall winner here seems to be Opera 9.5. However, one should not forget that speed is just one criterion to evaluate their performance. Definitely, Firefox enjoys the popularity because of its friendly features, its amazing adaptability and functionality. I feel that if Opera can work more in this area, it can definitely win over other browsers, especially Firefox, in terms of popularity.
Security is yet another important criteria to evaluate their performance. Both Firefox and Opera seem to provide a secure browsing experience to their users. It is very difficult to decide which is more secure but it is the auto-update system that Firefox follows definitely helps it become safest browser of all. Read this, this and this; you will be in a real fix as I am.
See the speed of the two browsers.
This is the sorry state of Indian TV channels. As he says “it is death of Television.”
Do you have a flickr account? May be, you use it to share your wonderful pics with all your friends and showcase your photography talent to the world. I use it altogether for different purpose. There are many like me who go to flickr only to showcase their talent, not in photography but photoshop. There are more than 16,000 photoshop-related groups in flickr.
Some are of the opinion that flickr is basically a photo-sharing site and strongly feel that photoshop-manipulated pics should not be allowed in it. What do you say?
I feel that the greatness of flickr lies in its diversity. You will find that various artists, photoshoppers, other digital artists being increasingly encouraged by this incredible platform. flickr, as you all know, is one of the top web.2 sites. It enjoys great popularity not only among photographers but also artists, bloggers, people who actively participate in social networking.
I, therefore, believe that limiting flickr to photography is unjustifiable.
Recently, flickr has decided to allow videos (maximum of 90 seconds length and 150MB size) as well.
The competition between browsers seems to be hotting up.
Mozilla has launched Mozilla Weave, a project that will enable data synchronization from your browser across multiple computers.
Know from Watblog what actually it does.
Here is some more information regarding security in browsers from Watblog.
I have been doing some search on the best bloggers in India.
I stumbled upon this page. I have already subscribed to three of these top ten in my google reader - India Uncut, Desi Pundit and Gautam Ghosh.
Why are these bloggers so popular?
I need to see what makes them such hits. I hope I too can learn a bit from them.
