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Nook eReader (eBook Reader) from Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble Nook eBook Reader is an ebook reader developed by Barnes & Noble. The Nook is based on the Android platform. It include Wi-Fi and AT&T 3G wireless connectivity, a six inch E Ink display, and a separate, smaller color touchscreen that serves as the primary input device. The nook competes with the Amazon Kindle, B&N has provided a comparison with Amazon Kindle. […]

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20 Web 2.0 Innovations in the Past 10 Years (TOI Article)

Vinay Pandey of TOI has picked 20 online innovations happened in the past 10 years, that changed the way we Indians lived. The innovations are blackberry, blog, bluetooth, camera phones, facebook, peer-to-peer file sharing, firefox and chrome, gmail, google, instant messaging, ipod & iphone, kindle, memory sticks and blu-ray, rss, sms, twitter, videogames, wi-fi, wikipedia and youtube. […]

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Yash Raj Films Released 11 Movies in Blu-Ray Disc

Yash Raj Films has released 11 of its best films – New York, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Dostana, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Chak De India, Dhoom 2, Fanaa, Veer-Zaara, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Silsila and Kabhi Kabhie – in Blu-ray Disc. The Blu-ray disc films have also been released in the United States of America, United Kingdom, UAE and few other countries. A single-layer Blu-ray Disc holds up to 25 gigabytes of data and a double-layer Blu-ray Disc holds up to 50 gigabytes of data. The Blu-ray Disc medium can deliver a quality Full HD 3D experience to the living room. […]

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Jetlite.com – Jet Airways Online Booking Engine

Jetlite.com, the wholly owned subsidiary of Jet Airways India Ltd, launched its new state-of-the-art online booking engine. The new JetLite Online Booking Engine is claimed to have easy and flexible search options, displays flight details and the “Best Fare of the Day” for easy selection, offers lowest fare display with calendar shopping feature, supports customized offers and discounts with promo code, and allows booking in INR and USD. […]

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.POST Domain Name for Global Postal Services

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the authority for assigning domain names has approved the new address dot post (.post) for global postal services. The .post top level domain (TLD) name will be managed by the UN’s Universal Postal Union. The .post domains are expected to be online by the second half of 2010. People who access a .post site will immediately recognise it as belonging to a valid postal service or provider of postal services. […]

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A R Rahman Store (store.arrahman.com) – Buy Sound Tracks and Albums

A R Rahman has opened an online shop selling a few sound tracks of films like ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and ‘Elizabeth’ besides other scores. Called “A R Rahman Store” (store.arrahman.com), this online shop presently sells only seven items but promises to expand the inventory to “include exclusive pre-sale tickets, DVDs and more”. Currently one can shop only with Canadian Dollars, Euros, British Pounds and US dollars. […]

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Bhuvan Mapping Application from ISRO – bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in

ISRO unveiled beta version of “Bhuvan”, a web-based mapping tool like Google Earth (http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/) Bhuvan promises to give better 3D satellite imagery of India than is currently being offered by Google Earth. Bhuvan has a many India-specific features like weather information, administrative boundaries of all states and districts, etc.. Bhuvan has best resolutions over the Indian sub-continent. It allows users to fly from space to street level, grab, spin and zoom down to any place. Viewers can zoom into Bhuvan maps up to 10 metres compared to Google Earth’s 200 metres and Wikemapia’s 50 metres. […]

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Nigerian Email “419” Scam – Nigerian National Arrested in Kerala

A Nigerian was arrested in Kerala in connection with a 419 scam (Advance-fee fraud) or the Nigerian email scam. The scam had its origin in an email that the victim received in February 2008, informing that he had been nominated to inherit a rich fortune (15 million US Dollars) by a millionaire. After an exchange of emails, he had been asked to send €29,500 through Western Union Money Transfer as fees for the attorney to help with this money transfer. […]