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Mobile News

Pay Per Site – Tata DOCOMO New Internet Browsing Plan

Tata DOCOMO has introduced a path-breaking revolutionary offer, ‘Pay Per Site’ which brings in a more simplified and unique “Pay-for-what-you-use” Internet-browsing model. With ‘Pay Per Site’, you pay only for what you use. Those who only browse two or three sites regularly are now free from monthly rentals and packs. […]

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Internet

ICANN to Approve .xxx Domain for Porn Sites

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally decided to create .xxx top level domain and allow websites with sexually explicit content to start using the suffix on a voluntary basis. But many porn websites may restrain from using this domain, as it will be eazy to censor such sites with the domain name. […]

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General

Maharastra Government Bans Facebook in Mantralaya

Maharashtra government has restricted access to Facebook in Mantralaya after receiving complaints as employees were seen spending hours on it. As usual, employees are not happy with this move. Many claims that, they use Facebook during lunch break or when there is no work. Wondering how can a government employee have a day with ‘no work’? […]

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Browser

Internet Explorer 6 Market Share: 30% in India, Only 6.6% Worldwide!

According to StatCounter data from May 2009 to May 2010, Internet Explorer 6 market share has dropped to 6.6% in the US and 13.74% worldwide, while it is 30% in India. This is very much concerning that, one third of Indians are using this obsolete browser. Internet Explorer 6 is still the most used browser version in India! The primary reason could be that, Indians still use pirated copy of Windows XP and IE6 comes embedded in it. […]

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Internet

Chinese Town Closes Internet Cafes Ahead of Exams

Teenagers tempted by computer games when they should be studying for the national college entrance exam this month won’t have anywhere to escape to in central China, where Internet cafes have closed. Only about 25 percent of students get into university and the vast majority of those who don’t make the cut go straight into the work force. […]

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Google

Google TV Software Coming Soon – TV Through Internet

Google to introduce Android-based television software to access TV through internet. It is designed to work on open set-top boxes (STB), TVs and other similar device. The service allows users to access and search across programming from the internet as well as Dish’s conventional programming. […]

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Internet

.COM Domain Name Celebrates 25 Years (March 15, 1985 – 2010)

March 15, 2010 marks the 25 years of the .COM domain names. On March 15, 1985, Symbolics Inc. registered the first .com Internet domain name symbolics.com. Symbolics Inc. is then a Cambridge, Massachusetts based maker of computer systems and software based on research done at MIT. They signed up the first .com with Network Solutions. The Symbolics.com Web site still exists, but was purchased in 2009 by XF.com, an Internet domain investment firm. […]

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Indian Mobile Phones

Open Source Data Center Initiative

The Open Source Data Center Initiative is a new industry group announced recently, to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers and to act as a repository and test bed for mechanical and engineering advances in data-center design. […]

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Google

Google to Offer Ultrafast (1Gbps) Consumer Broadband in the US

In an effort to offer improved access to the Internet, Google plans to create fast, cheap and ubiquitous fiber-to-the-home Internet broadband networks with one-gigabit-per-second (1Gbps) speed. The broadband connections will be as much as 100 times faster than most cable and DSL services. Google hopes to offer the service to at least 50,000 people and as many as 500,000. It will announce which communities will get the service later this year. Google said it will sell access to customers directly “at a competitive price” and team with telecommunications companies that want to package services with its fiber network. […]