Google+ Invitation - Request one from us!

Google's upcoming social networking service "Google+" goes under testing with fewer Invites (PPL). As it is not yet available for public & Google Indicated on their website as:

"At the moment, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure that you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people."

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New Insights with Blogger

2010 was a big year for Blogger. We cemented ourselves as one of the largest blogging platforms and the sixth largest website in the world, according to Alexa. Blogger users published more than half a billion blog posts, which were read by more than 400 million active readers across the globe. We introduced template designer, real-time stats, comment spam filtering, mobile templates, web fonts and more. And to top it all off, we were dubbed the most reliable blogging service around.

2011 promises to be another exciting year.

To start, we’re kicking things off at SXSW by giving folks a sneak peek at our next-generation user interface. The new design is not only cleaner and more modern, but it also uses Google Web Toolkit, delivering the latest in web technology.

Full Story: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/whats-new-with-blogger.html

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Now Sending E-Mail Newsletters costs you nothing, Comm100 offers free email marketing software

What is the E-Mail Newsletter?

A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. Newspapers and leaflets are types of newsletters. Additionally, newsletters delivered electronically via email (e-Newsletters) have gained rapid acceptance for the same reasons email in general is gaining popularity over printed correspondence.

Why still paying for paid E-Mail Newsletters services, when a totally free software Available, can't believe?

Sendig a E-Mail Newsletter is not so easy, small businesses never got benifited because, sending a E-Mail Newsletter is never got free, it burdens the small businesses a lot. Now the solution is not so far and here it is:

Comm100, a Canadian Corporation, offers Unbelievable Free E-Mail Newsletter Service. The Service costs you nothing but a 2 minutes registration.

Comm100 not just offers a free service, but also maintains Industrial Standards as you see on Paid Services. Here, I Briefly overviewed it's features:

1. Send a large number of emails every day for free
2. Guaranteed E-Mail Delivery (never been marked as spam)
3. Choose from a lot of Pre-loaded, professionally designed templates. Customizing your Newsletter is so easy, and there are many optional columns to fulfill your stuff.
4. No need of installing software, web browser is enough
5. Subscribe Form can be integrated into your web pages (supports all platforms such as ASP.NET, PHP etc.,)

6. Grow your mailing lists by importing your existing contacts
7. Emails can be scheduled for sending at specified time. (Your Newsletters will be delivered at the exact time, as you set to).

8. Guaranteed Privacy & Security (Comm100 Acquired a Certification for their Privacy Policy. Comm100 not just to offer a software but also committed to protect your privacy. Your E-Mail/Personal Info/Data will never be shared with any third parties.)

9. Get Free Personal Coaching & Support (Comm100 won't left you alone with the free service, even they want to train you by providing exclusive tutorials. Also a Dedicated Customer Service Representatives always available to help you fixing the problems you claim).

and lots of Industrial standard features, Learn More Here...

Even you can compare Comm100 service with the other paid services, as follows:

constantcontact.com
- 15$ per month up to 0-500 e-mail addresses
- 30$ per month up to 501-2,200 e-mail addresses
- 50$ per month up to 2,501-5,000 e-mail addresses

and so on . . .

benchmarkemail.in
- 10$ per month limited to 1,000 e-mail's
- 14$ per month limited to 2,500 e-mail's
- 24$ per month limited to 5,000 e-mail's

and so on . . .

iContact.com
- 9$ per month up to 0-250 e-mail addresses
- 29$ per month up to 1,001-2,500 e-mail addresses
- 74$ per month up to 5,001-10,000 e-mail addresses
and so on . . .

While comes to Comm100, its costs nothing but offers you Unlimited E-Mail Addresses and Contacts. Comm100 allows you to Send a large number of emails everyday (Best suits to everyone as Small Businesses to Enterprises)

I don't want to tell you more, you'll know after trying it, proceed with the official website of Comm100: www.comm100.com

Note: E-Mail Addresses is nothing but Subscribers

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.CO Domains are Now Available - What is .CO Domain?

A New Era is coming. .CO is the next address for your COmpany online.

The good names in .com have exhausted, get the name of your choice in the .co space today! Find the domain name you're looking for when you use the newest domain extension. With a .CO domain name you will have more choices in branding your online presence with a truly global, recognizable and credible option for a Web address.

What is .CO

Associated globally with the words “COmpany”, “COrporation” and “COmmerce” – the .CO domain opens up new opportunities in the currently saturated online environment.

.CO domains are easy to recognize, simple to remember, and flexible to use. The .CO extension also offers the perfect platform for a new generation of socially-networked individuals and businesses to COmmunicate and COllaborate online.

Q. What are the benefits of registering a .CO domain?
A. There are several key benefits of choosing .CO:

.CO is a truly global, recognizable and credible domain
.CO gives businesses and brands the chance to create a worldwide footprint
.CO is relevant to individuals, businesses and organizations
.CO is meaningful, memorable and intuitive to use for people around the world
.CO appeals to today's socially-networked individuals and entrepreneurs

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Conduit Extended to Google Chrome

Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. Google Chrome was launched less than two years, and last month, was recognized as the third most used, and faster growing browser (following IE and Firefox) .

Conduit is the first company to provide a platform for publishers of any size to create and deploy free apps for Google Chrome. With the launch of this beta program, Conduit has also made thousands of Google Chrome-compatible apps available in the Conduit App Marketplace, making it the largest resource for Google apps outside of Google.

With the addition of Google Chrome extensions, Conduit now offers apps for more than 95% of all Internet users through the four major browsers – Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and now Google Chrome.

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Google launched Command-Line tool

Google has unveiled Command Line tools especially for the developers. The open source software, Command Line tool is available for Linux, Mac and Windows. It will allow users to perform complicated tasks on Google sites, reports Thomas Claburn from Information Week.

"GoogleCL is a command-line utility that provides access to various Google services," explain Google engineer Jason Holt and former Google intern Tom Miller in a blog post. "It streamlines tasks such as posting to a Blogger blog, adding events to Calendar, or editing documents on Google Docs."

While Google provides instructions for installing GoogleCL on Linux, it only points to online posts by third-parties that describe how to install the software on Mac and Windows. Mac installation is easier if the user has already installed software like MacPorts or homebrew.

The open source project Wiki indicates that easier Mac and Windows installation may available in the future.

GoogleCL is a Python application that uses Python gdata libraries to make Google Data API calls from the command line. It currently provides access to the following services, arranged in order of implementation completeness: Picasa, Docs, YouTube, Blogger, Calendar, and Contacts. Users can use GoogleCL to do things like list, delete, and create Blogger posts, Picasa albums and images, or open Google Docs in an editor like vim.

There are other open source projects, goofs and Goose, for instance, that aim to provide similar functionality for Google Calendar and Google Search. At some point, these projects may be merged with GoogleCL.

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Free SMS - Top Free SMS Providers in India

Short Message Service (SMS) is the text communication service component of mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between mobile phone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application in the world, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers. The term SMS is used as a synonym for all types of short text messaging, as well as the user activity itself, in many parts of the world.

SMS as used on modern handsets was originally defined as part of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) series of standards in 1985 as a means of sending messages of up to 160 characters, to and from GSM mobile handsets. Since then, support for the service has expanded to include other mobile technologies such as ANSI CDMA networks and Digital AMPS, as well as satellite and landline networks. Most SMS messages are mobile-to-mobile text messages, though the standard supports other types of broadcast messaging as well.

160by2.com
160by2 (a SMSCountry initiative) endeavors to revolutionize the very concept of sending SMS - from a PAID service to a FREE service. You can now send free SMS messages, 80 characters long, within India to all your near and dear.

Way2sms.com
SMS communication totally cost free to mobile users, at the same time, enables advertisers to reach out to millions of mobile users through the revolutionary concept of 'Mobitisement' (advertisement on mobile phone).

This pioneering effort has already captured the imagination of millions of mobile users across the globe. More than four lakh users visit Way2SMS every day, and they are just not from India alone, but come from as many as 126 countries globally!

Mobile users can register at absolutely no cost with Way2SMS.com, and start sending out text messages to their near and dear ones across the country. Receivers of the messages need not be registered Way2SMS users.

Spicesms.com
SpiceSMS.com is one of the first websites to offer free SMS service. We started in 2004 under the iMobile banner & have entered into the 5th year of providing free SMS to India. Our website & back-end were recently revamped providing better services than ever.

Yourmint.com
YouMint.com is owned by MobileTree Ltd, a company registered in England. MobileTree’s parent company is a London based holding company for 3 telecom related businesses and works closely with over 400 mobile operators globally i.e more than 60% of all mobile operators in the world!

Indyarocks.com
Indyarocks.com is an online and mobile social entertainment platform for Indians across the Globe. It allows members to build and leverage their network of contacts and share games, bollywood content, music, photos, videos and blogs in many incredibly powerful ways. The platform is designed to provide you with unlimited freedom of expression. Plus, you can invite your non-Indian friends too to experience the rich Indian culture through Indyarocks.com

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Backlink Checker tells how many inbound links there to your website

This back link Finder will give you an impression of how many sites have linked to yours. websites, Googlebot, is the best crawler for indexing sites. Hence they have the most update information including the pages, which have been updated recently. So Google knows most of the links pointing to our sites.

Yahoo Slurp, which is the Yahoo crawler, is the second best. Its major drawback is that it does not crawl very deeply and as a result miss some pages, which may have been created for link purposes.

MSN checks for your back links tells you how many websites are linking to yours. Website popularity is an important factor in your search engine ranking. The more popular your site is, the better it will be ranked on the search engines.

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AOL sells Bebo

Los Angeles: Internet company AOL has sold Bebo, the social networking site it bought two years ago for $850 million, to a private investment firm Criterion Capital Partners.

Bebo, which launched in 2005, has failed to match the huge popularity of sites like Facebook and Twitter. Earlier this year, AOL announced plans to sell or shut down Bebo because it was unable to provide the "significant investment" needed to prevent its decline as a business.

The company did not disclose the amount paid, but analysts have speculated that it would be just a fraction of what AOL paid for it.

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Unlimited Mobile Internet at 100/- : Reliance

Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications, today announced MobileNet Plan, which allows unlimited mobile internet access to its post-paid and pre-paid subscribers at Rs 99 per month.

The plan, the first initiative by the company to roll out its 3G services, will allow customers access to social networking sites, instant messaging applications, chat services and email accounts like yahoo, gmail and hotmail. They will also be able to download free multimedia content.

"This special mobile internet plan offers seamless connectivity to the Internet on mobile across the country and our customers will be allowed unlimited access to internet and Any sites of their choice on the move using the mobile as an intermediate," Reliance Communications' Marketing - Wireless Business President, Mahesh Prasad, said.

RCom's Mobile Internet Plans also offer lower subscription rates for the convenience of the customers including Day Pass at Rs 5, Weekly Pass at Rs 29, Fortnight Pass at Rs 51, the company said.

RCom, as part of its business outlook, expects the GSM business to make significant contribution to its mobile data revenues and usage. It's rolling

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Google's OS revolution in Remote Desktop

Bangalore: Google's upcoming Chrome operating system - a new OS that will arrive on netbook computers later this year. It is also going to offer a feature 'chromoting' - a remote desktop app for your new cloud computer that Google engineers have dubbed, reports The New York Times.

We're adding new capabilities all the time. With this functionality (unofficially named chromoting), Chrome OS will not only be a great platform for running modern web apps, but will also enable you to access legacy PC applications right within the browser.

In Google's case, the technology would be used to run so-called legacy applications that Chrome OS does not support. By legacy, Google means any application that doesn't run in a Web browser like Google Chrome, which serves as the basis of the new Internet-only OS, also called Chrome.

It includes the Adobe Creative Suite, perhaps, whose flagship program Photoshop is top among designers. Or maybe the full Microsoft Office suite, whose desktop programs are still more feature-rich than Google's online Docs service. Perhaps as a new competitor to desktop and notebook computer operating systems like Microsoft Windows and Apple's OSX instead of just a netbook alternative.

Then again, the world is turning to lightweight computing. So much can be done online these days. As Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently said at the D8 conference, we're entering a 'post-PC' era, referring to the eventual phase out of the personal computer in favor of lighter, more thin client-esque platforms like, of course, Apple's new iPad tablet computer.

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Teja Tv - T20 Tollywood Trophy Live on Teja TV

The much-hyped T20 Tollywood Trophy kicked off this morning amidst much fanfare. The tournament, which is being held to gather funds for a noble cause, began in time despite the Telangana agitators attempting to disrupt the programme. Chandrababu Naidu, TDP President inaugurated the tournament, the guest of honour was ANR and T. Subbirami Reddy. It is being played at the Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad.

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The first match is between Balayya Lions and Venky Warriors. Venky Warriors won the toss and elected to bowl. Rajya Sabha member T. Subbirami Reddy tossed the coin. Balayya Lions is being led by Balakrishna and Venky Warriors by Venkatesh.

The next match between Chiru Cheetahs and Nag Kings will be played in the afternoon and the final in the evening.

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FIFA Live on YouTube - 2010 Fifa World Cup

South Africa(June 11th): FIFA Live on YouTube, Mexico vs South Africa Live Streaming online: Analysts and fans are expecting for Mexico to win in against South Africa with no problems. The analysis is based on the record for each team in the soccer history. South Africa seldom participates in the World Cup and just take this game since the country is hosting the event. Mexico on the other hand competes in every World Cup, and is considered one of the best.

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Meanwhile, few believed that South Africa would come out first, if the team will be playing with the top five African countries that are participating the World Cup. Mexico outmatches South Africa in terms of experience and players. The team is expected to control the game with Rafael Marquez, Gerardo Torrado, and Efrain Juarez.

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Make Unlimited Free Phone Calls from India (PC to Phone): Yrox VoIP

Anantapur - June 10th: Making phone calls from Internet is Quite Cost till now. From now onwards no worries, no bills, no fees. Make Unlimited Free phones calls (3 minutes talk time for each call) through Internet. Yrox India Mobile (Social Mobile Services) offering one way Internet 2 Phone calling from anywhere in the World to U.S. & Canada (in courtesy with iCall). All you need is PC with Internet Connection & Head Phone with Microphone or Mike. Enjoy free calling. VoIP Application available at: http://www.yrox.in

What is VoIP?

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks. Other terms frequently encountered and synonymous with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephony, and broadband phone.

Internet telephony refers to communications services — voice, facsimile, and/or voice-messaging applications — that are transported via the Internet, rather than the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The basic steps involved in originating an Internet telephone call are conversion of the analog voice signal to digital format and compression/translation of the signal into Internet protocol (IP) packets for transmission over the Internet; the process is reversed at the receiving end.

VoIP systems employ session control protocols to control the set-up and tear-down of calls as well as audio codecs which encode speech allowing transmission over an IP network as digital audio via an audio stream. Codec use is varied between different implementations of VoIP (and often a range of codecs are used); some implementations rely on narrowband and compressed speech, while others support high fidelity stereo codecs.

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Google Background - Google's New Feature

Make your Google homepage feel more like, well, home! Choose your own image or photo to appear as the background to your Google homepage. You can choose an image from your Picasa Web photos, your computer or a Google public gallery.

This feature is distinct from iGoogle, which allows you to further customize your Google homepage with personalized gadgets.
How to add a background image

1. Sign in to your Google Account in the top right corner of the Google homepage. Don't have one? It's easy to create a Google Account.
2. Click Change background image in the bottom left corner of the Google homepage.
3. Choose where to select your background image:
* From my computer: Select an image saved on your computer.
* My Picasa Web photos: Select an image from your Picasa Web Albums.
* Public gallery: Select from public photos featured in Picasa Web Albums.
* Editor's picks: Select from a set of Google recommended images.
4. Once you've chosen your image, click Select at the bottom of the window. It may take a moment before your new Google homepage background appears.

You can remove your background image at any time by clicking Remove background image in the bottom left corner of the homepage.
Image requirements

When you upload a photo, it is saved as a photo in a new unlisted album in your Picasa Web Albums.

We recommend that you use images that are wider than they are tall (landscape orientation). Images must be at least 800 x 600 pixels and in one of the following formats: .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .bmp, .gif, .psd (Photoshop), .png, .tga, and selected RAW formats. In Picasa, you can resize photos.

Courtesy: Google

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IRCTC Login - IRCTC New Beta Version Available

BANGALORE, INDIA: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd (IRCTC), which also provides online passenger reservation system, has launched a beta version of the revamped site, which is claimed to be more user-friendly and efficient.

The beta version of the new site is available at https://www.irctc.co.in/cgi-bin/beta.dll/irctc/services/home.do#

The new interface is intended to increase the number of visitors who book rail tickets using the site, said Subir Agrawal, director - Consulting, BroadVision - Asia Pacific Region. BroadVision is looking after the website.

“We observed that out of the total number of visitors to the IRCTC only 45 per cent book tickets. Our aim is to increase this number of visitors by making the process more interactive and easy,” he said.

One of the new steps taken is instant booking; the travellers need not login/register for the booking. Anyone can book tickets.

The team is using Web 2.0 platforms and Ajax for enabling more features in the site. The new site would have drop-down options and provide more information on the same web page.

“One need not put a separate request for the train, seats, availability and fare. The intelligent enquiry software would help getting the required information from a single request to central server and that in return bring down the load on the servers,” added Agrawal.

Apart from this, the department would have more powerful servers to take up the loads especially during the peak hours of booking season and timings.

One of the biggest challenges for BroadVision is server loads, which freezes the systems for minutes during booking the tickets especially at 8 am.

According to Subir Agrawal, the number of bookings on an average had been increasing multifold compared to the servers/infrastructure. These bookings and enquiry request are 6-7 times higher during the peak hours than the rest of the day. So while the existing infrastructure is well equipped to handle the daylong traffic, it is the peak hour traffic that clogs servers.

He shared that the average number of booking done in a day is around 3 lakh in comparison to a thousand booking done some years ago. According to him, new-age technologies like virtualization are already being tested, but even they have their limitation.

“The best suit would be if we could get more 40-50 servers just for the peak hours to share the load, but none of the systems integrators today provide such facility on rent or any other ways.”

Also three key elements come into play while booking – Central Reservation System (CRS) maintained by Indian Railways, the transaction gateway (maintained by respective banks) and finally the provider of web applications, (BroadVision).

“The three need to collaborate together to get the best solution forward. IRCTC statistics suggest that in a month the success rate on transaction for bookings done by credit cards is around 72-75 per cent, while in case of net banking/debit card, it is around 67-70 per cent,” he added.

IRCTC is the most crowded website in the country. And given the ever-increasing penetration of Internet in cities and villages alike, IRCTC would see more and more eyeballs on the website. Though it claims to update the back-end technology in every two-three years, its problem does not seem to end, bringing in more responsibility on the web enabler like BroadVision.

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Facebook security

Bangalore: Networking is a way to develop relationships that help you gain insight into an industry, a company, or a career path. 65 to 85 percent of jobs are found through networking. 90 percent of the Indian workforce agrees to the fact that social networking sites play a vital role in their career development. But the recent issues on Facebook securities have shaken the mindset of Indian techies.

A recent online survey shows that around 16 percent of the Fcebook users claiming to have already stopped using Facebook as a result of inadequate control over their data. Almost two thirds of Facebook users are considering leaving due to the same reason.

"Facebook make it difficult for the average user to understand or manage this. I don't think it has much respect for you or your data, especially in the context of the future. My main concern about Facebook is that it shares data in ways users don't reasonably expect. And I think majority of the techies feel the same," says Sumesh Software Engineer from a U.S. based financial firm.

Even though, Facebook have admitted recently that it had made mistakes in its privacy policies and promised to roll out new tools that would make it easier for its 400 million users to control their personal data. It is unclear as to whether any changes will be substantial enough to address user concerns. But majority of the techies feel that the privacy issues started way back in 2007 and whenever news comes up it used to add new updates to its settings and get rid of it.

Muthu, Principal Engineer at Yahoo says "Comparatively the privacy settings in Facebook are really confusing and one point of time people won't read all of them and we may miss privacy."

Majority of the Indian mindset are scared to fill up questions in privacy settings since they are very personal and this leads to another issue of privacy. Facebook will need to make sure further changes to the privacy policy are clear, concise and in the interest of making it easier for members to know exactly who has access to whatever they chose to upload.

Vishnu a software Engineer from Infosys said "Most still don't know how to set their Facebook privacy options safely, similar questions are asked in different ways and it is really confusing. As advanced communication devices and new sites are being launched, the youth is sharing more stuff online, and there should be enough privacy or else this might lead into greater problems."

The survey showing that only 24 percent of users aren't thinking about quitting due to privacy .But even they raise issues with Facebook. Nishikant Pushkar Software Engineer from Accenture said, "It is really disappointing to see the suspicious links which you click get published on friend's wall without your knowledge."

The techies suggest that there is a common feeling of insecurity about whether the private information and pictures are being shared without knowledge. Therefore social networking sites should decide upon on what is good for their users and their mindset needs to be changed. There are plenty of famous examples of compromises due to weak security features, such as the hacking of sarah Palin's or salma Hayek's e-mail. You can suffer from the same problem if someone close to you wants to compromise your account. Majority prefer to quite as a precaution since the privacy issue is a symptom of a larger set of issues.

"Actually it's hard to change your habits. Majority of people find it difficult to quit since it was really engaging and entertaining. But now these privacy issues demands us to quit," techies added.

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Facebook blocked in Bangladesh

Dhaka : Bangladesh temporarily blocked the social networking site Facebook on Saturday, after a man was arrested for uploading content onto it deemed offensive. Other users had reportedly posted other kinds of potentially offensive content, including anti-religious and pornographic materials.

Last day Pakistan was banned Facebook and twitter account which has more popularity, by an order issued by the Lahore High Court.The website faced the restriction over a page,a hosting contest for blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammad.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Mahbub Alam Rodin, aged 30, in charges of uploading cartoons of some political leaders on the website. Rodin's activity on Facebook was classified as "offensive", said Commander Mohammad Sohail, director of RAB's Legal and Media side, as reported by The Daily Star. RAB asked to block all seven accounts of Rodin in Facebook. Rodin used pseudonyms like "Brigadier Mahadi", "Sepahi Mahadi", "Imam Hossain", "Rodin Al", "Mohammad Al Mahadi" and "Junaida Khandaker Zihan", Sohail said.

No official comment has been made, but Bangladesh's Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) blocked it on the government's request. Private news agency bdnews24 reported that the measure was made on a request by the elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion. Users couldn't log onto the website since 6:30 pm local time.

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Europe Advicing Google, MS, Yahoo

Berlin: European data protection officials have been advising the big search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to shorten the period they sustain information on computer users. According to the officials these search engines have broken the rules by holding information on the computers for a long time. The US Federal Trade Commission will be asked to examine if the practices of the three companies violated American law.

The advisory panel to the European Commission asked the three companies to put in charge outside auditors to verify that their practices of yielding individual data truly eliminates all links o individuals. The European Union data protection rules hold that, search engines to cut off all traceable links to individual computers totally after six months.

Microsoft which operates Bing search engine said that it would abide by the commission's request to provide data from individuals after six months. But it would retain software cookies and other session identifiers for 18 months.

European data protection officials have been urging the search engines since 2007 to shorten the time they retain information on computer users. In response, the engines have cut retention periods from 18 months, but the moves are still not enough to satisfy the regulators.

Google maintains data for nine months and Yahoo is set to remove a part of computer's unique identification number after 90 days but reserved the right to recreate individual logos at the request of law.

The article 29 suggests that the methods were insufficient and violated European Union data protection rules.

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Nokia, Opera Supports Adobe Flash

London: While Apple, the American manufacturer of consumer electronics, has pulled out its support for Adobe Systems' Flash, Nokia and Opera have assured their support for the software in its bitter row with Apple.

Adobe's Flash multimedia software was hit by Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs' comment last month, saying that the software is unreliable and ill-suited for mobile devices. Contrary to Jobs, Jon von Tetzchner, Co-Founder of Opera said that Adobe's Flash is the only proprietary part of the Web that the browser supports.

Similarly, Alberto Torres, Chief of Nokia's Solutions Business Unit, told that Adobe's Flash multimedia software is supported by Nokia as well.

While Apple has not allowed Flash on its iPhone and iPad, there are a lot of videos and games found on many Internet sites, which are Flash-based. The hostility between Apple and Adobe has been brewing for months, with both of them criticizing each other.

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