Mozilla More Secure Than Microsoft Outlook: French Army

The French government is shifting to other open source software such as Linux instead of Windows and OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office.
 
Monday, December 14, 2009:  The French military is now using the Thunderbird client on over 80,000 computers as it finds Mozilla's latest email client more secure than Microsoft Outlook. The department found Mozilla's open source design permitted France to build extensions for security, while Microsoft's proprietary software allowed no extensions to be made. 

Change your service provider without changing your mobile number at rs 19/-

Hii..This is a good news to people who want to change their network without changing their mobile number at low cost.Changing service provider without changing mobile number,this process is called as mobile number portability.
If you are using some 'X' service provider with mobile number 'xxxxxxxxxx' and you like the offers,top-ups and benefits of some 'Y' service provider you can change to 'Y' service provider with same mobile number 'xxxxxxxxxx'.

Ex: If you are using TATA network,you can change to AIRTEL network without changing your mobile number.
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No more new web addresses after 3 years.

An evolution in the internet world is about to come when all the available web addresses are allotted,that means no more new web addresses with 2 or 3 years.The European commission has already warned the internet world.
The process of sending and receiving date through web address is monitored and done by Internet Protocol Version.

The current IPV we are using is IPV4.IPV4 has 4.3 billion addresses capacity of which there are only 700 million addresses capacity left over.IPV4 will be left out with zero addresses capacity within 2 or 3 years.
A new version IPV6 the next generation internet has 340 trillion, trillion, trillion(340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456) web addresses capacity which is equal to all the sand crystals on the beaches around the world.
Efforts are being made to use next generation internet i.e,IPV6.
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Intel reader

Intel Corporation has announced the Intel® Reader, a mobile handheld device designed to increase independence for people who have trouble reading standard print. The Intel Reader can assist the estimated 55 million people in the U.S. who have dyslexia or other specific learning disabilities, or have vision problems such as low-vision or blindness, which makes reading printed words difficult or impossible. The Intel Reader, about the size of a paperback book, converts printed text to digital text, and then reads it aloud to the user. Its unique design combines a high-resolution camera with the power of an Intel® Atom™ processor, allowing users to point, shoot and listen to printed text.

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Xmarks/bookmark sync.

Xmarks is a software which synchrinizes all the bookmarks saved on different PC's. If you use many computers and want to open bookmarked(bookmarked in another computer) page at one of the computers then Xmarks is your software.