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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Mobile SMS stats
Credit: HemantTexting the New Year In
Last year on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, mobile phone users around the world sent a record-breaking 43 billion text messages, 30% more than the previous year. The 50 million mobile subscribers in the Philippines sent the highest number: an astonishing 1.39 billion text messages.
SOURCE: Acision
Monday, December 29, 2008
GrandCentral
GrandCentral - a Google company - gives people One Number...for LifeTM - a number that's not tied to a phone or a location - but tied to you. With GrandCentral, you can be reached with a single number, answer a call at any phone you want, seamlessly switch phones in the middle of a call, and even know whether a call is important before you take it.
What else can one do with GrandCentral?
- Check your messages by phone, email, or online
- Keep all your messages online for eternity
- Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail)
- Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
- Click-to-dial from your address book
- Surprise your callers with a custom voicemail greeting
- Forward, download, and add notes to your messages
I've been waiting for something like this. Where do I start?
GrandCentral is currently inviting a limited number of users to beta test our service. You can sign up for an invitation here
Friday, December 26, 2008
Download McAfee Antivirus Software for Free
Sent to you by Nikhil via Google Reader:
via Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog by Amit Agarwal on 12/11/08
McAfee VirusScan Plus is a popular anti-virus software that also provides firewall and anti-spyware capabilities.
A single license of McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009 costs around ~$40 but you may have it for free via this link. Enter coupon code VSPPROMOCF and click Checkout.
The code is valid through December 31, 2008. You will also receive free upgrades to McAfee software for the next one year.
This release of VirusScan Plus is available for download on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista systems only. [via]
Related: Free Online Virus Scanners
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Thursday, December 25, 2008
Turn an email into a Google doc
An experimental feature for Gmail Labs that with one simple click, "Create a document" converts an email into a Google Docs document.
Very Useful tools for those of us who often discuss things like "product specs" between project partners on email and then transfer them into documents :-)
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
NASSCOM-ZINNOV India Software Product Business Study
Recently Zinnov, managment consulting firm, in association with NASSCOM undertook a study - "India Software Product Business". The study covers the opportunities for software businesses in India at a global level, VC funding trends,how to enable the product business in India, what areas can start-ups focus etc.The snippets of the study are available in the presentation below:
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Unusual courtship
Credit: Banibrata
The bitter acrinomy between M$ and GOOG, is it just eyewash, and some behind-the-curtain courtship is on ??
I went to that link thanks to a "Get faster Gmail" link on my Gmail main window. Of course, taking us to "Chrome" downloadpage might have evoked strong anti-trust movement from M$... but this is like bending over backwards.
What will 3G mean for you
Ushering in a new era in the Indian telecom sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has launched the state-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd's (MTNL) third generation (3G) mobile service 'Jaadu' in Delhi.While MTNL has rolled out its 3G services only in Delhi, BSNL will launch its services in Chennai next month.
Here's looking into what 3G will mean for us as a consumer.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
SandBoxie
Introducing Sandboxie (www.sandboxie.com)
Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
The red arrows indicate changes flowing from a running program into your computer. The box labeled Hard disk (no sandbox) shows changes by a program running normally. The box labeled Hard disk (with sandbox) shows changes by a program running under Sandboxie. The animation illustrates that Sandboxie is able to intercept the changes and isolate them within a sandbox, depicted as a yellow rectangle. It also illustrates that grouping the changes together makes it easy to delete all of them at once.
Benefits of the Isolated Sandbox
- Secure Web Browsing: Running your Web browser under the protection of Sandboxie means that all malicious software downloaded by the browser is trapped in the sandbox and can be discarded trivially.
- Enhanced Privacy: Browsing history, cookies, and cached temporary files collected while Web browsing stay in the sandbox and don't leak into Windows.
- Secure E-mail: Viruses and other malicious software that might be hiding in your email can't break out of the sandbox and can't infect your real system.
- Windows Stays Lean: Prevent wear-and-tear in Windows by installing software into an isolated sandbox.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Site to backup your data
2 GB free and you get an extra GB for every two people you refer to Mozy. The person who registers from your referal also gets 512MB for using your promotion code/ URL.To allow me to increase my backup storage please click the link below and create an account on Mozy
Every one of you who clicks on this link and starts using Mozy, gets another 512MB (in addition as 2GB) of free backup space.
Alternatively, you can enter the referral code - DJUGJB - or my email address - kulkarni.nikhil@gmail.com - during the registration process.