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BSNL Broadband Usage Check | Speed Test | Download Speed

August 20th, 2010

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited or BSNL Broadband is very popular broadband service available all over India in both urban and rural areas.

BSNL has many broadband plans like prepaid, postpaid and WiMax Broadband services ranging from 256kbps to 8Mbps and more download speed depends on the plan and location.

Also BSNL has plans based on Time, Data  and Unlimited plans.

If your BSNL Broadband plan is data limited (maximum upload and download limit per month) then it is advisable to check the Broadband bandwidth usage often to make sure that it falls within the limit. Once it crosses the limit then all broadband service providers including  bsnl charges extra amount which is per MB basis.

You can check your BSNL broadband usage here

http://www.dataone.in/

Apart from the BSNL broadband check (Usage detail portal), this DataOne official site offers other tools like Check Download Speed, Speed Tester for 8Mbps and above connection, Webmail for bsnl users, how to configure and secure your Wi-Fi Modem and instructions for configuring your Mail client like Outlook Express.

In this portal Dataone Account Administration can be done only from a DataOne connection.

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Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4

August 4th, 2010

Microsoft today announced the fourth developer preview its next generation browser Internet Explorer 9.

Version 9 is one of the much anticipated release of Internet Explorer in the developer community as its previous developer previews were downloaded more than 2.5 million times.

IE9 offers consistent, fully hardware-accelerated text, graphics, and media, both audio and video.

Building on hardware-accelerated SVG, canvas, video, audio, and text, developers will use the power of the whole PC to achieve great performance.

IE9 also supports the HTML5 video and audio tags and the Web Open Font Format.

With new JavaScript engine IE9 is expected to perform faster and with full HTML support it is expected to regain its lost market share in Browser market. after the success of Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft is spending more time to bring IE9 as a powerful product.

Internet Explorer Public Beta is expected by October 2010.

IE9 is not going to make any significant impact in India because it required either Windows Vista or Windows 7. In India still majority of computers running with Windows XP or lower versions. So most of the India users will not be able to upgrade to IE9 when it comes.

Internet Explorer 9 Fourth Preview can be downloaded from

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

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.CO Domain Registration from Tomorrow

July 19th, 2010

Domain registrars across the world are prepared for a massive .co domain launch from Tomorrow (July 20th). .com domain names will be available to all individuals and firms.

Major domain registrars had already started accepting applications for .co domain names and as of July 9th more than 26,000 applications received worldwide including Fortune 500 companies like Apple, Nokia, Toyota, BMW, Canon, Disney, Ebay etc

.co Domain registration in India

In India also major domain registrars started accepting the .co registration applications.

Godaddy charges Rs 1,421/- for .co registration – standard pre-registration process on a first come first served basis.

Net4 charges Rs 1499 for .co domain names again depends on the availability.

If domain registration fails then a full refund will be issued.

In India the .co domains will be available from 11:30pm on Tuesday, July 20th.

As number of .com domains reached unimaginable levels getting a preferred .com domain name is almost impossible now. So web site owners and domain registrars across the globe are expecting this .co domains to get widespread popularity and may overtake .com registrations in the near future.

co stands for company or corporation or commerce.

Who can register a .co domain ?

Like the .com domain names there is no complex documents required to register a .co domain. It is a very simple process. Anybody in the world can register it with a .co domain registrar by just paying the registration fee.

.co domain names are expected to become world’s most preferred domain name extension in the future.

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Epic Browser : India’s first Internet Browser

July 14th, 2010

Epic Browser is a new web browser developed for India and based on the popular browser platform Mozilla Firefox. A new entrant to highly competitive browser market leading by Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera.

  • Epic Browser Includes 1500+ Indian Themes and Wallpapers
  • First Browser with built-in Anti-Virus
  • Faster Browsing and Speed, Specially tweaked for more speed
  • Free 1500+ Apps include Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo Messenger, Cricinfo, Orkut, Linkedin, twitter apps and games
  • Epic Browser supports many Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit etc
  • Malicious website Warning and anti phishing protection

 

For more info and download link visit Epic Browser Official Page

http://www.epicbrowser.com/

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Mozilla releases Firefox 4 Beta

July 7th, 2010

Mozilla today released first public beta of Firefox 4.0, its free open source web browser. The new Firefox 4.0 is based on the Gecko 2.0 web platform.

Firefox 4.0 beta comes with many new features like new tab location like Google Chrome, new add-ons manager, support for WebM format to watch HD video, enhanced privacy, new html 5 parser, jetpack SDK etc.

At present Firefox 4 beta is available only for Windows but mozilla will soon release Mac and Linux versions.

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta can be downloaded here

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/

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Free Facebook access to Airtel Users

July 5th, 2010

India’s leading mobile service provider Bharti Airtel has decided to give free access to popular social networking site to all its subscribers for 2 months. This will benefit around 13 crore airtel mobile subscribers in India.

Airtel Customers can access mobile version of facebook in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi and Bengali.

To activate this service offer just send an SMS ‘FACEBOOK’ to 54321.

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