BSNL reduces postpaid broadband tariff by up to 75%

Initiating a price war in the broadband segment, state-run BSNL on Monday announced a reduction in post-paid broadband tariffs by up to 75 per cent, a move that may force private players to follow suite.

BSNL offers tariff in two categories — home users and general users. Under both categories, tariffs are available in limited and unlimited downloads.

To give a push to its broadband business, BSNL has reformulated its existing post-paid broadband tariff structure, it said in a statement.
With the implementation of new tariffs the entry threshold would come down from Rs 2,150 to Rs 850 only translating into a reduction of over 60 per cent.

It has reduced download charges from 50-60 paise per megabyte (MB) to 20 paise per MB for up to 5 gigabyte and 10 paise per MB thereafter. This nearly 75 per cent cut in tariff will be applicable for customers having plans of Rs 250-700.

Additional download charges in limited broadband tariff plans has also been reduced to 10 paise per MB for all customers paying more than Rs 999 fixed monthly charges.

The company has announced new broadband tariff plan for business and corporate customers. This new plan launched in the name of ‘BBG COMBO ULD 850’ will provide unlimited download to business customers at a download speed of 1 mega byte per second (mbps) up to 8 GB and 256 kilo byte per second (kbps) thereafter.

The company has also upgraded download speed in various post-paid plans by 50 per cent, besides increasing free download limit under its various tariff plans up from 10 GB to 250 GB.

The company announced an increase in free calls limit for its combo plan. Free calls have been doubled from 250 to 500, 300 to 500 and 500 to 1000 under different categories.

In addition to this, the company has introduced free calls facility in four combo packages. The number of free calls range between 500 to 2000.

BSNL has 60 per cent market share in broadband segment and expects that these new changes in tariff plans to change the broadband landscape of the country.

secret backdoors to many websites

Secret Backdoor To Many Websites

Ever experienced this? You ask Google to look something up; the engine returns with a number of finds, but if you try to open the ones with the most promising content, you are confronted with a registration page instead, and the stuff you were looking for will not be revealed to you unless you agree to a credit card transaction first....
The lesson you should have learned here is: Obviously Google can go where you can't.

Can we solve this problem? Yes, we can. We merely have to convince the site we want to enter, that WE ARE GOOGLE.
In fact, many sites that force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the Googlebot, because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate sales leads, site hits and exposure.
Examples of such sites are Windows Magazine, .Net Magazine, Nature, and many, many newspapers around the globe.
How then, can you disguise yourself as a Googlebot? Quite simple: by changing your browser's User Agent. Copy the following code segment and paste it into a fresh notepad file. Save it as Useragent.reg and merge it into your registry.

CODE:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Googlebot/2.1"
"Compatible"="+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html"


Voila! You're done!

You may always change it back again.... I know only one site that uses you User Agent to establish your eligability to use its services, and that's the Windows Update site...
To restore the IE6 User Agent, save the following code to NormalAgent.reg and merge with your registry:

CODE:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

Ps:
Opera allows for on-the-fly switching of User Agents through its "Browser Identification" function, while for Mozilla/FireFox browsers a switching utility is available as an installable extension

How the Web Is Affecting Social Relations [STUDY]

Most experts agree: The Internet improves social relations and will continue to do so over the next decade. And you thought the machines were going to rise up and murder us all.
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center just released their fourth “Future of the Internet” survey, the topic of which was “The Future of Social Relations.” The opt-in study, which tapped 895 tech stakeholders and critics, essentially presented respondents with two differing world views:

“In 2020, when I look at the big picture and consider my personal friendships, marriage and other relationships, I see that the internet has mostly been a positive force on my social world. And this will only grow more true in the future. ”

and…

“In 2020, when I look at the big picture and consider my personal friendships, marriage and other relationships, I see that the internet has mostly been a negative force on my social world. And this will only grow more true in the future. ”

They then chose one viewpoint, elaborated as to why they chose that stance, as well as pontificated on the subject more generally. The results are pretty interesting.
As you can see from the above graphic, 85% think that their lives have been improved by the web, and that this theme will continue over the course of the next decade. The graphic shows two different groups: 371 long-time experts who regularly participate in the surveys, and the entire survey group, which includes other experts.
In looking at these results it’s important to take them with a grain of salt, as they come from people who are mostly web enthusiasts. According to Pew, “50% have been using the Internet since 1992 or earlier, with 11% actively involved online since 1982 or earlier. When asked for their primary area of Internet interest, 15% of the survey participants identified themselves as research scientists; 14% as business leaders or entrepreneurs; 12% as consultants or futurists, 12% as authors, editors or journalists; 9% as technology developers or administrators; 7% as advocates or activist users; 3% as pioneers or originators; 2% as legislators, politicians or lawyers; and 25% specified their primary area of interest as ‘other.’”
Respondents include everyone from Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, to folks from top universities and government agencies, as well as companies like Google, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Yahoo, Intel, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Ericsson Research, Nokia and The New York Times.
Still, Pew provided a myriad of more descriptive responses from those surveyed that cast an interesting light on the findings. While many cited positive experiences with the web — such as meeting spouses, fostering relationships with distant relatives and cutting the costs of communication — many also questioned the effects of the web on society. Think loss of privacy, deep relationships and burgeoning intolerance (not to mention the rise of Justin Bieber — my own contribution). Here’s a selection of quotes from survey respondents that we found most interesting. Take a moment and let us know in the comments: How do you think the web is affecting our social relations?

“The net is about people connecting online, for commerce, politics, and personally, and we already see that enhances real-life relationships. Location-based social networking, in particular, will be a big part of our lives.” —Craig Newmark, founder and customer- service representative, Craigslist, former software engineer and programmer at companies such as JustInTime Solutions, Bank of America and IBM
“If – and I believe this will happen eventually – the tendency to make remarks and adopt positions you would never consider in person can be overcome, online society stands a very real chance of taking interpersonal relationships to a level never before possible. Balancing out the anonymity and lack of physical contact is the ability to mask a plethora of medical and psychological conditions that until now have proven serious handicaps to social interaction. No one stutters or stammers on Twitter.” —Robert G. Ferrell, information systems security professional, US government, former systems security specialist, National Business Center, US Department of the Interior
“Fifty years ago emigrants left their family and friends behind. Now people who move from one country to another simply enlarge their social networks, building truly global communities.” —Hal Varian, chief economist of Google and on the faculty at the University of California-Berkeley
“The Internet helps me maintain contact with a greater number of people. But it also makes it easier for me to retreat within a form-fitted political, religious, or social landscape. It’s when we find ways to work with people with whom we disagree that society progresses. The internet makes it easier for me to avoid disagreement and compromise and encourages me to become more strident and polarized in my views. That’s a problem.” —Tim Marema, vice president of the Center for Rural Strategies
“The technology is simply as good or bad as human nature. One has only to look at the hype around #iranelection to see the capacity for giddy optimism to be supplanted by calculated abuse of power. The Internet can be a positive force for creating reinforcing social connections, and a negative for abuse of civil liberties and increasing polarization of opinion.” —Perry Hewitt, director of digital communications and communications services at Harvard University

Vodafone Free GPRS

First of all
 It DOESN'T work in Mumbai circle.

Followng are the Settings you require to configure on your Mobile:
Account Name: Vodafone_gprs
Homepage: http://live.vodafone.in
User Name: (no need)
Pass: (no need)
Access Point Settings:-
Proxy: Enabled
Proxy Address: 10.10.1.100
Proxy Port: 9401
Data Bearer: Packet Data
Bearer Settings:-
Packet Data Access Point: portalnmms
Network type: IPV4
Authentication: normal
User Name: (no need)
Password: (no need)
*IF that happen this settings is not working then change the proxy port number to:-
Proxy Port: 9401

ENJOY

New Adsense - How to get beta invitation

Google Adsense New Interface: How to get Beta Invitation

The new interface will give you more detailed reporting and more control over your adsense ad units channels.

Here is a screenshot of new interface of Google adsense :



Screenshot interface looks appealing. To try this new interface you need to apply for adsense beta testing by filling up this form.

You just need to fill 3 information in the form :

GOOGLE TV

Google TV Coming to Your Living Room Soon – Android Based TV!

What happens when 3 giants combine forces? Well you get Google TV. Sources claim that Google, Sony, and Intel are going to do just that. Google TV will pretty much turn your old boring TV and turn it into a device from the 22nd century.

Google TV will pretty much turn your TV to your Computer and you will have access to the web with the same usability and ease as you would on your personal pc. Since most new version of TV’s already has capability to connect to the internet, this should be a piece of cake for the three giants.

Google is claiming that the rumors are just that, Rumors and they made no comments about the collaboration of Google, Sony, and Intel to create Google TV. Google has been working in the background for the last few months trying to develop, Google TV.

While this can be a smart move for Google, this can also end up hurting them if this was true. The TV world is very much different. Although Google owns majority of the web, one only thinks that they will succeed at pretty much anything they do. Apple tried this w while back when they created the Apple TV but that proved to be a bust. We can only stay tuned and see what Google has in store for us in the following month.

I wish the three companies the best and hope Google TV will become a reality in the near future.

Internet Explorer 9 Tryout

Internet explorer 9 is now available online for free download from microsoft.com. Microsoft launches new version of internet explorer 9 after testing of Beta 8. Internet explorer 9 have many advantages features and high speed as compared to firefox. You can also download the Internet Explorer Platform Preview to check Web platform capabilities of Internet Explorer 9.
Microsoft Corporation today quietly announced the end of internal development of Internet Explorer. Microsoft has not referred to this "next" version as IE9, at least not yet, but it's the designation that Web denizens immediately slapped on the future release.
Internet Explorer 9 addresses all of the major concerns that users and critics have had with the world's most used browser.  New feature of IE 9 is Web Slices, that allows you to save predefined sections of a web page.

Download internet explorer 9 Links

Link 1 || Link 2

 News : http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361444,00.asp

Google offering 5gbps speed for broadband

5gbps Internet Connection

Acc. to a recent news Google has planned to launch its High speed internet service which will offer 5 gbps speed . But our bad luck is that this facility is just going to be tested in America right now. So we all will have to wait for a whiljavascript:void(0)e coz we dont even get 5 mbps properly.
But just imagine having 5 gbps on your Home Connection.

So Americans...

Enjoy..!