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Download Movies Legally, for a Price

New online download services supply movies on demand that you can keep.

First came legal music downloads. Then, last fall, Apple’s iTunes Music Store unleashed download-to-own television shows for portable devices. Now, the two leading Web-based movie services–Movielink and CinemaNow–offer digital movies for purchase.

Both Movielink and CinemaNow launched the new services earlier this week. Previously, both services focused on online rentals, letting customers download a movie for a limited rental period. The movies available ranged from catalog titles to recent releases.

Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux

April 4, 2006 / Chirag Mehta / 0 Comments

Microsoft today lobbed three massive bombs into the server virtualization market. First off, it will now support – wait for it – Linux, when the OS is running on top of its Virtual Server product. Secondly, Microsoft has made Virtual Server free. Thirdly, in a move few thought possible, Microsoft has teamed with the developers of the open source Xen product to gang up on server slicing leader VMware.

Tata Steel ranked Worldâ€™s Best Steel Maker for the third time

April 4, 2006 / Chirag Mehta / 0 Comments

Tata Steel is continuously marching towards becoming a global steel enterprise and aspires to become a 15 MT steel producer by 2010.

Tata Steel has been ranked once again the best steel making company in the world by World Steel Dynamics Inc, USA (WSD) based on a study of 22 world class steel makers â€”consecutively for the second time.

Baidu and Google make up 89.4% of Chinaâ€™s search market in â€˜05

April 3, 2006 / Chirag Mehta / 0 Comments

Apr. 3, 2006 (China Knowledge) – Baidu was Chinaâ€™s most popular search engine in 2005, with a market share of 56.6% while Google was second with 32.8%, according to an iResearch report.

Chinaâ€™s search engine market has been dominated by Baidu and Google. They account for as much as 89.4% of the market.

The report also illustrates that the number of Chinaâ€™s search engine users amounted to 97.06 million in 2005, which is 87.4% of the total number of Internet users. The percentage figure was 7.4 percentage points more than the previous year. iResearch forecasts that Chinaâ€™s search engine users will exceed 100 million in 2006, accounting for 88.1% of the total number of Internet users.

Google Outwits Others in Search

April 3, 2006 / Chirag Mehta / 0 Comments

Google has beaten arch rivals to once again notch top slot in the search engines’ category.

As per the Nielsen/NetRatings report Google has been voted the world s most popular search engine, with 48.5 percent of all searches conducted in the US in February 2006 having been carried out on Google.

Lagging behind Google are Yahoo that managed 22.5 per cent of online searches, while MSN took-up 10.7 percent of the total online search share. AOL and My Way Search rounded out the top five search providers with 6.6 and 2.7 percent of searches, respectively.

Microsoft to Delay New System

March 22, 2006 / Chirag Mehta / 0 Comments

Microsoft’s long effort to deliver the next version of its Windows operating system suffered another setback yesterday when the company said that the system would not be ready for consumer personal computers for the holiday sales season.

The Microsoft announcement, made after the close of the stock market, came as a surprise. For more than a year, the company had said it would deliver the new operating system, Windows Vista, sometime in the second half of 2006.

Google launches finance service

March 22, 2006 / Chirag Mehta / 0 Comments

Internet giant Google is launching a financial news, quotes and blogging service in bid to compete with and online broker firms and rivals such as Microsoft and Yahoo!.

The company has unveiled a beta or trial version of Google Finance that uses keyword searches to enable users to find information on share prices, company pages, currency prices and other financial news.

Google will also incorporate a blog into the service alongside a moderated discussion forum similar to Google Groups and moderated by human editors.

Hutchison 3G to gain Microsoft MSN access

March 21, 2006 / Chirag Mehta / 0 Comments

Port to telecom conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa said on Monday its third-generation telecoms service clients would be able to access Microsoft’s instant messenger, MSN, and Hotmail through their handsets.

The agreement between Hutchison’s 3 Group and Microsoft Corp. would initially cover over 5 million customers of Hutchison’s 3G networks in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Australia and Hong Kong.

Gates admits IE failings, looks to an AJAX future

March 21, 2006 / Chirag Mehta / 0 Comments

‘Everything we do now, we have to be user-centric,’ says Microsoft’s chairman

Microsoft has long viewed the software world through Windows. Now, it’s hoping to prove that it understands the growing popularity of Web technologies beyond its own operating system.

The Microsoft chairman said, in essence, that the development world has changed with the advent of new Web technologies that give people any-time, any-place access to their data â€” a far cry from the PC-centric world of the past. “Everything we do now, we have to be user-centric, not device-centric,” he said.

BRUCE LEE’S PROFILE

March 20, 2006 / Chirag Mehta / 0 Comments

Ack : ~ Sachin Mall

1. Favorite vegetable
* Mu Lee

2. Favourite Lunch
* Tha Lee

3. What happens to the theatre once a Bruce Lee movie is over?
* Kha Lee

4. Bruce Lee’s sister-in-law’s name?
* Saa Lee

5. Favorite Breakfast
* Id Lee

6. Favourite festival
* Diwa Lee

7. Favorite Actress
* Sona Lee

8. Favorite Music
* Qawa Lee

9. Most interesting job?
* Coo Lee

10. When did Bruce Lee die?
* Fina Lee

11. How did Bruce Lee die?
* With a Go Lee

12. Favorite hill station
* Kulu Mana Lee

13. Nick name?
* Mawa Lee

14. Favorite Hindi movie?
* Gharwa Lee Baharwa Lee

15. Favourite cricketer?
* Saurav Gangu Lee

16. Favourite Pet
* Bil Lee

17. Favourite Passtime
* Khuj Lee

18. Bathing Place
* Na Lee