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A small video of the cool new features that have been added to Firefox 3.5
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Airtel broadband has recently introduce and un-advertised offer of providing 2 Mbps Unlimited broadband connection @ Rs 2,999 / month, its not truly un-limited package as it has the FUP clause, but again this offer is not open to everyone. Continue reading…

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I have a reliance landline as it was provided with the broadband connection and it had a dedicated button to reach reliance customer care which is a great coz with just a touch of a button you can reach customer service.

Recently my reliance telephone landline went dead though the internet was working fine, the problem was that how do I contact reliance customer care now, the toll free number 1800-3000-7777 was always giving me a busy tone, well I did find out that there are a couple of other ways to reach them. Continue reading…

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I purchased a new netbook called the Samsung N120 during the first week of June for Rs 25,000 (INR) incl of all taxes, which is a bit on the expensive side for a netbook but this netbook deserves it as it is a feature rich netbook, the best part about this netbook is that it has almost a full sized keyboard making typing on the same a pleasure, the trackpad is also of a decent size compared to netbooks standard and it has an awesome battery life and still you can say it is light netbook.

Before we go into an in depth review of Samsung N120 netbook, this new netbook has replaced my Mileap UMPC (my wife now uses the mileap which is now running windows 7).  N120 is a bumped up version of the famous Samsung NC10 netbook and engineers at Samsung have listened to customer feedback and made it one of the best netbook that you can have, to find out why this is one of the best netbooks read on. Continue reading…

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I have been playing with the RC (Release Candidate) copy of Windows 7 for the last couple of weeks, the latest Operating System from Microsoft and the successor to Vista, which is going to start shipping from 22nd October 2009. I have even replaced it on my older Mileap Netbook / UMPC which was running Vista Home premium and Windows 7 seems to have given it a new life, I can say that Windows 7 is the best Operating System that Microsoft has released yet.

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You must have noticed my earlier review of Netconnect broadband plus and the fantastic speeds that we were getting, over 2 Mbps on an average but during the last couple of weeks I have noticed that the speeds have dropped quite significantly and I am getting speeds that are well below half Mbps around (300 - 500 kbps) . Continue reading…

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It was time that I wanted to upgrade my netbook from the 7 inch Mileap that I was using , after using the Mileap for over a year I had a few things clear in my mind that I wanted in my next netbook.

I wanted a 10-11 inch screen a very good keyboard that is at least 92% of normal keyboards size or higher and a battery life of 5 hrs or more, it should also have a good track-pad and the last thing was that I wanted a light netbook around 1.2 kgs or less sounds tough you bet it is, but I did find one. Continue reading…

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Mobile Wireless broadband is finally here in India and I am happy to say that it works, I had purchased the Reliance Netconnect Broadband plus data Card for mobile broadband, this connection provides a peak theoretical speed of 3.1 Mbps when you are connected to the the Reliance High speed (HSD) network available in 35 major cities across India and if the high speed network is not present it falls back to the slower CDMAx1 network which works in over 20,000 towns and 4.5 lakhs villages. Broadband + USB Modems Reliance is providing two USB models for this broadband + service, one is EC168C from Huawei and the other ZTE AC871 currently both the modems cost Rs 3,500, if you get an option opt for the Huawei as its sleek looking and can also be used as a USB data stick by adding Micro SD card.

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It’s been almost a year since I have written an article on broadband but there has not been much to write about the broadband scene during the past year, yes we now have WiMax and EVDO services (mobile broadband) but still the broadband scene hasn’t changed a lot, fast connections are still very expensive with absurd data-caps and high speed unlimited connections if at all available are very expensive.

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