World’s ‘toughest’ phone unveiled.

World’s ‘toughest’ phone unveiled

Times of India Bangalore, July 4th, 2009

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Land Rover has unveiled what it says is the world’s strongest phone, after the gadget survived being dropped from a tall building, stood on by an elephant, and roasted in an oven. Called the new S1 mobile, the ‘indestructible’ device was developed after the car giant teamed up with phone manufacturer Sonim.

Websites crash as fans pay tribute to Michael Jackson Online..

Websites crash as fans pay tribute to Michael Jackson Online.

Hindustan Times - June 26, 2009

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The Internet suffered a major slowdown as millions of thronged to news websites and blogs to pay their tribute to the legendary artist or to get the latest update on the controversy surrounding his death.

TMZ.com, a popular celebrity gossip website was the first to break the story following a tip-off that a paramedic had visited the singers home. At 11:30 pm LA times, the website reported Jackson's demise which led to massive surge in the online traffic causing the website to crash several times.

Millions of users who looked up the star's name on Google or Twitter were met with an 'error page'. According to the BBC site, Google's trends page showed that searches for Michael Jackson had reached such a volume that in its so called "hotness" gauge the topic was rated "volcanic". The BBC news website reported that traffic to the site at the time of Jackson's death was 72 per cent higher than normal.

BBC also reported that before Twitters servers crashed, TweetVolume noted that "Michael Jackson" appeared in more than 66,500 Twitter updates. According to initial data from Trendrr, a Web service that tracks activity on social media sites, the number of Twitter posts on Thursday afternoon containing "Michael Jackson" totaled more than 100,000 per hour.

This incident re-confirms the growing influence of social media in today's aggressively net savvy world and has established its edge over not only the print but also the television media to deliver important information to a wider audience in a fraction of minutes, or even seconds.

No porn for Indians on Microsoft's new search engine Bing.

No porn for Indians on Microsoft's new search engine Bing.

Yahoo News India - Jun 8, 2009

Washington, June 8 (ANI): Indian netizens will not find any explicit images and videos on Microsoft's new search engine Bing because the company has blocked them for Internet users in countries where pornography is banned.

This feature now works only when a user says that he/she is an English-speaking American, Canadian or Australian.

"We determined the list of countries for which sexually explicit results are restricted based on analysis of where such are restricted by local law, but we did not take these actions in response to specific government demands or regulations," Fox News quoted a Microsoft spokesman as telling the Indian Web site ContentSutra.com.

However, the "ban" can apparently be reversed if the country-localizing page to see the images can be changed to those of the countries where the search engine returns dozens of explicit images and videos.

Other countries where the results were filtered featured most of the Islamic world, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and what Microsoft calls "Arabian" countries. (ANI)

Source: http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20090608/854/ttc-no-porn-for-indians-on-microsoft-s-n.html

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