A new feature introduced today in Gmail allows free voice and video chat right from within Gmail. Nice!
Read the article: Official Google Blog: Talk face-to-face right from within Gmail
Category: Life
Nothing causes as much anxiety in a family as when someone falls sick. Nearly 65% of India’s poor get into debt and 1% fall below the poverty line each year because of illness, according to National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) 2004. The answer, of course, is health insurance, but only 6% of India’s workers have it.
Read the article: Finally, a lifeline for India’s poor
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton became the youngest world champion in Formula One history by the skin of his teeth after a nail-biting Brazilian Grand Prix.
Read the article: Last-gasp Hamilton takes F1 crown
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech in 2005.
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The best presentation of Happy Life!
‘The search giant unveiled a US$4.4 trillion plan Wednesday to reduce the U.S.’s dependency on fossil fuels and embrace alternative energy. The proposal would yield a net saving of $1 trillion by 2030 and slash U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 48 percent, according to Google, which said it had been busy “crunching the numbers.”‘ – CIO
Read the article: Google Proposes $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan
Mr. Ratan Tata has said in his press conference that, “Two years ago, I said if somebody puts a gun to my head, you would either have to remove the gun or pull the trigger. I would not move my head. I think Ms Banerjee pulled the trigger.”
Read the article: An elegy for Singur
Breathtaking pictures from 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony!
The new ‘Powered by reddit’ indiahacker.com brings social news for India; based on reddit source and with a clean and minimal user-interface like YCombinator’s Hacker News. The site allows user participation to submit new stories, to share them via email, comment on them or vote it up or down.
“…a familiar line spouted by Americans these days is, ‘Why should the US curb energy consumption, when India and China are guzzling petrol and polluting the whole globe?’…”