“Indian inflation has risen to a new 13-year high, hitting shares and weakening the rupee. The wholesale price index rose to 11% in the 12 months to 7 June, up from the previous week’s 8.75%. The inflation rate is now at its highest since 1995.” – BBC
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File sharing may get banned in UK
“Internet would be a much better place if sharing of any kind would be stopped altogether – at least that’s what some people seem to think. Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills in the UK government, called on ISPs to voluntarily stop illegal file sharing in their networks, threatening to legislate if they don’t comply.” – Mashable
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia said Monday it will soon call for a meeting between oil producers and consumers to discuss what it called the unjustified rise in prices.
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How to pronounce this word?
Occasionally I find myself in a situation where I pronounce a word differently to what my friend does. The solution? I look up theFreeDictionary.com or simply tfd.com. Two buttons right besides the word allow you to play recorded American and British pronunciations of words, a boon for my multi-cultural background and a need for improving pronunciations!
Note: You may not see the buttons if you have script block or flash block on firefox.
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A Documentary on Net Neutrality
Watch a 5 minute documentary on Net Neutrality, explaining the past, present and the possible future of the way the Internet functions and is controlled/regulated.
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ipipi.com provides a low cost, reliable and easy-to-use service to send international text messages directly from the mobile phone unlike other services which provide a web interface to do so. The text message takes the following format – s <number> <message>, and the message gets relayed to the desired number via the online service almost instantly. I have been using it for a while and haven’t had any ‘lost’ messages and the delivery reports can be seen online. Another good part, the bought messages do not have an expiry period.
“U.K. consumer confidence fell to the lowest level since at least 2004 (when the survey began) in May as increases in living costs added to gloom about the economy, Nationwide Building Society said.”
“‘Consumers are starting to feel the pinch’, Fionnuala Earley, Nationwide’s chief economist, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. ‘The housing market isn’t getting any better at the moment, and we also know there’s been a squeeze on their income. Their willingness to spend and their ability to spend at the moment isn’t very high.”’ – Bloomberg
U.K. Consumer Confidence falls to the lowest level since 2004
Some companies want to become Internet’s gatekeepers and control what can be and can’t be accessed on the Internet for a given price. Below is a video which explains what this means and how the general public can prevent this from happening.
Such sentiments are echoed by Sir Tim Berners Lee (inventor of web) in his blog post on net neutrality.
Number of websites have sprung up to prevent it from happening such as SaveTheInternet.com, SaveNetNeutrality.com, OpenInternetCoalition.com and Google’s stance on the issue.
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Please share your views and ideas in the comments below. Raise your voice against this!
Related post: A documentary on net neutrality
Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and suffering with Pancreatic cancer. Below is a presentation he gave as if it were his ‘last lecture’. In this lecture, he talks about achieving his childhood dreams. I also liked his talk on time management.
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Alltop.com is a refined collection of some of the best blogs on the web categorised under different sections like life, gossip, startups, programming, travel, India, China, etc. (82 categories at the time of writing).
If it adds any credibility, one of person behind Alltop is Guy Kawasaki, that was a good enough reason for me to look at it.