Google to invest more in China

Google is the second most popular web search engine in the Chinese market. The company keeps on enhancing their services to try to overtake Baidu.com.
The US based giant has now said that they are giving its local managers more autonomy. In addition, Google is also investing more in their operations in china.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in a statement: “We are catching up. Our investment is working and we will eventually be the leader.”
Baidu continues to dominate the Chinese web search market with a market share of 55 percent. Google is second with a 22 percent market share.
Schmidt said that they have enough resources to compete with Baidu and overtake in the future. He added: “One of the big projects this year is to push more autonomy and more decision-making to Kai-Fu and his team.”

Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro facing battery performance issues

iPod maker Apple has reported that some users of their Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops might face issues with the performance of batteries.
The company however clarified that these issues are not related to the one related to Sony batteries which posed safety risks.
Apple said that some of their products might have been shipped with batteries which would not charge when the computer is plugged into an outlet.
Apple added in their statement on this issue: “The issues are not a safety risk, so consumers can continue using their batteries.”
The company added that the problematic machines were shipped worldwide from February 2006 and April 2007.
Apple has more details on this new issue on their website.

Dell Latitude D420 and D620 now features Flash hard drive

US based personal computer maker Dell has announced that they are now offering their Latitude D420 and D620 notebooks with solid-state drives.
With this, they have joined Sony in offering notebook products with solid state drives. Sony has already launched their Vaio Type-G earlier this month.
Dell said that they are using the hard drives manufactured by SanDisk. Their products are being shipped with 1.8-inch 32GB SanDisk SSD and the company claims that these new generation of drives increases performance by as much as 23 percent and is three and a half times less likely to fail compared to regular hard disks.
Dell CTO Kevin Kettler added in a statement that the company is committed to enhancing their product range featuring these SanDisk SSD options.

How to block websites on your PC

There is a very simple way of blocking the unwanted sites on your pc without using the third party software.
Just go to this location:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

there you see “hosts” file ….open it with notepad and at the end type the following:
0.0.0.0 xyz.com
i m taking the example of xyz.com
save and exit.
If you are not using XP then you may have to restart the pc for the changes to take effect.

By the way 0.0.0.0 is for null ip.

Worst Virus I faced-Virus.win32/salinity.q

Virus.win32/salinity.q is the worst virus I faced on my pc, it had haunted my pc for long time, eaten all my exe files .

Solution:

The only antivirus that could treat it is Kaspersky and Mcafee , other antiviruses that I have tried only detected this virus but couldnt remove or disinfect it. I tried almost every antivirus on earth to disinfect it, but in vain.

FLV Player

FLV Player

Now you can download youtube videos with a click of a mouse, you can download flvplayer for viewing the youtube videos saved on your disk .

As far as downloading the videos from the youtube is concerned , there is an extension in the firefox(called videodownloader) that lets you download the embedded flash youtube video on your disk with a single click.

Download Here

Best video Phones

Nokia N93i

Features:

Video

• Video resolutions: up to VGA (640×480) at 30 fps
• 3x optical zoom, up to 8x digital zoom
• 45 mins of video capture time (1GB)
• Video call and video sharing
• Video editing

Multimedia

• Integrated FM radio
• Integrated music player for MP3/AAC/M4A/eAAC+/AAC+ formats
• RealPlayer Media Player
• Download and play multimedia files (video and music)
• Stream media files from compatible media portals
• Full-screen video playback on the phone to view downloaded, streamed, or recorded video clips in larger size
• Played formats (decoding): .3gp and .mp4 file formats, MPEG-4 video, H.263 video and AMR audio, RealMedia (Real Video and Real Audio), MP3, and AAC

Memory Functions

• Up to 50 MB built-in memory
• Options to expand up to 2 GB with miniSD card

Connectivity

• Pop-Port™ interface with USB2.0 and TV-out support (PAL/NTSC)
• Infrared (IR)
• WLAN (IEEE802.11 standard, g/b compliant) with Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support (RM-156 only)
• WLAN wizard
• Bluetooth 2.0

This was the most talked about phone and it is said as per the company that it is more of a digicam and video recorder than a voice phone.

Sony Ericsson W800

Features :

• Integrated Walkman player converts the W800 into a portable MP3, MPEG-4, and H.263 player with full functionality or with all transmitters turned off, preventing disturbance of sensitive equipment
• FM radio offers convenient listening via portable handsfree accessory (Stereo Headset) or internal speaker
• Transfer playlists and albums from a PC or Memory Stick through the included Disc2Phone 1.1 software
• Large 262K color LCD display (176 x 220 px)
• Built-in 2-megapixel camera with 4x zoom and video recording capabilities including easy photo sharing through Sony Ericsson’s QuickShare solution
• 40-chord polyphonic sound engine
• Conference calling and integrated hands-free speaker
• Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) for sending pictures, animations, wallpaper, icons and ring tones
• J2ME MIDP 2.0 support for application, ringer, wallpaper, graphic and game downloads including 3D gaming through Mascot Capsule 3D engine
• 34 MB internal storage and Memory Stick Duo card removable memory for extra storage (512 MB included)
• Convenient PC synchronization for through Bluetooth, infrared, and SyncML

This is a best phone as per the video recording with 30 frames/sec and also being a music phone. Display also is so great with sharp graphics.

Stop using USB,switch to ethernet

Recently i found the solution to my problem of internet hanging using USB connectivity of the Beetel 220 bx modem provided by Airtel. Switching over to ethernet connectivity solved my problem as i dont get this annoying internet hanging problem whenever i switch on/off the lights of my room.This i think bcoz ethernet doesnt take power from CPU whereas USB does as u can recharge your ipod using usb.
Problem that i was facing:
I had a usb connected modem provided by airtel and my internet used to hang whenever i switch on/off the lights of my room.Firstly i thought it to be fluctuation problem ……my pc used to work fine , only the internet hanged and then i have to reboot either my modem or my pc to get rid of the problem.

Solution to the problem:
Switch to ethernet as it is very reliable and you wont be facing this problem again with it and moreover you can work on Linux with NIC card as it doesnt demand any driver installation,i know this is the problem of many others…..hope u got the solution.

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