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People hardly know about term ‘Submarine communication cable’ and its crucial role in Internet infrastructure. Almost all inter-country or inter-continent Internet traffic relies on Submarine cables. As of 2006, satellite links accounts for only 1% overseas communication, while the remainder is carried out by this Submarine communication cable. [source] Amazed? Indeed it was expected. A [...]

In 2001, IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) came into existence when Indian railway decided to detach its loss making catering services. Now, in July 2010, the news is coming like Indian Railway has decided to take over catering services from IRCTC in certain privileged trains due to bad quality of food. It makes [...]

The article, specific to Indian audience, who used to travel a lot in train. Usually I too need to travel frequently among Ahemedabad, Pune and Hyderabad. Many times it is unplanned journey, So I opt for tatkal booking. Initially, I felt like a challenge to grab ticket in Tatkal quota. Reason behind that, a huge [...]

With reviving economy, more and more people are opting for an air travel. Most of the airlines, bleeding hardly in economic crisis, have a reason to smile with lesser loss or marginal profits. Among all Indian airlines, Air India is still struggling for its survival with its cumulative loss of Rs8,461 crore in fiscal 2007, [...]

Bored of plain Google home page? Then some good news for you. Soon Google is going to introduce new personalization feature that allows you to set background image on Google home page. Choose your favorite background image from your computer or your Picasa web album or any public gallery hosted by Picasa. So, now [...]

I used to browse Youtube videos and sometimes those are such an outstanding, I can’t resist downloading them to my local drive. Earlier I tried some online websites but it was over killing. For example, usually I enter ‘download Youtube video online‘ query in Google then check for the right site and [...]

Few days back I came across the interesting relationship between Microsoft IE and Mozilla Firefox teams. Microsoft looks quite modest this time. Let me start with Bill Gates’ comment on Firefox in 2005 in interview with BBC, “so much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use [...]

I was observing the logo evolution of Tech giants like IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Intel etc and it was reasonably interesting. There is one clear trend, more the company becomes mature and prominent, logo becomes more simpler. Along with logo evolution, I will brief you about some very interesting facts as well. For example, Intel [...]

In last post, I demonstrated comparison of  9 best online image editors. Of course Picnik was there on the list with some bullet points like very popular, refreshing user experience but limited functionality for free edition. Now, news is coming like Google has acquired Picnik. This acquisition was not a surprise as earlier in October [...]

When I say ‘Image editor’, the first term blinks in mind is ‘Photoshop’, The most comprehensive and promising editor. But can everyone afford $699 price tag? Not really. So, sometimes people go for some cheaper solution, say GIMP or sometimes do piracy. Apart from that there are some good online alternatives to Photoshop. I have [...]