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Yahoo closed a part of its Chat room service, where users can create their own rooms and will be displayed in the User Rooms section. And when you are entering into user-created rooms column, it warns that "the topics found here may be offensive ..." and if you agree only, it will allow you inside.

The problem started off is due to, KPRC-TV in Houston reported that the service was absued by people, means countless men tried to display pornography with children... 

That may be true, but what will happen to other Non-Sex content, useful rooms??? There were tons of room plying daily, and users get help like advise... Even I have given and I have got advise too....  I hope yahoo will change its stance towards this issue. They can put a word filter, etc., to handle the situation.....

The SIMPUTER – a Simple, Inexpensive, Mobile ComPUTER – was co-developed in 1998 by Encore Software Ltd and scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. I have heard about this Simputer before. But not seen till this Linux-Bangalore 2004. Encore was the Silver Sponsor for the event. So they had a stall. And gave a talk in the event about the Sathi.

 "Are you from the country where Simputer was born ?", somebody asked Atul once in Singapore it seems, he said in the LB2004 event.

Really its cool. I had chance to work in that for few minutes. Great work by a Indian Company. It was fast enough to take my inputs. Myself and Prady were in their stall. They explained well about the device. They deliver Simputer with Linux, but previously they had a option of giving it with WinCE.Net :)

Once I read a article in PCQuest, " Honey I shrunk the Kernel". This suits them well. 
 

Hardware Specifications:
 » Intel Strong ARM Processor-SA1110 @ 206 MHz  
 » 240x320 Monochrome/Color TFT Panel with backlight Touch Screen used with Stylus Pen  
 » 16MB-64MB of DRAM 
 » 08-32 MB of Flash for Permanent Storage 
 
Connectivity/ Interfaces:
 » Internal V.90 Data Modem 
 » SmartCard Reader/Writer 
 » RJ-11 Telephone Jack 
 » USB Master Interface 
 » IrDA (Infrared) Interface 
 » Internal Speaker/Microphone/Voice Recorder 
 » Connector to External Speaker/Microphone 
 » Connector to Expansion Cradle  
 
 Power Supply:
 » Internal power management system 
 » Operates with External AC Adapter 
 » Operates with 6V-12V Solar-Power Kit 
 » Two AA-sized NiMh rechargeable batteries with internal battery charger 
 
Systems Software:
 » Linux Kernel 2.4.18 
 » TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, PPP, HTTP, etc. 
 » GTK+, glibc Library, J2ME 
 
Applications:
 » Address Book, HTML 
 » Browser, E-mail, MP3 Player, Memo Pad, Calculator, Image Viewer, File Transfer  
 
Application Development Software Support:
 » GNU/Linux ARM Cross-development Tool Chain on Linux PC 
 » X Windows Library 
 » GTK Toolkit 
 » Encore's Application Development Framework 
 » ADB Mobile Framework

My Idea : I feel this great one. If they add a mobile unit(supporting GSM Mobile Kit), then it can be marketed as a PDA (World's Feature Rich PDA!!!!)

[Encore Simputer]