After a long time, I bought a new mobile, Nokia 6260. It is loaded with Symbian OS v7.0s, Series 60(2nd Edition) Platform. Its really cool. Starting from GPRS, Camera, it has many features, and it supports Blue-Tooth Keyboard too. GSMArena.com reviewed the phone to a maximum possible extent, so I didn't feel like explaining it ;)

After a month, MSN announced its Virtual Earth, the search engine giant released its own version called, Google Earth ( beta ), which is a advancement of Google 's Mapping (KEYHOLE), which allow users to search for a location to get an aerial view of that place.

Like MSN Virtual Earth, Google also offers many features like satellite view,..... It lists Banks/ATMs, Schools, Movie Rentals, Hospitals, Churches, Restaurant, Airports etc., Its a 100% GIS Application, but the images will not be a map, but it will be of Aerial & 3D view. I clicked, Hard Times, a movie rental Shoppe, and it showed the address.
Like we bookmark web pages in a browser, we can also bookmark a place. And if you search for a address, it will find the area exactly, and shows the image with the Latitude & Longitude points. Like GIS applications, they split the area with the same Layer concept. For e.g.., I selected Shopping centers in the layer, in few seconds, it showed many shopping centers with a $ symbol. Likewise I tried lodging & banks.

It comes in 4 editions, but as of now, the free one is not available for download. And if you are that much interested, then go for Google Earth Pro Trial, which is available for download.
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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.....
"I have today amicably resolved the issues between my two sons, Mukesh and Anil, keeping in mind the proud legacy of my husband Dhirubhai Ambani" said Kokilaben (Wife of Late. Dhirudhubai Ambani). The Rs.100,000 crore($20 bn) empire split between the Ambani brothers, Mukesh getting RIL and IPCL & his younger sibling Anil heading Reliance Capital, Reliance Energy and Reliance Infocomm ended after a long six month issue. It is said that the settlement is based on the idea by Mr. KV Kamath, MD & CEO of ICICI Bank.
NOPworld, a leading market research organization explores global media habits like reading, searching internet, listening to radio & watching TV. Interestingly India leads in Reading with a great score of 10.7 hours per week(hr/wk), while the global average goes around 6.5 hr/Wk. In watching TV, it is 13.3 hr/wk which is 3.3hr/wk lesser than the global average.
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Thanks to Scott Hanselman. Once again he list all the tools & utilities he uses regularly in his blog. Im sure that you will find many useful tools, which is a must for Microsoft Platform developer. Don't miss it!!!!
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