Techie Blues

Yahoo! Buzz has now been opened to all website owners and publishers. Yahoo! Buzz has been in news recently for sending the highest traffic ever, and it is your best bet to get featured on the Yahoo! homepage. Do check its services.

Many times certain websites are blocked in offices or in schools. Though there are several workarounds available on the net through which you can access those blocked pages, but administrators are getting smarter day by day. Therefore now you access the website through an email.

Google is planning to pull the plug on Google Pages and concentrate more on Google Sites. So they have stopped accepting new registrations. Existing users however can still use till Google pulls the plug on it. They will be migrated to Google Sites by Google itself.

In a significient step today, telecom regulator TRAI allowed ISPs to offer unrestricted Internet telephony services, a move that will further increase the competition in the domestic long distance segment and will result in lower STD tariffs.

After 6 long months, µTorrent 1.8 was released on Aug 9. The last stable version i.e. µTorrent 1.7.7 was released way back on Jan 25. A lot of improvement has been made in this release. Some major ones and some minor ones. Check the post for all the changes done to utorrent 1.8.

Orkut is now available on SMS. Users in India can now interact with their other Orkut friends using any mobile phone that can send or receive SMS text messages and the phone need not be GPRS enabled as well.

A step by step tutorial explaining how to get news updates from CNN IBN on your Google Talk.

Google Inc.’s YouTube, the most popular video-sharing Web site, will show daily coverage of the Olympic Games in India and 76 other countries where the broadcasters (i.e. NBC) haven’t bought exclusive rights to the programming. However this service will be blocked outside the 77 territories.

Logitech has unveiled a new tricolour mouse to commemorate the Indian Independence Day. It is a simple plug and play device which consists an all-terrain optical sensor as well. The new mouse sports the colours of the Indian flag on its surface.

Rapidshare has banned all the IP’s of BSNL from accessing its site. Keep watching this space for more updates.

Update: Rapidshare is back!!!