PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 8, 2008
HP today announced an unprecedented milestone in mobile computing: up to 24 hours of continuous notebook operation on a single battery charge.
As measured by an industry-standard benchmark, the new HP EliteBook 6930p configured with an optional ultra-capacity battery delivered up to 24 hours of battery runtime.(1)

Christmas may be a few months away but many people have already started shopping. It’s just not the consumers, the production companies are getting their hotshot product ready for Christmas as well. There are a wide array of new products coming out in the market for this Christmas but the two that are on my [...]

Remember the last time when you received one such email?

There are billions of such emails produced every second from millions of servers around the world. Spammers are smart, they hack into computers and send billions of emails from that computer. The user of this computer would absolutely have no idea that his computer is being [...]

There are several reports that iTunes is considering offering movie downloads on it’s Music Store. Downloading music is understandable as the music downloaded can be transferred into an iPod or written on a CD. While most people prefer watching movies on the real television or the bigger screen; porting the downloaded movies onto a DVD [...]

A few years back, finger scanning was only for safety vaults in banks and casinos. It was an advanced technology which was mainly adapted in a few financial institutions but mostly in the movies. The technology involves scanning the finger ridges and comparing it with a stored set of finger prints. If there is a [...]

Just months before Windows Vista’s release, Microsoft has come out with the pricing ranges for their new operating system. Windows sits on most PCs around the globe and the security has always been the issue with Windows. Microsoft is out to set the record straight this time round with Vista where security has taken center [...]

There are too many pranks played these days and the time is such that it is hard to believe what you read on the web. I was amazed at this piece of news which hit my rss web reader. There is a version of DOS like MS-DOS called FreeDOS which was released after a lot [...]

Yahoo News! reports :
A call centre employee has been arrested in eastern India for allegedly using the credit cards details of US customers to make online purchases.
Sulagna Ray, 23, was accused of obtaining the credit card information while selling US customers a television service as part of her job, the Times of India reported Saturday.
Ray, [...]

Text messaging got a shot in the arm past week. Remember the times when we had to press a number key multiple times to represent a character. This was improvised by the T9 recognition pattern. Now, it’s even better. You just read out your message and the message is typed in your cell phone. Text [...]

My previous article “Can Writely Kill MS-Word?” got some good response in form of emails and comments. I am republishing the comments here to throw some light on this issue. Most of the emails that I received felt that writely wouldn’t dent word even a tiny bit.