Entries from February 2010

February 19, 2010

Phishing Scam trying to Steal a Gmail Account

I recently received an email from googgleaccount@gmail-account.com. ————————————————- Dear Member We are shutting down some email accounts and your account was automatically chosen to be deleted. If you are still interested in using our email service please fill in the space below for verification purpose by clicking the reply button. Learn more Account: Password: Birth [...]

February 19, 2010

AT&T to offer Motorola BackFlip as the first Android Phone

AT&T announced that it will release the Motorola Backflip, the telecom’s first smart phone running Google’s Android operating system, on March 7. The Backflip, in addition to Android, includes Motorola’s Motoblur user interface, which emphasizes social-networking features. It has a 5-megapixel camera and will cost $100 with a rebate and two-year contract.

February 19, 2010

Google to become Electricity Marketer .. Whats Google Up to?

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unanimously backed Google’s application for what’s known as market-based rate authority. The Commission grants market-based rate authorization for wholesale sales of electric energy, capacity and ancillary services by public utility sellers that can demonstrate that they and their affiliates lack or have adequately mitigated horizontal and vertical market power. Google [...]

February 12, 2010

An open letter to Uddhav Thackeray – By Rajdeep Sardesai

Dear Udhavjee, At the very outset, my compliments for the manner in which you’ve literally ‘stolen’ the headlines from your cousin Raj in the last fortnight. After the Assembly election defeat last October, there were many who had written you off as a weak, namby-pamby politician, who would be better off doing photography. But now, [...]

February 11, 2010

Vice Guide to North Korea

Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists into the country to cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang. Then, ten days before we were supposed to [...]

February 5, 2010

Stocks Decline , Jobs Lost , Global Rout Continues

Escalating sovereign debt problems in Europe (mainly Greece , Portugal and Spain) and an unexpected rise in jobless claims put investors on the defensive just ahead of Friday’s crucial payrolls report. ecoThe DOW briefly fell below the 10,000 mark as stocks suffered their worst losses in more than nine months. NIKKEI was down 2.6% at [...]

February 4, 2010

BalaSaheb at Echo Valley ..Straight for Pigs Mouth

And in another news, Balasaheb visited the Matheran Echo Point to scream his heart out. See what happened next. Pigtale’s 1st attempt at cartoon . Click here for enlarged image About Pigtale : Pigtale is a blogger from India who in his own words is “just a shadow of his past”. His interests include writing [...]