Google Earth has a built-in flight simulator. It helpfully offers to start you out at Kathmandu for some exciting views of the Himalayan mountains.
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Google Inc installed the Google cache server in Nepal at NTC office Jawalakhel Internet Exchange Point, operated by Nepal Telecom(NTC).
A Google cache server is a dedicated network server that saves Web pages or other Internet content locally. By placing previously requested information in temporary storage, or cache, a cache server both speeds up access to data and reduces demand on an enterprise’s bandwidth.
With the installation of google cache server the services provided by Google will be faster than before. Google services such as Gmail, Youtube etc will now be accessed faster from Nepal. This will also help NTC by reducing its bandwidth access and reduce its cost.
“After the installation of Google server, Internet bandwidth uses of NTC has been decreased” Said NTC representatives.
How NTC reduce its cost with the installation of google cache server?
AMY Winehouse’s death has been the most Googled subject this summer.
Fans scrambled to use the internet giant to get info on the tragedy last month, new figures show. Excluding the pop diva, 27, the top celebrity name punched into the search engine was that of the Beckhams new born daughter Harper Seven.
Dad David only made it to fifth place, while new Dragons’ Den telly investor Hillary Devey, 54, was a surprise entry nat No2. Among searches for football clubs, struggling Arsenal came top.
Top summer searches
The next version of Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox 6, will be officially released on Tuesday, August 16. There are no major UI changes; most of the other changes are under the hood. That’s a welcome upgrade as Firefox 6 is reportedly 20% faster than Firefox 5. Also, while Firefox 6 does offer full screen support, it’s not Lion-native fullscreen support, which is somewhat of a disappointment.
For those of you who don’t want to wait till Tuesday, you can actually download the final release of Firefox 6.0 here from Mozilla’s FTP servers.
Founder of world famous social networking site facebook.com Mark Zuckerberg told that facebook and skype are going to interate together, so that facebook user can use video for chatting and calling directly from Facebook.
It’s a feature that’s been rumored for quite a while. I think definitely this is the awesome thing for users of Facebook.
Facebook is launching a new chat sidebar today. Read more…
Cover of iSteve The Book of Jobs
“iSteve The Book of Jobs” – The official biography of Steve Jobs is now abailable in Amazon. It is abvilable in hardcover and a Kindle edition which is US$18.00 and US$14.99 respectively. The book iSteve: The Book of Jobs is written by former managing editor of Time magazine Walter Isaacson.
iSteve: The Book of Jobs will be published by Simon & Schuster on March 6, 2012 and is set to be 448 pages. From the Amazon product description: “From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life.
According to the press release, Isaacson spent three years interviewing Jobs, his family members, Apple colleagues, and competitors to write this book. He has written biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Kissinger.
The book is sure to be an international bestseller and at the time of this writing is currently ranked #28 in Amazon’s Top 100 books and #1 in three separate categories: Technology, Biography & History, and Business.
Source tuaw.com
