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Cheapest Office suite from Microsoft

Are you a student having email id with .edu extension? If you are, then you are amongst the lucky few who are eligible for cheapest office suite from Microsoft for just $59.95. You are eligible for not one but four such licenses, one each from the groups specified by Microsoft. With a price which is [...]

Income Tax credit statements e-mailed

Department of Income Tax (Systems) New Delhi has mailed, tax credit statements to all tax payees. This is a welcome initiative and would help tax payees to check back their tax paid information with employers and deductors.

Core engineering professions are back

I wrote this article an year back. The year saw unpredictable turnaround in the fortunes of core engineering professions. The situation has undergone a change with core engineering sectors hitting back with venom.

Indian political party embraces open source

India will be going to polls next month. Election process leading to constitution of Indian parliament has been a five year ritual and lauded by diplomats all round the world.

Linux on netbooks and notebooks

Present day operating system are quite big in terms of their RAM and hard disk space .  Almost all of them occupy lots of space on the computers and slow down the running applications. Linux operating systems have been quite lightweight and if one can prioritize the work and applications, then Linus OS can provide [...]

Top ten tips for home buyers in India

Property prices are going south. But correction in property prices is still awaited. Prices have fallen here and there but no major correction has taken place. So is this the right time to invest in property? Probably not. Prices are expected to further cool off. But whether you buy the prices right now or a [...]

Google push in renewable energy

Google Inc is a search behemoth. We all know that. Google has already made investments in renewables. Now taking a leaf from Obama administation’s thrust on renewables in the recent stimulus package, Google has decided to take this forward.

Linux on Laptops

I have switched over to Linux on my Laptop recently. I was earlier running Vista which came bundled up with my Laptop. Initially I was a bit apprehensive. Since I had never used Linux, I was not willing to let my familiar OS go. But Vista had become painfully slow. It was taking lot of [...]