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Domain Renewal -> Good Bye Yahoo.. Welcome Godaddy..

It had been more than 5 years that ChotoCheeta.com was with Yahoo Domains. But since last couple of years, Yahoo started to charge USD 35 for renewal compare to any domain registrant where “.com” renewal was at USD 10 at max. Even with such high price, ChotoCheeta.com was renewed for couple of times, but this [...]

Seven people holding rights and power to Reboot / shut off the internet

If you are reading this, then you already know, Internet is every where and its everything. The worlds entire infrastructure is depended on this communication system. Internet is not some one’s or some countries personal property rather its a network shared by all. ICANN (formed by representatives of all countries participating in Internet) is the [...]

Paypal restores wire / bank transfer for money / funds for withdrawals

Within 3days of stopping the bank transfer or rather electronic withdrawal process, Paypal once again restores the online withdrawal service for Indian users. In an email notification sent to all its Indian users paypal said, Dear xxxx xxx, We’ve received good news. You can continue to enjoy electronic withdrawals just as you did before. While [...]

WordPress planning to kill support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4

Although, till date WP is one of those software which supports almost all platforms and runs with minimum of support but it seems developers of WordPress are now targeting to drop support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4. As per WP stats, only 11% of WP installations are in PHP 4 or MySQL 4 platform, [...]

Paypal to block / stop bank / wire / electronic money or fund transfer / withdrawal for Indian users

RBI vs Paypal continues as from 1st August Paypal to stop the bank / wire / electronic money transfer / withdrawal for Indian users. From July 29th, Indian users will only be able to withdraw money via cheque. However the good news is according to Paypal, its a temporary issue which they are working to [...]

.CO domain extension now available for Public..

Couple of months ago, the Internet governing body ICANN, decided to make the ccTLD .CO to be opened up for public registration, which was only available for Colombian residence and businesses. July 20 was the said deadline and it is here. .CO domains are now opened up for public. So select your favorite registrar and [...]

WordPress 3.0 for Choto Cheeta Online…

Its been a month since WordPress 3.0 is released and Finally Choto Cheeta Online shifts to WP 3.0. The installation or rather up-gradation was simple enough with WordPress auto updater. One just has to make sure that everything else (like plugin and themes) is WP 3.0 compatible and that’s it, rest is upto the WP [...]

Orkut phishing attack – Free mobile recharge scam..

It has been a common problem for orkut users to find their account getting hacked. Most of us blame Google (orkut) for the reason, thinking that they have lower level of security. However the truth is, passwords are never leaked from Google’s end, its us, the user caused actions leads to a password leakage. One [...]

Problem for BING ? Google buys ITA for 700 million..

Earlier this month Google bought a travel data analysis firm ITA for 700 million cash. At first glance, it may be seen as a normal business deal, how ever of a closer look, ITA powers data service for hundreds of web based air line booking service along with the decision maker Microsoft BING. Google taking [...]

iPhone 4 signal (Network) issue…

All the technology blogs are on fire with the news of new iPhone 4 and its network related issue. Its reported that you face network related issue with a certain way of holding. Infact apple has went on to issue a public letter on their website explain about technical aspect of the issue. CNN tested [...]

Delhi traffic police using Facebook and twitter to hunt down traffic rule violators

One more example of India is getting online and social networking websites are part of our everyday life. Capital’s traffic department is now taking help of the good side of social networking websites as just before the 2010 Common Wealth Games, Delhi traffic police is now armed with over 8000 Facebook fans, who have already [...]

Spam attack.. Revenge of the spammer..

Since I started blogging, I praised to the Askimate for its wonderful work to prevent spam in my blog. However last couple of weeks were a nightmare for my blog. I have been bombarded with spam and the situation is so bad that I have to put my comments system on hold with approve only [...]

ICANN to approve .XXX domain extension for adult / porn industry

Big step on industries approach towards adult content of Internet. It’s undeniable that a huge number of user of Internet use the service for adult content and also its the most worrying factor for parents on how to filter it for the children. Six years ago it was proposed to ICANN to provide a separate [...]

Get USD 50 off on any HostGator service by rating a support ticket

HostGator, one of the largest web hosting company based in US has started a discount for its existing customers of any of its products. If you are a customer of HostGator, you can get USD 50 off in your next bill by rating a support ticket. In their monthly news later, HostGator wrote; Ticket Response [...]

Google web apps – More problems for business than solution ?

It was late 2004, when we tested, Google’s real power via their offering called “Gmail”. By offering never before feature in its search engine and email system, Google soon became the god of WWW. Within couple of years, Gmail was to replace the word “email” for almost majority of users. There were times when Gmail [...]

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