Reliance offering Free laptops with internet connections

Reliance net connect logoRecently Reliance entered the internet providers list and it also announced it’s first few offers which may help to increase it’s sales revenue like anything.

The new offer which will allow every customer a Laptop free with a Reliance internet connection for a period of two years. The laptop providers are - HCL, Intel, Acer, Asus and Lenovo.

The price for one month will be around Rs.1500 (around 30-40 dollars per month). Customers who apply for Reliance’s net connect will get a portable computer powered by Intel’s ‘Atom’ and packaged with RCOM’s Net Connect data card services.

“With a population of close to 1.2 billion and only 12 million Internet connections, the growth potential of Internet data services in India is all set to trace the penetration curve of mobile services which are currently adding over 100 million new subscribers every year. The growth of Internet services in India is one of the key visions of Reliance Communications,” said Mahesh Prasad who is currently the president of reliance communications.

Windows 7 , The Future of Computing?

Windows 7 LogoNow All Vista Users Might not have felt the heat while using Vista but after Grabbing Windows 7 They surely will. Here Is windows , soon to be released Operating System , Windows 7.

Unlike it’s predecessor , Windows Vista , which received Great changes from Windows XP version , Windows 7 has not changed so much.
It has Got around Three versions which are being tested currently, Milestone 1 , Milestone 2, Milestone 3 and some others are coming up now.
Windows 7 will be available for 32 bit and 64 bit but the server edition will only be available for 64 bit.

It is not much different from Windows Vista , (as many claim) but until we use it we cant blindly believe it.
The release date , according to internetnews.com is set to be June 3, 2009 , But some of the microsoft representatives have said different dates but I am sure it will release somewhere in mid 2009.

Milestone 2 of Windows 7 has a different taskbar than found in Windows Vista, with, among other features, sections divided into different colors.

Features like support for multiple heterogeneous graphics cards has been added. A all new Windows Media Center has also been added. It might also have the Ribbon interface , which is the best part of it, i.e it has all new design for paint and wordpad and other Microsoft designed Softwares like Word.

Windows 7 Ribbon Screenshot
In the demonstration of Windows 7 at D6, the operating system featured multi-touch , Just like your Hp touchsmart PC (somewhat)
The price still remains a secret.

Few Leaked Screenshots -

Windows 7 leaked Screenshot
Windows 7 leaked Screenshot

Yahoo’s enhanced search results will contain video results from youtube

Yahoo! has got all new look done. I just found out one “enhanced” yahoo search page which had integrated video results on the main search page. It has options like tell a friend also.
It will be showing results from Youtube, Metacafe and of course Yahoo video.
Here a screenshot of the search page -


Visit the Yahoo’s way of defining it here at it’s official help page.

Now see T.V shows online on youtube with advertisements

youtube logoRecently a survey by a company revealed that Youtube received a record-breaking 5 billion video views this July. Most of the videos watched were short videos. But Youtube further said that the users were more comfortable watching longer videos. Hulu , another video sharing site which broad casted T.V shows online only received 100 million views which is a very low amount if compared to Youtube.

Google, the company behind Youtube , was trying hard to increase the revenue generated by Youtube , as they never wanted to show ads during small videos because they were scared as this would reduce user views because if there is a 45 second video and there is a 15 second ad who will see it?

But now when there will be long videos Google is willing to put ads in it , One person from the company said that they will try to show content related advertisements so as to maintain it’s supremacy over all advertising networks.screenshot of youtube with in video overlays

One spoke person for youtube said that for short videos the company is “very much committed” to in-video overlays. The overlays resemble the banner advertisements that sometimes appear on the bottom of videos. In it’s deal with CBS , they said that the company will be selling it’s own ad inventory and the revenue will be shared between both the companies.

Shows like “Dexter,” “Beverly Hills, 90210”,“Star Trek” , “MacGyver” and “Californication,” will be available soon.