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Captain Rahul Dravid was among the first players to return

India’s cricketers have returned home under tight security after the side’s shock exit from the World Cup at the group stages.India, one of the pre-tournament favourites, lost to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as they failed to progress.
The media and former cricketers have come down heavily on [...]

Providers will be required to tell users about service limitations

Net phone service providers must be upfront about the limitations of their services, regulator Ofcom has said.It said suppliers in the fast-growing Voice over IP (VoIP) sector must explain when selling services whether they include emergency services access.
Providers, including Skype, must also spell out other limits, [...]

 
AOL on Wednesday released the final version of AIM 6.1, which primarily brings support for Windows Vista, as well as announcing a new beta of AOL Web Mail that integrates AIM. Users will be able to conduct AIM conversations directly from their Web-based AOL Mail interface.
AIM 6.1 has been in beta testing for a number [...]

 In reporting a story on Microsoft’s Channel 9 blogging initiative, Wired Contributing Editor Fred Vogelstein got an unexpected surprise in his inbox: the company’s public relations firm’s research on him.
The thirteen-page document shows the lengths to which Waggener Edstrom likely goes when dealing with the media to ensure Microsoft’s public relations goals are met. Among [...]

 Apple on Wednesday pushed an update to its Boot Camp dual booting feature, providing support for the 32-bit version of Windows Vista, as well as updated drivers for various hardware included with Intel Macs.
While Windows Vista could be installed on Intel Macs even before the update, some of the drivers provided by Apple for Windows [...]

 New language inserted into the third discussion draft of version 3 of the General Public License for free and open-source software would prohibit a license holder from paying another party to receive a patent license for works the GPL covers.
But a bracketed clause would make this language take effect for licenses issued from today (March [...]

 This afternoon, Intel confirmed to BetaNews what its executive vice president, Pat Gelsinger, inadvertently revealed in comments to reporters several weeks ago, and what the Wall Street Journal learned this morning after having read The Register from several days ago: Intel’s second generation of 45nm CPU architecture, code-named “Nehalem,” will integrate memory controllers typically featured [...]

Lami Dutse moves around her 27-year-old-son, Danasabe, fanning his badly burnt legs.

Danasabe Dutse’s legs were badly burnt when his trousers caught fire

“Thank God! Thank God!” she says with tears of joy in her eyes.
Danasabe, 27, is sitting just a few metres from a mass grave where the charred bodies of nearly 100 of his friends [...]

 Confirming speculation that it was set to announce a price drop in its players, Toshiba said Wednesday that it would lower the cost of its entry-level HD DVD player to $399 USD, and would debut a 1080p player at $499 USD.
The Toshiba HD-A2 would become the new entry-level player, and the HD-A20 will provide an [...]

Just in case we were running into some sort of personal navigation device shortage, Sony has come to the rescue with four new NV units for Europe, which are sure to cover any gaps that might’ve been left by the myriad of other GPS devices announced in the recent weeks. At the top of the [...]