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The Webstandards.org has released a new version of their web browser standard conformity test.

Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by The Web Standards Project (WaSP). Using this test page the web browser vendors can ensure their product supports features that are part of the existing Web Standards. And the challenge is to render the ACID2 page correctly. If the browser supports the standard features, the smiley face will appear and if something is wrong the face will be distored.

The ACID2 desired result

Firefox 1.0.1 Result

IE 6.0 Result

In this e-age, the net conectivity is definitely coming out as a Standard of living factor. And it should no longer be a luxour for chosen few to receive GPBS speed for home net-usage.

The news here is, the Hong Kong residents are having affordable 1GBPS broadband access.

And now this makes people like us who are still in kbps and mbps look so poor :)

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Got this info from Ed Brill. Someone happend to come across an M$ Site.

The fact that this web page seamlessly merge with ASP shows the Domino Advantage, and more over its done well with Release 4.6. But someone have to tell M$ to move to R6.

Follow up this post@EDBrill.com

I always had doubts on Groove's P2P architecture and its good to read IBM not going that way for Collaboration.

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Wow!! so Skype is in News again...and for good. It has achieved a great milestone. And 100 million downloads is no little achievement.

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Some good news for Dubai residents. With the increase in traffic, (and accident count) this looks a promising development. And a very good RFID case study.

IBM has signed a four-year, US$125 million deal to install customized telematics devices in tens of thousands of vehicles in the United Arab Emirates.

The devices will provide UAE government agencies with a vehicle's location and speed via a nationwide wireless network. The system is expected to reduce traffic accidents among the UAE's 2 million drivers...

Google has doubled the GMail size to 2GB per mail box and has removed restriction on Attachment size. But then thers also Hitachi planning to make 1Tera Bytes (1000GB) Hard Disk as mainstream by 2007 for Personal Computers.

I will be visiting my hometown Bombay from 28th April till 6th May. So thats a gr8 News :)