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I haven’t seen another Westerner since I got to Borivali and some of the locals have nicknamed me “White Giant.” To say I stuck out like a sore thumb in Borivali would be an understatement. Right now I’m on an overnight train from to Ahmedabad, Gujrat for my brother in-law’s wedding. 

We had to wait at the train station for about half an hour. The local trains were so crowded that men were hanging out of the sides and sitting on cars’ rooftops. There were some very unfortunate people on the station’s platforms.

Getting onto our train was an adventure in itself. We only had tw

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Several netbooks sporting NVIDIA’s ION graphics are now available. But most of them feature the Light Edition (LE) of the chip which doesn’t offer full functionality. But now there is a simple solution to the problem, or so it seems.

One member at the MyHPMini Forum has hacked the ION LE on his Mini 311 and effectively upgraded it to the full version. All that he did was to add the device ID of the ION LE into an INF file and then install it. He says that performance has improved ever since.

The only major difference between ION LE and full ION is probably the lack of support for DirectX 10 standard in LE. Win Read more…

The HP Mini 311 promises the best possible netbook experience thanks to the use of Nvidia’s Ion graphics. Can this netbook with an 11-inch screen, HDMI, and a great keyboard overcome the limits of Intel’s Atom processor?

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‘Tis the season to buy a smartphone, and AT&T and Verizon have been dueling aggressively over supremacy in more places than just their ads. Not sure who paid more in litigation fees (we’re guessing AT&T), but it looks like both parties have decided to put away their guns for the time being.

It all began a few weeks ago, when AT&T became disgruntled over Verizon’s portrayal of their 3G coverage in their “There’s a map for that” commercials. They sued, and, losing in their bid to have Verizon’s ads banned, responded with some ads featuring Luke Wilson from Old School (took us a while to remember where we’d seen him). Read more…