Google Profiles Makes Social Network Easy

If you are owner of a website, have concern about the PR (PageRank) value of your website and off-course user of Google, just stope reading this article andupdate your Google Profile Now!

Yes, Google Profiles are now available from TOP PR value website http://www.Google.Com/ ! Recently Google has update there main robots.txt file with an sitemap entry pointing to http://www.gstatic.com/s2/sitemaps/profiles-sitemap.xml having millions of Google User Profile’s URL. User profiles are having public searchable URL hosted on http://www.google.com/ domain. Read More...

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and Free Speech

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) have decided to turn themselves into champions of free speech. In turn, they are likely to lose a lot of business. Reports bloggingstocks.com

According to The Wall Street Journal, the companies "have agreed to a common set of principles for how to do business in nations that restrict free speech and expression, as the companies seek to combat criticism that they have helped enable censorship in those countries." Absent from the deal are all of the major local search engines in nations that might be viewed as "oppressive" when it comes to open speech rights.

Mr. Douglas McIntyre, an Anther in BloggingStocks.com also wrote:

The news is a fine example of companies attempting to do good while hurting their shareholders. While the three big U.S. search companies champion U.S. values with rules, companies like Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) in China and Yandex in Russia will continue to expand their market share by playing ball with officials. What government that wants to support censorship is going to let "holier than thou" U.S. companies get more access to their markets?

U.S. search engines do well, to the extent that they can, in markets that are repressive because they offer some outside access to information even if their results are often censored. Pushing "free speech" rules in the face of local officials is hardly a way to keep whatever access they have to citizens in these nations. And it loses them market share and money. It is, in short, a waste.

Let's see, how this Internet Search Giants Fight for Free Speech or They want to work on the view of business!

OnlineNIC Helping EstDomains Customer

OnlineNIC.Com, A Domain Registrars Accredited by ICANN launched a campaign to Get the share of Domains which was previously registered by EstDomains, another ICANN accredited Domain Registrar suspended by ICANN.

Recently ICANN sent a notice of termination to EstDomains, which has approximately 281,000 domain names under its management.

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BRAC's BDmail Network Declines Wimax Licence in Bangladesh

BDmail Network, winner of the Wimax License of Bangladesh on September 2008 has declined a licence to operate Wimax in Bangladesh by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission(BTRC), the regulatory body of Bangladesh Telecommunication Network.

"BRAC BDmail will not pay for the licence. They informed us in a letter," BTRC chairman Monzurul Alam told bdnews24.com Saturday.

As per guideline of open auction of wimax license, BTRC invited BRAC BDMail Network to pay the License fee of Taka 21.5 Million, but BdMail sent the letter to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission that they will unable to pay the license fee to Operate Wimax Service in Bangladesh.

Company named "Aguree Wireless" was the third licence winner in the open auction in September and the fourth winner of action is named "Vitel Bangla"

"If BTRC invites us, we will pay for the licence." Abdus Salam, consortium member of Vitel Bangla, told benews24.com:

Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited will also apply for the remaining licence, said a BTCL official.

According to the licence guidelines, WiMax operators will initially have to install 90 base stations and expand their network within three years. More than 60 percent foreign investment will not be allowed, though non-resident Bangladeshis may invest 70 percent.

Let's see, which company is getting the license to operate Wimax Wireless Service to deliver the Broadband Internet Service in Bangladesh.

Broadband Solutions Limited Bangladesh found to illegal Voip Call Termination

Broadband Solutions Limited Bangladesh found to illegal Voip Call Termination

Broadband Solutions Ltd, an ISP of Bangladesh found to be indeed terminating calls illegally in Bangladesh.

Last week BTRC drive a raid against illegal VoIP operators raided different establishments of Broadband Solutions Limited's Banani, Shantinagar and Molibagh in the city and found evidences of use of the bandwidth in illegal call termination.

The BdNews24.Com Reports:

M Tanjin Alam, the company's managing director, and Zahurul Islam Sheikh, the CEO, confessed to interrogators that they were indeed terminating calls illegally, the commission officials said.

"BTRC officials therefore have sealed their establishments on charge of violating the conditions and instructions stipulated in the licence," the commission officials said, adding they also seized equipment used for the illegal activities.

BdNews24.Com also reports that BTRC chairman Manzurul Alam express "Zero tolerance policy" against illegal VoIP activities and would be "defeat the very purpose of giving IGW licences"

Which Came First Eggs Chickens Scientists View

Tell me, Which aliment of world come first? Egg or Chickens? Scientists now Says, Egg is Earlier then Chicken! Yes Scientists proved it true...

A discovery of recent

http://ontorebd.com/which-came-first-eggs-before-chickens-scientists-now-say/

National ID and Voter List of Bangladesh, Interesting Facts

From the blog of Bangladesh Community, I got to know the interesting information of Voter List the National ID Project of Bangladesh. As per the posting of Mr. Mustakim Islam's Post:

The reams of paper used in the voter list and national ID project is enough to cover 850 football fields!

Isn't a threads Against or Green World!

The laminating foils used, if staked one above another would outsmart the height of Mt. Everest by 3.5 times!

Again the plastic show it's performance on our daily life.

The total size of all the DVDs used is about 50 terabyte! Can hold all the Hollywood movies made so far in digital format!

Where the storage of this information? In Bangladesh with proper security or Any 'Safe' place in world, where it most needed?!

The total size of the database (largest in the world, larger than CIA and FBI) is equal to the overall size of the data available in the Internet (excluding video and graphics). It is five times the size of all the books (converted in digital format) available in the largest library of the world - the Library of Congress!

Oke, let's call Google Inc to make a 'Search Engine' to find my name 'Bauani' from this database...

If one typist sits to type all the data (without any break, sleep, food, toilet) he would need two and half centuries to complete the project by himself.

We have outstanding typing skill and 150 Million People in Country, no need to type it by One Person;)

Even the giant laptop manufacturer DELL fell short in their raw material to supply the laptops for this project. They had to dig in African soil for silicon for the production of microchip!

Where the soil coming out from this dig? African's should staked this soil to make a another record.

Samsung company supplied us the printer toner. The man-in-charge of Samsung company came to Bangladesh only to make sure that the demand we placed was accurate. He was confused about the number of zeros we put after 1 in the demand form!

Samsung should replace that 'Man in Charge', For failing to understand the 'True' demand. By the way, where is the 'GreenPeace' people, they should start counting the Carbon created by this project and Samsung should 'buy the Carbon credit from our Country'. It would be another way to get forex for Bangladesh.

This is the fastest collection of demographic data in the world. The second is Pakistan. They took 5 years. Many European countries are visiting us to learn how to do this job.

The loesears. We again showed "We Can Do"

The most accurate database in the world - UN Chief of Bangladesh.

Where is the UN Chief? He need to certify the Quote...

The most common birthday in Bangladesh is 01 January - 1.29% according to estimate. The least is - 29 February, naturally - .009%!

I can see 'Good Day' for the public in 'Notary Public' industry...

If all the voters in Bangladesh (8,06,00,000) unite, they can choose any party/president/ prime ministers in the world through free and fair election(Except for India and China)!

Let's Change The WORLD, Yes, We can Do. Proved

Bangladesh Truth Accountability Commission Declared Illegal by Bangladesh High Cort

The Truth and Accountability Commission, which is known as 'TAC' has been declared Illegal by Bangladesh's High Court

Today, A Division of Bangladesh High Cort declared the Truth and Accountability Commission as Illegal and ordered Government to explain, why the activity of Truth Commission will not declared as Illegal Reports by Different Electronic media of Bangladesh including NTV, ATN Bangla and Bangla Vision.

A Bench of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 28 August issued a rule against the government asking the authorities to explain why the Voluntary Disclosure Ordinance 2008, under which the Truth and Accountability Commission was formed on 30 July 2008, should not be declared illegal and void. A Human Rights group challenged the legality of the Truth and Accountability Commission at the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 25 August.

New IPv4 allocation for APNIC (110/8 and 111/8)

Dear colleagues

The information in this announcement is to enable the Internet community to update network configurations, such as routing filters, where required.

APNIC received the following IPv4 address blocks from IANA in November 2008 and will be making allocations from these ranges in the near future:

   110/8
   111/8

Reachability and routability testing of the new prefixes will commence soon. The daily report will be published at the usual URL:

   http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon

For more information on the resources administered by APNIC, please see:

   http://www.apnic.net/db/ranges.html

For information on the minimum allocation sizes within address ranges administered by APNIC, please see:

   http://www.apnic.net/db/min-alloc.html


Kind regards,

_________________________________________
APNIC Secretariat
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)    Tel: +61-7-3858-3100
PO Box 2131 Milton, QLD 4064 Australia             Fax: +61-7-3858-3199
Level 1, 33 Park Road, Milton, QLD                 http://www.apnic.net
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BOGON List Need to Update As APNIC Received New IPv4 Address Block

It's now time to update your 'bgon filter' on your routers as APNIC has recently receive 2 more /8 IP block from resarve of The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), who is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, ASN and other Internet protocol resources.

APNIC, the organization maintaining the Internet Resource allocation for Asia Pacific region announced of getting their new allocation of two /8 IPv4 address blocks which is 110/8 and 111/8.

In June, 2008, APNIC had received 112/8 and 113/8 IPv4 address blocks which is still behind of few outdated filter still running by some transit provider around the globe.

Reachability and routability testing of the new prefixes will commence soon. The daily report will be published at the usual URL of RIPE website.

So friends, stop reading this article, go and update your prefix filter if you haven't done yet!

Amateur Radio Operator License Syllabus for Bangladesh

BTRC has started Issuing Amateur Radio Operator License for Individuals Who have passed the Computer Based test (CBT) by Commission (BTRC). Other then that, Individuals, who are interested to attend Computer Based Test for Amateur Radio Operator License are requested to complete the Registration Process of Amateur Radio License Test on following Syllabus:

1. Regulatory Matters:
The regulatory environment, The amateur radio license, who issues them, payment of fees Call signs, Power permitted, Emergency operation, Ciphers and secret codes.

2. Frequencies
Frequencies and bands allocated for amateur radio operating, Sharing of bands.

3. Electronics Fundamentals
Insulators, conductors and semiconductors, Fields produced by currents and magnets.
Units of voltage, current, resistance, impedance, Types of cells.

4. Measurement Units
Units of voltage, current, resistance, impedance, power.

5. Ohm's Law
Calculations involving voltage, current, resistance (using a single resistor).

6. Resistance
Values of resistors in series and parallel (using two resistors and more). Calculations involving resistor combinations, voltage, current, Internal resistance of cells.

7. Capacitors, Inductors, Resonance
Variation of capacitance with plate size, spacing, Dielectrics, Variation of inductance with diameter, length, number of turns (descriptive only), C and L in series and parallel, Impedance Transformers, turns ratios, voltage transformation.

8. Safety
Basic procedures for removing persons from live circuits, Action of a RCD (residual current device), fuse, Isolating transformer, Grounding, Color codes and names of mains wiring.

9. Semiconductors
Basic properties of semiconductor materials, Basic properties of diodes, Zener diodes, transistors. Recognition of electrode names of bi-polar transistors, FETs, valves.

10. Meters and Measuring
The basic function of voltmeters, ammeters, SWR bridges, power meters, the impedances
they present to circuits, how they should be connected, Peak and RMS values.

11. Decibels, Amplification and Attenuation
Power, voltage and current ratios expressed in dB, Gain in dB of systems connected in cascade.

12. An Amateur Radio Station
HF Station Arrangement, Understanding the block diagram of a typical HF station,
showing how a transceiver is connected to a linear amplifier, low pass filter, SWR
bridge, antenna switch, antenna tuner, dummy load and antenna, The basic function of
each block, Meaning of "SSB", "CW", "FM".

13. Power supplies
Cells. Mains input DC power supplies, Purpose of diodes, capacitors, transformers, Fullwave and halfwave rectification, ripple frequencies.

14. General Operating Procedures
Standard calling, answering, conversing procedures and conventions, Initiating and
terminating contacts, Callsign exchanges.

15. Q signals
Common Q signals used in Amateur Radio communications.

16. Antennas
Lengths of dipoles, verticals, for different frequencies, Impedances, Feed point position Matching, Antenna bandwidth, Elements of a yagi antenna, direction of radiation, E an H fields around antennas, Polarization, Tuning antennas with inductance, Balloons, Dummy antenna. Isotropic antenna.

17. Propagation
Basic phenomena in HF, VHF, UHF propagation, Layers which refract signals, D layer
absorption, Skip zones, hops, MUF, LUF, OWF, Solar cycle, Sky waves, ground waves.
Sporadic E, Great circle paths, radiation angles, Fading, Doppler caused by satellite motion.

18. Interference & filtering
Causes and recognition of cross modulation, Unwanted harmonics, Definitions of low-pass, band-pass, band-reject, notch and high-pass filters, Using filters for interference reduction.

Click Here to view the Amateur Radio Operator License Process issued by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)

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Bangladesh Amateur Radio Operator License (HAM)

Bamjon, The Buddha Boy Returns in Nepal

Ram Bahadur Bamjon, a boy believed to be reincarnation of Lord Buddha Returns after Nine Month of Nowhere.

This mysterious teenaged boy was in international headlines in 2005 by sitting cross-legged under a tree in a dense forest for nearly ten months, reportedly without food and water.

Reuters Reports:
Sixteen-year-old Ram Bahadur Bamjon was spotted on Sunday by villagers in the remote and dense forests near Piluwa village in Bara district, 150 km (95 miles) east of Kathmandu, local journalist Raju Shrestha, who visited the boy, told Reuters.

According Reports , Bamjon disappeared in March, 2008 from the forests in nearby Ratanpuri village where he had reportedly been meditating without food or water for almost 10 months.

Before his disappearance, an estimated 100,000 people from Hindu-majority Nepal and neighboring India flocked to see him meditate. They were not allowed to get closer than 50 meters by a local committee managing the crowds.

Wikipedia, The encyclopedia of Internet also contain an Article of Ram Bahadur Bomjon, which tried to explain this Buddha Boy's Mystery.

Saifur, Nizami and Mojaheed Sent to Jail on Barapukuria Coalmine Case

Special Cort in Dhaka, Bangladesh ordered BNP leader M Saifur Rahman, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami and secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed into jail in Barapukuria coalmine case.

BdNews24.Com Reports that A special court Monday ordered BNP leader M Saifur Rahman, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami and secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed into jail in the Barapukuria coalmine case.

Their lawyers appealed to the judge Amar Kumar Roy to adjourn the hearing and 'uphold' the bails since the High Court was scheduled to give a ruling on Tuesday. But the prosecution said they were not on bail and hence be detained.

Earlier, they arrived in special court on Monday after the High Court had ordered them to surrender to the trial court by Nov. 10.

Hundreds of Jamaat supporters chanting anti-government slogans flooded around the Jatiya Sangsad premises where the special court is located, while Manik Mia Avenue and Rokeya Sarani were closed as part of a tight security cordon around the area.

Nizami was the first to enter the Special Judge's Court-2 in the paeliament complex at around 10am, followed by Mojaheed. Saifur arrived at 11:30am.

The High Court had earlier ordered them to surrender to the trial court by Nov. 10 (Monday).

Lawyers of the accused said their clients would be surrendering as soon as court proceedings began.

Another accused in the case, former energy minister AKM Mosharraf Hossain, was sent to jail Sunday after surrendering to the court on Sunday.

Bangladesh Government BAN Telecast of Live ICL Cricket Match

The information Ministry of Bangladesh has issued a notification to Diganta TV to STOP telecusting the Live Match of Indian Cricket League (ICL)

Hindustan Times Reports:

In a move to curb the presence of the ICL in Bangladesh, the Information Ministry of Bangladesh has issued a notification to their official broadcaster Diganta TV against providing live feed of the Dhaka Warriors' matches.

The Hindustan Times has a copy of the letter (dated October 19) sent by AKM Hanif, Executive Director of Diganta TV to Tuhin Barua, the CEO of the channel, asking him to take necessary steps to curtail the telecast.

The letter states: "Unfortunately, the Information Ministry of The People's Republic of Bangladesh have asked us to stop telecasting live ICL-20's Indian challenge and has prohibited us from telecasting the ICL World Cricket Series though we were supposed to provide live coverage of the semifinals and final matches includ ing the cricket matches of Bangladesh team (Dhaka Warriors) from 20th October, 2008." This follows the recent 10-year ban imposed by the Bangladesh Cricket Board on all Bangladeshi cricketers playing in the ICL.

But Bangladesh Government Should Think About their Steps in the aspect of Modern World. Baning Telecast of Live Match doesn't stop peoples interest to ICL, even to see the Live Match of ICL from other Satellite Channels. 

Google Chrome BUG: Remove Button of Blogger Page Elements Dont Work!

Google Chrome Releases: Beta release: 0.3.154.9

I am not 100% sure about the fault on Google Chrome Release version  0.3.154.9 . 

While I was trying to remove 'Page Element' from a Blogger Templates Layout tab, it dosen't work! I tried with other earlier version of Google Chrome Release and It dosn't have this type of problem before. 

At this time I am too much busy to check this with other way. Hopefully someone from Google Dev Channel will check the issue. 

Denmark Grants 66 Million USD to Bangladesh Government for Upgrade ZIA International Airport

Denmark Government Grants 50% of 66Million USD to Bangladesh Government to upgrade different felicity of ZIA International Airport, rest 50% of 66 Million USD as Lone.

When The Danish Ambassador, Prime Minister and Denmark National Channel; all are trying to do something just to stop the boycott by Muslims since last month through which their losses have reached 2 billion Euro, is this grants is a part of process.

According to BdNews24.Com reports,

The two-year project is for improvement of taxiways, drainage, radar, navigation and radio communication systems at ZIA.

"With the money given by Denmark the taxiway of the airport will be re-carpeted and modernised, and primary and secondary radars would be set up," Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh chairman Air Commodore Sakeb Iqbal Khan Majlish told bdnews24.com.

He said the project would be implemented in next two years under the supervision of civil aviation authorities.

Denmark will give 50 percent of the sum as grant and the rest as loan, he added.

Hope you all know about the Denmark newspaper who made fun of our Holy Prophet Muhammed Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam and till now they do not regret for their work.

Bangladesh Mobile Phone Network Across The Country will Shutdown on Election Day

Mobile Phone Network of Bangladesh will be Shutdown on Election Day,  December 29, 2008 to make the polls free, fair and beyond "influence". 

"The mobile phone network will be closed from morning to evening to bar anyone with wrong intentions during voting on the day," M Sakhawat Hossain told journalists on Friday.

In a training session for divisional commissioners of the Election Commissioners on electoral rules at the EC Secretariat in Dhaka, Bangladesh Mr. M Sakhawat Hossain said that will sit to finalise the issue.

BdNews24.Com Reports:

He called on the divisional commissioners to take extra care so that no aspirant was deprived of candidacy for tiny mistakes during scrutiny of nomination papers.

EC secretary Muhammad Humayun Kabir said teachers from educational institutions under government's monthly pay order (MPO) will be eligible to vie in the parliamentary election slated for Dec. 18,* but not for the Upazila election.

He said the aspirants having defaulted on payment of utility bill could file nomination by pay last three-months' bill.

According to new electoral law, utility bill defaulters will be ineligible for elections if they do not pay the outstanding telephone, gas, electricity, water, or any other bill of any service-providing organisation of the government at least 15 days before submission of nomination.

*National Election Date has been fixed to held on 29 December 2008 later by Election Commission. 

We, the general people of Bangladesh hope Seven Mobile Phone Operators of Bangladesh will help Election Commission to Shutdown the Mobile Phone Network on Election Day of Bangladesh.

India Offers Electricity for Bangladesh

India Offers Electricity Exports for Bangladesh.

In a meeting with India's State Minister for Power and Commerce Jairam Ramesh and M. Tamim, an aide to the head of Bangladesh's interim government, Indian authority offers up to 1000 MW electricity from plants in Tripura, where generation capacity exceeds demand, and other north-eastern Indian states bordering Bangladesh.

Mr. Tamim ask India to give a formal proposal to verify the possibility of Electricity import from India.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India s installing the 700 MW plant at Palatana, 60 km (38 miles) from Agartala, the capital of Tripura, but has warned the project may be impacted by turmoil in markets.

Mr. Ramesh proposed Bangladesh could be a partner in the Tripura power plant, with 10 to 15 percent share, Tamim said.

The World Bank said on Saturday it had approved a $350 million loan for Bangladesh to build more power plants to help overcome a chronic shortage of power.

Report by Reuters.

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India is draining Bangladesh gas from common structure & plan to export power to Bangladesh

Picture of 1000 taka note of Bangladesh Image Credit: DailyStar

For the first time, Tk 1000-denomination currency note will hit the country's money market from Monday next to meet the growing demand of the currency in the market.

"The highest denomination bank note will be released from the central bank's Motijheel office on Monday and later from all offices of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) gradually," BB Executive Director Khandakar Muzharul Haque told reporters at a press conference Thursday.

Photo: The Daily Star

Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration of Bangladesh will Delayed

Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration in Bangladesh will Delayed

Oil and Gas Exploration in Offshore area in Bangladesh will not start by this winter. According to officials, Bangladesh will not be able to start the process of offshore oil and gas exploration by this winter.

BdNews24.Com Reports:

The interim cabinet at a meeting on Sunday directed the officials to place fresh proposals after further scrutiny for signing contracts with the two companies previously nominated through technical evaluation.

Chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed chaired the meeting.

After the meeting, M Tamim, special assistant to the chief adviser in charge of power, energy, and mineral resources, told bdnews24.com that directives were given to scan those proposals.

The ministry officials said as exploration work usually starts in the winter Bangladesh lags behind most neighbouring countries.

The two companies winning the bid are Conoco-Phillips and Tullow. The former is due to get eight deep-sea blocks –10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21 – while the latter is set to sign a production-sharing contract for Block 5, they said.

it also reports:

The government called an international tender on Feb 15 for 28 offshore blocks, and Petrobangla opened the bid documents on May 7 to complete evaluation of the proposals in three weeks.

Seven international companies that responded include the Houston-based Conoco-Phillips, Australia's Santos International, Longwoods Resources (a US-China joint venture), Korea International Oil Corporation, China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), Comtrack Services and London-based Tullow.

The government would sign a four-year exploration deal for shallow sea blocks and a five-year for deep-sea blocks – both renewable by four years, officials said.

Following submission of development plans, agreement will be signed for gas and oil fields for 25 years and 20 years respectively.

The companies will pay compensation in case of accidents stemming from neglect and inefficiency.

Any company wishing to sell more than 50 percent of its shares would have to take permission from the government, ministry officials said.

Google May Scrap Yahoo-Google Combined Search Deal

On Nov 1st, 2008 2:06 PM BdNews24.Com Reports that Google Inc may decide to scrap its proposed partnership with Yahoo Inc rather than accept government-imposed antitrust restrictions on it, according to two sources familiar with the companies' discussions.

"Are they more serious about walking away? Yes. Have they decided? I'm not sure," one source told Reuters on Friday.

"Yahoo wants the deal, and they're willing to have Google sign anything at the Justice Department to have them do it," said the source.

A second source said that Google and Yahoo, Nos. 1 and 2 in the Internet search market, could announce as early as Friday that the deal had fallen apart.

Google and Yahoo representatives could not be immediately reached for comment.

Google and Yahoo delayed implementing the partnership announced in June to allow the U.S. Justice Department to scrutinize it for antitrust issues. Between them, Google and Yahoo had more than 80 percent of the web search market in August, according to comScore Inc.

The deal, which would allow Google to sell advertising for some of Yahoo's online advertising space, has drawn fierce criticism from advertisers, who fear higher prices.

Part of the impetus of Google's walking away could be Yahoo's talks with Time Warner Inc about buying the content and advertising operations of its AOL unit. Google initially struck the deal with Yahoo as a way to fend off Microsoft Corp's unsolicited bid.

Yahoo and AOL are conducting due diligence to see what a combined company would look like, another source previously told Reuters.

By collecting the revenue from placing Google ads along its search results, Yahoo's cash flow could grow by $250 million to $450 million in the first year of the deal, the companies had said in June.

The deal has since been mired in the regulatory process. In September, the Justice Department hired Sandy Litvack, its former antitrust chief and Walt Disney Co's former vice chairman, to consult on its probe of the search deal.

October 2008 Web Server Survey Result Published by Netcraft.Com

Survey of Web Server by Netcraft.Com has Done and they published their monthly Web Server Survey Result. In their monthly publication they reports:

In the October 2008 survey we received responses from 182,226,259 sites, which reflects growth of 948 thousand since last month.

Apache once again shows the largest growth, gaining 463 thousand sites this month. ThePlanet.com gains 1.3 million sites this month — nearly all of which are running on Apache — but this includes a large number of 'link farm' sites that use .pl domains to propagate search terms using pornographic phrases.

Although in their survey result telling the success of Apache in total gain, in market share option Apache loses about '0.01%' market share from September 2008. In this result, different Microsoft web server product gain for '0.04%' in Total Web Server Market Share. Other then Apache and Microsoft, different Google product gain about '0.20%' higher then September 2008 with Total 10,487,607 hosts and 5.76% of total Web Server Market Share.

Full October 2008 Web Server Survey Result can be found Here

Experts From France will Help Bangladesh Nuclear Power Project

Bangladesh Nuclear Power Project will Get Help From French Experts


BDNews24.Com Reports France has expressed its interest in helping Bangladesh generate nuclear power.

"Bangladesh could benefit from France's expertise in preparing a nuclear power programme," French ambassador Charley Causseret told a seminar on Saturday.

Franco-Bangladesh scholars organised the seminar on ''Power sector management: Bangladesh perspective" at the Sheraton Hotel in Dhaka.

Causeret pointed out: "About 80 percent of the power generation capacity in the country is gas based. With the country's gas reserves reaching a critical point, alternatives have to be considered seriously."

The chief adviser's special assistant in charge of energy, M Tamim said Bangladesh relied mainly on non-renewable fuels to generate power.

"Only 4-5 percent are renewable energy resources, such as hydro-power and solar."

"At this moment we have no alternative without coal. We need $10 billion to generate power and improvement transmission and distribution systems," said the special aide.

Most important for energy policy is good political vision and assessment of need, he added.

"We are going to be a middle income nation within ten years. So we need more energy. Political parties should have a shared view for the development of the country."

"I hope France will cooperate us on this journey," Tamim added.

Describing developments in power sector management, the special assistant said in recent years system loss had declined from 40 to 20 percent.

"It is possible to reduce it further, to some 10 percent," he added.

Power division secretary M Faozul Kabir Khan said the country first needed to update an ancient generation and transmission system.

Causeret said: "Nuclear option can be a valid alternative to fossil fuels in Bangladesh. It is however a long term option; developing a nuclear industry requires a strong policy and institutional policy."

The ambassador said France had a success story in nuclear power. "Today almost 80 percent of electricity in France is generated from nuclear power."

Sending Payment Online from Bangladesh is Pain in Back.

Online Payment from Bangladesh is a pain on back when you need to do it. Mr. REZWAN Wrote information bellow on his 'The 3rd World View' blog:

For decades, in a bid to stop foreign currency flow outside Bangladesh, there was a bureaucratic rule that to remit money to a foreign country, even for paying fees or supporting children studying in a foreign land, a permission from the central Bank was required. And you might imagine, that involves lot of bureaucratic procedures, speed money which was not worth for small transactions. It may be relevant here to mention here that only the extreme wealthy people can afford an international credit card. So paying online was not also possible.

I am totally agree with it. Bangladesh want to STOP outgoing flow of foreign currency from Bangladesh. The aim to stop outgoing flood of foreign currency is good. But they way they want to stop is not the way to 'Stop' it, it is just to make thing near impossible. Mean the bureaucratic way they make to earn some extra cash on their pocket. At this moment, Yeas I told 'This MOMENT' i need to pay USD$100 to stop Expiring my one of vital domain, which worth millions of USD to me.

What I can do now? At this moment it is almost midnight here. So no way to do any official work on Bangladesh Bank to get the permission. Though it is on a office hour, I have to go their office, fill a long unnecessary form with unnecessary information. After it they will verify and if SATISFIED (We all know how to satisfied a government official), then he may issue a permission to remitting this foreign currency. Then I have to go on any bank who has 'Bangladesh Bank's' pr-permission to remitted.

What we learn here, we learned that If you wanted to give a gift to your love one who is living aboard, you have to go through the bureaucratic process because you don't have any International Credit Card!

Though my other post, I wrote following information on my Bangladesh Bank Makes Change Foreign Currency Exchange and Transactions Policy of Bangladesh blog:

Bangladesh Bank has brought a number of policy changes on foreign exchange transactions to make the system easier.

It is actually give nothing to us, like the middle class population. All the changes reflects to the 'Big Fish' on their FCY Account.

I worked for different country, they send me payment a lot of time. I had to deposit it to my Bangladeshi Taka Account in Bank. It was total near 5 digit amount. What I have done? I earn it from Bangladesh, bring the foreign currency to Bangladesh. But now crying for making a payment of USD100. What a rules...

On my position, what general public will do? They will look for any one who living US or Canada , tell them to make the deposit and they will pay it back to their female living here in Bangladesh.

Isn't it promoting the money laundering (Hundy in local language) ? Bangladesh should implement any new guideline, where up to certain level of amount can be transfer to any other world.

We Bangladeshi leaving aboard always want to bring our earnings to Bangladesh in a official channel. But Bangladesh Bank actually promoting the 'money laundering option' by making the process bureaucratic and nearly impossible. 

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