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Home Ministry to review BlackBerry security issues in 60 days. Thanks to Research In Motion(RIM), BlackBerry mobile phone maker Research In Motion(RIM) on Monday escaped a ban on its popular core services for at least two months after it offered to give security agencies access to them with immediate effect. Facing tomorrow's shutdown deadline for the encrypted BlackBerry Enterprise Services (BES) and BlackBerry Messenger Services (BMs), the Canadian phonemaker RIM made certain proposals for lawful access to these popular services by the country's law enforcement agencies, giving some relief to the country's one million subscribers. RIM's response came on a day when its rival Nokia Corp said it will install a server in the country in November to facilitate government monitoring of its push email services. Yesterday, the Canadian government said a ban will not serve any purpose. RIM, which was so far holding out, made the offer to the government to end the ...

The Finance Minister, in the Budget, changed the tax slabs for men, women and senior citizens. The highest tax slab has now been raised from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 8 lakh.  The FM has also increased the limit of deduction available under section 80C. He has allowed an additional investment of Rs 20,000 for infrastructure bonds taking the total of the limit under section 80C from the current Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.2 lakh. Male individual below the age of 65 years& HUF tax payers : New tax slabs: Slabs (Rs) Rate 0 – 160000 0 160001 – 500000 10 500001 – 800000 20 800001 and above 30 Old tax slabs: Slabs (Rs) Rate 0 – 160000 0 160001 – 300000 10 300001 – 500000 20 500001 and above 30 Impact: Taxable income (Rs) Tax -before budget Tax after budget Saving (Rs) (Rs) (Rs) 200000 4120 4120 0 500000 55620 35019 20601 1000000 210120 158619 51501 1200000 271919 220419 51500 1500000 364619 313119 51500 2000000 519119 467619 51500 2500000 673619 622119 51500 4000000 1137119 ...

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So how do Ubuntu and Vista shape up against each other? To be honest, there's a lot about Ubuntu that impresses me. The out-of-the-box software available with the OS is well-chosen, and the Ubuntu community folks have made a good effort to support the vast majority of the things people do with their PCs. The fact that Ubuntu is free is of course another big motivator, especially if you've already blown your budget for a PC on hardware alone. But there's at least as much about Ubuntu that I find disheartening or frustrating. There are still too many places where you have to drop to a command line and type in a fairly unintuitive set of commands to get something done, or edit a config file, or -- worst of all -- download and compile source code. For a beginner, this last is the kiss of death, because if compiling code fails, a beginner will almost certainly have no idea what to do next. To be scrupulously fair, the situation isn't always much better in Windows: Most peo...

Multimedia Ubuntu comes configured by default with several programs for multimedia: Sound Juicer , for ripping audio from CDs into the FLAC or OGG formats; Rhythmbox , for organizing music and creating playlists (the closest thing to Windows Media Player, really); Serpentine , for authoring audio CDs; and Movie Player and Sound Recorder, which are self-explanatory. Playing MP3s, however, is not something you can do out of the box. It wasn't immediately clear what I could do to fix that, but after some research I found a separate codec pack (called the Gstreamer Plugins package) which solved the problem. Evidently Ubuntu can't be distributed with the MP3 codecs due to licensing restrictions. Ubuntu Linux Windows Vista By default, Ubuntu divides music ripping, CD authoring, and playback among different applications, but they all work really well. view the image gallery Vista's Windows Media Player does a great job of dealing with hundreds or even thou...

Word Processing The widely-touted OpenOffice.org suite is installed with Ubuntu by default. OpenOffice's strongest points are that it provides many of the features of Office ( if not the latest-and-greatest features) without the price tag. Most of the problems that people have reported with OpenOffice involve translating existing Office documents that have a lot of complex elements in them. To that end, if you're considering moving to OpenOffice from Office and working with existing files, make sure the documents you want to work with can be read first. I tried a variety of documents exported from Word 2003 and had no trouble opening and re-saving them in OpenOffice's native formats, although admittedly they weren't very complex. Ubuntu Linux Windows Vista The free (and highly touted) Microsoft Office contender OpenOffice.org is included with Ubuntu as a standard feature. view the image gallery Sadly, Vista's WordPad word processor is the same appl...

Network setup in Ubuntu, both wired and wireless, was quite easy. My notebook's wireless adapter was detected and worked fine; all I had to do was supply my network name and I was in business. One thing that did worry me was how my unconfigured wireless card seemed to try and seek out whatever available connection there was without notifying me -- at first it attempted to connect to a neighbor's unsecured wireless base station before I redirected it back towards my own. Both Vista and Ubuntu also let you create network profiles, although the way they're managed is markedly different. Ubuntu only lets you switch between profiles manually; Vista is semi-automatic (it makes a best guess to determine where you are), but can be manually overridden. Network connection sharing, though, is much harder to set up in Ubuntu than it is in Vista, since there's no GUI interface in Ubuntu for doing such a thing. I was able to connect to Vista's shared folders from Ubuntu, but you ...

Ubuntu has two basic ways to deal with adding software: the the Add/Remove Applications tool (easy) and the Synaptic Package Manager (for experts). Add/Remove Applications lets you search the entire directory of applications recommended for Ubuntu -- dozens of programs in 11 categories -- and install them with little effort. I added applications like Adobe Reader and the Thunderbird mail client without too much difficulty. It all compares pretty favorably to Windows's Add/Remove Programs system, which should be familiar to everyone reading this. (Linspire's CNR digital software delivery service is also set to be offered for Ubuntu in the future.) Ubuntu Linux Windows Vista Ubuntu's software management tool plugs you into a hand-picked, searchable repository of applications for Ubuntu, organized by licensing. view the image gallery Vista's Add/Remove Programs panel probably served as the inspiration for Ubuntu's software management console. view t...