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Freed.in - Freedom in Technology and Softwarefreed.in is the leading community event in the Indian sub-continent and the developing world, promoting freedom in technology, software and other related fields, and personal privacy. The annual event makes free and open source software more visible to the world, and shares its excitement with everybody. freed.in helps nurture the community and enables networking within and outside the community in a fun environment. The event strives towards seeding of new projects.

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FOSS.IN is one of the world’s largest FOSS events, held annually in India. The event is highly focussed on FOSS development and contribution. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants, and the speaker roster reads like a “Who’s Who” of FOSS contributors from across the world.

It is been a wild week of anticipation for Apple fans, but the first round of confirmed news about the highly anticipated MacWorld keynote has finally leaked!

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China has tossed down a $1.4 billion bet on the world energy roulette wheel. China’s stake is 10% of a research project, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, trying to unlock the secret to nuclear fusion, a potentially boundless, clean and cheap form of energy.

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“I am confirming that Network Solutions steals domain ideas when people check domain availability on the Network Solutions website. They seem to have started the practice of stealing domain ideas on December 16th 2007 according to our Domain History database but I was just made aware of this practice today.”

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Sachin Tendulkar admitted that he hadn’t looked at the scoreboard when he was in the nineties, not wanting to think of missing out on a hundred yet again. Tendulkar endured seven scores in the nineties in the last year and said he would savour this hundred as a special one.

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If the second day belonged to the twinkling VVS Laxman, the third was all Sachin Tendulkar’s as the brightest star in the Indian batting constellation shone once more at one of his favourite hunting grounds. His unbeaten century played a large part in India taking a lead in the second Test; less than the size of the lead – 69 runs – the fact that they got a lead at all will give them great strength in a series that was threatening to go steadily downhill for the visiting team.

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A banner at the ground summed up Australia’s affection for Sachin Tendulkar. “Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting,” it read. “They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.” Great players have a feel for the big stage and Tendulkar couldn’t have chosen a better moment to turn in such a regal performance. Efficient and authoritative, this was a flawless innings.

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Sachin Tendulkar, who was in the midst when the alleged racial spat between Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds broke out is likely to testify in favour of the Indian off-spinner during the hearing scheduled with the ICC Match Referee in Sydney on Sunday.

Indians will be well-represented with skipper Anil Kumble, manager Chetan Chauhan and media manager M V Sridhar also likely to accompany Harbhajan.

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The Internet is an Internet lover’s paradise, a gamer’s haven, a business’s lifeline, and a hacker’s playground. Over the past two decades, hundreds of worms have devastated the infrastructure of millions of computers around the world, causing billions of dollars of damage-and the life of the worm is far from over.

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Mozilla COO John Lilly has revealed statistical data that provides insight into Firefox adoption levels and growth rate. Based on statistics collected internally by Mozilla from the Firefox application update service, Lilly estimates that Firefox is used by over 125 million people around the world.

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