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Currently, PayPal is having a lot of trouble in India. They stopped personal payments to and from Indian PayPal accounts, only business transactions were allowed through PayPal, and also Bank Withdrawal requests were being refunded after about 10 days. This was all due to PayPal not complying with new RBI policies.
Today, I got this e-mail [...]

I agree PayPal is in difficult situation in India, but they ideally should register themselves as proper banking service provider before providing money related services worldwide. I am unsure how they got that big even before registering in their home country.
They accept payment/cash from individuals, as well as keep it without giving any interest and [...]

Nick Vujicic is a differently-abled brave young man suffering from rare Tetra-amelia disorder. He has no limbs yet he lives his life independently and gives inspirational speeches to people all over the world.
He believes that anyone can overcome any situation if he/she does not stop trying, No failure is ultimate, and with courage and continuous efforts [...]

Windows 7 is a great Operating System. It is fast, Stable, Secure and much more pleasing to the eyes than previous Windows Versions. I am not a great fan Microsoft Products, But Windows 7 is a bit of different story. I installed Windows 7 beta months ago just to see what Microsoft is up to, [...]

Everything was working fine, but just few minutes ago I noticed something really strange with google search. I tried many keywords and tried to visit many links on the result page but some how Google thinks every site listed on the result page is infected with malware and it is giving a warning that
“visiting this [...]

The Linux Counter [http://counter.li.org/] keeps track of registered Linux users and Linux machines. It is voluntary, so people who opt to sign in and register their machine help them estimate the currently total Linux users. Apart from keeping track of number of users and machines it also includes machine details such as hostname, uptime and specifications [...]

My Internet was working really slow for the last 20 hours, I even filed the complaint at my ISP, but they were telling me a different story. I searched the net to find the exact reason and I quickly got the answer – Once again the under sea cables have been damaged. You [...]

Updated Logos of Major companies after the Global Financial Crisis.
Here are Updated logos for few of the companies who lost a lot in the Global Financial Crisis. Economic issues have changed the way these companies used to shine. I hope this will end soon.
:- GeekLord

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