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Netflix vs Amazon

Netflix, the most dominating Internet subscription service across the globe for enjoying movies and TV shows is all set to take off to UK and Ireland and will land there in early 2012. The company has high aims to launch a vigorous collection of electronic devices capable of streaming from Netflix, Macs, PCs, tablets and mobile phones. This is all revealed by the company and said that its cost will be unveiled near the launch. Netflix will have a tough time in UK as it will have a face-off with Lovefilm, owned by the Amazon which is a well established service itself. LoveFilm has been attained by the Amazon in January with the cost of £200m having earlier held a 42 per cent stake in LoveFilm from since 2008 when Lovefilm acquired its European DVD rental business. Netflix costs $7.99 in US per month. LoveFilm is the leader of this business by offering limitless DVD rentals with a monthly fee of £9.99 in the UK, by mail. LoveFilm by Amazon has been supported by Index Ve

China considering sending first woman into space

A flag flies before an upgraded Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan   Photo: AFP   China may send its first woman into space next year as part of a programme to build a space station by 2020, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday.  The announcement came as China said it would launch an unmanned space craft, the Shenzhou VIII, early on Tuesday to carry out the country's first ever space docking with a module that is already orbiting the earth. The experimental docking is part of China's preparation for building its first space station by 2020, where astronauts can live for several months, as they do on NASA's International Space Station or the former Russian Mir. If it is a success, China will launch another two space craft next year to conduct more docking experiments. At least one will be manned, and two female astronauts ar

The Most Popular Internet Terms

I'm sure that most of you have been surfing the net for quite sometime and have been curious ever since about the meaning and origin of some well-known terms and frequently used words in the World Wide Web but have been very busy to find out their origin and meaning. Wikipedia One of the most popular references on the internet is Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia, Wikipedia is a free, multilingual encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, currently containing 2,597,920 articles in English. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's 10 million articles, about a quarter of which are in English, have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website. Launched in 2001, it is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Origin: The wor