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What happens to your email account after you die?

Melbourne, Nov 4 (ANI): Saving that parting e-mail from your first love in your inbox? Well, chances are, after you pass away, your spouse and the entire family will know about the long held secret. This is because web email services like Hotmail and Gmail do not let users specify what should happen to their messages when they die. In fact, email services owned by Internet giants like Google and Microsoft have a policy of keeping your data after you die and letting your next of kin or the executor of your estate access it. These services can hold tens of thousands of messages. Accounts with Google's Gmail can hold up to 7GB - or roughly 70,000 emails with a small to medium picture attached to each and they archive the messages you've written as well as received. When it comes to deleting the data, Microsoft's Hotmail will remove an account if it is inactive for 270 days, while Gmail leaves the responsibility to the next of kin. Of the top three providers, only Yahoo! r...

It was one of my best knocks: Tendulkar

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Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St Tests 159 261 27 12773 248* 54.58 42 53 51 102 0 ODIs 435 424 39 17168 186* 44.59 20005 85.81 45 91 1870 181 132 0 Hyderabad, Nov 5 (IANS) Batting maestro  Sachin Tendulkar  rated his 175 against Australia here Thursday as one of the best knocks of his career. Tendulkar scored 175 off 141 ball, enroute to his record 17,168 runs, but couldn't prevent India from losing the fifth ODI to Australia by three runs. 'I thought we started off really well then lost wickets. Suresh (Raina) and I had a good partnership but in the end, it was disappointing. The pressure to keep scoring runs was there and we took it very close. But I feel it was one of my best knocks,' said Tendulkar, who was adjudged as the Man of the Match. The batting maestro praised Raina for playing a strokefilled run-a-ball that got India close while chasing 351 to win. On his personal milestone of crossing 17,000 ...

The new size zero - Sony's ultra slim 'Vaio X' notebook

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Your laptop has got even lighter and slimmer - precisely 655 gms in weight and half an inch in thickness. Sony has launched its latest series of ultra slim laptops (11.2 inches in size) called the 'Vaio X'. With this release, the company has surged ahead in the race to the world's lightest notebook, ahead of Apple's MacBook Air and Dell Adamo. Check out what Sony's new Vaio X notebook has to offer - The model comes in two styles - one with a smooth glossy finish and the other being a matt metal look It supports different battery variants (if not the standard one, the weight could increase to 755 gms) The battery is said to last 'a working day' or 16 hours 11.1 inch LCD display having a resolution of 1366x768 pixels and is LED backlit Despite its smaller size, the keys in the keyboard are quite well-spaced Integrated with mobile broadband (UMTS) - no external broadband cable required Besides two USB ports, it also has a VGA port, Ethernet...

Cloud Computing: The power of one

In their quest to find answers, experts have demonstrated that the future of medical discoveries, environmental challenges, energy deficit, all lie in collaborating through Cloud Computing. With Cloud Computing, users have been able to access data, share expertise and high-end infrastructure from around the world, and vice-versa. The resources are shared through a public platform like the internet. Several companies like Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, etc have invested heavily as they reach out to users. Cloud Computing companies have customers of three kinds - Infrastructure-as-a-service: Option of renting and utilizing computing power and storage capacity of vendor's quality. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): Vendors license particular services to subscribers on-demand and once the contract expires, the services are disabled. Platform-as-a-Service: Here a developer is given the opportunity to utilize various web-tools to build and host applications. The Cloud (other computers in the ...

FACTBOX - Largest U.S. bankruptcies

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       CIT Group Inc, a major lender to small and mid-sized U.S. businesses, on Sunday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company had assets of $71 billion and total debt of $65 billion as of June 30, according to its petition filed in the U.S. bankruptcy court for the Southern District of New York. The following is a list of large U.S. bankruptcies since 1980, according to court records and the website BankruptcyData.com: COMPANY/YEAR TOTAL ASSETS Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (2008) $639,000,000,000 * WorldCom Inc (2002) 103,914,000,000 General Motors Corp (2009) 91,047,000,000 CIT Group Inc (2009) 71,019,000,000 Enron Corp (2001) 65,503,000,000 Conseco Inc (2002) 61,392,000,000 Chrysler LLC (2009) 39,300,000,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Co (2001) 36,152,000,000 Texaco Inc (1987) 34,940,000,000 Financial Corp of America (1988) 33,864,000,000 Refco Inc (2005) 33,333,000,000 Washington Mutual Inc (2008) 32,900,000,000 * IndyMac Bancorp...

Sachin Tendulkar 47 short of 17,000-run milestone

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Mohali, Nov 1 (IANS)  Sachin Tendulkar , who is two weeks short of completing his two decades in international cricket, will be chasing the personal milestone of 17,000 ODI runs when he pads up in the fourth One-Day International against Australia here Monday. The batting maestro is 47 short of achieving the feat. The batting friendly track at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium here might turn out to be the lucky strip for Tendulkar, who has not been in best of form in the series so far, having scored 50 runs in the three matches. It would be Tendulkar's second ODI outing here. The PCA Stadium occupies a special place in Tendulkar's heart since it is the same venue where in October last year against Australia, he surpassed West Indian Brian Lara as the highest Test run scorer and also became the first cricketer to score 12,000 Test runs. Only a small crowd had turned up to witness that slice of history. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had also ...

Three out of 11 oil tanks still ablaze at IOC depot in Jaipur

Jaipur, Nov. 1 (ANI): Indian Oil Corporation on Sunday confirmed that three out of 11 petrol tanks are still blazing at the Sitapura oil storage depot near Jaipur, while the rest are spewing smoke. "A factory adjacent to IOC factory caught fire; some bitumen fell on the top floor and it caught fire due to high temperature. After that police and fire fighting personnel had come to the site the fire is not now controlled. The digging of the trench is almost complete. Fire is still raging in three tanks. There are total 11 tanks in which 8 tanks it is mostly smoke," Kuldeep Ranka, Collector of Jaipur. Earlier in the day, two more bodies were spotted at the burning Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) fuel depot near Jaipur, pushing the toll to ten. "The unidentified charred bodies were noticed in the wee hours of the day near one of the blazing tanks, but was not possible to reach there because of the heat," said Inspector General of Police, B.L.Soni. So far, nearly five ...