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Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a Welsh novelist, short story author and screenwriter of Norwegian parentage, famous as a writer for both children and adults.

His most popular books include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches and The BFG.

One in every 28 emails received in India contains virus

Here’s what the Economic Times has to say:

As Internet becomes the order of life for more and more Indians who depend on emails to stay in touch, their computers face an increasing virus threat with one in every 28 emails being infected, a recent study says. A study by messaging security and management services provider, MessageLabs, reveals that the number of malicious websites are on rise and a new virus StormWorm, which uses virtual postcards and YouTube video for its attack, are affecting computers.

For the entire article please visit The Economic Times.

Universial Orkut gets Desi touch; Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu!

The official guide to staying beautiful on Orkut has something to inform (By Patrick Barry),

In our quest to make orkut universally accessible, we’re now available in 5 new languages: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. Indians have always been a vibrant part of the orkut community, and we continue to see more Indians joining orkut every day. It’s our goal to make orkut the ultimate tool for self-expression and communication, and we know that if we’re not translated into your native language, this becomes harder. So we worked closely with Googlers in our Indian offices to help develop the initial release of these languages. Since there are many different nuances to these languages, we want to hear your feedback. To help us improve the translation or tell us what language you’d like to see orkut in, you can visit our community on orkut: Indian Language Translations. We chose these languages initially because together they cover 80% of India. We do recognize India has more than 400 different spoken languages, but think these 5 are a good start, and we hope that introducing orkut in these regional tongues brings us closer to many more of you to bridge the gap between language and technology. Viewing the orkut site in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil or Telugu (or any one of our other 12 languages) is easy.

1. Click the settings button under your profile photo (or click the blue settings link at the top of any page).
2. On the general tab, choose your preferred display language from the drop-down menu at the top of the page.
3. Click save changes.

If you are having trouble reading languages on the “Settings” page, it is likely that your browser scripts have not been updated. For Internet Explorer, proceed to “Tools” and then “Windows Update”. Here you should accept the Windows XP Service Pack 2 update. All languages are included in this update.

We hope this will help many more people enjoy orkut in their own language every day.

Orkut Redesigns User Interface

Here’s Eduardo Cordeiro, Software Engineer at Google, in his own words:

“When you think Google, you picture primary colors; when you think orkut, you see blue. And though we’re updating the look, we’re staying true to blue. We’ve added some rounded corners and new icons that make orkut look a little more sleek and modern. Check out a screen shot of the new homepage. We’re rolling it out to groups of users at a time over the next week.”

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