Sony launches Blu-ray Disc Writer in India

After LG, Sony has also launched Blu-ray disc burner in Indian market. The Blu-ray burner for Indian market is known as BWU-100A. To get this drive all you need to spend is INR 44,300. Except for the HUGE price, one of the main drawbacks of this drive is it won’t play commercial Blu-ray movies unless you have a HDCP enabled graphics card in you PC.

Here are the specifications of the BWU-100A:

* Read Speed: 32x (CD) / 8x (DVD) / 2x (BD)
* Write Speed: 24x (CD) / 8x (DVD±R) / 4x (DVD±R DL) / 2x (BD-R)
* Rewrite Speed: 16x (CD) / 6x (DVD-RW) / 8x (DVD+RW) / 5x (DVD-RAM) / 2x (BD-RE)
* Supported Media Types: CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, BD-ROM, BD-ROM DL
* Buffer Size: 8 MB

Yahoo Search Index Update

Like Google’s backlink update, Yahoo also updated its search technology today with a Yahoo Search Index Update. The announcement was made on the Yahoo Search Blog, which also includes an invitation to join the Yahoo Site Explorer Forum.

From Yahoo Blog :

As usual, you’ll see some changes in ranking along with what is in the index. We’ve heard webmasters like you love the communication, such as weather reports from us. We are trying to connect with you more directly and enrich our interaction even further through Site Explorer.

Please authenticate your site in Site Explorer and join the conversation on the Site Explorer forum.

Eggdisk Offering Free 6GB Storage

Eggdisk may not be a service that you have heard about before but they are offering quite an amazing deal. If you sign-up for a free account before September 1st you will receive 6GB of storage and a 150MB filesize limitinstead of the normal 2GB of storage and 100MB filesize limit. You’ll also receive 30GB bandwidth to transfer your files.

You can upload images without even creating an account but once you register you’ll also be able to upload files with the following extensions:

jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, txt, mp3, wav, mov, wma, wmv, rar, zip, tar.gz, swf, xml, xspf, flv, m3u, asf, 7z, rm, esp, avim, flac, ogg, bsp, res, mdl, spr, wad, tga, doc, ppt, wrl, mp4, aac

Downside: There is no support for uploading either a EXE file or a PDF file which are commonly uploaded by majority of us.

UPDATED: Eggdisk is now offering 6GB STORAGE INSTEAD OF 4 GB.