PSA: T20 tournament in DC on Labor Day weekend

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Cricket Council USA is holding a Twenty 20 cricket tournament in the Washington DC area. The event will feature 4 homegrown teams: Royals, Washington Bengals, JBSA and Washington Tigers.
We received this email from Cricket Council USA.
The DC [...]

US can seize travellers laptops

Traveling between US and Canada with your personal or office notebook computer? Think again. Homeland Security has issued broad and sweeping powers to border security agents empowering them to seize travelers’ laptops and other electronic devices without suspicion of any wrongdoing for an unspecified period of time. It is unclear at this stage if this [...]

Wordscraper - Facebook’s Phoenix?

Rejoice all you word freaks on Facebook. Your favorite game is back, albeit in a new avatar.
In case you have been living under a rock or something, Rajat & Jayant Agarwalla pulled their popular Scrabble like app off Facebook last week (Pssst.. check out Scrabulous.com), after they were sued in US federal court in [...]

Announcement: Akshaya Patra event at the NYC India Day Parade

We received this email from Akshaya Patra volunteers and are reproducing it verbatim. For more details look up the Akshaya Patra USA website or email tapf.nynj@gmail.com

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AP makes like Hindi fim villian

For those of our UD readers who have been here some time you know ( from our FAQ) :

Q. Where do you guys get your material from?
A. Al Gore created this tool called the Internet. No seriously, we just go through the daily news clippings, blogs, tabloids, editorials. You name it. We blog it.

A big [...]

PSA: Phishing scam now targets non-residents in the US

Of interest to our NRI readers in the US:
A bogus IRS letter and Form W-8BEN (Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding) asked non-residents to provide personal information such as account numbers, PINs, mother’s maiden name and passport number. The legitimate IRS Form W-8BEN, which is used by financial institutions [...]