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Our Brands after Global Economic Recession :(

2009-03-24T07:03:00.000-07:00

A few Facts about Software Professionals :)

2009-03-21T11:13:00.000-07:00

*10% of Software Professionals are predicted to be affected by major diseases like Carpal tunnel syndrome, heart diseases etc

*20% of Software Professionals marry their co-workers !!!!

*30% of Software Professionals are interested in Live in relationship because they tend to hate the responsibility both in office and house.

*40% of Software Professionals are confused about settling down (India or abroad)

*50% of Software Professionals has No savings in their Bank Account

*60% of Software Professionals are not satisfied with their current wages

*70% of Software Professionals work more than 8 hours across globe

*80% of Software Professionals live away from their Parents

*90% of Software Professionals are NOT HAPPY about their Life, meeting deadlines, client satisfaction, incentives, promotions, increment, onsite trips, wife, children, visa status, and commitments

*100% of Software professionals wish they had a choice other than computers in their life at least once in their lifetime.

Bugatti found in Garage earns $4.4million

2009-02-08T05:11:00.000-08:00

A 1937 rare model of Bugatti Type 57s lying in a garage since early 1960's was auctioned at in paris for a whopping 3.4 million euros ($4.4 million).

The supercar was so ahead of its time it could go up to 130 mph (209 kph) when most other cars of its era topped out about 50 mph (80 kph).

This particular car is especially valuable because it was originally owned by Earl Howe, a prominent British race car driver, and because its original equipment is intact, so it can restored without relying on replacement parts.

Source : Associated Press

World's first electric powered all-terrain endurance bike ..

2008-10-24T09:12:00.000-07:00

When ever i used to watch an e-bike(An Electric gear-less scooter actually) on road i always thought of possibility of having an actual bike with complete gear and acceleration system as that of original bike .

And now KTM an austrian firm the world's leader in sales of all-terrain motorbikes and Europe's second biggest motorbike constructor after Germany's BMW has said that it actually had produced a prototype of electric-powered all-terrain endurance bike which is very quiet and could develop up to 35 horsepower, weighed 90 kilos (200 pounds) and could run for 40 minutes before recharging. It was designed for off-road sporting use. It has a sales target of 95,000 machines for this year.

Google releases Android as opensource .

2008-10-23T02:58:00.000-07:00

Google which previously conducted Android developer challenge now has released Android as an open source for developers to modify and add new features to the existing one's.

It is a complete end-to-end software platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations.

The phones, which cost 179 dollars, 20 dollars cheaper than the iPhone 3G, go on sale in the United States on Wednesday, in Britain in early November and in other European countries served by telecom carrier T-Mobile in early 2009.

Open source project link

Source : AFP

Chinese surfers fury over Microsoft @!#$%@#

2008-10-22T08:47:00.001-07:00

Chinese Internet users have expressed fury at Microsoft's launch of an anti-piracy tool targeting computer users to ensure they buy genuine software.

The "Windows Genuine Advantage" program, which turns the user's screen black if the installed software fails a validation test, is Microsoft's latest weapon in its war on piracy in China, where the vast majority of 200 million computer users are believed to be using counterfeit software.

While most of the people argue that Microsoft should have violating people's rights by trespassing into their computer a few of the lawyers termed Microsoft as the biggest hacker in China with its intrusion into users' computer systems without their agreement or any judicial authority.

Source : Reuters

Wow a house that can walk !!

2008-10-22T05:42:00.000-07:00

An ultimate solution to beat floods have been designed by art collective N55 in Copenhagen, Denmark, who worked in conjunction with engineers in Massachusetts, US.

Like normal homes, it comes equipped with a living room, kitchen, toilet, bed and wood stove.

But how can it walk?

The property has been built on six hydraulic legs which are powered by solar and wind powered and can stroll at walking pace across all terrains.

A mainframe computer present inside the house controls the house .

The prototype cost £30,000 to build, including materials and time, but the designers believe it could be constructed for a lot less.

Source : Dailymail

When Youtube Beats Yahoo..

2008-10-17T10:27:00.000-07:00

When Google is on the verge of acquiring shares in Yahoo, Google's very own Youtube beats Yahoo in comscore's 2008 search engine rankings.

YouTube fetched over 2.6 billion search queries for the month of August trumping Yahoo's 2.4 billion queries

Google still stands on top with 7.6 billion queries.

So the rankings as follows :
#1 Google (As Youtube is a part of Google otherwise it would have been in #2 n Yahoo 3rd)
#2 Yahoo
#3 Microsoft

Rankings

Free download Area 51 game

2008-10-13T10:12:00.000-07:00

Midway’s Area 51 is a (FPS) first person shooter game which is completely free to download now.
You take on the role of a military squad commander sent in to investigate a base contaminated by an alien mutagenic virus.

I've played the game its like okay okay in (FPS) first person shoot category. Personally i liked the graphics and in a few instances the route was really not clear but is a very nice concept.

Try it guys its gonna cost u nothing its completely free to download ..

Download Game

Source : Newdaily

Gaming James Bond's Quantum of Solace

2008-10-12T06:44:00.000-07:00

The demo version of Quantum of Solace, the game based on the upcoming James Bond 007 movie has been released. The game’s release is to coincide with the release of
James Bond : Quantum of Solace.

This would be the first James Bond game created on the current generation console and also the first to feature Daniel Craig’s voice and likeness, as well as those of Judi Dench, Eva Green, Mads Mikklesen, Olga Kurylenko and Mathieu Almaric. Wow

And ofcourse the core gameplay in Quantum of Solace will be that of a FPS(first-person shooter)

Link : Quantum of Solace

Download the game : Quantum of Solace trail

Blackberry Storm coming this holiday season

2008-10-09T02:00:00.000-07:00

Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) which manufactures Blackberry's is all set to release touchscreen Blackberry Storm before this holiday season .

The Storm resembles the iPhone but its color touch-screen differs in that it is "clickable" -- the screen depresses slightly when touched like a typewriter key. This Storm's whole screen is backed by springs, and when pressed, it gives under the finger which ofcourse was the major drawback of the iPhone's Touchscreen , iPhone's glass screen was too much awkward to type on because its virtual buttons provide no tactile feedback .

This mobile ofcourse will be available only to Verizon Wireless subscribers in the U.S. and Vodafone subscribers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

No Price has been disclosed yet..

Source : AFP , AP

Now Youtube goes with Advertising ..

2008-10-09T01:00:00.000-07:00

Online Video sharing web-site Youtube now has introduced a new version of its home shopping network inorder to gain more revenue from its massive audience ..

This move justifies the $1.76 billion that Google Inc. paid to purchase this site two years ago.

In this new service unveiled in United States on Tuesday had buttons under the Youtube videos which offered viewers to purchase music, movies , TV shows , games and other products.

YouTube is selling songs only from two major labels, EMI Music and Universal Music Group, and video games made by Electronic Arts Inc at present soon it hopes to expand its advertising ..

Coke n Pepsi killing SPERMS !!!

2008-10-08T05:06:00.000-07:00

Oh god gimme a break it happened with tech stuff n now even with edibles n drinks ..

Studies suggest that sodas such as Coke n Pepsi kill sperms.

Study-> A medical student Sharee Umpierre and gynaecologist, Joe Hill mixed four different types of Coke with sperm in test tubes.A minute later, they found that all sperm were dead in the Diet Coke, however, 41pct were still swimming in the just-introduced New Coke.

"It was believed that the carbonic acid in Coke killed sperm".

This research has won the lg Noble Prize for the year 2008.

More of the lg Nobel Prize winners 2008

iPhone vs T-Mobile G1

2008-09-25T10:23:00.000-07:00

While the T-Mobile's G1, the first mobile powered by Google's open-source Android(software) will be available in stores ( In United States) from October 22 people started comparing Apple's iPhone and G1..

The differences are --

1.The G1 has a QWERTY keyboard while the iPhone does'nt have one .

2.The G1 has a dedicated search button; the iPhone has barely any physical buttons.

3.The iPhone supports Microsoft Exchange server; the G1 does not.

4.The G1 is built on an open-source, Linux-based platform; the Apple iPhone has a applications development platform but Apple tightly controls what people can deliver through its App Store.

Each phone has its own damn good features --

While the iPhone has some killer games and is the best phone music player on the planet till date T-Mobile's G1 has truly excellent Compass feature--> It uses Google Maps, the street-level photos which Google has been capturing for the past few years and the accelerometer to give you a virtual 360-degree view of an intersection, even if you're not there.

Coming to the similarities --

Both play music, offer touch-screen interfaces, include Wi-Fi, have their own WebKit-based browsers, have accelerometers, play in the broadband 3G service space.

Both can take multi-megapixel photos , but neither can capture video :)

It would have better if G1 could capture videos and the design of the phone was better(It is no competition to Apple's iPhone wrt its design) .

Source : Yahoo

Want a Tiger as ur pet ..

2008-09-14T09:12:00.000-07:00

Terming them as the most fashionable animal on earth a web-site is offering Tiger breeds from india for sale .. Buy Tigers

The web-site says though they are the strongest feline predators on earth they are extremely friendly, loyal and harmless !!

It is illegal to trade in Indian tigers, either live or dead, or breed them privately in India, as per the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Though tigers are protected under Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, keeping tigers captive or as pets on farms is a legal practice in the US as well as parts of Africa.

Other site offering wild life as pets

http://wildanimalworld.com/

Taking Robots to next gen ..

2008-08-12T09:22:00.000-07:00

Even though research has led us develop humanoid robots , they still cant replace humans by their physical features, sense of touch and intelligence.

But now scientists from japan have developed a rubber that is able to conduct electricity well, paving the way for robots with stretchable "e-skin".So finally an artificial skin has been for the metal robots which can give make them feel heat and pressure like humans.

Lets wait and watch when the robots will be completely replacing humans wrt features and intelligence as in movies :)

Most expensive iPhone

2008-08-08T09:48:00.000-07:00

The world's most expensive iPhone was revealed recently but its not even the latest 3G version!
The Amosu Ultimo Diamond iPhone is targeted at the uber-rich who don't pay much attention to the latest technology.

Priced at whopping $177,300, the Amosu Ultimo Diamond sports 1,179 diamonds and weighs a whopping 16.18 karats. Each phone comes with access to the international all-day VIP-service Concierge (VIP International Concierge Service) for a year

iPhone Nano coming soon..

2008-08-08T01:26:00.000-07:00

If reports doing the rounds in the internet can be believed, then Apple is going to launch a stripped down version of the its iPhone by this Christmas.

The Daily Mail report indicates that the candy bar shape of iPhone 'Nano' will have a front display and a touch wheel on the back which will be used for dialing.

Olympics to go virtual with Sega..

2008-08-07T09:37:00.000-07:00

As if 24hour coverage of Olympic games in china 2008 is not enough Sega has has rolled out the official video game of the 2008 events in Beijing for PC, PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 and mobile phones ..

It offers 38 events from track and field to swimming to judo and has online play for the first time in an Olympics game.

Sega enlisted U.S. gold medal contenders Amanda Beard, Tyson Gay, Nastia Liukin and Reese Hoffa for the cover of "Beijing 2008: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games."

Sega also has an arcade game available on Wii and Nintendo DS, with "Mario and Sonic: Olympic Games" putting two of the most popular game icons together for the first time. The Wii version encourages gamers to physically mimic 20 events like fencing and table tennis as they compete against friends.

A few funny results yielded by Google !!

2008-08-03T13:19:00.000-07:00

Though Google turns out to be our favorite and much used search engine you will be shocked to see some its hilarious results and you would definitely say that google is crazy and funny :)

Type French military victories in Google search engine and submit it with I'm Feeling lucky
observe the result..

When u type search in the text box of Google and search the first result which you would obtain is Microsoft's Live Search .. Google itself shows up at 3rd page !!

Type find chuck Norris and then submit it with I'm Feeling lucky and observe the result ..

A similar problem occured with the key words who is a failure? it displayed George bush's official webpage after many political controversies has Google fixed this problem but they still need to fix many more still existing search result errors !!

NASA trying to fight back now ..

2008-08-02T10:46:00.000-07:00

There are several conspiracy theories against NASA and US government regarding the issue of Man landing on the surface of the moon , these theories suggest that man never really stepped on the surface of the moon.

Funny Cartoons depicting fake moon landing
A few more reasons suggesting the landings were fake

To fight back against these controversies NASA is going to air a episode on Discovery Channel entitled " NASA MOON LANDING " on 27th August 2008. Although exact details from the episode are mum, NASA has reported that the Mythbusters tests included a feather, a weight, a lunar soil boot print, and a flag in a vacuum.

Lets wait and watch how far NASA can really convince us !!

400 GB Blu-Ray Disks

2008-07-07T10:40:00.000-07:00

Pioneer Corporation has successfully developed a 400 GB blu-ray disks which is still under R&D has been given to press.This disk contains of 16 layers thus dividing 25 GB of space between per each layer.

The need for more and more amounts of memory has been increased to such an extent that even now home PC's come with 1TB of space ..

As it is aptly said "Necessity is the mother of Invention" ..

Read more>>

History of Microsoft !!

2008-07-03T12:59:00.001-07:00

In this 1978 file photo provided by Microsoft, shows the 11 people who started Microsoft Corp.

Top row (L-R) : Steve Wood, Bob Wallace and Jim Lane
Second row (L-R) : Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, March McDonald and Gordon Letwin
Front row(L-R) : Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood and Paul Allen.

History of Microsoft's windows OS>>

How to test a Laptop :)

2008-07-01T11:30:00.000-07:00

Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (India ) uses an unusual way to test laptops that it plans to deliver to its students ..

It places them on a hard floor and asks people weighing over 80 kilograms to walk all over them to ensure that the computers are rugged and durable.

The computers are then booted up and checked to see if they work properly. Only the laptop brands that clear this test without any damage are allowed to participate in the price bid.

In this video what the company calls a the "fire walk test," a man weighing 92 kilograms (or 202.8 pounds) and another weighing 85 kilograms walked over laptop computers from Acer and Dell.

Microsoft to stop selling XP from monday!!

2008-06-30T00:11:00.000-07:00

Bye Bye Win XP !!

Finally Microsoft has made a decision to stop selling its Windows XP version of Operating System from monday despite several protests from a large section of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor-> Vista(which is not much successful).

A group of vocal computer users who rallied around a "Save XP" petition posted on the industry news site InfoWorld had been clamoring for Microsoft to keep selling XP until its next operating system, Windows 7, is available. The software maker has said it expects to release Windows 7 sometime in 2009.

Microsoft said it would provide full technical support for six-year-old Windows XP through 2009, and limited support through 2014.

Ice-free North Pole !!

2008-06-29T23:21:00.000-07:00

A leading ice scientist from USA has said that there are 50-50 chances this year to witness an ice-free North Pole.

The scientist said that the chances for a total meltdown at the pole are higher than ever because the layer of ice coating the sea is thinner than ever.

Pictures taken from a NASA satellite showed that the circle of ice surrounding the North Pole is "considerably getting thinner" than what scientists have seen during the five years !!

Scientists said , for the last couple of decades there has been a steady melt of Arctic sea ice — which covers only the ocean and which thins during summer and refreezes in winter. In recent years, it has gradually become thinner because more of it has been melting as the Earth's temperature rises.

Hope the situation doesn't get worse and make the polar ice a history..

Gates bids a teary adieu to Microsoft ..

2008-06-28T10:51:00.001-07:00

Finally Gates bid a teary adieu to Microsoft . Gate's voice cracked when he mentioned Steve Ballmer , and all the "incredible people" at the company he founded, and you can hear the pride in his voice when he talked about how they changed the world. "You've made it so much fun for me, there won't be a day in my life that I'm not thinking about Microsoft and the great things it's doing. Thank you for making it the center of my life and so much fun."

Gates, who founded Microsoft at age 19, will now devote his time to philanthropic work.
Helping solve some of the world's health issues will now occupy Bill Gates's working hours as the IT icon retired from Microsoft on Friday. Two years ago Gates announced that he was leaving the software world to devote his time to the philanthropic organization he started with his wife in 2000. The group's work involves funding malaria and HIV research, among other causes. The task of running one of the most powerful companies now falls to CEO Steve Ballmer and chief software architect Ray Ozzie, among others. Gates will not completely exit Redmond, though.

He will continue serving as Microsoft chairman and dedicate one day a week to company business.

Now this guy mean real business !!

Play Tech prank with ur office buddies

2008-06-27T11:16:00.000-07:00

Disappearing Desktop

A classic computer prank never goes out of style. The desktop image trick has been around for a bit, but rest assured: There are plenty of unsuspecting victims still to be found. Just head over to an unattended computer, minimize all the windows, and hit the Print Screen key. Paste the captured image into any graphic editing program — even Microsoft Paint will do — then save the file and set it as the desktop background. Then, all you have to do is hide the actual icons on the desktop — put them in a folder somewhere — and your victim will try endlessly to click the nonexistent icons, which are actually just part of the background image. For another variation, leave one program open when you capture the screen and watch as the person tries to click on it, type in it, and close it to no avail.

The Restart Remap

We start with one sure to throw off even the most advanced Windows user. Setup is simple and you need only a few seconds alone on someone’s computer. When you get a chance, sneak over and right-click your pal’s icon to Internet Explorer or some other commonly used program. Edit the properties and change the target to: “%windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00″ Now, every time your buddy tries to run IE, his machine will mysteriously restart — and your laughter will instantly result.

The Wrath of Rotation

A simple but quick and always amusing prank is putting the screen rotation hotkeys to uses Microsoft never intended. Just run by a co-worker’s desk, reach over and hit Ctrl-Alt-up or down to rotate their monitor orientation. If you have some alone time, you can one-up it by also going into the Control Panel and setting their mouse to left-handed. They’ll spend 10 minutes with their head tilted sideways trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

Mousing Around

The laser mouse may have ended the era of mouse-ball stealing, but it opened up another option. Stick a few layered pieces of transparent tape on the bottom side of your friend’s mouse to really mess with its functionability.

A Pointer Pointer

Another great mouse prank awaits you in the Control Panel. Under the “Mouse” settings’ “Pointer” tab, change the default mouse pointer to the hourglass. Suddenly, the system is always busy working! What’s going on?

Mousing Around

Spend some more time in the “Mouse” settings and you’ll find more fun to be had. Try switching out a pal’s primary and secondary button functions for full confusion, or move the pointer speed to either extreme fast or extreme slow to give them some extreme frustration.

Source : Techcult

Microsoft Surface now in Las Vegas

2008-06-12T10:09:00.000-07:00

Microsoft's touch-screen Surface computers have debuted in a Las Vegas casino bar giving Sin City partiers high-tech tools for flirting and concocting cocktails.

Harrah's Entertainment Inc. became the second business, behind telecom giant AT&T, to deploy Microsoft's computer technology which essentially turns table tops into touch-controlled computer displays.

Harrah's said it put six customized Surface computers in a bar at its Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

Harrah's crafted its own software for the machines and equipped them with cameras so people can send pick-lines, drinks or both to bar-goers they are interested in connecting with in real life.

People continue to be excited about the endless possibilities of Surface technology and how it can transform everyday scenarios, including the social and entertainment space.

People can use the computers to play games, watch online videos, or take a virtual stroll along the renowned Las Vegas strip without leaving their seat at the "iBar," according to Harrah's.

This is the first time Surface computers, which Microsoft sells for approximately 10,000 dollars each, have been put to use in an entertainment venue. AT&T uses Surface in some of its retail stores.

Source : AFP

Road Runner world's fastest Computer ...

2008-06-09T10:33:00.000-07:00

Scientists at the Los Alamos government weapons lab have built the world's fastest computer called the Road Runner. It is capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second.

This computer will be used to help maintain the America's nuclear weapons stock pile .
Roadrunner, also will be used to help solve global energy problems and open new windows of knowledge in basic research.

The Los Alamos National laboratory in New Mexico and IBM worked for six years to achieve the world record computer speed.

wonder why did they name it Road Runner !!!!

Toyota fuel cell Car

2008-06-08T01:02:00.000-07:00

Toyota Motors has said it finally has developed a new zero-emission fuel-cell vehicle that has a longer cruising distance than previous models and can operate in freezing temperatures.

Many companies have been working to create a viable zero-emission car running on fuel cells, which produce electricity through a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, leaving water as the only by-product.

Toyota engineers managed to control the amount of water produced inside the fuel-cell system, which previously interfered with electrical generation at low temperatures.

Honda's Eco-Friendly Vehicle >>>

The International Energy Agency estimated Friday that nearly a billion electric or fuel-cell vehicles may need to be put on the road as part of an "energy technology revolution" to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Hope these vehicles gain much popularity and reduce the Green House Effect

Space Travel for free !!!

2008-05-30T06:18:00.000-07:00

Every one of us would have dreamt of becoming an astronaut and traveling in Space when we were kids but do u really wanna become an astronaut even now!!!

If yes is your answer you just have to have a passion for space and the ability to effectively communicate that excitement to others to become an astronaut.

This space flight is made possible through a donation from Virgin Galactic .

U just need to fill an application form in the web-site and test your luck . The full details on the selection process would be announced by the end of the year. The program is open to all, anyone in the world can apply.

More about Virgin Galactic>>

Yahoo Files Lawsuit Against Lottery Scammers.

2008-05-27T10:57:00.000-07:00

Have you received an e-mail stating that you have a lottery conducted by Yahoo(Truth is Yahoo never conducted any Lottery). Though most of the people have neglected that mail correctly judging it as a scam there were a few others who were trapped and cheated in the name of Yahoo.

These e-mails included a link to a Web site bearing Yahoo's logos that asked victims to fill in their personal information, a scam known as Phishing . Some other e-mails requested the customers to send money for security and delivery fees before receiving their prize.

Finally Yahoo suing is a group of unidentified companies and individuals loosely called the Yahoo Lottery Spammers for running e-mail scams that sought victim's personal information and extorted money from purported winners.

Yahoo filed the lawsuit against 25 unidentified companies and 25 unnamed individuals. So people Beware of frauds!!!!

Samsung's new HDD for Laptops

2008-05-26T06:28:00.000-07:00

Samsung the world's largest computer chip maker has developed a new solid-state drive which is expected to replace hard disk drives in laptop computers.

Samsung's 256-gigabyte Solid State Drive (SSD) for data storage is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives.

Samsung described the new SSD, 2.5 inches long and 9.5 millimeters thick, as the world's smallest of its kind. It can read up to 200 megabytes of data per second.This new step indicates a bold step in notebooks with significantly improved performance and larger storage capacities.

Source : Agence France-Presse(AFP)

An OS that resides in web

2008-05-19T02:28:00.000-07:00

Good news for Techsavvy guys eyeOS is a new kind of Operating System, where everything resides on a web browser. With eyeOS, you will have your desktop, applications and files always with you, from your home, your college, your office or your neightbour's house. Just open a web browser, connect to your eyeOS System and access your personal desktop and all your stuff just like you left it last time.

As it is Open Source the developers can bring in their own changes and implement it in the applications .

Future is quite unpredictable when it comes to Operating Systems isn't it !!!

Link : http://eyeos.org/en/?section=home

Robot conducted orchestra in Detroit

2008-05-16T00:09:00.000-07:00

High tech met high art late Tuesday when a robot(ASIMO) conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.It was the first time ever that an orchestra was handed over completely to a robot and the machine got rave reviews.

Both the audience and performers burst into applause after Honda's ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility ) robot led the symphony in a performance of "The Impossible Dream" ahead of a sold-out concert.

"It's exciting to see. The technology is mind boggling," said bass trombone player Randall Hawes, who has played with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for 22 years.

The symphony extended the invitation to ASIMO earlier this year after Honda donated one million dollars to establish The Power of Dreams Music Education Fund, which will support music education to underserved children around Detroit.

Honda has 25 ASIMO-type robots serving as ambassadors around the world and hopes to one day use the robots to help people confined to wheelchairs.

Hondaaaaaaaaaa !!!

Windows now to run on OLPC

2008-05-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

Microsoft has agreed make its Windows operating system software available for the One Laptop Per Child(OLPC) Foundation's XO Laptop.

Microsoft previously was not a part of the project started by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte to develop an inexpensive laptop computer for elementary school children in developing countries.

Microsoft said it plans to start trials of Windows on the low-cost laptop in key emerging markets as early as June.

Way to Go Microsoft ....

How to block web-sites in windows XP ..

2008-05-14T06:45:00.000-07:00

Let me share a very simple tip in Win XP using which we can block a particular website from opening in our system.

Procedure :

-> Click the Start button and select Run. Type the following: c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

->Windows might ask you which program should be used to open this application. Click on Wordpad.

->It will open up a new window on your screen showing some text information. At the end of the last line of the file, press the Enter key. Type 127.0.0.1 and the name of the website you want to block.

For example: 127.0.0.1 xyz.com

->Finally save this file. The websites that you have put in this list will not open up on your system.

*NOTE*

In case you want to open them, go back to the text file using the same commands and remove the names you have typed. Save the file.

MySpace wins $230 million in anti-spam judgment !!

2008-05-14T01:44:00.000-07:00

In what is to believed as one of the largest anti-spam judgment ever social networking site MySpace has won a $230 million in damages from Sanford Wallace(Sanford Wallace is also called as "Spam King " or "Spamford") and Walter Rines.

MySpace said the pair sent more than 730,000 messages to MySpace members, many made to look like they were coming from trusted friends, giving them an air of legitimacy.

Though service provider MySpace wuold be having tough time collecting this award, it hopes the judgment would deters other spammers.

MySpace's Chief Security Officer said "Anybody who's been thinking about engaging in spam are going to say, `Wow, I better not go there' ".

HBO selling shows on Apple iTunes..

2008-05-13T03:46:00.000-07:00

On Apple's

If the rumors are to be believed HBO cable network will now be selling its shows on Apple Inc's digital entertainment service with variable pricing.

The costs for the shows would be -- $2.99 for Episodes of Rome, The Sopranos pop and Deadwood. While The Wire and Sex and the City , Flight of the Conchords go with the iTunes "standard" pricing of $1.99.

The deal would be announced pretty soon.

Microsoft releases worldwide Telescope ..

2008-05-13T02:47:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Corp. has launched its much awaited project Worldwide Telescope which was under research for many years.

WorldWide Telescope knits together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray, Observatory Centre, Sloan Digital Sky Survey and few more.

Computer users can browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics.

The site lets users choose from a number of different telescopes and switch between different light wavelengths.

Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates said "The WorldWide Telescope is a powerful tool for science and education that makes it possible for everyone to explore the universe,"

Link : http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

Social Networking sites now allow to share space..

2008-05-10T05:30:00.000-07:00

Social Networking sites MySpace and Facebook which have been highly protective for its users till now have loosened their grip

These sites have made it easier for people to share their personal information (favorite pictures, information and other applications) with other web-sites on the Internet.

Both Facebook and MySpace say several weeks remain before their users' data becomes portable. The transition poses a risk for Facebook and MySpace because they are effectively tearing down the barriers that sequestered the personal profiles on their sites.

Myspace has also become so liberal that it is even ready to exchange information with its arch-rival Facebook. Experts believe that this move by Myspace gives more oppurtunity for the people to join.

Top 10 Paying Technology Majors

2008-04-25T00:01:00.000-07:00

#1 Information Technology Management

Average Annual Salary - $107,830

IT managers supervise information technology departments and ensure that all systems run smoothly. People who are with information technology management earn a significant salary, earnings are often dependent on employer and experience level, but in general, IT professionals with an MBA earn 46 percent more than IT pros with a bachelor's degree.So IT professionals need to think about MBA seriously.

#2 Database Administration

Average Annual Salary - $85,092

Due to the increase in the number of internet users , web-sites maintaining user information database administration has become one of the most important work now-a-days . With database systems one needs to ensure that everything is secure, organized and working properly. Most database administrators work for search portals, Internet service providers, government agencies and data processing firms. Earnings can vary by industry; database administration majors who work in computer systems design and similar industries tend to earn the most.

#3 Software Engineering

Average Annual Salary - $84,122

As a fresher from a IT field a passed out student joins an organization as a SE(Software Engineer) Software engineering majors develop and test computer software and systems. Most software engineers specialize in either systems or applications.

#4 Video Game Programming

Average Annual Salary - $80,886

Video games have become a part and parcel of our lives. Now-a-days high-end games have also been introduced in mobile phones which shows the increase of games. In video game programming, programmers work with various software systems to program games for computers, consoles, mobile phones and other gaming devices. Employees who specialize in video game programming earn an average of nearly $66,000 in entry-level positions. Programmers with more than six years experience can earn in excess of $100,000.

#5 Computer Programming

Average Annual Salary - $71,623

Computer programming majors write and test computer programs. Most programmers start out at nearly $50,000. The best paid programmers earn $100,000 or more per year.These people are considered to be geeks who often need to shift from one programming language to other thereby they need to have the spirit of learning.

#6 Web Development

Average Annual Salary - $68,571

Due to increase of number of web-sites , web developers have found some infinite amount of work . Web developers create and program content for a website. . Most web developers start out at around $50,000 and earn in excess of $80,000 after accumulating a few years of experience.

#7 Network Engineering

Average Annual Salary - $68,391

Networking has always been one of the most important jobs to handle with .A Network engineer is responsible for the design and implementation of Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks. Network engineers with more than five year of work experience can easily earn $90,000 or more.

#8 System Administration

Average Annual Salary - $66,388

System administrators design, install and maintain computer systems. Some system administrators are also responsible for supporting entire networks.

#9 Network Management

Average Annual Salary - $64,638

Network managers manage a variety of different networks, including computer networks and fiber optic networks. People who work in network management may end up working as an operator, administrator or planner. Experienced network management professionals can earn almost twice as much as entry-level professionals.

#10 Game Designer

Average Annual Salary - $61,538

Game designers make video games for computers, consoles and other gaming devices. Although the video game design industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the tech sector, the field is very competitive as there are many Gaming majors in the competition .

Source : http://degreedirectory.org

A solution to remove Muhaha virus

2008-04-17T23:28:00.000-07:00

God i was stuck with this virus called Muhaha a few days ago which didn't allow me to browse Orkut .

One of the best solution for this problem is ----

Press alt+ctrl+del and goto processes tab

*There you will see a list of processes under the different username, arrange the processes according to your username and search for the process svchost.exe

*Right click and end process or end process tree. Make sure you end the imagename or process which are under your username and not that which are under LOCAL SERVICE OR NETWORK SERVICE.

► This gives you instant access to orkut..

IBM's Race Track

2008-04-17T09:38:00.000-07:00

It was four years ago that one of IBM's Researcher, Stuart Parkin planned to develop a new type of of memory . According to his calculations this device can offer faster, cheaper and higher storage capacity than RAM or Hard Disk.

Racetrack

In racetrack memory, the bits - 1s and 0s - of data are stored in the tiny magnetic domains of a very thin U-shaped wire. They apply a magnetic field for writing data to the domains. Later, the pulsing current is passed through the wire, which pushes those domains along the track, along sensors that can read off the data.

IBM says this technology could enable handheld devices such as an mp3 player to store around 500,000 songs or around 3,500 movies - 100 times more than is possible today.

Well well what do we have to say about it !!

Hyderabad Heros win ICL 20-20

2008-04-06T10:31:00.000-07:00

***Champions Of ICL ***

Hyderabad Heros win even the second final of the ICL (Indian Cricket League) 20-20 match against Lahore Badshahs by Bowl Out to win the ICL 20-20 cup and become the champions of ICL for the year 2008 ..

The match was a pretty low scoring match when compared to the previous matches in the series first Lahore Badshahs put on a score of 130 which was chased by Hyderabad Heros till the very last moment untill the whole Hyderabad team fell.

It was second time Bowl Out was witnessed after India vs Pakistan clash in 20-20 world cup ,
3 out of 4 bowlers from Hyderabad Heros hit the wickets whereas none of the 3 bowlers from Lahore Badshahs hit the wickets.

Seems like the Inzy Team still needs to find luck with Bowl Out situations..

INTEL's Nettop by this year end ..

2008-03-29T21:18:00.000-07:00

ChipMaker Intel is hoping to release its low-cost computer called 'nettops' by this year end.

Nettops will be powered by Intel's Nano-chips called Atom , these desktop computers would be fanless with only some of the bare essentials which be required to carry out some of the basic tasks such as surfing the internet or watching standard DVD's .

The deisgn seems to be quite impressive !!

Nettops would be capable of running on Windows XP and Linux .

These Atom chips which are used in 'nettops' are specially designed for low-cost desktop computers and laptops which would carry out only basic operations and it will not undertake intensive computing tasks.

It even cannot support High-Definiton DVDs .. The cost of the nettops is expected to be somewhere around $200 ..

BCCI to fund for 5 Olympic disciplines

2008-03-15T23:47:00.000-07:00

One of the world's Richest Sporting Body BCCI ( Board Of Control for Cricket in India ) which had a net revenue of $1.5 billion in 2006 has announced on Saturday (15th march) that it would be funding five disciplines of the Olympic sports for Indian Team by the end of March and would restrict its help to only individual sports to start with.

The board has tied-up with the Sports Ministry to sponsor the development of sports persons in the areas of archery, boxing, judo, swimming and weightlifting.

The board and the ministry has also set aside Rs 25 crore for each of these sports for identifying talents and medal hopefuls for the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi in 2010 and also for the next Olympics 2012 in London.

Where is INDIA wrt Patents ??

2008-03-13T23:52:00.000-07:00

Though Indians have made their way to the Top 10 Richest of the world listed by Forbes , India is still lagging with respect to Research and Development (R&D) though most people disagree this, it is a fact !!!

Last year about 8000 papers were submitted for Patents from India of which only 2000 were approved but our neighbouring country China has applied for 1,80,000 patents which 90,000 were approved.

On an average companies like Intel and Microsoft alone apply for some 2000 patents an year !!!

Why is India lagging behind....

we simply can't say that India does'nt have brains

Whom should we blame for this ??

Is it like Research is going on but still people aren't applying for patents ..

What ever but India needs to get out of this situation as soon as possible

Labels: India wrt Patents , Number of patents india applied , India and Patents

Is this fair for the media !!!

2008-03-10T10:05:00.000-07:00

MS. Dhoni ..........................................Gautam Gambhir

what's wrong in riding his bike
he does'nt need much attention..

After winning Common Wealth Bank series in Australia , Indian cricket team received a very grand welcome and even a party was hosted for the team in Delhi..

Young Cricketers like Ishant sharma and praveen kumar became Celebs overnight and they grabbed the unwanted attention of the media !!

The most important thing is the media has enchroached the personal life of the cricketers and made their life difficult...

Take for instance Irfan pathan there was a 1 hour show specially dedicated for him in a news channel which aired some news that pathan has found his Dream Girl in Australia so he is staying back in Aus even after the team returned. Wat's wrong with u guys ( MEDIA) ..
Its not confirmed that he is love and even if he is what do we have to do with it , it is his LIFE man !!!

And gautam gambhir .. The media followed him and created a terrible situation for him just to get out of a saloon and reach his car after a hair cut !!!
Due to the media there came a very big crowd to see Gambhir..
Oh my god its just a hair cut man its quite normal ...

MS Dhoni doesnt he have the freedom to ride his own bike .. why does the media always follow him when he wants to ride a bike ??
Ofcourse he is captain of INDIAN cricket team but that is inside the field .. He has his own life to live outside the field does't he??

Not only these cricketers this is happening with alomst the whole team plz guys take care unwanted attention is always dangerous in a cricket loving country like India .

Let them live their life's stay away from their personal life nothing matters as long as they play well for the country ..

4 Indians on forbes top ten richest 2008

2008-03-06T04:51:00.000-08:00

Forbes released the list of top ten richest for the year 2008 which was dominated by Indians for the first time.

Steel maker Arcelor's LN Mittal was leading the Indians in the list 4th position followed by Mukesh Ambani of Relaince Industries Limited at 5th position and his brother Anil ambani of Anil Dhirubhai Group.

The person who came from no where into the top 10 was kushal pal singh of DLF group.

After 13 long years in the top place as the Richest in the world Microsoft's Bill Gates drops to 3rd position where the 1st position was occupied by Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway

The list of Top 10 include -

1) Warren Buffet ( Berkshire Hathaway) -- $62 billion

2) Carlos Slim Helú (Mexican telecom ) -- $60 billion

3) Bill Gates ( Microsoft ) -- $58 billion

4) LN Mittal ( Arcelor ) -- 45 billion

5) Mukesh Ambani ( Reliance Industries ) -- $ 43 billion

6) Anil Ambani ( Anil Dhirubhai Group) -- $42 billion

7) Ingvar Kamprad ( Ikea ) -- $31 billion

8) Kushal Pal Singh ( DLF ) -- $30 billion

9) Oleg Deripaska ( Basic Element ) -- $28 billion

10) Karl Albrecht ( Aldi ) -- $27 billion

Hope even i reach this list soon :)

US Navy Shot down the rouge Satellite ...

2008-02-20T20:43:00.000-08:00

Standard Missile III during its launch on board

Finally U.S. Navy claims that they have successfully shot down the rouge Satellite which posed a threat to human life by its re-entry.

The Satellite lost its base control some time ago, then came out of its orbit falling towards earth .It posed threat to earth as it contained approximately 1000 pounds of rocket fuel.

A navy Standard Missile III was soared 130 miles above the Pacific smashing the dead and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite.

But still the U.S Navy needs to confirm whether it has completely destroyed the Satellite with its fuel or not !! Hope they have done it ..

Well done U.S. Navy !!!!

Character what do u have to say about it ??

2008-02-19T09:00:00.000-08:00

I give you two people to vote for whom will you choose.

I will describe their character and you vote the person whom you feel to be the appropriate leader.......

One was a drunkard, infamous for being a womanizer (he himself had no idea of the number of women he "met" in his life) and has said democracy is a sucking idea of devils, for devils, by devils. He danced naked in public and was very closely associated with many gangsters.

Well completely on the other side

The other guy was better known as a teetotaler..
He had only one relationship in his life,he was well known for his speeches on liberty and fraternity...
He was always well dressed in public and had a penchant for morality..

WHOM WOULD YOU VOTE FOR?

ANS: IF YOU CHOSE THE LATTER YOU WOULD HAVE VOTED INTO POWER "ADOLF HITLER" AND IF THE FORMER "FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT"

Now think for yourself who do you think was a better leader for this world !!!

Labels : Hitler , Roosevelt , Hitler vs Roosevelt

10 ways to make ur blog popular !!

2008-02-15T22:45:00.000-08:00

There are over a 100 million blogs in internet , but what makes your blog special and is it so popular that makes people bookmark your site ??

Dont worry by just following just a few simple tricks you can make your blog popular !!

........10 ways to make your blog popular

1) Before going to start your blog choose a good , short URL .

(Though it is pretty difficult to find a good ,unique URL look for the best you will surely find one)

2) Choose the best Template.

(Dont choose very dark and dull Templates it easily makes the viewers skip your site , 3-column Templates are the best)

3) Update your Blog regularly.

(This way you can ensure the visitors do visit your blog regularly to look for interesting and latest stuff : Keep the Bounce Rate Low)

4) Donot have much animations and ads on your page.

(Providing more Animations makes the page to load slowly and usually people dont have the patience to wait till the page loads they may simply skip the page )

5) Submit your blog to various Search Engines and web-directories which ensures that the traffic to your blog is always high.

(To submit your blog to Google Search Engine go to http://www.google.com/addurl/

Yahoo Search Engine go to https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

6) Exchange links with other bloggers.

( This ensures Indirect Traffic to your blog )

7) Use your blog URL as signature in e-mails and just give out your URL in most social networking sites available.

8) Search all different blogs and leave a comment this makes even the other person view your blog :)

9) Donot provide more AD's in your page as it may lead to distract the viewer.

(The viewer may get distracted and he may not pay much attention to the stuff you've written)

10) Just to gain much popularity donot get yourself involved in controversies.

(Dont talk about Religion and Politics as it may get yourself into troubles)

These methods which i've written were the one's which i realized by personal experience and by interacting with a few Top bloggers in the internet circle.

All the best n happy blogging !!!!

Yahoo rejects Microsofts deal !!

2008-02-11T11:33:00.000-08:00

In a very tragic incident kindaa thing Yahoo Inc rejected Microsofts deal terming it as a too low unsolicited offer.

In a statement,Yahoo said its board unanimously concluded the proposal was not in the best interests of its shareholders.

The company said the offer "substantially undervalues" its "global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments."

If it was successful a merger of Microsoft and Yahoo would be the world's largest of two computer technology companies and would create a formidable rival to Internet search and advertising leader Google..

Sources : Reuters

Labels : Yahoo rejects Microsofts deal , Microsofts bids $46 billion to take over Yahoo , Yahoo and Microsoft vs Google

Android Developer Challenge

2008-02-09T06:00:00.000-08:00

Android -->An Open Handset Alliance Project

Andriod is basically an open source mobile operating system (or a mobile platform) which is to be used in Google's mobile phone.

A prototype of Android mobile phone platform would be demonstrated next week at the world's biggest wireless fair.

Google plans to deploy phones and services using the Android platform commercially in the second half of this year.

Google established an alliance of more than 30 carriers, handset makers, Software firms and chipmakers in November to develop Android, which is based on open-source software and designed to make the Internet work better on mobile phones.

The Android Developer Challenge will award $10 million to developers who build great apps for Android.

Research firm Strategy Analytics has estimated that Android will be in 2 percent of smartphones this year.

Hope Android makes it well in the market ...

Sources: Google , Reuters

Facebook now in Spanish !!!

2008-02-08T06:48:00.000-08:00

Facebook.com which is the considered to be the most popular online social networking site has launched a spanish version of its site..

The site also is planning to launch German and French versions pretty soon.

Facebook users can choose to view the site in Spanish by changing their account settings.
As an act of globalization, the translated versions of the site will be available to Facebook fans on both computers and mobile phones.

Facebook is trying to compete with MySpace which offers versions of its site in Spanish, French, German and Italian, including a site for U.S. Spanish speakers and another for French Canadians.

Hola says Facebook.

Sources: Reuters

Labels: Facebook introducing spanish version , Facebook trying to compete with Myspace

Microsoft Bids $44B to buy Yahoo !!!!!!

2008-02-01T18:03:00.000-08:00

........................VS.......................

In what seems to be like a really bold approach Microsoft bidded $44B to buy Yahoo inorder to tie up the two biggest internet Giants and compete against the Ruler Google.

In what would be the biggest Internet deal since the ill-fated Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer sent a letter to Yahoo's board on Thursday night to offer $31 per share in cash and stock.

Microsoft's audacious attempt to buy Yahoo spelled out in an unsolicited offer shows just how much Google threatens the world's largest software maker's grip on how people interact with computers.

For Yahoo, the bid represents another painful reminder of how missed opportunities and mismanagement combined to open the door for Google to supplant it as the Internet's main gateway, decimating its stock price in the process.

Although Microsoft remains the world's most valuable technology company, its position will become more precarious unless it can cultivate a more loyal Internet audience and generate more online ad revenue to subsidize the free services taken for granted on the Internet.

But there's no guarantee that Yahoo will be willing to sell itself to Microsoft.Yahoo will likely face intense pressure to accept, given its steadily sliding profits and a murky 2008 outlook that caused its stock price to drop to a four-year low earlier this week.

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said he has thought over this issue several times and is expecting a positive reply from Yahoo soon.

The funniest thing of all is Yahoo was the first company which gave Google its first break by hiring it to run its search engine in 2000. After realizing how much money Google was making from search, Yahoo introduced its own technology in 2004, but by then it was too little, too late.

Google jumped leaps and bounds to get to Top of the INTERNET wonder what would be its position if Microsoft and Yahoo unite.

Labels: Microsoft to buy yahoo , Microsoft's s bid to buy yahoo , Microsoft and Yahoo Vs Google

Sources : Associated press , Reuters

A U.S. spy satellite could crash to Earth

2008-01-26T23:54:00.000-08:00

A disabled American spy satellite is rapidly descending and is likely to plunge to Earth by late February or early March, posing a potential danger from its debris..

The satellite, which no longer can be controlled, could contain hazardous materials, and it is unknown where on the planet it might come down.

Specialists who follow spy satellite operations suspect it is an experimental imagery satellite built by Lockheed Martin and launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in December 2006 aboard a Delta II rocket. Shortly after the satellite reached orbit, ground controllers lost the ability to control it and were never able to regain communication.

Satellite contains Hydrazine, a colorless liquid with an ammonia-like odor, is a toxic chemical and can cause harm to anyone who contacts it.

NASA officials say that "Numerous satellites over the years have come out of orbit and fallen harmlessly"

Hope even this one doesnt harm Earth .

Anyways beware !! Look at the sky n walk :)

Labels : Satellite falling on earth

Mysterious woman on MARS

2008-01-25T06:04:00.000-08:00

The concept of LIFE ON MARS has been prevailing since ages but this theory has got a dubious boost from recently released photos of the surface of Mars (Taken by NASA's robot SPIRIT).

These photos shows a woman like structure parched on rock with her arms outstretched . This news has created a buzz over internet n several sites have zoomed onto the image and suggested the figure could be alive.

But astronomers say it is just a rock and it's hard enough to accurately recognize figures and faces across the room. Mars, depending on when you measure it, is about 35 million miles away. The best telescopes aren't of much help in determining surface features, and that's why NASA sent robots with cameras to Mars.

The reason many people see a figure on mars is the same reason that people see faces in clouds, Rorschach blots, and coffee stains. This phenomenon, called pareidolia, is well known in psychology, and it is the cause of many supposedly mysterious and miraculous events

Strong evidence for this psychological explanation lies in the fact that the Spirit image does not look like Martian life (since we don't know what life on Mars looks like), but instead resembles life here on earth specifically human life. The image is the result of human interpretation. If you look around the full image of the area (not just the close-up), you will find several rocks and features that resemble non-human Earth life, such as armadillos and snakes. In the right bottom corner, emerging from the sand, there is what looks like a lizard face wearing goggles and an airman's helmet.

This is of course not the first time that NASA images have been claimed to show evidence of Martian life. A man named Richard Hoagland claimed that 1976 photographs of the Cydonia region of Mars showed a human-like face and was clear evidence on life on earth.

NASA still needs to release a confiramtion regarding this issue...

Virgin Galactic unveils spaceship

2008-01-24T05:00:00.000-08:00

British billionaire Richard Branson and AeroSpace designer Burt Rutan with SpaceshipTwo

...........................................A Close look at SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic released a prototype of its upcoming spaceship which would be carrying rich tourists into space ..

Owner of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson and the AeroSpace designer Burt Rutan unveiled a model SpaceShipTwo . A four-engine jet will launch the jet into space .

Though the space travel would be costing a whooping $2,00,000 it is said that already 200 passengers from 30 different countries have already made reservations.

The twin-fuselage airplane, called the White Knight Two, will carry SpaceShipTwo high into the sky beneath a single 140-foot wing.

The spacecraft would then separate from the plane and rocket into suborbital space, where as many as six passengers and two crew members could unbuckle themselves and experience weightlessness and an unparalleled view before gliding back to Earth.

Passengers would get about 4 1/2 minutes of zero-gravity time, floating about a ship roughly the size of a Falcon 900 executive jet, before returning to their seats.

Virgin Galactic, insisted the project is no pipe dream , construction on the White Knight Two is already more than 70 percent complete. SpaceShipTwo is about 60 percent complete, and the company hopes to begin test flights by this summer.

With the amount of risks involved and the rising curiorsity among people in spacetravel we need to wait and see and in no way can predict its results .....

References : Google , Yahoo , MSN

Amazon's social networking site !!!!!

2007-11-29T09:16:00.000-08:00

Amazon.com Inc the world's largest Web retailer, has launched Askville.com, an information-sharing Web site where users can ask questions and answer queries of others.

This site which has been in beta testing since December 2006 was open only to limited amazon users. One must have an amazon account ( Except for USA and Canada) to log in to Askville.com

Amazon says --> Askville is the place where you can ask... answer... meet... play!

Askville.com is basically a social networking site where the opinions of different people can be shared, suggestions can be given to a few questions.

How far can this web-site reach out to public when it is limited only to amazon users..

Let Time decide its fate !!!!!!!! :-)

Even Google Adsense being hacked??

2007-11-14T09:40:00.000-08:00

Do you know Google Adsense is being holed by an indian ??

Cant beleive it right !!!!!

Oh k let me give you more info --

Manish arora an indian security analyst created an Adsense account for his blog then by writing a small piece of code linking any other websites. Once he is done with this, he sent his friends and relatives and a few unknown people a email regarding some of the links regarding You Tube, other good blogs or any other website.

Then his friends and relatives those who received that email went through different sites and clicked on different ads. Let’s assume you send 2000 emails with good looking 100 links in one email. That person goes to any of the website, clicks ads… HIS ACCOUNT WAS CREDITTED WITH THE $$$.

In the Digit Magazine they had shown that in one month person had earned some good $5000 just by sending emails and doing the job (that was way back in December). This thing has been experimented again in September and same happened. This time however the people who had tried this were different however they used the same technique of Manish Arora.

Well what can we say !!!!!!!!!

Is Google ahead of Microsoft ?????

2007-11-11T21:35:00.000-08:00

Last week Microsoft's CEO -> Steve Ballmer denied that Google is taking over Microsoft in Internet Technologies and accepted that Google is ahead of Microsoft only with respect to its
search engine..

But Google has 4 strong reasons to support that it is ahead of Microsoft's technologies over the internet --

1) Search engine : People all over use Google's search engine rather than Microsoft's MSN search .

2) Mail : As Gmail has an embedded Messenger (chat) in its webpage it has gained more prefrence over Hotmail and MSN Messenger which are 2 separate entities .

3) Blog : Google owns Blogspot which is currently hosting more than a billion blogs and still counting but when it comes to Blogs from Microsoft , it still needs to make a mark .

4) Social Networking : Google has taken over Orkut which is the best of all social networking sites as it has made a mark all over the world , on the other hand Microsoft still needs to work on its social networking as it just has a share in FaceBook . Though it shows Google a bit ahead of Microsoft , we really cant say what Microsoft can do , an Year for Microsoft can turn these things around .. So it pretty tough to Predict now which company is ahead what say :) ??

Imagine Cup --> 2008

2007-10-31T11:54:00.000-07:00

The World’s premier technology competition for students – Imagine Cup 2008 is going to be held in Paris , France this year .

The Theme for this year's competition is " The Environment " ..

The Imagine Cup is a popular annual competition and is one of Microsoft’s ways of encouraging young people to apply their imagination, passion and creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world.

Now in its sixth year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real world issues.

This year, Microsoft is calling on young programmers, artists and technologists around the world to "imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment."

Students are challenged to bring their ideas to life in a multifaceted competition that comprises 9 categories, each catering to a different technological or artistic affinity. Students’ work will reflect valuable, real world solutions, while giving them the opportunity to compete for cash prizes.

The 9 different categories available for the competition are :

Software Design

Embedded Development

Game Development

Project Hoshimi

IT Challenge

Algorithm

Photography

Short Film

Interface Design

The 2008 World Finals will be held in Paris France from July 3-8, 2008.

All the very best to all the participants ..

Labels : Microsoft , imagine Cup 2008 , Categories of Competitions in imagine Cup

Holographic disks now a rival for Bluray

2007-10-19T20:12:00.000-07:00

Gone are the days of DVD and Bluray here comes Holographic disks with storage upto 300GB..

A Holographic disk is about the size of Dvd which can hold data 60 times more than that of Dvd!!

Can u believe it that there are holographic disks which can hold data upto 300GB..

These disks store information through the interface of light through and a technique known as holographic memory..

Holographic disks were first designed by Inpase Technolgy Inc. located in USA ..

Data can be read and written from these disks @ 10 times faster than normal Dvd's..
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The discs, at 13 centimetres across, are a little wider than conventional DVDs, and slightly thicker. Normal DVDs record data by measuring microscopic ridges on the surface of a spinning disc. Two competing successors to the DVD format – Blu-ray and HD-DVD – use the same technique but exploit shorter wavelengths of light to cram more information onto a surface.
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Holographic recording also improves the data transfer rate which is now 27MB/sec. It was 20MB/sec.

Label : Holographic disks

Unlocking iphone's can cause problems-APPLE

2007-09-25T10:57:00.001-07:00

Well bad news to all of the those iPhone users who have unlocked their phones from AT&T network!!!

Though Apple Corp. has said it is not disabling the iPhones which are being unlocked or hacked it has announced that unlocking iPhones from AT&T Cingular network can cause some serious irrepairable damage to the device and also those iPhones which fail to work due to the installation of unlocking software are not covered under warranty ...

Apple gave this statement a few weeks after inagurating its new series of iPods and decreasing the cost of iPhone by a whooping 200$ .

There are many unlocking softwares for iPhones available in internet which apple says are dangerous for iPhones . Apple said it has sold more than a million iPhones since its introduction from june-end till this month , but the record was within first 2 days of its release into market it has sold more than 270000 iPhones .

As of till now we have'nt heard of any cases of iPhone damage caused due to unlocking the Phone anyways we just have to wait and see whether this particular announcement is a valid one or ot is just a trick to save its deal from AT&T Corp.

Label : Unlocking iPhone causes problems

AMD to launch Quad Core chip!!!!!!!!!

2007-09-10T04:56:00.000-07:00

Advanced Micro Devices after a long wait of four years is going to unveil its new QuadCore chip today..

It features four computer engines on a single chip instead of one or two ..

AMD has entered this market of QuadCore following INTEL inc which is world's largest semi-conductor manufacturing company and whose financial budget is 21 times more than that of AMD !!

AMD said this newly redesigned Opteron(QuadCore) chip is an important improvement in high-performance computing. It's using a different engineering strategy than Intel.

Intel's four-core chips are actually a package of two chips with two cores each. In AMD's four-core chips, all the cores are placed on a single piece of silicon.

Well what can we say except wishing AMD all the very best .....

Apple unveiled a series of new iPod's

2007-09-07T00:35:00.000-07:00

-------------------------->>>>>>>iPod Touch

----------------------->>>>>>>>> iPod Nano

-------------------->>>>>>>>>>>iPod Classic

Apple unveiled a series of new iPods which are the further developments of the existing one's..

Impessive iPod touch : It features 3.5inch multitouch widescreen display , it has Wi-Fi and we can even access youtube . we can even pinch pictures to make them smaller or larger, or rotate the device to its side to automatically change the screen orientation to landscape mode or bring up "Cover Flow," a view of album cover art.

->An 8-gigabyte model costs $299, and a 16-GB version, $399.

Franlky speaking iPhone- Phone= iPod touch

Here comes the new Nano : Video is the speciality to this iPod .You can now watch movies, TV shows and podcasts on a 2-inch screen (320-by-240 resolution) that's brighter and larger than its predecessor. Apple says the latest Nanos deliver battery life of up to 24 hours of audio playback, and five hours of video.

->A silver 4-GB version costs $149; 8-GB models come in silver, black, blue, green and red, at $199.

iPod Classic : Traditional iPods have morphed into the newly named iPod Classic, in silver and black - but not white - in either 80-GB or 160-GB capacities. The latter holds up to 40,000 songs or 200 hours of video.

Classic models also are thinner and encased in aluminum and stainless steel. Apple says the largest unit can deliver up to 40 hours of music playback or seven hours of video off a single charge.

And when it comes to iPhone the original price of 599$ for 8GB was reduced by a whooping 200$..

Well Done Apple Corp .........

Sony to launch a 12MP DigiCam

2007-09-06T23:50:00.001-07:00

Sony Corp is launching a new digital single lens reflex camera for advanced users and avid photographers ..

Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras are the fastest growing segment of digital cameras now-a-days , they are High-end models with interchangable lenses ..

This new Sony's model is DLRSR-A700 which would be a 12.24 mega-pixel camera and the expected price of it would be $1,560 ..

Sony expects to compete with its rivals canon and nikon which are leading the SLR digital camera market till date ..

Sony held a 6.2 percent share in the global digital SLR camera market in 2006, following Canon with 46.7 percent and Nikon on 33 percent, according to research firm IDC.
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Both Canon and Nikon last month unveiled their latest digital SLR camera models for the year-end shopping season, in a pre-emptive move against new entrants such as Sony.

IBM's R&D goin 2 make a historical move !!

2007-08-31T11:30:00.000-07:00

By using Nanotechnology IBM claims it has developed methods which can pack some 13,000 movies into a single device which is not bigger than an iPod !!!!!

IBM says it was able to achieve this feat by learning how to steer single atoms in a way that could create building blocks for ultra-tiny storage devices .The important point is understanding and manipulating the behavior of atoms is critical to harnessing the power of nanotechnology..

This is what Scentists at IBM say about atoms ----->>>

-> "One of the most basic properties that every atom has is that it behaves like a little magnet, If you can keep that magnetic orientation stable over time, then you can use that to store information. That is how your hard drive works" said Cyrus Hirjibehedin, a scientist at International Business Machines Corp.'s (IBM.N) Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California..

->Mr. Andreas Heinrich said "What we've been able to do is to look at an iron atom on a copper surface and to move that magnetic orientation around.

Now they are looking for an atom that remains stable over a long time. In the very long run, we're shooting for data storage on a very tiny scale"

After all these are very good signs for more portability and comfort .. Hope those Whiz guys at IBM come out with such techniques as soon as possible !!

HP's new printer --> Photosmart A826

2007-08-30T11:48:00.000-07:00

HP's (Hewlett-Packard) new printer Photosmart A826 though stylish and funky is a bit costly affair to deal with..

Though the light-blue-and-white model is probably the oddest looking compact printer , this funky-shaped $249 printer encompass of touch-screen and stylus which is goin to hit the stores early next month..

It weighs 5.5-pounds and stands nearly 11 inches tall and wide , it even has a 7-inch touch-sensitive screen the users can draw..This latest model can also handle panoramic 4-by-12 paper, as well as photo sticker paper and index cards..

The printer can handle Secure Digital, CompactFlash, Memory Stick and xD-Picture Cards, among other types. You can also print wirelessly off a Bluetooth-capable computer or phone through an optional $39 adapter.

The machine uses a single tricolor inkjet cartridge, which you slip into a compartment on the front. Using touch screen we can crop pictures, remove red-eye and automatically sharpen, brighten and improve the contrast..

With a stylus or your finger, you can draw on photos, a nifty feature, though the slippery screen makes it a tad difficult. You can change the color and line thickness of your scribbles or erase them before printing..

This new machine has several welcoming features for people who want to print snapshots, including the large touch display and funky but appealing design..

Source:USA.com

Wal-Mart entering the market of DRM-Free

2007-08-29T12:39:00.000-07:00

Wanna know about DRM-Free music-------->>>>>>>>

DRM acutally (Digital Rights/Restrictions Management) is a technology that music distributors put on the files they sell to restrict your use of the music. DRM complicates or disallows selection of different media players (both on your computer and physical devices), backing up your music and many other legal, fair-use applications of the content you've purchased. Distributors also reserve the right to change the restrictions at any time, so what you agree to today may be completely different tomorrow. Often, these restrictions can lead to being unable to listen to the music you purchased, so if you have a choice, opt for the DRM-free music files!!!

Till now Apple's i-Tunes was only the popular site for downloading DRM-Free music but now Wal-Mart Stores Inc started selling digital music downloads on its web-site...

Apple's i-Tunes charges $1.29 for downloading a single track where-as Wal-Mart is charging just 99 cents per a track or $9.22 per album ..

Wal-Mart also said its new format can be played on any system including Apple's iPod , iPhone , Microsoft's Zune media portable player ..

Wal-Mart's move into DRM-free downloads comes as major record labels debate whether dropping DRM will hurt digital music sales or encourage piracy. Copy protection software prevents unauthorized copying of a digital song bought from an online store, but it also limits where an owner can listen to it ..

Wonder how much competation these two Giants Apple and Wal-Mart face with each other !!!

Heard about Zombie horde ???

2007-08-28T12:04:00.000-07:00

Dont be under the impression that Zombie horde is something related to Zombies and etc,etc..

Then what is this Zombie horde ??

Actually knowingly or unknowingly through all the computers connected in internet we are distributing spam in the internet which is being used as a pawn in coordinated internet attacks, hosting illegal files, or otherwise part of the malware-distribution network known as the zombie horde.

According to some estimates there are about 55million e-mail spams being sent daily of which most of the Pc's are infected Pc's .. This spam is sent into internet without the knowledge of the user ..

These mal-ware infected pc's act as slaves to a master controller via internet thus called zombies these pc's are perhaps the biggest security threat on internet now-a-days..

Now the FBI wants to resolve this issue !!

And their approach would be nothing but contacting those million infected systems in internet and inform them that their computers are infected and are being hijacked for nefarious uses..

Their main goal is to track-down the source of all these infections spread and put the person behind bars..(This mission is called Operation Bot Roast)..

A general advice given to all the Pc owners using internet is ----->>>>

Protect yourself against malware and viruses by using the appropriate security tools, and take extra precautions if you find your PC running slowly or sending emails you didn't create (check your Sent Items folder!).

Source: Christopher Null (yahoo blogs)

Slim and trim Apple's iMac

2007-08-23T11:24:00.000-07:00

Also called as Apple MA456LL/A, Apple, Apple iMac MA456LL/A, Apple iMac is a huge hit in the markets ..

Its main features include the 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processor with speeds ranging from 1.83GHz to 2.33GHz!!!

The main advantage of this desktop is there's nothing extra to buy, nothing to attach, no cords to fumble with, no software to install or configure.

Coming to the new feature Apple's new Remote lets you do your browsing from anywhere in the room..

The full-screen front Row media experience , with its intuitive menus, large text and brilliant graphics lets you browse the music, photos, and videos on your iMac as easily as you browse music on your iPod..

Specifications ----------->>>

* The iMac comes with an installed Apple MacOS X 10.4..

* It comes in with an included memory of 1GB which can be extended upto 3GB which supports both SDRAM and DDR2 ..

* The hard-drive capacity is 250GB which is of Serial ATA..

* Among the various softwares which comes included with the Pc are

---->>>Drivers & Utilities, Apple iChat AV, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, Apple Dashboard, Apple Spotlight, Apple XCode Developer Tools, IWork (30 days trial), Front Row, Photo Booth, Apple iLife'06, Freeverse Big Bang Board Games, Plasq Comic Life, Apple QuickTime, Apple Hardware Test, Apple Mac OS X Mail, OmniOutliner, Apple iCal, Apple DVD Player, Apple Address Book, Apple Safari..

* Comes in with a 1year warranty and damn good resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels..

And with many features and the price tag being $1,500 Apple surely has a hit...

O2 coocon rocks in a stylish way .....

2007-08-22T11:40:00.000-07:00

O2 ' s Coocon

Some of the features along the deign of O2 coocon which is being under developed by Streative Branding and O2 were being released very recently ..

Looking at the design constraint O2 really rocks even the features are solid..

This Device was very carefully under research for many years ..

The basic idea of O2 coocon was to switch 3- different modes the alarm clock , music player and the most important thing is is mobile phone ....

Some amazing features of O2 Coocon --->>

O2 coocon portrays several innovative design features that add to the user experience, such as the scroll-wheel in the hinge, the stereo speakers on both sides and a unique battery cover release ...

When the user docks the O2 Cocoon in its “Nest”. At this point big clock digits automatically light up on the LED display and the device turns into a radio alarm clock..

Hope this designer phone hits the market soon ....

Go O2 way !!!!!!!!

What's going to happen in the year 2012 ???

2007-08-20T11:15:00.000-07:00

December 21, 2012 ------->>>>> End of MAYAN calender

It was said that the world would end by the year 2000...
But did that happen ???

No right ... But some people now claim that the year 2012 is going to be a very inauspicious year for humans..

Mayans (people of mayan civilization) were adept sky watchers and they were the 1st people on the earth to devise a calender 2300 years ago.. They were real scholars who predicted solar and lunar eclipses exact date which is far better and accurate than our modern calender ...

But why did they have to end their calender by the year 2012 dec 21st ???
Were they predicting any kind of apocalypse(end of the world) ..

Talking about pole reversals --------->>>

Polar shifts is a theory that on December 21st 2012 Earth will experience earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or other natural disasters. The predicted 2012 geomagnetic reversal of the Earth's poles (in conjunction with a solar-magnetic-reversal) brings into question the Schumann resonance of Earth and the human biophysical response to such an electromagnetic shift.

It is believed that this "geomagnetic reversal" last occurred some 780,000 years ago, (approx. 3 cycles of the 26,000 year "precession of the according to this official FACT), but you sure need a remedial course on your maya calendar! A Bactun for the Long Count calendar is 144,000 days, which is roughly 394 gregorian years. But since you talk about thirteen bactuns, that means you're saying that between 1776 and 2012 there are 5,128 gregorian years!, which is not AT ALL equal to 260 mayan years. Thus, I'd recommend a math review along with that. (If you meant something else and just screwed up the baktuns and katuns..

The MaYaN calender ---->>

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to 3114 BC August 11 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283).

The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Stela 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed..

However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next. The December solstice for 2012 also occurs on this day.

What the with the alien-enthusiants have to say ------>>>

Some alien-enthusiasts (e.g. Riley Martin), along with some new-agers, believe 2012 to correspond approximately with the return of alien "watchers" or "caretakers" who might have helped the first human civilizations with developing their technology and may have been waiting for us to reach a higher level of technological and/or social advancement. Beliefs range from the extra-terrestrials having benevolent purposes — such as to help human society evolve — to malevolent purposes — such as enslavement of mankind and/or manipulation ..

Goin through a few book predictions ------->>>>>>

1)The 1995 book The Mayan Prophecies linked the Maya calendar with long-period sunspot cycles.

The book 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny claims the Maya may have been instructed in their wisdom by discarnate entities from Orion and the Pleiades. Contact was maintained through shamanic rituals conducted in accordance with the movements of planets and stars. However, Mayan priests living and working in Guatemala aver that the so-called Mayan Prophecy for 2012, as touted by various foreign New Agers who have no knowledge of Mayan culture, language, or religion, is twaddle.

2)The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.

3)The book The Nostradamus Code speaks of a series of natural disasters caused by a comet (possibly as above) that will allow the third Antichrist to disperse his troops around the globe under the guise of aid in preparation for a possible nuclear war, although in the strictest sense it is unspecific as to nuclear war or some other natural or man caused destruction..

4)The book The Orion Prophecy claims that the Earth's magnetic field will reverse.

5)The 2005 book Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy by Geoff Stray reviews several theories, prophecies and predictions concerning 2012 and finds where authors have used faulty information or have bent the truth to fit their theories..

6)The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere..

7)The 2007 book Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End by Lawrence Joseph does not make any specific new predictions, but it reviews a number of 2012 predictions made by various sources, and presents arguments for the possible existence of dangerous positive feedback loops involving solar storms, Earth's magnetic field, cosmic rays, hurricanes, global warming, earthquakes, and supervolcanoes that may be on the verge of erupting..

Source :: Wikipedia

Know more about Windows-operating systems..

2007-08-14T10:35:00.000-07:00

Do you think it was either of Paul allen or Bill Gates who was behind naming the Microsoft's (GUI) operating system as -->windows ..

who do you think was the the guy behind Windows it was none other than

The marketing whiz ------>>> Rowland Hanson ..

On November 10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation(in those days) operating system that would provide a graphical user interface (GUI) and a multitasking environment for IBM computers.

Windows might have been released under the original name of Interface Manager if marketing whiz, Rowland Hanson had not convinced Microsoft's founder Bill Gates that Windows was the far better name.

Goin to the backstage of development of windows !!!!!!!!!

* windows didnot get encouragement from IBM at first as in those days MS-DOS Microsoft's other operating system was more successful .

* The Graphical user interface(GUI) in windows were a taken from Apple's Lisa and Macintosh(Mac) pc's..

* Microsoft Windows version 1.0 was considered buggy, crude, and slow..

* Apple computers filed a law suit against windows warned Bill Gates that Windows 1.0 infringed on Apple copyrights and patents, and that his corporation stoled Apple's trade secrets. Microsoft Windows had similar drop-down menus, tiled windows and mouse support.

The most Brilliant act of Bill Gates ...

Bill Gates and his head counsel Bill Neukom, decided to make an offer to license features of Apple's operating system.

Apple agreed and a contract was drawn up. Here's the clincher: Microsoft wrote the licensing agreement to include use of Apple features in Microsoft Windows version 1.0 and all future Microsoft software programs. As it turned out, this move by Bill Gates was as brilliant as his decision to buy QDOS from Seattle Computer Products and his convincing IBM to let Microsoft keep the licensing rights to MS-DOS.

And when Microsoft Broke The Rulesssssssss.....

Microsoft released a much-improved Windows version 2.0 that made Windows based computers look more like a Mac. Windows 2.0 had icons to represent programs and files, improved support for expanded-memory hardware and windows that could overlap. Apple Computer saw a resemblance and filed a 1988 lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that they had broken the 1985 licensing agreement..

In their defense, Microsoft claimed that the licensing agreement actually gave them the rights to

use Apple features. After a four-year court case, Microsoft won. Apple claimed that Microsoft had infringed on 170 of their copyrights. The courts said that the licensing agreement gave Microsoft the rights to use all but nine of the copyrights, and Microsoft later convinced the courts that the remaining copyrights should not be covered by copyright law. Bill Gates claimed that Apple had taken ideas from the graphical user interface developed by Xerox for Xerox's

Alto and Star computers.

What would have happened if Microsoft had lost the lawsuit? Microsoft Windows might never have become the dominant operating system that it is today.........

Wat is this LCOS ???

2007-08-12T09:51:00.000-07:00

Our past HDTV image viewing technologies were CRT(Cathode Ray Tube) , then came LCD's(Liquid crystal displays) , then came the turn of PLASMA's and then the beautiful techonolgy being implemented was of DLP which stands for Digital Light Processing and within a very short notice came the newest technology----->>> LCoS which stands for Liquid Crystal On Silicon ..

Liquid Crystal on Silicon, LCoS, is a new display technology that is now making its grand entrance into the HDTV marketplace...Of course, LCoS isn’t really brand new because it’s been under development for more than a decade, and JVC has actually been shipping high-end professional front projectors with this technology since 1998...It’s also been a very difficult technology to perfect and quite a few companies have either given up or gone bankrupt trying.

LCoS provides the highest resolutions, the highest non-CRT Contrast Ratios, and the most artifact-free images of any display technology. For people who are sensitive to flicker and eye-fatigue, LCoS operates at the highest refresh rates (120 Hz) for the smoothest most flicker-free images..

Want to know about the brand names !!!!!!!!!!

Thomson produced the first commercial LCoS HDTV in 2001, followed by Toshiba and then Philips, but all of them had dropped out by October 2004. Intel shook the industry in January 2004 by announcing that it would begin manufacturing LCoS panels but then abandoned the project in October 2004 before anything was shipped.

The second generation of LCoS began with JVC followed by Sony and then Brillian...

Wanna c the comparison between all the 5 technologies ..
http://www.displaymate.com/ShootOut_Comparison.htm

sources :: http://www.displaymate.com/

Do you know about NFC ????

2007-08-11T02:22:00.000-07:00

Believe it or not !!!!!!!!!

Now you can interact with bill boards , pay your travel fares and prove your identification by just moving a NFC-enabled device near the screen ...

But what is this NFC n stuff ?????????????

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a new, short-range wireless connectivity technology that evolved from a combination of existing contactless identification and interconnection technologies.

Products with built-in NFC will dramatically simplify the way consumer devices interact with one another, helping people speed connections, receive and share information and even make fast and secure payments !!!!!!!

And how does it work ????????

Operating at 13.56 MHz and transferring data at up to 424 Kbits/second, NFC provides intuitive, simple, and safe communication between electronic devices. NFC is both a “read” and “write” technology.

Communication between two NFC-compatible devices occurs when they are brought within four centimeters of one another: a simple wave or touch can establish an NFC connection, which is then compatible with other known wireless technologies such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.

There is even a forum for NFC(Near Field Communication) technology which promotes the usage of such short range wire-less devices which is a gift to the consumers ..

NFC can be used with a variety of devices, from mobile phones that enable payment or transfer information to digital cameras that send their photos to a TV set with just a touch. The possibilities are endless, and NFC is sure to take the complexities out of today’s increasingly sophisticated consumer devices and make them simpler to use

Hope this technology reaches to greater heights ..

Want to own your own Flying Saucer !!!!!

2007-08-04T01:01:00.000-07:00

This isnt a lie , it is true a company called Moller International of Davis, CA is actually selling Flying Saucer like cars for $90,000 !!!

This Flying saucer doesnot help you to get into space but it's really a car-sized craft intended to fly no higher than 10 feet..

Named as M200G by Moller this vehicle is run by 8 small but powerful rotary engines which can carry a payload of 250 pounds and is stabilized by a computer system..

The driver uses a joystick for steering and sets the desired altitude (detected by a radar) with a lever.

It can fly to much higher heights than 10ft but for doing so it would require a pilot's license..

Besides gasoline, the craft’s rotary engines can burn a combination of ethanol and water, giving it very low emissions.

DISADVANTAGES--

1)The craft emits an earsplitting 85 decibels when in running state..

2)Would consume 40 gallons of fuel in an hour with a top speed of 50mph ..

The firm plans to launch its next six demo models in the next 12 months ..

Grand Theft Auto IV posponed to 2008

2007-08-03T07:57:00.000-07:00

To the much disappiontment Take-Two Interactive stunned the game industry by announcing it was delaying Grand Theft Auto IV to the second quarter of its 2008 fiscal year, which begins on February 1, 2008 ..

Actually it was to be released on 16th october , 2007..

The company declared the reason for postponment as it is requires additional development time to complete the title ..

Some of the rare pic's of Google earth

2007-08-03T07:27:00.000-07:00

Victoria Falls
Would u like to go for a sight-seeing ..
Most of the people prefer to watch wonderful sites from a plane but Google Earth provides us oppurtunity to watch such sites from home itself ..
Google Earth coordinates for Victoria Falls is -17.925511,25.85822

Interested in Mysteries ??

wonder why this fighter jet is parked in an residential area in Paris !!!!

The Google Earth coordinates 48.825183,2.198579

Interested about aliens and crop circles then Google earth is the best way to browse through crop circles around the world .

The above Gigantic crop circle was found outside beatty , Nevada .. The Google Earth coordinates 37.401437,-116.86773

Google earth not only tracks the stationary locations but can also capture moving things ..

In the above image 10 elephants were captured in Africa ..

Google earth not only captures some of the rare locations but also accidents such as the one above is a sinking ship.. The Google Earth coordinates were 30.541634,47.825445

Google earth is very helpful in finding locations though it may misused only by some people ..

Dual Layer DVD

2007-08-01T11:35:00.000-07:00

With the introduction of dual-layer DVD+R technology comes the next important milestone in the drive to continually improve and expand the optical data storage options available to consumers..

It will benefit from the additional storage capacity of the DVD+R disc as it will enable users to record 4 hours of DVD-quality video or 16 hours of VHS-quality video, without the need to turn over the disc !!!!!!

Users will be able to archive up to 8.5 Gbytes of computer files on a single disc, which almost doubles the storage capacity compared with the 4.7Gbytes for the single-layer DVD+R discs currently available ...

Working of Dual Layer Dvd -------

The dual-layer DVD+R system uses two thin embedded organic dye films for data storage separated by a spacer layer.
Heating with a focused laser beam irreversibly modifies the physical and chemical structure of each layer such that the modified areas have different optical properties to those of their unmodified surroundings.
This causes a variation in reflectivity as the disc rotates to provide a read-out signal as with commercially pressed read-only discs.

Wat else are we waiting for ??????

Sony's new PSP slim

2007-07-31T10:19:00.000-07:00

Sony's new PSP(Portable Play Station) is coming out this september ..

It is the same old PSP with some new features like ultra slim faster game-loading and a TV-out feature to output your favorite games, photos, and movies to your big bad HDTV.

It is 30% lighter and 19% slimmer than the older PSP.

It comes in three different colors: Piano Black, Ceramic White, and Ice Silver

EINSTEIN made our day

2007-07-29T10:40:00.000-07:00

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879.

He started his schooling in germany then continued his education from Munich , Italy and Switzerland ..

Do you know that the year 1905 was a miraclous year for EINSTEIN and also science !!!

During the "miracle year" of 1905, Albert Einstein published five groundbreaking papers still sparking innovations 100 years later.

Today's modern world is being dominated by Einstein's things right from the satellite enabled-alarm clock , GPS(Global Positioning System) , Digital camera's ,Perfection of televisions and Remote controls !!!!!!!

we think of Einstein first as the man who paved the way to development of the atomic bomb.

But that is not the right way to look at him.

Michel Janssen, a science and technology historian at the University of Minnesota, points out that Einstein had virtually nothing to do with developing the bomb, which grew out of the work of more up-to-date physicists in the 1930s. Einstein, in fact, was refused security clearance to have any role in the Manhattan Project

Einstein's researches are, of course, well chronicled and his more important works include Special Theory of Relativity (1905), Relativity (English translations, 1920 and 1950), General Theory of Relativity (1916), Investigations on Theory of Brownian Movement (1926), and The Evolution of Physics (1938). Among his non-scientific works, About Zionism (1930), Why War? (1933), My Philosophy (1934), and Out of My Later Years (1950) are perhaps the most important.

There were many important papers of him but his first great paper of 1905 and won him the Nobel Prize in 1921 — gave us scores of everyday applications

It was the statement of the quantum effect, without which we would not have cellular telephones or smoke detectors or burglar alarms or those doors that automatically open at the supermarket or on the elevator

All praise for the icon and The man of the century --- > Albert Einstein !!!!!!!!!

<<<< ----------- (E=mc2) ------------ >>>>

Wanna see what's inside IPHONE

2007-07-27T11:11:00.000-07:00

APPLE'S iPhone

No doubt you would have seen an iPhone and must be owning it even but have you seen the inner components of iPhone ???

For most of us the answer is no we would not like to open our iPhone and know its inner components !!!

Lets us just try to know the wat's inside iPhone ..

The Display is among the most costly elements in the iPhone, aside from the memory and the touchscreen module ..

And know what the glass display itself is sourced by Epson, Sharp, and Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology.

The total cost of the hardware components is $225.85 for the 4GB version, and $249.85 for the 8GB version. The only difference between the two versions lies in the flash memory ..

This is a close look at the circuit board ..

Location (1) is the place where sim cards are inserted and

Location (2) houses 8mb of flash memory

As the thickness of an iPhone is just 12mm its amazing to obeserve all the components sandwiched inside it..

Finally it is the most amazing thing is its integration of a software and hardware that makes it special and has attracted large crowds towards it..

Environmental Friendly ---- HONDA automoblies

2007-07-25T11:17:00.000-07:00

When it comes to automoblie industry HONDA has an inclination towards eco-friendly automobiles ...

And the result HONDA -- FCX the only automobile in the world which can function with hydrogen as fuel !!!!

These vehicles doesnot only consume renewable resource i.e hydrogen as fuel but also doesnot emit any gases into atmosphere except for water vapour thus making them completely pollution free ...

Currently FCX is used within several government fleets ..

HONDA plans to expand these cars world-wide by atleast 2010 ..

Thanks to honda that atleast this automobile company is looking forward for a healthy environment to live in ..

Now what to say about it Every 1 lets wish HONDA the very best ..

C ' MON HONDA we are with you !!!!!!!!

Formatting your sys is fun with WIZPY

2007-07-25T09:33:00.000-07:00

Gone are those days where in you would use a CD to format your system ...

Now we use a device which can be connected to USB (Universal Serial Board) and our system can be formatted ( Available only for LINUX operating system ) given by TURBOLINUX a japanese - based company...

And now even these devices are made even more Funky .. Guess what ??

TURBOLINUX NAMED THESE DEVICES AS WIZPY .....

These hand held devices contain media player which can play MP3 format of songs ..

There are two versions of the Wizpy: 2G bytes and 4G bytes. The Linux OS and applications take up about 1G byte leaving either 1G byte or 3G bytes available for data storage

Wizpy has a cool look and sleekish design .....

The 2G byte version costs YEN 29,800 (US$246) and a 4G-byte version costs YEN 33,800. It is on sale now in Japan and will appear in international markets

It is available in two colours black and white

Sony launches crackle " An online video site "

2007-07-19T06:52:00.000-07:00

SONY has launched a new web-site for sharing music , photos and videos online ..

Best described as Sony's attempt at a professional video talent hunt, "Crackle" is part of Sony Pictures Entertainment..

The site will feature short videos by aspiring film makers, thereby connecting budding video writers, producers, and directors with Sony Pictures (Pix) and it's various partners..

This site Crackle was previosly called Grouper ..

The users of Crackle will be able to post their video's online and view other videos available on Crackle..

HCL introduces 1 Tera byte Hard drive for PC's

2007-07-18T10:40:00.000-07:00

Gone are those days where Personal Computers used to have memories ranging from
(40-80)GB-Giga bytes !!!

People always complain about their existing memory in Hard disk of their PC's is not sufficent
with the needs came the development larger and larger hard disks came into existence..

As it is correctly said " NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION "..

People looked for much larger and larger disk space to save movies , songs , documents etc

Now the Disk space in a PC has been improved to much larger than Giga Bytes ..

WELCOME TO THE NEW ERA OF 1 TERA BYTE PERSONAL COMPUTER .....

HCL has launched Personal computer with 1 Tera Byte(TB) of Disk space which is approximately 1000 times greater than 1 Giga Byte(GB)

The 1TB PC has been launched as 2 models; an entry-level one, and a high-end Digital Content Creation Workstation. Both use Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' recently-launched Deskstar 7K1000 1TB hard drive.

The high-end Workstation features Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and a special bundle of Quadro FX 1500 and Adobe Production Studio Premium.

Whereas the entry-level PC features Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB RAM, a 17-inch Flat Panel Monitor, HCL EC2 technology, and HCL Active Management Console.

Going to hit the markets soon in INDIA and the prices --

Entry level models are priced at Rs.35,000 and Digital Content Creation Workstations priced at Rs 99,000 .......

INTEL improves Dual-Core chip for Laptops

2007-07-17T07:45:00.000-07:00

Intel Corporation has launched a dual-core notebook chip for high-end users to keep up with the fast-growing notebook PC market against Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).

Intel has named the processor as Core 2 Extreme X7800 processor , this new processor can be used by hard-core gamers and digital artists..

We can achieve faster performance in this processor by opening the chip's speed protection locks, allowing them to overclock the processor for even faster..

Also INTEL announced five new desktop chips, led by the quad-core, 3.0 GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6850, intended for game developers, and the 2.66 GHz Core 2 Quad Q6700..

LG'S NEW KG920 MOBILE

2007-07-16T11:43:00.000-07:00

After the turn of Sony ericsson and Nokia its LG now launching 3-G camera phone with 5-Mega Pixel ..

Welcome the new twist-and-shoot 5 mega pixel auto-focus camera phone, the KG920...

The mobile allows the camera to be rotated 180 degrees so as to be able to take self-portraits.

Previosly none of the LG's phones fared well in the market and every phone released bombed at the market so the expectations are very high on this mobile..

The KG920 features a 2-inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels resolution, in-built 8MB internal memory, and support for external memory through miniSD cards.

wanna know more!!!!!!!!!!!

A New Mouse that Works in Air

2007-07-14T23:13:00.000-07:00

Can u believe a mouse can work in Air ...

Might be in our dreams right ??

One such dream was made into reality by Logitech ..........

The company has introduced it's 'MX Air Rechargeable Cordless Mouse', a versatile laser mouse able to work on the desk and in the air. So people can sit back and navigate the computer with 'MX Air' like they do a television with the remote...

Read more !!!

IPOD's are dangerous while thunderstroms !!

2007-07-14T02:22:00.000-07:00

Wearing the device that is said to put "1,000 songs in your pocket" during a thunderstorm may have sent millions of volts surging through the head of an unlucky Vancouver jogger..

The man, who played in a church orchestra and was listening to religious music on an iPod while he ran, was injured when lightning struck a nearby tree, then snaked out to zap him as well.
His eardrums were ruptured, his jaw fractured and he suffered first-and second-degree burns from his chest - where the device was strapped - up into his ear channels, along the trail of the iPod's trademark white earphones. He also had burns down his left leg and foot, where the electricity exited his body, blowing his sneaker to smithereens in the process..

"Using things like this, a mobile phone or an iPod, there isn't actually an increased risk (of incurring a lightning injury),"

Read a recent incident........

Is it end for Dvd's ??

2007-07-13T07:53:00.000-07:00

As the British poet John Donne might have written, "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for DVD." With the DVD industry roiled in a contentious format war between the two next-gen DVD formats -- Blu-ray and HD-DVD -- the new partnership between Microsoft and Disney raises a serious question about whether it will matter which format ultimately prevails

Read more...

what's wrong with my music ??

2007-07-12T10:59:00.000-07:00

Have u ever wondered the quality of the music you are listening to has decresed to some extent when compared to good old days ..

Do u know that to increase the loudness of a song in a Compact Disc (CD) , the quality of the music would be altered to some extent !!!!

More info..

Microsoft's new coffee table of the future

2007-07-10T20:22:00.000-07:00

In a technological break-through, Microsoft has unveiled a first-of-its-kind coffee-table shaped surface computer, called 'Microsoft Surface'. Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a shiny black table base, topped with a 30-inch (76-centimeter) touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame.

The company said that 'Microsoft Surface' turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, dynamic surface that provides effortless interaction with all forms of digital content, through natural gestures, touch, and physical objects. In a statement, Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft, said, "With 'Surface' we are creating more intuitive ways for people to interact with technology. We see this as a multibillion-dollar category, and we envision a time when surface computing technologies will be pervasive, from tabletops and counters to the hallway mirror. Surface is the first step in realizing that vision."

Sony's new playstation 3

2007-07-10T11:13:00.000-07:00

sony drops the price of playstation 3

Ending weeks of speculation, Sony officially announced a new $499 retail price for their 60 GB Playstation 3 on Sunday, effective immediately. They also introduced a larger 80 GB model at the $599 price point, which will come packaged with the racing game Motorstorm and will be available to North American consumers this August.
"As we move into the next phase of PS3, it's important that we continue to evaluate our product line, offering consumers the technology and features that meet their growing needs for new forms of media and the way in which it is delivered," explained SCEA president and CEO Jack Tretton.

The introduction of the 80GB PS3, the new pricing for the current 60GB model, the availability of more than 100 new software titles this fiscal year and, finally, the expansion of services for PlayStation Network, will provide even more options for users and will help bring new consumers into the PS3 fold."
The company also stated that 120 PS3 titles are slated to hit shelves before the end of the fiscal year, including third-party heavy hitters like Grand Theft Auto IV and Metal Gear Solid 4.
More information is expected to be announced at this week's E3 2007 expo

Most common problem: Eating Disorder

2007-06-27T01:11:00.000-07:00

Eating disorders include extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues experienced by both women and men.

Eating disorders are generally caused by the following reasons-

1.alternating between binge eating and strict dieting ,

2.attempting to control weight by inducing vomiting, laxative abuse, or other purging methods ,

3.excessively and/or exercising compulsively ,

4. being sevretive about eating behaviors ,

5. or even neglecting to have food due to work tensions.

HOW TO PREVENT EATING DISORDER ?

# Prevention is any systematic attempt to change the circumstances that promote, initiate, sustain, or intensify problems like eating disorders.

# Primary prevention refers to programs or efforts that are designed to prevent the occurrence of eating disorders before they begin. Primary prevention is intended to help promote healthy development.

# Secondary prevention (sometimes called "targeted prevention") refers to programs or efforts that are designed to promote the early identification of an eating disorder-to recognize and treat an eating disorder before it spirals out of control. The earlier an eating disorder is discovered and addressed, the better the chance for recovery.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON EATING DISORDERS TRY THESE LINKS :

http://www.something-fishy.org/dangers/dangers.php

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/1079435.stm

http://www.4woman.gov/owh/pub/factsheets/eatingdis.htm