Google acquires LabPixies

Google loves to build platforms on which programs run--Android, App Engine, iGoogle, and in the biggest picture, the Web itself. But platforms are of no use, and aren't much fun, without applications on top, so Google often also kick-starts development with applications of its own.Now it appears Google is interested in boosting development in a variety of casual gaming and entertainment areas with the acquisition of LabPixies, announced late Monday. The company offers a collection of games and lightweight utilities that run on iGoogle, Google's customizable home page, and on the iPhone and Android phones.iGoogle uses the OpenSocial foundation for applications. That's also used by Yahoo, Hi5, MySpace, and Orkut, meaning that OpenSocial gadgets will run on all those social-networking services. LabPixies also develops applications that run on Facebook's platform. Google launched iGoogle in 2005 and has been gradually improving it since then.

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Meet World's Richest Person --- Carlos Slim

Mexican tycoon Carlo Slim Helu dethroned Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to claim the World's no. 1 Billionaire title. Gates has held the No. 1 spot for as many as 14 times in the past 15 years.

According to Forbes, Slim's fortune swelled to an estimated $53.5 billion, up $18.5 billion in 12 months. Shares of America Movil, of which he owns a 23-billion-dollar stake, went up by as much as 35% during the year.Born to a Lebanese immigrant father, Slim learned his business acumen at an early age. Slim studied civil engineering and later built up the telephone monopoly Telmex after acquiring it from the government in 1990. The softly-spoken billionaire last month received authorisation to merge three of his telecommunications companies to form a regional giant, with 250 million customers in 18 countries.

Slim, a widower with six children, has handed over the daily operations of his companies to his three sons and business partners. A baseball fanatic, Slim is also well-known for his philanthropy.

More than 1500 institutes will get 1GBps network

About 1,500 institutions across the country will now be connected to a high speed data communication network that would encourage sharing of knowledge, specialised resources and collaborative research.The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, today accorded in principle approval for the establishment of a National Knowledge Network (NKN), which will be implemented by the National Informatics Centre (NIC).

"The network will consist of an ultra-high speed core which shall be complemented with a distribution layer at appropriate speeds. The participating institutions can connect to the NKN at speeds of 1 GBPS or more to the distribution layer through a last mile connectivity bandwidth," an official spokesperson said.One of the recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) to inter-connect all knowledge institutions, the NKN is expected to be completed in two years time.
The government in 2008 had announced that it would set up such a network. An initial amount of Rs 100 crore was also allocated to the Department of IT in the Ministry of Communications and IT for the establishment of the NKN.

The next generation phone -- NEXUS

Google’s “Nexus One” phone has been stirring up plenty of interest in the past few weeks, not only as Google’s next big phone after the slightly disappointing one that was on T-Mobile not so long back (apparently this is the phone that should’ve been) and the apparent lack of originality in the name(according to the Philip K. Dick family estate saying they stole it from the author’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? AKA Blade Runner). However all this aside a little birdie(a Voda spokesman to Engadget) let slip that the release will be “imminent” and should be shipping “within weeks”.The UK will be the first country in Europe to receive the Nexus One with the rest of Europe having to wait till later in the year.The Nexus One is a collaboration between HTC and Google and from what we’ve seen it looks nice and on paper looks………nice!!! Powered by Snapdragon, OLED touchscreen, 5MP camera, Android 2.1 OS(animated wallpapers, lovely window transitions……..nice!) This could really be the next best rival to the iPhone. Hopefully when we get the full officialness we can let you all know the exact prices and dates!!

nexusone 1 thumb Nexus One – Vodafone “within weeks”

ZIPExpress Software

PKWARE, the inventor of the .zip standard, is giving away a non-commercial use license of SecureZIP Express and the opportunity to win great prizes in the new “Decrypt and Drive” contest!

With SecureZIP Express you can compress/decompress and encrypt files that you store or send. Compressing files is a great way to save storage space, especially on thumb drives and CD’s, and we all have files we should be securing! The software also includes a digital certificate so you can exchange files securely with others without using passwords. Only the person the file was encrypted for can open it when you use a digital certificate. The software is fully licensed for non-commercial use and has no toolbars or spyware! For years, PKWARE has given free .zip software away and wants as many users as possible to receive the benefits of SecureZIP.

PKWARE is giving away great prizes including a Honda scooter, bicycles, Wii games, gas cards, and more! Visit www.DecryptandDrive.com to play the game daily and/or download the free software. You need to have SecureZIP, and the digital certificate it installs, on the computer you play the game from. You can also get SecureZIP Express at www.securezip.com

Gmail is now in indian languages

Here is some good news for all you Indians out there who always wanted to email your friends and family in your native language. Google has launched a new feature in Gmail that makes it easy to type out emails in Indian languages. When you compose a new mail in Gmail, you will now see an icon with an Indian character. This feature is enabled by default for Gmail users in India. If you do not see this function enabled by default, you will need to go to the “Settings” page and enable this option in the “Language” section. Gmail currently supports five Indian languages — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam — and you can select the language of your choice from the drop-down list next to the icon. You can pick from the following:

Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, UK English, US English, Ukrainian, or Vietnamese.

To change the language view in Gmail, you have to do the following:

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
3. Select a language from the Gmail display language: drop-down menu in the Language section.
4. Click Save Changes.

Acer new range of notebooks

Top electronic giant Acer now launched its new range of notebooks with two new additions Acer Aspire One AO751h and Acer Aspire One AOD250.Both these laptops are very light weighted and have weight less than 3 pounds and available in four different colors Diamond Black, Ruby Red, Sapphire Blue and Seashell White.Now if we take a look at the configuration of these laptops then both these laptops are available in two processors, Intel Atom N270 or Atom Z520 processor.The netbook packs 1GB of memory, a 160-GB hard drive, and Windows XP Home edition.Both these laptops provides you backup of 6-8 hours and having complete Wi-Fi support.For connectivity, the new netbooks have Wi-Fi 802.11b/g and come with the option for 3G broadband wireless connectivity. Other key features of the models include three USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet and VGA as well as Bluetooth. Both new models also feature a multi-in-one digital card reader.

Google,Microsoft to clean up the web

As all we know that,whenever a person searches something on the internet it sees a lot of pages for its corresponding search.The msot frustrating thing that any user found about these pages,that many of them contain the same content that means there exists a lot of duplicate content on the internet.But now Google,Microsoft and Yahoo decided to take measures on this,according to them support a new web standard that will allow millions of publishers to remove duplicate pages from their websites. As a result of that, search engines would be able to make their search results more comprehensive.According to Google,this problem arises due to the e-commerce companies that having multiple URLs that all point to the same page.Now to cope up with this problem Google came up with a simple way for web publishers to indicate when a URL is a duplicate, and if so, which is the principal, or "canonical," URL that search engines should be indexing.Now after this all search engines start modifying their search engine in this way.

Nonvolatile RAM

Nonvolatile RAM also known as NVRAM,is a special RAM variation that is able to hold its data eve after external power is removed.There are two common types of NVRAM.The first type of NVRAM is known as battery-backed RAM,contains a static RAM along with it own permanently connected battery.When external power is removed or drops below a certain threshold,the internal battery maintains power to the SRAM and thus the memory continues the to store the bits.The second type of NVRAM contains a Static RAM as well as an EEPROM or flash having the same capacity as the Static RAM.This type of NVRAM stores its complete RAM contents into the EEPROM just before the power is turned off,or whenever instructed to store the data and then reloads that data from EEPROM into RAM after power is turned back on.

Cut your mobile bills

Hello friends today the main problem that every mobile user facing is their monthly mobile bills,some times these bills are so high that a normal mobile users is unable to fill them and not in a situation to continue with their mobile.Now if you are tired of this problem and want to cut your mobile bills upto 80% then this is the right place for you.webtel.mobi is one of this type of company that provide you their unique service with the help of which you can cut your bills upto 80% on mobile phone calling and texting.This service is not region dependent and available to everyone doesn't matter he or she exists in which part of world.

To avail this service the only requirement is that you have a mobile phone that can connect to the internet.If you want to join webtel.mobi then i want to tell you that it is absolutely free and you have to just signup with them.Once you signup with them,you can reduce your mobile bills upto 80%.The best thing that i found about this company that there are not any hidden charges or any contract fees of using this service.The only thing that you have to do is go to your mobile phone browser and type www.webtel.mobi and signup with them.Once you join them your account is immediately activated and you can enjoy calling and texting with saving up to 80%.In addition to this you can also save your money when you are on roaming because this service is also available during roaming.Now if you have any doubt or any problem in using their service you can visit www.webtel.mobi/pc that is their help site.Today a lot of people across the world are taking the benefit of this service.

Review on Mercedes Benz BlueTEC

As all we know that recently Mercedes-Benz launched its BlueTEC diesel engine and from its launching it became popular but the people didn't know very much about it and they are interested in knowing more about it.Finally Mercedes-Benz launched their official website of Mercedes-Benz BlueTEC diesel engine in which you will find each and every detail of this BlueTEC diesel engine.As all we know that a majority of diesel facing a problem of not perfectly clean and fuel efficient. According to Mercedes-Benz this engine is claimed to be the cleanest diesel engine in the world.The major advantage of this diesel engine is that it reduces nitrogen oxides upto 80%,these nitrogen oxides are major components of smog and by reducing these it decreases the air pollution.Hence we can say that this engine will definitely bring a revolution in the field of automotive engineering.

Funda of GPS

Hello friends,in this blog i want to give you some information regarding GPS(Global Positioning System).Actually,GPS is a technology which is used to find the location of its user.In the begining it intended only for the military purpose,but in the begining of 1980 it is available for the civilian use.GPS technology was developed by the Department of Defense of U.S. government.In technical words we can say that GPS is a fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS) which is a network of 24 satellites placed in earth's orbit.GPS is totally envirnoment or condition independent.It can works in any weather ,anywhere in the world and 24 hours a day.

Actually GPS satellite works due to the centripretal force between GPS satellite and earth due to which it revolves around the earth twice in a day in very precise orbit and transmit signal information to earth. At earth GPS receiver receives these signal and uses triangulation to calculate user's exact location.GPS is launched because to figure out where you are and where you're going is probably one of oldest pastimes.The user's location is calculated such that,the time difference between the transmitter send the signal and the receiver received the signal is calculated,and then with the help of other satellites the receiver can determine the user's position and display it on the unit's electronic map.In this way the position of any body can be calculated.Since,the era of GPS is started and in the next few years GPS will be at its top.

HardDisks in Danger

From the title you think that what nonsense i am saying, but it is true. Now it is assumed in the various harddisk manufacturing industries like Kingston, Transcend etc that within the next few years hard disks are completely replaced by their next version that is SSDs that means Solid state drives. As flashed based memories, which are only limited to RAM, but USB storage devices and MP3 players evolved into a strong competitor for HDDs.
The most significant development in this field was made by Samsung in May 2006, with the announcement of world's first notebook PC, featuring a 32 GB NAND Flash based Solidstate disk(SSD), instead of traditional HDD. The main reasons behind that why SSDs take over the HDDs are form factor, speed, boot delay, power consumption, ruggedness and many more. Regarding power consumption SSDs consume only 5 percent of what HDDs devour. According to Samsung press release, SSDs read 300 percent faster(53 MBps) and write 150 percent quicker(28 MBps) then normal hard drives. Also HDDs cannot resolve the issue of boot delay(time that PC takes to start the operating system). The Microsoft Windows XP operating system will boot up 25-50 percent faster on n SSD compared to other drives claims Samsung. One more drawback of HDDs is that no matter how well they packed , HDDs are vulnerable to temperature, magnetic fields, humidity and physical impact whereas SSD are almost immune to them.
As all we know the thing that had some advantage also had some disadvantage ya i am talking about some drawbacks of SSDs the major one is its pricing, SSDs are much expensive as compared to HDDs - while HDDs offer storage at the rate of approx $1 per GB, but SSDs cost it bout $90 per GB. Some other drawbacks of SSDs are its reliabilityand storage capacity.

InfraRed Communication

As all we know what the Infrared radiations are, these are the radiations that are not visible from naked eyes, we can feel only these rays by their heating effect. More about infrared rays we can say that in daily life the heat that we received from the sun is the form of Infra red radiation. As all we know in the electromagnetic spectrum infrared radiations lies between microwaves and visible light, hence it can be used as a source of communication. As, here I going to tell u how infrared technology used in communication.


For infra red communication a photo led transmitter and a photodiode receptor is required. In Infrared communication the LED transmitter transmits the infrared signal as bursts of non-visible light. At the receiver end a photo-diode or a photo receptor detects and captures the light pulses, which are then proceeded to retrieve the information they contain. In this way the information between the source and the target is transferred. The source and target can be mobile phones, laptops and any other thing that supports wireless communication. The main advantage of Infrared communication is that the power requirement for it is very low, hence it is best suitable for laptops, telephones etc.

The circuitry cost for it is also low. As the information transferred through infrared communication is highly secure because the data flow between the source and the target is unidirectional, means directionality of the infrared beam ensures that isn’t leaked or move to nearby devices as it’s transmitted. With having advantage, it also had some disadvantages like for data transmission between the source and target they must be directly aligned means both of them able to see each other. One of the major disadvantages of Infrared communication is that it is of short range in nature means it cannot work when the source and target are at large distance from each other. The information transmitted through IR communication is easily affected by obstacles like peoples, walls etc, if they exists in the way of line of transmission, hence complete data is not received. The IR communication is also effected by environmental condition like weather, sunlight, rain, pollution etc. From all these points it is clear that IR communication is not a suitable method of wireless communication. Today, there are many technologies exists that are much better than IR like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi etc.

Fastest DVD Writer

As all we computer users are aware of what a DVD writer do its main task to read data from DVD and write data to DVD. The comparison factor that is used to compare various DVD writers is their speed performance. Now Samsung is going to launch industry's fastest DVD writer the new Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 which offers a powerful over-speed performance feature enabling consumers to burn data at high speeds, even on low speed media.

This is the first and only company in India that makes this product first. The main facility of this DVD writer is over-speed recording, users can write at 22X speeds on 16X media and 12X speeds on 8X media. As lower speed media is more cost-effective, users can save money while burning discs at faster speeds. Now with the help of this writer you can get blazing recording speeds across a gamut of different data media types including: 22X DVD±R recording, 12X DVD-RAM recording, 16X DVD+R Dual Layer recording, 12X DVD-R Dual Layer recording, 8X DVD+RW recording and 6X DVD-RW recording. This writer also provides you the facility of burn 4.7GB on a DVD±R disc in approximately 4 minutes and 26 seconds, a 6 percent increase in speed compared to a 20X DVD writer.
It also takes less than 12 minutes to burn 4.7GB in DVD-RAM format, which is a 30 percent increase in speed over a 20X DVD drive. This DVD writer easily supports the SATA interface, the dominant interface for pc's. In addition to SAT[4] (Speed Adjustment Technology), TAC[5](Tilt Actuator Compensation) and Double OPC[6] (Optimum Power Control) it includes all the features of all the previous DVD writers.

The Era of Tera

As all we know this is the age of science. In this scientific age computers played an important role in everyone’s life.A few years ago we thinked that if any computer executed thousands instruction per second then it is sufficient for any task,but as the requirement increases it is required to execute millions of instructions per second for that dual core and quad core processors are launched but these were hot topics only for a meanwhile.As the demand for computing power increases,the industry is moving towards “massively multi core technology”,in this technology such types of processors are required that can execute trillions of instructions per second.

Hence in this order to achieve these task “teraflop” processors are launched.The performance of first teraflop computer is not as per requirements,there are some drawbacks associated with it,like it occupies a great space(more than 180 squares meters) and consumed 500 kilowatts of electricity and was powered by nearly 10,000 Pentium pro processors.In 2007, Intel achieved the same performance on a multi-core chip not bigger than a finger nail and consuming only 62 watts of power.

On its launching its official stated that whenever in future,if there is need for this huge computing power ,then the end products will definitely come.The company revealed the artificial intelligence,instant video communications,photo realistic games,multimedia data mining could become everyday realities.The company also demonstrated a computer based on the 80-core chip running a scientific calculation at speeds above 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second.This level of performance is equivalent to that world’s fastest supercomputer of a decade ago.As all we knows performance is not directly related to the numbers of cores in a processor because after a certain level it starts diminishing.As from all these points it is clear that "tera scale"computing has a bright future.If the world requires this high amount of computing power in future,"the era of tera" will definitely become a reality.

Indian Version of YouTube

As all we know every internet user is aware of the what the Google is and the various products of Google like Orkut, Google earth, Gmail, Youtube and many more. Here I am going to told you something about the world's most visited website for online videos i.e youtube.com. Now youtube going to take the Indian version that means its Indian version is going to be launched in form of youtube.co.in which promotes an entirely local experience highlighting and featuring the content and functionality most desired by Indian users.

As all we know what Youtube is, the most popular online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created content, announced the launch of its local Indian site.YouTube India features a localized homepage and search functions, allowing users to create and share videos, discover the most popular and relevant videos in India, and connect with other Indian and global users. Steve Chen the cofounder of Youtube is very excited about the launching the indian version of youtube.They said its a new experience to bring a local version of YouTube to India considering the passion of users here for music and entertainment.

In addition to all the international features some new local features are also added to this new version such as promoted videos, featured videos, and homepage promotions, localised user interface and help center. In addition to this, site also tries to facilitate connections among the large Indian NRI community. In India, YouTube has already signed partnerships with Eros Entertainment, Rajshri Films, IIFA, Ministry of Tourism, IIT Delhi, NDTV, UTV, Zoom TV, India TV and Krishcricket, to name a few, and will continue to work with a range of partners, across a range of genres, to bring Indian content to more people in new ways.

Gmail is now ok as always

As all we know friends on 10the august at 2100 GMT, or 1400 PST their occur some problem in the gmail accounts.Gmail users across the United States, Canada and India are unable to access their online emails.After that a Google employee also reported that the company's own corporate email account was down. After one day this is known that this problem exists due to outage in the contacts system used by Gmail and prevented the email system from loading properly.After that Google officials said that there may be minor delays in deliveries even though all mail is safe.Now this problem is resolved said by a Google official and he also added that it has resolved an issue with its contacts system that caused many users of its Gmail service to have trouble accessing their online email.Now our Gmail is OK as always.

Microsoft is going to pay $ 100 mn

Now their is a hot news from the field of computers,Microsoft Corporation is going to pay $ 100 million to software maker Novell Inclusives as additional subscription fees because in the past few years the demand of open-source Linux software is increased to a great extent.The payment to be made by Nov 1 is in addition to a $240 million payment to Novell from Microsoft in 2006 as part of a broad set of business and technological agreements to make their products work together for corporate customers using both Linux and Windows servers.

Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, buys certificates from Novell and then sells subscriptions to Windows clients who want support in making their computer systems work well alongside Linux machines.The agreement between the companies expires Jan 1, 2012. Linux is the most popular variant of open-source software. Unlike proprietary software, open-source software lets developers share code and add functions, and users only pay for custom features, maintenance and technical support. Novell said it will also spend an undisclosed sum of money to provide new tools, support, training and resources for subscribers.On this agreement Novell said that it has already invoiced $156 million in revenue from the Microsoft certificates in the first 18 months since the November 2006 start of the five-year agreement.

The pact between Microsoft and Novell stirred up quite a controversy in the open-source community because it included among other things a clause saying that neither company would sue customers of the other for patent violations.This clause was seen as an endorsement of Microsoft's claim that it holds patents to intellectual property behind some open-source software, a contention rebutted by Novell and others in the open-source community.

World's tech most powerful women - 2

The list of World's tech most powerful women is continued here.

Susan Decker(Yahoo):A first timer on the list is President of Yahoo Inc, Susan Decker. Ranked at no. 50 on the list, according to the magazine, Decker has used the turmoil caused by Microsoft Corp's attempted acquisition of Yahoo to reorganise her company.As the president of Yahoo Inc, Decker is a key participant in determining Yahoo's business strategy and vision. She is responsible for all of the global business operations of Yahoo, including sales, product marketing, product, and distribution across the three major customer groups of audience, advertisers and publishers.

Prior to that, from December 2006 -- June 2007, she served as the head of one Yahoo's two major business units, the Advertiser and Publisher Group (APG).Prior to her APG role, Decker was executive vice president and chief financial officer from June 2000 -- June 2007, managing all aspects of the company's financial and administrative direction within key functional areas, including finance, facilities, investor relations (and human resources and legal through December 2006).Before Decker joined Yahoo in June 2000, she was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) for 14 years.

Most recently, she served as the global director of equity research, a $300 million operation, where, among other things, she was responsible for building and staffing a non-US research product based on global sector teams.Before serving as DLJ's global and domestic head of research, she spent 12 years as an equity research analyst, providing coverage to institutional investors on more than 30 media, publishing, and advertising stocks. In this capacity, she received recognition by Institutional Investor magazine as a top rated analyst for ten consecutive years.Decker holds a Bachelor of science degree from Tufts University, with a double major in computer science and economics, and a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School.

Ursula Burns(Xerox Corp): Forty-nine year old President of Xerox Corporation, Ursula M Burns ranks at no. 55 on the list. She was named to this position in April 2007. She is also a member of the Xerox Board of Directors, elected in April 2007.Burns is responsible for the company's global research, development, engineering, marketing and manufacturing of Xerox technology, supplies and related services.
Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. She since held several positions in engineering including product development and planning. In June 1991, she became the executive assistant to Paul A Allaire, then Xerox chairman and chief executive officer.From 1992 to 2000, Burns led several business teams including the office colour and fax business, office network copying business, and the departmental business unit.In May 2000, she was named senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Services, and two years later assumed the role of president, Business Group Operations.She serves on professional and community boards, including American Express Corp, Boston Scientific Corp and CASA - The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

Virginia Rometty(IBM Global Business Services): At no. 97 on the list is the senior vice president, IBM Global Business Services, Virginia Rometty.The division encompasses IBM’s consulting, systems integration and applications businesses, with 2007 revenues of $18 billion and a workforce of more than 100,000 professionals worldwide.During her tenure, Rometty led the integration of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting -- the largest acquisition in professional services history -- creating the industry's largest team of business consultants and services experts to help clients apply information technology to optimise business performance.

Prior to this, she was general manager of IBM Global Services, Americas, where she led a team of more than 75,000, and was responsible for strategic leadership, operations and client relationships. Rometty has also served as the general manager of strategy, marketing and sales operations for IBM Global Services worldwide.Before joining IBM's services business, Rometty was general manager of IBM's Global Insurance and Financial Services Sector, where she led IBM's business strategy for the worldwide insurance marketplace, with responsibility for marketing, sales and consulting. She also supervised the operations of IBM's Insurance Research Centers in New York, Switzerland and Japan, and was in charge of IBM's insurance solutions development worldwide.

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