Google in india

The Google operations in Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad put together, make for the highest number of Googlers outside the United States. India has also emerged as the highest growth market for Google in terms of advertising revenues..The Google team in India is also concentrating on developing non-Hindi and non-English capabilities for mobile device users.The idea is to make social networking and search friendly for the disparate Indian user profile by providing more Indic content.Given the burgeoning size of the mobile users in India, Google is investing huge resources into the next leg of its research and development, focused at the Indian market.

Internet Protocol Television

Shakti Extratainment, the first Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) channel
one of the very first from India, will be launched here at a cultural ‘Bani Festival’ to be inaugurated July 4. People can choose what to view and when, rather than rely on a channel’s programming schedules, using superior technology that offers higher than DVD quality resolution, with encryption to protect content providers and artists against piracy.The programmes are in five broad categories — Classic Shakti (classical music, dance and culture), Kala Shakti (popular entertainment including films and serials), Gyan Shakti (educational shows), Atma Shakti (devotional, philosophical/spiritual) and Jan Shakti (community centric).

Sanjaya Malakar

A website known as VoteAgainstTheWorst.com is pushing an elaborate plan to eliminate Malakar by having millions of people place additional votes for the seven other contestants: "If we can spread the word to organize our voting, we just might be able to make this American Idol results show fi lled with a little more integrity. Imagine the joy you'll feel knowing that the right people are going home each week!" The campaign is a direct response to the massive campaign led by shock jock Howard Stern and the website VoteForTheWorst.com that is working to keep Malakar on the hit show, which tops the ratings in both Canada and the United States. The No. 1 show in television and it's getting ruined." So far, Malakar has proven immune to tough criticism from all of the show's judges, even the usually kind Paula Abdul. Judge Simon Cowell has quipped he will quit the show if Malakar wins the competition.VoteAgainstTheWorst.com's campaign involves splitting up America into seven large sections, with each section assigned to vote for one of seven other remaining contestants, but not for Malakar.For instance, the website says people in Alaska, Colorado, California and Delaware (total population, 42.3 million) should vote for Melinda Doolittle, while voters in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland and New Mexico should vote for LaKisha Jones (42.7 million).While many want him off the show, Malakar got a boost from an unlikely source, singer Gina Glocksen, who was voted off last week instead of Malakar.

NIIT

Computer education firm NIIT Ltd. would offer specialised training programmes in partnership with Sun Microsystems India Private Ltd.Sun Microsystems will set up two centres in Delhi and Mumbai where NIIT will offer courses in Open Source computing through Sun Solaris programmes, a NIIT official told reporters.NIIT, which will also offer the course at its 50 centres, expects to train about 50,000 people in Sun Solaris technologies in the next three years, G. Raghavan, president of NIIT's Individual Learning Business, said.Fees for the course will range from 10,000-25,000 rupees depending on the number of modules undertaken and the level of specialisation, the company said.

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US scientists have shown that being overweight as a toddler increases the chance that a girl will reach puberty early.The study from the University of Michigan's Mott Children's Hospital is published in the journal Pediatrics.Dr Joyce Lee, the lead author, and colleagues used the data on 354 girls from age 3 who were enrolled in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD).

Cricket Stock Exchange

Students from IIT Roorkee and IIM Ahmedabad have attempted to fuse corporate and cricket worlds by launching www.cricstock.com – Cricket Stock Exchange – on this virtual stock exchange, shares of international cricketers can be bought and traded by cricket fans, and the stock prices of cricketers will reflect their recent performance and what fans feel about them.

world's fastest graphics memory

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has increased the data transfer speed of the world's fastest graphics memory, GDDR4 (Graphics Double Data Rate, version 4) by two-thirds. Developed using 80-nanometer production technology, the GDDR4 works at 4G bps (bits per second) (2.0GHz), which is 66 percent faster than the current fastest memory available that works at 2.4G bps.

Intel Tera Chip

Intel developed a 'Tera Research Chip' to deliver supercomputer-like performance .it was a team of Indian engineers at the Intel India Development Center (IIDC) in Bangalore that played a key role in the development of this fingernail-sized chip.The team comprises 20 members, and was led by Vasantha Erraguntla, an Intel veteran, who contributed almost half of the work that went into the chip in terms of logic, circuit and physical design, while the rest was done at the company's other lab located at Oregon. The 80-core chip is the result of Intel's "Tera-scale computing" research aimed at delivering Teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) performance for future PCs and servers. It is the world's first programmable processor from a single, 80-core chip, using only 62 watts of electricity, less than many single-core processors today. IIDC was set up in 1998, and is Intel's largest non-manufacturing site outside of the US. Reportedly, Indian engineers at IIDC work on the design of chips and chip sets.

revolutionary chip

A little over a decade ago, Intel Corp. introduced the world's first supercomputer capable of handling 1 trillion calculations per second - in computerspeak, a "teraflop" of data.The supercomputer - actually a series of connected computers containing nearly 10,000 Intel Pentium processors - took up more than 2,500 square feet of space.This month Intel announced it has figured out how to put the same amount of computing power into a single processor chip about the size of your fingernail.

goiit

goiit is a portal which provides IIT and JEE preparation
material for students which is absolutely free for students.It is a portal, which aims to build a community of aspiring and successful students who help out each other.Apart from study material goiit also contains features like“Expert Panel” and “Discuss with Community” sections. Expert Panel is a community of IIT coaching Professors wherestudents can ask there queries and get clarified from these professors who works on 24x7 basis.

Tejaswini,'

Kerala, more famous to the outside world as an eco tourism hotspot, today became home to the country's largest Information Technology park with the opening of `Tejaswini,' the seventh building in the premises. With the inauguration of the 8.50 lakh sq ft facility, the IT park now boasts of almost 32 lakh sq ft of commercial space, housing 120 IT companies

GOOGLE

Google Apps Premier Edition, will include word processing and document sharing, instant messaging, and Internet voice capability. Google will offer it to large companies for $50 per employee, host the applications on its own servers, and provide a service guarantee for its customers.Consumers have long been able to download software, like the e-mail program Gmail, from Google's website for free.

outsourcing

Legislation with respect to outsourcing were introduced in nearly all 50 US states as well as in the Congress and there is little to indicate that this legislative trend is going to stop, a new study has indicated.some of the bills have actually become laws but in most cases they lack teeth. In some cases it has cost states millions of dollars by forcing them to pay contractors in the United States in call centres. But lobbying to strengthen legislation is intensifying, computer world

web 2.0

The net is facing the need for serious upgrades in order to meet fresh demands such as high definition video on the web and social networking. recent report from Deloitte said 2007 could be the year the internet approaches capacity, with demand outstripping supply. It predicted bottlenecks in some of the net's backbones as the amount of data overwhelms the size of the pipes.

Design Week

The Industrial Design Centre at the Indian Institute of TechnoJogy (IIT) Bombay, is hosting the prestigious ICOGRADA Design Week from 5 to 9 February 2007. ICOGRADA (The International Council of Graphic Design Associations), a world body for professional graphic design and visual communication was founded in 1963. Today it is active in 60 countries encompassing graphic design, visual communication, design management, design promotion and design education.

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a new hardware-software combination designed by a company called Consumer Vision, created by IIT graduates, postgraduates and PhD fellows, that is working on revolutionising the retail sector, not just in India, but across the world. The company is currently housed in the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) incubator at IIT-Powai, which provides support for fledgling companies before they can stand on their feet. It all started when Rohit Nalwade, research fellow in the electrical engineering department at IIT-Powai, proposed using radio frequency identification (RFID) in the retail sector so that stores could get to know their customers better, at a conference in 2003. His proposal was received with a mixture of skepticism and enthusiasm.Details such as the customer's name, the number of times he visits the store, the products he usually shops for, can be stored on the hardware. If a customer is a frequent shopper, the store may give him a personalised discount to induce loyalty

event

Jigyasa, a National Level Paper Presentation Contest and the flagship event of the Department of Management Studies at IIT Roorkee, has evolved along with the department since its very inception. In the past, it has turned the spotlights on emerging topics such as Knowledge Management, M-Commerce, Innovation, Emerging technologies and Globalization. Traditionally, Jigyasa has been endorsed by prestigious organizations like TCS, BHEL, DSIR, NPC, etc.Jigyasa - A Quest for Knowledge - encourages different perspectives and learning among various management institutes all over India, for evolving a broad-based, comprehensive insight. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and so, a fresh panorama is the intended outcome of a well-directed idea churning exercise that is Jigyasa

Indian chapter of Creative Commons

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay is setting up a chapter of Creative Commons with the aim of providing easier access to educational and other contents.
Creative Commons offers a content licensing system that gives copyright owners the option to reserve only some of their rights. The organization was founded in 2002 by Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University, to make more creative work available legally to others to share and build on. At IIT Bombay there is a lot of educational content, including Web-based courses that the institute would like to make available under a flexible Creative Commons license, said Shishir K. Jha, project lead for Creative Commons India. The Indian chapter of Creative Commons will be formally launched Friday at the IIT Bombay campus in Mumbai with Joichi Ito, chairman of the Creative Commons, delivering one of the keynotes. Workshops at the event will address issues related to collaboration on creative projects, including films. In the first phase, however, the Creative Commons licenses are likely to be more attractive for educational content than for India's large film industry, popularly known as Bollywood, Jha said. People working in education and government-supported research in India are far more open to exploring new concepts such as Creative Commons, than commercial ventures like large films, he added.

SRE-1

The Indian space programme today entered a new league with the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) demonstrating its ability to recover an orbiting satellite and bringing it back to earth successfully for the first time in its history.Officials of ISRO here said the space capsule recovery experiment (SRE-1), besides helping ISRO to develop basic technology for developing re-usable launch vehicles, would also given an impetus to the country's quest for a manned space mission.The SRE-1, which was launched by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) from Sriharikota 11 days back, was successfully recovered this morning after it splashed down into the waters of the Bay of Bengal at 9.46 a.m. The 550-kg spacecraft was recovered by a team of the Coast Guard and Navy off the Ennore Coast and loaded on to a ship, “Sarang”, to be taken to Sriharikota via Ennore port.Various systems were put in place today with the aerodynamic braking reducing the speed of the spacecraft before its re-entry into the atmosphere. Following this, a parachute system reduced the touch down velocity and a floatation system kept it afloat.During its stay in orbit two experiments onboard the SRE-1 were successfully conducted under micro-gravity conditions. One of the experiments was related to study of metal melting and crystallisation in an isothermal heating furnace which was designed jointly by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvanthapuram.

online payment

The online payment system, PayPal, is soon going to give its users a password-generating key fob, meant as a weapon against data-thieving phishers, and as a way to protect users' payments over the Internet. eBay, which owns PayPal, is coming out with a new electronic security key that can actually be clipped on to a keychain, and that displays a new one-time password in the form of a six-digit code about every 30 secondsThe key will give users another layer of security for their accounts, and users who sign up for the device will need to enter their regular passwords as well as the number displayed on the key whenever they log on to the online payment service. As the numeric password changes so frequently, phishers will end up with obsolete numeric passwords, and will be unable to empty PayPal accounts. In this way, if a user does become a victim of a phishing scam, and gives away his/her password, the phishers cannot empty the user's account because of the constantly changing password.
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