Amazon's social networking site !!!!!

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??

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 ?????

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

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

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

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!!!!!!!!!

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

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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

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 ..

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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 !!

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 !!!!!

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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..

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-> "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..

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->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"

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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

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

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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..

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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..

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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.

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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..

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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..

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

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Source:USA.com

Wal-Mart entering the market of DRM-Free

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

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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!!!

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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...

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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 ..

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

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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 ..

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

Heard about Zombie horde ???

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

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..

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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..

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

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

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* 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..

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* 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 .....

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 ???

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) ..

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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.

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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..

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The MaYaN calender ---->>

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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).

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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..

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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.

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

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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 ..

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

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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.

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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.

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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..

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

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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..

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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..

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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..

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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* 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.

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The most Brilliant act of Bill Gates ...

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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.

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And when Microsoft Broke The Rulesssssssss.....

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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..

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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.

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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 ???

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 ????

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 !!!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..