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 .....