Google Secret Lab - GOOGLE 'X'

  Google is reportedly working on a secret laboratory at its California headquarters worth 120 million dollars, which the internet search giant will use to test a range of new experimental products. The center will be able to cater for up to 900 VIPs, the report said. The project is part of an 800,000 square foot plan to refurbish Google's campus. The company has already demonstrated new concepts for the 'Android@Home' brand, which would allow users of Google mobile phones to control light switches, music systems and domestic appliances. According to The Telegraph, Google is also modifying a separate lab as part of its advanced 'Project X' scheme and is set to include as yet unspecified 'precision optical technology'. It is also building new anechoic and thermal chambers to test sound and radiation patterns, the paper said.

  One Google engineer familiar with Google X said it was run as mysteriously as the C.I.A. — with two offices, a nondescript one for logistics, on the company’s Mountain View campus, and one for robots, in a secret location.  While software engineers toil away elsewhere at Google, the lab is filled with roboticists and electrical engineers. They have been hired from Microsoft, Nokia Labs, Stanford, M.I.T., Carnegie Mellon and New York University. Mr. Page has tried to appease analysts by saying that crazy projects are a tiny proportion of Google’s work

Nokia's Android Mobile : Nokia Feo 800

  We have known already NOKIA is giant of mobile industries. It produced quality phones with less cost. This has spreaded  all over world and reached village also. It used symbian OS for their phones. Then Google introduced Android OS, is a free open source operating system(FOSS). As be a open source, it is built stronger than other OS. Now Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG used this OS. People get Android phones with less cost and more features than Nokia phones. So Nokia marketing is getting down now a day. It planned to shut down their two plants with 10,000 workers. As it nee ds to retain its marketing, it is planned to released NOKIA ANDROID PHONE.  It named as Nokia Feo 800. 

During the announcement,Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop said “The Android OS is so ugly that it managed to turn our beautiful polycarbonate monoblock into an ugly slab. Therefore, we decided to call it Feo, which means ugly in Spanish”.

Specification:

Let's take a look at what the device holds in view of the expected price of Nokia Android. Packed with the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich alongside the power of 1.5 GHz CPU from its Korean contemporary, Samsung, the Nokia Android mobile phone comes with a 4-inch AMOLED screen producing crisp images at a resolution of 800*480 pixels. Presenting itself in black, cyan and magenta, the device features an 8MP camera for some quick shots. On the data front, the device is adequately equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC for seamless connectivity. Fitted with a standard 1850 mAh battery, it promises good talk time.

In India the Cost is 30,000 Rs (approx)

Microsoft releases : Windows 8, Microsoft Office 2013, Visual Studio 2012

 Microsoft seems to have set in motion a series of launches and previews ahead of the launch of its next generation operating system, Windows 8, scheduled for October 26, 2012. 
  In recent weeks, it has also opened up consumer previews to its upcoming office 2013 suite, Which has look and feel of windows 8 user interface. May be it is going to release EOY.
  First Microsoft released Windows 8 Operating system to OEM and manufacturing partners for testing purpose.

  And also Microsoft planned to release Visual Studio 2012 and more Windows 8 phones with Nokia. Windows 8 wont run on XP and Vista users. They dont have chance with Windows 8.

NEW SOCIAL NETWORK - ZURKER

Its a new concept social networking site just like facebook, which still not launched and under construction but will soon..and providing v-shares(virtual) of it..in its beta testing for each referral. so this is the time when u can join it and earn shares for you which will give u a large amount of money and when website will launch publicly u will become share holder of that organization.

Now the price of each share is equivalent to 1$ (51 Rs.) and will increase as member will increase and can reach upto many dollars per share in future. So it will be ur future investment without any cost by just adding ur friends to this.

What i think is you are not going to waste your time and in result if u refer more member u will earn more shares... so what u r thinking... just register on it and start earning shares before its public launch.. because after that they will stop this concept...

for registering u have to follow the process given below

1. click on this link http://www.zurker.in/i-70529-hbjyfayxdt
2. Click on "Join For Fun"
3. Enter a available id for yourself ( a unique for u which is available)
4. then enter ur email id and choose a pass word for u.
4. Goto Ur mail_id go to your SPAM folder ( not in inbox) and click on the link u got from zurker.
5. Accept Terms And Services and age restriction And must just upload any pic(koi bhi, kisi bhi cheej ki)
6. u r done... 

Remember u will get verification mail in SPAM and after clicking the link in that mail upload ur profile picture to make ur profile complete, After doing this u will get Vshare for ur name if u invite ur friends to join it .

Enjoy collecting shares...

If u r doing so.. i am thanking u in advance....

http://www.zurker.in/i-70529-hbjyfayxdt

SECOND EARTHQUAKE IN MY LIFE

     Now i am living in Chennai. The noon of  day before yesterday,  me and my friend was watching TV in the room. While watching TV my back body was slightly stretched into the wall. At 2.10 my body felt that  whole building had been shaken for 10 minutes.
     People from next apartments were shouted. Immediately all are exhausted and stood in the street. Rampage had been occurred.After half an hour all were returned their home. They announced scale of quake is 7 Richter. My first experience is covered in the first post of blog.

METRO TRAIN AND MONO TRAIN

- Mono rail can go in congested short streets whereas Metro Rail cannot go in busy, overcrowded street.


- Monorail can be built faster with less cost. It consumes minimal space.


- Mono Rail can carry upto 700 people at a time. Metro Rail can carry thousands of people


- Metro Rail can travel at higher speed than Mono Rail. Mono rail can go at 85 km per hour


- Mumbai is constructing second largest Mono Rail in the world. Delhi, Bangalore go with Metro Rail. Delhi has plans to introduce Mono Rail too.


- Monorail travels in Single track

MONO TRAIN

The earliest monorails were born out of necessity to connect two points that needed materials in a fast time period. However, they were first thought of as a mass transit system in 50’s though they could not progress beyond a point because of stiff competition from automobiles and also because of high cost of manufacture of the track. But with traffic congestion becoming monstrous, the concept of monorail got a boost with Japan successfully running a monorail across Tokyo that carries more than a hundred thousand passengers daily. Monorails have all along been used in amusement parks. The maglev system developed by German scientists which is magnetic levitation and the train appears to be running on air, has become very popular as it not only allows very fast speeds, deceleration of monorail moving at a very high speed in moments is also possible. Maglev trains are one of the fastest running transport system on earth (besides airplanes of course), and speeds of nearly 600kmph have been achieved.

METRO TRAIN

Metro rail has become very common in many parts of the world and the smart feature of metro rail is that the track is on ground, underground and over ground depending upon availability of space. So the same train may go under ground and within second come out of the tunnel and start running on a overhead track for some time. Some very successful and popular metro rail systems around the world are New York Subway, Shanghai metro, and the London Underground metro system. All over the world, whatever their nomenclature, underground rail systems are popular as metros. Today metro rail has become one of the fastest and most efficient system of transport of people in metros and other big cities around the world. Metro rail system has to be supported with a bus transport system as it has stations at places where there are no other means of transport available for people to reach their destination. As underground routes of metro rail allow the rail to bypass the traffic on the ground, rail can move at great speeds bringing much convenience for people.

In India Delhi Metro has started its function on 2002. Last year October itself Bangalore has started. Construction is going on chennai and mumbai metros. 

SWOOGLE - Semantic web search

   Swoogle is a search engine for Semantic Web ontologies, documents, terms and data published on the Web. Swoogle employs a system of crawlers to discover RDF documents and HTML documents with embedded RDF content. Swoogle reasons about these documents and their constituent parts (e.g., terms and triples) and records and indexes meaningful metadata about them in its database.

Swoogle provides services to human users through a browser interface and to software agents via RESTful web services. Several techniques are used to rank query results inspired by the PageRank algorithm developed at Google but adapted to the semantics and use patterns found in semantic web documents.
Swoogle was developed at and is hosted by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) with funding from the US DARPA and National Science Foundation agencies. It is PhD thesis work of Li Ding advised by Professor Tim Finin

Technology Predictions - 2012

1. Social media will lose its sizzle.
It’s already happening in fact, as growth of social media usage has begun to slow for upstarts such as FourSquare and stalwarts such as Facebook alike. Silicon Valley has been obsessed with social media and investors have funded hundreds of “me too” start-ups to the tune of billions of dollars. There are social networks for pet owners, all manner of marginal Twitter apps, a ridiculous number of mobile photo-sharing apps, hundreds of apps targeting social media analytics and on and on and on.
Just as location-based applications became a “feature” rather than the “big thing,” social media will live on and become an integral part of what we do. But the party’s over for investors and start-ups in this space. The big growth is behind us. Revenues from social media have not lived up to the promises, and the vast majority of those thousands of start-ups are either dying or on the ropes. It’s time to jump on the next bandwagon, folks.

2. The bubble will pop for the current crop of tech IPOs.
LinkedIn and Zynga will probably lose more than half their value. LinkedIn is a great company, but even its current valuation of $6 billion is hard to justify. Zynga’s valuation is based more on hype than business reality. Groupon will probably lose most of its value as well because of the inability of the company to actually make a real operating profit that doesn’t require odd accounting gyrations.
But we’ll see another bubble of inflated IPOs coming in the form of the next generation of social game companies, newfangled B2B technology players (if Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff doesn’t buy them all first), and cloud computing companies. And there is little doubt that Facebook will be the IPO of the year — but likely at a lower valuation than is being speculated.

3. An explosion of the tablet market driven by sub-$100 tablets.
The Kindle Fire made waves with its $199 tablet, but we will probably see a new generation of Android-powered tablets that are priced at $100 or below. Tablet manufacturers don’t have the financial incentive to make these too cheap because profits shrink along with price. Once these devices get in the $100 range, carriers may subsidize them as a way to get customers to buy data plans — just like they have done for years with smartphones. Or tablet manufacturers may offer these devices with internet service bundled for as little as $10-15 per month.
For sophisticated consumers, these cheap tablets will seem rudimentary. But there are many new markets that will embrace these devices. And they enable a quantum leap for education systems, communications and information sharing in the developing world. India’s $35 tablet is already a reality. The current version, produced by Montreal-based DataWind is underpowered and clunky, but the next versions will be very usable. Imagine the price pressure DataWind will put on the lower end (meaning everyone but Apple) of the U.S. market if it releases the Aakash tablet in the United States.

4. Voice recognition goes mainstream.
Former CEO and chairman Steve Jobs revolutionized user interaction by popularizing the Windows interface and mouse. With SIRI, he did his magic once again. SIRI is light-years better at handling complex requests than anything on a smartphone to date — and is getting better with each software update. Apple will embed this technology in new devices such as the Apple TV, in future versions of iPads and iMacs. It will probably open the interfaces to other applications and set off the voice revolution.
The type of voice command capabilities that we saw on “Star Trek” will start to become the reality.

5. “Cloudburst” shakes the tech industry.
Cloud computing is advancing faster than our ability to secure systems. Companies are rapidly moving their most critical data and information from file cabinets and secured servers to shared servers on the Web. Cloud computing provides significant cost savings and operational advantages. But it also unleashes a Pandora’s box of security concerns.
We’ve already seen cloud break-ins originating from China. And a number of legitimate Internet companies have suffered when the FBI confiscated a shared server in a cloud hosting facility that also hosted rogue applications. One major security breach could throw cold water over the entire industry and slow down the corporate adoption that is expected to drive cloud growth this year and for many years to come.
No doubt the tech world is in for another roller coaster ride—which will be a lot of fun.

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT'S CHEAPEST TABLET- AAKASH(Android)

    The Aakash is an Android tablet computer jointly developed by the London-based company DataWind with the Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan. It is manufactured by the India-based company Quad, at a new production centre in Hyderabad, with a trial run of 100,000 units. The tablet was officially launched as the Aakash in New Delhi on October 5, 2011. A substantially upgraded second-generation model called UbiSlate 7+ is projected for manufacture starting in early 2012.

     

Specifications	Aakash (Ubislate7)	Ubislate7+ (The upgraded version of Aakash)
Availability	NOW!	Late January
Pricing	Rs.2,500	Rs.2,999
Microprocessor	Arm11 – 366Mhz	Cortex A8 – 700 Mhz
Battery	2100 mAh	3200 mAh
OS	Android 2.2	Android 2.3
Network	WiFi	WiFi & GPRS (SIM & Phone functionality)

 
     As a multi-media platform, the Aakash project was beset by delays and setbacks. The device was developed as part of the country's aim to link 25,000 colleges and 400 universities in an e-learning program. Originally projected as a "$35 laptop", the device will be sold to the Government of India at US$50 and will be distributed at a government subsidized price of $35. A commercial version of Aakash is currently marketed as UbiSlate 7+ at a price of $60.
By January 3, 2012 1.4 million online orders for the Aakash had been received.

     As released on 5 October 2011, the Aakash features an overall size of 190.5 x 118.5 x 15.7mm with a 7 inches (180 mm) resistive touchscreen, a weight of 350 grams (12 oz) and using the Android 2.2 operating system with access to the proprietary marketplace Getjar (not the Android Market), developed by DataWind.
The processor runs at 366 MHz; there is a graphics accelerator and HD video coprocessor. The tablet has 256 MB RAM, a micro SD slot with a 2 GB Micro SD card (expandable to 32 GB), two USB ports, a 3.5 mm audio output and input jack, a 2100 mAh battery, Wi-fi capability, a browser developed by DataWind, and an internal cellular and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) modem. Power consumption is 2 watts, and there is a solar charging option.
The Aakash domar is designed to support various document (DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP,PDF), image (PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF), audio (MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA) and video (MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV) file formats and includes an application for access to YouTube video content.