Upgraded Aakash II tablet to be available at same price: Sibal

The world's cheapest tablet - "Aakash II", will be available soon in India with major upgradtion and most exciting information is that the "Aakash II" will be available with the same price.

Kipal Sibal (Telecom and HRD Minister) said the previous manufacturer of the tablet - "Datawind" will not be associated with Indian Government to carry out this project. The Government has tied-up the project work with C-DAC and ITI. Also added by Mr. Sibal that the latest version will be launched in the same year 2012. When you dream bigger, things dont move smooth.

The Aakash tablet is priced at approximately $49 (Rs 2414).

Convert your file into different format through your eMail

There are ample websites available that serves for the conversion of the file into different format. You will find various online websites where you have to upload your desired file, specify the file format in which you want to convert it, once you upload your file in few seconds it will be converted into your required format.

Zamzar is one of the best known website for conversion of file from one format to another format. To know the conversion of file one format to another you can click the list.

Now, let us know how we can convert the file format, follow the steps.

1) Open your any eMail account.

2) Click on compose or new message button

3) Now click on the To textbox. (i.e to whom you are going to forward the email)

4) Over here we are going to mail our attachment to http://www.zamzar.com/. The email id will the name of destination file format followed by the zamzar.com.

(for e.g - you want to convert your .doc(source file format) file into .pdf format(destination file format) to in the To textbox write pdf@zamzar.com or if you want to convert the .doc into .html than type html@zamzar.com in the To textbox.)

5) Now attach the file that you want to convert.(Maximum file attachment size is 1.0 MB)

Once you send the message to the zamzar, within the few seconds you will get a mail in your inbox from zamzar mentioning about the successful conversion of your file. On opening the mail you receive a mail from zamzar open that mail. In the mail you will find a link which will take you to the zamzar website where you have to click on the download button. On successful download you will have your file in your desired format.

TRY IT AND PLEASE SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Get ready for Google's entertainment device

Google is about to launch its new entertainment device called "Project Tungsten". This device will serve as music system that connects to your speakers or home sterio system. The device comes with Google Android operating system, so you can enjoy all the online music files.

This device can be control by your smartphones or tablets and numbers of devices can be connected to play music on speakers system throughtout  a room.

At this time, Google defines this device as concept rather than product.

FACEBOOK new photo viewer

Facebook is one of the best spot on the internet for sharing the images, years back it displayed only the tiny pics with low resolution. Last year in the month of febuary, facebook provided the lightbox photo viewing service and now the new facebook photo viewer is here in your account.

On the first sight you will find it similar to Google+ photo viewer and yes are you are right its clone of Google+ photo viewer. You will find the pic on the left hand whereas you can post the comments on the right hand side instead below of the image which was available with the earlier version.

Apart from this, you can rotate the image in left or right direction. For this you have to click on top right corner of the photo viewer as shown in the above pic, this will popup the menu list with following options. 

• Add location
• change date
• rotate left
• rotate right
• download
• make profile picture
• delete this photo

(Note: if you're not seeing the new view yet, log out and log back in)

Google Science Fair 2012

Google is googling for the young bright scientist of age between 13-18, in association with its parterns CERN, The LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American.

Today Google annouce the second Google Science Fair and world's largest online science fair.

Google Science Fair opens : January 12, 2012

Last date submissions : April 1, 2012 at 11:59 GMT (or 6:59pm ET/3:59pm PT).

Prizes : $50,000/-, 10 days trip at Galapagos Islands, along with National Geographic Explorer

            or
            Internship at Google
            or
            any one of its partners.

Follow "Google Science Fair 2012"

• Website 
• @Google+
• Blog

Google+ users get ready for the personalized search results

The giant search engine Google launches its new service called "Search, Plus Your World" , this service of Google will aid the G+ users to search the photos, posts and many more of you and your friends.

At Google, we always want to return the most comprehensive and relevant answers to your questions, and many times those answers are in the open public Web, but many times those answers are in your own personal content,” Singhal said. “This is the first time we’re bringing personal content right into the results page.”

With the time, Google is transforming itself as search engine, which was earlier bound to display the content on the given term but now it will understand people and relationships too. Google transformation as Social Search which comes up with the three main features.

1. Personal Results.

This feature will help to get information for you, like Google+ images and posts which belongs to you as well as those are shared with you, you will only be able to see it on your results pages.

2. Profiles in Search

This feature aids you to search people are closer to you or might be interested in following.

3. People and Pages

This feature will search Google+ profiles and Google+ pages on specific topics like product, service or area of interest details.

FACEBOOK is Googling world's best Hackers

You have a good programming skills ? Than facebook offers you its 2^nd "HACKER CUP" Challenge. "Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook," - this was posted on the company blog on annoucing 2012 competition. Facebook has launch its new services "TIMELINE" and better smart searching algorithm, to make this services reliable and prevent it from the illegal activities.

This competition is open for all anywhere in the world. Facebook's competition will taste deepest knowledge of each participants in five rounds. The competition will begin on January 20 with 72 hour qualification round. Further the three rounds will filter the numbers of participants at the final round best 25 competitors will have to their proficiency at the Facebook main headquater at Menlo Park, California in the Month of March.

Google Vertical Menu

Google in last few months have great transformation in its look. After the UI change for gmail, blogger, google home page with horizontal menu. Today it came up with the vertical menu, just move mouse cursor on the down arrow image, it will popup the menu with black background.

Slate 2 HP's new Tablet PC at $699

HP (Hewlett-Packard) to be in the Tablet PC competition, introduces Slate 2 Tablet PC, which is  the business targeted Tablet PC with Windows 7 operating system. The last version of the Slate 2 with 9\8.9 inch screen is upgraded with Intel Atom Z670 processor for boosting the boot times and also the battery back is extend up to six hours.

Addtional features for the HP Slate 2 are a 8.9-inch capacitive multi-touch LCD with touch and pen inpu that is supported through an N-Trig digitizer, a Swype keyboard (pre-installed applet), a mSATA SSD for storage, a USB 2.0 port, an SD card slot, SRS Premium sound, one microphone for voice/video chatting, one VGA webcam and a 3MP rear camera

India Get Your Business Online

Google announces free website with free domain and webspace for small and medium size business. Google promises to provide this facility to the 5,00,000 SMB (Small and Medium size Businesses) for the next three years.

Google will provide the following services

·         Free, easy-to-build, professional website

·         Free .in domain name and hosting for one year

·         Free email addresses

·         Free 365 days support

There are near about 100 million Indian remain online through PCs, mobile phones and many others gadgets. There are about 80,00,000 SMBs in the nation out it about 4,00,000 businesses are online and only 1,00,000 businesses have good quality of websites.

With this initiative of Google, India will be the 19th country, under this initiatives of having '.in' domain, web-hosting, all kinds of technical supports through phone, email or chat, Google email-id and athletics.

TRAI extends the SMSes per day limit upto 200

Its a good news for all the SMS users, as TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has announced to double the SMS limit by 200. Earlier the SMSes were limit upto 100 per day. But TRAI received a proposal from the service providers on behalf of consumer to raise the number of SMSes per day. TRAI earlier imposed the restriction of non-commerical SMSes which can be send from a SIM to 100  whereas, no restriction on commerical messages that are sent via telemarketing companies.

These service will be effective from Tuesday, 01 Nov, 2011.

"India is the second largest growing mobile market"

"Mobile Phone" - it has become an integral part of every Indian. Before we leave home for office, college or shopping we never forget to collect our mobile handset from the desk or table. Each and every day new mobile handsets are introduced in the market and the numbers of  mobile handsets subscribers with the wireless facility is total 89.2 crore which is said today by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM).

The definition of mobile phone has changed, its no longer now a voice communicating device but its a device that  entertains the individual through songs, videos, games and yes various apps that aid us to complete our office work too. ASSOCHAM conducted a survey at the six major cities Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai & Hyderabad of the country about 1,370 responses were collected of age between 20-30 years and conclude that on an average every Indian mobile subscribes update or change their mobile phones to use the latest mobile apps and the price of mobile phones which has gradually fall down also helped to grow this market.

Gujarat Light Earthquake 2011

On 20th Oct, 2011 at 22.48 pm., Gujarat once again experience earthquake. It shivered all the parts of the state. The epic center is considered near 29 kms from Junagadh. On richter scale its measure 4.9. 

Magnitude	mb 4.9
Region	GUJARAT, INDIA
Date time	2011-10-20 17:18:43.0 UTC
Location	21.28 N ; 70.57 E
Depth	80 km
Distances	29 km SE Junagadh (pop 184,447 ; local time 22:48:43.1 2011-10-20) 15 km E Mendarla (pop 17,166 ; local time 22:48:43.1 2011-10-20)

As usual i was in front of my wifes (PC & internet). Sitting on the chair with both the legs on the table next to the monitor. Suddenly, i felt some one is shaking my chair than i saw the moving door of my bedroom, immediately went in the gallery in ten secs took back my position and again i felt that some one is shaking my chair. It was confirmed with my neighbour that we experienced earth quake. I stay on eighth floor of the building.