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DMV Exam Questions and Answers

2007-10-14T14:58:00.000-07:00

Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) Exam Questions.

To Get through DMV follow the following procedure:
ID Required...6-points, plus proof of address:
1. An original civil birth certificate or passport = 4 pts.
2. An original social security card = 1 pt.
3. High school waiver (score) card or school ID = 1 pt.
4. Proof of address - school document or bank statement showing name and address.

Note:

At the test center, the licensed driver with the permit driver, must present license, and must show the registration and insurance card for the vehicle. It is vital that the licensed driver remain in the vehicle with the permit driver until the test starts.
The car you take for the test needs to be clean and in good running condition with no safety hazards. It also needs to be equipped with a hand brake in the middle or easy access to the foot brake for the driving inspector.
If you pass the road test, you will obtain a four-year digital photo license.
If you fail the road test, you must wait at least two weeks before taking the test again. Rescheduling the road test is required.

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1) Any change of address on your drivers license must be reported within:
A) One month
B) Two weeks
C) Two months
D) One week
Correct Answer: D

2) If you fail the road test for your drivers license on your first try, before taking another test you must wait at least:
A) Two months
B) One month
C) Two weeks
D) One week
correct answer is C

3) Before turning, you must signal at least:
A) 100 yards in advance
B) 100 feet in advance
C) 1 block in advance
D) 500 feet in advance
correct answer is B

4) A driver examination permit only becomes valid when you:
A) Reach the age of 21
B) Pass eyesight and written tests
C) Complete driving school course
D) Pass the road test
correct answer is B

5) When you move into NJ with a license from another state, you may drive with your out-of-state license for:
A) 30 days
B) 60 days
C) 90 days
D) One year
correct answer is B

6) You must report a lost, stolen, or damaged license within:
A) One month
B) Two weeks
C) One week
D) 24 hours
correct answer is D

7) Under the law, basic drivers licenses are normally issued for:
A) One year
B) Two years
C) Three years
D) Four years
correct answer is D

8) When driving a motor vehicle you are required to have your drivers license and:
A) Title to vehicle and registration
B) Registration and insurance card
C) Insurance and ownership card
D) Title of vehicle and insurance card
correct answer is B

9) A driver examination permit may be obtained at the age of:
A) 16
B) 16 1/2
C) 16 3/4
D) 17 and older
correct answer is D

10) If a student driver commits a traffic offense, responsibility will be with:
A) Only the student
B) Only the instructor
C) Neither student nor instructor
D) Both student and instructor
correct answer is D

11) In order to register a used car in NJ, you must have:
A) A drivers license
B) License plates
C) Proof of ownership
D) An inspection sticker
correct answer is C

12) If you get new license plates the old ones should be:
A) Thrown away
B) Returned to Director of Motor Vehicles
C) Turned in at any police station
D) Turned in at any Motor Vehicle Inspection Station and a receipt given to you
correct answer is D

13) If you drive without an insurance card in your car the penalty is:
A) Up to $100 fine
B) 30 days in jail
C) Revocation of license
D) Up to $500 fine
correct answer is A

14) When you trade in your old car for a new one, you:
A) Must buy new plates at the time of registration
B) Must buy new plates within 60 days after registration of vehicle
C) Can use your old plates and register the new vehicle
D) Must use temporary plates until the new vehicle is registered
correct answer is C

15) License plates should be placed on front and rear of car and should be:
A) 1 1/2 feet from ground
B) 2 feet from ground
C) Between 12 and 48 inches from ground
D) 10 inches from ground
correct answer is C

16) The registration of your car must be renewed:
A) Every year
B) Every 2 years
C) Twice a year
D) 4 times a year
correct answer is A

17) In order to drive in NJ, your car must be insured for:
A) Theft
B) Fire damage
C) Collision
D) Liability
correct answer is D

18) If you are driving a vehicle with an expired inspection sticker, you are subject to:
A) A fine
B) An arrest
C) Registration revocation
D) All the above
correct answer is D

19) If your car fails inspection, to make the necessary repairs and have it reinspected, you have:
A) 30 days
B) 60 days
C) 90 days
D) 120 days
correct answer is A

20) Who is responsible for keeping your car registered and inspected?
A) The Director of Motor Vehicles
B) The Governor
C) You
D) Your local mechanic
correct answer is C

21) When a car is registered in NJ, how many license plates are issued?
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
correct answer is B

22) A car must be inspected:
A) Once a year
B) Twice a year
C) Every two years
D) Every three years
correct answer is C

23) Liability insurance protects you from damage due to:
A) Theft and fire
B) Property damage and injury
C) Vandalism
D) Flood and water damage
correct answer is B

24) If you are convicted of driving without insurance in NJ, what will happen to you?
A) You will be rquired to pay a fine
B) You will have your license suspended
C) You will have your registration suspended
D) All of the above
correct answer is D

25) The six month license suspension for failure to take a breath test for alcohol:
A) Is dependent on the arresting officer
B) Is not mandatory
C) Is mandatory
D) Is dependent on the judge
correct answer is C

26) You can get points:
A) For failing to pay fines
B) For repeated parking violations
C) For failure to register your car
D) Only for a moving violation
correct answer is D

27) A motorist will probably have license suspended when the points on his record total:
A) 12 or more within 2 years
B) 6 to 8 within 3 years
C) 10 within 10 years
D) 2 to 4 within 2 years
correct answer is D

28) Penalty for driving with a suspended license, first offense?
A) $25 to $100 fine
B) $200 to $1000 fine and imprisonment up to 45 days
C) $500 fine and up to six months additional suspension
D) $500 fine and/or imprisonment up to one year
correct answer is C

29) NJ law allows points to be subtracted from your driving record if you have no moving violations and suspensions for:
A) 6 months
B) One year
C) 18 months
D) Two years
correct answer is B

30) The penalty for not telling the truth when applying for a license is:
A) Not less than $200 fine and/or up to 6 months in jail
B) Up to one year in jail
C) $50 fine
D) $200 fine and one year in jail
correct answer is A

31) A license may be suspended for cause by:
A) The court and Director of Motor Vehicles
B) The arresting police officer
C) The state attorney
D) The federal attorney
correct answer is A

32) Which law or regulation requires a driver to undergo a breath test when suspected of driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages?
A) Security Responsibility Law
B) NJ Point System Regulation
C) Implied Consent Law
D) Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
correct answer is C

33) If driver is convicted of possessing any narcotic drug while operating a motor vehicle, the penalty is:
A) Six month loss of license
B) Two year loss of license and minimum $50 fine
C) One year loss of license and $100 fine
D) Loss of license for a period determined by the Director of Motor Vehicles
correct answer is B

34) The best way to talk to other drivers is to:
A) Use your horn or lights
B) Be courteous and wave
C) Roll down the window and yell
D) Motion with your hands
correct answer is A

35) Two parallel white lines going across the road mean:
A) Bus stop
B) Crosswalk
C) Loading zone
D) School bus stops here
correct answer is B

36) The NJ speed limit in a residential or business district, unless otherwise posted is:
A) 25 mph
B) 40 mph
C) 15 mph
D) 50 mph
correct answer is A

37) You may pass on the right on a two-lane roadway when:
A) The driver in front of you (in the same lane) is turning left and there is sufficient room on the right to pass.
B) There is a slow moving vehicle ahead.
C) Entering an intersection.
D) There are no traffic signals.
correct answer is A

38) After you drive through a deep puddle of water:
A) Pump your brakes to test them
B) Race your engine to dry it out
C) Apply your brakes hard to test them
D) Speed up to dry your tires
correct answer is A

39) You can get alcohol out of your blood by:
A) Drinking coffee or eating
B) Taking a cold shower
C) Time
D) Vigorous exercise
correct answer is C

40) Hydroplaning means:
Hydroplanning - when a tire loses traction as a result of water on the road. The water accumulates under the tire's footprint and causes the tire to lift from the road surface. Vehicle speed, tread pattern and water depth all affect hydroplaning.
A) Road surfaces become slippery during the first minutes of rainfall.
B) A car will skid when water is deeper than the tire tread.
C) Brakes fail to hold when cars are driven through deep water.
D) Tire treads lose contact with a wet road.
correct answer is D

41) If two cars begin to enter an uncontrolled intersection at the same time:
A) The driver to the right must yield
B) The driver to the left must yield.
C) The driver entering first must yield to the driver on the right.
D) The driver going straight through proceeds first.
correct answer is B

42) Which of the following safe driving skills are affected by alcohol:
A) Alertness
B) Judgement
C) Reaction
D) All of the above
correct answer is D

43) If a vehicle is passing you, you must:
A) Speed up so he will not complete the pass
B) Continue at the same speed and signal the oncoming traffic
C) Flash your lights and sound your horn to warn the car passing you that it is unsafe.
D) Slow down to make it easier for the driver to complete the pass in time.
correct answer is D

44) A green arrow means:
A) Proceed as shown by the arrow
B) Stop, proceed with caution
C) Slow before entering the intersection
D) Stop before the crosswalk
correct answer is A

45) Front seat occupants must wear a seat belt, the driver is responsible for those:
A) 10-20 years of age
B) Under 18 years of age
C) 18 years and over
D) Anyone sitting in the passenger seat
correct answer is B

46) As you drive, you must turn your headlights on:
A) When you turn your wipers on
B) One-half hour after sunset
C) One-half hour before sunrise
D) All of the above
correct answer is D

47) If you are driving behind a school bus and it shows a flashing red light signalling a stop, you must:
A) Stop at leat 25 feet away
B) Slow down to 10 mph
C) Speed up and pass
D) Stop directly behind the bus
correct answer is A

48) A 5-ounce glass of wine contains the same amount of alcohol as:
A) One pint of whiskey
B) A gallon of wine
C) A 6-pack of beer
D) One 12-ounce can of beer
correct answer is D

49) If you run off the pavement, the first thing you should do is:
A) Apply your brakes
B) Slow down and turn back onto the pavement slowly.
C) Stop quickly.
D) Turn back quickly.
correct answer is B

50) If you have a blowout while driving:
A) Drive to the shoulder of the road immediately, then apply brakes to stop.
B) Keep the car going straight, slow down gradually and then pull off the road.
C) Apply brakes for a quick stop.
D) Hold the steering wheel loosely and steer to the shoulder immediately
correct answer is B

51) If you have a blood alcohol concentration of .15 percent, your chances of having an accident is:
A) 6 times as great
B) Double
C) 25 times as great
D) 3 times as great
correct answer is C

52) Yellow lines down the center of the road:
A) Allow passing when safe.
B) Separate traffic flow in opposite directions.
C) Mean a residential district.
D) Mean curve on hill ahead.
correct answer is B

53) When parking uphill with a curb, you should always set the emergency brake and turn the wheels:
Curb: A curb or kerb (see spelling differences) is the edge where a raised pavement/sidewalk/footpath, road median, or road shoulder meets an unraised street or other roadway. Typically made from concrete, asphalt, or long stones (often granite), the purpose is twofold: first as a gutter for proper drainage of the roadway, and second for safety, to keep motorists from driving onto the shoulder, median, sidewalk, or pavement.
A) Away from the curb
B) Toward the curb.
C) So the are straight.
D) Back and forth
correct answer is A

54) Dim your headlights to low beam when:
A) Entering a curve
B) Driving on dark roads
C) Approaching or following another vehicle
D) Parking on an unlit highway
correct answer is C

55) In NJ, snow studded tires are permitted:
A) January 1st - May 1st
B) November 15th - April 1st
C) November 1st - May 1st
D) December 1st - June 15th
correct answer is B

56) An acceleration lane is:
A) The left lane of a two-lane highway
B) The passing lane
C) An extra lane at a highway entrance
D) An extra lane at a highway exit
correct answer is C

57) When using the brakes, a common mistake a new driver makes is:
A) Not pushing the brake pedal hard enough.
B) Stopping too soon.
C) Pumping the brakes.
D) Pushing the brake pedal too hard.
correct answer is D

58) Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) in the body is related to:
A) A persons weight.
B) The amount of alcohol he drinks.
C) The time he takes to drink the alcohol.
D) All of the above.
correct answer is D

59) Crossing center lines on a two-way roadway for passing is legal when:
A) Both lines are solid.
B) Both lines are solid with no traffic visible in the opposite direction.
C) The solid line is on your side of the highway.
D) The broken line is on your side of the highway.
correct answer is D

60) In order to steer the car while moving backward, you should turn:
A) The steering wheel in the direction opposite the way you want the rear of the car to go.
B) The steering wheel in the direction you want the rear of the car to go.
C) The steering wheel clockwise for the rear of the car to go to the left.
D) The steering wheel in the direction you want the front of the car to go.
correct answer is B

61) If a collision is impossible to avoid, you can lessen the impact by:
A) Steering toward objects that give
B) Heading toward moving objects
C) Dropping to the car floor
D) Steering away from objects that do not
correct answer is A

62) A single, solid white line across(opposite side) a road at an intersection means:
A) No parking zone
B) Bus stop
C) Stop within five feet of the line for a sign or traffic light
D) Tow-Away zone
correct answer is C

63) At night, you should drive slow enough to be able to stop within:
A) 4 car lengths
B) 10 seconds from the time you apply the brakes
C) The distance ahead lighted by your headlights
D) The time it takes for a light to change from yellow to red
correct answer is C

64) If you go into a skid:
Skid: Slippery Ground.
A) Turn in the opposite direction the back of the car is skidding
B) Brake at once and steer in the direction the front end of your car is skidding
C) Keep a tight grip on the steering wheel and brake
D) Take your foot off the gas pedal and turn in the same direction the back end of the car is skidding
correct answer is D

65) When making a left turn from a two-way street you should get into the:
A) Right lane, or the lane farthest from the center lane.
B) Left lane nearest to the left curb.
C) Lane nearest to the center of the roadway.
D) Right lane, or the lane nearest to the right curb.
correct answer is C

66) What is an Habitual Offender ?
A) Any person whose license has been suspended once.
B) Any person whose license has been suspended 2 times in 2 years.
C) Any person whose license has been suspended 3 times in 3 years.
D) Any person whose license has been suspended 1 time in 2 years.
correct answer is C

67) The two-second rule refers to:
A) Stopping distance.
B) Following distance.
C) The distance ahead of you that you should be looking.
D) Reaction distance.
correct answer is B

68) A trianglular sign with an orange center and red border means:
A) School zone
B) Yield
C) Stop
D) Slow moving vehicle
correct answer is D

69) A person who refuses a Breathalyzer Test in conjunction with a first offense for driving under the influence is subject to:
A) A fine of $50.
B) A fine of $50 and six months loss of license.
C) Loss of license for two years and a fine of $250-$400.
D) Loss of license for six months and a fine of $250-$500.
correct answer is D

70) If your car breaks down on any road, the first thing you should do is:
A) Look for the nearest phone.
B) Flag down a police officer.
C) Lift your hood.
D) Try to pull off the road.
correct answer is D

Toll free helpline Numbers

2007-06-01T14:59:00.000-07:00

Air-Lines In India

Indian Airlines - 1600 180 1407

Jet Airways - 1600 22 5522

SpiceJet - 1600 180 3333

Automobiles

Mahindra Scorpio - 1600 22 6006

Maruti - 1600 111 515

Tata Motors - 1600 22 5552

Windshield Experts - 1600 11 3636

Banks

ABN AMRO - 1600 11 2224

Canara Bank - 1600 44 6000

Citibank - 1600 44 2265

Corporatin Bank - 1600 443 555

Development Credit Bank - 1600 22 5769

HDFC Bank - 1600 227 227

ICICI Bank - 1600 333 499

ICICI Bank NRI - 1600 22 4848

IDBI Bank - 1600 11 6999

Indian Bank - 1600 425 1400

ING Vysya - 1600 44 9900

Kotak Mahindra Bank - 1600 22 6022

Lord Krishna Bank - 1600 11 2300

Punjab National Bank - 1600 122 222

State Bank of India - 1600 44 1955

Syndicate Bank - 1600 44 6655

Cell Phones

BenQ - 1600 22 08 08

Bird CellPhones - 1600 11 7700

Motorola MotoAssist - 1600 11 1211

Nokia - 3030 3838

Sony Ericsson - 3901 1111

Computers/IT

Adrenalin - 1600 444 445

AMD - 1600 425 6664

Apple Computers - 1600 444 683

Canon - 1600 333 366

Cisco Systems - 1600 221 777

Compaq - HP - 1600 444 999

Data One Broadband - 1600 424 1600

Dell - 1600 444 026

Epson - 1600 44 0011

eSys - 3970 0011

Genesis Tally Academy - 1600 444 888

HCL - 1600 180 8080

IBM - 1600 443 333

Lexmark - 1600 22 4477

Marshal's Point - 1600 33 4488

Microsoft - 1600 111 100

Microsoft Virus Update - 1901 333 334

Seagate - 1600 180 1104

Symantec - 1600 44 5533

TVS Electronics - 1600 444 566

WeP Peripherals - 1600 44 6446

Wipro - 1600 333 312

xerox - 1600 180 1225

Zenith - 1600 222 004

Couriers/Packers & Movers

ABT Courier - 1600 44 8585

AFL Wizz - 1600 22 9696

Agarwal Packers & Movers - 1600 11 4321

Associated Packers P Ltd - 1600 21 4560

DHL - 1600 111 345

FedEx - 1600 22 6161

Goel Packers & Movers - 1600 11
3456

UPS - 1600 22 7171

Education

Edu Plus - 1600 444 000

Hindustan College - 1600 33 4438

NCERT - 1600 11 1265

Vellore Institute of Technology - 1600 441 555

Healthcare

Best on Health - 1600 11 8899

Dr Batras - 1600 11 6767

GlaxoSmithKline - 1600 22 8797

Johnson & Johnson - 1600 22 8111

Kaya Skin Clinic - 1600 22 5292

LifeCell - 1600 44 5323

Manmar Technologies - 1600 33 4420

Pfizer - 1600 442 442

Roche Accu-Chek - 1600 11 45 46

Rudraksha - 1600 21 4708

Varilux Lenses - 1600 44 8383

VLCC - 1600 33 1262

Home Appliances

Aiwa/Sony - 1600 11 1188

Anchor Switches - 1600 22 7979

Blue Star - 1600 22 2200

Bose Audio - 1600 11 2673

Bru Coffee Vending Machines - 1600 44 7171

Daikin Air Conditioners - 1600 444 222

DishTV - 1600 12 3474

Faber Chimneys - 1600 21 4595

Godrej - 1600 22 5511

Grundfos Pumps - 1600 33 4555

LG - 1901 180 9999

Philips - 1600 22 4422

Samsung - 1600 113 444

Sanyo - 1600 11 0101

Voltas - 1600 33 4546

WorldSpace Satellite Radio - 1600
44 5432

Hotel Reservations

GRT Grand - 1600 44 5500

InterContinental Hotels Group - 1600 111 000

Marriott - 1600 22 0044

Sarovar Park Plaza - 1600 111 222

Taj Holidays - 1600 111 825

Insurance

AMP Sanmar - 1600 44 2200

Aviva - 1600 33 2244

Bajaj Allianz - 1600 22 5858

Chola MS General Insurance - 1600
44 5544

HDFC Standard Life - 1600 227 227

LIC - 1600 33 4433

Max New York Life - 1600 33 5577

Royal Sundaram - 1600 33 8899

SBI Life Insurance - 1600 22 9090

Mattresses

Kurl-on - 1600 44 0404

Sleepwell - 1600 11 2266

Investments/Finance

CAMS - 1600 44 2267

Chola Mutual Fund - 1600 22 2300

Easy IPO's - 3030 5757

Fidelity Investments - 1600 180 8000

Franklin Templeton Fund - 1600 425 4255

J M Morgan Stanley - 1600 22 0004

Kotak Mutual Fund - 1600 222 626

LIC Housing Finance - 1600 44 0005

SBI Mutual Fund - 1600 22 3040

Sharekhan - 1600 22 7500

Tata Mutual Fund - 1600 22 0101

Paints

Asian Paints Home Solutions - 1600 22 5678

Berger Paints Home Decor - 1600 33 8800

Teleshoppin

Asian Sky Shop - 1600 22 1600

Jaipan Teleshoppe - 1600 11 5225

Tele Brands - 1600 11 8000

VMI Teleshopping - 1600 447 777

WWS Teleshopping - 1600 220 777

Travel

Club Mahindra Holidays - 1600 33 4539

Cox & Kings - 1600 22 1235

God TV Tours - 1600 442 777

Kerala Tourism - 1600 444 747

Kumarakom Lake Resort - 1600 44 5030

Raj Travels & Tours - 1600 22 9900

Sita Tours - 1600 111 911

SOTC Tours - 1600 22 3344

UPS

APC - 1600 44 4272

Numeric - 1600 44 3266

Others

Consumer Helpline - 1600 11 4000

L'Or e al, GARNIeR - 1600 223 000

KONE Elevator - 1600 444 666

Indane - 1600 44 51 15

Aavin - 1600 44 3300

Pedigree - 1600 11 2121

Kodak India - 1600 22 8877

Domino's Pizza - 1600 111 123

World Vision India - 1600 444 550

Telecom Monitoring Cell - 1600 110 420

Questions Arise on Google's privacy policy

2007-05-29T05:07:00.000-07:00

A European Commission advisory group has raised concerns about how Google uses and manages users' search data.

A privacy advisory group composed of representatives from all of the European Union countries sent Google a letter expressing concern over the search giant's new privacy policy announced in March.

The issue surrounds Google's policy of anonymizing its server logs after 18 to 24 months. According to a Commission source, the advisory group is concerned with how the information is managed, rather than the length of time it is stored.

Google, which confirmed it received a letter from the chairman of the advisory group, said it will respond, as requested, before the group holds its next meeting in mid-June.

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Harmful program distributed through e-mail

2007-05-29T05:06:00.001-07:00

Hackers are trying to play on business' fear of legal action from customers to trick them into downloading a harmful program distributed through e-mail.

The e-mails purport to come from the Better Business Bureau, an organization that monitors and arbitrates disputes between consumers and businesses in the U.S. and Canada. The e-mails assert that a customer lodged a complaint against the recipient's business, according to a warning on the Web site of Websense, a security vendor.

The e-mails contain a Microsoft Word attachment with the text of the supposed complaint and instructions for how to respond. But embedded in that document is a keylogging program that captures data on the victim's computer and then uploads it to a server in Malaysia.

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Powerful new weapon to fight against movie pirates

2007-05-29T05:04:00.001-07:00

Malaysian cinemas have found a powerful new weapon in their fight against movie pirates -- military-style night-vision goggles.

After showing people to their seats, trained ushers are strapping on the goggles and scanning darkened cinemas around the country to spot anyone trying to make illegal copies of movies with hand-held video recorders or mobile phones.

The Motion Picture Association, which is training Malaysian ushers to catch the pirates, said cinemas had caught 17 people in the past two months, during which Hollywood studios released blockbusters like "Spider-Man 3" and "Pirates of the Caribbean."

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Skype Worm Jumps to ICQ, MSN

2007-05-29T05:03:00.001-07:00

A new variant of the Stration worm, which has been plaguing Windows users for the past year, has made the jump from Skype to the ICQ and MSN Messenger networks.

This latest variant popped up earlier this week, according to Chris Boyd, a researcher at FaceTime Communications Inc., who blogs under the pseudonym "Paperghost."

"They're using Skype as a jump off into other more established networks," Boyd said. "The infection will go looking for other instant messaging clients that are on the PC and then attempt to send the infection message that it initially sends through Skype through these other chat systems."

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Firefox 3.0 Passes Major Milestone

2007-05-29T05:01:00.000-07:00

Mozilla Corp. has met a major milestone in its march to Firefox 3.0, developers said yesterday, by adding another chunk of the new Places feature to the alpha set for release late next week.

Places -- a complete revamp of the bookmarks and history functions of the browser -- was at one point slated to debut in Firefox 2.0, but was yanked a year ago in the run up to that version's October 2006 release. Instead, it will debut in Firefox 3.0.

"We enabled the Places implementation of bookmarks on the trunk," said the Places team in a post to the Mozilla developer center blog. "Although there is still much to be done, this is an important milestone for us." Firefox 3.0 alpha 5 is scheduled to launch June 1.

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Intel India contributes 50 per cent to global revenues

2007-05-29T04:50:00.002-07:00

The contribution of India to Intel’s global products is on the rise. The latest contribution has been on the notebook processor technology front with the Intel India Development Centre (IIDC) in Bangalore making around 50 per cent contribution to the Intel Centrino Mobile platform. Intel in India has around 3,000 people spanning various functions with the majority engaged in R&D activity.

Addressing media persons here on Thursday, Sandeep Shah, director - mobility group, Intel India, said, “We are on a ramp-up and increasing our value & inputs to these products.”

The latest mobile platform of Intel, formerly codenamed Santa Rosa, saw the India centre making various contributions in the areas of software validation, hardware board design, chipset and validation for the customers.

Mr Shah said that for the first time, the entire hardware board has been designed in Bangalore. Intel has also seen its three previous mobile platforms having contributions from IIDC. This also signifies the growing confidence of Intel in its India operations.

Intel India officials said that its expertise has been growing and has developing domain expertise in certain verticals. It was earlier providing support and validation functions and now has gone about implementing products independently. Mr Shah said this latest mobile platform will also be used in the small form factor PCs. This has been the second such activity for Intel in the recent past. It had recently unveiled a new chip called teraflop processor, which is capable of doing trillions of calculations per second. The IIDC had contributed 50 per cent towards the products in the areas of logic, circuit and physical design.

Microsoft introduces Fortza 2 in India

2007-05-29T04:50:00.001-07:00

Microsoft Game Studios on Wednesday launched the upgraded version of its motor sports game, Fortza Motorsport 2, in India priced at Rs 1,895.

"The launch of Fortza 2 marks a new price point that Microsoft has introduced in the Indian market. We were earlier selling our titles for Rs 2,599 and have brought this popular title for just Rs 1,895," Microsoft Country Manager Entertainment and Devices division Mohit Anand told reporters.

He said the company had spent nearly 40 million dollars and two years in upgrading the title for gamers globally.

Microsoft is also planning to bring a top-end variant of its high-definition gaming console, X-Box Elite, in the Indian market by August.

The company is presently looking at bringing online gaming through XBox live in the country soon.

"We will introduce XBox live in India within this year," Anand said.

The company presently sells over 70 gaming titles in India and would soon introduce two new titles here, he added

Intel should be ashamed: Negroponte

2007-05-29T04:49:00.001-07:00

The much-talked about 'One Laptop Per Child' project (OLPC) has sparked off yet another controversy. A big one actually! Nicholas Negroponte, founder and leader of the OLPC project and professor at MIT, has said in a TV interview that he would have notched up three million orders for the $100 laptop (now revised to $175), but for Intel's "shameless" business practices.

Negroponte bitterly accused the microprocessor major of selling its own cut-price laptop -- the Classmate PC – well below cost to drive him out of market. "Intel has hurt the mission enormously," Negroponte said.

Both Intel and Negroponte's not-for-profit organisation, OLPC, have developed a low-cost laptop aimed specifically at school children in the developing countries. Intel's Classmate PC runs Microsoft Windows and Linux, besides Open Office. There are several other differences in both the hardware and software. (Stay tuned in as we plan to bring more on this topic in the coming weeks!)

Negroponte believes that the main problem is that his machine uses a processor designed by Intel's arch rival AMD. "Intel and AMD fight viciously," he said. "We're just sort of caught in the middle."

Negroponte says Intel has distributed marketing literature to governments with titles such as "the shortcomings of the ‘One Laptop per Child’ approach," which outline the supposedly stronger points of the Classmate.

Negroponte's project is currently in a critical phase. Countries have time until this month-end to place their orders for the first batch and will be able to purchase in the lots of 250,000.

The laptops will initially cost $176, but the eventual aim is to sell the machine to government-run educational institutions in developing countries at its originally promised price tag of $100.

Speaking to US broadcaster CBS, Intel's chairman Craig Barrett denied the claims. "We're not trying to drive him out of business," said Craig Barrett. "We're trying to bring capability to young people."

Barrett has previously dismissed the $100 laptop as a mere "gadget." Meanwhile, Intel is very aggressively pushing its Classmate PC worldwide.

Infy to give biz edge to social entrepreneurs' dreams

2007-05-29T04:48:00.001-07:00

After incubating purely-for-profit firms like Yantra and Onmobile, Infosys Technologies now plans to give social entrepreneurs a leg up.

The company, which donates 1% of its profits to social causes through the Infosys Foundation, has started a new initiative within the company through which it will support, and in some cases fund, ideas on social entrepreneurship and convert them to viable business plans.

However, the focus will not be so much on funding, as it will be on providing guidance in taking the idea forward and making it self-sustaining, says Sanjay Purohit, associate vice-president & head of corporate planning at Infosys. Mr Purohit is one of the key people spearheading the initiative in the company.

“Right now, what we have is an operational corpus to run the program. Entrepreneurs can approach Infosys like any other corporate. We’re not shutting out the possibility of seed funding some of the initiatives,” Mr Purohit told ET.

The linkage will allow entrepreneurs to tap the management expertise of one of India’s most admired firms and use it to build world-class organisations working for social causes. Apart from Mr Purhoit, CEO designate Kris Gopalakrishnan will also be actively involved in the initiative. He will be the sponsor and official mentor of the initiative.

The initiative, called InfYi will function as the corporate chapter of the Young India initiative started by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reflecting that charter, all its members below the age of 35 will be Infoscions.

So far, 90 people have been enrolled in the program, in addition to the dozen people who form part of the InfYi’s core team. The core team is made up of Infosys management council alumni — these are young Infoscions who are selected every year from among the employees to be on the management council for a year.

InfYi will have the backing of the Infosys management council to review the progress of the entrepreneurial ideas. The management council consists of the board members, head of departments, business heads and the 12 young Infoscions. It meets about eight times a year.

Based on the inputs that a project or idea needs, a senior council member will contribute to it. The projects could be in youth affairs, education, healthcare, economy or any other socially-relevant area. So far, InfYi has received 13 project ideas. Three of these will be shortlisted taken from concept to execution. They will be put through the paces by a team which has worked out how to capitalise on opportunities and survive downturns.

IBM rules out setting up fab unit in India

2007-05-29T04:47:00.000-07:00

Ruling out setting up of any fab facility in India, IBM has said that it would be keen to providing the technology know-how to any of the units coming up in the country.

“We will be ready for technology transfer whenever they (fab units) are ready as we are keen on contributing towards the growing ecosystem of the Indian semiconductor industry,” said, Adalio Sanchez, GM of global engineering solutions, STG, IBM.

IBM has been associated with the semiconductor industry for around 30 years and its activity includes manufacturing, design and R&D. The multi-billion dollar IT giant had also recently set up the Semiconductor Research and Development Enablement Centre (SRDC) in Bangalore, which is its sixth globally and the first outside the US and Europe. Mr Sanchez said it would be keen on the transfer of process technology to proposed fab units in India and not any chip design activity.

IBM has also announced a grand alliance with four other major players in the semiconductor industry to work on the latest 32nm bulk CMOS process technology. The other partners include Chartered, Samsung, Infineon and Freescale.

According to IBM, the five companies intend to work together to come out with technology for chips which is high on performance while using lesser power. It is also looking at a common manufacturing platform strategy, whereby the technology can be more easily transferred between partners.

Mr Sanchez said that the Bangalore centre will also be playing very key role in latest development. As the centre is less than a year old, it is still on the growth phase it has been engaged in the testing and validation services. The chips developed by IBM and its partners have found its application largely in servers and storage products. However, it has also used in video games, medical electronics, telecom, defence among others

Google hopes search translation tools make profit

2007-05-29T04:45:00.000-07:00

Google Inc. planned to introduce a feature Wednesday that automatically translates Internet search requests and results in 12 languages, underscoring the rapidly growing company's ambitions outside the United States.

The tools allow Google's users to enter search requests in their native languages and then choose to have the phrases as well as the accompanying results automatically translated into another language. Users can then click on a link and have the entire Web page translated through a service that Google had already been offering.

Google expects the new translation service for search results to be particularly popular outside of the United States and the United Kingdom because so much of the Internet's content is published in English.

Besides English, Google's search results translator works in Arabic, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese. Yahoo Inc., which runs the Web's second largest search engine behind Google, already offers a service that has been automatically translating search results in Germany, France and Japan since 2005, spokeswoman Kathryn Kelly said. The Sunnyvale-based company also offers translation tools through its BabelFish site.

More recently, Yahoo has been trying to woo more traffic outside the United States through its ``answers'' service, which relies on its users to respond to each other's questions in nine different languages.

By making its search engine more appealing to people who don't speak English, Google is angling to sell more advertising in international markets and maintain the impressive financial growth that has driven a more than fivefold increase in its stock price in less than three years. The Mountain View-based company's shares fell $1.89 to $473.97 Wednesday.

Google's family of Web sites, including online video pioneer YouTube.com, already attracts the world's largest audience, according to comScore Media Metrix.

American Technology Research analyst Rob Sanderson is among those who believe Google is poised to cash in on its opportunities outside the United States and Britain.

Google collected $7.6 billion (euro5.63 billion), or 72 percent, of its 2006 revenue from sources in the United States and Britain, Sanderson said in a report issued Tuesday. If the company had fared as well in other key markets around the world, Sanderson estimated Google would have generated an additional $4.9 billion (euro3.63 billion) to $8.7 billion (euro6.45 billion) in revenue last year

``Clearly growth in international markets can significantly move the needle for'' Google, Sanderson wrote. ``We believe it is only time that stands in the way of capturing this opportunity.'' In a separate move to boost its profits, Google reportedly is nearing a $100 million (euro74 million) deal to buy privately held FeedBurner Inc., which helps Web logs and other online publishers attract traffic and advertising through a distribution channel known as ``really simple syndication,'' or RSS.

The acquisition, which has been rumored for the past week, is expected to close in early June, according to TechCrunch, a well-connected blog that revealed Google's plans to buy YouTube three days before that deal was announced last October. Contacted Wednesday, Google declined to comment on its reported interest in Chicago-based FeedBurner.

In another move Wednesday that had long been anticipated, Google began experimenting with the distribution of video ads to a small group of Web sites. The company will share the video revenue with its partners, just as it does with the short, text-based ads that account for most of its profit.

The video ads, which will be limited to 30 seconds, can be skipped by a Web site's visitors.

Microsoft on CNBC TV shows

2007-05-24T13:26:00.000-07:00

Catch up on Microsoft IndiMIX where innovative business models on the web and state-of-the-art technology converged to be the next generation of the internet. Join Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as he shares his vision of the next web and the immense opportunity and innovation happening around it. Watch Yash Chopra, Anil Kumble and Rajnikant Patel speak about how the next generation web is changing the world of Bollywood, Cricket and Dalal Street. The top DotComs and media houses like Hungama.com, Shaadi.com, MSN and NDTV share their experiences about the opportunity that the next web provides. Get a glimpse of the latest technologies that make the web experience come alive...

Sunday
27-May-2007
5.30 pm

Saturday
2-June-2007
6.30 pm

Join us for a half hour episode on the future of software development. Indian IT companies have expanded across the globe and become the trusted IT advisors of Fortune 500 companies. Join us as they share their experiences and challenges in moving up the value chain. Get a ring side view of the innovations that are driving improvements in productivity, profitability and competitiveness by investing in the next generation of SDLC tools and processes. Watch experts from Infosys, Microsoft, Mindtree, Covansys, Persistent and US Technologies as they share their experiences and how they have overcome the challenges of software development in a global delivery environment.

Saturday
9-June-2007
6.00 pm

Sunday
10-June-2007
6.30 pm

Catch a glimpse of the excitement at Microsoft TechMela the biggest technology event from Microsoft. TechMela is the fusion of the latest technologies, technical expertise, and structured learning experiences. It is an evolution of the erstwhile TechEd, Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference, MIX, and IT Professionals Conference. Get an inside view into the latest technologies from Microsoft that will revolutionize the future of software and computing and be ready to grab the opportunities that emerge.
Watch the top CXOs from Indian industry discuss technology trends and innovations and how you can be prepared.

Saturday
23-June-2007
6.00 pm

Sunday
24-June-2007
6.30 pm

Angry online shoppers

2007-05-24T11:12:00.000-07:00

A recent survey of more than 2,400 web users has found that Britain is becoming a nation of angry online shoppers.

The report, commissioned by MoreComputers.com, found that 93 per cent of UK users are annoyed by 'sneaky' website charges.

Hidden delivery charges provoke the most anger, with 64 per cent saying they would not buy from sites engaging in the practice.

The growing practice of so-called 'philfing' describes online stores holding back the real cost of 'extras' until the last minute.

Brian Trevaskiss, operations manager at MoreComputers.com, said: ''Shopping online is without doubt quick and convenient. But this growing trend of 'philfing' is so annoying for consumers that they abandon their baskets and shop elsewhere.''

Read more...

Microsoft and Open Source

2007-05-24T11:10:00.000-07:00

Microsoft's approach toward licensing as it applies to open source software is not an attack, but a response to the demands of customers, a senior company executive said Wednesday.

Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft's server and tools business, told attendees at the Interop business technology conference that controversy revolving around the company's claim that Linux and other open source software infringe on more than 200 Microsoft patents compelled him to "clarify our position on this, and where we're going."

Muglia said Microsoft was focused on interoperability with open source software, not on challenging the use of its intellectual property in court. "Our approach is a licensing based one," Muglia said. "It's a real issue for customers, and one that Microsoft is addressing proactively."

Microsoft has addressed the issue by offering licensing deals to open-source distributors. Novell, for example, entered a two-way deal last year that protects its customers from potential patent claims by Microsoft, while giving the software maker's customers the same protection in regards to Novell's intellectual property. The deal has been severely criticized by the open source community.

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Software piracy

2007-05-24T11:09:00.001-07:00

A software pirate who sold illegal copies of Symantec Corp. software on the online auction site eBay Inc. has agreed to pay a $205,000 fine.

In an announcement today, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) trade group, which filed suit in the case on behalf of Symantec -- a SIIA member -- said the defendant has also agreed to assist authorities in identifying the parties who actually made and distributed the illegal software that was sold.

Keith Kupferschmid, senior vice president of intellectual property for the Washington-based SIIA, said the name and location of the defendant is being kept secret under the terms of the settlement.

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A Linux computer everywhere

2007-05-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

A U.S. government- and industry-led coalition aiming to equip every car and roadside in America with wirelessly connected computers has tapped Linux for a prototype design. The Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium (VII-C) hopes to lower driver death rates, reduce traffic jams, and media-enable cars before 2017.

The VII-C is funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), along with AASHTO, ten State Departments of Transportation, and seven vehicle manufacturers already involved in the U.S. DOT's Intelligent Vehicle Initiative: BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan, and Toyota.

The VII-C says that 21,000 of the 43,000 traffic fatalities in 2003 were caused by vehicles leaving the road or entering intersections when they should not have. It hopes a massive network connecting cars to each other and to roadsides can help.

Like a lot of large-scale government projects, VII is a long-term effort that, if all goes well, will roll out between 2015 and 2017. Closer at hand is the deployment decision, which looms in late 2008 or early 2009.

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Protect Office 2003 from malware attacks

2007-05-24T11:04:00.000-07:00

Microsoft officials have released a much-anticipated tool to help protect Office 2003 from malware attacks.

"One of the things we noticed is that when we converted an exploit document to the new Office 2007 'Metro' format, it would either fail the conversion, emit a non-exploitable file or the converter itself would crash," Microsoft Senior Software Development Engineer David LeBlanc wrote in a blog post earlier this month. "Thus," he continued later, "if we could pre-process documents coming from untrusted sources from the older format to the new format, and then get an older version of Office to use its converter to read in the new file format, the customer is going to end up safer."

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Google launches 'Hot Trends'

2007-05-24T11:02:00.000-07:00

"Hot Trends is Google's newest tool for users who want to keep their finger on the pulse of what the world is searching for," Google said in the statement.

Because of this new feature, Google said it will discontinue producing the weekly Google Zeitgeist, a manually compiled list of popular searches.

However, Google said it will still produce a year-end Zeitgeist for users.

Google said results for each Hot Trends report will include information from the associated Google News, blog searches and Google Web search results, putting the information in context for users.

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Attend LIVE Webcasts on Graphics & Multimedia!

2007-05-24T10:56:00.001-07:00

Attend the Webcasts on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Graphics Pipeline and Multimedia Architecture. First, learn the basics of GDI, DirectDraw and Direct3D interfaces, and how you can use them in your device applications, fully exploiting the power of the CE 6 graphics architecture. Then, take a tour of the enhanced multimedia features supported by CE 6 and the underlying architecture that makes it all possible. The Webcast covers DirectShow and its extensible filter graph mechanism for handling media streams, an overview of the relevant device drivers, as well as performance turning of multimedia devices using CE.

for these Webcasts.

Webcasts: Windows Embedded CE 6.0: Graphics Pipeline & Multimedia Architecture
Speaker: Vignesh Doraiswamy Date: May 16th & 17th, 2007 Time: 4:30-6:00 PM

Adding HTML Code to Blog Post

2007-05-18T20:41:00.000-07:00

If you are stuck for

How to add HTML code to your blogpost
Adding HTML Code to blogpost
Coding inside blog post.

Than here is simple step you should follow.

Put your code inside </pre> and </pre>
Replace Each < with < and > with >
And Finally to display < and > use "& amp;lt;" and "& amp;gt;"

That's it you are done with the stuff.

Code for Adding Social Bookmarking at end of each Post

2007-05-18T20:15:00.001-07:00

If you got stuck for following, than below given code will help you out.

Adding Social Bookmarking at end of each post.
Adding Popular Bookmark such as Google, Technorati, Reddit, Spurl, Digg, Yahoo
Code for adding bookmarks at bottom of each post
Add Post to Del.icio.us or Furl
Adding Online Bookmarking at end of each post in new blogger

At you new Blogger template -> Edit Html -> check Expand Widget Templates -> search for <div class='post-body'> -> Copy paste the below before its closed </div>

<!-- Start of social bookmarks -->
<!-- http://dailylifeneeds.blogspot.com -->
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
<center>
<span style='font-size: 85%;' class='post-author'>

<a expr:href='"http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title'
target='_blank'>Google</a>

<a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" +
data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title'
target='_blank'>Digg</a>

<a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" +
data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title'
target='_blank'>del.icio.us</a>

<a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves?add=" +
data:post.url'
target='_blank'>Technorati</a>

<a expr:href='"http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=" +
data:post.title + "&u=" + data:post.url'
target='_blank'>Yahoo</a>

<a expr:href='"http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=" +
data:post.url + "&Title=" + data:post.title'
target='_blank'>Blinklist</a>

<a expr:href='"http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=" +
data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title'
target='_blank'>Spurl</img></a>

<a expr:href='"http://reddit.com/submit?url=" +
data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title'
target='_blank'>Reddit</a>

<a expr:href='"http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=" +
data:post.title + "&u=" + data:post.url'
target='_blank'>Furl</a>

</span>

</center>
</p>
<!-- http://dailylifeneeds.blogspot.com -->
<!-- End of social bookmarks -->

Google Analytics False Statistics

2007-05-18T04:59:00.000-07:00

Google Analytics shows false statistics???

Yes it is true.

Identification of Google Analytics False Statistics

People posting a comment on my blog still it displays ZERO users visited.
This had given me strong reason to put site meter to confirm it. But finally i conclude that yes it is true that Google Analystics is showing false statistics.
I hope they improve there service and we get a better Analytics from google.

Please pass on your comments, if you too have face the same problem.

Adsense Terms and its explanation

2007-05-17T14:44:00.000-07:00

Adsense Terms and its explanation.

Adsense Terminology explained are

Page impressions

Clicks

Page CTR

Page eCPM

Earnings

Page Impressions : Number of times the page or pages containing the AdSense advertisement was shown to visitors.
Clicks : Number of times advertisement was clicked.
Page CTR : It is a click thru rate percentage. It is calculated as

CTR = Page impressions / Clicks (formula for calculating Page CTR)

Page eCPM : It is effective cost per thousand, it is used for comparing ad placements and overall performance of ads or pages. It is calculated as

eCPM = (Earnings / Page Impressions) * 1000 (formula for calculating Page eCPM)

Earning : Your actual earned amount from Adsense. It is calculated as (sum of all the click values) x (Your percentage rate). This figure depends on Adsense company, that how much they share you as a part of revenue.

The Domain Name Sells for $9.5M

2007-05-17T11:16:00.000-07:00

It's said that everything has a price -- and the price paid recently for the Porn.com Web domain is US$9.5 million, cash.

In an announcement Tuesday, Pompano Beach, Fla.-based domain name registrar and reseller Moniker.com said Porn.com was bought by Detroit-based MXN Ltd., an Internet media and investment business. MXN is affiliated with Downloadpass.com, an adult movie download site and Pimproll.com, an adult Web site promotion company.

Monte Cahn, co-founder and CEO of Moniker.com, said in a statement that the $9.5 million price tag for Porn.com is the second largest ever paid for a domain name, coming in second to the $12 million paid for Sex.com in 2005 in a private sale. Cahn said the price for Porn.com is the largest ever for an all-cash transaction.

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Google moves to universal search

2007-05-17T11:14:00.000-07:00

Google Inc. will make a significant push toward integrating results from a variety of its search engines in an attempt to deliver as relevant and comprehensive a result set as possible to search queries.

Although Google and its competitors have been moving in this direction for years, Google's announcement on Wednesday is its clearest and most concrete statement of direction yet regarding its efforts in this area. The announcement was made by Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, at an event in the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Internet search providers such as Google, AOL LLC, Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. offer, in addition to their general Web search engines, a set of specialty engines that deliver only news articles, photos, local business listings, blog postings, maps and video clips.

Google Lovers Read More

Yahoo Remakes Mapping Site

2007-05-17T11:13:00.000-07:00

Yahoo Inc. has moved its online mapping service to a new platform that the company said makes the Web site faster and more accurate.

The new mapping platform will make its debut on Wednesday, along with other enhancements to the site in areas like user interface design, according to the Sunnyvale, California company.

Yahoo has been using mapping technology from deCarta Inc. for over five years, but with the new platform, developed in-house, Yahoo Maps will perform better, offer more precise results and make backend upgrades easier to implement, Yahoo said.

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40 million Vista copies sold

2007-05-17T11:11:00.000-07:00

Microsoft has sold nearly 40 million copies of Windows Vista so far, Bill Gates told a crowd of hardware developers Tuesday.

That's more than the total install base of Windows' largest competitors, Gates quipped as he began his keynote at the Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here.

"As of last week, we've sold nearly 40 million copies," Gates said. "That's twice as fast as the adoption of Windows XP, the last major release we had."

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U.S. Piracy Crackdown

2007-05-17T11:10:00.000-07:00

A U.S. Department of Justice crackdown on online piracy has recorded its 50th felony conviction, the agency announced.

Christopher E. Eaves, 31, of Iowa Park, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement for his involvement in the Apocalypse Crew, an online organization offering downloads before music was released to the public, the DOJ said. Eaves' plea, part of the DOJ's Operation FastLink, came Monday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Eaves is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 10. He faces up to five years in prison and a US$250,000 fine.

The 50th conviction "represents a milestone never before achieved in any online piracy prosecution," Alice Fisher, assistant attorney general in the DOJ's criminal division, said in a statement.

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Malware alert

2007-05-17T11:09:00.000-07:00

Google has warned web users of the increasing threat posed by malware that can be dropped onto a computer as a web surfer visits a particular site.

The search giant carried out in-depth research on 4.5 million websites and found one in 10 web pages could successfully launch a 'drive-by-download' - such as a Trojan - onto a user's computer.

The software potentially allows hackers to access sensitive corporate information or install rogue applications.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, told silicon.com Google is right to highlight what he said is a worsening trend and "a considerable problem" for businesses and end users.

Cluley said an average of around 8,000 new URLs containing malware emerged each week during April.

more on...

Intel played key role in Centrino mobile platform

2007-05-17T11:07:00.001-07:00

Intel played key role in Centrino mobile platform

Global chip major Intel's India unit here played a key role in designing some of the important parts and the validation process of the newly launched next generation Intel Centrino mobile platform.

The key components and technologies on which Intel's India Development Centre worked included the Intel Turbo Memory software validation, crestline chipset, customer enablement, customer reference board and battery life analysis, Intel India Director (Mobility Group) Sandeep Shah said at a press meet here.

The Centre has been playing an increasingly active role in the Intel Centrino Mobile platform since 2003 when Mobility Group India was formed here.

"From enabling and supporting global teams to driving major developments of the platform, the centre has started contributing in a very significant way to the global market," Shah added.

Formerly named Santa Rosa, the newly-launched platform is the fourth generation Intel Centrino Processor Technology.

The key parts include the CPU (with Intel Core 2 Duo Processor), graphics memory controller Hub (GMCH) code-named crestline, I/O controller Hub-ICH8, 802.11n wireless technology, Intel Turbo memory and Intel active Management Technology for security and manageability.

"The entire Intel Turbo Memory validation was performed by the India Team," he said.

With turbo memory, consumers have upto 20 per cent faster boot time and 2X faster application load. The team also created some of the software utilities and tools that help in enabling certain features of the processor

Idea Cellular and Nokia Siemens

2007-05-17T11:06:00.001-07:00

Idea Cellular and Nokia Siemens sign 500 mn dlr deal

Idea Cellular and Nokia Siemens on Thursday signed a 500-million-dollar GSM network expansion contract.

As per the deal, Nokia Siemens will expand Idea Cellular's network in Delhi, Haryana, Eastern and Western Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, the company said in a statement

Google search gets a universal glow

2007-05-17T11:05:00.001-07:00

Google search gets a universal glow

In its latest technological leap, online search leader Google Inc. will begin showing videos on its main results page along with photos, books and other content previously separated into different categories.

Under a new "universal search" approach that Google began rolling out Wednesday afternoon, some requests will produce more than just a series of links and snippets pointing to other Web sites.

As an example, the results to the search request "I have a dream" will include an actual video showing Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous 1963 speech along with the usual assortment of Web links.

The videos will be shown on Google's results page if it's contained in the company's own database or the vast library of its YouTube subsidiary. A thumbnail will direct traffic to videos hosted on other sites like Metacafe.com.

Other Google results will more frequently show photos or information from the more than 1 million books that the company has copied during the past two years. More news stories and local information pertaining to search requests will be displayed on Google's first results page - perhaps the most prized showcase on the Web.

Google's database has included photos, books, videos and local information for several years, but fetching the content usually required searching through one of the customized channels featured in a row of links above the main query box.

A new link to Google's increasingly popular e-mail service, Gmail, will be added above the query box in the next day or two to make it easier to access for existing users and presumably more alluring to Web surfers who haven't already opened an account.

By intermingling different types of Web content on its main result page, Google is betting it can become even more useful to its millions of users and maintain the competitive advantage that has established the Mountain View-based company as a cultural and financial phenomenon.

The increased emphasis on video also could alienate some longtime users who revere Google for its traditionally staid results page.

"It's going to be interesting to see how people react," said Greg Sterling, who runs the research firm Sterling Market Intelligence. "I think it will create more value for users."

The changes also illustrate the challenges facing Yahoo Inc from Microsoft Corp. and a host of smaller Internet search engines as they try to gain ground on Google. While those rivals have been investing heavily in improvements just to catch up, Google has been spending even more to soup it search engine.

Last year alone, Google's capital expenditures totaled $1.9 billion, and the company is on a pace to spend even more this year as it builds more data centers to handle heavy-duty computing jobs. Google executives said it took two years to lay the groundwork for the switch to universal search.

The change realizes one of the visions that drove Google's $1.76 billion acquisition of the video-sharing site YouTube. Just days before announcing that deal last October, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page lamented their inability to show videos on the main results page and said they were working hard to address the weakness.

Now that Google is showing videos in the search results, it may not be much longer before the company begins airing video ads in addition to the short text ads that have accounted for nearly all of its profits so far.

"I do think this opens the door for a richer medium on the search results page," said Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience. "For us, ads are answers as well."

Since all videos from YouTube and the company's database will be streamed on a player embedded on the main results page, the change also could mean people stay longer on Google's Web site - another factor that could boost profits. Although Google also distributes ads to thousands of other Web sites, it makes more money from messages on its own property because it doesn't have to share the commissions.

"Our goal is not to have people spend more time on Google," Brin said Wednesday. "It's for people to accomplish more on Google."

By creating another major channel to show YouTube videos, Google also could be courting more copyright trouble. Since its inception, YouTube has regularly shown pirated videos posted by its users, a problem that has spurred several copyright infringement lawsuits, including a $1 billion damage claim by Viacom Inc.

Both Google and YouTube say they have adhered to the law by removing pirated videos after receiving a request from a copyright holder.

Free C Compilers and Interpreters

2007-05-17T08:47:00.000-07:00

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Higher Education in USA

2007-05-15T12:11:00.000-07:00

US to promote US higher education in India

An official US delegation will visit India March 24-30 to promote the quality, dynamism and diversity of higher education in America as also their desire to expand educational partnerships with Indians.

Led by Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen P. Hughes, the delegation will comprise senior US government officials and US college and university presidents, the state department announced Thursday.

In meetings with students and leaders in higher education, government, and business in
Mumbai and New Delhi, the delegates will convey the message that America welcomes and values international students who want to study in the United States.

They will highlight the importance of international education to strengthening US-India ties and preparing globally competitive American students at educational institutions. This unique pairing of US government and higher education leaders is the second in a series of delegations stemming from a commitment to greater partnership in the national interest, the announcement said.

It was made at the US University Presidents Summit on International Education co-hosted by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings in January 2006.

Besides Hughes, the delegation will include Thomas A. Farrell, deputy assistant secretary of state for academic programmes, Dr John J Bowen, Dr Mark A Emmert and Dr John M Lilley, presidents of Johnson and Wales, Washington and Baylor Universities, respectively.

It will also have Dr James L Oblinger, chancellor, North Carolina State University and Dr Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran and Dr Margaret B Lee, presidents of Kalamazoo College and Oakton Community College respectively

US visa policies

2007-05-15T12:09:00.000-07:00

Bill Gates criticises US visa policies

Slamming American immigration policies, Microsoft Chairperson Bill Gates has said the US was shutting the door on the best and the brightest at a time when the country needed it the most.

Gates, one of the most vocal in the industry to constantly plead for an increase in skilled worker visas, told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labour and Pensions that the United States must also come to terms with the issue of permanent residency over and above what it intended to do with the H1B visas.

The Senate panel headed by Senator Edward Kennedy was focused on "Strengthening American Competitiveness for the 21st century" with Gates as the principal witness.

The Microsoft chairperson slammed the visa policies that has now come to heavily restrict foreign-born US college graduates from working in the US and limit citizenship or permanent residency opportunities for scientists and engineers.

"It makes no sense to tell well-trained, highly skilled individuals many of whom are educated at our top universities that they are not welcome in US.

"We have to welcome the great minds in this world, not shut them out of our country," Gates said. "Unfortunately, America's immigration policies are driving away the world's best and brightest precisely when we need them most."

He also made the point that if the federal government did not make it easier for foreign scientists and engineers to obtain permanent US residency, the talent would flow to India and China.

Ten things to know about Google

2007-05-15T12:08:00.001-07:00

Ten things you didn’t know about Google

Google is part of Net surfers’ everyday life. It is in fact difficult to imagine life without Google, the search engine company that is now as revered as the mighty software giant Microsoft, if not more. But there are a number of things about Google that few people know about.

Here is a list of 10 such very interesting things about the search giant.

The name Google is a spelling error. The founders of the site, Larry page and Sergey Brin, thought they were going for 'Googol.' Googol is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

Initially, Larry and Sergey Brin called their search engine BackRub, named for its analysis of the of the web's "back links." The search for a new name began in 1997, with Larry and his officemates starting a hunt for a number of possible new names for the rapidly improving search technology.

The reason the google page is so bare is because the founder didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.

Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just kept sitting staring at the screen, waiting for the rest to appear. To solve the particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as an end of page marker

Google started as a research project by Larry page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 and 23 years respectively. Google's mission statement is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

The company’s first office was in a garage, in Menlo Park, California. Google’s first employee was Craig Silverstein, now Google's director of technology.

The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank that assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that is not why it is called PageRank. It is actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page

Google receives about 20 million search queries each day from every part of the world, including Antarctica and Vatican.

You can have the Google homepage set up in as many as 116 different languages -- including Urdu, Latin, Cambodia, Tonga, and Yoruba. In fact, Google has the largest network of translators in the world.

In the earliest stage of Google, there was no submit button, rather the Enter key needed to be pressed.

Google has banned computer-generated search requests, which can sop up substantial system resources and help unscrupulous marketers manipulate its search rankings

The Google’s free web mail service Gmail was used internally for nearly two years prior to launch to the public. The researchers found out six types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these six.

The free e-mail service recently changed its name for new UK users. Following a trademark dispute with a London-based Independent International Investment Research, the mail account has been renamed Google Mail.

It would take 5,707 years for a person to search Google's 3 billion pages. The Google software does it in 0.5 seconds.

Google Groups comprises more than 845 million Usenet messages, which is the world's largest collection of messages or the equivalent of more than a terabyte of human conversation.

The logos that appear on the Google homepage during noteworthy days and dates and important events are called Google Doodle. The company has also created an online museum where it has all the logos it has put on various occasions so far.

Dennis Hwang, a Korean computer artist in the United States, is the guy behind these witty Doodles. Hwang has been drawing the face of Google for over two years.

You have heard of Google Earth, but not many know there is a site called Google Moon, which maps the Lunar surface.

Google Moon is an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth that, courtesy of NASA imagery, enables you to surf the Moon’s surface and check out the exact spots that the Apollo astronauts made their landings

Keyhole, the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in October 2004 was funded by CIA.

Keyhole's technology runs Google's popular program Google Earth that allows users to quickly view stored satellite images from all around the world.

Future tech breakthroughs to come from Asia

2007-05-15T12:06:00.002-07:00

Future tech breakthroughs to come from Asia: Gates

Future technology breakthroughs will increasingly come from Asia, Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates said, adding that research being done at the software giant's regional development centers was among the best in the world.

Gates' comments come at the end of a visit to China yesterday during which he announced several new ventures, including USD 3 software packages for government-subsidised student computers.

In a speech to a regional economic forum in southern China, Gates said Americans were increasingly expecting Asia to produce major new leaps in computers and other technology, citing in part the region's strong showing in engineering and the sciences.

"And so not only is Asia benefiting from the uses of new technology, Asia will increasingly be the source of advances in technology," Gates told participants at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia, a gathering of business leaders and politicians modeled on the World Economic Forum held each winter in Davos, Switzerland.

Gates said Microsoft has been gratified by the results of its Asian research and development centres and was planning to expand campuses in Beijing and Shanghai.

"The results and the quality of the work is absolutely among the best in the world," Gates said.

Gates repeated calls made earlier in his visit for greater investments in technology to improve health care and education, saying all students would soon be equipped with super powerful tablet computers no bigger than a piece of notebook paper..

Privacy groups challenge Google

2007-05-15T12:06:00.001-07:00

Privacy groups challenge Google - DoubleClick deal

Consumer privacy groups on Friday sought to derail Google Inc's $3.1 billion deal to buy online ad supplier DoubleClick Inc, filing a complaint with US regulators to block the merger on privacy grounds.

Groups led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center have filed the complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission arguing the merger would violate agreed limits on how much data advertisers collect on consumers and seeking an injunction.

"Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick will give one company access to more information about the Internet activities of consumers than any other company in the world," the complaint by the privacy activist groups argues.

New York-based DoubleClick responded in a statement by denying any plan by Google and itself to link the various pools of anonymous data their automated services collect on consumer Web surfing and Internet search behavior.

DoubleClick serves up billions of graphical display ads every day from corporate marketers on thousands of sites across the Web. Google, the leader in an alternative form of online marketing that places ads alongside Web search results, would emerge as an even more powerful force in the online ad market if the DoubleClick deal closes as planned later in 2007.

DoubleClick denied that the data it collects through its system for serving graphical ads to Web site visitors would be combined with Google data on consumer Web-searching habits so as to keep tabs on consumers' spending or browsing habits.

DoubleClick said information collected by its ad-delivery technology is retained by marketing clients who use its system, not DoubleClick itself, and that those rights would not change once Google acquires it. DoubleClick has only limited rights to use such data to identify aggregate trends, the company said.

"Further, Google would not be able to match its search data to the data collected by DoubleClick, as DoubleClick does not have the right to use its clients' data for such purposes," the company said.

The challenge comes a month after Google, which collects mountains of data on its users Web search habits, said within 18 to 24 months it aimed to "anonymise," or obscure key details on, surfing habits that could identify individuals. Previously, Google had kept data "as long as it was useful."

The 11-page EPIC complaint filed on Friday with the FTC criticizes the privacy safeguards both Google and DoubleClick have in place and seeks an injunction to block their combination unless the companies present a plan that provides for stricter data privacy protections.

The groups urge the FTC to force Google to adopt stricter privacy guidelines applied in Canada and some European nations on how much personal data organizations can collect and store.

They asked the FTC to assess the ability of Google to record, analyze, track, and profile the activities of Internet users with data that is both personally identifiable and data that is not personally identifiable.

Unless such steps are taken, EPIC asked the FTC to halt Google's tie-up with DoubleClick, its largest deal to date.

Washington, D.C.-based EPIC led a successful campaign in 2000 to block a plan by DoubleClick to combine data from a national marketing database it had acquired and its own anonymous data collected from the computers of Web surfers.

The fallout from the controversy led DoubleClick to back off the plan and to provide consumers with an "opt out" option to block DoubleClick software that tracks Web surfing habits. The FTC then dropped a probe of the company.

Tips for Avoiding Online Fraud

2007-05-15T12:04:00.000-07:00

How to avoid online fraud?

Picture this: a complete stranger comes up to you and asks you for your apartment keys. Would you hand them over? Most certainly not! But you’d be amazed at the number of people who are ready to part with their login names and passwords to strangers.

Take the case of Rohit Sharma . One morning he got an email, apparently from his bank, which simply stated that they were checking on the validity of their customers’ email accounts. And to validate his account he should fill in his account number and online banking username and password or else his account would be blocked. He followed the instructions and his bank account was cleaned out the very next day.

The truth is that despite countless headlines screaming about online frauds-phishing , pharming and online scamsthe idea of online security is still pretty abstract for most people. So instead of ranting about the sneaky scams fraudsters pull on us, here are a few quick checkpoints that will help you take stock of your security quotient:

How to avoid online fraud?

Be wary of emails that ask for your personal details:

The first thing you need to remember about such scams is that most of these scamsters don’t rely on the technology, they rely on you! Agreed that they keep thinking up new ways to con you and technology does help them, but remember that it’s still a con game, which won’t work without your “cooperation”.

They are playing mind games with you, which work better if you are upset or excited. So think calmly. In Sharma’s case for instance, if he wasn’t upset about his bank account being blocked, he may not have filled in his details.

Therefore always be suspicious of any email that contains urgent requests for any kind of personal or financial information. Read it over and over again.

Give it some thought. Ask questions such as has this institution ever contacted you via email? If it’s a bank won’t they know my details? Why would an online survey need your credit card number? The easiest way to check validity of websites is to get an antiphishing toolbar. New versions of most browsers, such as IE 7 FireFox version 2, come with such toolbars built-in. You can also download this from sites like Earth-Link (www.earthlink .net/earthlinktoolbar).

Be wary of emails that ask for your personal details:

Therefore always be suspicious of any email that contains urgent requests for any kind of personal or financial information. Read it over and over again.

Be wary of emails that ask for your personal details:

Therefore always be suspicious of any email that contains urgent requests for any kind of personal or financial information. Read it over and over again.

SMS to catch erring students

2007-05-15T12:02:00.001-07:00

SMS to catch erring students

A private higher secondary school in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu has come out with a unique SMS alert system to inform parents about their wards who bunk classes.

The facility at St John's Higher Secondary School, was the brianchild of D Jebastin Rajan, a computer teacher, who has also developed a computer software for the purpose.

The software, 'Easy', would help the school store details of all students and update on a regular basis, besides generating SMS alerts to parents, according to Rajan.

"Some students did not attend classes frequently. Some forged signatures of their parents on progress reports. This inspired me to work on a software that would help the school inform the details about students to parents," Rajan said.

Parents could also seek details of their children by sending SMS to a designated number.

For getting details about the character of their wards, parents should type CHR followed by child's registration number, ATT for attendance and FM for first term marks and send SMSs, he said.

A reply containing the details will be quickly generated by the SMS software.

Rajan is even ready to share the software with other needy schools at a cheap rate of Rs 50

Latest Mobile Technology

2007-05-15T12:01:00.000-07:00

New mobile phones detect motion

Some of the latest mobile phones in Japan come with motion sensors that let users detect motion or play action games like those on the Nintendo Wii console.

The D904i from NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile carrier, contains a tiny motion sensor that detects shaking and tilting, company spokesman Nobuyuki Hatanaka said.

Instead of punching a keypad, users can move the handset like a tennis racket or fishing pole in easy-to-play games, similar to those on Nintendo Co's popular Wii.

In the "Tokyo Highway Battle" racing game, users twist the handset like a steering wheel to control driving. In "Skateboard Dash," the phone can be tilted to control the board's speed and direction.

Meanwhile, two new phones from Sharp and Matsushita Electric Industrial use their built-in cameras to detect motion. Users can control a hip-hop dancer by wagging a finger in front of the camera, for example, or throw punches in the air for a boxing match.

DoCoMo warns users not to go overboard with the handsets, however.

"If you swing or swerve too hard, it'll be hard to keep your eyes on the screen, and you might bother those around you," Hatanaka said. "We're talking about somewhat subtler motions."

Downloading games to play on the go is popular in Japan, where most mobile phone users are signed up for third-generation networks that offer fast data communication. Users download games onto their handsets to play for a set monthly fee.

The new phones are expected to hit Japanese stores in May. There are no current plans for overseas sales.

China's Mobile User Market

2007-05-15T12:00:00.002-07:00

China adds 6.5 mn mobile users each month:

China added 6.5 million mobile phone subscribers each month in the first quarter of the year, taking the total number of cell phone users to over 480 million by the end of March, the government said on Friday.

6.5 million Chinese have subscribed to new mobile phone connections every month in the first quarter, figures with the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) show.

The number of new subscribers averaged five million a month last year.

Mobile phone use was expanding rapidly in rural areas and some people had more than one phone number, according to the MII report.

The MII figures also showed the Chinese sent 135.8 billion text messages in the first quarter, up 37.4 per cent over the same period of last year.

Meanwhile, the number of fixed-line users topped 370 million by the end of March, with 1.06 million new subscribers added per month in the first quarter.

More fixed-line users would choose to use cell phones as the cost of handsets and user charges continued to fall, the report said.

The number of cell phone users reached 460 million at the end of last year, an increase of 67.7 million than 2005. On average, every 100 Chinese people had 35.3 cell phones and 28.1 fixed-line phones.

China imported its first mobile phone telecommunication facilities in 1987 and it took a decade for the number of subscribers to reach 10 million. Four years later, the country had the largest number of mobile phone subscribers in the world.

Microsoft hints at IE8

2007-05-15T12:00:00.001-07:00

Microsoft hints at IE8

Microsoft gave a few hints about the next version of its browser Internet Explorer 8 at the company’s web developer conference Mix07 in Las Vegas.

Though Chris Wilson, Microsoft's platform architect for Internet Explorer, dodged questions on when it plans to update its Internet Explorer browser to Version 8, he did outline some of the goals for the next version of the browser.

Wilson told media that security will be the key priority. The development team will also focus on ease of use and seek to improve web development with current standards compatibility. Wilson said that the company intends to create a follow-on version, IE 8, within two years of IE 7’s release - which was released in October.

He said that Microsoft will invest more in layout and adhering to the Cascading Style Sheets 2.1 specifications. He also added that the company wants to make its browser object model more interoperable to make it easier to work with other browsers and allow more flexible programming patterns.

He told that the Ajax web programming style needs more client-side application programming interfaces to allow developers to create more powerful applications. According to him, Microsoft is working with the W3C on standardising HTML version 5 and XHTML version 1 and 1.1.

Responding to audience questions, on the IE 8 timeframe, Wilson reiterated Microsoft’s promise that it will never again go five years without an upgrade to the platform. He noted that the company was suggesting a 12- to 18-month development cycle at last year's Mix conference.

However, he added that so far no exact date has been set for the release. He accepted that consumer expectation of having a new browser platform every couple of years is definitely a valid one.

Top copyright offenders

2007-05-15T11:59:00.001-07:00

India among worst copyright offenders

India, China, Russia and nine other nations have been targeted by the United States for failing to sufficiently protect American producers of music, movies and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy.

The Bush administration on Monday placed the 12 countries on a "priority watch list" which will subject them to extra scrutiny and could eventually lead to economic sanctions if the administration decides to bring trade cases before the World Trade Organization. Another 31 countries were placed on lower level monitoring lists, indicating the concerns about copyright violations in those nations did not warrant the highest level of scrutiny. The annual report, known as a "Special 301 Report," for the section of US trade law that it covers, said that China has a special stake in upgrading its protection of intellectual property rights, given that its companies will be threatened by rampant copyright piracy as they increase their own innovation.

The designations occurred in the report that the administration is required to provide Congress each year highlighting problems American companies are facing around the world with copyright piracy, which they contend is costing them billions of dollars in lost sales annually.

"We must defend ideas, inventions and creativity from rip-off artists and thieves," US Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab said in a statement accompanying this year's report. In addition to India, Russia and China, the nine countries placed on the priority watch list were Argentina, Chile, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela.

Google home pages to be more stylish

2007-05-15T11:58:00.002-07:00

Google home pages to be more stylish

Google on Tuesday will add a bit of style to home pages customized by users of its globally popular Internet search engine.

The Mountain View, California-based firm is adorning personalized homepages with an "iGoogle" logo and rolling out "Gadget Maker" tools for people to easily tailor pages with pictures, videos or musings.

"Gadget Maker allows users to bring their favorite offline information online and share with their friends and family, or the whole world," Google said.

"Anyone who can upload a photo or write an e-mail can use one of Gadget Maker's seven modules to create a personalized gadget without knowing how to write code."

People can use the service to customize iGoogle homepages with features such as pictures, online "blog" journal postings, YouTube videos, and "Google Gram" animated greeting cards.

The iGoogle service is adding 15 new languages on Tuesday, bringing the total to 26. Increasing the ranks of people using iGoogle homepages enables the Internet firm to make more money from online advertising and refine its search formula by studying the terms people use to seek information online

Disadvantage of Orkuting

2007-05-15T11:58:00.001-07:00

Orkut's tell-all pact with cops

Disadvantag of Orkuting

Think twice before you let loose your thoughts on Orkut. The Google-run community site, which has become a global platform for sharing personal information, ideas and sentiments and already has nearly 6.6 million registered Indian users (of a total of 49 million worldwide), has entered into a pact with the Cyber Crime Cell of Mumbai police saying it will not only block those 'forums' and 'communities' that contain 'defamatory or inflammatory content' but also provide the IP addresses from which such content has been generated.

In one of the first such cases, Mumbai police recently got Orkut to block allegedly defamatory content about Dr B R Ambedkar, Chhatrapati Shivaji and Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray.

The pact, which is actually an "informal arrangement" called the Priority Reporting Tool, comes as a big surprise to internet users as Orkut has successfully blocked attempts by various countries to control content.

Confirming the arrangement, a Google spokesperson said: "The Priority Reporting Tool between Mumbai police and Google has been designed to improve communication between Google and police . We are happy the police has found it useful. Google is a responsible company, and we also ensure we protect users' privacy ."

Deputy Commissioner of Police (enforcement ) Sanjay Mohite said the pact means they do not have to go through the lengthy process of asking the Central government to communicate with Orkut.

The practice so far has been to first send a request to the Centre's computer emergency response team in New Delhi. This team processes the request through its channels and even if a forum is finally blocked, the "culprits" still remain untraceable as no IP addresses can be obtained. If these addresses are to be found, the CBI then has to get into the picture, which makes the whole process even longer.

Now we can do away with the process and not just directly ban content but also obtain details of IP addresses and service providers quickly," Mohite said.

The IP addresses will enable the Cell to track down people who have posted messages and book them if the need arises, police officials said.

After the Cell blocked the content about Ambedkar, Shivaji and Thackeray that had created an uproar in the state legislature, it has also got requests from other states to help them in similar cases.

Recently, on a request from Kolkata cops, the Cell got Orkut to block a forum that contained allegedly defamatory material about West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and also obtained details of the IP address, Mohite said.

The arrangement has also been made foolproof with the introduction of an encrypted code to prevent anyone from impersonating as Mumbai police.

“We are also planning to have a similar arrangement with YouTube soon,” Mohite added.

Restoring Lost Memories

2007-05-15T11:56:00.000-07:00

Lost memories can be restored: Study

Mental stimulation and drug treatment may help people with brain ailments such as Alzheimer’s disease regain seemingly lost memories, according to research published on Sunday.

Scientists used two methods to reverse memory loss in mice with a condition like Alzheimer’s - placing them in sort of a rodent Disneyland to stimulate their brains, and also using a type of drug that encourages growth of brain nerve cells.

Neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said such methods might yield similar benefits in people with Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia that rob them of their memory and ability to learn.

“We show, I believe, the first evidence that even if the brain suffered some very severe neurodegeneration and the individual exhibits very severe learning impairment and memory loss, there is still the possibility to improve learning ability and recover to a certain extent lost long term memories,” Tsai said.

Tsai said if apparently lost long-term memories could be retrieved, this suggested the memories had not been actually erased from the brain. Instead, she and colleagues reported in the journal Nature, the memories probably remained in storage but could not be accessed or retrieved due to the brain damage.

The researchers used genetically engineered elderly mice in which they were able to activate a protein that triggered brain pathology very much like that of people with Alzheimer’s, with atrophy and loss of nerve cells.

Previous research has shown that regular mental stimulation such as reading or playing a musical instrument may reduce one’s risk for Alzheimer’s.

And a stimulating environment also has been shown to improve learning in mice.

In one part of their study, the researchers took mice out of their usual bland cages and placed them in a sort of mouse playground loaded with an ever changing assortment of colorful toys, treadmills and other mice.

The researchers previously had used a “fear-conditioning” test - placing mice in a chamber and delivering a mild electric shock to their feet - to establish an enduring memory.

Mice with Alzheimer’s-like brain damage put in the stimulating environment could remember that shock test far better than similar animals kept in standard cages. The playground mice also were better at learning new things than those kept in cages.

After exploring the biological mechanism behind the improvement in mice placed in the enriched environment, the researchers tested on the mice a class of drugs called histone deacetylase, or HDAC, inhibitors.

Advantage of Blogging

2007-05-15T11:55:00.000-07:00

Blogs become the voice of shy techies

Times surely are a changing. With blogs emerging as a nifty information-management tool, techies are donning the mantle of new age communicators. While they code for a living, blogging is their favourite pass time. For most of them, web logs offer multiple options, from being a discussion forum to a platform to mobilise public opinion against an issue to a place to share inner most fears and funny experiences.

According to an MSN research report, having a platform for self expression factored heavily into the motivation to blog in India with 58% of bloggers starting a blog because they wanted to express passionate views. "Blogs offer a venue for seamless sharing and it also has an informal transparency," says Ashok N, who works with Satyam Computers.

He maintains two blogs, one collectively with his college classmates and another to express his own thoughts. "I realised the power of blog when the reservation issue came up. This was our main platform to exchange ideas and to analyse the issue. While doctors went on the street to protest against it, we decided to express our opinion on the web," he points out.

Blogs are of great help in professional life also. Rajiv M, a former TCS employee, for example, has a technology blog where he writes new software codes. "I decided to start this blog after joining for MS in the US. Now my blog attracts a select set of people from all over the world and I realised that comment section provides me with so much practi-cal knowledge, which one seldom find in books," he says.

The MSN report says that India's blogosphere is still nascent with only 14% of the net users blogging actively. It also indicates that content of the blog is almost as trusted as traditional media and that blogs may emerge as the new fourth estate. "Unlike other countries in Asia, Indians don't like reading blogs written by business leaders as only half of the users were found enjoying them. Bloggers in India are spending more time online with 87% spending up to 5 hours per week reading blogs or updating their blog and 50% of all blogs receive 10 visitors or less a week. Interestingly, men dominate blogosphere in India," the study says.

Besides current affairs and technology, the next best content for blog-ing is personal experience. "Time does not permit me to write long mails to all my friends. At times even online chat becomes difficult. In such a situation, I'll just post one article on the blog and that is enough to tell everyone what I'm feeling," says Sunil M, a Wipro employee . In fact, during his recent trip to the US, blog came in handy for com-municating with his family in India. "Due to the difference in time zones, I could not call my wife immediately. So I wrote a blog and the next day morning in India, she got a picture of how my trip was to the US.

It also gave my folks an idea how security checks at airports has become such an ordeal. Media may give you a general idea about the existing condition as it has a professional way of dealing with it whereas blogs are an informal way of describing the nuances to a group of people, who share the same interest," he points out. Women may not be into active blogging but they surely are avid read-ers .

"Availability of computers at home and laptops provided by the company are the main reasons, people devoting so much time for blogging. I also started blogging after getting a computer at home. For some women it might be difficult to find time as they have to balance both family and professional life. But most of the women, whom I know regularly read blogs written by friends and colleagues," says Lata of Virtusa.

Richest man in Britain

2007-05-15T11:53:00.000-07:00

Lakshmi Mittal richest in Britain

NRI Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal today for the third successive year topped the list of the richest persons in Britain with a wealth of 19.250 billion pounds even as the Hinduja brothers and Lord Swraj Paul emerged as the second and third richest Asians in the UK.

According to The Sunday Times Rich List 2007, 56-year-old Mittal, President and CEO of Arcelor Mittal - the world's largest steel producer, saw his wealth shoot up from 14.881 billion pounds in 2006 to 19.250 billion pounds this year, an increase of staggering 4.369 billion pounds in one year.

The wealth of Sri Chand and Gopi Chand Hindujas, Chairman and President respectively of the Hinduja Group, registered a steep increase during the last one year - from 3.6 billion pounds to 6.2 billion pounds catapulting them to the position as the second richest Asians and fourth richest in the UK.

Similarly, Lord Swraj Paul, founder-Chairman of the Caparo Group, also witnessed substantial growth during the year with the total wealth increasing from 465 million pounds to 1.5 billion pounds this year. The 76-year-old Lord Paul's wealth is almost five times that of Queen Elizabeth II, whose wealth has been estimated at 320 million pounds.

The Rich List stated that Caparo Group posted profits of about 55 million pounds on 2.7 billion sales in 2006 and is expanding worldwide.

"Meanwhile, one of Paul's sons, Ambar, is growing the family's Contemporary Hotels operation, while another son Angad, the CEO of the Group has undertaken setting up of a series of automobile metal pressing, fasteners and Tools and Dies plants in India. With record prices for steel businesses, Caparo is worth at least 1.4 billion pounds on its 2006 figures. We add 100 million pounds for Indian assets and property, including hotels and restaurants."

Chinese 'e-cigarette' helps people stub out the habit

2007-05-15T11:52:00.000-07:00

Reuters

It feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette but it isn’t bad for your health.

A Chinese company marketing the world’s first “electronic” cigarette hopes to double their sales this year as it expands overseas and as some of China’s legions of smokers try to quit.

Golden Dragon Group Ltd’s Ruyan cigarettes are battery-powered, cigarette-shaped devices that deliver nicotine to inhalers in a bid to emulate actual smoking

“The nicotine is delivered to the lungs within 7 to 10 seconds,” said Scott Fraser, vice president of SBT Co Ltd, the Beijing-based firm that first developed the electronic cigarette technology in 2003 and which is now controlled by Golden Dragon. “It feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette, it even emits vapor. In many ways, it is like an actual smoking experience, and that’s what makes us different,” he said

The cigarettes sell for around $208 apiece and are already available in China, Israel, Turkey, and a number of European countries, but not yet in the United States.

Golden Dragon’s competitors include global giants Pfizer and Novartis AG, which sell more familiar nicotine replacement products such as chewing gum, patches, and inhalers. But Golden Dragon’s financial results show it might be onto a good thing. Sales more than doubled to HK$286.1 million in 2006, after surging more than ten-fold to HK$135.6 million in 2005, a year after the technology was perfected.

China - home to 400 million smokers and a roughly $160 billion dollar tobacco industry - accounts for 65% of Ruyan sales. The firm estimates around 10% of China’s smokers are attempting to quit, and averaging a 2% success rate.

After Hotmail, now a new Outlook Express

2007-05-15T11:49:00.002-07:00

After Hotmail, now a new Outlook Express

After giving users an-all-new-look-n-feel Hotmail, Microsoft has promised replacements for the Outlook Express and Windows Mail Desktop clients along with new software to integrate Web mail with the corporate Outlook programme.

"In just a few short weeks, a beta release of our new consumer email client – Windows Live Mail – will be available for download," says Windows Live Mail blog.

Windows Live Mail will replace Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Vista. The programme, which will handle POP, IMAP and Windows Live Hotmail accounts, is claimed to be faster, more robust version of Windows Live Mail desktop (WLMd) beta, which has been in testing for Windows XP. "For consumers out there who don't use Outlook, in the coming weeks, we'll be providing free access to a great new consumer client mail service that will connect with any POP, IMAP and of course Windows Live Hotmail account," says the blog

According to the blog, the new client will sport features from Outlook Express, Windows Mail and the Windows Live Mail desktop beta. It says that the Windows Live Mail will include all the great features that were available to the users in WLMd plus a new and improved UI, set-up and account migration improvements; more parity with OE and Windows Mail; and also no Ads.

The company also said that it will soon be releasing an updated Outlook Connector. The new Microsoft Office Outlook Connector beta will enable people to view and manage their Windows Live Hotmail account from Outlook for free, with full contact, e-mail and e-mail folder synchronization. The company had released an earlier edition of the Connector in last November.

YouTube, eBay win 'Oscars of the Internet'

2007-05-15T11:49:00.001-07:00

YouTube, eBay win 'Oscars of the Internet'

Video sharing website YouTube, the eBay online auction community and rock icon David Bowie were among the winners announced of this year's Webby Awards, the so-called "Oscars of the Internet."

The awards honor online excellence and are considered the leading international gongs for websites, interactive advertising and online video. YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, who came up with the idea of people posting video clips on a shared website, were to receive the Webby person of the year award for the fantastically successful site.

YouTube had played a key role in "transforming the media landscape and reshaping everything from politics to pop culture," the Webby organizers said.

Rock legend David Bowie was to pick up a lifetime achievement award for pushing the boundaries of art and technology with UltraStar, his digital media company that creates online content for The Rolling Stones and The Police.

He also runs BowieArt, a website that connects emerging visual artists with collectors, and launched BowieNet, an Internet service provider, in 1998.

The more than 200 million users of online auction platform eBay were also to receive a lifetime award for "a cultural phenomenon" that had "permanently changed the way people connect, discover and interact with each other."

"The Webby winners and special achievement honorees represent the very best in online creativity and innovation," Webby Awards executive director David-Michel Davies said in a statement, announcing the winners.

"We're proud to salute the people and organizations whose ideas and vision are transforming how we experience the world," he said.

Past winners of Webbies include pop icon Prince and former vice-president Al Gore, who memorably used his acceptance speech -- limited to a maximum of five words -- to ask the judges: "Please don't recount this vote."

The winners are selected by the 550-member International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, whose members include "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening, columnist and writer Arianna Huffington and Hollywood Titan Harvey Weinstein.

Winners of the almost 70 categories in the 11th annual awards are to be honored at a ceremony in New York on June 5.

Can Google stand up to Microsoft, Yahoo combine

2007-05-15T11:48:00.001-07:00

Can Google stand up to Microsoft, Yahoo combine

Microsoft and Yahoo have tried just about everything to close in on Google, the internet’s biggest goldmine in the online ad and search business. Now talks are they might combine their muscle in a merger. As it stands now, the estimated $50-billion deal between Microsoft and Yahoo would up the combined companies’ share of the search advertising market to 27% against Google’s 65%. It would also close the gap between the combined entity and Google in online advertising to 13%, according to third party research estimates on the internet.

According to web traffic analysis firms, Alexa Internet and Netcraft, Yahoo’s US portal is the most visited portal on the internet with more than 412 million unique users. In India too, its internet properties enjoy higher market share than that of MSN. At a recent conference, Yahoo India managing director George Zacharias claimed Yahoo touches about 80-85% of the online community in India either through e-mail, search or its portal.

“Agreed that MSN may not enjoy the largest market share, but you have to understand that Microsoft’s focus in India was not purely internet as in the case of other competition. We had a major focus on software and enterprise businesses, the portal business assumed importance only about a year ago when India started showing signs of growth,” MSN country manager India Jaspreet Bindra told ET.

Commenting on the India operations, he added that MSN India’s focus was primarily in three areas: online entertainment, mobile content and localisation of portals within India. The company last year had introduced its portal in five different Indian languages. It also introduced Windows Live, a set of more personalised services for internet users. According to Mr Bindra, MSN has a user base of approximately 500 million with nearly 250 e-mail users and 150-200 million instant messenger users.

No figures were available from Yahoo India. Yahoo has been more aggressive in India than Microsoft in the internet space while Google has been focussed more on developing technological capabilities from India. Last year, in an indication of the country’s importance Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig, visited India. It is also the only firm among the three to have invested in an Indian online venture, Bharatmatrimony.com. It was first off to announce IM in Indian languages, even before internet home-grown majors.

In India, Microsoft has over 4,000 staff with all its six global divisions being represented here. These include MSN, support centre in Bangalore and development centre, Microsoft IT (which develops IT for Microsoft globally) and Microsoft Global Services in Hyderabad while it has nine sales and marketing offices across the country. On the other hand Yahoo has over 1,000 employees (20% of its global engineering workforce) in India in its two divisions — the R&D centre and the India specific site. Yahoo’s R&D centre in Bangalore is the largest that the company has outside the US. It develops products for Yahoo India and the global markets. The Bangalore centre is also the hub for Yahoo’s emerging markets.

On a visit to India, Yahoo co-founder David Filo had said, “India will play an important role in supporting growth in emerging markets. We will continue to give more responsibility to our group here.” As far as Microsoft acquisitions are concerned, in the last decade or so the Redmond giant has bought out over 75 companies. While in 2006 it acquired 11 companies, including Whale Communications and Lionhead Studios. Among the most crucial recent acquisitions for Microsoft was Groove, in 2005. Interestingly, Groove CEO Ray Ozzie is today Microsoft’s chief software architect.

Mr Ozzie has the hard task of reinvigorating the 70,000 employee company that is no longer seen as the thought leader of the internet age. He has also been entrusted with the task of ‘webifying’ Microsoft — taking its products online — software, Xboxes et al. In an interview to ET late last year Mr Ozzie had said, “One of the characteristics of Microsoft that many people envy is that once Microsoft sets its sights on a market, it will continue to invest in building solutions that satisfy the customer even if it takes lot of time.’’

However, Microsoft has not always been successful with acquisitions. Microsoft was in talks to buy SAP after database major Oracle announced that it was launching a hostile bid for PeopleSoft (which Oracle eventually bought). Now Microsoft is determined to acquire at least a piece of a the Internet portal company Yahoo, if not the whole of it.

Microsoft announces team of Indian student innovators

2007-05-15T11:47:00.001-07:00

Microsoft announces team of Indian student innovators

Microsoft in association with Nasscom on Friday announced three teams of student innovators from India, of which one will compete at the worldwide finals of 'Imagine Cup' in August at Seoul, Korea for a prize money of around Rs 76,50,000.

The Imagine Cup is a global contest held by Microsoft to provide student innovators from across the world a platform to showcase their software development skills.

"This award is an effort to unlock the potential the student community represents," Microsoft India Developer and Platform Evangalism General Manager Tarun Gulati said.

He said by felicitating the young innovators, the company aims at providing them with a platform to get them in eyes of industry representatives and venture capitalists to help commercialise their ideas.

However, the company itself does not promise to include the ideas of these innovators as a part of its own business proposition. "As a company we only provide a platform to these young minds and we are very clear on our business strategy which does not include such activities," Gulati said.

Over 12,000 students from around 1,000 colleges across India participated in this contest,of which three teams have made it to the finals.

The three winning teams represent IIIT Allahabad, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus and Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of technology. One out of these will be awarded with a cash prize of Rs one lakh and go for the global level competition to be held at Seoul for a total prize money of around Rs 76,50,000.

Yahoo offers web-based instant messaging

2007-05-15T11:43:00.001-07:00

Yahoo offers web-based instant messaging

Yahoo on Thursday launched a web-based version of its free instant messaging service for internet users who want to stay connected while away from their home computers.

The service is initially launching in India, Brazil, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and the United States. It is to be made available in other countries through the rest of the year.

Yahoo Messenger for the Web lets people use the online search titan's service from any Internet-linked computer without needing to download or install software, as was the case previously.

The service is tailored for use by travelers, workers whose employers block software downloads to company machines, cyber-cafe dwellers and people who simply cannot afford their own computers.

"This really has great implications for the road warriors out there who are on the go," Yahoo senior vice president of communications Brad Garlinghouse said.

"People have become quite accustomed to a non-stop accessible life."

Industry statistics indicate that nearly a quarter of US Internet users go online from places other than home or work.

The new service is introduced as Yahoo vies with rivals Google and Microsoft for the devotion of Internet users whose visits can be parlayed into online advertising revenue.

Yahoo Messenger for the Web is available online at http://webmessenger.yahoo.com, according to the Sunnyvale, California-based Internet firm.

Google has high very standards for user privacy

2007-05-15T11:42:00.001-07:00

Google has high very standards for user privacy:

"The Google team met with the police from various states earlier this year and offered them the priority reporting tool that enables a direct line of contact with Google. This new tool does not affect the way we treat users data- it only enables a faster, direct communication channel to report inappropriate content on orkut. Authorities will still be required to follow the legal process in order to get user-identifying information.

Google has very high standards for user privacy and a clear privacy policy. When dealing with requests from authorities, we are careful to balance the interests of our users while still being as cooperative in the investigation and prosecution of crimes as possible.

Orkut is a community website and we take obligations set forth in the community standards seriously: we want to foster an environment in which users feel safe, as well as free to speak and interact. But criminals cannot hide behind privacy and use the service for illegal purposes."

SEO Tips and Tricks : Tips for Increasing Traffic on Website : Tips for Promoting Website : Tips for Improving Webpage content : Optimizing Website

2007-05-10T14:21:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Optimization Tips and Tricks

Why SEO Tips requires?
Publishing Website is not enough it is necessary that it gets attention by huge audience. How do I get Huge Audience to visit my Blog/Website Daily? As servey says 90% of traffic to any websites is generated through search engine and so it is necessary that you should follow some of the most basic SEO tips to attract a Huge audience to your website. Huge audience can turns you into Huge earning. Its all about presenting your content so that it rules search engine and thus more traffic.

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Tips consideration while designing Page.

Making a Title relevant to your content of your website.
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After you have design and develop your web page content, it is time to check its optimization. Keep following points in your mind to optimize the web page and overall website.

Keep webpage content smaller in size. Don’t show huge content on one page, rather divide it in more than one page.
Image associated with content can improves readability, but it can bring down webpage/ website performance, so you should balance the number of images and identify the need of its display. Avoid too much Images.
Avoid heavy animation file and video content.
Finding broken or missing links, make use of service provided by OctaGate Site Timer, It will display broken or missing links in your webpage/website as red. Thus it is easy to find them and avoid them.
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Invest more in hardware for Load Balancing, If your servers are overloaded and can't cope with the load that's placed on them.
Upgrade your Internet connection, if your bandwidth is insufficient for the load that the user place on the page.

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After you have publish the page, next phase comes is promoting the content. You can use following services to promote your webpage content.

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Put bookmarker at end of your content, so that user can visit your content as per his/her needs. Popular bookmarking service are :

Keep updating your website, if you are webmaster than keep your website up to date, this will increase users curiosity and thus more traffic.

Allow user to Link your post/article to their website.

Playing contest and participation can also attract like minded users.

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Tips for Promoting Web Page/Website

2007-05-10T14:20:00.001-07:00

Tips for Promoting Web Page/Website Content.

After you have publish the page, next phase comes is promoting the content. You can use following services to promote your webpage content.

Using Free Website Promotion Service to submit your website/webpage

a. 123 Submit - Submits your site to 21 major search engines

b. Submit Express - Submits your URL to 30+ search engines for free.

c. Free WebPage Search EngineSubmission - Submits your web page to nearly 300,000 search engines and pages. In return you need to place their banner on your page.

Make use of FeedBurner Service.

Put bookmarker at end of your content, so that user can visit your content as per his/her needs. Popular bookmarking service are :

Keep updating your website, if you are webmaster than keep your website up to date, this will increase users curiosity and thus more traffic.

Allow user to Link your post/article to their website.

Playing contest and participation can also attract like minded users.

Tips for Optimizing Web Page Content : Speeding up the WebSite : Enhancing Website Performance.

2007-05-10T14:19:00.000-07:00

Tips for Optimizing Web Page Content : Speeding up the WebSite : Enhancing Website Performance.

After you have design and develop your web page content, it is time to check its optimization. Keep following points in your mind to optimize the web page and overall website.

Keep webpage content smaller in size. Don’t show huge content on one page, rather divide it in more than one page.
Image associated with content can improves readability, but it can bring down webpage/ website performance, so you should balance the number of images and identify the need of its display. Avoid too much Images.
Avoid heavy animation file and video content.
Finding broken or missing links, make use of service provided by OctaGate Site Timer, It will display broken or missing links in your webpage/website as red. Thus it is easy to find them and avoid them.
Efficient Programming, code should be optimized. Minimize your code

For Javascript minimizing : Javascript Minimizer.
For CSS Minimizing : CSS Minimizer

Checking your webpage/website with Web Optimization Tools available online.

Web Page Analyzer – It will display complete analysis of your webpage/website and display a report summarizing, size of your content, downloading speed for it on different bandwidth, and recommendations to improve your webpage/website speed.

Invest more in hardware for Load Balancing, If your servers are overloaded and can't cope with the load that's placed on them.
Upgrade your Internet connection, if your bandwidth is insufficient for the load that the user place on the page.

Tips consideration while designing WebPage/Website

2007-05-10T14:18:00.001-07:00

SEO Tips, specific to web page content

Making a Title relevant to your content of your website.
Making proper keywords releated to your content in Meta Tag. If you are blogger than make use of meta tag which overall relates to your blog.
Content is important portion, search engines give priority to content which are

Simple
Concise
Complete
Unique (Not containing to much links to original publisher).

Why SEO Tips requires?

2007-05-10T14:17:00.000-07:00

Publishing Website is not enough it is necessary that it gets attention by huge audience. How do I get Huge Audience to visit my Blog/Website Daily? As servey says 90% of traffic to any websites is generated through search engine and so it is necessary that you should follow some of the most basic SEO tips to attract a Huge audience to your website. Huge audience can turns you into Huge earning. Its all about presenting your content so that it rules search engine and thus more traffic.

Free 2 Mbps broadband by 2009

2007-05-10T11:35:00.000-07:00

The government proposes to offer free, high-speed broadband connectivity to all Indians by 2009, through state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL.

While consumers will cheer it, the move holds the potential to kill the telecom business as we know it. You may have heard of free municipal broadband—many cities in the US have drenched themselves in wireless broadband connectivity, freely accessible to residents. The idea is to boost economic activity in general. The central government plans to achieve free broadband connectivity at a speed of 2 MB per second across the country, with a similar goal.

Senior government officials expect to be able to achieve this goal by spending only a portion of the burgeoning corpus of the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF)—all telecom operators contribute 5% of their revenues every year to this fund. It is estimated that the unutilised sum from USOF touched Rs 9,194.12 crore by March 2007.

The current technological trend is for voice calls also to shift to the internet, using voice over internet protocol (VoIP). The quality of VoIP calls, patchy to start off with, has been improving steadily over the years, and by 2009, is likely to be as good as current analogue calls that establish a circuit between the calling and called parties. When that happens, revenue streams from calls would dry up and telecom companies would need to develop value-added applications to make money from the connectivity they provide for free or virtually free.

The Department of Telecom (DoT) will be taking a series of steps to make its plans for free broadband a reality. These include using the Universal Service Obligation Fund to set up an extensive optic cable network across the country and opening up the long-distance sectors to further competition.

Accessing Amazon Earning Report

2007-05-09T15:28:00.000-07:00

To Access Amazon Earning Report, simply click on
http://associates.amazon.com.

Enter your Associate Id and Password and you will be redirect to Amazon Associates Central wherein you can find details of your earning.

You will find

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Latter you can explore as per your desire.

If you have FORGET YOUR AMAZON ASSOCIATE ID, than browse your mail account associated with Amazon and search for "associates@amazon.com" mail wherein you will find details of your Amazon AssociateId.

Making Money from Amazon

2007-05-09T13:34:00.000-07:00

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Amazon.com is an online store specialized in selling books, CDs, DVDs and Videos. When a visitor of your site purchases an item from Amazon.com through a link on your site, you will receive a fee of between 5% and 15% of the purchase price.

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Product Links - Link to specific products in Amazon catalog. (eg: Targeting Specific Book to your audience).
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Omakase Links - Automatically feature ideal products based on Amazon's unique knowledge about what works for your site, for your users and for the content of your page.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)

2007-05-09T13:05:00.000-07:00

Harry Potter is out in the market, had you purchase one for yours!!!

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Tips for Promoting Web Page/Website

Tips for Optimizing Web Page Content : Speeding up the WebSite : Enhancing Website Performance.

Tips consideration while designing WebPage/Website

Why SEO Tips requires?

Free 2 Mbps broadband by 2009

Accessing Amazon Earning Report

Making Money from Amazon

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)