Microsoft, Google begin war of words over cloud services in India

MUMBAI: Two of the world's largest technology giants, Google and Microsoft, are raining blows on each other as they hard sell their so-called cloud services and vie for dominance in a market estimated to grow to $15-18 billion by 2020.

Although these companies used to be thought of as being fundamentally different, similarities are beginning to show more prominently with both offering office productivity software, besides computer operating systems. While it may be too early to gauge business gains, the war of words has begun.

"Google is the largest cloud services company in India," claimed Rajan Anandan, Google's India head since January 2011. "We have 2,00,000 businesses that use Google cloud solutions. We have orders of magnitude bigger than Microsoft," added Anandan, who used to head Microsoft in India before he took up the Google job.

Apple Is Coming With Their Unique TV:Siri

Apple Is Coming With Their Unique TV: Siri
The new TV set-top will reportedly feature the newest version of Bluetooth, called Bluetooth Smart (4.0). Apple previously integrated Bluetooth Smart into its new iPhone 4S, and has also added the function to the latest iterations of the MacBook Air laptops and Mac Mini computers. Leveraging Bluetooth 4.0 technology, Apple could potentially implement motion-sensitive controls and even Siri onto its TV platform.

Siri, which first debuted on the iPhone 4S, was originally a project co-developed by SRI Ventures and the Department of Defense's innovation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. DARPA invested $150 million into the project, making it the biggest artificial intelligence project in U.S. history.

Internet shut down on Saturday 'Anonymous' hackers threatens World

NEW DELHI: Come Saturday and there is a strong possibility that you won't be able to indulge in your favourite internet activities like shopping and surfing due to a hacking group - Anonymous - which has threatened to shut down the net.

"Operation Global Blackout 2012 looks to shut down the internet for a whole day tomorrow (Saturday) by disabling its core DNS servers, making websites inaccessible," said Interpol's secretary general, Ronald K Noble.

Noble was speaking at the 13th DP Kohli memorial lecture on "Multijurisdictional Investigation: Operation Unmask" in the capital.

According to Noble, "Anonymous" is protesting against several reasons including the crash of Wall Street and irresponsible leaders.

"Investigations have already been launched by Colombia, Chile and Spain as their private and public websites have been attacked by the group," he added.

Meanwhile, Interpol has launched Operation Unmask to deal with the group and arrested 31 alleged members in two different phases in February and March, 2012.

However, Anonymous vowed vengeance and retaliated through a global wave of cyber-attacks on Interpol Feb 28.

"At its peak, the wave reached 400,000 attacks per minute. My parents' home address and phone number were published on websites," said Noble.

According to Noble, there are around 2.3 billion internet users in the world and more than one million of them are affected by cybercrime every year while $388 billion dollars is the global cost of such crimes

Facebook Hired Engg. Student For 1.34cr per year From MNNIT

Facebook Hired Engg. Student For 1.34cr per year From MNNIT

A B.Tech student from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) hired by Social networking giant Facebook for a annual pay package of Rs 1.34 crore ($262,500), one of the biggest offers made to alumnus of any technical institution of the INDIA.

Name of the student is withheld for "security reasons"

Director of the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology says Many students from our institute have bagged lucrative jobs. We have knowledge of at least 30 of our alumni getting selected with packages of more than Rs 10 lakh from companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe etc.

Samsung galaxy Beam- Projector Phone

Samsung galaxy Beam- Projector Phone

Features- The device is powered by 1 GHz dual core processor, 786 MB of RAM and runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. The device also comes with 4.0-inch TFT display with 480x800 pixels of resolution, 5.0 MP rear camera with autofocus and LED flash, 1.3 MP front facing camera, 8 GB of internal memory, microSD card slot for expandable memory up to 32GB and for connectivity it has Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, microUSB and GPS. Price not announced.

Future technologies of 2015 plus beyond 2015

Have you ever imagined your mobile phone can change shape and fit  into your pocket plus having a 2 - 2.5inch music player and a large enough memory space to store your music library.


Companies like IBM, Microsoft and Intel will commercialize these kind of nano tech. based gadgets which were just a fantasy!

DEVELOPER- Clara Gaggero

Clara Gaggero   head of Vitamins Design Ltd in a BlackBerry sponsored project.

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Skin Display uses piezoelectricity to display raised-up letters on the back of your phone, which can be imprinted into your thumb with a press. The raised-up message includes caller name, reason for call and the urgency, which is represented by three dots.