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Tapping Into iPhone Games

Forget Mario. While Nintendo has built a gaming empire on the back of a hyperactive Italian plumber, Apple's iPhone is quickly becoming a formidable gaming gizmo, thanks to eclectic fare such as "Tap Tap Revenge."

The free application has become one of the stars of the App Store, which allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to download and install software created by independent developers onto the gadgets. The point of the game is to tap the iPhone's touch-sensitive screen, or shake it up and down or side to side, as balls and arrows whiz down the screen toward a player. More than 1 million users have downloaded the application since the App Store launched last month.

The game is one of a pair of applications for the iPhone from Tapulous, an eight-person Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up. The company's chief executive and founder, Bart Decreem, founded social-browser start-up Flock and worked at the Mozilla Foundation, the group behind the Firefox Web browser.

But Decreem didn't create "Tap Tap Revenge." He acquired the game from developer Nate True. The application, originally called "Tap Tap Revolution," could be snuck onto hacked iPhones.

Decrem has another hit with "Twinkle," which lets users exchange brief messages with others in their vicinity, in addition to allowing users to post and read messages on their Twitter accounts.

While the iPhone represents just a small fraction of the worldwide mobile phone market now, Decrem figures roughly 7 million iPhone and iPod Touch users can download his application now. He estimates there will be 25 million potential users by the end of this year, and 90 million by the end of 2009. "Mobile living up to its potential is the next big thing, and the iPhone is really delivering on that promise," Decrem says.

Long term, Decrem wants to build a network of applications where users can challenge each other to a game of "Tap Tap Revenge" via "Twinkle." While both applications are now free, Decrem figures "Tap Tap Revenge's" growing fan base will allow him to sell a premium edition of the game, as well as location-based advertising and even virtual goods, such as music and wallpaper for the game.

Decrem plans to roll out more applications shortly, in addition to a number of new features for :"Tap Tap Revenge." For now, the company is bankrolled to the tune of $2 million by a host of angel investors, including Sun Co-Founder Andy Bechtolsheim, Salesforce.com (nyse: CRM - news - people ) founder Marc Benioff and others.

Source : Forbes

Flipping For Domains

It wasn't a great school year for Steven McDonald. He didn't win a single track meet, and he was rejected or wait-listed by every college he applied to.

McDonald's fiscal year, however, has been phenomenal.

It started last September, when he paid $620 for the Internet domain name qsd.com and, two weeks later, sold it for $12,000 to a fellow domain trader, or "domainer." Since that first investment, McDonald has grossed $325,000 from flipping domains.

"It's pretty cool," says the Southbury, Conn., teenager.

And he's not the only one who thinks so. As the real estate and credit markets plummet, the so-called domain aftermarket, where Internet addresses that cost less than $10 to register are bought and resold for thousands of dollars, is thriving.

A precise measurement of the industry is hard to come by, because most domain trading companies are privately held and the majority of their biggest deals are subject to nondisclosure agreements. Ron Jackson, whose trade magazine DNJournal tracks the sale of domains in public deals and auctions, says domain name sales in the first half of 2008 reached $68 million, up about 12% from the same period last year. Jackson estimates that entire aftermarket did $700 million in sales in 2006. Since then, sales likely have topped $1 billion.

"Domain sales are still going up by double digits," says Jackson, who is a domainer himself. "The low-hanging fruit may be gone, but there's still a lot out there."

The fiercest competition is for domains that use short, generic words--such as porn.com or fund.com--to describe lucrative Internet businesses. Fund.com sold for $10 million in March. But such domains were almost all snatched up in the '90s and again in the wake of the dot-com bust.

And as a sign of the growing demand for the Internet's limited valuable real estate, seemingly meaningless URLs, like qsd.com, or McDonald's latest investments npt.com, cjz.com and hyb.com, are now worth thousands of dollars in the domain aftermarket. It's now all but impossible to register a new two-, three- or even four-letter dot-com domain at registrars like GoDaddy.

Most of them are functioning Web sites or they're in the hands of domainers, who trade them back and forth, betting that the letters will inevitably match the acronym of one of the millions of new companies and organizations that go online each year.

"Back in the day, who would have thought that a random-group-of-letters-dot-com would be worth something?" says Jeremiah Johnson, chief operating officer of the domain auction site Sedo.com. "Well, to that company that has the corresponding name, it's worth a lot."

The highest reported sale of a three-letter domain this year was $202,000 for cpc.com. The Web address was sold to Contract Pharmacal Corp. by the registrar Moniker, which, like Sedo and other domain marketplaces, auctions domains for investors looking to sell and brokers deals for buyers seeking domains that have already been registered.

Appraising a domain is an inexact science. Johnson says Sedo has developed formulas that take into account the length of a domain (shorter is better), its inherent traffic (the number of visitors who type it directly into a Web browser) and the selling price of similar domains.

There's also a hierarchy in the value of domains based on the popularity of the suffix, or "extension," that follows the name. For example, a ".com" domain name is generally more valuable than ".org" or ".net," which in turn fetch more than newer ".info" or ".us." domains.

Although Jackson says he's having his best year yet for three-letter ".us" names, he sells them for a relatively modest $1,000 each. But that's not too shabby, considering he bought the domains for $8 apiece.

"Dot-com is always going to be the blue-chip standard," Jackson says. He reasons that the extension is ingrained in the minds of Internet users. Even new industry rules that will allow registrars to use almost any extension--theoretically expanding the domain universe by billions of names--will have little impact on the dominance of ".com." As a result, "all of this new property is going to be wasteland, because it's not going to be recognizable to the public," Jackson says.

In addition to flipping, domainers have other ways of making money from their investments. Most domainers post ads on their Web sites, which can generate a decent monthly income. And Jackson says more and more domainers are teaming up with Web developers to create their own online businesses.

Then there are even more creative arrangements.

"I've leased a domain to the president of Spain," says Adam Dicker, a domainer who owns DNForum.com, a site where domainers chat about industry trends and sell domains to each other. Dicker says the Spanish premier José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero rented his domain, zp.com, and used it as the homepage for last spring's presidential campaign. Maybe it helped. Rodriquez Zapatero was re-elected. Notes Dicker, "And he paid a good buck.

Source : Forbes

Tiffany appeals eBay Internet ruling

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. jeweler Tiffany & Co on Monday said it appealed a recent court ruling that found eBay Inc was not responsible for policing fake Tiffany jewelry sold on its website.

Tiffany filed the appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, it said in a statement.

"Tiffany's decision to carry this litigation on after the District Court's decision doesn't do anything to combat counterfeiting," an eBay spokeswoman said in an e-mailed statement. "The best way to stop counterfeiting is ongoing collaboration between companies, government agencies and law enforcement."

Tiffany sued eBay in 2004, alleging it turned a blind eye to the sale of fake Tiffany jewelry on its website. But in July, all of its trademark infringement claims were rejected, and a federal judge held that brand owners are ultimately responsible for protecting their own trademarks.

The ruling in the case, of interest to both Internet companies and luxury-goods makers, was considered to be a blow to Tiffany, which was expected to appeal.

Although eBay scored a legal victory in the U.S. case, it did not enjoy similar fortunes abroad.

A French court ordered the Internet company to pay $61 million to luxury goods group LVMH, owner of the Removed and Christian Dior brands, in compensation for allowing the sale of fake items on its website. EBay has said it will appeal that ruling.

Tiffany's shares were up 4.1 percent at $42.92, while eBay's shares rose 2.2 percent to $26.95, amid an overall gain in the wider market. The Dow Jones Retail Index was up 4.7 percent.

(Reporting by Aarthi Sivaraman, with additional reporting by Robert MacMillan in San Francisco; Editing by Maureen Bavdek)

Source : Reuters

Global cos may miss 3G bid

NEW DELHI: A closer study of the government's recently announced 3G auction guidelines has managed to cool the ardour of several global telecom operators and potential new entrants, many of whom are now planning to stay away from the bidding ring.

Companies have downgraded their interest to "negative" as the implications of steep financial and regulatory barriers, coupled with pockets of uncertainty for new entrants, sink in.

Till recently, companies like NTT, AT&T, Deutsche Telecom and Etisalat had shown interest in India's mobile market. The absence of global telcos in the bidding ring threatens to affect government's ambitious plans of netting up to Rs 40,000 crore from the auction of third generation (3G) spectrum. If existing operators dominate the bidding, the auctions will fetch a fraction of telecom minister A Raja's ambitious target.

Speaking to ToI on condition of anonymity, potential new entrants listed four key reasons for their negative response to 3G. The first is what they describe as an "unjustifiable, discriminatory and burdensome payment" of Rs 1,651 crore to first obtain a unified access service license. Unlike for existing operators, for 3G entrants, this is the price of a paper without the 4.4 to 6.2 MHz of startup 2G spectrum.

"If the objective of the 3G policy was to raise revenues through new competition, then it has failed, as new entrants face a serious disadvantage against existing operators," said Arpita Agarwal, associate director-telecom, PwC.

"The second deterrent is the mindless application of April's M&A guidelines to 3G licences," a potential bidder said. A 2G operator, under the present M&A norms, is not only allowed, but uniquely qualified to bid for and acquire 3G spectrum. In contrast, a 3G winner cannot merge with or acquire any 2G operator (existing or new) for three years.

The third concern arises on account of uncertainty of 3G spectrum allocation beyond 5 MHz. A 3G bidder can neither bid beyond a single block of 5 MHz nor acquire 2G spectrum. "Our growth is handcuffed from the start," said another potential bidder.
Agrees Kunal Bajaj, director-India, BDA, a global consulting firm. "A standalone 3G business will not work. Clearly, global firms will be constrained to find a business case given the severe policy limitations," he said.

According to operators, multi-billion dollar bids without line of sight on future 2G or 3G spectrum is a gamble too dangerous for them to take.

Potential bidders also grieve over the lack of clarity on several areas critical to bid planning, such as number of blocks per circle, timing of auctions, interim steps and rules regarding transfer and sharing of spectrum.

Source : IndiaTimes

NIFT starts classes in Patna with 60 students

Patna: Classes have begun at the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) branch here with 60 students from different parts of the country joining the course, officials said on Tuesday.

"The formal functioning of the NIFT Patna started on time. The classes began on schedule (Aug 4) after an orientation programme held last month," said Sanjay Srivastava, academic head of NIFT Patna.

Out of the 60 students, 30 are pursuing a Bachelors of Design in fashion communication. The rest have signed up for a Masters in Fashion Management.

Srivastava said that faculty members from NIFT in New Delhi, Hyderabad and other campuses were teaching the students here.

The institute will operate out of a temporary campus - a Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority building near Gandhi Maidan in the heart of Patna - this year, until it has a campus of its own.

The Bihar government had last week approved the allocation of Rs.586 million for setting up the NIFT building.

"The amount will be spent on the NIFT's infrastructure, including building and equipment. Of the total amount approved, Rs.270 million will be spent in the current financial year," an institute official said.

In May this year, the cabinet had approved free-of-cost transfer of 10 acres of land from the agriculture department to the industries department for establishing the NIFT branch, which will be the ninth in the country.

NIFT has branches in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata.

Source : IndiaEduNews

Online exams for Kendriya Vidyalayas soon

New Delhi: The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) is planning to create a database of questions based on the HOTS (Higher Order Thinking System), the concept which was introduced by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to develop critical thinking and analytical skills of students.

"We are planning to introduce online testing in all schools in the KV system. Students will be able to test their knowledge online, based on questions thrown by a question bank. A report on this test will be generated thereafter", said M.M. Joshi, Assistant Commissioner (Academics) KVS.

Joshi further said, "Online testing will allow a student to immediately figure out how much he or she has learnt, and which areas to improve upon. Though the interactive part will take another few months before it can be accessed, the question bank will, in the interim, provide students with a large database of questions".

Special classes for Class X and XII are being conducted by the KVS.

Teachers have also been asked to ensure that atleast 10 percent of students in each section secure more than 90 percent marks.

Source : IndiaEduNews

8GB iPhone to cost Rs 31,000?

NEW DELHI:  The wait finally seems to be over. According to reports, the pricing of the most-awaited gadget Apple iPhone, set to be launched in India on August 22, is out.

Reports indicate that the 8 GB version of the 3G iPhone will cost Rs 31,000, while the 16 GB version will cost between Rs 36,000–37,000.

The above pricing is exclusive of the rental plan the phone will come bundled with.

Last week Bharti Airtel and Vodafone announced that they will launch iPhone on August 22.

In a statement, Bharti said that millions of Airtel subscribers will be able to purchase the iPhone at Airtel's Relationship Centres from August 22.

"iPhone has been an iconic technological revelation of this year and Airtel has been at the forefront of innovation and customer delight in the Indian telecom sector," Sanjay Kapoor, President, Bharti Airtel mobile services, said.

iPhone is embedded with all 3G features and is twice as fast as the existing mobile phones. The phone also has in-built GPS system, which facilitates as navigation and positioning tool.

Source : IndiaTimes

India generates least spam mails

NEW DELHI: India has emerged as the country generating the least amount of spam mails among BRIC nations and this volume is a fifth of that originating from the US, reveals a report.

The lower percentage of spam mails generated is mainly attributed to increased awareness on the cyber security threats in India and higher presence of well-educated internet users.

The latest 'Internet Threats Report' prepared by US-based Secure Computing Corp for the second quarter shows that India accounts for just 2.99 per cent of the spam mails sent globally, which is also the lowest among BRIC nations.

'Spam mails' or 'spams' are identical messages sent to large number of internet users through emails. They penetrate mail accounts without authorisation and most of them flood the mailbox with malicious contents and expose the system to threats like phishing and data loss.

Russia is at the top among the four countries with a share of 6.71 per cent, followed by Brazil (5.29 per cent) and China (3.49 per cent), respectively.

In terms of spam mails generated, US is the biggest contributor at 16.56 per cent, while Russia holds the second spot and Turkey with 6.51 per cent is at the third position.

"Most of the internet users in India do not seem to have malafide intent and they generally use the worldwide web for sending emails, professional purpose and social networking, among others," Secure Computing's country Manager (SAARC) Ajit Pillai told PTI.

He also pointed out that majority of the users are well-educated and the fact that India still has lower internet penetration is helping to keep the number of spams lower

Source : IndiaTimes

Infosys starts 2nd Hyderabad centre

HYDERABAD: IT bellwether Infosys announced commencement of work on its second campus at Pocharam here; spread over 447 acres with a total investment of Rs 1,250 crores.

The ground breaking ceremony of the Infosys SEZ campus was held at Pocharam village in the neighbouring Ranga Reddy district.

After the ceremony, Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited N R Narayana Murthy told reporters that the Andhra Pradesh government has worked towards enhancement of infrastructure facilities in Hyderabad to make it a premier IT destination.

"We are encouraged by this development and the support provided to Infosys," he said.

The Infosys campus at Pocharam is expected to seat over 25,000 employees and will be completed over a period of 10 years and will be developed in three phases.

Work is commencing on the first phase, scheduled to be completed in over three-year period, with a seating capacity of 10,000 employees with an initial investment of Rs 600 crore, he said.

As part of its drive to become carbon neutral, Infosys is designing this campus on best-in-class sustainability principles to achieve energy efficiency, water sustainability, preservation and promotion of biodiversity and effective waste management, Murthy said.

An investment of Rs 522 crore has been made in the existing campus of Infosys at Gachibowli till June 30 this year which has been operational since 2001, he said.

Hyderabad campus exported IT products worth Rs 2,279 crore and contributed 8.7 per cent to the total state exports in the financial year 2007-2008, Murthy said.

Source : Indiatimes

Vodafone, Ruias fight over Loop Tele

MUMBAI: Differences have cropped up between Vodafone, the world's biggest telecom company, and its Indian joint venture partner, the Ruias of Essar Group, over the latter's plans to launch wireless telephony services.

Vodafone is understood to be exploring various options, including legal action, to counter Essar's moves since the new company will compete directly with their joint venture--Vodafone Essar.

The British company, which owns 67 per cent stake in Vodafone Essar, has sought the advice of leading law firm Majmudar & Co. The issue at hand is an Essar Group company called Loop Telecom, which has bagged the licence to launch a pan-India wireless telephony network.

While the final course of action is undecided, Vodafone has been told that it can move the Company Law Board (CLB) against the Ruias for "breach of shareholders agreement" by entering into a competition with their JV firm.

However, no one has initiated legal proceedings yet and attempts are on to resolve the issue. Both companies are already fighting a separate legal battle over BPL Mobile, which was to be merged with Vodafone Essar. However, the merger has not yet happened and the matter is now pending with an arbitration panel.

When contacted, a Vodafone spokesperson from London said: "Vodafone continues to enjoy a productive and successful partnership with the Essar Group. Both partners are committed to the continuation of strong operational performance of Vodafone Essar. We do not comment on discussions between the two partners on matters relating to the shareholders agreement." A Ruia spokesperson denied that Vodafone has any problem over Loop Telecom.

Source : IndiaTimes

Idea to give in overlapping licenses

NEW DELHI: Idea Cellular was asked by the Government to surrender either its license or that of Spice Communications, its latest acquisition, to avoid overlapping.

However, Idea would not be refunded the license fee said the Telecom Secretary Sidhharth Behura.

According to sources, Idea is likely to surrender its own licenses and retain Spice licenses in both, Punjab and Karnataka, circles as Spice has 800 Mhz spectrum in these areas and can accommodate more users.

Besides, Idea is yet to start its service whereas Spice is already offering services there.

Idea has got 4.4 Mhz spectrum for Karnataka and for Punjab it has just got the license.

Idea Cellular acquired a controlling stake in Spice Communications in June for over Rs 2,700 crore and had sought clarity on the licensing issues from the Department of Telecom (DoT).

DoT in its response to Idea had said that post merger with Spice, Idea would have to return one of the licenses in each circle of Punjab and Haryana.

Idea is likely to lose Rs 300 crore in this process.

Source : IndiaTimes

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[blink]homily[/blink]   • \HAH-muh-lee\  •  noun

    1 : a usually short sermon

    *2 : a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme

    3 : an inspirational catchphrase; also : platitude

Example Sentence:

"I don't mind eating tofu burgers," said Darnell, "as long as I don't have to hear a homily on the virtues of vegetarianism."

Did you know?

Gather around for the history of "homily." The story starts with ancient Greek "homilos," meaning "crowd" or "assembly." Greeks used "homilos" to create the verb "homilein" ("to consort with" or "to address"), as well as the noun "homilia" ("conversation"). Latin speakers borrowed "homilia," then passed it on to Anglo-French. By the time it crossed into Middle English, the spelling had shifted to "omelie," but by the mid-16th century the term had regained its "h" and added the "y" of the modern spelling.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

Full-time Principal at St. Stephen's soon

New Delhi: St. Stephen's College of Delhi University (DU) will have a full-time Principal soon. Sources from the college have confirmed that interviews for the Principal's post will be conducted in August itself.

"Yes, the formal interview with the applicants will be on August 16" said an official.

The former acting principal, Revendra Valson Thampu and Pro Tem M.S. Frank are on the list of candidates for the post of Principal.

The list also includes Shobhana Bhattacharya, who is currently teaching at Jesus and Marry College.

Several other candidates from St. John's College (Agra) and Christ Church College (Kanpur) are also vying for the post.

Sunil Mathew, official spokesman of St. Stephen's said, "There is no injunction by the court against the college proceeding with the appointment. Interview letters have been sent to the candidates. Bhattacharya is the most probable candidate for this post because she has been associated with the college for some time."

According to a college source, "Bhattacharya is the least controversial candidate amongst all applicants and has a tremendous backing among the council members because of her background".

Source : IndiaEduNews

Delhi to give scholarships to economically poor students

New Delhi: The Delhi Government on Monday announced scholarships for economically backward students taking admissions in higher education institutions in the national capital.

"The step has been taken to encourage socially and economically backward students to come forward to enroll themselves in higher education. We have decided to constitute Delhi Higher Education Aid Trust, which would be headed by the minister for higher education," said Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

The decision was taken in a state cabinet meeting on Monday.

"The trust would provide scholarships, education loans, stipends, prizes and other financial assistance to economically backward students," Dikshit added.

The Government would contribute an amount of Rs.10 million as corpus fund for carrying out the objectives of the scheme.

"The Government would also allow self-financing institutions to run second shift on a condition that they will deposit 25 percent of the total fee collected from students admitted in the second shift with HESF (Higher Education Scholarship Fund) for providing the scholarships," a Delhi Government spokesperson said.

The cabinet also recommended summoning of a three-day monsoon session of the Delhi legislative assembly on September 3-5.

The Chief Minister congratulated Abhinav Bindra, who won a gold medal at Beijing Olympics.

"The entire country is proud of Abhinav, who has won a gold medal in an individual event for the country," said Dikshit and described it as a historical achievement.

In another decision, the state cabinet approved guidelines to permit institutes to run degree-level courses from Lal Dora and extended Lal Dora areas, which are villages within the urban areas with special legal status.

"The new institute would have to prove that it is operating in the Lal Dora and extended Lal Dora for at least two years prior to the notification of MPD-2021 (Master Plan Delhi) and it has a no-objection certificate from the concerned regulatory body," the spokesperson said.

The organisation would have to furnish proof that it offers certificate course of at least one year duration and degree course of at least three years' duration. At least 200 students must have been benefited from these courses within the period of the last two years.

Source : IndiaEduNews

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New bacteria found in human mouth

London: A new species of bacteria discovered in the mouth can help scientists understand tooth decay and gum disease and enable them devise better treatment, according to a report.

"The healthy human mouth is home to a tremendous variety of microbes including viruses, fungi, protozoa and bacteria," said William Wade from King's College London Dental Institute.

"The bacteria are the most numerous: there are 100 million in every mm of saliva and more than 600 different species in the mouth. Around half of these have yet to be named and we are trying to describe and name the new species," he added.

Scientists studied healthy tissue as well as tumours in the mouth found three strains of bacteria called Prevotella that could not be identified. Prevotella species are part of the normal microbial flora in humans and are also associated with various oral diseases and infections in other parts of the body. The researchers named the new species Prevotella histicola; histicola means 'inhabitant of tissue'.

"Interestingly, this species was isolated from within the oral tissues, both in oral cancers and normal, healthy tissue," said Wade. "This confirms other work showing that oral bacteria can invade both tissues and individual cells."

Tooth decay and gum disease are the most common bacterial diseases and are caused by changes in mouth microbes. To understand them better, scientists first need to know which bacteria are present in human mouths.

Understanding the composition of the oral microbiota will also help scientists devise new prevention measures and treatments for oral diseases.

"A detailed description and name for each species of bacteria are needed so that different laboratories can recognise all of the bacterial species present in the mouth," said Wade.

The research has been published in the August issue of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

Source : IndiaEduNews

Onboarding Software

The term Onboarding refers to the process of converting a candidate for a role into that role within an organization. The candidate may be new one, or could be an existing person within the organization and is assuming a new role. Many different consulting and technology companies provide customized products and services to automate or define the onboarding process. The process definition and control of onboarding seeks reduction of costs along with a better and more effective assimilation of the candidate into the new role.

Onboarding also helps in cost reduction and focuses on the replacement of paper forms processes with electronic processes that are faster, more accurate, eliminate document shipping costs, eliminate data reentry costs, and mitigate risks. The above style of onboarding is also known as transactional onboarding.

These days Organizations seek to quicken the candidate's effectiveness in the new role through a more effective and faster onboarding process. This aspect of onboarding is known as acculturation or socialization, and is achieved through the deployment of a specialized enterprise portal that provides information about the company, the candidate's new role and peer workers, the company's benefits offering, etc. Onboarding process also provides access to forms automation and training tasks. An onboarding portal is the component of the organization's HRMS system or Employee Self Service portal. The onboarding portal can be implemented as part of the company's intranet, or in some cases as a standalone onboarding portal. Some of the major Vendors known for their work in this aspect of onboarding include Enwisen and Silk Road Technologies. A closer study on each of the vendors and their products reveals that there are two basic approaches to onboarding, which are transactional onboarding, and acculturation.

The transactional onboarding and acculturation are not mutually exclusive.  It varies within different organizations.  These days the organizations usually go for more than one onboarding vendor to address different requirements, which are driven by specific organizational goals or objectives.  The objectives are often influenced by the company's strategic objectives and policies. The onboarding softwares take care in offering effective employee communications, employee retention strategies, employee portal, total rewards statements etc.

While selecting any onboarding software, one must be quite aware of its efficienct. Inefficient onboarding can prove to be extremely time-consuming and costly process which involves dozens of steps, forms and systems that can result in a loss of productivity, incomplete paperwork, missing compliance-related documents etc.

Source : ArticleBase

How to Set Background Music for a Powerpoint File?

What is PowerPoint?

As we know, PowerPoint is really amazing software from Microsoft. Microsoft PowerPoint is an application for creating presentations, A PowerPoint presentation is formatted like a slide show, and accordingly, the basic unit of the PowerPoint presentation is called a "slide". As you make an oral presentation, you can click through the slides to reinforce your ideas. PowerPoint presentations can also be presented without accompanying oral discussion or printed out as briefing books for a meeting.

Therefore, more and more people learn and seek to design a good PowerPoint file day by day. So then to meet more and more people's requirement, here I also would like to join in to share some knowledge with you!

Refer to how to design a good PowerPoint, there is a function you must use. That is how to set background music for a PowerPoint file.

Insert music/sound file into a PowerPoint

    * Open a PowerPoint file

    * On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then click Sound from File.

    * Click the music or sound file you want to insert and then click OK.

Tips: Always put the music/audio file in the same folder as your PowerPoint presentation. If you later move the PowerPoint presentation to another computer, copy the music/audio file too. Keeping your music/sound file in the same folder as your presentation ensures the link will still work. However, you should always test the music/audio file on a new machine just to be certain. Re-insert the music/audio file, if necessary.

    * After you click OK, you' are promoted with a message asking how you want the music/audio file to start in the slide show. Choose Automatically.

Set the music as the background music for the PowerPoint

    * Right-click to the loud-speaker icon on the slide, find Custom Animation and click it.

    * Check this added music animation sequence under Custom Animation. Make sure that this added music file is placed in the primary of all the animations sequences. If not, drag it to the primary.

    * Right-click the added music animations sequences and find Effect Options and click it. 

    * After click Effect Options, there would a window named Play Sound pop-up.

    * Find Stop playing and check After, and then specify a value bigger than the quantity of the slide quantity of the current PowerPoint file. In other words, if there are 10 slides contained in this PowerPoint file, you have to specify a value >10, 11 or 12. 

    * Click Timing tab under the Play Sound window.

    * Find Repeat under this tab, click Drop-down button.

    * Choose the option of Until End of Slide.

    * Click OK button. 

Then the music audio file is played from the very beginning of the PowerPoint file to the very end of the PowerPoint file as the background music, and you can test this effect by click icon.

Source : ArticleBase

10 Reasons for a Reverse Email Trace

The Internet is an amazing community within which a multiplicity of good things can and do take place continuously. Conversely, there is a dark side, one that many people are unaware. Some however, know it all too well from first hand experience.

Online stalkers, hackers and harassers can't hide any longer because there are various ways to search, track and reveal who they are. If you're experiencing online harassment through email or blog posts directed toward you a little tool called reverse e-mail search can reveal the identity of your antagonist and put a stop to it.

Not only does such correspondence make you uncomfortable but further depletes your sense of safety and security. Moreover, that's just one of several reasons why you might like to do a reverse e-mail search; let's examine some others:

1. Getting email is a necessary part of online life yet you're finding that just one person is sending you more than normal. You're becoming somewhat uneasy.

2. It isn't apparent why you are receiving this unwanted email. What's worse, you're not even sure if you know or do not know the sender. You need immediate help.

3. Suddenly, you're receiving tons of unwanted junk email. Although it seems to be coming from an unknown place, you want to uncover the source and stop it.

4. With unwanted emails comes the threat of damaging spy ware, malware, viruses, and Trojans that can take down your computer, destroy all of your work and completely crash your hard drive.

5. Spam is annoying but you do expect to get at least some daily. However, fear intrudes when your spam compliment is multiplying beyond normal expectations. Spam filters don't seem to help any longer; it's now become more than just a small annoyance.

6. A new source sent an email requesting you provide some sensitive information. Determining the legitimacy of the person and the request will help ensure that your job and its confidentiality remain in tact.

7. Character assassination is easy when one is hiding behind the anonymity of the Internet. But, you can stop it by using reverse e-mail search as a means to uncover the culprit and make them accountable for their actions.

8. Keeping track of your children is important to you but it seems that someone else is tracking them via emails also. You need to know immediately who is responsible.

9. Some emails you're receiving contain threats of violence to you, family, friends, co-workers, etc. This has gone beyond harassment; it has now moved into the area of criminal intent.

10. Although you're experiencing this, you're limited in what you can do about it. That's when the services of highly skilled professionals are necessary to conduct reverse e-mail searches. They'll get results you can rely upon to help you stop the harassment.

These 10 reasons to do a reverse e-mail trace can provide you with some peace of mind in the sometimes-threatening world of the Internet. Whether you do it yourself or hire someone to do it for you, the results can be worthwhile.

Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Opperman

Source : ArticleBase

Industry professionals can now walk into IIT classes

New Delhi: Industry professionals who aspire to rub shoulders with students of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and upgrade their skills now have a chance to do so.

IIT Delhi has opened its courses to them. "Now we are allowing industry professionals to register and attend any of our 450 regular courses offered every semester," IIT Delhi director Surendra Prasad told sources.

"This is not like a professional development programme but like a regular class that our students go through. They can attend classes along with our students and brush up skills in the laboratories," Prasad added.

The IIT Delhi authorities said this was part of a programme to reach out to industries in the national capital region and work as a catalyst for their manpower skill upgradation.

"It is expected that in the years to come IIT Delhi will be seen as a major catalyst by the industries in their attempt to move up the value chain. This is because it requires major upgradation of their manpower skills, and IIT by reaching out to them can play a vital role," said M. Balakrishnan, dean, postgraduate studies of IIT Delhi.

"We have already registered 42 professionals this semester. The aim is to fully utilise our resources and help others grow," Balakrishnan said.

He said these professionals are mainly from the automobile, mechanical and IT industries. "But there is no restriction on any industry professional and the course that he or she wants to pursue."

The candidates however have been screened to an extent. All those attending the classes will also have to take a test at the end of the course.

After attending classes in a semester, these professionals will get a certificate from the IIT. The course fee to attend is Rs.5,000 for every credit. In IIT Delhi, every semester consists of 14 teaching weeks, which comprises 42 credits.

The candidates are free to choose their courses and one can go for more than one course.

Balakrishnan said on an experimental basis, this semester two live classroom courses are being beamed to a Noida-based IT company through two-way video and audio links.

"This is a pilot project and once it delivers results, it will provide a major boost for industry professionals. We may also have a full fledged set-up for this distant education mode," he added.

Prasad said in this case, industry professionals would not come to IIT Delhi, but classes would reach their offices - "an effective and time-saving formula for both parties".

Source : IndiaEduNews

Dynamically Calling Methods

There are a lot of little known features in .NET that can sometimes prove useful in the line of duty, calling methods is one of them. Have you ever needed to get more information about a method through code? For example, is it public, what does it belong to, what are it's parameters? You can do all of this through code and it's quite easy. This article will show you about information stored in a Type as well as the MethodInfo class and how they can be used to look at and even execute a method without actually calling it yourself.

Reflection

Types

    Later on I will go into this in greater detail, but this will be just a quick overview here.

    You probably know that when you create a class, you are essentially creating a type. A lot of people underestimate the power of a type, you may have used GetType once in a while, but you may not know the underlying power of it. The Type class contains a heck of a lot of information about an type that you can access and then can lead on to some pretty interesting abilities.

System.Reflection

    The System.Reflection namespace contains all of the tools needed to provide a view (in code) of any assembly in .NET. If you take a look at the Object Browser in VS.NET, that is the equivalent of using System.Reflection to find out about all of that information. Intellisense in VS.NET is also like using System.Reflection and Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector uses System.Reflection to browse an assembly.

    But why would you use System.Reflection?

    Let's say that you were given an assembly and you have no idea what it contains or does, you could use reflection to find out what's in it and how it works.
    Or, if you were developing a dynamic documentation system, then you could just place an assembly in the /bin directory and develop an application that used reflection to dynamically generate information and documentation about the assembly (much like the Comment Web Pages with XML Code Comments in VS.NET).

MethodInfo

    MethodInfo is a class within System.Reflection that allows you to get information about specific methods (which I will be using in this article). For example, you can give it a method and you can get all sorts of properties and methods back which you can use to examine that method.

Getting Information About Types

    In the following examples, I will be using a simple ASP.NET page with code-behind (because in code-behind the class is clearly defined for you).

    GetType returns a Type class with information about a particular type. Examine the following code -
    Public Class WebForm3
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    Dim mtype As System.Type = GetType(WebForm3)
    ...

    mtype now contains information about WebForm3. And if it were to do something like -
    Response.Write(mtype.Assembly)
    Response.Write("<br>")
    Response.Write(mtype.FullName)
    Response.Write("<br>")
    Response.Write("<table border=""1"">")
    Dim member As System.Reflection.MemberInfo
    For Each member In mtype.GetMembers
    Response.Write("<tr><td>")
    Response.Write(member.Name)
    Response.Write("</td><td>")
    Response.Write(member.MemberType.ToString())
    Response.Write("</td></tr>")
    Next
    Response.Write("</table>")

    You will get a table of every single member in the Type. See the live demo.

    I probably jumped ahead a bit with the GetMembers call, but all you need to know about it is that it returns an array of MemberInfo objects that contain information about every member in the type. If you take a look at the demo, you will see a lot of methods and properties that you didn't know existed. This is because it not only takes WebForm3, but also -

        * System.Web.UI.Page
        * System.Web.UI.TemplateControl
        * System.Web.UI.Control
        * System.Object

    Because that is how far back the inheritance goes on WebForm3.

MethodInfo

    MethodInfo is a class that stores method information and the GetMethod function of System.Type returns a fully loaded MethodInfo class for you to use.
    Public Class WebForm3
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    Dim mtype As Type = GetType(WebForm3)
    Dim minfo As System.Reflection.MethodInfo = mtype.GetMethod("Return1")
    End Sub

    Public Function Return1(ByVal name As String) As String
    Return "Hello " & name
    End Function

    End Class

    This piece of code fills minfo with lots of information about the function Return1.

Parameter Information

       Take a look at the following code -

    Response.Write("<table border=""1"">")
    Dim parameter As System.Reflection.ParameterInfo
    For Each parameter In minfo.GetParameters()
    Response.Write("<tr><td>")
    Response.Write(parameter.Name)
    Response.Write("</td><td>")
    Response.Write(parameter.ParameterType.ToString())
    Response.Write("</td></tr>")
    Next
    Response.Write("</table>")

      This does very much the same as the MemberInfo one before, but this time with parameters of a function. You will notice that it only returns one parameter (name) for Return1.

Invoking

    Now here is the really interesting part - You can also call a method using MethodInfo.

    Let's say that you had the name of a method stored in a variable. You can't go - variablename(). So you have to use MethodInfo.

    MethodInfo.Invoke takes two parameters - The instance that created the method and the parameters (in an object array).

    Take a look at the following code -

    Public Class WebForm3
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    Dim mtype As Type = GetType(WebForm3)
    Dim minfo As System.Reflection.MethodInfo = mtype.GetMethod("Return1")
    Dim myparamarray() As Object = {"Sample Name"}    'New
    Response.Write(minfo.Invoke(Me, myparamarray))    'New
    End Sub

    Public Function Return1(ByVal name As String) As String
    Return "Hello " & name
    End Function

    End Class

    The two new lines create a parameter array with a field for each parameter and it's value  and then uses minfo.Invoke to call the function and write it's results to the screen. The same would work with a method.

Converting Visio files in ASP.NET

The other day I found myself in a bind. I needed to find a way to convert Visio files quickly to *.jpg format. So I began to research different ways of importing the Visio library. I wanted to perform this task by using just notepad and the command prompt. So I did so.

To perform this task, you'll need:

    * Visio 2003
    * .NET Framework 1.1
    * Account credentials with permission to run Visio 2003
    * Read/Write permissions to your "Output" folder (Unless importing to SQL)

Now that you have everything you'll need, let's begin.

Section 1: Converting the VISLIB.dll file

In this example, we will regenerate the vislib.dll file into a .NET version. This is done by using the Type Library Import tool provided with the framework.

Go to a command prompt and navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v1.1\Bin. Inside that folder, there is an application called tlbimp.exe. We are going to use that. So, type:

    tlbimp "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Visio11\VISLIB.dll" /out:"C:\VisioDotNet.dll" /namespace:VisioDotNet /asmversion:11.0.3216.0

In this example, we are generating a new .dll in the C: root called VisioDotNet.dll. We are using VisioDotNot as the namespace as well. Also, just so we know what version of Visio we are using, I looked up the version of the VISLIB.dll file and used that as the assembly version. In this case it was 11.0.3216.0. Now we have the VisioDotNet library for our project.

Section 2: Creating the custom Visio.dll file

The next thing to do is to create the custom .dll library to use in your project(s). We start off by importing the new library. Then, by using a class browser, we can find that utilizing the Application class we can open a file and export the file as a particular type.

    Visio.vb
    **************************************************

    1:    Imports VisioDotNet
    2:   
    3:    Namespace Utilities
    4:       
    5:        Public Class Visio
    6:         
    7:            Public Sub SaveFile(infile as String, outfile as String)
    8:                Dim app as New Application
    9:               
    10:               app.Documents.Open(infile)
    11:               app.ActiveWindow.Page.Export(outfile)
    12:               app.Close()
    13:           End Sub
    14:       
    15:       End Class
    16:         
    17:   End Namespace

After creating the vb file, we can then compile:

    vbc /t:library /r:System.dll,VisioDotNet.dll Visio.vb /out:Utilities.Visio.dll

Don't forget that we need to give the proper access to start Visio on the server. Even though this is done silently, the process still needs access. We will accomplish this in the next section.

Section 3: Setting up the Web.config file


Now, we must be sure that the proper user has proper permissions to open Visio. So, we will impersonate a local user for this particular web. To further secure our app, we can limit this to a particular folder or page. However, this example will impersonate a user for the entire web -- not best practice :-).

    web.config
    **************************************************

    1:    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    2:    <configuration>
    3:        <system.web>
    4:            <identity impersonate="true" userName="TEST\VisioUser"  _
    5:                password="visiorocks" />
    6:        </system.web>
    7:    </configuration>

Finally, we can setup our ASP.NET page.

Section 4: Creating the ASP.NET page

In our ASP.NET page, we will create a new instance of the .dll and then pass the input and output file types to it.

    Convert.aspx
    **************************************************

    1:    <%@ Page Language="VB" %>
    2:   
    3:    <script runat="server">
    4:        Sub ConvertFile(s as object, e as EventArgs)
    5:            Dim doc As New Utilities.Visio
    6:            doc.SaveFile(InputFile.Text,OutputFile.Text)
    7:        End Sub
    8:    </script>
    9:   
    10:   
    11:   <html>
    12:   
    13:   <head>
    14:       <title>Visio Conversion</title>
    15:   </head>
    16:   
    17:   
    18:   <body>
    19:   
    20:   <form id="visioConvert" runat="server">
    21:       Enter the file to import:

    22:       <input id="InputFile" type="file" runat="server" />


    23:       
    24:       Enter the name and extention of the file to export:

    25:       <input id="fileTo" type="file" runat="server" />


    26:   
    27:       <asp:button id="button1" OnClick="ConvertFile"  _
    28:           runat="server" text="Convert!" />
    29:   </form>
    30:   
    31:   </body>
    32:   
    33:   </html>

It is recommended that you use regular expressions to regulate the types of files being imported and exported. This will limit the number of potential errors.

Debugging JavaScript in Visual Studio

There is no denial of the fact that web applications are more scalable then its counterpart desktop application. If we call upon the past couple of decades and compare the present scenario from the standpoint of application software, undoubtedly web applications have gained popularity over desktop applications. The architecture of a web application is different than that of desktop applications. Web pages typically are composed of some html tags, images, scripting tags and JavaScript. Web pages interact with web servers with specific requests to execute web pages hosted on the web servers using browsers. There are various web servers that are in use these days. The most popular are IIS, WebSphere, Weblogic, Apache, etc. Web servers are installed with script engines. Such scripting engines are basically collections of libraries (dlls). When a page is requested from a browser the web server does not convert html tags, but interprets and parses all server tags and returns html as an output back to the browser.

Web pages have become more and more interactive these days and often collect some input from the user and send that input to the server for interpretation. Increasingly, it is the onus of the developer to validate each and every such input on a web page. Validation of web pages has become sine-qua-non. If the developer does not validate inputs, the request becomes erroneous and the web application might throw an exception or even crash at some point. In order to ensure the inputs are validated before submitting the same to server, client side validation is required. There are some popular scripts that are used for client side validation. JavaScript and VBScript are two of these. Most browsers these days support JavaScript. Had there been no such scripts for web form validations then the web developers would be in a state of quandary. Now this is an era where users prefer doing most of their work on the client side, then to shuttling it to the server as needed.

This kind of technology is in the transition of creating its potential presence. It is not AJAX (Asynchronous Java and XML). I had an occasion to make some spade work in AJAX and I came up with one sample application. It is really great and different too. In AJAX there is no escape from using less JavaScript. The developer had to shift most of the logic required for the web form and write JavaScript as a consequence of which the script size in terms of line numbers increases and so also become arduous to debug and fix errors. Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE lets developers write code with ease. The debugging has become quite simple and easy which was not possible in traditional ASP application. In spite of the latest and new features in VS IDE, some of us find it cumbersome to debug JavaScript. But now you can stretch your legs and unfold you arms for debugging with JavaScript. There is a way out to debug JavaScript too. A question might be whirling in your mind as to how to do that. Here are the some useful tips to debug JavaScript in asp.net.

Steps to be followed to debug JavaScript on asp.net: In this article I have used IIS and Visual Studio 2005.

Configurations:


Step 1:

Open an existing asp.net application in Visual Studio 2003/05 if there is any, which uses JavaScript or create a new demo application from scratch.

Step 2:

When we create a web project in Microsoft's Visual Studio a file in the name of web.config is created by default in the web project.

We need to check the following setting:

<compilation debug="false" strict="false" explicit="true" />

Then change the debug setting to "true" as in the following.

<compilation debug="true" strict="false" explicit="true" />

Step 3:

Open Internet Information Service (IIS). Here is how to open IIS.

Start à Settings  Control Panel à Administrative Tools à Internet Information Services

Expand Web Sites Default Web Site right click on your web project you want to debug and click properties click Directory Tab à click configuration in the new opened window click Tab Debugging and if two check boxes labeled "Enable Server Side Script Debugging" and "Enable Client Side Script Debugging" are unchecked then check those two check boxes. (Pl refer to Screen Shot 1)
                             
Step 4:

Open the Internet Explorer browser, click on menu Tools à Internet Options à Advanced Tab à if Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer) and Disable Script Debugging (Other) check boxes are checked then uncheck those two check boxes and click button OK. (Refer Screen Shot 2)

Step 5:

Now, open your web project in Visual Studio IDE. Select menu Tools.

If you open the project in VS 2003 then under Tools menu select attach a process and select aspnet process and attach the process to the application.

If you open the project in VS 2005 then it does not require you to explicitly attach the aspnet process. In the JavaScript add a break point where you want to debug and also add a break point in the .vb or .cs code file where the JavaScript function is called.

Step 6:

Run the project by clicking on icon Start. The application will start and wait at the break point where you placed the break point.

Google "gadgets" called gateways for hackers

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - Hackers turned computer security specialists accuse Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalize home pages with applications that could be tainted.

Software that hackers can trick people into installing on "iGoogle" home pages can track users' activities and control their machines, SecTheory chief executive Robert Hansen showed AFP on Friday.

"I could force you to download child porn or send subversive material to China," Hansen said. "The exploitation is almost limitless. Google has to fix it."

Google lets people customize iGoogle home pages with mini-software programs called "gadgets" such as to-do lists, news feeds, currency converters, and calendars.

Hackers can program malicious code into proffered gadgets or break into systems hosted by engineers providing legitimate mini-programs.

"It turns out a lot of people who develop these things aren't good at security," Hansen said, citing research he and Cenzic security analyst Tom Stracener shared at a notorious annual DefCon hacker gathering in Las Vegas.

"We pretty much break into anything we try."

Hackers can resort to a tactic of luring people to websites that trick people into installing applications in iGoogle home pages. A hacker can remotely control a victim's computer as long as the iGoogle page is open.

Gmail users face danger from the same "hole" in security, according to Hansen, whose hacker name is "RSnake."

"We've been telling Google about these vulnerabilities for years and they have not made corrective actions," Hansen said.

"They chose to open the doors and insomuch put a lot of consumers at risk."

Google says it checks gadgets for malicious code, rarely finding any, and that it removes tainted programs.

Source : Yahoo

Some Web sites remain blocked at Beijing Olympics

BEIJING - Some Web sites remained inaccessible to reporters as competition got under way Saturday at the Beijing Olympics.

China's communist government routinely filters its citizens' access to the Internet, but in the runup to the Olympics Chinese officials and officials with the International Olympic Committee vowed there would be no censorship of the Internet for accredited journalists covering the games.

Some sites were unblocked 10 days ago after reporters arriving to cover the games found them blocked and complained to the IOC, but others remain inaccessible, including sites related to the Tiananmen Square protests, Tibet, Taiwan and the Dalai Lama.

While searches for these keywords turned up long lists of Web sites, attempts to open some of them resulted in a message saying the page could not be displayed.

A search for information about the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement not only drew that error message but froze the search engine and prohibited further searches for several minutes. Sites that host thousands of blogs appeared to be open, but specific blogs remained blocked.

A statement by Chinese officials indicated they had gone as far as they intend to go.

"Yes, we promised to provide free access to the Internet — except for a few that would jeopardize our national security and would not be good for the healthy growth of our young people," said Wang Wei, executive vice president of BOCOG, the Olympic organizing committee.

"As in any other country, there are some kinds of limitations," Wang added. "However, I think we are going to provide sufficient access for the media to cover the games."

IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies suggested reporters should keep pushing the Chinese.

"Sites that you need to have for your job, it's important that you raise them for BOCOG's awareness," Davies said. "It's ongoing work."

Rebecca MacKinnon, who studies Internet censorship in mainland China, said none of the changes have affected Chinese-language sites.

"The censorship situation for those Web sites has not loosened at all," said MacKinnon, who teaches journalism at the University of Hong Kong. "From what I understand they have even tightened."

Source : Yahoo

Beware, virus on Facebook

Facebook Inc, the operator of the most popular social networking site, has blocked a virus that infected thousands of users' accounts by presenting itself as a video message.

The messages advertised links to videos on Google Inc or YouTube sites, Max Kelly, head of security at Facebook, said in a blog post. Instead, those who clicked on the phony links downloaded malicious software, he said, without elaborating.

The virus affected less than 0.002 percent of Facebook's users, Kelly said. Based on its more than 120 million subscribers, that would amount to more than 2,000 people. Facebook disabled access to the links and is working to shore up security, he said.

Users who inadvertently downloaded the virus were presented with an image of a court jester sticking his tongue out and rolling his eyes, UK-based security-software maker Sophos Plc said in a statement on its Web site.

Brandee Barker, a spokeswoman for Palo Alto, California- based Facebook, didn't immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.

The privately held company had 123.9 million visitors in May, according to research firm ComScore Inc in Reston, Virginia. News Corp's MySpace, the main competitor, had 114.6 million users.

Source : IndiaTimes

IIM-A awaits 'professor' Kalam's special classes

Ahmedabad: Reducing the urban-rural divide, energy security and water conservation - these are some of the themes former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will be teaching at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

And students and faculty are eagerly waiting for his special classes to start.

'The process has already started and 70 students have been admitted to the course 'Globalising a Resurgent India through Innovative Transformation' (GRIT) which Kalam will begin teaching from September 12,' said IIM-A professor Anil K. Gupta.

The special course, which is in tune with Kalam's vision for India-2020, is for second year students of the post graduate programme for executives, the post graduate programme in agri-business management and for foreign students.

The course has been designed by Gupta and Kalam. And the former president has already written to students about the programme.

"Kalam has already written to the students on 10 themes a student would have to primarily build upon," Gupta told sources on Sunday.

"The themes are highly motivating. For instance, one of them is on reducing the urban-rural divided, the second is about energy security, third is about water conservation and the fourth is about governance with discrimination. The 10 issues are all basic issues relating to governance and policy-making, synergy between agriculture, industry and the service sectors," Gupta said.

Kalam will guide the students individually as well as in groups.

After the initial lectures, students will be required to submit project proposals for creating scenarios based on multiple options for specific policy and institutional changes.

"The outcome of the course is also likely to be shared with the parliamentary standing committee as well, which in turn could take it up with the respective bodies to initiate any changes they feel plausible," Gupta said.

Students who have received letters from Kalam will pick one area of their interest and think about implementation methodologies of Kalam's 2020 vision.

"This would indeed be useful for many students and in case they step into politics, their priority could be development, which is not the case with contemporary politicians guided mostly by their political priorities" Gupta added.

Kalam's last two sessions will be held on November 26-27.

The IIM-A has earlier also devised courses where students across disciplines were given the opportunity to work with parliamentarians on constituency management.

This year the MPs who have been roped in include Sitaram Yechuri of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Bharatiya Janata Party's Harin Pathak (Ahmedabad) and Madhusudan Mistry of the Congress.

Students of the institute will study and prepare roadmaps and blueprints for effectively managing their constituencies.

Source : IndiaEduNews

10+ Reasons Why You Should Hate the iPhone

Everybody loves the iPhone. Even though few in India have seen, touched, or used the device, the buzz for the product is palpable; its praise almost universal. While we agree that the iPhone is a great device that gets a lot right, there are several faults that need to be highlighted. The most glaring of these faults have come crawling out of the woodwork in the past few weeks.

The biggest issue here is that Apple has created what some like to call a "walled garden" through its App Store business. Instead of a thriving software ecosystem, Apple wants a developer to pay $99 before starting development; to only sell software through Apple's store, and to comply to restrictions placed. The reasons for doing so might be noble: greater security, and greater stability could only have been assured by a closed environment, as Apple likes to point out. But is that really so? Does Apple guarantee a secure and crash-proof product now that both consumers and developers live in this gilded cage?
The decision to create this walled garden has also seen useful applications removed from the store, or useless applications being added to the store, and then removed. Yesterday, we learned that Apple might be tracking everything installed on the iPhone, with speculation that this hidden mechanism might even allow them to remotely disable an application.

If all of this doesn't give you cause for a pause, here's everything else that's wrong with the iPhone and the Apple way of things:

1. You can only sync music and video through iTunes. Want to drag-and-drop content from your hard-drive? Would like to sync music from another store -- from Amazon, for example? You are out of luck.

2. You can only install apps through iTunes. Never before has a cellphone maker slammed the door to an open development enviornment and received nothing but praise for doing so. Imagine Microsoft creating a gated software ecosystem and installing themselves as the gatekeeper. They would be eaten alive by the press. Apple gets a free pass.

3. Apple deletes useful applications. Nullriver's modem app went to the grave with no reason stated. Apple's digital business is dependent on the music and movie industry's whims. How long before the industry dictates which applications we can run?

4. Apple might not accept apps which might be detrimental to its own business. We won't hold our breath for competitive products to appear on the iPhone anytime soon.

5. You can only run one third-party application at a time. An instant messenger that runs in the background and collects messages while you are away? Not happening.

6. Apple might not allow app vendors to open up their apps. The terms of the NDA that potential application developers for the iPhone need to sign, effectively restrict redistribution of the source. Apple has created OSX on the back of FreeBSD; Safari on KHTML, SproutCore library used in MobileMe, and now they have built a layer on top that excludes others. Nik at TechCrunchIT laments that "the same community who demand all from Microsoft, feel gifted and special when Apple give them an inch of rope... Applications can only be installed from a single source, iTunes, and open source applications and distribution is near impossible. How do you install an iPhone application without iTunes? Where are the community advocates arguing for a standard interface, openess and free code?"

7. Limited Bluetooth use. The iPhone 3G has Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR but can you transfer files over Bluetooth? Does it support A2DP? Stereo Bluetooth? No on all counts. As of now, all you get from Bluetooth are headset voice calls, and that's it.

8. No copy-paste. This might be more of an interface issue that Apple is seeking to solve, than anything else. But it only underlines the drawbacks of a walled garden. If development was as open as say, it is on the Palm platform -- you would have a hundred different solutions by now, and at least one you could actually use. This also underlines how much the innovative spirit is killed by a controlled development environment. The iPhone ecosystem doesn't encourage software tinkering and probably won't spur garage breakthroughs that drive the industry forward.

9. No MMS. While you can e-mail photos, multimedia messaging is absent from the device. And speaking of videos...

10. No video recording. In the world of YouTube, the iPhone 3G does not offer video recording.

11. No voice command. For a touch-screen-only phone, voice controls would have been a huge plus for hands-free or one-handed control. Can we expect this functionality to be added by a third-party app?

12. Hardware locked to carriers. You cannot use any SIM card with this GSM device. How stupid is that? Hello monopolies, goodbye competition. Thanks to carrier lock-in when the phone launches in India, the iPhone 3G might not even enjoy 3G until months afterwards. How do you like them apples?

The iPhone 3G is a great device. Apple has innovated with its interface; it's great at what it does. The problem is that its benefits and innovations only highlight Apple's missteps. Dave Winer posits that it is a lack of choice that makes Apple products an attractive proposition: "All the other products suck. Hugely. Apple's [products] just suck a bit less. Not a huge accomplishment for an industry, imho."

The Apple iPhone 3G might be a great product. But that does not account for the universal praise that it earns all over the net, from press and fans alike. If we do not underline its drawbacks, the status quo will be maintained. So grow a little hate inside your hearts for the iPhone. Apple can do wrong.

Source : TechTree

Hi,

[blink]Grub Street[/blink]   • \GRUB-STREET\  •  noun

    : the world or category of needy literary hacks

Example Sentence:

Writer Paul Theroux once characterized the world of literary quarterlies and poetry magazines as "that respectable little cul-de-sac off Grub Street."

Did you know?

The original Grub Street was an address in London (it was renamed Milton Street in 1830) described by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his Dictionary of the English Language as "much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems." The term was applied figuratively to the dog-eat-dog world of pens-for-hire as early as 1630, and not surprisingly it became the subject of several novels. Writer Tobias Smollett, all too familiar with hackwork himself, described a Grub Street dinner party in his novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). And the allusion to Grub Street still packed a punch in 1891 when George Gissing chose New Grub Street as the title of his realistic novel about intrigues of the Victorian literary world.

Intel's New Chip Named Core i7

Intel has just unveiled the brand name for its brand new processor. The Nehalem series, successor to the Core 2 Duo CPU series, will be introduced as "Core i7", and is expected to be commercially available towards the end of this year.

Intel said the new design will deliver both high performance and energy efficiency. "Expect Intel to focus even more marketing resources around that name and the Core i7 products starting now," said general manager of Intel's sales and marketing Sean Maloney.

Sporting anywhere between two and eight processors cores, the first chips will integrate a memory controller and come with Intel's QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) which is expected to provides a faster route for the CPU to communicate with system components such as a graphics card.

Intel is expected to add other identifiers to the Core i7 name as it launches products in the range. It is also expected to identify its high-end "Extreme Edition" parts with a black logo. Intel is also expected to release its laptop range of processors, based on the Nehalem, in the second half of 2009.

Further details about the new chips will likely be revealed at Intel Developer Forum (IDF), held between August 19th and 21st. Intel is then expected to talk about its system-on-chip (SOC) products as well, which will integrate a CPU, graphics processor, video and a memory controller into a single chip.

Source : TechTree

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Quotas for IIT faculty unlikely this year

New Delhi: Quotas in the selection of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) faculty are unlikely to be implemented this academic year as these premier tech-schools want the government to reconsider the controversial proposal.

All the 13 IITs, including the six new ones, have requested the human resource development (HRD) ministry for a "second thought" about implementing quotas for marginalised sections of society in the faculties.

"Nothing is finalised as yet. It's under review again," IIT Delhi director Surendra Prasad told sources. "Experts and the authorities are deliberating the situation in the ministry."

The HRD ministry directed all the IITs in June to implement 27 percent quota for Other Backward Classes, 15 percent for Schedules Castes and 7.5 percent for Scheduled Castes in its faculty selection.

The decision came after the implementation of 27 percent quota in all central government aided higher educational institutes, albeit partially, this year.

Soon after the direction was passed on to the IITs, the premier engineering colleges expressed their displeasure by protesting in campuses.

At least three IITs, including IIT Delhi, had carried out candlelight marches to express their dissent over the government decision.

"We have lot of things to say but can we?" asked an IIT Delhi professor.

"It's sad that government is not understanding the situation. In the IIT system, the best teachers should get a chance to mould students into leaders. There is no feeling of any social strata in the IITs," the professor said requesting anonymity.

"The only consideration is talent and let's not dilute it."

An official of IIT Kharagpur said instead of implementing quota in faculty positions, the government must come forward to fill up the all ready vacant teaching posts.

The shortage is most acute at IIT Roorkee, which has a sanctioned strength of 575 faculties but at present it has little less than 350 faculty members.

Similarly, IIT Delhi and IIT Guwahati are facing a faculty shortage of up to 15 percent. The situation in other IITs is not much different either.

An IIT director told sources that though all the IITs had asked the HRD ministry to reconsider the proposal, they were "almost helpless".

"Let me be very frank. We are government institutes and cannot defy government order. If they (government) think that whatever they are doing is right, there is no way we can stop them. The only victim will be quality," the director said adding: "Let's watch."

Source : IndiaEduNews

Hi [You],

[blink]criterion[/blink]

DEFINITION: (noun) a standard of measurement or judgment.

EXAMPLE: In choosing a design for the new taxicabs, reliability will be our main criterion.

SYNONYMS: basis, benchmark

Fuel from bacteria just a step closer

Washington: Scientists have mapped metabolism of a bacteria called Nostoc, which fixes nitrogen and releases hydrogen, possibly bringing sustainable fuel from microbes one step closer to reality.

Like all living creatures, bacteria sustain themselves through metabolism, a huge sequence of chemical reactions that transform nutrients into energy and waste.

Fixing nitrogen is an energy intensive process and it wasn't clear how the bacterium produces the energy it needs in order to survive. But the process has been mapped with the help of a new computer system.

Until now, scientists have had difficulties identifying bacteria metabolic pathways. The bacterial metabolism is a huge network of chemical reactions, and even the most sophisticated techniques can only measure a small fraction of its activity.

Guido Sanguinetti, of Sheffield University's department of computer science, who led the study, said: "The research uncovered a previously unknown link between the energy machinery of the Nostoc bacterium and its core nitrogen metabolism."

"Further investigation of this pathway might lead to understanding and improvement of the hydrogen production mechanism of these bacteria. It will certainly be some time before a pool of bacteria powers your car, but this research is yet another small step towards sustainable fuels."

"The next step for us will be further investigation into hydrogen production, as well as constructing more mathematical models capable of integrating various sources of biological data," he added.

The research has been published in Bioinformatics.

Source : IndiaEduNews

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DEFINITION: (verb) to become stale through lack of movement or change.

SYNONYMS: decay, decline, languish

List of integers

#include<conio.h>
#include<stdarg.h>
#include<iostream.h>
const int No=5;

class List
{
private:
   int n;
   int *array;
public:
   List(int i)
   {
     array=new int[i];
   n=i;
  }
  ~List()
  {
    delete array;
  }
  void Init(int al,...);
  void Show();
  void Add(List &v1,List &v2);
  int Inner(List &v2);
  void Scale(int x);
};
void List::Init(int al,...)
{
    va_list argp;
  va_start(argp,al);
  array[0]=al;
  for(int i=1;i<n;i++)
     array[i]=va_arg(argp,int);
  va_end(argp);
}
void List::Show()
{
   cout<<"(";
   for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
     cout<<array[i]<<",";
   cout<<")"<<endl;
}
void List:: Add(List &v1,List &v2)
{
   for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
      array[i]=v1.array[i]+v2.array[i];
}
int List::Inner(List &v2)
{
   int result=0;
   for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
      result+=array[i]*v2.array[i];
   return(result);
}
void List::Scale(int x)
{
   for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
      array[i]*=x;
}
main()
{
     List vect1(No),vect2(No),vect3(No);
     int InnerProduct;
   vect1.Init(2,4,6,8,10);
   vect2.Init(1,3,5,7,9);
   int m=4;
   cout<<"vect1=";
   vect1.Show();
   cout<<"vect2=";
   vect2.Show();
   vect3.Add(vect1,vect2);
   cout<<"vect3=vect1+vect2=";
   vect3.Show();
   InnerProduct=vect1.Inner(vect2);

   cout<<"Inner product of vect1&vect2 is:"<<InnerProduct<<endl;
   vect3.Scale(m);
   cout<<"vect3*"<<m<<"=";
   vect3.Show();
   return 0;
}


Result :
 
vect1=(2,4,6,8,10,)
vect2=(1,3,5,7,9,)
vect3=vect1+vect2=(3,7,11,15,19,)
Inner product of vect1&vect2 is:190
vect3*4=(12,28,44,60,76,)

Google, Yahoo Expand Ad Privacy Option; Miss Point

Behavioural targeting of ads is the in-thing on the internet right now. It's when an ad company serves advertisement based on a profile they have created of you. You might have noticed something similar on Facebook, which serves future-ads based on your feedback on the current ads: it's a system that learns what to serve based on your personal interest, which is in turn based on inferences drawn from either your declared personal information ('I like this band') or your actions online ('I bought this CD').

It is obviously a grey moral area, as it involves tracking you over the internet, as well as tracking your purchase and/or behaviour as a potential or active consumer. Most of this happens unknown to us.
The practice raises privacy concerns -- how many of us know that we are under such scrutiny and surveillance? Is our privacy too much to expect while surfing the internet from our own homes?

These concerns have caught the attention of the U.S. Congress and the Federal Trade Commission; steps have been taken to investigate these doings. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, in a congressional hearing expressed his concerns over behavioural targeting stating that "privacy is a treasured right, but it is also a right that seems to come under regular attack." He also added concern that people "assume they are in the privacy of their own home and that this privacy will be respected. Unfortunately, this is not always the case."

These hearings seemed to have made some impact on the ad policies of at least two major online players. Google yesterday, through a blog post titled "New enhancements on the Google content network" slipped in an opt-out option for cookies that serve both AdSense and DoubleClick ads. A cookie is what does the behavioural tracking mentioned earlier. Now that Google has acquired ad-network DoubleClick, the company will place an additional DoubleClick cookie on our browsers. This will allow advertisers to leverage Google's existing Adsense network to push more display ads. But at least now, we can opt-out of the ad-Blitzkrieg.

Yahoo, took a similar stance. This other giant in our online room will also allow you to opt-out of 'customized' ads on Yahoo.com. Yahoo already allows you to opt-out of such served ads served on third party networks.

Customized, here, is just a euphemism for behaviourial targeting.

What these announcements amount to is a skirting of the issue. How many of us will take the time to opt-out of a service? How many are even aware that there is an issue here? Do we need to click on a button, or fill a form to actively defend what should be an obvious right to privacy?

During the congressional hearing, Facebook pointed out [PDF] that "receiving information that is likely to be relevant... leads to a better online experience". The issue here is the word likely, and the steps taken to refine that likelihood. It would be an even better online experience if we had the option to opt-in to these services, rather than opt-out.

You can opt-out of Yahoo's cookies here, and Google's here.

Source : TechTree

Manage list of employees based on STL

#include <iostream>

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <list>

#include <algorithm>

const unsigned int LENGTH = 5;

class EmployeeList {
    public:
    typedef std::vector<int> grades;

    std::map<std::string, grades> roster;
    std::list<std::string> waiting_list;
    public:

    public:
    void add(const std::string& name);
    void remove(const std::string& name);
    void record(const std::string& name,const int grade,const unsigned int assignment_number);
    void display();
    private:

    void newEmployee(const std::string& name)
    {
        grades no_grades;
        roster.insert(
        std::pair<std::string, grades>(name, no_grades));
    }
};

void EmployeeList::add(const std::string& name)
{
    if (roster.find(name) != roster.end())
       return;

    if (roster.size() < LENGTH) {
       newEmployee(name);
    } else {
       waiting_list.push_back(name);
    }
}

void EmployeeList::remove(const std::string& name)
{
    std::map<std::string, grades>::iterator anEmployee =  roster.find(name);

    if (anEmployee == roster.end())
       return;

    roster.erase(name);
    if (waiting_list.size() > 0) {
        std::string wait_name = waiting_list.front();
        waiting_list.pop_front();
        newEmployee(wait_name);
    }
}

void EmployeeList::record(const std::string& name,const int grade,const unsigned int assignment_number)
{
    std::map<std::string, grades>::iterator anEmployee =
    roster.find(name);

    if (anEmployee == roster.end())
    {
        std::cerr << "ERROR: No " << name << '\n';
        return;
    }
    if (anEmployee->second.size() <= assignment_number)
        anEmployee->second.resize(assignment_number+1);

    anEmployee->second[assignment_number] = grade;
}

void EmployeeList::display()
{
    std::vector<std::string> sorted_names;

    std::map<std::string, grades>::iterator curEmployee;

    for (curEmployee = roster.begin();curEmployee != roster.end();++curEmployee){
        sorted_names.push_back(curEmployee->first);
    }
    std::sort(sorted_names.begin(), sorted_names.end());

    std::vector<std::string>::const_iterator cur_print;

    for (cur_print = sorted_names.begin();cur_print != sorted_names.end();++cur_print)
    {
       std::cout << *cur_print << '\t';

        grades::const_iterator cur_grade;

        for (cur_grade = roster[*cur_print].begin();cur_grade != roster[*cur_print].end();++cur_grade)
        {
            std::cout << *cur_grade << ' ';
        }
        std::cout << '\n';
    }
}

int main()
{
    EmployeeList empList;

    empList.add("A, S");
    empList.add("B, M");
    empList.add("J, R");
    empList.add("S, J");
    empList.add("M, M");

    empList.add("G, W");
    empList.add("C, W");

    std::cout << "Before drop " << std::endl;
    empList.display();
    std::cout << "\n";

    empList.remove("J, R");

    std::cout << "After drop " << std::endl;
    empList.display();
    std::cout << "\n";

    for (int i = 0; i < 5; ++i){
        empList.record("A, S", i*10+50, i);
        empList.record("B, M", i*10+50, i);
        empList.record("S, J", i*10+50, i);
        empList.record("M, M", i*10+50, i);
        empList.record("G, W", i*10+50, i);
    }

    std::cout << "Final " << std::endl;
    empList.display();
    std::cout << "\n";

    return (0);
}

       
Result :

Before drop
A, S
B, M
J, R
M, M
S, J

After drop
A, S
B, M
G, W
M, M
S, J

Final
A, S    50 60 70 80 90
B, M    50 60 70 80 90
G, W    50 60 70 80 90
M, M    50 60 70 80 90
S, J    50 60 70 80 90

A template queue class

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

const int maxQsize = 100;

template <class QType> class Queue {
  QType q[maxQsize];
  int size;
  int enqueueloc, dequeueloc;
public:

  Queue(int len) {
    if(len > maxQsize)
       len = maxQsize;
    else if(len <= 0)
       len = 1; 

    size = len;
    enqueueloc = dequeueloc = 0;
  }

  void enqueue(QType data) {
    if(enqueueloc == size) {
      cout << " -- Queue is full.\n";
      return;
    }
     
    enqueueloc++;
    q[enqueueloc] = data;
  }

  QType dequeue() {
    if(dequeueloc == enqueueloc) {
      cout << " -- Queue is empty.\n";
      return 0; 
    }
   
    dequeueloc++;
    return q[dequeueloc];
  }
};

int main()
{
  Queue<int> intQueue1(10), intQueue2(10);  // create two integer queues

  intQueue1.enqueue(1);
  intQueue1.enqueue(2);
  intQueue1.enqueue(3);

  intQueue2.enqueue(10);
  intQueue2.enqueue(20);
  intQueue2.enqueue(30);

  cout << "Contents of integer queue intQueue1: ";
  for(int i=0; i < 3; i++)
    cout << intQueue1.dequeue() << " ";
  cout << endl;

  cout << "Contents of integer queue intQueue2: ";
  for(int i=0; i < 3; i++)
    cout << intQueue2.dequeue() << " ";
  cout << endl;

  Queue<double> doubleQueue1(10), doubleQueue(10);  // create two double queues


  doubleQueue1.enqueue(1.01);
  doubleQueue1.enqueue(2.02);
  doubleQueue1.enqueue(3.03);

  doubleQueue.enqueue(10.01);
  doubleQueue.enqueue(20.02);
  doubleQueue.enqueue(30.03);

  cout << "Contents of double queue doubleQueue1: ";
  for(int i=0; i < 3; i++)
    cout << doubleQueue1.dequeue() << " ";
  cout << endl;

  cout << "Contents of double queue doubleQueue: ";
  for(int i=0; i < 3; i++)
    cout << doubleQueue.dequeue() << " ";
  cout << endl;

  return 0;
}      
 
Result :
 
Contents of integer queue intQueue1: 1 2 3
Contents of integer queue intQueue2: 10 20 30
Contents of double queue doubleQueue1: 1.01 2.02 3.03
Contents of double queue doubleQueue: 10.01 20.02 30.03

Declare your own class stack

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

const int SIZE=100;

class stack {
  int stck[SIZE];
  int tos;
public:
  stack() {
     tos=0;
  }
    void push(int i)
    {
      if(tos==SIZE) {
        cout << "Stack is full.\n";
        return;
      }
      stck[tos] = i;
      tos++;
    }
   
    int pop()
    {
      if(tos==0) {
        cout << "Stack underflow.\n";
        return 0;
      }
      tos--;
      return stck[tos];
    }

  operator int() {
     return tos;
  }
};

int main()
{
  stack stck;
  int i, j;

  for(i=0; i<20; i++)  stck.push(i);

  j = stck; // convert to integer

  cout << j << " items on stack.\n";

  cout << SIZE - stck << " spaces open.\n";
  return 0;
}

 
Result :
 
20 items on stack.
80 spaces open.

Use partial_sum to print all partial sums

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <deque>
#include <list>
#include <set>
#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
#include <functional>
#include <numeric>

/* PRINT_ELEMENTS()
* - prints optional C-string optcstr followed by
* - all elements of the collection coll
* - separated by spaces
*/
template <class T>
inline void PRINT_ELEMENTS (const T& coll, const char* optcstr="")
{
    typename T::const_iterator pos;

    std::cout << optcstr;
    for (pos=coll.begin(); pos!=coll.end(); ++pos) {
        std::cout << *pos << ' ';
    }
    std::cout << std::endl;
}

/* INSERT_ELEMENTS (collection, first, last)
* - fill values from first to last into the collection
* - NOTE: NO half-open range
*/
template <class T>
inline void INSERT_ELEMENTS (T& coll, int first, int last)
{
    for (int i=first; i<=last; ++i) {
        coll.insert(coll.end(),i);
    }
}

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<int> coll;

    INSERT_ELEMENTS(coll,1,6);
    PRINT_ELEMENTS(coll);

    // print all partial sums
    partial_sum (coll.begin(), coll.end(),          // source range
                 ostream_iterator<int>(cout," "));  // destination
    cout << endl;

}
 
Result :
 
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 3 6 10 15 21

Use partial_sum to print all partial products

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <deque>
#include <list>
#include <set>
#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
#include <functional>
#include <numeric>

/* PRINT_ELEMENTS()
* - prints optional C-string optcstr followed by
* - all elements of the collection coll
* - separated by spaces
*/
template <class T>
inline void PRINT_ELEMENTS (const T& coll, const char* optcstr="")
{
    typename T::const_iterator pos;

    std::cout << optcstr;
    for (pos=coll.begin(); pos!=coll.end(); ++pos) {
        std::cout << *pos << ' ';
    }
    std::cout << std::endl;
}

/* INSERT_ELEMENTS (collection, first, last)
* - fill values from first to last into the collection
* - NOTE: NO half-open range
*/
template <class T>
inline void INSERT_ELEMENTS (T& coll, int first, int last)
{
    for (int i=first; i<=last; ++i) {
        coll.insert(coll.end(),i);
    }
}

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<int> coll;

    INSERT_ELEMENTS(coll,1,6);
    PRINT_ELEMENTS(coll);

    // print all partial products
    partial_sum (coll.begin(), coll.end(),          // source range
                 ostream_iterator<int>(cout," "),   // destination
                 multiplies<int>());                // operation
    cout << endl;
}

Result :

1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 6 24 120 720

Use partial_sum to convert elements in a container into absolute values

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <deque>
#include <list>
#include <set>
#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
#include <functional>
#include <numeric>

/* PRINT_ELEMENTS()
* - prints optional C-string optcstr followed by
* - all elements of the collection coll
* - separated by spaces
*/
template <class T>
inline void PRINT_ELEMENTS (const T& coll, const char* optcstr="")
{
    typename T::const_iterator pos;

    std::cout << optcstr;
    for (pos=coll.begin(); pos!=coll.end(); ++pos) {
        std::cout << *pos << ' ';
    }
    std::cout << std::endl;
}

/* INSERT_ELEMENTS (collection, first, last)
* - fill values from first to last into the collection
* - NOTE: NO half-open range
*/
template <class T>
inline void INSERT_ELEMENTS (T& coll, int first, int last)
{
    for (int i=first; i<=last; ++i) {
        coll.insert(coll.end(),i);
    }
}

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<int> coll;

    coll.push_back(17);
    coll.push_back(-3);
    coll.push_back(22);
    coll.push_back(13);
    coll.push_back(13);
    coll.push_back(-9);
    PRINT_ELEMENTS(coll,"coll:     ");

    // convert into absolute values
    partial_sum (coll.begin(), coll.end(),           // source
                 coll.begin());                      // destination
    PRINT_ELEMENTS(coll,"absolute: ");
}

Result :
 
coll:     17 -3 22 13 13 -9
absolute: 17 14 36 49 62 53

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How Do I Become a Computer Programmer?

Programming a computer has always fascinated me. To be able to type a few lines of english into a machine, and then it does all sorts of things for me, was really exciting. It still is. If I need to do some task, I just write a programme to do it for me and I can take the rest of the week off!

If you are a creative or lateral thinking person, computer programming can be very satisfying; especially if you are doing it for yourself or freelance. I've been programming in various languages since about 1987, and I still enjoy doing it.

So how do you become a programmer? Where do you start?

First off, you need to be able to work a computer. How to use the mouse, keyboard, move files, get around explorer and so on. You also need to have a reasonable ability in math. (You can learn it as you go along as well.)

Then you need to decide what type of programmes you would like to write - financial, games, operating systems, machine controllers, etc - because each type of programming has a particular type of programming language that is particularly suited to it. For instance, Delphi is fine tuned for Databases, C++ is good for operating systems, Visual Basic works well in web applications.

Then you need to select the programming language that you would like to use. eg. Delphi, C++, Visual Basic, etc, etc.

You will have to buy yourself a Compiler, the software package that you use to write your programs. (Or use one at your school or library, or borrow a friends computer if he's got it installed. But eventually you will have to buy your own.)

Then you need to either go on a course that offers tuition in this language, or start teaching yourself; in which case you will need books to refer to. Courses are available via correspondence, at technikons or at universities.

Then you need a couple of years (part time) to do all this studying. Maybe after a month or two you will be able to turn out programmes that are kinda useful.

Programming is a bunch of commands written in a "language" that is normal english words, but a small finite set of them, together with symbols and punctuation that all has a particular function. For example:

Procedure WriteSomething ;

begin

form1.edit1.text := 'Hi there guys" ;

form1.edit1.visible := true ;

Application.Processmessages ;

end ;

This little bit of programming would put the text "Hi there guys" into a little box on the screen; but note: This is only part of a larger programme, and won't work by itself. If you leave out one of the semi-colons or a full stop, the program won't work!

So you have to write this "english" in a particular format, so that the compiler can "interpret" it, and convert it into machine code so that the computer can "understand" it and execute it.

A compiler is the software that takes your programme, written in this pseudo english, and converts it into a computer readable and executable form.

Source : ArticleBase

Top 5 Reasons For Not Upgrading to iPhone 3G

Ever since the iPhone 3G was launched, there are all kinds of news and views doing the rounds on the Internet - many of them complaints about the new generation iPhone.

For instance, this story on the hairline crack on the back plastic shell and its poor battery life.

Every user has his/her own verdict on iPhone 3G. Thomas Hawk, a photographer and blogger from US has also penned down his review of the iPhone 3G, provocatively titled The Top Five Reasons Not to Upgrade to the New iPhone 3G.

The iPhone 3G is scheduled to launch in India on 22nd August.

According to Hawk, his experience with the iPhone 3G has been similar to that of the first generation iPhone, and upgrading to the newer one has just not been worth it. There are various reasons behind him saying so. However, Hawk's listed out his top 5 reasons for the same.

First, "AT&T's 3G network sucks," said Hawk. One of the main reasons to upgrade to the new iPhone is for the supposedly faster speeds associated with the 3G network. But unfortunately, the page loading speed of the 3G connection is hardly better than the old Edge network.

Second, battery life. This is the most common reason for complaint among iPhone 3G users, and Hawk finds it poor too.

The next reason is WiFi. It is almost ubiquitous now, and will continue to be more and more available over the next two years, or so believes Hawk. While using WiFi, the new iPhone really has no advantage in terms of Internet speeds over the old iPhone. So, there will be really no need for 3G in the next few years.

The last two reasons are no free SMS messages and $10 more per month for the data plan.

Source : TechTree

Google Catches 2008 Olympics Fever

Google too has caught the 2008 Summer Olympics fever. Yesterday, Google launched the 2008 Summer Olympics Games site for users who wish to stay updated with events, medals, and other happenings at Summer Games.

For the Google 2008 Summer Games site, Google has created a mashup using existing tools such as Google Maps, Google News headlines, Google Sketchup, and YouTube videos. Users have to add iGoogle gadget (widget) that will monitor and update the medals on the user's Googlepage. The latest game highlights and information will be made available through Google News.

Enjoying the 2008 Summer Games fever, Google engineers have built a page where various services will update users with news of the Beijing Olympics. Available worldwide, people can access the information in 31 languages across 66 countries.

Summer Games Google Maps shows satellite imagery of Beijing-based stadiums and list of participant countries. Users can get events and medals updates mapped over Google Maps.

Format of ASP.NET Configuration Files

Configuration information for ASP.NET resources is contained in a collection of configuration files, each named Web.config. Each configuration file contains a nested hierarchy of XML tags and subtags with attributes that specify the configuration settings. Because the tags must be well-formed XML, the tags, subtags, and attributes are case-sensitive. Tag names and attribute names are camel-cased, which means that the first character of a tag name is lowercase and the first letter of any subsequent concatenated words is uppercase. Attribute values are Pascal-case, which means that the first character is uppercase and the first letter of any subsequent concatenated words is uppercase. Exceptions are true and false, which are always lowercase.

All configuration information resides between the <configuration> and </configuration> root XML tags. Configuration information between the tags is grouped into two main areas: the configuration section handler declaration area and the configuration section settings area.

Configuration section handler declarations appear at the top of the configuration file between <configSections> and </configSections> tags. Each declaration contained in a <section> tag specifies the name of a section that provides a specific set of configuration data and the name of the .NET Framework class that processes configuration data in that section.

The configuration section settings area follows the <configSections> area and contains the actual configuration settings. There is one configuration section for each declaration in the <configSections> area. Each configuration section contains subtags with attributes that contain the settings for that section.

The following Web.config file example declares two configuration <section> handlers. One manages application settings and the other manages session state.

<configuration>
   <configSections>
      <section name="appSettings"   
         type="System.Configuration.NameValueFileSectionHandler,
         System, Version=1.0.3300.0,
         Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>         
      <section name="sessionState"
         type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateSectionHandler,
         System.Web, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
         PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
         allowDefinition="MachineToApplication"/>
   </configSections>

   <appSettings>
      <add key="dsn" value="localhost;uid=MyUserName;pwd=;"/>
      <add key="msmqserver" value="server\myqueue"/>
   </appSettings>
   
   <sessionState cookieless="true" timeout="10"/>
</configuration>

You need to declare a configuration section handler only once. You can place it in the server's root Machine.config file or in a Web.config file in the virtual directory containing the Web application files. Configuration files in subdirectories automatically inherit configuration handlers declared in parent directories. For more information, see Configuration Inheritance.

Configuration settings are often nested together under section grouping tags. These top-level section tags typically represent the namespace to which the configuration settings apply. For example, the top-level <system.net> tag represents the settings for network classes, and the <system.web> tag represents the settings for the ASP.NET classes.

The following example shows tag nesting.

<configuration>
   <configSections>
      <sectionGroup name="system.net">
         <section name="authenticationModules"
            type="System.Net.Configuration.NetAuthenticationModuleHandler,
            System, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
            PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>                               
         <section name="webRequestModules"
            type="System.Net.Configuration.WebRequestModuleHandler,
            System, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
            PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>
       </sectionGroup>

       <sectionGroup name="system.web">
          <section name="authorization"
             type="System.Web.Configuration.AuthorizationConfigHandler,
             System.Web, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
             PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/>           
          <section name="sessionState"
             type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateSectionHandler,
             System.Web, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
             PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
             allowDefinition="MachineToApplication"/>       
       </sectionGroup>
    </configSections>

   <system.net>
      <! — Net Class Settings would go here. -->
   </system.net>
   <system.web>
        <authorization>
            <allow users="*"/> <!-- Allow all users -->
            <!-- Allow or deny specific users.
            allow users="[comma separated list of users]"
                  roles="[comma separated list of roles]"/>
            <deny users="[comma separated list of users]"
                  roles="[comma separated list of roles]"/>
            -->
        </authorization>
        <sessionState
            sqlConnectionString="data source=localhost;
               Integrated Security=SSPI;
               Initial Catalog=northwind"
            cookieless="false"
            timeout="10"/>
   </system.web>
</configuration>

The ASP.NET configuration infrastructure makes no assumptions about the types of configuration data that the infrastructure supports. Configuration section handler classes process all Web.config data. You can use the predefined configuration section handlers that are supplied with the .NET Framework or you can create your own handlers to process your own custom configuration data.

Website File Management Tools

One nuisance that has been around for as long as the internet, is the existence of extraneous files that accompany websites.

When you upload your website, you need to make sure that along with it you upload every image file you want to use, every Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) that determines font styles, every video or audio clip you want to include, and lots of other files as well.

If you don't have a well organized filing system, it is easy to misplace or lose files amonst the clutter. And even with a good system, you may leave old files on your site that are no longer used and are just taking up space.

File Clean Up

The makers of XSitePro 2.0 understand the problems associated with building and maintaining a website, so they have built tools into their software to manage a lot of those problems with a minimal amount of effort.

The program's suite of Website Cleanup tools are able to tell you if there are any files that are no longer needed, redundant, or out-dated. And, because this powerful package can handle the publishing of your website to the server, it ensures that everything is uploaded in an organized fashion.

Mapping Your Site

Along with creating all of the files and content for your website, you also have to remember what everything is for and where it is. When a site comprises just a few pages, that may be simple, but as your site grows in content and size, it becomes more complex.

Enter the automatically created Full Sitemap function. It helps you keep track of each facet of your site, and is an excellent way to help your website's visitors find precisely what they are seeking. And, as an added bonus, sitemaps help ensure that your entire website gets indexed by search engines.

The Time is Now! Or, Whenever You Want it to be

Now this is a program that has been designed to make hard things easy.

When you first build your website using the new version 2, you'll find that it helps you along and makes it easy to produce a great looking website. Once you've completed making it, it will be easy to see why it is imperative to keep everything up to date.

With the Taskbar Scheduler, you can set up everything in advance and simply tell the program when you want to make changes, and XSitepro will take care of the rest for you.

This user friendly website builder is easy to buy, easy to download, and easy to learn. Its developers have made it easy for you to create and publish a website, and smoothed the way for you to maintain it and keep it updated.

Source : ArticleBase

Metric Conversion

Here I will attempt to show how simple a web service can be created. This web service will take a integer input a do the appropriate conversions.

If you not familiar with web services this article should be a good starting point to build upon.

1. First, create a webservice within Visual Studio.Net
2. Name this page conversions.asmx
3. Open the code behind "conversions.asmx.vb (below is what my sample contains).

......
<WebMethod(Description:="Converts Inches To Millimeters")> Public Function millimeters_to_inches(ByVal inches As Double) As Double
millimeters_to_inches = CStr(inches * 25)
End Function

<WebMethod(Description:="Converts Feet To Centimeters")> Public Function feet_to_centimeters(ByVal feet As Double) As Double
feet_to_centimeters = CStr(feet * 30)
End Function

<WebMethod(Description:="Converts Yards To Meters")> Public Function yards_to_meters(ByVal yards As Double) As Double
yards_to_meters = CStr(yards * 0.9)
End Function

<WebMethod(Description:="Converts Miles To Kilometers")> Public Function miles_to_kilometers(ByVal miles As Double) As Double
miles_to_kilometers = CStr(miles * 1.6)
End Function

<WebMethod(Description:="Converts Centimeters To Inches")> Public Function centimeters_to_inches(ByVal centimeters As Double) As Double
centimeters_to_inches = CStr(centimeters * 0.393)
End Function

<WebMethod(Description:="Converts Meters To Yards")> Public Function meters_to_yards(ByVal meters As Double) As Double
meters_to_yards = CStr(meters * 1.1)
End Function

... Code removed for saving of space

Now that you have you web service page complete we can now compile the code to a dll (In this case I will use MetricConversions.dll).

To accomplish this we will use the following batch file. Be sure the paths reflects your current paths and this file resides in the same folder as your code. At that point execute the batch file and then copy your newly created dll to your applications bin folder.

@echo off
Set UseLanguage=VB
Set WSDLPath=http://localhost/webservices/MetricConversion/conversions.asmx?WSDL
Set outCodeFileName=MetricConversions.vb
Set outDLLFileName=MetricConversions.dll
Set myNamespace=MetricConversions
set assemblies=System.Web.dll,System.dll,System.Web.Services.dll,System.Xml.dll,System.Data.dll

wsdl.exe /n:%myNamespace% /l:%UseLanguage% /out:%outCodeFileName% %WSDLPath%

vbc.exe /out:%outDLLFileName% /t:library /r:%assemblies% %outCodeFileName%

Now that you have you web service page coding is complete and you have created the application dll we can create a web form to consume the service. Be sure to add this as a Web Reference to you project.

My sample page is named "conversion_demo.aspx" (below you will see the server controls the web service namespace).

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="conversion_demo.aspx.vb" Inherits="WebServices.conversion_demo"%>
<%@ Import Namespace="MetricConversions" %>

<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">

Convert Millimeters to Inches:
<asp:TextBox id="TextBox1" Width="50" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button id="Button1" runat="server" OnClick="mtoi_click" Text="Button"></asp:Button>
<asp:Label id="Label1" runat="server" Font-Bold="true"></asp:Label>

Convert Feet to Centimeters
<asp:TextBox id="TextBox2" Width="50" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button id="Button2" runat="server" OnClick="ftoc_click" Text="Button"></asp:Button>
<asp:Label id="Label2" runat="server" Font-Bold="true"></asp:Label>

Convert Yards to Meters
<asp:TextBox id="TextBox3" Width="50" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button id="Button3" runat="server" OnClick="ytom_click" Text="Button"></asp:Button>
<asp:Label id="Label3" runat="server" Font-Bold="true"></asp:Label>

</form>

Here is the code behind that handles the OnClick events:

Public Sub mtoi_click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Dim objConv As New MetricConversions.conversions()
Dim TextBox As Integer
TextBox = TextBox1.Text
Label1.Text = objConv.millimeters_to_inches(TextBox) & (" Inches")
End Sub

Public Sub ftoc_click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Dim objConv As New MetricConversions.conversions()
Dim TextBox As Integer
TextBox = TextBox2.Text
Label2.Text = objConv.feet_to_centimeters(TextBox) & (" Centimeters")
End Sub

Public Sub ytom_click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Dim objConv As New MetricConversions.conversions()
Dim TextBox As Integer
TextBox = TextBox3.Text
Label3.Text = objConv.yards_to_meters(TextBox) & (" Meters")
End Sub]Public Sub mtoi_click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Dim objConv As New MetricConversions.conversions()
Dim TextBox As Integer
TextBox = TextBox1.Text
Label1.Text = objConv.millimeters_to_inches(TextBox) & (" Inches")
End Sub

Public Sub ftoc_click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Dim objConv As New MetricConversions.conversions()
Dim TextBox As Integer
TextBox = TextBox2.Text
Label2.Text = objConv.feet_to_centimeters(TextBox) & (" Centimeters")
End Sub

Public Sub ytom_click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Dim objConv As New MetricConversions.conversions()
Dim TextBox As Integer
TextBox = TextBox3.Text
Label3.Text = objConv.yards_to_meters(TextBox) & (" Meters")
End Sub

This example will allow the user to input an integer value and the appropriate conversion value will be returned and assigned to the appropriate lables.

Multithreading in Java

Multithreading is a process that allows a multitasking operating system to work on different portions, i.e., threads of a single application smoothly. In other words, it can be described as a form of parallelism where multiple threads can run in a concurrent manner.

Java supports programming for multitasking environment where the CPU can perform different tasks simultaneously. The multitasking environment can execute in two ways.

·  Process based multitasking

·  Thread based multitasking

Process based multitasking – A process is a program which is currently acquiring the CPU time and, hence, it is the currently executing the program. The process based multitasking can execute two different processes simultaneously where the processes are running under different locations. For example, we can write some text using editor, at the same time some other software can play music.

Thread based multitasking – Thread is the smallest unit of dispatchable codes. In a thread based multitasking environment, one program can perform two different tasks. Therefore, we can say that two different tasks are executing. For example, we can print a word document at the same time we can do some typing.

The threading concept says that the different blocks of the same program can be executed concurrently. In Java, for implementing threading, there is a built-in class called Thread. There are various methods supported by Thread class.

·  setName() – It takes a string argument and assigns it as the name of the thread.

·  getName() – It returns a string which indicates the name of the thread though it does not take any argument.

·  sleep() – It accepts an argument of long integer type and it tells the thread to wait for certain milliseconds.

·  isAlive() – It determines whether a thread has completed its execution or not. It returns true if the thread is still executing.

·  join() – This function tells a thread to wait for completion of another thread.

·  start() – It invokes the threads or starts the thread.

·  run() – To run a thread, we need this. It contains the codes which are executed when a thread is running.

Main Thread

It is the entry point from where the execution begins. Every Java program contains at least one thread which is called the main thread. It is the entry point from where the execution begins and from the main thread, we can start other threads. By default there is a main thread existing in every Java program.

Listing 1

class threadDemo
{
  public static void main(String a[])
  {
    Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
    System.out.println("Current Thread: " + t);
    t.setName("Demo");
    System.out.println("After changing the name, the thread is " + t);
    for (int i = 5; i > 0; i--)
    {
      System.out.println("Current Thread: " + i);
      t.sleep(1000);
    }
  }
}

While doing a multithreading program, the main thread should terminate only after all the other threads get terminated.

Creating Child Threads

We can create child threads by:

·         Creating a class that implements Runnable (Runnable is an interface)

·         Creating a class which extends Thread class

To create child thread using Runnable interface:

·         First declare the class which implements Runnable

·         Declare an object reference of thread class as an instance of the implementing class

·         Invoke constructor of the thread class within the constructor of implementing class

The syntax of the constructor will be as follows.

Listing 2

Thread(this,string);

Invoke the start method to actually run the thread.

Define the run method.

Listing 3

import java.lang.*;
class myThread implements Runnable
{
  Thread t;
  public myThread();
  {
    t = new Thread(this, "child thread");
    System.out.println("Starting the child");
    t.start();
  }
  public void run()
  {
    Try
    {
      for (int i = 5; i > 0; i--)
      {
        System.out.println("Child Thread:" + i);
        Thread.sleep(1000);
      }

    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
      System.out.println();
    }
    System.out.println("Finishing the thread");

  }
}

class threadDemo
{
  myThread = new myThread();
  Try
  {
    for (int i = 5; i > 0; i--)
    {
      System.out.println("Main Thread:" + i);
      Thread.sleep(2000);
    }
  }
  catch (InterruptedException e)
  {
    System.out.println();
  }
  System.out.println("Finishing the thread");
}
}

To create child thread using Thread interface, insert the following.

Listing 4

import java.lang.*;
class myThread extends Thread
{
  public void run()
  {
    ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
  }
}

This methodology should be implemented only if the class which needs to be executed does not require to be extended from another class ever.
Suspending and Resuming a Thread
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Run the following code to suspend and resume a thread.

Listing 5

class myThread implements Runnable
{
  String threadName;
  Thread t;
  Public myThread(String name)
  {
    threadName = name;
    t = new Thread(threadName);
    System.out.println("The value of name: " + name);
    t.start();
  }
  public void run()
  {
    try
    {
      for (int i = 15; i >= 1; i--)
      {
        System.out.println("Thread " + t + "Count: " + i);
        t.sleep(200);

      }
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
      System.out.println("Thread Interrupted");
    }
    System.out.println("Terminating"+t);
  }
}

class demo
{
  public static void main(String a[])
  {
    myThread T1 = new myThread("First "); myThread T2 = new myThread("Second ")
      ; Try
    {
      Thread.sleep(1000); T1.t.suspend(); System.out.println("Thread " + T1 +
        "suspended "); Thread.sleep(1000); T1.t.resume(); System.out.println
        ("Thread " + T1 + "resumed "); T2.t.suspend(); System.out.println
        ("Thread " + T2 + "suspended "); Thread.sleep(1000); T2.t.resume();
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
      System.out.println("Thread Interrupted");
    }
    Try
    {
      T1.t.join(); T2.t.join();
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
      System.out.println("Thread Interrupted");
    }
    System.out.println("Finishing main thread ");
  }
}

The threads can communicate between each other by passing some messages. When multiple threads are concurrently executed, a thread can be suspended. One thread can suspend another thread. To do so, the thread must invoke suspend() method of thread class. Once suspended, the threads can be resumed also. The suspended thread can be resumed with the help of another thread by invoking resume() method. Similarly, the execution of the thread can be forcibly terminated by another thread with the help of stop() function. However, all these functions are deprecated in Java 2. Whenever a thread is suspended, it may lead to a serious problem. If a thread is using a resource and another thread is waiting for that thread to release the resource, then if the thread which has currently acquired the resource is suspended, the resource cannot be released. It may lead to a dead lock situation. Similarly, the resume() method is also ignored in Java 2 though it does not lead to any problem, but still it cannot be used without suspend() method. In Java 2, there are some other methods which when used can suspend or resume a thread. Those are wait(), notify() and notifyall(). These methods must be called through the extending class or implementing class. When the wait() method is invoked, then the thread must release the resources and suspend temporarily. The notify() method is used to restart the threads which are in waiting state (the first one in queue). The notifyall() method will awake all the threads that have been in the waiting state. The same program can be written as shown below without using the suspend() and resume() method.

Listing 6

class myThread implements Runnable
{
  String threadName;
  Thread t;
  public myThread(String name)
  {
    threadName = name;
    t = new Thread(threadName);
    flag = false;
    System.out.println("The value of name: " + name);
    t.start();
  }
  public void mySuspend()
  {
    flag = true;
  }
  public void myResume()
  {
    flag = false;
    t.notify();
  }
  public void run()
  {
    try
    {
      for (int i = 15; i >= 1; i--)
      {
        System.out.println("Thread " + t + "Count: " + i);
        t.sleep(200);
        while (flag)
        {
          t.wait();
        }
      }
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
      System.out.println("Thread Interrupted");
    }
    System.out.println("Terminating"+t);
  }
}

class demo
{
  public static void main(String a[])
  {
    myThread T1 = new myThread("First "); myThread T2 = new myThread("Second ")
      ; Try
    {
      Thread.sleep(1000); T1.mySuspend(); System.out.println("Thread " + T1 +
        "suspended "); Thread.sleep(1000); T1.myResume();
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
      System.out.println("Thread Interrupted");
    }
    Try
    {
      T1.t.join(); T2.t.join();
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
      System.out.println("Thread Interrupted");
    }
    System.out.println("Finishing main thread ");
  }
}

Exception Handling in Java

Exception is an event occurrence which disrupts the normal flow of execution of instructions in a program. Java uses this to handle errors and other exceptional events.

When an error occurs in a method, an object (exception object) is created by the method which is handed over to the runtime system. This process is called throwing an exception. The object contains the details of the error, its type, etc. The runtime system after receiving the exception tries to find an appropriate way to handle it. The runtime method searches the call stack to find an appropriate method containing the code for handling the exception. That block of code is called exception handler.

When the type of exception thrown by the runtime system matches with the type of exception that can be handled by an exception handler in a method, then the exception is passed on to the handler so that it can catch the exception. If the runtime system does find any appropriate handler for the exception, the runtime system and consequently the program terminates. Normally we have three types of exceptions: checked exceptions, errors and runtime exceptions.

Classes

Throwable is a class of Java.lang package which is considered as the superclass of all errors and exceptions in the Java language. It should be kept in mind that only objects that are instances of this class or its subclasses are thrown by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or can be thrown by the Java throw statement. Similarly, only this class or its subclasses can be the argument for the catch statement.

The two main subclasses of Throwable class are as follows.

·         Error

·         Exception

Errors are thrown by the virtual machine when there is a dynamic linking failure or any other hardware failure. Errors are not normally thrown by a simple program. Normally programs catch and throw exception derived for Exception class.

Exception class is again subdivided into two subclasses:

·         IOException

·         RunTimeException

IOExceptions are mainly caused by failed or interrupted input or output operations. These are mainly of two types:

·         EOFException – This exception is caused when the end of the file or end of the stream is encountered unexpectedly during input.

·         FileNotFoundException - This exception is caused when a file in a specified path is not found.

RunTimeExceptions are exceptions that are caused due to some programming problem that was detected by the runtime device or an inappropriate use of the application programming interface. These can occur anywhere in a program. They include:

·         ArithmeticException – This exception occurs when there is some error in the arithmetic logic- if we have some exception in the arithmetic condition. An example of this type of exception is trying to divide a number by zero.

·         NullPointerException – This exception occurs when an application tries to use null where an object should have been used.

IndexOutOfBoundException – This exception occurs when an index of some sort is out of range. It can be of type:

·         ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException
·         StringIndexOutOfBoundException

The various keywords for handling exceptions are below.

·         try
·         catch
·         finally
·         throw
·         throws

Using try, catch and finally

The syntax for the usage of try, catch and finally block is given below.

Listing 1

try
{
      .........
      .........
}
catch(exceptionclass obj1)
{
      .........
      .........
}
catch(exceptionclass obj2)
{
      .........
      .........
}
finally
{
      .........
      .........
}

For using an exception handler in an application, the first step we need to do is to enclose the code that is likely to generate an exception inside a try block. If an exception occurs in the try block then it is handled by the exception handler associated with it. For associating an exception handler to the try block, we need to have one or more catch blocks after the try block where each catch block acts as an exception handler and can handle the type of exception indicated by its arguments. Exception handlers can be used to print an error message when an exception occurs, to halt the program, to redirect the error to a higher level handler using chained exception, to write code for recovering from the error, etc. The finally block is the block which is always executed when the try block exits which ensures that the finally block is executed even when an unexpected exception occurs. It acts as the appropriate place for writing the clean up code.

Listing 2

class exceptionDemo
{
  Random r = new Random();
  int a = r.nextInt();
  int b = r.nextInt();
  int c = r.nextInt();
  try
  {
    c = a / b / c;
    System.out.println("Value of c " + c);
  }
  catch (ArimeticException e)
  {
    System.out.println("The error is " + e);
  }
}

Using throw and throws

The syntax for the usage of throw and throws clause is given below.

Listing 3

public void functionname throws exceptionclass
{
      .........
      .........
throw
      .........
      .........
}

Before catching an exception, some code should throw the exception first. An exception can be thrown by the code of the program, Java runtime environment, etc. One can use the exceptions defined in Throwable class or he can also create exceptions of his own.

Listing 4

class myException extends Exception
{
  int age;
  myException(int x)
  {
    age = x;
  }
  String toString()
  {
    return ("Age below requirement(" + age + ")");
  }
}

class exec
{
  public void vote(int x)throws myException
  {
    System.out.println("Voting condition ");
    if (x < 18)
      throw new myException(x);
    System.out.println("You are eligible to vote ");
  }
}
class demo
{
  public static void main(String a[])
  {
    exec obj = new exec();
    try
    {
      obj.vote(21);
      obj.vote(15);
      catch (myException e)
      {
        System.out.println("Error occured " + e);
      }
    }
  }

In the above example, toString() has been used. ToString() and getMessage() are the methods of every exception class.

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[blink]mau-mau [/blink]  • \MOW-mow (the "ow" is as in "cow")\  •  verb

    *1 : to intimidate (as an official) by hostile confrontation or threats

      2 : to engage in mau-mauing someone

Example Sentence:

"Going downtown to mau-mau the bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco." (Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic & Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers)

Did you know?

The Mau Mau was a militant secret society that operated in colonial Kenya during the 1950s. The ferocity with which Mau Mau terrorists rebelled against British rule was well-documented by national news sources, like Newsweek and Time, and by 1970 "Mau Mau" had become synonymous with "hostile intimidation," especially when used for social or political gain. Novelist Tom Wolfe was the first to use "mau-mau" in print as a word for "intimidate."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

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New geology map will help save earth

Lillestroem (Norway): Scientists unveiled the first digital map of the earth's geology and said it could guide oil and gas exploration and mining or pinpoint sites for burying greenhouse gases.
   
The map shows the world stripped of vegetation, water, soil and human structures by joining up existing data from the geological centers of 83 member nations in a planetary jigsaw on the internet.
   
"We have simply unlocked what already exists," said Ian Jackson, chief of operations at the British Geological Survey who is coordinator of the map that he said could be of interest to the public as well as many companies.
   
The mapping project so far covers about 70% of the globe — gaps include India and parts of Africa. Britain and France have contributed a total of $930,100 to the project. All countries provided their data for free. REUTERS



THE GROUND BENEATH YOUR FEET: A digital map of the earth's geology. Scientists unveiled the map on Wednesday and said it could guide oil and gas exploration, mining and help pinpoint sites for burying greenhouse gases

Source : TimesOfIndia

Police lathicharge students in Kovai

Coimbatore: The textile town's premier educational centre, the PSG institution, is caught in a bitter row among staff, students and the management over the proposal to grant deemed university status for its colleges.
   
The protests took an unseemly turn on Thursday when the police resorted to lathicharge to disperse a section of the protesting students who tried to barge into the district Collectorate here, where the higher education minister, K Ponmudi, was holding discussions to end the on-going tussle over deemed university status.
   
Just as the Minister arrived at the Collectorate, a group of students, not only from the PSG colleges, but also from the Law College and Government Arts College gathered and tried to push their way into the meeting hall. As the police pushed them back, the students resisted and raised slogans. Finally, the police resorted to mild lathicharge to disperse them and 10 Law College students were picked up.
   
The PSG institutions, both government-aided and self-financing arts science and engineering colleges have turned out several academics and technocrats for the country. However, the PSG management's move to turn the institutions into a deemed university has sparked off a frenzied wrangle on its serene campus.
   
During the meeting with the students and teachers, the minister is said to have heard their representations and sought to allay their fears over upgradation. The proposal may be put on hold in view of the protests.

Source : TimesOffIndia

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[blink]ethereal[/blink] ·  \i-ˈthir-ē-əl\ · (adj.)

1 : of or relating to the heavens : HEAVENLY
2 : being light and airy : DELICATE

First Impressions of iRiver Spinn

The boffins over at Crave UK have got their mittens on the latest iRiver and have taken it out for a Spinn. Ahem. First impressions are positive with the AMOLED screen, the touch-sensitive spin wheel, the player's audio quality, and its list of supported formats getting a thumbs-up. Here are some snippets:

"...never have we seen a screen so crisp and so bright. Images are stunning; videos are smooth and sharp."
"The slick menu system is plain but effective... Did we mention it rumbles like a phone? Clicking back through menus, for example, causes the Spinn to gently vibrate. Pointless, yes. Awesome, totally."

"Awesome too is sound quality. The Spinn supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA, APE, ASF formats according to the box, but we found it also plays WMA Lossless."

"Adobe Flash games are supported. Files must be in SWF format and seem to be limited to 1MB as a maximum file size."

The biggest drawback, to us at least, is that the Spinn's capacity is not expandable. It comes in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB variants but does not support a port for memory expansion. As Crave puts it -- microSD support for this baby would have been nice.



Source : TechTree

iRiver Releases Mplayer Swarovski

Japan-based iRiver has released the 4th edition of its Mplayer. Dubbed Mplayer Swarovski, this is a Mickey Mouse-shaped mp3 player decorated with Swarovski crystals.

Measuring 40.5x46x30mm and weighing 21g, this player comes with 1GB capacity and 9 hours of listening to music. It comes in four different designs including Little girl adorned with ribbon, Flower ray featuring Hawaiian style, Liberty with the motif of little flower, and Ethnic featuring resort style.

Mplayer Swarovski is priced at 14,800 Yen, reports Aving



Source : TechTree

Snowl from Mozilla Labs



Mozilla is working on a new project called the "Snowl". An add-on for Firefox, Snowl aims to help you access all your messages in one place - within the browser. Currently the support is basic - only Atom, RSS feeds and Twitter are supported right now. However, we can soon expect SMS and email support later, and maybe even support for social networking sites and other sources like Gtalk, and AIM.

That makes it similar to the existing Thunderbird client, although Mozilla claims that the objective of Snowl is to "help you follow and participate in online discussions".

Users can choose to have the feeds served in two different ways. One is a typical three paned window - email style. The other option is to have it served in a "river of news" view. Messages, no matter what the source, would be searchable, irrespective of whether they are private or public.

Snowl is available for download here. But be warned, according to Mozilla, the current version is "primitive and buggy". Updates to future versions could result in loss of messages and stored data, unless you're a geek who would like to test it.

Snowl is a part of the Concept Series initiative that invites external contributions in terms of ideas and innovations for designing the development of future browsers and an enhanced web experience. For more on Concept Series, read this.

Source : TechTree

Sony Ericsson T700 Announced

Sony has announced the new slim phone, the Sony Ericsson T700. At a thickness of 10mm, the phone falls into the sleek and slim category, which includes Motorola L6 and L7 as well as Nokia 6300 and 5310 Xpress Music.

Packed with moderate features, T700 bears a faint resemblance with the T650 in the T-Series phones. Touted as a mid-range phone, the sleek and shiny T700 is impressive in terms of price point and form factor, although it s not high on any new functionality.

The 3.2 megapixel camera allows has self-portrait mirror options, which allows the more narcissistic users to click themselves. But T700 with the 3.2 megapixel camera fails to impress as it lacks the Auto Focus feature. The phone also sports built-in stereo speakers, which can t be compared to the Walkman series phones. The best part of the deal for consumers is that this mid-range phone supports EDGE, UMTS and single-band HSDPA for data connectivity.

Sony Ericsson T700 will hit the selected markets in Q4 this year at an estimated retail price of less than 200 with black on silver, black on red and shining silver panel color options.

T700 Specifications:

Screen

# 240x320 pixel

# 2-inch, 262.144 color TFT

Networks

# GSM 850/900/1800/1900

# EDGE

# UMTS 2100

# HSDPA

Radio

# FM radio with RDS

Memory

# Phone memory 25MB

# Memory Stick Micro (M2) support

# 512MB included in the box

Battery

# Stand-by up to 370 h

# Talk time of up to 9h 30 min

How to capture the Double Click event in a DataGrid?

One of the rich in-built Webserver control is the DataGrid. We can do a lot with a DataGrid. There are several ways, in which we can customize the datagrid according to our need. Assume that we have a datagrid and we want to select any item (row) from the datagrid. How about allowing the user to Double Click on anywhere on the DataGrid? When the user clicks, we will retrieve the information of all columns of the selected row (double clicked row).

I assume that, the reader knows to create a simple datagrid with TemplateColumn and ItemTemplate tags.
Things that we will be learning in this article

   1. How to work with the OnItemDataBound event?
   2. How to add the attribute OnDblClick to all the rows in the DataGrid?
   3. How to retrieve the values for the row in which the user Double clicked?
   4. How to display the information of a selected row?

Populating the DataGrid

For our example, we will take the table STORE in the PUBS Database. Since stored procedures are very much better than inline query, we use a stored procedure called, sp_stores_sel, which contains a single SQL statement. The SQL statement would be Select * pubs.dbo.from stores.

What is OnItemDataBound Event and how it is invoked?

The ItemDataBound event is raised after an item is data bound to the DataGrid control. This event provides you with the last opportunity to access the data item before it is displayed on the client. So, this is the best place to add any events or to retrieve any values that is being populated for the DataGrid. Inorder to invoke this event, we have to specify while declaring a DataGrid such as:

OnItemDataBound="myItems_ItemDataBound"

In the above statement, we specify that on each Item (row) created, the method, myItems_ItemDataBound should be invoked. < p>

How to add an attribute OnDblClick to each row in the DataGrid?

The output of DataGrid web server control is nothing but a HTML table. So, inorder to capture the double click event for each row, what we have to do is, add a double click event to each <tr> element in the DataGrid. Once the event added the <tr> tag should look like, <tr OnDblClick=ShowDetails();> < p>

How to retrieve the values for the row in which the user Double clicked?

Retrieving the values for each row is very simple. All we have to do is to invoke the method, FindControl. We need to pass the name of each control (column) that we need to retrieve the values. Now let us take a look at the method, myItems_ItemDataBound. < p>

Code in the myItems_ItemDataBound method.

Sub myItems_ItemDataBound(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As DataGridItemEventArgs)
    Dim lblSID As Label
    Dim tblStoreName As TableRow

    Select Case e.Item.ItemType
    Case ListItemType.Item
        lblSID = CType(e.Item.FindControl("hdnStoreID"), Label)

        tblStoreName = e.Item.FindControl("lblStoreName").Parent.Parent
        tblStoreName.Attributes.Add("OnDblClick", "ShowDetails(" & lblSID & ");")
    Case ListItemType.AlternatingItem
        lblSID = CType(e.Item.FindControl("hdnStoreID"), Label)

        tblStoreName = e.Item.FindControl("lblStoreName").Parent.Parent
        tblStoreName.Attributes.Add("OnDblClick", "ShowDetails(" & lblSID & ");")
    End Select
End Sub

Editing a DataGrid Control
   
Modifying and editing records in a table is as simple as that with the help of editable DataGrid. In this article we will see what we need to create an editable DataGrid. Let us start with the DataGrid declaration.

Declaring a Datagrid Server Control

<ASP:DataGrid id="MyDataGrid" runat="server"
ShowFooter="false"

OnCancelCommand="MyDataGrid_Cancel"
OnUpdateCommand="MyDataGrid_Update"
OnDeleteCommand="MyDataGrid_Delete"
OnEditCommand="MyDataGrid_Edit"

AutoGenerateColumns="false">

<Columns>
<asp:editcommandcolumn edittext="Edit" canceltext="Cancel" updatetext="Update" />
<asp:buttoncolumn text="Delete" commandname="Delete" />

<asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="FieldName1">

<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="lblField1" runat="server" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "FieldName1") %>' />
</ItemTemplate>

<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" id="txtField1" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "FieldName1") %>'/>
</EditItemTemplate>

</asp:TemplateColumn>
</Columns>

</ASP:DataGrid>

What are OnCancelCommand, OnUpdateCommand, OnDeleteCommand and OnEditCommand?

Well, we have a DataGrid control and we will go through the above declaration carefully. We have declared four events in the above DataGrid control such as OnCancelCommand, OnUpdateCommand, OnDeleteCommand and OnEditCommand. You can also see that we invoke a method for each event. For example, for the "OnCancel" event we are invoking a server side method called "MyDataGrid_Cancel." We will look into these methods later.
Creating the Cancel, Edit Update and Delete buttons

Just after the <Column> tag, we need to first create the buttons, such as Edit, Cancel, Update, and Delete. These buttons are very common for any database operation. To declare the Edit, Cancel, and Update button you need to have a EditCommandColumn tag, such as

<asp:editcommandcolumn edittext="Edit" canceltext="Cancel" updatetext="Update" />

And for the Delete button, we need to declare a button and use the property commandname to specify the Delete command.

<asp:buttoncolumn text="Delete" commandname="Delete" />

What should be done when a user clicks the Edit button?

When the user clicks the "Edit" button, the corresponding items in the row should show text boxes in order to accept input from user. The tag, EditItemTemplate, should be used to declare the control (typically a TextBox, ListBox, RadioButton, CheckBox, etc). We are going to declare a TextBox that will be showed when the user clicks the Edit button.

<EditItemTemplate>
    <asp:TextBox runat="server" id="txtField1" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "FieldName1") %>'/>
</EditItemTemplate>

So we have a EditItemTemplate tag that will be showed only if the user clicks the Edit button/link. It is to be noted that we have a DataBinder for this textbox that will be filled with the value for the corresponding row that was selected by the user. It is this EditItemTemplate which is vital for an Editable DataGrid.

The Edit Event

Sub MyDataGrid_Edit(Sender As Object, E As DataGridCommandEventArgs)
    MyDataGrid.EditItemIndex = CInt(E.Item.ItemIndex)
End Sub

This event will be invoked when user clicks the Edit button/link. We have only one statement in this event. The primary goal of this event is to change the selected row to an editable row, which is done by setting the EditItemIndex property.

The Cancel Event

Public Sub MyDataGrid_Cancel(sender As Object, e As DataGridCommandEventArgs)
    MyDataGrid.EditItemIndex = -1
End Sub

When we click the Edit button, all items in the corresponding row will be changed to be editable. At this time, the Edit button will be replaced with the Cancel and Update buttons. These are two new buttons that will be shown when the user clicks the Edit button. When the user clicks the Cancel button, we want to remove the editable columns. This is achieved by setting the EditItemIndex to -1.
The Update Event

Public Sub MyDataGrid_Update(sender As Object, e As DataGridCommandEventArgs)
    Dim strDestination As String = CType(e.Item.FindControl("txtField1"), TextBox).Text
...................
.........
...
End Sub

When the user clicks the Edit button, the selected row will be changed to an editable item. Then we can enter the new values for the editable columns. The values entered are retrieved using the statement
CType(e.Item.FindControl("txtField1"), TextBox).Text.

Here we use the FindControl method which retrieves the value for the control name passed. Then we can have any statement inside this update event. We can invoke a stored procedure or invoke an inline query. It is all up to us.

AMU professor wins prestigious UK fellowship

Lucknow: Aligarh Muslim University professor Jamal Ahmad has bagged the prestigious fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (London), a university official said on Wednesday.

Ahmad is a faculty with the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, which is affiliated to AMU.

"Ahmad, an expert in endocrinology and internal medicine, writes extensively in reputed medical resfearch journals of the world," AMU spokesperson Rahat Abrar told sources on phone.

Ahmad, who has already published 110 research papers, is presently working on various projects being sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology, Indian Council of Medical Research, University Grants Commission, and the US-based pharmaceuticals major Eli Lilly and Company, among others, said Abrar.

Source : IndiaEduNews

AOL drags Time Warner income down

AOL continued to weigh on Time Warner as the media group reported a 26 per cent drop in second-quarter income on Wednesday, largely because of weakness at its internet division.

AOL, which has emerged as the biggest challenge confronting Jeff Bewkes, chief executive, suffered a drop of 36 per cent in operating income as as it continued to shed paying subscribers. Advertising revenue, which AOL is banking on as its future, rose only 2 per cent.

Mr Bewkes blamed the performance on difficulties from integrating the acquisitions that AOL had made since announcing an advertising-focused strategy two years ago.

He expressed optimism for the remainder of the year. Yet Mr Bewkes also noted that Time Warner had arranged for the separation of AOL’s internet access business and its online advertising platform – a move that could hasten a potential sale.

He said: “We have the necessary flexibility to do something strategic with either of those businesses today”.

For the quarter, Time Warner earned $792m, or 22 cents per share, compared with $1.07bn, or 28 cents per share, during the same period a year earlier. Revenues rose 5 per cent to $11.6bn. Time Warner’s film and cable networks divisions had strong performances.

The film group reported a 16 per cent rise in operating income as strong home video sales for I am Legend and other titles appeared to defy gloomy predictions.

Those results did not include the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight, which has shattered box office records.

In the cable division, higher subscription revenues at Turner and HBO and stronger ratings at CNN helped boost operating income by 18 per cent to $749m.

That performance offered more evidence of cable networks’ appeal in the media industry when the slowing economy has led to a pullback by advertisers.

By contrast, Time Warner’s publishing division, home to magazines such as People, Time and Fortune, saw operating income fall 15 per cent amid a 9 per cent drop in advertising.

The company acknowledged that the growth of online advertising was not sufficient to make up for the deterioration of print. It also warned that sales appeared to be worsening in the current quarter.

Separately, Time Warner Cable, which is 84 per cent-owned by Time Warner, reported a slight rise in profits, from $272m to $278m.

Mr Bewkes said Time Warner remained on track to complete a spin-off of its stake by the end of the year, and said it would take a cautious approach in deploying the $9.25bn windfall it would receive from the deal.

Source : Financial Times

Softbank to more than halve iPhone charges

Softbank said it would more than halve its monthly fees for the iPhone, less than a month after the much-hyped handset was introduced to the Japanese market.

Japan’s third-largest mobile operator said it would cut its minimum monthly iPhone fee to Y2990 ($27.63), compared with its initial Y7,280 fee. Existing iPhone owners would also benefit from the reduced fees, the company said on Tuesday.

The move makes Softbank’s monthly tariff for the iPhone among the lowest in the world. In the UK, for example, the cheapest iPhone monthly tariff from O2 is £30 ($58.59) and in the US it is $39.99 with AT&T.

Analysts said the reduced tariffs were a strategy to broaden the appeal of the iPhone and attract more users.

Nathan Ramler, an analyst at Macquarie in Tokyo, said: “It seems to be a way of getting as many people on to the platform that will facilitate future spending and that dovetails with what they’ve always been trying to do

“Whether people actually do that is another question.”

Softbank also said it would start to take reservations for buying the phones in certain branches given that demand was strong.

The maverick internet and mobile company has instigated much change in the domestic market since it took over Vodafone’s Japanese operations in 2006, introducing steeply discounted pricing plans for services and charging more for handsets.

Previously, handsets were sold cheaply, with the carriers taking on a significant portion of those costs, and passing on only part of it through the monthly fees.

Softbank’s aggressive discount plans and attractive handsets have helped it win market share, particularly over its largest rival, NTT DoCoMo.

The reduction in subsidies paid on handsets helped both Softbank and DoCoMo’s earnings in the first quarter.

Softbank said its operating profit increased 8.1 per cent to Y85.1bn in the three months ended June as reduced subsidies lowered costs.

Sales dropped 2.4 per cent to Y647.3bn, the company said.

Kenji Nishimura, an analyst at Deutsche Securities, said: “Softbank still has a competitive advantage.

“With the reduced price plan they’ll be attracting more subscribers from other carriers, so they should be increasing market share.”

One of the more disappointing areas of the earnings was the decrease in voice average revenue per user (ARPU), Mr Nishimura said. ARPU (voice and data combined) dropped to Y4,180, compared with Y5,000 in the same period last year. Voice ARPU declined because of a special discount, while that of data increased.

Softbank managed to reduce its churn (attrition) rate significantly to 0.98 per cent, compared with 1.48 per cent last year.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008

Source : Financial Times

Tips For Free Web Hosting Service

Are you opening your own website for the first time? Then you must have gone through all the preliminary details about how to install your website on the net? No, then what method are you adopting to launch your website?

Are you going to purchase your own server or are you going to avail the services of the web hosting companies? You have still not decided? Okay what about the website that you have prepared? Have you taken the help of the web building sites to design your website? Yes, that means you have prepared your site maintaining all the basic guidelines of web building which will be helpful in launching your site. Now it is time to decide about the type of web hosting service that you are going to use.

What are the steps to be followed to choose a good web hosting company?

As you are a fresher in this line the best option for you is to choose a company which will provide free web hosting service. Where to search for a good company? The best place to search for good web hosting company is the directories for web hosting companies.

There you will get all the information about the web hosting companies which provide free web hosting service. Browse through the information and choose the best free web hosting company which will cater to all your needs. But what are the basic services that must be provided by the companies? To know about it read the tips that is being provided to select the best free web hosting service.

Effective Tips to Consider for Free Web Hosting Service

First of all consider the location of the web hosting company. If it is a foreign company go through all the terms and conditions very carefully and gather all the information about the legal formalities of that state so that when you face a problem you are not left stranded due to some terms and conditions which you overlooked.

Next is the security system of the company. Ensure that the security system provided by the company is really applicable or is it only for namesake. This will help you to maintain your own privacy and the privacy of the visitors who come to your site.

Check the reliability of the company by gathering all the information about their technical knowledge regarding the maintenance of your website. Also do some research to know about the number of websites they are hosting and what is the response of the customers who are availing the services of the company? The free web hosting companies will install advertisements on your website which will be their source of income.

On your part you should verify about the type of advertisement that they are going to put on your website as it may have an adverse effect on your visitors, there are free web hosting companies which allow you to host your own banners and text so it is better to choose that type of company. Also find out about the storage space and the bandwidth that is provided by the company.

Source : ArticleBase

Application Development Services

Choosing the right vendor for your application development needs is quite a chore. As a decision maker, you need to select a vendor who can provide the best combination of quality and cost. The applications developed by the vendor should be fast, optimized and scalable. While choosing your vendor always go for those vendors who have already performed work for people in your business circle. That way you can select vendors whose work is easily referencable and partnering with such vendors will be a safe bet. Following this approach will help you avoid those vendors who advertise heavily but do not deliver on their premises.

The use of Java is recommended as Java as a programming language has been around for a longer time as compared to other languages. Other languages are still evolving and learning from their past mistakes. Java does not have this kind of baggage and less effort is required to develop scalable applications in Java as compared to other languages. In fact, Java is much more than a language; it is a compiler suite and a runtime. It is the best platform for developing robust scalable applications. If your requirements are such that they evolve from time to time and you expect very high traffic then we suggest you opt for web application development on the Java Platform.

Java as a programming language is the product of Sun Microsystems that creates the code for web-based applications that are interactive in nature. These applications can be accessed by multiple users simultaneously as they are executable on web pages by web browsers. Applications made by using the Java programming language are designed specifically for distributed environments like the web. Platform independent server side applications developed by using the Java programming language can be accessed on any device. Such server side applications are robust, secure and can be scaled up according to the requirements of an enterprise.

Application development services that are offered by vendors across the globe follow certain engagement models that have now become the norm in the industry. Users can choose a fixed cost model where the project has to be completed within a fixed time schedule and payments made accordingly. Other prevalent engagement models where the time limits for completion of a project are not defined can be executed by billing the client on a per hour basis including other miscellaneous expenses. If your project is very big then you can hire dedicated resources train them and make them work on your premises so that the end product meets your expectations.

Source : ArticleBase

Internet Connection Speed Test - How You Can Speed Up Your Internet Today

In today's fast pace and high tech world one must learn how they can always have their internet speed running as fast as possible. First off, you should download Firefox with Google Toolbar. After you have successfully downloaded Firefox with Google Toolbar you should then proceed to download Firetune, which is a completely free software component that is used to make FireFox run faster, more efficiently, and smarter.

Next, you will need to download the Lvllord Patch - this patch will be used to increase the TCP connections.

Finally, you'll need to download the SG TCP Optimizer - this software will help to increase your internets speed. Read the rest of this article and then be sure to click the link at the bottom for easy access to all of the downloads we just talked about.

To test internet speed at this point, simply point your browser to one of the free internet speed test. Click on test my internet speed to determine whether or not your internet speed has changed at all.

While what we just talked about should significantly increase your internets speed, you must also remember that there are many other various factors that affect your internets speed including spyware, adware, hardware, network conditions, and how many computers are connected in your household.

For example, if someone in your household is downloading a large multimedia file you can notice a large lag time on your computer due to the amount of bandwidth that is being used at one time. There is no defense against this and you have to wait it out.

In general, DSL is known to be a more stable internet but slower alternative to cable internet. Many businesses will turn to DSL and pay higher premiums to increase their speed and keep the stability. On the other hand, many households will deal with the random outages of cable internet in exchange for lightning fast speeds.

A quick tip that you can use to not only speed up your internet but your computer as well can be done by performing the following:

In your windows toolbar click Start-> Run

Next type "msconfig"

Once the msconfig toolbar comes up, click the "Startup" tab and de-select all. What this will do is unselect all the programs that automatically load on to your computer when you boot up. These processes highly drain your computers CPU and RAM which in turn causes your internet explorer and other programs to run much slower than they would if these programs did not startup immediately when you startup. By deselecting all the programs you are not deleting anything, you are simply choosing for them to not immediately start-up when you boot your computer.

Now, head back over to a free internet speed test to determine if your computer and internet is running at a faster and more efficient rate.

Always talk with your internet provider to see if there is anything they can do for you in order to speed your internet.

Source : ArticleBase

Internet Fax vs Fax Software

Internet fax service is an online service which allows you to send and receive faxes as email attachment via the internet. On the other hand, fax software requires a PC, a fax modem and a phone line to work. Both internet fax service and fax software have some advantages over the use of fax machine. Back then when internet access was not so popular, fax software was a useful tool to send and receive faxes using a PC. But nowadays, many home users, small businesses and large corporations are switching to internet fax service because it is not only more convenient and economical to use, it also looks professional to the customers.

Both internet fax service and fax software are easy to use and set up; and they do not require the investment of a fax machine. Faxes are sent, received and stored in your PC. There is no need for machine maintenance, no paper jam problem, no misplaced fax documents, and the paper and cartridge cost can also be reduced.

The main advantage of internet fax service over traditional fax software is its convenience and mobility. Internet fax service allows you to send and receive faxes from anywhere with internet access, even in your handheld device. You do not need to leave your fax modem and PC on in order to receive faxes. There is no need for an additional phone line. You will not get a busy signal and you will never miss a fax.

Another advantage of internet fax service is that it helps your company image by providing professional service to your customers. Unlike fax software and fax modem, which is often used by homes and small businesses, internet fax service is good for businesses of all sizes. You can get a free fax number or a toll free number at very low cost in more than 2000 cities around the world. Your clients can fax you for free and you are either charged with a very low rate or at no extra cost at all. Some internet fax companies even allow you to send faxes to global destinations for free. This versatility is extremely useful for small to medium or even large corporations. Even when your office is located in the U.S., you can set up a toll free or local number in Tokyo and your Japanese clients can fax you for free. The faxes are then routed to your email address. Similarly, you can also send them faxes as email attachments by simply typing their fax number in the TO: line of an email message.

Price and package are the prime concerns when shopping for internet fax service. Do the companies provide free local fax number? How much does a toll free number cost? How many pages of free incoming and outgoing faxes are included in the monthly fee? Do they provide free wireless access? Do they have enough coverage and provide a local fax number in your area of interest? What about the reputation of the companies? Do they provide free trial?

In summary, internet fax service is a useful tool for homes and businesses of all sizes. If you would like to have the convenience of sending and receiving faxes anytime anywhere, consider the internet fax service. You will see how internet fax works much better than fax software or a fax machine.

Source : ArticleBase

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[blink]inalienable [/blink]   • \in-AY-lee-uh-nuh-bul\  •  adjective

    : incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred

Midori to replace Windows?

LONDON: Microsoft has started a new research project, Midori, to develop a software program that will help uncouple Windows from a single PC.

The company has revealed that a decision to develop Midori was taken because Windows is unlikely to be able to cope with the pace of change in future technology, and the way people use it.

"If you think about how an operating system is loaded, it's loaded onto a hard disk physically located on that machine. The operating system is tied very tightly to that hardware," the BBC quoted Dave Austin, European director of products at Citrix, as saying.

He said that that created all kinds of dependencies that arose out of the collection of hardware in a particular machine, and raised concerns for Microsoft's business in case Windows ends up being less important over time as applications become more OS agnostic

A statement issued by Microsoft describes Midori as an ambitious attempt by Microsoft to catch up on the work on virtualisation being undertaken in the wider computer industry.

Virtualising generally signifies creating a software copy of a computer complete with operating system and associated programs.

It allows a reduction in the numbers of machines one needs to manage, and easy shifting to another machine in case one physical server fails.

A virtual machine on a PC also enables very old applications, which existing operating systems would not run, to keep going.

Many virtual machines these days are tuned for a particular industry, sector or job.

"People take their application, the operating system they want to run it against, package it up along with policy and security they want and use that as a virtual client," said Dan Chu, vice president of emerging products and markets at virtualisation specialist VMWare.

In such virtual machines, the core of the operating system can be very small and easy to transfer to different devices.

Many believe that the idea behind Midori is to create a lightweight portable operating system that can easily be mated to many different applications.

Michael Silver, research vice president at Gartner, said that the development of Midori was a sensible step for Microsoft.

"The value of Microsoft Windows, of what that product is today, will diminish as more applications move to the web and Microsoft needs to edge out in front of that. I would be surprised if there was definitive evidence that nothing like this was not kicking around," he said.

He further said that the big problem that Microsoft faced in doing away with Windows was how to re-make its business to cope.

"Eighty percent of Windows sales are made when a new PC is sold. That's a huge amount of money for them that they do not have to go out and get. If Windows ends up being less important over time as applications become more OS agnostic where will Microsoft make its money?" he said.

Source : IndiaTimes

Tech giants get code of conduct

NEW YORK: US technology giants Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo Inc, in talks with other Internet companies and human-rights groups, have reached an agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for activities in China and other restrictive countries, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In separate letters sent to Democratic Senator Richard Durbin, and Republican Senator Tom Coburn, the companies said the code's details were being worked out, the paper reported. Senators Durbin and Coburn had asked for an update out of concern that without such a code, Internet companies could be pressured by China's government to provide information about Internet users who are in China for the Olympics, the paper said.

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

The voluntary code will spell out "principles of freedom of expression and privacy" in countries where governments seek users' private information or block access to certain websites, the paper said, citing the letters. The code will be completed later this year, the paper reported.

Source : IndiaTimes

Fake Olympics tickets sold online

BEIJING: Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced it was taking action to shut down the fraudsters, but the move came too late to help the victims find replacement seats at the Games.

Among those left out of pocket were the families of Olympic athletes in both Australia and New Zealand, with people in the United States, Japan, Norway, China and Britain also reportedly conned by the sophisticated sting.

"We cannot accept people paying money for tickets and not getting them," said Gerhard Heiberg, an IOC executive board member. Heiberg said the issue was raised last week, with both the IOC and the United States Olympic Committee filing a lawsuit in a district court in California, accusing at least six websites of selling illegitimate or nonexistent tickets.

However, a US lawyer who said he had lost $12,000 in the fraud, accused the IOC of complacency. "They have known about these sites for months and months and did nothing," said Jim Moriarty, the partner of a Houston-based law firm which is looking to represent fellow victims in any subsequent legal actions.

"They have dashed the hopes and dreams of thousands of people who have been planning for years to go the Games, and have already paid thousands of dollars for airfare and what they thought were legitimate tickets," he said.

Despite last week's IOC suit, one of the sites accused of fraud, was still operating, offering seats for numerous events, including opening ceremony, with prices topping $2,150.

The professional-looking site, which carries the official Beijing Games logo, provides a London phone number, which rang dead, and a US address in Phoenix, Arizona.

Australia's Olympic Committee (AOC) offered commiserations but no solutions to the scores of Australians left out of pocket. "Our sympathy goes to them ... but we certainly aren't in a position to step in, compensate or find other tickets," AOC chief John Coates said.

"We warned folk to only deal with authorised ticket suppliers," he told a news conference. The press reported that some Australian nationals had been swindled out of almost $45,000. Moriarty said one unnamed individual had lost $57,000.

"The worst thing is that some people don't even know yet that they bought tickets that won't arrive," he said. "Some were told they could pick up the tickets at an office in Beijing, and they won't be there. My guess is they sold thousands of tickets that don't exist."

Tickets for events in host city Beijing completely sold out last week, Games organisers said, leaving only seats for competitions in co-host cities still available. Many tickets are still being offered on an auction website, but Australia's Coates urged caution.

"There may be tickets on eBay that are delivered ... but I think it is a great risk. That would be my message," he said.

Source : IndiaTimes

11 charged in connection with credit card fraud

NEW YORK - The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it had charged 11 people in connection with the hacking of nine major U.S. retailers and the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers.

It is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice. The charges include conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft.

The indictment returned Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Boston alleges that the people charged hacked into the wireless computer networks of retailers including TJX Cos, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW.

"While technology has made our lives much easier it has also created new vulnerabilities," U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan said in a statement. "This case clearly shows how strokes on a keyboard with a criminal purpose can have costly results."

The indictment alleges that the hackers installed programs to capture card numbers, passwords and account information, and then concealed the data in computer servers that they controlled in the U.S. and Eastern Europe.

"They used sophisticated computer hacking techniques, breaching security systems and installing programs that gathered enormous quantities of personal financial data, which they then allegedly sold to others or used themselves," said Attorney General Michael Mukasey in prepared remarks. "And in total, they caused widespread loses by banks, retailers, and consumers."

The heist was a black eye for retailers like TJX. The company, which initially disclosed the data breach in January 2007, said a few months later that at least 45.7 million cards were exposed to possible fraud in a breach of its computer systems that began in July 2005. Court filings by some banks that sued TJX put the number of cards affected at more than 100 million, based on estimates by officials with Visa and MasterCard, who were deposed in the suit.

In May, TJX said it won support from Mastercard-issuing banks for a settlement that will pay them as much as $24 million to cover costs from the data breach. A similar agreement reached last November with Visa-card issuing banks also was overwhelmingly approved. That agreement set aside as much as $40.9 million to help banks cover costs including replacing customers payment cards and covering fraudulent charges.

Under the indictments unsealed Tuesday, three of the defendants are U.S. citizens, one is from Estonia, three are from Ukraine, two are from China and one is from Belarus. One individual is only known by an alias online, and his place of origin is unknown.

In the Boston indictment, Albert "Segvec" Gonzales of Miami, who is accused of leading the scheme, was charged with computer fraud, wire fraud, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if he is convicted of all the charges.

Indictments were unsealed Tuesday in San Diego against Maksym "Maksik" Yastremskiy of Kharkov, Ukraine, and Aleksandr "Jonny Hell" Suvorov of Sillamae, Estonia. The indictments charge them with crimes related to the sale of the stolen credit card data.

Furthermore, indictments against Hung-Ming Chiu and Zhi Zhi Wang, both of China, and a person known only by the online nickname "Delpiero" were also unsealed in San Diego.

Source : Yahoo

Nvidia's Big Bang II in September

After releasing GT200+ R177 drivers, now Nvidia is all set to launch its ForceWare driver called Big Bang II in September. Formally known as the ForceWare Release 180 or R180, codenamed Big Bang II, the driver will bring OpenGL 3.0 support and SLI with multiple monitors. Nvidia has been trying to introduce multi-monitor support ever since SLI was introduced.



Chile Hardware first noticed from a blurry slide that the ForceWare Release 180 will bring in a bunch of new features. The major feature is, of course, the multi-monitor support on the SLI system and hence multiple video cards can be used with one monitor. Besides that, SLI connectivity will enable pairing of Nvidia cards. The second major feature is support for OpenGL 3.0 APIs that brings hardware support for Geometry Shaders, Texture arrays and other DirectX 10 hardware oriented features. However, the update in the API is much slower than that found in the hardware. Other features include 10-bit DisplayPort support, PhysX support for 8-series and 9-series video cards.



The Quadro cards will also benefit from a set of performance optimizations brought by Big Bang II, especially since the new Quadro lineup is expected to arrive soon.

Nvidia also promises to debut a new codec library with 10 times faster encoding than quad-core processors for GPU-accelerated video transcoding. Billed as 'the next big thing', video transcoding will be improved even on low-config systems with Celeron CPUs and transcoding of DVDs can consume lesser time than earlier.

Nvidia follows quarterly development of drivers and thus shared their roadmap with us. R180 due in September, R185 to be released between December-February, R190 will be rolled out between March to May, R195 is due between Jun-August, and finally, the R200, codenamed "Big Bang III", with support for the next biggie DirectX 11.

The roadmap appears les spectacular when Nvidia is quizzed about enabling SLI support on Intel chipsets. The DisplayPort support on the GeForce lineup has been there since the beginning of this year. Coupled with Windows Vista, the 10-bit DisplayPort will raise the color levels to match with that of HDMI's 1.3 version.

Source : TechTree

Lotus 1-2-3 Vs. Excel Vs. Google Docs

Upon their release in the early 80's Microsoft Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 offered similar products measured by both quality and efficiency. They each associated themselves with different systems which in turn determined their place in the market for the next two decades. It seems that we may be embarking on another turn of events with the availability of free web hosted applications such as Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Zoho Office.

Lotus was not the only spreadsheet program in the early 80's but it was the most efficient. Following its release in 1983 Lotus was innovative in using television consumer advertising. Things looked great for Lotus for a number of years due to its speed and similarity to the model of VisiCalc, including the A1 number and letter cells, and slash-menu structure. It was virtually free of bugs and outperformed the slower DOS screen input/output functions. In addition to being a spreadsheet it also featured integral charting/graphing and database operations. Hence, its name 1-2-3 which references its three main capabilities.

Data was sorted in each defined rectangle within the order of data in one or two columns in the rectangular area. One could also justify text within a certain range into paragraphs which allowed it to act as a primitive word processor. It contained user friendly features such as keyboard driven pop-up menus and one-key-commands. Lotus' most notable user friendly feature was a context sensitive help menu accessed by the F1 key.

Version 2.0 introduced macros and add-ins. This resulted in outside vendors being able to sell macro and add-ins packages which ranged form full fledged word processors to dedicated financial worksheets. Version 2.0 contained macros with syntax and commands as well as a string of variable expressions which were similar in complexity to an advanced BASIC interpreter. In versions to follow Lotus 1-2-3 also supported multiple worksheets. Lotus also created a version of 1-2-3 for the HP 200LX, a palmtop released by Hewlett-Packard.

Excel was offered first for Mac in 1985 and then for Windows in 1987. In comparison to Lotus, Excel's introduction offered all the number crunching capabilities plus pull down menus and WYSIWYG formatting. These two features resulted in Excel being much easier to use. By 1988 Excel outsold 1-2-3 and began to solidify its place as the leading PC software developer. Microsoft proved to be an ambitious competitor, by maintaining a valuble product and releasing new versions approximately every two years. Excel has also kept up with its Mac releases. The current version for the Windows is Excel 12 or Microsoft Office Excel 2007. The current version for Mac OS X is Microsoft Excel 2008.

Looking back, it seems that in 1982 when Microsoft offered its spreadsheet program titled Multiplan it was popular with CP/M systems but MS-DOS systems favored Lotus 1-2-3. MS-DOS clearly prevailed as the more predominant system, thus, Lotus 1-2-3 as the more predominant spreadsheet program. In the late 80's Microsoft put together Excel, an upstart spreadsheet for its Windows graphical interface. Lotus was focused on IBM OS/2. Windows use boomed with Windows 3.0 but Lotus had already lost its lead. Excel become the industry leader for spreadsheet computer software. IBM continues to sell 1-2-3 as part of the Lotus SmartSuite office suite.

The trends are shifting again with the availability of free web hosted applications such as Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Zoho Office. This is sure to provide a challenge for Excel to maintain its prestigious position however; it will not be a clear comparison as the online applications are a different product. They do not imitate Excel and 1-2-3 but expand on them. They use the power of the webs collaboration, instant feedback, mashups, live data and context searches. None the less it will be interesting to see Microsoft's future maneuvers!

Source : ArticleBase

Apple nixes second Black Hat talk

LAS VEGAS--A panel discussion with Apple employees talking about the company's security practices was canceled by its moderator.

Black Hat founder and director Jeff Moss told ComputerWorld that "it was them talking about security engineering and how they take security seriously. It would have put Apple in a positive light."

Last week, another session on Apple FileVault was pulled at the request of its presenter, Charles Edge. He reportedly signed an agreement with Apple preventing him from talking about the vulnerablities he'd found.

Source : Yahoo

Consumers do not want Blu-ray



Consumers do not want Blu-ray, says a research firm. A consumer survey done by ABI Research revealed that over half of the 1000 respondents had 'other priorities,' to buying a Blu-ray player, saying that they had no plans to purchase one; a further 23% are likely to buy, but not until sometime in 2009. ABI Research principal analyst Steve Wilson said that there wasn't much value proposition seen in a Blu-ray player or in content "Consumers were happy to embrace standard DVD when that format arrived because the improvement in quality over VHS videotapes was dramatic. Standard DVD didn't require the purchase of a new TV either. In contrast, while half of the respondents to our survey rated Blu-ray's quality as 'much better' than standard DVD, another 40% termed it only 'somewhat better,' and most are very satisfied with the performance of their current DVD players." Another reason cited was that a Blu-ray investment also dictates an HDTV purchase, something consumers are reluctant to do.

ABI Research suggests that the bright spot for Blu-ray is the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console -- that the installed base for Blu-ray players continues to climb with increasing sales of the PS3. "While you might think gamers purchase fewer movie discs that others, we didn't see any significant evidence of that in our results," says Wilson. "PS3 console shipments will go a long way to help bring down manufacturing costs and drive down Blu-ray player prices."

Incidentally, a study done in the month of June [PDF attachment] this year showed that Blu-ray adoption had outpaced DVD adoption, due largely to the rate at which PS3 consoles were selling.

Blu-ray has won the hi-definition war against HD-DVD, it remains to be seen whether it can now win the hearts of consumers everywhere.

Source : TechTree

Jobs becoming a must for students to pay bills in Britain

London: Students flocking to Britain from the world over to study face a stark reality that has already dawned on home students: unless they are well off, they'll have to work to pay for their bills.

Many home students, already in debt or struggling to make both ends meet, are finding it difficult to remain in full-time studies without part-time jobs.

Rising living costs and tuition fees are estimated to raise the cost of university education this academic year to around 10.8 billion pounds: up by 500 million pounds over last year.

Even assuming all needy students find employment, their total earnings won't cross 2 billion pounds, according to a survey by NatWest published in The Times.

In per capita terms, such students can meet only a fifth of their expenses through jobs. Which means they need to have recourse to other funds.

If they don't smoke and go out at all, they can save up to $1.6 billion pounds, around 11 percent of the total costs.

Take a look at the expense list that NatWest has drawn up: Of the 10.8 billion pounds total expenses, almost 4 billion pounds will go on rent and 1.2 billion pounds on supermarket food shopping.

Around 864 million pounds will be spent on going out, 489 million pounds on books and course materials, and 773 million pounds on cigarettes. Fortunately, the last expense has reduced thanks to the smoking ban.

The climbing costs are influencing students in several ways. Their choice of university now depends on employment opportunities. They are ignoring university advice against taking up jobs during term times so as not to divert their attention from studies. Holidays mean being able to take up more than one job.

Mark Worthington, head of student banking at NatWest, said: "Students are increasingly aware of the wider economic climate and this is filtering down into their decisions when they are choosing their university, and also when deciding whether to take a part-time job during term time."

Come autumn, the NatWest survey predicts, two out of every five fresh, full-time students will be looking for part-time jobs. The survey claims that 25,000 more undergraduates took up part-time jobs in term time this year than in 2007. They will join the ranks of thousands of others, at a ratio of three out of five, already in jobs.

The range of employment available is startling. While most worked as shop assistants and bartenders, other jobs included working in a care home, front of house at a theatre, on public transport, in a legal firm, for a museum, for a call centre, as a photographer, lifeguard or hairdresser, or in the Territorial Army.

Most universities are relaxed about the issue and accept that many of their students will need to work, but some try to ensure that studies do not suffer. A spokeswoman for Oxford University said: "Students are discouraged from working during term time as terms are short - eight weeks.

"The holiday periods are therefore long, giving many students the opportunity to take up paid work outside term time. If a student is worrying about finances, the university and colleges would prefer they came to talk about the wide range of financial support available."

Students don't generally take the advice. On average they spent 13.7 hours a week in paid employment, varying between 18.5 hours in Portsmouth and 9.9 in Exeter. The cities where the most students have jobs are Belfast and Dundee, with 64 percent and 61 percent respectively.

Source : IndiaEduNews

British Council brings popular school debate to India

New Delhi: Indian high school students will get an opportunity to show off their way with words and logic in UK early next year.

The British Council is bringing "Debating Matters", a popular national debating competition from the Institute of Ideas, Britain, exclusively for school students in India, a press communiqué issues by the British Council said.

Several schools across the country will register for an online debating module in September when the council sends out invitation seeking applications from schools. The aspiring contestants will have to clear the question rounds - a tough grilling session on an issue that affects their everyday life or have the potential to do so in near future.

Six schools will be short-listed from the preliminary round. They will be given two months to prepare on a topic and then quizzed by a panel of experts. Those with the highest scores will go to UK to take part in the real-time contest.

"Debating Matters" is the brainchild of the Institute of Ideas, Britain - a national debating competition for high school students in Britain on popular issues.

"The show which we are bringing here is the Indian version of 'Debating Matters'. We are in the process of developing a national debating competition on the lines of the 'Debating Matters' because very few national level contests for school children in the country have an intellectual element.

"Last year, we partnered the Airtel Scholar Hunt to send students to UK," Anjoo Mohun of the British Council told sources. The programme, Mohun said, would target Class XI students. "We do not want to disturb Class X and Class XII students," she said.

The contest will gradually be developed into a real-time television reality show.

The British Council will organise a brainstorming session August 4-5 in New Delhi to orient students about the nature of the contest.

Schools like the Gurgaon-based Salwan Public School, Springdales (Dhaula Kuan), Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi Public School (Noida) and Modern High School (Barakhamba Road) have confirmed their participation. The schools from Kolkata include La Martiniere for Boys and Modern High for Girls.

The British Council plans to use its network of schools and education institutions across the four Indian metros and seven major cities to push the contest through.

The council will begin the contest with a detailed preparatory roster. It will offer 'On the spot' seminars to coach students who are not familiar with debating and are nervous to take part in competitions. A module, 'Friendly Fixtures', will allow new schools to test the waters by organising inter-school friendly competitions.

The council will also organise a debating 'master class' and a multi-media debate resource lab will provide resource and information to those directly involved in the competition and serve as a networking centre for "Debating Matters" participants.

Tony Gilland, the science and society director, Institute of Ideas (IOI), UK and Helen Birtwistle, press officer for the Institute of Ideas & Pfizer's Debating Matters Competition, will anchor the contest.

"Debating Matters" in UK has involved 160 schools and played host to some 100 debating events with more 2,000 pupils in over 300 individual school debates

Source : IndiaEduNews

AMD Fusion Details Leaked

When AMD first  announced the Fusion along with the acquisition of ATI in 2006, it was due to be launched sometime in late 2008 or early 2009. Since then, AMD has always refrained from discussing any details whatsoever.

But TG Daily has managed to get some dope on it through industry sources. The first Fusion processor is code-named Shrike and will consist of a dual-core Phenom CPU and an ATI RV800 GPU core. RV800 chips will be DirectX 10.1 compliant and are expected to deliver a little more than just a 55 nm-40 nm dieshrink, writes TG Daily.

While Shrike will debut as a 40 nm chip, the processor is scheduled to make a transition to 32 nm in 2010. AMD expects to use Fusion processors in all of their priority segments including laptops, desktops, workstations, servers, as well as consumer electronics.

Source : TechTree

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[blink]cicerone [/blink]   • \sih-suh-ROH-nee\  •  noun

    1 : a guide who conducts sightseers

    2 : mentor, tutor

Pass vector to a function

#include <iostream>
using std::cout;
using std::endl;

#include <vector>
using std::vector;

template < typename T > void printVector( const vector< T > &integers2 );

int main()
{
   int array[ 6 ] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }; // initialize array
   vector< int > integers; // create vector of ints

   integers.push_back( 2 );
   integers.push_back( 3 );
   integers.push_back( 4 );

   printVector( integers );

   cout << endl;
   return 0;
}

template < typename T > void printVector( const vector< T > &integers2 ){
   typename vector< T >::const_iterator constIterator;

   for ( constIterator = integers2.begin();
      constIterator != integers2.end(); ++constIterator )
      cout << *constIterator << ' ';
}

Result :

2 3 4

Overloading operators for enumerations

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>
#include <cstdlib>

enum Week { Monday=0, Tuesday=1, Wednesday=2, Friday=4 };

// Explicitly cast to int, to avoid infinite recursion.
inline Week operator|(Week a, Week b) {
  return Week(int(a) | int(b));
}
inline Week& operator|=(Week& a, Week b) {
  a = a | b;
  return a;
}

inline Week operator&(Week a, Week b) {
  return Week(int(a) & int(b));
}
inline Week& operator&=(Week& a, Week b) {
  a = a & b;
  return a;
}

inline Week operator^(Week a, Week b) {
  return Week(int(a) ^ int(b));
}
inline Week& operator^=(Week& a, Week b) {
  a = a ^ b;
  return a;
}

inline Week operator~(Week a) {
  return Week(~int(a));
}

bool error()
{
  return std::rand()  2 != 0;
}

int main()
{
  Week a = Monday;
  std::cout << a << std::endl;
  a |= Tuesday;
  std::cout << a;

}


Result :
   
0

1

What is CAT 6?

CAT 6 (short for Category 6) refers to an Ethernet cable as defined by Electronic Industries Association and Telecommunication Industry Association (EIA/TIA).

CAT 6 (short for Category 6) refers to an Ethernet cable as defined by Electronic Industries Association and Telecommunication Industry Association (EIA/TIA). Like its name suggests, CAT 6 is a sixth generation of twisted pair Ethernet cabling. The cable itself contains four pairs of copper wire and utilizes all of them, unlike the earlier version, the CAT 5. CAT 6 supports Gigabit Ethernet and supports communications much faster (about twice) than the CAT 5e, the other standard for Gigabit Ethernet cabling.

It also features more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise. This cable may be identified by the printing on the side of the cable sheath. CAT 6 supports 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX as well as 1000BASE-T (these are IEEE standards that define the requirement for sending information at various speeds as well as various aspects of running baseband Ethernet on the cabling) and may in the future support 10GBASE-T (10 Gigabit Ethernet) though there will be limitations as regards the length if the unshielded CAT 6 cable is used. As is usual with all other types of twisted pair EIA/TIA cabling, CAT6 cables are limited to a maximum run rate of 100m (328 feet).

The CAT 6 cable is being made with 23 gauge conductor wire as opposed to the slightly smaller 24 gauge that is used to make CAT 5. However, using 23 gauge conductor is not really a requirement, and its possible to make a CAT 6 cable with 22 or 23 AWG gauge wire for ANSI/TIA-568-B.2-1 specifications, provided the cable can meet the required specifics standards. CAT 6 cable is normally terminated in 8P8C modular connectors when used as a patch cable.

CAT 6 connectors are made to lofty specifications that aid in reducing noise caused by crosstalk as well as system noise. Significantly, attenuation, Near End Crosstalk (NEXT) and Power Sum Next (PSNEXT) are lower when compared with CAT 5 or CAT5e.

Some varieties of CAT 6 cables may be too big and it becomes tricky to attach to 8P8C connectors without using a special modular piece. Such cables ate technically not standard. Should one mix the components of various cable standards, this will result into sub-optimal performance of the signal path which will be reduced to the lowest category. The cable is terminated in T568A or T568B schemes, and it matters a little as to which scheme is used since both schemes (though T568B is more widely used) are both straight through (meaning pin 1 will go to 1, pin 2 to 2 and so on). Any mix-up of the terminating patch codes between the two schemes does not produce pinout problems in a facility. It may, however, slightly degrade the quality of the signal even though the effect of this is marginal.

Twisted pair cable like the CAT 6 come in two main varieties-stranded and solid. The solid one supports the longer runs and performs best in fixed wiring configurations like those that are found in office buildings. The stranded AT 6 cable, on the other hand, is pliable and is better suited for shorter distances. CAT 6 cable comes with a higher price tag than CAT 5/5e though the price is justified with better performance.

Source : 1888Articles

Easy Tips on How to Make Computer Run Faster

Computers, regardless of their shape, size, colour and brand, will always become laggy and slow as time progresses. Don't be surprised when your sparkling new PC deteriorates in the processing speed department. All these usually happen when you fail to give your computer the proper maintenance it deserves. After months, or even years, of working for you, you should definitely consider giving your computer a break and give it some well deserved maintenance. Below are some easy tips on how you can make your computer run faster.

Most of the times, what a slow computer needs is more Random Access Memory (RAM). RAM is a very important component in the computer. A bigger RAM means that there will be sufficient space for you to run all sorts of application regardless of their memory needs. On the other hand, a small RAM will slow your PC down, as it will be heavily strained trying to find the memory required to run a particular application. This is also the reason why having a larger RAM capacity will allow you to process all programs and data at break-neck speed. All you need to do is go RAM shopping and grab a RAM that is bigger. Doing RAM upgrades is definitely a good thing. However, it is advised that you should only perform RAM upgrades when you have ascertained that the root of your PC problem is that of insufficient RAM size.

Another way to make your computer faster is by cleaning your registry. The registry might not be very well known to all computer users. But despite its understated position in the PC hierarchy, the registry holds a very important role in determining the ability of the PC to function. The registry, unlike the RAM, is a software construct. It stores all login information like your personal data and personal status setting of your software. The only problem with the registry is that it is unable to delete any information. Instead, it gets overwritten many times, and you will eventually end up with a huge junkyard of corrupted login datas. To prevent this mess from occurring, you can simply use a registry cleaner to delete unwanted and corrupted files. Registry cleaners like RegCure and CCleaner are just some of the more popular registry cleaners that are commonly used.

Another step is to run a quick and easy computer check up. There are plenty of free computer checkups available online. There is no need for you to fork out big money to run a simple computer check up. The advantage here is that some of the better online checks will enable you to find some of the errors, viruses and spyware that might be present in your PC and will also clean it from your computer. These pesky viruses and spyware can use up precious RAM. Just remember to install an anti-virus and anti-spyware software once you are done with your computer check up.

Everyone should be able to enjoy an optimized PC experience. Regular computer maintenance is essential in ensuring a trouble-free, silky-smooth computer-using experience. Try these tips to bring out the best in your computer.

Source : ArticleBase

Basic Digital Camera Tips For The Rest Of Us

Using digital cameras has become quite common in many communities and industries. Technology today has made these cameras so popular that now they are often part of cell phone and PDA features allowing users to have a camera available at any time.

Taking basic pictures is the main feature of digital cameras, which is what links them to their film camera predecessors. However, digital cameras also allow users to take video. Upgrading the camera's memory card gives users great flexibility in storage capacity for both videos and pictures. A wide rage of brands available today includes Nikon, Canon, Kodak, and Olympus and that offer various features.

These brands offer traditional 35mm as well as digital. Other common brands include Sony, Panasonic and Casio. What to Consider in a Digital Camera The LCD offered in digital cameras is a change from the viewfinders of traditional film cameras, and some even offer an LCD screen and a viewfinder. What is nice about the LCD screen is that it allows users to instantly see their picture on a television like screen.

There are also some that have large screens allowing the photographer have a larger view of the subject and background. Digital cameras use memory cards or sticks. These allow the users flexibility in storage capacity from megabytes to gigabytes. Remember, you will pay extra for additional memory. Digital cameras also make use of batteries. The disposal batteries used by some cameras do not last long, so investing in rechargeable batteries might be a good option. Often a battery and charger are offered as part of a camera package.

Lastly, digital pictures need to be downloaded. Many cameras use a USB port that allows easy transfer to a computer. However, some cameras require a memory card reader to download pictures. Features to Consider in a Camera Understanding the cameras basic features should factor into any choice when purchasing a digital camera. The thing to remember is that some brands will offer particular features that need to be considered, even if the basic function of taking a picture remains the same.

One such feature to consider is the mega pixels available and used by a camera. Mega pixels essentially mean the individual dots that comprise a picture. In effect the more mega pixels the clearer a picture will be and that will allow for better picture enlargement. Remember that a camera that has more mega pixels will make for better picture quality. However, the more pixels you have the more memory you will need for each individual picture.

The digital and optical zooms available on a camera are also important to consider. The traditional optical zoom allows you to bring an object closer in the picture. Digital zoom allows cropping or stretching of the picture. Lastly, the casing of a camera should be considered too. Many cameras are made of plastic which makes them more fragile. Others are made of plastic and a metal alloy giving it more durability.

Source : ArticleBase

IGNOU to train paramedics for Delhi

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will train and prepare hundreds of paramedics in the fields like cardiology, maternal health and hospital administration for hospitals in Delhi.

The Delhi Government and the IGNOU on Friday signed an agreement to this effect. It will enable scores of hospitals in the capital to get trained paramedical staff in 12 disciplines.

The IGNOU will provide admission to the learners sponsored by the government of Delhi, distribute self-instructional material, provide study centres for various courses and academic counseling, and allow use of satellite communication channels for tele-conferencing, interactive video-counseling etc.

Besides fresh candidates, the city government would sponsor in-service candidates for various programmes in IGNOU. The varsity will provide 10 percent discount on fees for candidates sponsored by the Delhi Government.

"It has been decided to develop strategies to design, develop and implement academic courses and continuing medical education and training programmes. Both the parties would facilitate in this direction and ensure capacity building and skill development of the trainees," the agreement said.

India is facing an acute shortage of medical professionals - from paramedics to doctors - and the situation in the national capital is no different, officials said.

Source : IndiaEduNews

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How Can We Ensure Computer Security?

This age of computers is catching up on everyone and people are increasingly becoming dependent on computers for various purposes. Thus there are varied computer systems and they require different kind and levels of computer security. At these varied levels, privacy differs from the operating system and interfaces used in computer. For e.g. computer systems under government control or banks use high-technology security systems as compared to a student or a cyber café owner.

The basic reason behind providing optimum computer security is to protect data from illegal contents. The security implemented in computer usage varies from time to time and place to place. If you use desktop computer or a laptop computer for your office use, you need to assure its safety. Your office work needs to be protected, as any harm caused would result in your major loss and it is better to take precautions before hand rather than regretting later.

There are specifically designed softwares for email security, internet privacy, and computer safety. Firewall Software, Antivirus, Pop-up Blockers, Spam/junk box, Anti-Hacking Software, Crack-Proof software are some of the basic means to protect computer data. These softwares protect your data from going in illegitimate hands and they also protect the personal or social interest of which the data is stored. These softwares automatically find free updates providing real-time protection at the same time detecting and isolating techniques. It at all some harmful programs are detected these software provide security to the computer system by neutralizing or deleting the corrupted program.

Some of the security software’s include the Firewall software which is considered to be the first filter to protect the computer from the threats that travels via internet or peer-to-peer connection and ensures privacy. Firewall protection is of two types, hardware and software. The software one is the most widely used in especially in homes and small offices. The hardware one is quiet expensive and used in big offices. Many viruses are making rounds in the virtual world and these can harm your computer if proper anti-viruses are not installed. There are specific anti-viruses suiting specific operating systems. The antivirus scans the computer system and neutralizes or deletes unethical contents or virus from the system and hence stabilizing the speed of the system.

Then there are pop-up blockers which blocks all the unwanted windows or pop-ups which are linked to different websites just for promotion of a product. These pop-ups may carry virus which can harm your computer system. Thus by availing these security options for your computer you can ensure safety for you system.

Source : ArticleBase

The Future of Computer Networking - Inter-device Internetworking and Pro Curve Networking

Networks of the future will be worlds apart from today's relatively mundane ones that simply carry packets from one end to the other. With the explosion of Peer-To-Peer (pc-to-pc direct data transfer), high definition video streaming and ubiquitous computing projects like Internet are looking at a scenario where even light bulbs and toasters will have an Internet Protocol (IP) address in affect making household compliances capable of accessing as well as being controlled by the internet. Why do these household appliances need to be connected to the internet or even be controlled through the internet?

For starters efficient usage of energy and centralized control, following that train of thought we are looking at a scenario where even light bulbs and toasters will have IP addresses and will be hooked onto the internet - networks as we understand them today may be overwhelmed by the load of data. This has naysayers saying how the extra data is going to clog the data pipes flooding them with data rendering them useless whereas others have grave security concerns about the usage of the data.

This said networks of the future will look different and will most probably work on different protocols. Such networks will not need full time chaperoning which is the job of many a systems administrator. These networks have been named adaptive networks; their job will be to provide a personalized experience for every user, with minimum maintenance. Adaptive networks will also seamlessly support different applications life Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), video conferencing, video surveillance, wireless applications computing on demand or any other new applications that are developed and used by us. Currently, most networks have a one-size fits all philosophy when it comes to applications and when newer demands start to rise on the network, it starts showing signs of a imminent breakdown. Security is also an important aspect, and future networks will be able to detect security attacks and take steps to fight back, very much like the immune system in our body.

The scenario seems very Utopian, but already the Pro Curve Networking initiative from the networking arm of HP has a neat solution that will make the networks of the future "think" the way they are supposed to. Each port (access path) on the router or switch will have individual silicon chips that would monitor the traffic flow of the network. So one chip manages your toaster the other your computer and the third your TV. These mini-processors will have software installed on them to optimize the running of each and every device connected to them and because the software is programmable ports can easily switch from one application to the other according to demand.

Such architecture will ensure that the available capacity is optimised for all these bandwidth hungry applications. Another big advantage for these decentralised architecture is that there will be no single choke point in the network, therefore ensuring that even in the case of a disaster, some part of the network will always be up and running. Contrast that with today's scenario where the networks are as strong as their weakest link - hubs, routers and switches case and point being a ship's anchor gone astray disconnected most of the Middle-East and Asia.

Source : ArticleBase

Removing bacteria reduces risk of stomach cancer relapse

London: Removing a certain bacteria from the stomachs of post-operative gastric cancer patients can slash chances of such cancers redeveloping, according to a study.

Almost all stomach cancers develop from H. pylori infected stomach lining that has been classified as a group I carcinogen by the WHO.

While H. pylori removal has a prophylactic effect on stomach cancer in animal models, trials in human beings have been controversial.

Mototsugu Kato and Masahiro Asaka of the Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, and colleagues from the Japan Gast Study Group did a randomised controlled trial of 544 patients to investigate the possible prophylactic effect of H. pylori eradication on the development of metachronous stomach cancer after surgery to remove early gastric cancer.

Metachronous cancer develops after surgery to remove the initial cancer, but does not develop from that initial cancer. It develops at a new site in the stomach.

All patients were newly diagnosed and planning to have endoscopic treatment or in post-resection follow up after endoscopic treatment.

Patients with early stomach cancer were randomised to receive either an H. pylori eradication regimen (272 patients) or no treatment (272).

The eradication group received lansoprazole 30mg twice daily, amoxicillin 750mg twice daily, and clarithromycin 200mg twice daily for a week; the control group received standard care but no additional treatment to remove H. pylori.

Patients were then examined endoscopically at 6, 12, 24 and 36 months to see if a new cancer had developed at a different site in the stomach.

The researchers found that, at three-year follow-up, metachronous gastric cancer had developed in nine patients in the eradication group and 24 in the control group.

Overall, the risk of developing such cancer was reduced by around two-thirds in the eradication group compared with the control group. In the eradication group, 19 of patients had diarrhoea and 32 had soft stools.

These findings have been published in the Lancet.

Source : IndiaEduNews

New technique to compress light opens doors to optical computing

Mountain View (California): Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have devised a way to squeeze light into tighter spaces than ever thought possible, potentially opening doors to new technology in the fields of optical communications, miniature lasers and optical computers.

The university said in a statement that a group of UC Berkeley researchers led by mechanical engineering professor Xiang Zhang had devised a way to confine light in incredibly small spaces on the order of 10 nanometres or about 100 times thinner than current optical fibres. The width of a human hair is about 60,000 nanometres.

"This technique could give us remarkable control over light," the statement said quoting Rupert Oulton, lead author of the study that will be published in the August issue of Nature Photonics and is currently available online.

Just as computer engineers cram more and more transistors into computer chips in the pursuit of faster and smaller machines, researchers in the field of optics have been looking for ways to compress light into smaller wires for better optical communications.

Not only would compressed light make possible smaller optical fibres, but it could lead to huge advances in the field of optical computing, according to the study. Compressing light further than its wavelength is a challenging task as light doesn't want to stay inside a space that small.

Berkeley researchers squished light beyond these limits using surface plasmonics, where light binds to electrons allowing it to propagate along the surface of metal. But the light waves could only travel short distances along the metal before petering out due to losses. They then tried out their idea of combining plasmonics and semiconductors and found it worked.

The group's theoretical "hybrid" optical fibre consists of a very thin semiconductor wire placed close to a smooth sheet of silver.

Their computer simulations showed that not only could the light compress into spaces only tens of nanometres wide, but it could travel distances nearly 100 times greater in the simulation than by conventional surface plasmonics alone. Instead of the light moving down the centre of the thin wire, as the wire approaches the metal sheet, light waves are trapped in the gap between them, the researchers found.

The research team's technique works because the hybrid system acts like a capacitor storing energy between the wire and the metal sheet, the scientists reported.

As the light travels along the gap, it stimulates the build-up of charges on both the wire and the metal, and these charges allow the energy to be sustained for longer distances.

Though the current study is theoretical, the construction of such a device should be straightforward, according to the researchers. The problem lies in trying to directly detect the light in such a small space. No existing devices are sensitive enough to see such a small point of light. But Zhang's group is looking for other ways to experimentally detect the tiny bits of light in these devices.

The university statement said the hybrid technique of confining light could have huge ramifications. It brings light closer to the scale of electrons' wavelengths, meaning that new links between optical and electronic communications might be possible.

This idea could be an important step on the road to an optical computer, a machine where all electronics are replaced with optical parts. The technique for compacting light and linking plasmonics with semiconductors might help construction of compact optical transistors, the building blocks of an optical computer, the researchers said.

Source : IndiaEduNews

5 Things You Should Know to Setup an Internet Kiosk

The interactive kiosk is a computer terminal which provides the access of information by the intermediary of the electronic methods.

The interactive kiosks resemble the phone boxes sometimes, but can also be employed all while resting on one to put except play or a chair. Interactive kiosks are typically placed in high arrangements of the traffic such as airports, taxi stand any other place.

The integration of technology makes it possible kiosks to carry out a range of functions, being transformed into kiosks of art of the car-portrait-service. With the usage of kiosks it makes possible to perform the commercial operations for public as well as private utility service in order to carry out a transaction online or cash transaction online. In the interactive kiosk, it needs identity like card, bill or coin and thermal printer to do the further process.

Today all the things are move fast with the advent of internet. Internet Kiosk will provide facilities like internet care.

The kiosks of Internet provide the access on request to a large variety of Internet sites, email, and in exchange of the fees of by-minute. If you work on kiosks of the information of computer or a system of kiosk of Internet, ensure you that your software offers one blocked, closed with key in bottom of the environment and the robust management tools of kiosk. Internet kiosks use corporate housing using the specialized equipments like card readers and thermal receipt printers.

Here are the steps to install the Internet Kiosk:

1. The basic requirement is the computer operating system. It is better you can use Window XP latest version.

2. Internet is more problematic as far as malicious virus other types of threats like hijacking etc. To protect your Internet Kiosk, you need to install the anti-virus software.

3. The most essential things to run the internet kiosk is installed the flash, acrobat reader and macromedia.

4. You must have to use the username and password to login into your system.

5. You need to setup the system to change the registry.

It is important to get your internet kiosk more interactive to get the better services.

Source : ArticleBase

IIT-JEE topper bags gold at International Physics Olympiad

Patna: Bihar boy Shitikanth Barnwal, who topped this year's Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), has won the gold medal at the 39th International Physics Olympiad.

Hundreds of students from 85 countries participated in the Physics Olympiad, which was held in Hanoi, Vietnam July 22-28.

"It was my childhood dream to bag the gold medal and at last I won it by hard labour," an upbeat Shitikanth said on Thursday.

"The Indian team won four gold medals and a silver medal. It was a wonderful experience," the 18-year-old told sources over telephone from Mumbai. Shitikanth had the highest aggregate score among Indians.

Shitikanth, who hails from Patna, left for Mumbai to prepare for the Physics Olympiad soon after the IIT-JEE results came out in early June.

Shitikanth's parents, Arun Kumar Barnwal and Anita Barnwal, said they were proud of his achievement.

"He was able to win the gold medal due to his hard work," Arun Kumar said.

Shitikanth says physics is his favourite subject but finds chemistry, especially inorganic chemistry, very tough.

"I love studying Physics. I have no problem in Physics. I'm also fond of maths," he said.

Shitikanth will join IIT Kanpur on Aug 1. "My aim is research. I am keen on higher studies," he said.

Source : IndiaEduNews

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Sony Ericsson G705 in Two Weeks?



Rumors about Sony Ericsson phones never seem to end. The latest buzz is that the handset maker has a new slider phone, dubbed the Sony Ericsson G705, up its sleeve and is expected to announce it in just two weeks, writes GSMArena.

The G705 is said to feature a 2.4-inch screen, a 3 megapixel camera (sadly, with no auto-focus), built-in GPS receiver and WiFi. Also, the camera is backed by a LED flash rather than Xenon and will support geo-tagging thanks to the built-in GPS receiver.

In terms of memory, the G705 will pack 128 MB of internal memory and M2 memory card expansion slot. However, there is no word yet on the pricing and availability. For more on the specs and other information about this new handset we all will have to wait for the official launch.

Source : TechTree

Counselling for veterinary course gets underway

Chennai: Based on the merit list, 500 candidates from various categories who had applied for the Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry (B.V.Sc & A.H.) course, were called for counselling on Thursday. Of these, 283 attended the session. About 166 candidates in the general pool and 11 under the vocational stream were selected for the course.
   
Dr P Thangaraj, vice-chancellor, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, handed over admission letters on the occasion to the first five rankholders — T D Keerthirajan, S Malarmannan, S Rajakumar, P Annal Selva Malar and S Umamaheswari.
   
Thangaraj said the top 5 students from both Namakkal and Chennai would be selected for training in either Michigan University or Virginia Tech. “Since 2003, when the MoU was signed with the two institutions, we have sent 55 students. The next batch will leave for training in September. So students who join now should know there is also the opportunity of going abroad,” he said.

Source : TimesOfIndia

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3G laptops to make phone calls

NEW DELHI: As if to ensure that people don’t stop buying laptops, you will soon have notebooks that will incorporate a mobile phone!

Indeed, laptops makers are getting their act together to compete with the all-powerful and ubiquitous mobile phone. Very soon, to make a phone call you may not have to reach out to a mobile phone. Your laptop may just do the same once 3G is launched.

Hewlett-Packard is planning to talk to Indian mobile operators for a tie-up to offer 3G laptops once the 3G mobile services are launched here. “The 3G laptop has worked well in foreign markets and we are keen to introduce it in India too,” Kevin Frost, vice-president and general manager, consumer notebooks business unit, personal systems group, told ET.

HP already has tie-ups with various service providers in different countries. For instance, in the US its AT&T, Sprint & Verizon, in Australia HP has tied up with Vodafone, in UK its Orange, Vodafone and T-Mobile. The same may be replicated in India wherein a laptop cost may be subsidised by the operator if a subscriber takes the 3G service from him.

“Globally, we are seeing laptops get smaller and compete increasingly with mobile and PDA phones. On the other hand, mobile phone makers are trying to outdo laptops by introducing more computer-like features. Mobile phone makers also want to have the sole control over offering mobile service to consumers,” he added.

However, in countries where 3Genabled laptops are available, it’s the broadband application which is marketed most, as mobile phone makers don’t want to lose control over mobile services to PC vendors.

HP said prices of its 3G-enabled laptops will depend on the changes on conformation to the standards of the operators once 3G is available in India. HP offers two types of broadband wireless modules–1 xEV-DO and HSDPA. 1xEV-DO modules are currently offered only in the US.

With 3G broadband wireless notebooks, one can check e-mail or connect to the Internet from virtually anywhere in the country where the mobile operator offers coverage.

Currently in India, users can access wireless internet only through WiFi zones or WiFi cards. With 3G laptops, a user won’t need to rely on mobile phone to have seamless and hi-speed web connectivity.

Source : IndiaTimes

New Internet gets $12 mn bandwidth

NEW YORK: A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organisations.

Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a "clean-slate" approach is the only way to truly address security and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969.

On behalf of the government, BBN Technologies Inc. is overseeing the planning and design of the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI, a network on which researchers will be able to test new ideas without damaging the current Internet.

The $12 million in initial grants from the National Science Foundation will go to developing prototypes for the GENI network.

To test these prototypes, the Internet2 organisation is contributing 10 gigabits per second of dedicated bandwidth, so researchers won't have to worry about normal Internet traffic interfering with their experiments. National LambdaRail is offering another 30 gigabits per second of capacity, though it won't be dedicated to GENI at all times.

The bandwidth is thousands of times faster than standard home broadband connections--enough to run 30 high-quality movies into your home simultaneously.

Craig Partridge, chief scientist at BBN Technologies, said the commitments amounted to an important endorsement of GENI by two organizations that run ultra-high-speed networks for universities and other researchers to conduct data-intensive projects.

Construction on GENI could start in about five years and cost $350 million. Congress still has to approve those funds.

Source : IndiaTimes

The Crash Course in Communication

Talking is very easy, but communication, that means an exchange or communion with the other person, requires the greater skill. An exchange which is the communion demands on the way we listen and do speak skillfully, and just not talk mindlessly. Interacting with the fearful, angry, or the frustrated people will be even more difficult, because we are less skillful when we are caught up in such kind of emotions. Do not despair or resign yourself to the lifetime of miscommunication at the work or at home! Good communicators can honed as well as born. Here are few of the tips to get you started.

This will remind us how difficult it is to communicate effectively in any of the organization. The problem is not that we have got the bad people, the problem is that we have got the poor systems. This guide will teach how to overcome the communication barriers and also hone the communication skills.

The Communication is the skill and like any other skills it also requires the practice. It is improved through practice which differentiates the skill from other forms of the knowledge. Understanding a theory of the communication and the effective presentation will not make you brilliant communicator or the presenter but should make you aware of how to maximize a impact of the presentations.

Most important thing to remember is a message which you intend to communicate is most likely to be misunderstood by the listeners. Therefore, in addition to the carefully preparing and presenting the message, stay alert for any of the signs which your audience are mis-interpreting it. It is up to you, a presenter, to continually check if your message have been received, understood, interpreted correctly and is filed in the receivers mind.

Effective Communication Fundamentals

Communication is the complex two-way process, involving encoding, translation and the decoding of the messages. The effective communication requires a communicator to translate their messages in the way which is specifically designed for the intended audience.

Creating and delivering the effective presentation requires basic understanding of a communication process. Most of the business presentations require a clear and an unambiguous communication of the message in the way which can be clearly understood by a recipient.

Tps for Effective Communication
   
* Be honest while communicating. Dishonesty will somewhere show up along a line.
   
* Take interest in the people you are communicating with. Remember the people are more attracted towards those who have interest in them, and pays more attention to what they say.
   
* Think before you speak or put pen to paper: what message you trying to convey? What outcome do you want to elicit?
   
* Be direct and not aggressive. Lot of flannelling around can make the people lose interest and miss a vital point.
   
* Don't use the jargon – and acronyms, and also the technical expressions, unless you are sure about that your listeners do understand
   
* Write the way as you will speak. Do not fall into a trap of using the long words just because it is written down.
   
* Take time. Whether in the speech or in paper, rushing will make you seem nervous, unconfident and like downright scared.

The Interpersonal Communication Skills

Ability to ask the questions and listen are vital to the good interpersonal skills. In fact the empathetic listening is a number one skill which can help to build the relationships.

Ten Tips for Good Interpersonal Skills
   
* Listen to the person first. Communication is the two-way process; getting all your message across depends on understanding a other person.
   
* Be interested in people you will be communicating with. Remember that the people are more attracted towards those who have interest in them, and therefore will pay more attention to what they will say.
   
* Relax. The bad body language like hunched shoulders, fidgeting, the toe-tapping or the hair-twiddling all give a game away.
   
* Smile and use the eye contact. It is a most positive signal which you can give.
   
* Ask the questions. It is great way to show the people that you really are interested in them.
   
* If the other person has different point of view towards you find out why they have such point of view. More you understand reasons behind their thinking more you will be able to understand their point of view or can help them understand your point of view.
   
* Be assertive. so that we can try to value their input as your own inputs. Do not be pushy and do not be a pushover. Try for a right balance.
   
* When you will be speaking try to be enthusiastic in appropriate context. Use voice and the body language to show this.
   
* Immediately don't try to latch to something which someone has just now said ... "oh yes it happened to me" and immediately go on and telling your own story. Make sure that you ask questions about them first and then be careful while telling your story so as not to sound like a competition.
   
* Learn from the interactions. If you have a good conversation with someone try to think why it all went well and remember key points for the next time. If it did not go well - again try and learn something out of it.

Body Language

We all do communicate with one another through our look as well as what we do say and how do we sound. In fact what our body is doing while we are talking (i.e. the body language) could often play much greater part in the communication than we do think.

Most obvious form of the paralanguage is the body language or the kinesics . This is a language of the gestures, expressions, and the postures. In North America, for the instance, we commonly use arms and shake hands and say good-bye, point, count, express an excitement, beckon, warn away, a threaten, etc. In fact, we will learn many subtle variations of each of the gestures discussed above and make use of these gestures situation. We will use head to either say yes or to say no, to smile, frown, and wink acknowledgement or flirtation. The head and the shoulder in combination may shrug to indicating that we do not know something about the topic.

The eye contact

The eye contact helps to create the better interaction and the rapport with the listeners. Always try to look at listener at the end of the sentence to reinforce a message in that sentence.

The gesture

The gestures can help to give your voice the extra energy and the confidence Try to gesture on some of the key words – this will give the words a greater emphasis.

The Presence

Adopt ‘Anchor Position’ whenever you do want to keep the body language calm and controlled. While sitting do keep the small of back into back of the chair. This will help and support your posture and do maintain the energy and the confident style. Aim to keep the body language open and be relaxed all the times. Physical attitude can affect the psychological attitude.

The Movement and the Space

Be sensitive towards the people’s space and try not to intrude into it. To achieve the report when speaking to others try to match up the levels –like either both are sitting or standing with a body angled in towards other person.

Presentation Skills

Remember nobody is born as natural speaker. Of course we can bawl the heads off and make heck of the noise when we were been born - but it is is not quite same!

Greatest speakers today have not just become great overnight! They do have spent lot of time practicing reviewing and reading about the way to improve getting the specific one-to-one feedback on how to improve and also having lots of specialized training and the coaching.

It will take time and also effort to read absorb and apply. It will also takes time and efforts to attend the training courses or the seminars and get a good professional training. If we want to differentiate yourself at the work by becoming great presenter however then it is something which is certainly worth investing the time in.

There is the simple structure into which nearly all the presentations must fit. This comprises of the three clearly identifiable parts - Introduction followed by the main body and finally the conclusion.

Often this is expressed as:
   
* Tell what you are going to tell them
   
* Tell them
   
* Tell what you have told them.

The good guide for breakdown of the presentation is 10/80/10 rule - where the introduction and the conclusion are each allotted of 10% of a presentation time with a main body comprising of about 80%. For example the 30 minute presentation should have 3 minutes for introduction and conclusion each and the main body lasting for 24 minutes. This formula may be applied for any length of the presentation - as it do reflects the good breakdown from audience’s perspective.

SanDisk warns on USB drive threat

SanDisk has warned that IT managers are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are being brought into their organisations, backing this with a new study of corporate end-users and IT executives.

The study found that 77 percent corporate end-users surveyed have admitted to using personal flash drives for work-related purposes. However, when asked to estimate what percentage of the workforce uses personal flash drives, corporate IT respondents said only 35 percent.

Users meanwhile admitted that data files most likely to be copied to a personal flash drives includes customer records (25 percent), financial information (17 percent), business plans (15 percent), employee records (13 percent), marketing plans (13 percent), intellectual property (6 percent), and source code (6 percent).

The survey highlights that due to the highly portable nature of USB flash drives, they represent a significant risk of data loss for enterprises. Approximately one in ten (12 percent) of corporate end users reported finding a flash drive in a public place. Additionally, when asked to pick the three most likely actions they would take if they found a flash drive in a public place, 55 percent indicated they would view the data.

SanDisk meanwhile hopes to give IT managers a fighting chance of controlling the usage of flash drives in organisations, and earlier this week unveiled a new version of its CMC (Central Management & Control) software used to manage its Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives.

The SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise flash drive comes in 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB storage capacities.

Version 3.0 of the CMC software is designed to give IT managers an easier way to manage the lifecycle of Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives, including deployment throughout the organisation, password recovery and renewal through the network, central back-up and restore, central usage tracking, and remote termination of lost drives.

"CMC is at the centre of SanDisk’s mission to make flash memory the preferred solution for authentication, workspace virtualisation and endpoint security," said Etti Berger, product marketing manager for CMC in SanDisk's Enterprise Division.

Specifically, CMC 3.0 allows IT managers to rapidly introduce new applications through the network, without users having to initiate an installation process or having to bring their drives to the IT department. It also keeps track of application and seat licences on Cruzer Enterprise drives.

In addition, CMC 3.0 allows for Cruzer Enterprise drives to be remotely configured from any corporate PC without requiring pre-installation of a software agent. SanDisk says this reduces the time and effort needed to add new drives, especially in large organisations with multiple locations and many remote workers.

IT managers can also create pre-defined reports on user activity, giving the IT department new tools for uncovering violations of the organisation’s data security policies, and for providing confirmation of regulatory compliance through an enhanced audit trail.

Finally, CMC 3.0 features improved password policy control, and passwords can now be set to expire after a number of days selected by the IT department. It can also synchronise with Active Directory password policies.

SanDisk said that CMC 3.0 is expected to be available in the third quarter, with pricing provided on request to enterprise clients.

SanDisk also revealed that Cruzer Enterprise drives also now have the ability to deploy, store and use RSA SecurID software tokens from RSA. This gives end-users a single device for secure data storage and two-factor authentication, an alternative to carrying both a flash drive and a separate hardware authenticator.

Source : Techworld

IBM's Racetrack to spur memory speed

IBM is developing a new type of memory that it says could one day out-perform the current generation of hard drives and flash memory.

Racetrack is a solid-state memory that aims to combine the best attributes of flash, like having no moving parts, and the low cost of hard drives for an inexpensive form of non-volatile memory that will be stable and durable, said Stuart Parkin, an IBM Fellow.

Racetrack memory stores information in thousands of atoms in magnetic nanowires. Without the atoms moving, an electrical charge causes data to move swiftly along a U-shaped pipe that allows data to be read and written in less than a nanosecond, Parkin said. A nanosecond is a billionth of a second and commonly used to measure access time to RAM.

The memory reads 16 bits of data through one transistor, so it reads and writes information 100,000 times faster than flash memory, Parkin said.

"In flash memory and hard drives, one transistor can access 1 bit, or with flash, maybe 2 or possibly even 4 bits, that's it. We are going to use ... a transistor to access many bits of information."

Racetrack is still in its early days. The concept was proposed four or five years ago, Parkin said, and IBM hopes to be able to provide terabytes worth of storage from such devices in a few years.

"It will take two to four years to build a prototype in which we build these reading-and-writing elements on a nanoscopic scale. In four years we can perhaps demonstrate it works and then manufacture it," Parkin said.

Racetrack memory has no moving parts, it is "virtually unbreakable" and will never wear out, unlike flash drives, which could wear out after 10,000 read-and-write cycles, Parkin said. He likened the U-shaped design of horizontal pipes to a racetrack.

The memory keeps atoms constant, making it more durable than hard drives or flash. "Whenever you start to move atoms you have problems and devices wear out from fatigue after a time," Parkin said.

Racetrack memory's storage capacity is similar to flash's and may soon exceed hard-drive capacities, Parkin said.

Hard disks rotate to access information, while racetrack memory uses an electrical charge to read and write data, so it also uses less electricity, he said.

It will be inexpensive to manufacture because fewer transistors will be required and each memory chip will hold thousands of nanowires in a small footprint, Parkin said.

The premise behind racetrack memory is spintronics, a technology that manipulates the charge and spin properties of electrons. Using spintronics, hard-drive makers have developed drives that read data from a microscopically small area.

Parkin is widely noted for his work on spintronics and helping double the density of hard drives every year. Scientists Albert Fert, of France, and Peter Grunberg, of Germany, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2007 for their spintronics research.

Source : Techworld

A.K.T. Memorial College of Education

Affiliated to                                  : Tiruvalluvar University

Approved by                                  : NCTE

Type of Institution                          : Self Finance

Category                                         : Co-Ed

District                                         : Villupuram

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

A.K.T. MEMORIAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
A.K.T. NAGAR, NEELAMANGALAM,
VILLAGE & PO. KALLAKURICHI ,
TALUK,
VILLUPURAM TALUK

A.V.S. College of Education

Affiliated to                               : Periyar University

Approved by                               : NCTE

Type of Institution                       : Self Finance

Category                                      : Co-Ed

District                                       : Salem

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

AVS COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
ATTUR MAIN ROAD,
RAMALINGAPURAM,
SALEM-636106   

Phone No : 0427-2482322, 2482495
                0427-2482215(Fax)

Adhiparasakthi College of Education

Affiliated to                                    : Tiruvalluvar University

Approved by                                    : NCTE

Type of Institution                            : Self Finance

Category                                           : Co-Ed

District                                           : Vellore

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

ADHIPARASAKTHI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
G.B.NAGAR,
KALAVAI,
VELLORE-632506

Alwin College of Education

Affiliated to                               : University of Madras

Approved by                               : NCTE

Type of Institution                  : Self Finance

Category                                           : Co-Ed

District                                           : Chennai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

ALWIN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NO. 537, P.H. ROAD,,
ARUMBAKKAM,,
CHENNAI-600106

Amman College of Education

Affiliated to                                : Madurai Kamaraj University

Approved by                                : NCTE

Type of Institution                   : Self Finance

Category                                            : Co-Ed

District                                            : Dindigul

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

AMMAN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
VSKS NAGAR, BYE PASS ROAD,
DINDIGUL-624001   

Phone No : 0451-2423694

Andavar Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                                : NCTE

Type of Institution                    : Self Finance

Category                                 : Co-Ed

District                                             : Erode

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

ANDAVAR TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
SATHY MAIN ROAD,,
KARATTADIPALAYAM PUDUR(PO),,
GOBI TALUK,,
ERODE-638453   

Phone No : 04285- 240142, 240268

Annai College of Education

Affiliated to                                 : Periyar University

Approved by                                 : NCTE

Type of Institution                     : Self Finance

Category                                             : Co-Ed

District                                             : Salem

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

ANNAI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
ATHANUR PATTI,,
VALAPADI TALUK,,
SALEM -636115   

Phone No : 04292- 245484

Annai J.K.K. Sampoorani Ammal College of Education

Affiliated to                                     : Bharathiyar University

Approved by                                     : NCTE

Type of Institution                        : Self Finance

Category                                                 : Co-Ed

District                                                 : Erode

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

ANNAI J.K.K SAMPOORANI AMMAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
T.N.PALAYAM,
GOBI TALUK,
ERODE-638506   

Phone No : 04285-260263,260293

Annai Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                              : NCTE

Type of Institution                 : Self Finance

Category                                          : Co-Ed

District                                          : Thanjavur

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

ANNAI TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
ANAKUDI ROAD,
KOVILACHERY,
KUMBAKONAM ,
TANJORE-612503

Annamalai University

Affiliated to                                : Annamalai University

Approved by                                : NCTE

Type of Institution                   : Self Finance

Category                                            : Co-Ed

District                                            : Cuddalore

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Post Graduate

    * M.Ed. Education

Contact Address

ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY,
ANNAMALAINAGAR,
CUDDALORE DT-608002   

Phone No  : 04144-22249
                04144 38080(Fax)

E-mail   : auedu@usa.net

Arignar Anna Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                                    : NCTE

Type of Institution                       : Self Finance

Category                                                : Co-Ed

District                                                : Namakkal

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

ARIGNAR ANNA TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
10-C, SWAMISIVANANDA SALAI,
RASIPURAM,
NAMAKKAL DT-637408   

Phone No : 04287 223045 / 04286 252256

Arunachala College of Education

Affiliated to                               : Tiruvalluvar University

Approved by                               : NCTE

Type of Institution                  : Self Finance

Category                                           : Co-Ed

District                                           : Tiruvannamalai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

ARUNACHALA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
OLD NO.26 A, NEW NO. 74,
KOSA STREET ,
TIRUVANNAMALAI-606601   

Phone No : 04175-235925,9443237646

Auxilium College of Education

Affiliated to                                     : Bharathidasan University

Approved by                                     : NCTE

Type of Institution                        : Self Finance

Category                                                 : Co-Ed

District                                                 : Pudukottai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

AUXILIUM COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
REGUNATHAPURAM PO. ,
KARAMBAKUDI (VIA),
PUDUKOTTAI-622302   

Phone No : 04322- 205355

Balaji College of Education

Affiliated to                           : University of Madras

Approved by                           : NCTE

Type of Institution              : Self Finance

Category                                       : Co-Ed

District                                        : Chennai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

BALAJI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
6/7, 7TH STREET,,
GOPALAPURAM,,
CHENNAI-600086   

Phone No : 044- 28114746, 28115677

Best Teacher Education Institute

Approved by                                    : NCTE

Type of Institution                       : Self Finance

Category                                    : Co-Ed

District                                                : Nagapatinam

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Details

BEST TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTE
PENINSULA BUILDING,
26/54, MAYURA NATHAR NORTH,
STREET,
MAYILADUTHURAI-609001

Bharathi Vidyalaya Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                                    : NCTE

Type of Institution                       : Self Finance

Category                                                : Co-Ed

District                                                : Pudukottai

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

BHARATHI VIDYALAYA TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
9A, NATHAMPANNAI,
TIRUGOKARNAM PO. ,
PUDUKOTTAI-622002

Bishop Arulswamy Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                            : NCTE

Type of Institution               : Self Finance

Category                                        : Co-Ed

District                                        : Trichy

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

BISHOP ARULSWAMY TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
SOUTH IRUNGALUR,
IRUNGALUR (POST),
TRICHY-621105

C.S. Jain Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                            : NCTE

Type of Institution               : Self Finance

Category                                        : Co-Ed

District                                        : Cuddalore

Courses Offered

Under Graduate
    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

C.S. JAIN TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
CHIDAMBARAM ROAD, ,
THETHAMPET,,
SRIMUSHNAM(P),,
CUDDALORE-608703   

Phone No : 04144- 245241, 245341,
                04144- 245341(Fax)

Christian Teacher Training Institute for Women

Approved by                                      : NCTE

Type of Institution                         : Self Finance

Category                                                  : Women's

District                                                  : Virudhunagar

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

CHRISTIAN TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN
MOUNTZION,
CHOLAPURAM SOUTH,
RAJAPALAYAM VIA,
VIRUDHUNAGAR-626139

D.K.T. Teacher Training Institute for Women

Approved by                                    : NCTE

Type of Institution                       : Self Finance

Category                                                : Women's

District                                                : Coimbatore

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

D.K.T. TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN
AMARAVATHIPALAYAM, ,
PERUNTHOZHUVU PO. ,
TIRUPUR,
COIMBATORE-641665

Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Education for Women

Affiliated to                                  : Bharathidasan University

Approved by                                  : NCTE

Type of Institution                      : Self Finance

Category                                              : Women's

District                                              : Perambalur

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

DHANALAKSHMI SRINIVASAN COLLEGE OF EDN FOR WOMEN
THURAIYUR ROAD ,
PERAMBALUR-621212   

Phone No : 04328-220555
               04328-220075(Fax)

Dr. G.R. Damodaran College of Education

Affiliated to                                    : Bharathiyar University

Approved by                                    : NCTE

Type of Institution                       : Self Finance

Category                                                : Co-Ed

District                                                : Coimbatore

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

DR. G.R.DAMODARAN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
SENGODAGOUNDENPUDUR,
MUTHUGOUNDENPUDUR POST,
SULUR VIA,
COIMBATORE DT-641406   

Phone No : 0422-2360712

Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute

Affiliated to                               : University

Approved by                               : NCTE

Type of Institution                  : Self Finance

Category                                           : Co-Ed

District                                           : Chennai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

DR. M.G.R. EDNL & RESEARCH INSTITUTE
PERIYAR E.V.R. HIGH ROAD ,
(NH-4 HIGHWAY), ,
MADURAVOYAL,
CHENNAI-600095   

Phone No : 044-23782176, 23782186
                044-23783165(Fax)

Dr. Sivanthi Aditanar College of Education

Affiliated to                               : Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

Approved by                               : NCTE

Type of Institution                  : Self Finance

Category                                           : Co-Ed

District                                           : Tuticorin

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Post Graduate

    * M.Ed. Education
    * M.P.Ed. Physical Education

Contact Address

DR. SIVANTHI ADITANAR COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
TIRUNELVELI ROAD,
TIRUCHENDUR,
TUTICORIN-628215

Excel College of Education

Affiliated to                              : Periyar University

Approved by                              : NCTE

Type of Institution                 : Self Finance

Category                                          : Co-Ed

District                                          : Namakkal

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

EXCEL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NO. 3/28, AGRAHARAM VILLAGE,
SALEM MAIN ROAD,
KOMARAPALAYAM ,
NAMAKKAL

G.P. Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                             : NCTE

Type of Institution                : Self Finance

Category                                         : Co-Ed

District                                         : Vellore

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

G.P. TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
VANIYAMBADI ROAD,
TIRUPATTUR TALUK ,
VELLORE

Gandhi College of Education

Affiliated to                           : Bharathiyar University

Approved by                           : NCTE

Type of Institution              : Self Finance

Category                                       : Co-Ed

District                                       : Erode

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

GANDHI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NO. 144, KAMARAJPURAM BUS STOP,
VINNAPALLI VILLAGE,
SATHYAMANGALAM TALUK ,
ERODE-638402

Good Shepherd College of Education

Affiliated to                                   : Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

Approved by                                  : NCTE

Type of Institution                     : Self Finance

Category                                              : Co-Ed

District                                              : Kanyakumari

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

GOOD SHEPHERD COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
31/6, 18B, ,
HOLY CROSS COLLEGE ROAD,
KANYAKUMARI-629004   

Phone No : 04652-261537

Government College of Education for Women

Affiliated to                              : Bharathiyar University

Approved by                               : NCTE

Type of Institution                 : Government

Category                                          : Women's

District                                          : Coimbatore

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
COIMBATORE,
COIMBATORE-641001   

Phone No : 0422-397616

Grace College of Education

Affiliated to                               : Tiruvalluvar University

Approved by                               : NCTE

Type of Institution                  : Self Finance

Category                                           : Co-Ed

District                                           : Tiruvannamalai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

GRACE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
VISAMANGALAM VILLAGE,
NEDUNGUNAM POST,
VANDAVASI TALUK,
THIRUVANNAMALAI-606807   

Phone No : 04181- 252657

Haji S.M.S. Shaik Jalaludeen Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                                     : NCTE

Type of Institution                        : Self Finance

Category                                                 : Co-Ed

District                                                 : Thanjavur

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

HAJI SMS SHAIK JALALUDEEN TEACHER TRAINING INSTT.
#11, CARPENTER STREET ,
ADIRAMPATTINAM POST,
THANJAVUR -614701

Kaliammal College of Education

Affiliated to                                : Bharathidasan University

Approved by                                : NCTE

Type of Institution                             : Self Finance

Category                                            : Co-Ed

District                                            : Karur

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

KALIAMMAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NO.6, ANNA SALAI,
NEW BUS STAND BACKSIDE,
KARUR-639002   

Phone No : 04324-232288

Kamala College of Education

Affiliated to                                  : Tiruvalluvar University

Approved by                                   : NCTE

Type of Institution                     : Self Finance

Category                                              : Co-Ed

District                                              : Villupuram

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

KAMALA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
THIRUNAVALUR ,
VILLUPURAM-607204

Karpagam College of Education

Affiliated to                                     : Bharathiyar University

Approved by                                     : NCTE

Type of Institution                        : Self Finance

Category                                                 : Co-Ed

District                                                 : Coimbatore

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

KARPAGAM COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NO. 247, 248,
BY-PASS ROAD POST,,
SEERAPALAYAM VILLAGE,,
COIMBATOTE-641021   

Phone No : 0422- 2611082
                0422- 2611043(Fax)

Karunyaa Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                             : NCTE

Type of Institution                : Self Finance

Category                                         : Co-Ed

District                                         : Vellore

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

KARUNYAA TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
135, THANDALAM ,
KUNGRINIPET POST, ARAKONAM TK,
KUMPINIPET P.O.,
VELLORE-631001   

Phone No : 04172-26319

Kenis College of Education for Women

Affiliated to                                          : Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

Approved by                                          : NCTE

Type of Institution                             : Self Finance

Category                                                      : Women's

District                                                      : Tirunelveli

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

KENIS COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
139, N.H.7, ASIR NAGAR,
THALAPATHISAMUTHIRAM,
TIRUNELVELI-627101

Kevi Teacher Training Institute for Women

Approved by                                     : NCTE

Type of Institution                        : Self Finance

Category                                                 : Women's

District                                                 : Salem

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

KEVI TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN
NO. 1 KEVI COMPLEX,,
BAZAR STREET,,
OLD BUS STAND,
SALEM DT.-636001   

Phone No : 0427-2400241
                0427-2405834(Fax)

Kongu Naadu Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                                          : NCTE

Type of Institution                             : Self Finance

Category                                                      : Co-Ed

District                                                      : Salem

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

KONGU NAADU TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
MAMANGAM,,
AMMAPALAYAM (POST),,
SALEM-636302   

Phone No : 0427- 2449354

Krishna College of Education for Women

Affiliated to                                       : Periyar University

Approved by                                       : NCTE

Type of Institution                          : Self Finance

Category                                                   : Women's

District                                                   : Namakkal

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

KRISHNA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
SAKTHINASIKAN PALAYAM VILLAGE,
ELAYAMPALAYAM ,
TIRUCHENGODU TALUK,
NAMAKKAL-637205

M.E.T. College of Education

Affiliated to                               : Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

Approved by                               : NCTE

Type of Institution                   : Self Finance

Category                                           : Co-Ed

District                                           : Kanyakumari

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

M.E.T. COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NO.357-C, OPP. DR.NAIDU HOSPIT,
RAILWAY STATION ROAD,,
KOTTAR-P.O, NAGERCOIL,,
KANYAKUMARI -629002

Phone No: 04652- 241880, 09443341882

Maharani College of Education

Affiliated to                                  : Bharathiyar University

Approved by                                  : NCTE

Type of Institution                     : Self Finance

Category                                              : Co-Ed

District                                              : Erode

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

MAHARANI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NANJIYAMPALAYAM,,
DHARAPURAM,,
ERODE-638657

Mahendra College of Education

Affiliated to                                 : Periyar University

Approved by                                 : NCTE

Type of Institution                    : Self Finance

Category                                             : Co-Ed

District                                             : Salem

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

MAHENDRA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
SALEM-ATTUR ROAD,
MINNAMPALLI VILLAGE,
VALAPADI TALUK ,
SALEM-636140

Maruthi Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                                  : NCTE

Type of Institution                     : Self Finance

Category                                              : Co-Ed

District                                              : Salem

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

MARUTHI TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
MANIVIZHUNDAN SOUYH VILLAGE,
ATTUR TALUK ,
SALEM-636121

Matha College of Teacher Education

Affiliated to                      : Alagappa University

Approved by                      : NCTE

Type of Institution          : Self Finance

Category                                   : Co-Ed

District                                   : Sivagangai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

MATHA COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION
ANNAVASAL ROAD,
VAAMPURAM,
MANAMADURAI,
SIVAGANGAI-630606

Meenakshi Teacher Training Instittute

Approved by                                 : NCTE

Type of Institution                    : Self Finance

Category                                             : Co-Ed

District                                             : Salem

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

MEENAKSHI TEACHER TRAINING INSTITTUTE
NO. 60, KAMARAJAR SALAI ,
CHINNA THIRUPATHY POST,
SALEM-636008

Michael Job Memorial College of Education for Girl

Affiliated to                                : Bharathiyar University

Approved by                                : NCTE

Type of Institution                   : Self Finance

Category                                            : Women's

District                                            : Coimbatore

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

MICHAEL JOB MEMORIAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR GIRL
RAVATHUR POST,
IRUGUR VIA,
COIMBATORE DT-641103

Phone No : 0422-2689026, 2682823

Mother Terasa College of Teacher Education

Affiliated to                                   : Bharathidasan University

Approved by                                   : NCTE

Type of Institution                      : Self Finance

Category                                               : Co-Ed

District                                               : Pudukottai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

MOTHER TERASA COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION
METTUSALAI,
ILLUPPUR,
PUDUKKOTTAI -622102

N.V.K.S.D. College of Education

Affiliated to                            : Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

Approved by                             : NCTE

Type of Institution               : Self Finance

Category                                        : Co-Ed

District                                        : Kanyakumari

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Post Graduate

    * M.Ed. Education

Contact Address

N.V.K.S.D. COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
ATTOOR,
ATTOOR,
KANYAKUMARI DT-629191   

Phone No : 04651-70030

Natham P.R. College of Education

Affiliated to                                   : Bharathidasan University

Approved by                                   : NCTE

Type of Institution                       : Self Finance

Category                                                : Co-Ed

District                                                : Dindigul

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

NATHAM P.R. COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
PUNNAPPATTI VILLAGE AND PO,
DINDIGUL MAIN ROAD, ,
ULUPPAKKUDI, NATHAM TALUK,
DINDIGUL-624401

Nazareth College of Education for Women

Affiliated to                                   : University of Madras

Approved by                                   : NCTE

Type of Institution                      : Self Finance

Category                                               : Women's

District                                               : Chennai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

NAZARETH COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
KOVILPATHAGAI MAIN ROAD,
KANNADAPALAYAM,
VELLANOOR POST, AVADI,
CHENNAI-600062

Phone No : 0440-26380203
                044-26380549(Fax)

Neyveli Teacher Training Institute

Approved by                                     : NCTE

Type of Institution                        : Self Finance

Category                                                 : Co-Ed

District                                                 : Cuddalore

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

NEYVELI TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE
KUMBAKONAM MAIN ROAD,
KRITHIGA GARDEN, KEELAKOLLAI,
MARUNGUR POST, PANRUTI ,
CUDDALLORE-607103

O.P.R. Memorial College of Education

Affiliated to                                      : Tiruvalluvar University

Approved by                                      : NCTE

Type of Institution                         : Self Finance

Category                                                  : Co-Ed

District                                                  : Cuddalore

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

O.P.R. MEMORIAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
SUDHA SANMARGA NILAYAM,
NEYVELI MAIN ROAD,
VADALUR,
CUDDALORE-607303

Phone No : 04142-259244

P.K.D. College of Education

Affiliated to                                  : Bharathiyar University

Approved by                                  : NCTE

Type of Institution                     : Self Finance

Category                                              : Co-Ed

District                                              : Coimbatore

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

P.K.D.COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
30/12, VENKATRAMAN ROAD,
MAHALINGAPURAM,
POLLACHI-642002

Phone No : 04259-223838

P.S.G. Ponnammal College of Education

Affiliated to                                  : Bharathiyar University

Approved by                                  : NCTE

Type of Institution                     : Self Finance

Category                                              : Co-Ed

District                                               : Erode

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Diploma

    * D.T.Ed. Dip. in Teacher Education

Contact Address

P.S.G. PONNAMMAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NO. 14/58, 60, KOVAI ROAD,
KANGAYAM,
ERODE-638701

Phone No : 04257-220707
                04257-223046(Fax)

Padmavani College of Education

Affiliated to                                   : Periyar University

Approved by                                   : NCTE

Type of Institution                       : Self Finance

Category                                                : Co-Ed

District                                                : Salem

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

PADMAVANI COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NO. 3/221, KSV NAGAR ,
NAROSOTHIPATTY,
SALEM-636004

Ponjesly College of Education

Affiliated to                                      : Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

Approved by                                      : NCTE

Type of Institution                         : Self Finance

Category                                                  : Co-Ed

District                                                  : Kanyakumari

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

PONJESLY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
253/E-3, K.P. ROAD,
VETTOORNIMADAM POST,,
NAGERCOIL,,
KANYAKUMARI-629003

Phone No : 04652- 230317

Prof. S.A. College of Education

Affiliated to                                : University of Madras

Approved by                                 : NCTE

Type of Institution                    : Self Finance

Category                                             : Co-Ed

District                                             : Chennai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

PROF. S.A. COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NO. 1/93, SARDAR PATEL ROAD,
OLD MAHABALIPURAM ROAD,
CHEMMENCHERRY,
CHENNAI-600119

R.K. Samy College of Education

Affiliated to                                  : Alagappa University

Approved by                                  : NCTE

Type of Institution                     : Self Finance

Category                                              : Co-Ed

District                                              : Ramanathapuram

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

R.K. SAMY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NO. 1/780, BHARATHI NAGAR,
RAMANATHAPURAM-623503

R.V.S. College of Education

Affiliated to                               : Madurai Kamaraj University

Approved by                              : NCTE

Type of Institution                 : Self Finance

Category                                          : Co-Ed

District                                          : Dindigul

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

R.V.S. COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
KULATHUR VILLAGE,
DINDIGUL-624005

Ramakrishnan Chandra College of Physical Education

Affiliated to                                : Madurai Kamaraj University

Approved by                                : NCTE

Type of Institution                   : Self Finance

Category                                            : Co-Ed

District                                            : Theni

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.P.Ed. Physical Education

Contact Address

RAMAKRISHNAN CHANDRA COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
KULLAPPA GOUNDANPATTI,,
CUMBUM (VIA),,
THENI -625516

Phone No : 04554- 230292, 230293

Rev. John Thomas College of Education for Women

Affiliated to                                : Madurai Kamaraj University

Approved by                                : NCTE

Type of Institution                   : Self Finance

Category                                            : Women's

District                                            : Madurai

Courses Offered

Under Graduate

    * B.Ed. Education

Contact Address

REV. JOHN THOMAS COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
MEIGNANAPURAM,
MEIGNANAPURAM-0