How many Web users are willing to pay for the services they used? [Survey]

According to a new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, almost two-thirds of adult Internet users in the US have paid for get access to video, news and even free tools such as word processing and spreadsheets.

According to the stats from study, about a third of respondents said they have paid for digital music and for softwares too.

How many Web users are willing to pay for the services they used? [Survey]

We heard "Love yourselves first", this women, by heart, really does..... gonna marry herself this new year.

It is common to see people marring those whom they love or being loved by others. Similarly, a Taiwanese woman is gonna marry some one this new year, whom she loves the most. So you may think what new in this? No, No, not the new year or 1-11-11. In this marriage, people will not be seeing any bride groom. That doesn't means this is same sex marriage but a marriage with super twist.

A 45 year old Taiwanese therapist, Chen Ching, likes to start this new year with new life by holding a splendid wedding where you will not see any male counterpart because she getting married to HERSELF.

We heard "Love yourselves first", this women, by heart, really does..... gonna marry herself this new year.

Virtually addicted Chinese women claims virtual assets in her divorce plea

This wacky cum interesting news is from china. A virtual world addicted women from china plea for her virtual assets which she had earned while playing online games with her husband IDs whom she was divorcing was rejected by local court.

They met through an online game, married at the end of 2008. The reason for getting divorce is, they blamed each other for being lazy in housework.

Virtually addicted Chinese women claims virtual assets in her divorce plea

Now your pen will be controlling your Stress ?

Now controlling your stress will be in your hand.... literally....

During stressed, many people tend to do all sorts of crazy stuff with their pen. By observing this a Doctoral researcher student from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, named Miguel Bruns Alonso, has developed the prototype of a pen which gauges a user's stress levels and helps ease them.

Now your pen will be controlling your Stress ?

Google's Nexus S shocks Google engineers with its outer atmosphere performance.

The team from Google were happy and have been taken by pleasant surprise after Nexus S, the Official Google's second phone, was found working even fine even at the earth's outer atmosphere - at 60,000 feet.

The tiny Androids strapped to seven payloads to test the outer limits of Nexus S were carried into the Earth's outer atmosphere using weather balloons, the Daily Mail reported.

Google's Nexus S shocks Google engineers with its outer atmosphere performance.

Despite Blacklisting, Corporate America does legal business.

- New York Times

Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the US government has allowed its companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism, an examination by The New York Times has found.

At the behest of a host of companies — from Kraft Food and Pepsi to some of the nation’s largest banks — a little-known office of the Treasury Department has granted nearly 10,000 licenses for deals involving countries that have been cast into economic purgatory, beyond the reach of American business.

Despite Blacklisting, Corporate America does legal business.

Alcoholism affects younger brains : Duke Study

A Duke University study indicates adolescents and young adults with alcohol-use disorders have a smaller prefrontal cortex.

Researchers said alcohol-use disorders are known to be associated with abnormalities of the prefrontal cortex, thalamus and the cerebellar hemispheres in adults' brains.

Alcoholism affects younger brains : Duke Study

Due to under-developing brain, Teens cannot concentrate

Research from the UK has found that teenagers and young adults find it hard to concentrate because their brains are more similar to those of much younger children than those of mature adults, with more grey matter but lower efficiency.

The brain is not fully developed until people reach their late twenties or even early thirties, according to study.

Due to under-developing brain, Teens cannot concentrate

Brain may be fully matured by age of 30-40: Study

According to new research from the UK, the brain continues to develop after childhood and puberty, and is not fully developed until people are well into their 30s and 40s, which contradict current theories that the brain matures much earlier.

Brain may be fully matured by age of 30-40: Study

Glass free World's first 3-D TV from Toshiba, now available in Japan

On Wednesday, in Japan, Toshiba became first to launch what it calls the world's first television to public, allowing viewers to see 3D images without having to wear special glasses.

It was unveiled at an electronics store in central Tokyo, it's 12-inch model, named as the Regza GL1 Series, went on sale.

Glass free World's first 3-D TV from Toshiba, now available in Japan

Google search engine gets updates, now detects compromised sites and alerts

ON friday, Dec 14, Google announced that its had made some upgrades to its search engine which included alerting people to hacked websites that make it into query results.

"We've added new notifications to the results page to warn you when sites may have been compromised, spammed or defaced," Google director of product management Mike Cassidy said in a blog post.

Google search engine gets updates, now detects compromised sites and alerts

NZ military release classified UFO files for the public.

Under freedom of information laws, New Zealand military released hundreds of previously classified reports detailing claims of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings and alien encounters.

The documents released contains the data collected from 1954 to 2009. These classified files were released after the New Zealand Defence Force removed names and other identifying material.

NZ military release classified UFO files for the public.

Latest discovery of new molecule could boost rocket in having efficient propelling engine.

Discovery made by scientists from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden could make the future rocket engines work efficient by 20%-30%. Trinitramid, the name of the new molecule that may be a component in future rocket fuel.

Latest discovery of new molecule could boost rocket in having efficient propelling engine.

IBM Scientists predicts five things for the future.[Video]

IBM helps in predicting what we may be see in the coming future. With its release of its annual "Next Five in Five" list of five innovations expected over the next five years this week, Air-powered batteries, 3-D cellphones that project holographs and personalized commutes are among the predictions of IBM scientists.

IBM Scientists predicts five things for the future.[Video]

Global Warming is behind the European Winter chill : Scientists

Feeling much chilled this winter than the previous one ??? Then blame the GW(Global Warming).

Counter-intuitive but true, say scientists: a string of freezing European winters scattered over the last decade has been driven in large part by global warming.

According to a new study, the Arctic's surface ice, if the current rates of decline continues, will disappear entirely during summer months by century's end.

Global Warming is behind the European Winter chill : Scientists

India's Sophisticated communication and entertainment satellite gets blasted in mid air after 2nd stage Rocket engine failure[Video]

Prestigious, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), suffered a major setback on cryogenic engine system usage. Isro's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle(GSLV)-F06 launch vehicle failed to put communication satellite GSAT-5P in orbit after being destroyed in mid-air.

India's Sophisticated communication and entertainment satellite gets blasted in mid air after 2nd stage Rocket engine failure[Video]

31 US cities tap water is said to be contained with Hexavalent chromium, a cancer causing chemical.

According to US national survey, The Environmental Working Group, 31 US cities get the tap water which is said to contaminated by a cancer causing chemical, Hexavalent chromium.

Their results on this study were released on Monday, Dec 20. They found that highest concentrations of hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium 6, in the drinking water in Norman, Okla., Honolulu and Riverside, California.

31 US cities tap water is said to be contained with Hexavalent chromium, a cancer causing chemical.

Google shells out whopping $2 billion for New York office

Search giant Google confirmed that it had bought one of the most prestigious office buildings in Manhattan.

Thought the amount which the Google payed for the property at 111 Eighth Avenue building wasn't disclosed, but the Los Angeles Times put the price at $2 billion.

Google shells out whopping $2 billion for New York office

Next wikileaks cables will be about the Jewish state, Israel : Assange

In an interview to Al-Jazeera, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that they are planning to publish hundreds of "sensitive" US diplomatic cables on Israel.

This Sensitive and classified documents includes Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon and January's assassination in Dubai of Hamas militant Mahmud al-Mabhuh would be released, Assange told Al-Jazeera in an interview.

Next wikileaks cables will be about the Jewish state, Israel : Assange

All the 250,000+ Wikileaks cables obtained by Aftenposten, Norway daily.

A Norwegian daily claims that they had obtained all the 250,000 diplomatic cables of WikiLeaks and it will start publishing articles based on those cables instead of the cable notes.

The Daily refuses to say how his newspaper obtained all the classified cables, which WikiLeaks has not yet released entirely.

All the 250,000+ Wikileaks cables obtained by Aftenposten, Norway daily.

2010s highest grosser of all time, Avatar, is also the highest pirated movie for the year 2010

Titanic director, James Cameron's sci-fi epic, Avatar, over took all records into her account and became the the most successful film of all time with gross takings of $2.7 billion, is said to be downloaded 16.6 million times illegally.

The second most pirated movie was Kick-Ass was second with 11.4 million downloads and Leonardo DiCaprio's films Inception and Shutter Island were third and fourth respectively.

2010s highest grosser of all time, Avatar, is also the highest pirated movie for the year 2010

Why do get attracted by looking at beautiful people?

If the research is to be believed, researchers from Canada confirms the adage that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.

According to it, beautiful people leave much bigger impact on the beholder even during their brief encounters.

People pay special attention to identify more accurately the personality traits of people who are physically attractive than others during short encounters, says the study by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Why do get attracted by looking at beautiful people?

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of facebook meets his competitors in China

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, is on holiday with his Chinese-American girlfriend in China. According to AFP, Mark met with top executives, chief executive Charles Chao and vice president Peng Shaobin, from the country's popular web portal Sina.com.

This visit comes after two days after the facebook founder had lunch with the head of search engine giant Baidu to discuss the world's biggest web market.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of facebook meets his competitors in China

UK loses 20,000 mobiles per day : Survey

Love you mobile???? Then be careful. You may be next. According to an English media report, in Britain, one out of six lost his/her mobile phone in the past 12 months and a whopping 20,000 mobile phones are either lost or stolen every day in Britain, says Daily Mail media report.

Most of them tend to lose their mobile during nights out in pubs or clubs, a considerable proportion of the 7.3 million missing phones went missing on holidays.

UK loses 20,000 mobiles per day : Survey

With the help of genetic engineering, Japanese creates Singing mouse.

A team Japanese scientists from University of Osaka, said that they had produced a mouse that tweets like a bird in a genetically engineered 'evolution' which they hope will shed light on the origins of human language.

Named as 'Evolved Mouse Project', in which they use genetically modified mice that are prone to miscopying DNA and thus to mutations.

With the help of genetic engineering, Japanese creates Singing mouse.

Julian at the age 18, had affair with 16 year old and became father.

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, is said to had an affair with a 16-year-old girl when he was 18 and fathered a boy who is now 20 years old, according to media report said on Dec 20.

Raised by his mother Christine - who flew into London from Australia to see him this month - Assange had lived in 37 towns by the time he was 14, receiving much of his education at home.

Julian at the age 18, had affair with 16 year old and became father.

Latest Wikileaks cable comes up with new info on ex-KGB man's radiation poisoning.

By Alan Cowell, New York Times

Shortly after the radiation poisoning in London of a former K.G.B. officer, Alexander V. Litvinenko, a senior Russian official asserted that Moscow had been tailing his killers before he died but had been waved off by Britain's security services, according to a cable in the trove of secret American documents released by WikiLeaks.

The Russian assertion, denied by British officials, seemed to revive a theory that the British intelligence services played a murky role in the killing -- a notion voiced at the time by some in Moscow to deflect allegations of the Kremlin's involvement in the murder.

Latest Wikileaks cable comes up with new info on ex-KGB man's radiation poisoning.

Websites soon to be free from suffixes ?

Tech company from Dutch is said to be in a project to get rid the Internet of limited number of suffixes such as .com and offer single names which can be any thing like fantasy names and what ever.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the root servers of the Internet guiding all Web traffic, has been working for years on a similar plan as it determines which suffixes, known as top-level domains (TLDs), are recognized by those root servers.

Websites soon to be free from suffixes ?

Fifth Generation Fighter air-crafts to be jointly developed by India and Russia.

Russian President is on 2 day official visit to India. In his tour, India and Russia on Dec-21 decided to jointly design and manufacture a most advanced Fifth generation stealth fighter by signing a preliminary design contract which is said to be worth $30 billion.

The preliminary design contract for the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) "envisages joint design and development" of the jet, an official statement said.

Fifth Generation Fighter air-crafts to be jointly developed by India and Russia.

Do you know about the Britain's Psychic monkey predicting Ashes series and so far correctly foretold the results.

After the great psychic octopus Paul, FIFA 2010 World Cup fame, there has been no stopping in belief of animals predicting passionate games.... Paul may be no more now but it left it's legacy by predicting the FIFA 2010 World Cup, crowing Spain as champions.......... Now its time for some monkey business....serious business :P.A mystic monkey from North Tyneside, England has correctly predicted the results of the Ashes series so far.

According to The Sun, Jack the cotton-top tamarin has stunned keepers with his fortune-telling skills and could become a massive star if his streak continues.

Predicting at Tynemouth's Blue Reef Aquarium, the mystic monkey has so far correctly foretold the results of the first two Ashes test matches.

Do you know about the Britain's Psychic monkey predicting Ashes series and so far correctly foretold the results.

Report prepared by Secret Swedish police on Assange got leaked out

(PTI) The 68-page confidential report prepared by Swedish police got leaked which tells the police version on the alleged sexual misconduct by the Julian assange.

The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August this year when 39-year-old Assange had what he has described as consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish women.

Report prepared by Secret Swedish police on Assange got leaked out

Major sites like Google, Yahoo!!!, twitter,Linked In..... resets passwords after Gawker accounts got exposed.

For our easiness, we have habit of using same user name and password for multiple sites which may include some of the important and critical sites.

After 1.4 million accounts of Gawker's got exposed and is out for public, several unrelated companies had to freeze their accounts and force users to reset passwords.

Major sites like Google, Yahoo!!!, twitter,Linked In..... resets passwords after Gawker accounts got exposed.

Evolution of Nokia from Nokia Mobira Senator to Nokia N8

Nokia got into telephony business with Salora in 1979, established Mobira Oy. Withe the launch of Nordic Mobile Telephone, World's first international Mobile operator, in 1981, Nokia launched its first car phone, Mobira Senator, in 1982.

Evolution of Nokia from Nokia Mobira Senator to Nokia N8

Beware of 3D TVs, it can disorient you brain: Scientists

Scientists warns that the 3D content, particularly 3D TVs can disorient the brain, causing eye strain, headaches, nausea and sickness.

The person who is mostly like to be affected by this is the one closer to the screen.

Studies show that in up to 20 percent of the viewers it could even induce physical sickness, the Daily Mail reported, quoting the New Scientist.

Beware of 3D TVs, it can disorient you brain: Scientists

Wikileaks Cable: US Diplomats suggested Indian movies stars might help in stabilizing the war-torn Afghanistan

In one the cable leaks, US diplomats suggested that the popular stars from Hindi-language film industry(Bollywood) could be sent to Afghanistan to help stabilise the country, was published on Friday.

The confidential US document from March 2007, said that high-profile Bollywood actors could play a key role in India's 'soft power' assistance in Afghanistan.

Wikileaks Cable: US Diplomats suggested Indian movies stars might help in stabilizing the war-torn Afghanistan

GPS unit embedded in you cap may come handy when you are at new location.

Now you may not need any GPS device to know where you are, instead just all you need is a cap. Yeah cap or hat what ever....since, this is not an ordinary cap because the cap has an integrated GPS unit with voice-activated processor.

GPS unit embedded in you cap may come handy when you are at new location.

Check out the Citi bank New York’s Union Square branch for Sneek peak of future bank.

The future bank from Citi group is now live at New York’s Union Square. Why i said future is because it is different from the rest.

There you will be seeing six interactive sales walls with touchscreen capabilities, instead of paper brochure. Instead of using deposit envelopes, there you can use enhanced-image ATMs to deposit checks . And customers can use a 24/7 video chat in the ATM lobby for any help.

Check out the Citi bank New York’s Union Square branch for Sneek peak of future bank.

People tends to become more emotional at the age 60:Study

We see that it's harder for the older people to hide their feelings which some times comes out in form of tears.This was observed by psychologists, when viewing heartbreaking or disgusting scenes in movies and reality shows.

According to research from UC Berkeley, Old people are better than their younger counterparts at seeing the positive side of a stressful situation and empathizing with the less fortunate.

People tends to become more emotional at the age 60:Study

US geophysicist measures the magnetic strength of the earth for the first time.

Geophysicist from University of California, Berkeley, has made the first-ever measurement of the magnetic strength of the inside Earth's core, 1,800 miles underground.

They found out the the magnetic field strength is 25 Gauss(50x stronger than the magnetic field at the surface that makes compass needles align north-south).

US geophysicist measures the magnetic strength of the earth for the first time.

Gadget(machine) governed by quantum mechanics law is designed by the US physicists for the first time.

Generally the machines we are using now works by the law related to classical mechanics but the scientists from the University of California at Santa Barbara had designed a gadget which can only be described by quantum mechanics, rules that governs the behavior of tiny things like molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles.

Physicists Andrew Cleland and John Martinis and their colleagues designed a machine, a tiny metal paddle of semiconductor, visible to the naked eye behaves according to quantum mechanics laws.

Gadget(machine) governed by quantum mechanics law is designed by the US physicists for the first time.

103 year old Lillian Lowe from UK is the facebook's oldest user.

This 103 year old granny from Britain named Lillian Lowe regularly logs on to the popular networking site 'facebook' on her iPad.

She uses facebook to keep in contact with her seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren and has 32 members in her friend list, Sun daily reports.

103 year old Lillian Lowe from UK is the facebook's oldest user.

Wikileaks saga portraited on sanitary pad's ad in pakistan.

This is what i call making the most of the available opportunity. Ad agency from pakistan is trying to make of the most of the wiki"Leaks".

Advertisers in the feminine hygiene business, ridiculing the US Govt incapability of preventing the leak of US diplomatic cable data, tells women that while the US State Department might leak, they don't have to.

Wikileaks saga portraited on sanitary pad's ad in pakistan.

Mom's (Maa) voice plays vital role in triggering the development of brain in newborns

Image showing an infant's brain activity upon hearing his mother’s voice, and then a stranger’s voice.

This latest research by researchers from the University of Montreal and the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre shows that the mother-child bond is the ultimate one.

Researcher had learned that, mother's voice activates the parts of the brain responsible for language learning.

Mom's (Maa) voice plays vital role in triggering the development of brain in newborns

Being Positive helps brain in expanding your creativity: Study

According to the researcher carried out by graduates of University of Western Ontario, a happy and positive mood helps in improving the creativity of that person.

This study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, was carried out by Ruby Nadler, Rahel Rabi and John Paul Minda, students of University of Western Ontario.

Being Positive helps brain in expanding your creativity: Study

Organometallic fuel cell, a win-win for environment, produces both current and useful chemicals.

Scientist from Swiss and Italy had come up with a new eco friendly cell which is said to be capable of manufacturing waste free chemicals from renewable raw materials and carbon di-oxide free electricity.

It is in the form of rectangle shape, made of transparent plastic, size more than a general fist. The inventor says This fuel cell won’t solve the world’s energy problems, but he think that it can be used to make fine chemicals from renewable raw materials with no waste products.

This all could happened because of the metal rhodium, embedded in the anode material absorbs liberated charges and transfers them to the cathode, which releases them again, generating an electric current.

Organometallic fuel cell, a win-win for environment, produces both current and useful chemicals.

Los Angeles is too bright to get fresh air during nights.

According to the research carried out by US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the reason for non availabilty of fresh air in Los Angeles during night may be its high-fly, flash lifestyle of the building.

Los Angeles is too bright to get fresh air during nights.

Brangelina to marry in Hindu way in Royal Rajasthan?

According to media reports from various sources, the popular Hollywood un-official Mom and Dad to become official Mom and dad? Hmmm.... confused i am talking about the most gossiped Hollywood's couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Media reports suggest that may soon tie knot in Hindu ritual way in Rajasthan, India and join the popular celebrity bandwagon to mark the Big Indian Fat wedding.

Brangelina to marry in Hindu way in Royal Rajasthan?

Rabbit have been named the "most costly invasive species", costing 260 million pounds to Britain's economy.

Do you know that the cute, little, fluffy, red eyed rabbits cost a whopping 260 million pounds worth the damage to various properties in Britain, according to the research done in England, Wales and Scotland by CABI, an international agriculture and environment organisation.

Rabbit have been named the "most costly invasive species", costing 260 million pounds to Britain's economy.

Julian Assange out of jail, gets conditional bail.

Merry time for the Assange fans. Assange, out of jail after British judge granted him conditional bail and said that the Assange must abide by strict bail conditions.

One behalf of Swedish authorities, British police arrested the 39-year-old Assange and held in a London prison for a week.

Julian Assange out of jail, gets conditional bail.

Quantum-dot light emitting diode (QLED) to succeed OLEDs and LCDs?

A new type of display is being developed by group consisting of US, South Korean and Belgian corporates.

Quantum-dot light emitting diode (QLED) displays is being developed to outplace the organic light emitting diode (OLED) and LCD, that may be the future of display, seen on every computer and smartphones.

Quantum-dot light emitting diode (QLED) to succeed OLEDs and LCDs?

Medication for the recovery of health Immune system found by US researchers

A key element to restore the liveliness and the aging process of immune system is said to be identified by UCSF researcher, published by Journal Clinical Immunology.

A low dose of the drug lenalidomide can stimulate the body's immune-cell protein , which decrease production during aging, and rebalance the levels of several key cytokines, is identified by the team which researched on the cell of the blood.

Medication for the recovery of health Immune system found by US researchers

We fall more ill than we did 10 years ago: Study

We have seen increase in life expectancy, but not in perfect health, according to researcher published in the the Journal of Gerontology.

By giving an example, a 20-year-old today can expect to live one less healthy year over his or her lifespan than a 20-year-old a decade ago.

We fall more ill than we did 10 years ago: Study

Love chinese soup? Here comes the 2,400-year-old soup, uncovered by chinese archaeologists.

Ancient bowl made of bronze with soup inside it was discovered by Chinese archaeologists, believed to be 2,400-year-old.

The sealed cooking vessel contained liquid and bones was dug up near the ancient capital of Xian, which was china's ancient capital for more than 1,100 years and home to terracotta warriors dating 475-221BC.

Love chinese soup? Here comes the 2,400-year-old soup, uncovered by chinese archaeologists.

Spammers feeding on Gawker exposed twitter accounts.

A Group of hackers which cracked into Gawker's Media database published the 1.3 million account passwords via file sharing site Bittorrent.

This attack is said to be carried out by a group "Gnosis", allied to 4chan.

Spammers feeding on Gawker exposed twitter accounts.

Anonymous says, won't harm individuals but will target those who go against Wikileaks.

BBC got a chance to interview one of the member of Wikileaks.

'Coldblood', a member of the group Anonymous, tells why he views its attacks on Visa and Mastercard as defence of Wikileaks.

The Anonymous groups says that they are an average net citizens but not hackers but felt motivated to act against the injustice done to Wikileaks which is widely being targeted by Big corporates under the pressure of Govts. The group said it had no interest in stealing credit card details or attacking critical infrastructure.

Anonymous says, won't harm individuals but will target those who go against Wikileaks.

Rcom 3G service at selected cities in India goes live.

Reliance communication is the second private player to start 3G services in India by launching its 3G services in four circles making on 13th Dec.

The for four circles which RCom has launched the service are has a dense mobile subscription and are high spenders which includes three metros Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata and other in Chandigarh.

Rcom 3G service at selected cities in India goes live.

$$$CASH$$$, pay $285 to stay for a day at world largest buliding 'Burj Khalifa'

Like to see how the world looks when you are top of the world??? Just shell out $285 per day to feel how enjoy the view of dubai from the high up of Burj.

An online company offering an apartment for rent @ $285 to spend a night at the world's tallest tower. The room is fully furnished with air conditioners, wireless Wi-Fi access point and work desks with PCs, can accommodate a maximum of four persons with a double bed and two sofa beds.

$$$CASH$$$, pay $285 to stay for a day at world largest buliding 'Burj Khalifa'

Japan's Cyberdyne, exoskeleton comes to rescue disabled people.

We have previously heard about the ReWalk, an exoskeleton offered by Argo medical technologies which cost around $100,000, help the disable to walk themselves with the mechanised motor and sensors. Similarly, Japan's Cyberdyne is also offering for the disabled.

This robot exoskeleton is produced by Japanese's firm Hybrid Assistive Limb(HAL), works by anticipating and supporting the user's body movements using sensors monitoring electric signals sent from the brain to the muscles.

Japan's Cyberdyne, exoskeleton comes to rescue disabled people.

Aerial and underwater BrahMos cruise missile are ready, to be trialed in 2011, 2012

BrahMos cruise missile, product of BrahMos Aerospace, an Indo-Russian joint venture, says that they are ready with the prototype of aerial and underwater versions of a supersonic cruise missile.

Due to the absence of launching platform, the prototypes awaits for the test. And are expected to tested early next year for the under water version and for the air-borne version is likely to be held in 2012.

Aerial and underwater BrahMos cruise missile are ready, to be trialed in 2011, 2012

AVG anti virus sends update which crashed Microsoft Window's PC.

AVG, popular anti virus software provider has acknowledged that the computers running the 64-bit version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system could be freezed if users install the latest anti-virus software update from AVG, which was made available to users Dec 1.

A patch by AVG can send some 64-bit Windows 7 machines into a crash cycle, forcing a reboot of the computer from which it never restarts, caused by one particular virus database update, which automatically forces the computer to reboot in order to let the update take affect. Upon restarting, the computer will register an error and will not complete the boot cycle.

AVG anti virus sends update which crashed Microsoft Window's PC.

AMD India developes powerful fusion chip Ontario.[Update]

AMD India Managing Director and Corporate Vice-President Dasaradha R Gude 'GD' displaying the AMD Ontario Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

Indian division of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) designed and developed a new fusion chip named 'Ontario', which is combo of both central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) and it is said to be 3x more powerful and economical compared to its competitors.

Developed at AMD Hyderabad, India, Ontario took shape after two year of hard work and research by a team of 90 members.

AMD India developes powerful fusion chip Ontario.[Update]

India's first police case registered via facebook.

Kanpur Police was the first police station in India to register an FIR through Facebook. It's is not surprising as we had heard many incidents past, involving popular social networking sites like twitter and facebook delivering court judgement and as well as used in divorce related cases.

A Facebook user Tabish Ahmad, reported about his lost bag which contained important documents to the Kohna Station via facebook profile page. Police acted fast and started investigation as the user droped his address and phone no. during filing the report.

India's first police case registered via facebook.

Marriage prevents antisocial behavior in Men: STUDY

In a new study led by a Michigan State University, researcher found that married men tend to behave less antisocially.

For their study, They took sample of genetically identical twins and their lifestyle. The researchers examined the data of 289 pairs of male twins. The twins were assessed four times, at ages 17, 20, 24 and 29.

Marriage prevents antisocial behavior in Men: STUDY

Ants inspires researchers to solve future algorithms .

Towers of Hanoi maths puzzle into a maze

Ants capability to find the shortest route find the exit of maze with in an hour and to find the second shortest route when the first path was obstructed inspires the researcher for future computation.

Published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, University of Sydney researchers have shown that the tiny ant is capable of solving complex mathematical problems. Researchers says, this will help computer engineers to develop efficient programming for the software to solve logistical problems and maximise efficiency in many human industries.

Ants inspires researchers to solve future algorithms .

Electromagnetic Canon successfully test fired by US Navy, travels 5x speed of sound.

US Navy successfully test fires it's futuristic canon. On Dec 10, US Navy announced successful test firing of an electromagnetic cannon capable of firing a projectile 200 kms at five times the speed of sound.

This was tested at the Navy's Dahlgren Surface Warfare Center in Virginia.

This futuristic weapon uses powerful physical shock of electric current to propel a non-explosive slug along rails before launching it at very high velocities (2x+ speed of sound).

Electromagnetic Canon successfully test fired by US Navy, travels 5x speed of sound.

Vatican bank comes under money laundering shadow .

Institute for Religious Works is a bank which is dedicated to priest where he enjoys several privileges.

During the investigation of money laundering case which led to seizure of Euro 23 million ($30 million) in Vatican assets in september, the vatican bank came under harsh scrutiny by Italian policia.

Vatican bank comes under money laundering shadow .

Spain comes to road in support of Wikileaks, next Amsterdam and Latin America?

According to spanish language website free wikileaks, more than 100 demonstrated outside the British Embassy in Spain's capital Madrid on 11 Dec to protest the detention of Julian Assange, Wikileak founder, and the closure of its Swiss bank account.

Protester wore mask of hero of the popular Hollywood movie "V for Vendetta"

It also said that protests were due to be held in Barcelona, Valencia and Seville and three other Spanish cities.

Spain comes to road in support of Wikileaks, next Amsterdam and Latin America?

Indian Govt launches a website for Online submission for Indian Citizenship

With new online system, which India has introduced for faster, easier processing of the applications for grant of Indian citizenship.

Home ministry says, I will show its transparency by this system. With this new system, helps in creating a centralised database of citizenship applications .

Indian Govt launches a website for Online submission for Indian Citizenship

Major Tech co. in bid to grab candian mobi gaint Nortel.

According to Reuters unnamed sources, many mobile related companies gonna show their interest in Nortel Mobile buyout.

Filed bankruptcy protection back in June 2009, has approx 4,000 patents worth over $1 billion. We may seen apple and google going aggressive on this bid. Blackberry's RIM, Motorola and other may also show their interest in Nortel's wide range of portfolio.

Major Tech co. in bid to grab candian mobi gaint Nortel.

New polymers which has ability to rebuild itself when exposed to light found.

Polymer of new type, new form of "shape memory polymers" was found. Whats new is that it have the ability to regenerate to its previous form once damaged. This all happens because of embedded fiber optics.

Worked by engineer Henry Sodano's team at Arizona State University, here it is how its works.

New polymers which has ability to rebuild itself when exposed to light found.

Organic content used by Japanese researchers for making of nano materials.

New breakthrough in making on nanostructure materials by Japanese researchers.

Pyrroles, which are essential components of our red hemoglobin in our blood and as well as the green chlorophyll in plants.

Researchers led by Hiromitsu Maeda at Risumeikan University used pyrrole molecular motif in the construction of new nanostructured materials.

Organic content used by Japanese researchers for making of nano materials.

Bacterial strain to develop increase in ethanol biofuel developed by US Bio engineers.

With an increase in responsibility to switch to eco fuel, Bioengineers from US developed a modified version of a strain of bacteria which has capability to increase its ethanol production.

Published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, their research reveals how adaptation and metabolic engineering can be combined for strain improvement.

Bacterial strain to develop increase in ethanol biofuel developed by US Bio engineers.

What make you to spend more time on Gaming?

Researcher are finding a way a create a good improved life by studying some aspects of gaming.

Jane McGonigal, a game designer and researcher at the Institute for the Future is in a team of researchers who are studying and understanding more about gaming mentality. According to NYTimes articles, an average 21-year-old American has spent 10,000 hours playing computer games.

What make you to spend more time on Gaming?

'Secret ingredient' in religion which gives life satisfaction found.

Researchers comes up with a study showing relationship between life satisfactions and religion.

It is believed that life satisfaction can be attained only by accepting and appreciation of the almighty god. But the researchers differs, they say that it's the social aspects not the theology or spiritualism which leads to one's life satisfaction, says Chaeyoon Lim, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who led the study.

'Secret ingredient' in religion which gives life satisfaction found.

Using lasers, scientist measures the viscosity(stickiness) of a gas(sixth state of matter)

Scientist have found out a new way to measure the viscosity i.e., stickiness in general term with the help of ultra-cold Fermi gas of lithium-6 atoms in this case, embedded to laser light.

This experiment can be considered as a big breakthrough in science because, the measurements verify that it can be used as scale model of exotic matter like super-high temperature superconductors, the nuclear matter of neutron stars, and even the state of matter created microseconds after the Big Bang.

Using lasers, scientist measures the viscosity(stickiness) of a gas(sixth state of matter)

Countries may not attend Nobel Prize cermony at Oslo due to China pressure

Due to Chinese pressure, at least 19 countries have declined to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Defying Chinese, 44 countries are going to attend, according to a revised guest list from the organisers and officials.

Countries may not attend Nobel Prize cermony at Oslo due to China pressure

What did people searched on Google in the year 2010

As the year 2010 is near to its end, Google comes up with Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched

What did people searched on Google in the year 2010

Openleaks, rival to Wikileaks by Ex-Wikileaks members.

Have you ever heard of Openleaks?? No ? Soon you will be listing to it. In order to protest against Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, a group of Ex-WikiLeaks collaborators are launching a new campaigning site next week, a Swedish newspaper said on Thursday.

The aim of the Openleaks founders is to build strong, transparent platform to support whistleblowers, both in terms of technology and politics and encouraging others to take similar projects, reports daily Dagens Nyheter.

Openleaks, rival to Wikileaks by Ex-Wikileaks members.

More than 50% of indian paid bribe in past 12 months : STUDY

According to a study revealed on account of International corruption day says,one in four people worldwide paid a bribe during the past year.

And so called developing India is in top five, thanks to Common Wealth Games scam.

54 per cent Indians say they hari patti(money) to authorities to get things done quickly and with out fuss.

More than 50% of indian paid bribe in past 12 months : STUDY

Who is Julian Assange ? Know him......

The talk of the internet right now is Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder. All started noting him after the release of some million classified, unclassified US diplomatic chats to the world letting out the inside talk of US diplomatic officials.

Now, most of us would like to know more about Julian Assange including me, so with some net search here is what i got to know about Assange.

Julian Assange, (Australian journalist,publisher,hacker and Internet activist) was born in Townsville, Australia, in July 3rd 1971, spent his youth life in Magnetic Island.

Who is Julian Assange ? Know him......

Indian lead astromers finds a plants which may be diamond-studded.

Wow........ Astronomers led by Indian American Nikku Madhusudhan, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) alumnus now at Princeton University is said to have discovered a giant planet with an atmosphere and core dominated by carbon, raising the prospect that diamond-studded stars may exist.

He and his colleagues have observed that an extremely hot planet discovered last year has more carbon than oxygen, a feature never observed on a planet until now.

Indian lead astromers finds a plants which may be diamond-studded.

Group of hackers (Anonymous) describes Julian Assange as a 'free-speech martyr', hacks the sites which turned against Wikileaks.

Julian Assange has become a good role model as hacker(ethical), despite pressure and fear of life from one of the powerful nation in the world, regardless fear, published the secret talks the US talks with its non-allies as well as with it close allies, not sparing any one.

Hackers, a group from less then 50 grew to strong 4,000 member cyber army and strongly growing, in support of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks.

Group of hackers (Anonymous) describes Julian Assange as a 'free-speech martyr', hacks the sites which turned against Wikileaks.

One of Assange's rape accuser is said to have ties with US's CIA : The Raw Story

Many have opinion that US had a bigger hand in Assange arrest but no credible proof.... Since, a rape can't garner an international and interpol arrest warrent in such a short span of time.

A US Website 'The Raw Story' comes up with an article showing relation between Assange arrest and US involvement. According to that article, one of Assange's rape accuser had ties with US's CIA.

One of Assange's rape accuser is said to have ties with US's CIA : The Raw Story

Delhites leads at online shopping, Mumbaikers next......

Seem like shop with click expanding at rapid rate in India. eBay had revealed stats show who shops how much. According to data, India's capital lead in the eCommerce who love to shops Music CDs followed by Mumbai who shop for formal dresses and bought the most accessories like belts, buckles, ...

Mumbai entrepreneurs sold the most technology gadgets at 47 per cent of all transactions to buyers in India and lifestyle scored on the exports front at 50 per cent of all transactions.

Delhites leads at online shopping, Mumbaikers next......

Australia backs Assange, blames US for cables leak

In an interview to Reuters, backing its own country man, the Australian government blamed the USA, not the Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, for the unauthorised release of secret US diplomatic cables.

Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd blasted at US security over the cables.

"Mr (Julian) Assange is not himself responsible for the unauthorised release of 250,000 documents from the US diplomatic communications network," Rudd told Reuters in an interview.

Australia backs Assange, blames US for cables leak

Hackers hacks the website of lawyer representing the so called victim of Assange bad behavior.

Seem like Wikileaks is not alone in opening the Govts. After surrendering to UK police, Assange application for the bail was rejected by London Court, due to strong opposition.

Looks like one of Assange fan got frustrated and hacked the Internet site and email service of the lawyer representing two Swedish women at the centre of rape and sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Hackers hacks the website of lawyer representing the so called victim of Assange bad behavior.

If Popular Tech Companies were Celebrities (Indian).....

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This is inspired by "If Web browsers were celebrities", now this is desi isstyle :)

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If Popular Tech Companies were Celebrities (Indian).....

China to have its own Peace award to counter Nobel Peace Prize. Will it work?

We all know that china are good at cloning thing, from top notch gadgets to italia designer bags, we all see, we all love it as they are affordable and cheap.

In order to protest and counter the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Xhin liu, a group of Chinese professors are going to launch the Confucius Peace Prize, doing the same .

China to have its own Peace award to counter Nobel Peace Prize. Will it work?

Loan recovery agents turns to Social networking site to neck defaulters with luring profiles.

Many incidents in India tell us that social networking is helping the recovery agents to track the untraceable loan defaulters, thus necking them and extorting or seizing their things( car in case of car loans).

According to a a media reports, Loan recovery agency trace the defaulter on social networking site. A girl is hired, paying Rs.5000( approx $100) for each successful case cracked. Then the girl creates a fake profile with luring content, adds the defaulter on the networking site, and encouraged him to meet her for a date at a high-end restaurant. And extracting the money from the defaulters.

Loan recovery agents turns to Social networking site to neck defaulters with luring profiles.

Electric Shocks to the rescue of Tumour patients.

A painful but effective way of treating tumor is found out by a team of researchers. By this method, using a device electric shock is given to the tumor which becomes softens before chemotherapy.

Due to electric shocks, cancer cells become porous so that more of the toxic drugs attack the tumor than healthy cells.

Electric Shocks to the rescue of Tumour patients.

Dec 7, big day for Google, launches its own broswer based OS notebook and its app store.

The much exiting day for Google lovers, Google debuts it own OS(Operating system), Chrome OS, based on the open-source Chromium OS.

Google launches its first netbook named Cr-48, preloaded with Chrome OS. Google will distribute the laptop through its Chrome OS Pilot Program and for the masses it may be available starting mid 2011.

Dec 7, big day for Google, launches its own broswer based OS notebook and its app store.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange refused bail by London court, vows to fight extradition to Sweden

Bad news for the Wikileaks fans. London court has refused to grant bail to Julian Assange over sexually assault charges and was remanded in custody until 14 December.

A Wikileaks spokesman said the arrest was an attack on media freedom and pledged to continue publishing.

But Assange's lawyer, Mark Stephens said, he will try to apply for bail again.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange refused bail by London court, vows to fight extradition to Sweden

Pollution blocking Sun rays, keeping earth cool and reducing Global warming?

Is pollution in favor of mankind in protecting the earth from global warming? Yes, if the see what the Met Office said.

We know from various, almost more than 20 reputed scientific institutions around the world showed us that global temperatures are higher than ever.

According to the Met Office, there is minimal rise in gradual rise in temperatures over the last 30 years.

Pollution blocking Sun rays, keeping earth cool and reducing Global warming?

Study by OECD ranks developed countries having brighter maths students.

According to recent study by the OECD, Shanghai leads the table with 600 points having good number of students who are good at Maths subject. Where as the Britain has been ranked below the international average .

UK performed worse in maths than any other subject, according to the study.

Study by OECD ranks developed countries having brighter maths students.

Britons booze most, Indians least in the world.

According to survey, Britons booze maximum with the international average of 71% where as Indians drink the least in the world, with just 27 per cent i.e., one third of the Britons.

The survey found nearly one in 10 Britons admits to drinking every day - almost twice the number in France.

Around 41 per cent of Britons drink regularly, more than the nearest rivals in Australia, 27 per cent, and the international average of 17 per cent, the Daily Mail reports.

Britons booze most, Indians least in the world.

No wedding revelry or function is considered complete without Bollywood Item number Munni Badnaam.

At last Arbaaz Khan might be very happy after becoming a successful producer and delivering a big blockbuster movie with the help of brother as well as his wife Munni sorry sorry i mean malaika :P

Munni has become so famous in Pakistan that politicians from leading parties in pakistan using the hit Bollywood item song to take a swipe at one another.

No wedding revelry or function is considered complete without Bollywood Item number Munni Badnaam.

China economic data was 'man made': Wikileaks

Is the economic growth which china is projecting is unreliable? Wikileaks leaked cable tell us that Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, admitted in 2007 that some of the country's economic data was 'man-made' and thus unreliable.

When evaluating the province's economy, Li said he focused on three figures - electricity consumption, volume of rail cargo and the amount of loans issued, a confidential memo released WikiLeaks.

China economic data was 'man made': Wikileaks

Oooooo........... Wikileaks founder Julian Assange surrenders to UK police.

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange surrenders to UK police on a European warrant issued by Sweden over allegations of sex crimes including rape, says London's Metropolitan Police.

He had an international interpol warrant too. Swedish prosecutors issued the arrest order for Assange on suspicion of committing sexual crimes, which he denies.

Oooooo........... Wikileaks founder Julian Assange surrenders to UK police.

ReWalk, Exoskelton for the handicapped who can't walk is out of reach for the common man.

Argo Medical Technologies' ReWalk , which lets the physically handicapped who can't walk can now walk with it. Weighs about seven pounds(3.17 kgs) and has two mechnical leg support with motorized joints and motion sensors, a harness, and a backpack for holding the computer that controls the device and a battery which is said to last three-and-a-half hours.

In can be helpful for those who can't walk on their own due to health issues like digestive, cardiovascular, and circulatory issues.

It is being clinical trialed at US and Israel, and this motorised device costs around $100,000.

ReWalk, Exoskelton for the handicapped who can't walk is out of reach for the common man.

This Traffic camera can make you millionaire if you obey the traffic rules.

An interesting concept The Speed Camera Lottery, a winning project for Volkswagen's Fun Theory series.

According to this concept, the traffic camera tracks the moves and speed of every vehicle and sends challan to fast drivers and enters law-obeying drivers enters into a lottery to win money.

This Traffic camera can make you millionaire if you obey the traffic rules.

After Digitizing the library world, Google opens e-book store.

Criticized by many book author for digitizing their books, and digitizing almost major books across world with the help of libraries,Google now plans to sell it. Google is going to launch its own digital books store.

Formerly known as Google Editions,Google eBooks, is expected to launches in the US on 6 December.

It has over three million e-books to download for a wide range of devices, competing with Amazon and Apple's iBookstore.

After Digitizing the library world, Google opens e-book store.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange personal money gets freezed in Swiss Bank.

One more financial shock for the Wikileaks founder Assange. The Wikileak is loosing its funding at very rapid rate.

Switzerland post office bank, PostFinance, has announced that they had frozen the accounts of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange personal money gets freezed in Swiss Bank.

Indian origin doctor creates World's first artifical kidney.

So there gonna be an end to Dialysis, if the trial of artificial kindey goes through. An Indian-origin researcher cum doctor Shuvo Roy, with his team at the University of California has created the world's first artificial implantable kidney.

Artificial kidney device protoype is made up two parts. First is made up of silicon chips that can filter toxins out of the bloodstream. The filtered material is pumped into the second half of the system which is also made up of silicon chips but coated with human kidney cells. These human kidney cells help reabsorb some of the useful substances like sugars and salts back into the body. It also produces vitamin D and helps regulate blood pressure.

Indian origin doctor creates World's first artifical kidney.

Announcment of Big Business deal between India and France in the next few days?

Since the French President Nicholas Sarkozy is on a official 4 day tour visit to India, huge anticipation in business segment as the two nations may sign an agreement for the purchase of six nuclear reactors from the French nuclear giant Areva.

France hopes to sell the 1,650 MW,Each European Pressurized Reactor or the EPR, is capable of generating 1,650 MW of electricity and cost about 4 billions dollars, which means the deal will be worth $24 billion.

Announcment of Big Business deal between India and France in the next few days?

India' DRDO aims to develop hack-proof websites.

With the repeated Chinese and Pakistan cyber bullying indian website, India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said that it has step a team for developing a mechanism to make websites hacking-proof.

Dr VK Saraswat, Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister and Director General of DRDO, is the man said to be behind the project. He revealed this information on the sidelines of a function where he was conferred with a D. Sc degree by the KIIT University at its annual convocation.

Saraswat described cyber security as a major concern for the nation's safety.

Recently, CBI, India's premiere investigating agency official website was hacked by a group who identified themselves as "Pakistani Cyber Army".

DRDO is developing both software and hardware to put defence networks out of the reach of hackers, he said.

- PTI Inputs

India' DRDO aims to develop hack-proof websites.

17 year school kid from Sikkim designs car based on Electromagnetic induction magnetism (EMIM)

A class XI, seventeen-year-old, Deepak Gupta, a science department student of Jawaharlal Navodya Vidhlaya at Rabong in South Sikkim has come up with eco-friendly vehicle design which works on the principle of electromagnetic induction magnetism (EMIM).

He said that the design has one system in the gear. "By pressing the buttons of the vehicle, one can increase or decrease the speed of the vehicle. With the help of the batteries, we start the dynamo which shall charge the electromagnetic induction motor which gives energy to the vehicle," he said to PTI.

17 year school kid from Sikkim designs car based on Electromagnetic induction magnetism (EMIM)

Sarkozy-Bruni seeks divine help at Fatehpur Sikri, India, prays for son.

Fatehpur Sikri was a city developed by Mughal Emperor, Akbar located at Uttar Pradesh, India. This city was famous for its secularist views, since Akbar gave importance and respect to all the religions.

During the 4 day visit to India, French First Couple visited the famous Fatehpur Sikri dargah of saint Salim Chisthi, walked barefoot with their heads covered and prayed for a son. Similarly offering was done by none other than Mughal Emperor Akbar, centuries ago, later blessed with three sons.

Sarkozy-Bruni seeks divine help at Fatehpur Sikri, India, prays for son.

No more PayPal donations to Wikileaks.

This gonna be a big blow for the whistle blower WikiLeaks. After Amazaon, Paypal has closed it door for the Wikileaks, which gonna effect Wikileaks funding.

This comes after facing increased pressure from world governments.

“PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks (Wikileaks) due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity,” the company said in a statement on its blog. “We’ve notified the account holder of this action.”

No more PayPal donations to Wikileaks.

Search Giant Google own Operating System Chrome OS may be unveiled on Dec 7th.

The much awaited and much hyped project of Google developing their own OS may be out by Dec 7th.

Chrome Team had invited media for this event which is schedule on Dec 7th.

The other announcement by the team may be a Web/app store for Chrome OS .

Search Giant Google own Operating System Chrome OS may be unveiled on Dec 7th.

One Gigabit broadband on trial in Britain: BT(British Telecom)

British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group, has announced plans to trial one gigabit fibre broadband in Suffolk.

It would support the UK government's plan to create the best broadband network in Europe by 2015.

This announcement comes as regulator Ofcom reveals that less than 1% of UK homes have a super-fast broadband connection.

One Gigabit broadband on trial in Britain: BT(British Telecom)

Google pays only $ 1 in settlement over tresspassing.

In a recent lawsuit settlement, Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued.

U.S. District Magistrate Judge Cathy Bissoon on Thursday signed off on a consent judgment, a mutually agreed-upon verdict, between the Mountain View, Calif. company and Aaron and Christine Boring, of Franklin Park.

Google pays only $ 1 in settlement over tresspassing.

Pak spirtual leader openly offers Mosque fund money worth Rs. 5 lakhs for killing Christian Women

A Hardliner controversial Muslim cleric of an historic mosque of Pakistan's Khyber Paktunkhwa province has offered to pay 5 lakh rupees from Mosque fund for killing Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was recently sentenced to death by a court for allegedly committing blasphemy.

Maulana Yusaf Qureshi, the imam of the well-known Mohabat Khan mosque, announced the reward for killing Asia Bibi during his sermon at the Friday prayers.

He announced that he would pay the money to the person who killed "blasphemor Asia Bibi". The payment would be made from the mosque's fund, he said.

Pak spirtual leader openly offers Mosque fund money worth Rs. 5 lakhs for killing Christian Women

India Cricket Captain MS Dhoni sign deal worth $5.7 Million (INR 26 crores)

Recently, MS Dhoni signed a Rs 26 crore endorsement deal with world's second largest spirits firm, the UB Group, the handsome hunk is set to sign up to four more deals soon.

As a part of the recent Rs 26 crore deal with the UB Group, Dhoni will become the brand ambassador for McDowell's soda for a period of three years.

Earlier this year, Rhiti Sports Management along with Mindscapes One, signed a Rs 210 crore deal with Dhoni to manage his endorsements and brand associations.

India Cricket Captain MS Dhoni sign deal worth $5.7 Million (INR 26 crores)

India become third largest Rolls Royce's market in Asia Pacific.

Britain super luxury Auto maker Rolls Royce has said India joined China and Japan in selling its vehicles which are priced up to 4.25 crore rupees, making it third largest seller in Asia Pacific region.

Rolls Royce sold less than 10 units in 2009, expects to sell up to 70 units in 2010 in India.

He said the China tops the list in the region with eight dealerships that sell "hundreds" of cars of the brand. Japan follows with two dealerships.

India become third largest Rolls Royce's market in Asia Pacific.

CWG Bronze medalist insulted by Group-D Railway job.

Para swimmer and Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Prashant Karmakar has accused the Railways of insulting his achievements by rewarding with Group-D Railway job.

Promised a job in the Railways by none other than Railways Minister Mamta Banerjee after his bronze medal.

He felt very insult after he got allocated Group-D job in railways recently.

CWG Bronze medalist insulted by Group-D Railway job.

Airbus with Lufthansa to launch world’s first passenger bio-fuel flights

According to recent press release from Airbus, Lufthansa is launching the world’s first ever scheduled commercial passenger flights using bio-fuel in the first half of 2011, with an IAE (International Aero Engines) powered Airbus A321 aircraft.

The first bio-fuel flight path, daily flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt.

The bio-fuel blend made from 50 per cent Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO)so less CO2 emissions.

Airbus with Lufthansa to launch world’s first passenger bio-fuel flights

After Amazon plug out, Wikileak servers traced to France.

With US Govt Pressurizing Amazon US, helpless Amazon had plug out their server for Wikileaks.

But its not time to worry. According to Gizmodo France, France OVH comes to the rescue of Wikileaks.

Gizmodo France has been able to confirm that the new host is located in the town of Roubaix, France. OVH, who provides internet hosting and collocation services is the biggest internet hosting provider in France, and the second one in Europe.

After Amazon plug out, Wikileak servers traced to France.

Google social product names as Emerald Sea for internal reference: TC

According to research and from sources close to Tech site Tech Crunch, The internal codename for Google’s upcoming social project is “Emerald Sea“.

As one of their sources told , these codenames quickly evolve. As of right now, we’re hearing it’s being called “Google +1″ or “Google Plus One”.

Another source suggests another possible name Google is considering: “@Google” or “At Google”.

Google social product names as Emerald Sea for internal reference: TC

Check out this Tiny Power Generator for the future.

Japanese are good at miniaturizing things. Japanese researchers have made up a tiny coin side kinetic battery capable of generating more energy than than its previous version.

Only the slightest vibrations, the tiny device generates 22 milliwatts — 20x more than its predecessor.

Check out this Tiny Power Generator for the future.

Indian Billionaire, founder of Wipro, Aziz Premji to donate $2 bn for rural education.

One of the Top Indian industrialist, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji said that he will transfer company shares worth Rs 8,846 crore to his endowment trust named Azim Premji Foundation later this month.

"The trust will fund the philanthropic activities of the Foundation and not (for) any other purpose," said Azim Premji Foundation CEO Dileep Ranjekar.

The foundation, which was set up in 2001, works largely for the cause of education in rural India.

Indian Billionaire, founder of Wipro, Aziz Premji to donate $2 bn for rural education.

Nokia servers in India, now its BlackBerry time?

With Indian Govt surveillance on every bit of info passing by any medium or devices and adding pressure on the respective companies, Nokia has announced installation of a server in India to enable security agencies lawfully intercept its email and messenger services.

Nokia India Vice President and MD D Shivakumar called on Home Secretary G K Pillai today and handed over the letter, saying the company has conformed with all requirements suggested by the law enforcement agencies.

Nokia servers in India, now its BlackBerry time?

Some Women from Spain claims the Ownership of hot glowing Sun and plans to monetize.

A woman from Spain had claimed that the sun belongs to her after she got it registered as her property.

And now she wants to make money from it.

Fortynine-year-old Angeles Duran, a resident of Vigo in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia, applied for ownership of the Sun after she learnt that similar claims had been made by a US national on the Moon, Mars and Venus, the 'Daily Telegraph' reported.

The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prevents any government from staking claim over celestial bodies, but it doesn't extend to private individuals and she was backed by her notary after consulting legal institutions in the country.

Some Women from Spain claims the Ownership of hot glowing Sun and plans to monetize.

New York Times article leads to change in Google search result ranking Algorithm

On Wednesday Google had announced that it had changed the way it ranks search results.

This happened because The New York Times published about the ordeal of Clarabelle Rodriguez, who bought a pair of glasses and contact lenses from DecorMyEyes in July.

The change was prompted by a recent incident involving Vitaly Borker, a Brooklyn-based online seller of eyeglasses. Mr Borker claimed that he purposely shouted at and frightened some of the customers at DecorMyEyes.com because the online complaints actually worked in his favour in Google search results.

New York Times article leads to change in Google search result ranking Algorithm

Facebook offers $85,000 (Rs. 38 lakhs) for Indian graduates

According to IIT-Madras, Social networking website Facebook has offered up to $85,000 (approximately Rs 38 lakh) per annum salaries to IIT-Madras students during placements this year.

“About 100 students have applied for the interview and officials from Facebook are interviewing students from the United States through Skype,” said N. Ramesh Babu, advisor (training and placement), IIT-M.

“The students were asked to solve a puzzle in Facebook before taking the interview.”

Facebook offers $85,000 (Rs. 38 lakhs) for Indian graduates

It Official, India crossed 687.71 million mobile subscriptions

Before 30-sept 2010, India added 17.10 million mobile subscribers making the total number of mobile users to 687.71 million according to official data.

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the wireless phone user base grew 2.55 percent to 687.71 million in September, from 670.60 million in the previous month.

With this, the total telephone subscriber base in the country, both wireless and wireline, touched 723.28 million. The total telephone density reached 60.99 percent.

It Official, India crossed 687.71 million mobile subscriptions

One out of five divorce , facebook is the cause:Survey

Here is another interesting or shocking, depends on how you take it. According to survey, In US one in five divorces in the US is due to involvement of the popular social networking sites.

This survey was carried out by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported that the rise in clients that use social media for evidence of cheating.

Flirty messages and photographs found on Facebook are increasingly being cited as proof of unreasonable behavior or irreconcilable differences.

One out of five divorce , facebook is the cause:Survey

Soon the word 'face' will be trademark of 'facebook'.

U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has sent the social networking site, facebook a Notice of Allowance, which says they have agreed to grant the word 'Face' as trademark to the facebook under some certain conditions.

All Facebook needs to do is pay the issue fee within three months and the “Face” trademark will be issued and be published in the official USPTO gazette and everything.

Soon the word 'face' will be trademark of 'facebook'.

Naked man coming out of cars trunk caught on Google's street view

Here is an another blizzard image caught on the popular Google's Street view. I wonder what this naked man was doing hiding in the back trunk of the Mercedez car. It was captured in Manheim, Germany. Upon, discovery was removed.

Src: [CNET]

Naked man coming out of cars trunk caught on Google's street view

This Bakrid, 180-kg goat was star attraction at Nagpur.

During the sacred festival of millions of Muslims, people searching for the best goat for sacrificial to god, a four-feet tall weighing 180 kg grabbed the attention of people in the crowded market in nagpur.

The giant goat, which weighed nearly four times a normal goat. Its owner Nadeem Khan said he had brought it from Chambal, Madhya Pradesh and had been rearing it for over two years, feeding it the best of food and milk.

He said he spent Rs. 400 per day on its care. He sold that goat for whopping around Rs.1.75 lakhs at the market.

This Bakrid, 180-kg goat was star attraction at Nagpur.

China upgrades to Electronic passport.

epassport logo

Recently, China has unveiled its first ever electronic passports that contain embedded microchip containing all the information.

One of the Chinese official says that the adoption of electronic passports complies with international trends and plays an important role in international travel for officials.

The embedded microchip contains personal data including name, family name, personal numeric code, the document's term of validity, the issuing agency and citizenship, China Daily reported.

China upgrades to Electronic passport.

Lungfish and Garfish tooth enamel to create lighter, stronger materials.

Researchers from Queensland University of Technology had found out that the tooth enamel of lungfish and garfish could help create a new material to make lighter aircraft or vehicles.

Team lead by Professor John Barry, physicist from Queensland University of Technology, is on the hunt for new materials that will enable technological advances.

Lungfish and Garfish tooth enamel to create lighter, stronger materials.

Controlled detonable bullet to have maximum impact on enemies.

New type of bullets had been developed which can be programmed to explode when they have travelled a set of distance, having optimum having impact on the enemey. Thats why they are called "smart" bullets.

Fired by XM25 rifle has a range of 2,300 feet, hitting targets well out of the reach of conventional rifles.

The rifle's gunsight uses a laser rangefinder to determine the exact distance to the obstruction, after which the soldier can add or subtract up to three metres from that distance to enable the bullets to clear the barrier and hit the target.

Controlled detonable bullet to have maximum impact on enemies.