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.

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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.

Second hand smoke kills 600,000 people per year :WHO

According to estimation by World Health Organisation(WHO) researchers, one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking.

In the first study to assess the global impact of second-hand smoke, WHO experts found that children are more heavily exposed to second-hand smoke than any other age-group, and around 165,000 of them a year die because of it.

Second hand smoke kills 600,000 people per year :WHO

Skype soon to be seen intergrated with facebook?

What happen when two popular things combine? The become much more popular and powerful.

How about this world's leading VOIP provider integrating with worlds leading social networking site? Yay Yay i am talking about Skype and facebook.

Rumors are doing round that soon Facebook might add Skype video chat functionality within the social networking site.

Facebook application developer Tal Ater has rekindled speculation around the idea in spotting a “VideoChat” object in Facebook’s code.

Skype soon to be seen intergrated with facebook?

Is Wi-fi making the trees sick?

According to study carried out by Dutch university, They observe that Wi-Fi radiation are causing unknown abnormalities in trees.

The dutch city of Alphen aan den Rijn started this study 5 years ago to figure out why their city's trees were developing weird growths, according to PC World.

The study, conducted by a researcher at Wageningen University, found that 70 percent of trees in urban areas exhibited similar symptoms today, while only 10 percent did five years ago. What's to blame for the increase? Wi-Fi, maybe.

Is Wi-fi making the trees sick?

BBC Panorama exposes 3 top senior FIFA officials in bribery scandal.

In programme broadcast by BBC on Monday evening, Panorama reported that three senior Fifa officials who will vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids took bribes in the 1990s.

Ricardo Teixeira, Issa Hayatou and Nicolas Leoz took the money from a sport marketing firm awarded lucrative World Cup rights, the programme alleges.

BBC Panorama exposes 3 top senior FIFA officials in bribery scandal.

Should Wikileaks be treated as Terrorist Organisation?

With the release huge cache of classified and unclassified files by Wikileaks which showed the world the secret dirty side of US Diplomatic world which even targeted major international figures and created global diplomatic crisis with its own allies.

Now after reactions form the world are pouring in with the New York congress man Peter King, demanding declaring Wikileaks as a terrorist group.

King, a Republican Representative who will soon chair the House Homeland Security Committee, wants WikiLeaks placed alongside al-Qaeda and Hamas for outlet of huge cache of diplomatic cables.

Should Wikileaks be treated as Terrorist Organisation?

Next Wikileaks will be Big Corporate secrets: Assange

After spilling the beans on US diplomatic secrets, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that the next Wikileaks will be about the Big Corporate secrets in an interview with Forbes.

In an interview to Forbes, Assanage said that the US diplomatic cable cache release is just the beginning. The next wikileak release will about the big American banks.

Next Wikileaks will be Big Corporate secrets: Assange

Again Dubai is home to World's tallest tower. This time its residential tower.

By the end of 2011, Dubai will be home to World's largest residential tower (107-storey) beside the world famous Burj Khalifa.

The 414-metre tall called Princess Tower is located in the city's high-profile Dubai Marina .

According to Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Q1, located on the Gold Coast of Australia, is currently the tallest residential building in the world, standing 323-metre high with 78 floors.

Again Dubai is home to World's tallest tower. This time its residential tower.

Just pay $ 7 (Rs.315) / hour for a nap at Terminal 3 (T3) at Delhi International Airport.

Now instead of taking nap sitting, now you can rest peacefully or take a quick nap at SNOOZE cabins installed T3, Delhi international airport.

It cost you Rs. 315 ($7) an hour to rent a Nap Cabin at T3. Equipped with a bed, a desk, Wi-Fi, a flat screen TV, and a DVD player and cell phone charging sockets gives a luxurious experience.

Just pay $ 7 (Rs.315) / hour for a nap at Terminal 3 (T3) at Delhi International Airport.