Best song forever
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Naina Lagiya barisha .. Heart touching song sang by cute girl with guitar
Nice Song sang by young Girl
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
10 Reasons Why You Should Be Curious
(1) You Will Clarify Yourself – Curiosity allows you to shed light on your troubles, thoughts, and personal circumstances. It motivates you to uncover the truth about the nuances of your life. When curiosity is properly honed, it serves as a vehicle for establishing personal goals.
(2)You Will Uncover the Truth - All that seems obvious in life is not necessarily true. A curious person doesn’t just take someone’s word for it; they discover the truth for themselves. The curious dig deep into the details, and when they finish their detective work, they don’t only know “what” or “when”, they know “how” and “why”.
(3) You Will Release Your Inner Child – Children are curious. They are like an empty canvas, waiting to be filled with knowledge and experiences. They don’t have predetermined expectations fogging their judgment. Children absorb the world around with an open mind driven by sheer curiosity. Curiosity can help open your mind too.
(4) You Will Experience Something Fresh – New experiences are one of the most exciting acts of living. They simulate your mind and free your creative emotion, thus liberating your thoughts from the tension of a daily routine. Be curious, be daring, be alive! Go discover something fresh.
You Will Increase Your Productivity – A curious mind dives beneath the surface of common acceptance to unravel the details driving the process. The more you comprehend the details, the better you will understand the process. Thus, the more productive you will be.
(5) You Will Learn More Often – When your curiosity steers you into the unknown you will return with a greater wealth of knowledge. You will stretch the boundaries of your mind. The more you learn, the more you will want to know. Every new awareness will lead you to another stimulating challenge.
You Will Become More Efficient – Curious people look at a challenge from multiple angles. They discover alternative ways of accomplishing the same task. The greater the pool of possible solutions, the more likely it is that they will expose a better way to get things done.
(6) You Will Increase Your Productivity – A curious mind dives beneath the surface of common acceptance to unravel the details driving the process. The more you comprehend the details, the better you will understand the process. Thus, the more productive you will be.
(7) You Will Experience a Spice of Variety – Variety is the spice of life, at least that’s what the curious folks understand. There is nothing more boring than repetition. When you allow your curiosity to send you in new directions you add variety into your life. This could be as simple as eating at a new restaurant or taking a new route to work. Don’t confine yourself, go explore.
(8) You Will Be More Positive – It is much easier to be negative about something than it is to be positive. If you don’t understand something, or it is unusual to your senses, it’s easy to write it off as being useless or dumb. Only when you truly understand something will you be able to appreciate it. Human beings tend to be more positive toward the things they understand. Curiosity naturally broadens a person’s horizons, and thus their understanding of the things around them.
(9) You Will Become More Efficient – Curious people look at a challenge from multiple angles. They discover alternative ways of accomplishing the same task. The greater the pool of possible solutions, the more likely it is that they will expose a better way to get things done.
(10) You Will Establish New Relationships – Your curiosity will lead you down roads you would otherwise not have traveled. On occasion you will almost certainly want to stop and look around. You never know, you may bump into someone you have a lot in common with
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Track The Progress Of This 3D-Printed OpenRC Truggy, A Remote Control Car Enthusiast’s Dream
If you’re into 3D printable stuff, or into remote-control cars, then the OpenRC Project is for you. A gentleman in Sweden named Daniel Norée is sharing his progress on a 3D-printed Truggy, as well as sharing the recipe with theOpenRC Project group that he created. A truggy is an off-road vehicle, in case you weren’t sure.
The cost of 3D printers is dropping both for at-home use and enterprise, so it’s a very real possibility that consumers all over the world could soon have these devices in their living rooms. Crazier things have happened. We’ve seen 3D-printed iPhone docks, violins, pottery and even a robotic hand for a child.
If you can print out your very own customized remote-control car with one, count me in. While not all of the parts are printable, such as the wheels, for really die-hard remote control car fans, those are parts that they probably have sitting around in the garage already.
Here’s a video that Norée uploaded today that shows some of the schematics behind the parts, and the actual 3D-printing process using one of those fancy MakerBot Replicators:
The project has come a long way in the past few months; here’s a video of an earlier model breaking down:
The project has come a long way in the past few months; here’s a video of an earlier model breaking down:
Saturday, 6 April 2013
HTC And Facebook Confirm They Modified Android To Optimize The “First” Phone For Home
While Facebook’s press event focused on the “Home” app that runs on unforked Androids, HTC and Facebook have confirmed to me they modified Android to give the HTC First phone features not available in the downloadable Home app. This lets the First pipe in email and calendar notifications to its homescreen. And with the Facebook Home Program, other OEMs can get Facebook’s help fiddling with Android.
“Yes we had to implement some framework changes and some hooks to do the system notifications”, explained HTC Partner Manager Michael Goodwin. He tells us “all the things that could appear in your Android notification tray can appear within Facebook Home” thanks to the changes to Android.
During the event, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Director Of Product Adam Mosseri also mentioned during the event that the HTC First was optimized to give the best possible Home experience.
[Update: After the event, I got to sit down with Mosseri, who told me "We didn't fork Android, we extended it. HTC was helpful, and they actually wrote the code. We've worked with OEMs a lot and we pre-load a lot but we've created new APIs with a partner before but they were pretty convenient." He then compared Google's openness to Apple's reliability, explaining "Apple and Android have taken very different approaches. Apple's want to ensure quality with control. I love iPhones, but Androids afford more opportunity. That's good and bad. There's more risk. People could make bad experience with [Android].”
These details confirm the intel from my sources last week that Facebook would debut an HTC handset running a modified version of Android that would give it extra functionality. The HTC First isnow available for pre-order for $99.99 from AT&T, and will ship on April 10th for arrival on April 12th.
HTC’s President Jason Mackenzie explained why HTC put in this extra effort to optimize Home for the First. “It’s to provide a consistent experience. To offer the easiest, simplest solution for the customer. They shouldn’t have to get Chat Heads or messages from Facebook one way, and find out if you have text messages or email some other way. This delivers on Facebook and Mark’s vision of bringing your friends to the forefront instead of the applications.”
Home from Google Play only shows Facebook content on the homescreen, whereas on the HTC First and its flavor of Android you can get Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook email, info about available Wi-Fi networks, and more notifications fed into your homescreen. Additionally, on the HTC First, you’ll be able to swipe up to to show your app shortcuts, and then swipe right to reveal a Google Search bar that doesn’t exist in the downloadable version of Home.
So in fact, the “Facebook Phone” by HTC will offer a less-exclusively Facebook experience than just downloading the Facebook Home app for standard Androids.
Now the question is what do other handset makers will do? Facebook has created the Facebook Home Program for OEMs, which “gives partners access to Facebook resources and partnership guidelines, helping them create a high quality Facebook experience for their customers.” Facebook’s goal is to partner with more OEMs to get Android customized for more phones. That could put “Facebook Phones” in more stores, potentially earn the social network some cash if they sell well, and get more people using Facebook all day long.
Microsoft Tells Facebook It Already Made A People-First Phone, Calling The Whole Concept Into Question
Microsoft is maybe a little jealous of the spotlight shone on Facebook yesterday for its Facebook Home announcement. In a new blog post today, Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft used some mild snark and mostly gentle prodding to complain about how his company had already done what Facebook was trying to do on smartphones, which sadly only reinforces the fact that no one had noticed.
The post is mostly a series of questions, which basically suggest that Facebook was asking the same ones when it came up with Facebook Home, but which Microsoft had already answered two years ago with the initial release of Windows Phone 7.5, where it actually employed the tagline “Put people first.”
Shaw glibly says that he checked the calendar to determine whether or not it was somehow still 2011, and obliquely compared the FB Home announcement to an April Fools’ joke, but the real punchline is in how a so-called “people-” centric approach to mobile has worked so far, and both Microsoft and Facebook end up looking the worse for it.
The whole argument of the post is based on the idea that Facebook Home merely accomplishes what Windows Phone already offers, but in a way that requires fewer sacrifices. Facebook Home is “another skin built around another metaphor, on top of what is already a custom variant of the OS,” Shaw argues, and to some extend he’s right. Windows Phone offers a lot of features taken from Facebook Home, baked right into the stock, native OS, including unified messaging and social feeds that put friend social activity front-and-center.
The problem is, Windows Phone hasn’t yet made a significant dent in the smartphone market, as you can tell from the most recent U.S. comScore numbers. Buyers so far haven’t embraced a “people-first” vision of a smartphone platform, at least as espoused by Microsoft. And in my own experience using a Nokia 920, I found that the social aspects didn’t really draw me in or make me feel any more socially engaged – surfacing social updates just reminded me how largely disconnected I actually am from the majority of people in my Facebook stream, in fact.
Microsoft may have wanted to spark consumer interest by piggy-backing on the high profile of yesterday’s Facebook Home announcement, but the net effect was actually to just leave me more skeptical about Facebook’s attempt to provide a similar experience. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about a people-first approach replacing an app-centric model, but if Windows Phone is the only example we have to go on so far of how that turns out, then the prognosis for Facebook Home isn’t all that good.
Audi And T-Mobile Bring New Data Plans To Drivers As Low As $15/Month
T-Mobile has always been the data provider behind Audi’s Connect infotainment system, which some would call the best connected car system on the market.
But the two companies have announced some new data plans which could help Audi owners save a buck or two on connectivity.
The new plans let customers purchase unlimited data for $30 month-to-month, or sign up for yearly contracts at a discount — $324 for a year, $600 for two years, or $450 for 30 months. That last one brings your monthly cost as low as $15 per month, and even less if you count the 6-month free trial the car comes with.
Previously, Audi Connect owners were limited to a $30 month-by-month payment.
This is yet another step toward connected car ubiquity. Almost every car manufacturer is looking at how they can better integrate our digital lives with our driving lives. And though it’s changing rapidly, the car industry isn’t going anywhere.
Companies like Ford and BMW have already opened up their systems to third-party developers, and more OEMs are sure to follow suit.
But before developers can start thinking past the mobile ecosystem, and even past wearables like Google Glass, into the future of the connected car, more OEMs need to take a note from Audi and ensure that wifi-enabled drivers are getting the most bang for their buck.
Audi’s system includes SiriusXM radio, Google Earth and Google Voice, and a full host of apps like weather, news, etc
Virality Is The X-Factor Of Mobile-First Business Apps
CUSTOMER ACQUISITION MODELS FOR CONSUMER APPS
First, let’s examine the methods consumer app developers have used to efficiently acquire large user bases and why business app developers cannot leverage the same techniques.
Obviously, consumer apps have a large target audience, as everyone with a smartphone is a potential customer. As a result, the size of the target audience is capable of generating enough web and app-store search volume to build an initial customer base for apps. Plus, the undifferentiated nature of consumers means that cross-promotional advertising on consumer apps can be a very effective and efficient user-acquisition technique.
For example, an advertisement for a mobile game can appear on any mobile app, and the end user is always a potential target. On the contrary, the target audiences for business apps are often much smaller and may be focused on a particular vertical niche, such as doctors or real estate professionals. As a result of the smaller target audience, business apps do not see a sufficient level of web and app-store search volume. Further, cross-promotional advertising is much less effective because of the niche target audiences. For example, less than 1 percent of U.S. smartphone users are doctors, which makes it very difficult to target that vertical with display ads.
Lastly, consumer app developers with deep pockets have been known to game app store rankings. At the launch of a new consumer app, the developer can pay for downloads through services, such as Chartboost and Tapjoy, until they crack the top 25 of an app store. At that point, their visibility on the app store leaderboard increases their discoverability to the point where organic downloads can take over. Given their smaller target market, mobile-first business apps simply cannot compete with consumer apps for space in app-store rankings (there are no business apps in the iOS Top 50 as of this writing).
BUILDING VIRALITY INTO ENTERPRISE APPS
Now that we’ve explored what is not working for enterprise mobile apps, let’s focus on what is working: designing your product work flows to drive direct exposure to new potential users and building in opportunities for indirect referrals through word-of-mouth virality.
Dropbox is the quintessential paradigm of designing virality into a product. Users are incentivized to refer Dropbox because they receive free additional storage for doing so. Additionally, the act of sharing a file with a friend inherently exposes Dropbox to new potential users and serves as a trigger for customers to talk about the service.
Building on the lessons learned from Dropbox, there are three techniques that emerging mobile-first business app developers are using to build virality into their products: triggers, incentives and workflow.
THERE ARE THREE TECHNIQUES THAT EMERGING MOBILE-FIRST BUSINESS APP DEVELOPERS ARE USING TO BUILD VIRALITY INTO THEIR PRODUCTS.
Triggers are events that spur an action. In this particular context, triggers are actions that an app user takes that provide for an opportunity to discuss the application. Expensify, a mobile app for business users to submit expense reports, has built in two word-of-mouth referral triggers: 1) every time a user takes a picture of a receipt for expense reporting, they are triggered to talk about the app with the coworkers or clients present; 2) the act of submitting an expense report triggers an explanation of the product to the person approving the report.
Friday, 5 April 2013
Delhi Police investigating Google's 'Mapathon' mapping contest
The police are investigating to determine whether U.S. Internet Google Inc violated rules in a competition that asked users to add information about their local areas for its online map services after a government agency raised security concerns.
Google, which ran the "Mapathon" in India in February and March, said its aim was to make more local information accessible to all and that it did not break any laws.
Police are acting on a complaint filed by Survey of India, the country's national survey and mapping agency, which said the contest was illegal and may threaten national security.
"One complaint has been received and we are forwarding it to the cybercell for further action," said Chhaya Sharma, a deputy commissioner of police in New Delhi.
Google officials said the company had not yet received an official communication from the police.
Google invited users to help "create better maps for India" by adding knowledge of their neighbourhoods and promised the top 1,000 mappers prizes of tablets, smartphones and gift vouchers.
Survey of India first wrote to Google saying its "Mapathon" was against rules and then filed a police complaint, R.C. Padhi, a top official at the agency, told Reuters.
"We have to ensure that security is not compromised at any cost," Padhi said, adding that some information uploaded on Google Maps could be "sensitive".
Google is open to discussing specific concerns over the issue with public authorities in India, Paroma Roy Chowdhury, a company spokeswoman in India said in a statement.
"Google takes security and national regulations very seriously, and the Mapathon adhered to applicable laws," Roy Chowdhury said.
Latest in series of disputes
The investigation is the latest in a series of disputes between various governments and Google over privacy and security issues involving its popular mapping products.
In March, Google agreed to pay $7 million in the United States to settle an investigation into an incident in which its Street View mapping cars allegedly collected passwords and other personal data from home wireless networks between 2008 and 2010.
In 2011, city police in Bangalore ordered Google to suspend a Street View service over security concerns, three weeks after the company started collecting images from the city.
Tarun Vijay, a lawmaker from main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, last month complained to the government over the "Mapathon" contest.
"Will we allow any Indian organisation to invite people for mapping their localities and have entire data stored in USA? Special to Google?," Vijay wrote on the Twitter social networking site on March 20.
"If there is a law, it has to be followed. I have asked whether Google followed the law," Vjay told Reuters on Friday, after meeting India's defence and interior ministers over the issue. "I have taken up that they should be acting urgently."
Separately, Google and other social media companies are also fighting a criminal case brought by an Indian journalist related to allegedly "offensive" content on their web sites.
Mobile phones: from ‘brick’ to slick
Updated: Thu, Apr 04 2013. 11 40 PM IST
Mumbai: Today’s cellphone is nothing like the one which Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, developed for use on a cellular network and on which he made his first call on 3 April 1973, to his rival, Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. The “brick” or “shoe”, as the hand phone was called, weighed over a kilogram and was 10 inches long. In contrast, today’s cellphones are very slim and have chips that rival those in laptops and personal computers (PCs). Of course, some smartphones also cost as much.
A cellphone is actually an extremely sophisticated radio, but a radio nonetheless. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, and wireless communication can trace its roots to the invention of the radio by Nikola Tesla in the 1880s (formally presented in 1894 by a young Italian named Guglielmo Marconi). It was only natural that these two great technologies would eventually be combined
Both walkie-talkies and citizen band, or CB, radios are half-duplex devices. That is, two people communicating on a CB radio use the same frequency, so only one person can talk at a time. A cellphone is a full-duplex device. That means that you use one frequency for talking and a second, separate frequency for listening. The power consumption of the cellphone, which is normally battery-operated, is relatively low. Low power means small batteries and this is what has made handheld cellular phone possible.
GSM feature phones, the most popular variety—as opposed to CDMA (code division multiple access) ones (for instance, the ones used by Reliance Communications Ltd)—require a small microchip called a Subscriber Identity Module or SIM Card, to function. The SIM card is approximately the size of a small postage stamp (today’s micro-SIMs and nano-SIMs, used in some smartphones, are even tinier) and is usually placed underneath the battery in the rear of the unit. The SIM securely stores the service-subscriber key (IMSI) and allows users to change phones by simply removing the SIM card from one mobile phone and inserting it into another. The first SIM card was made in 1991 by Munich smart card maker Giesecke and Devrient for the Finnish wireless network operator Radiolinja. A hybrid mobile phone can hold up to four SIM cards.
SIM and RUIM (Removable User Identity Module) cards may be mixed together to allow both GSM and CDMA networks to be accessed, popular in countries such as India.
Today’s smartphones take advantage of third generation or 3G technology which have potential transfer speeds of up to 3 Mbps (about 15 seconds to download a three-minute MP3 song). Compared with that, the fastest 2G phones can achieve up to 144Kbps (about eight minutes to download a three-minute song). None of this would be possible without towers that carry cellphone signals from phone to phone.
India also has the speedier 4G services in some metros being offered by telecom operators such asBharti Airtel Ltd. In March 2008, the International Telecommunications Union-Radio communications sector (ITU-R) specified a set of requirements for 4G standards, named the International Mobile Telecommunications-Advanced (IMT-Advanced) specification, setting peak speed requirements for 4G service at 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s) for high mobility communication (such as from trains and cars) and 1 gigabit per second (Gbit/s) for low mobility communication (such as pedestrians and stationary users).
Since the first-release versions of Mobile WiMAX (which failed in India) and LTE (long term evolution) support much less than 1 Gbit/s peak bit rate, they are not fully IMT-Advanced compliant, but are often branded 4G by service providers. Reliance Industries Ltd is expected to launch its LTE service by the year end.
Fifth generation, or 5G, is not officially used for any specification or official document yet made public by telecommunication companies or standardization bodies, and standard releases beyond 4G are in progress by standardization bodies, but are at this time not considered as new mobile generations but under the 4G umbrella
HTC One Live Experience Tour Introduces New HTC One Smartphone To Users Across America, Preps For April 19 Release Date
The HTC One smartphone is very unique - so unique that it's difficult to describe the functions of HTC Corporation's creation through pictures or text. So, HTC will allow consumers to test out the HTC One via the newly announced HTC One Live Experience tour.
The HTC One Live Experience tour is a roadshow that will offer three experiences using the HTC One, including the HTC BoomSound Louhge, HTC One Showrooms, and HTC One Cinema Experiences, reported Android And Me.
"We're establishing the U.S. brand identity for the new HTC One as an innovative, stunning product with a full-metal design and a clear difference in experiences from any previous, or recently announced, smartphone," said Erin McGee, the Vice President of Marketing In HTC Corporation, North America. "The new HTC One has already won numerous prestigious awards and accolades, but consumers have yet to see it for themselves. We are changing that, starting today, by delivering unique and highly relevant experiences on city streets, in suburban malls, and at hundreds of movie theaters that brings the product to life through an authentic connection with the consumer."
2013 Audi R8 V10 Plus launched in India at Rs 2.05 crore
New Delhi: Barely a few months after launching its 2013 R8 in the country, Audi has launched the high-performance V10 Plus variant at Rs 2.05 crore, ex- showroom India.
Boasting of a 558PS/540Nm 5.2-litre V10 FSI engine from Lamborghini, the Audi R8 V10 Plus goes from 0-100kmph in just 3.5 seconds. A 7-speed S tronic dual clutch gearbox handles the transmission duties. Audi claims that the V10 Plus can hit a top speed of 317kmph.
The suspension bits from the regular R8 have been tweaked to make the V10 Plus stiffer. The V10 Plus also loses 50kg over the regular V10 trim by extensive use of carbon fibre. Components like the front splitter, side blades, mirrors and rear diffuser are all made of CFRP.
Visually, the R8 V10 Plus looks the same like its lesser powered V10 sibling but has a different set of alloys and a matt finish to its grill.
Advancements made in space research and technology in India, incredible; says Sunita Williams
Ace astronaut Sunita Williams on Thursday praised the advancements made in space research and technology and urged India to keep up with the pace
Delivering a speech at an interactive session in Mumbai she said the advancements that have occurred over the last decade are incredible.
Space is getting more and more advanced every single day. What that means is that we are not as fast as 30 minutes take out delivery but we are about a four-hour, five-hour, six-hour launch to space and come back to earth, which is pretty incredible how things have changed just in the last year," she said.
Williams, who holds the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman -- 195 days-- is on a week-long trip to India.
She has seen the whole of India from space and she is excited to explore more of the country, which she is visiting after five years.
Earlier, Sunita Williams had said that the cooperation between India and US in the field of space has increased.
She has clocked a total of 50 hours and 40 minutes of spacewalk time.
Amazing Egg Shaped Hyundai's Car
Car manufacturers Hyundai has put a whole new spin on personal transportation with the egg-sha
E4U vehicle it showed off at the Seoul Motor Show.
The South Korean car company have created a one-person vehicle that is designed to fit in tight city parking spots and runs on an electric battery.
The car has a maximum speed of just over 18 miles per hour.
The vehicle’s top doubles as a visor-like helmet that looks fit for a mission in space, the New York Daily Newsreported.
According to Hyundai, the E4U’s strange name stems from the four Es found in the vehicle - evolution, electricity, eco-friendliness and, of course, egg.
The E4U is designed to take advantage of tight, congested urban roads.
Its small size with the help of foldable rear legs also aid the vehicle in navigating into parking spots on crowded city streets.
Rather than wheels, the E4U relies on a base hemisphere that runs on a 24 volt, 500-watt battery.
Two rear wheels help give the vehicle balance, while also providing the vehicle a distinct tripod shape.
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