The above is the dream of A P J Abdul Kalam. Shouldn’t we make this dream of every Indian. India on Friday became the fourth nation to have its flag flying on the Moon’s surface when Chandrayaan-1′s Moon Impact Probe device, – which has the Indian Tricolour painted on it – touched down. The 35-kilo [...]
Here’s some fresh news from Qualcomm at CTIA. It looks like they have figured out how to make a mobile phone none of us will forget to bring along: Good Morning, Qualcomm, a leader in developing digital wireless communications products and services, is announcing HandSoloâ„¢. It was developed as the first ultra-portable embedded device designed [...]
Earth Hour Google users in the United States will notice today that we “turned the lights out” on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why we don’t do this permanently – it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount [...]
Imagine that the Indian Standard Time (IST) is advanced by half-an-hour to be six hours ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. “I can stick my neck out and say it is a win-win situation,†DP Sen Gupta, honorary professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) and one of the scientists who [...]
Ack :- Informationmadness.com Few days ago Startup Dunia talked about a new website coming out of the Reliance hive. The website is called Chintee.com. Chintee (means Ant). The DNS servers are still pointing to zapak.com and the site used to redirect to BigAdda, which was just launched last week (Reliance social netowkring site).If you look [...]
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 7,664,424 people from around the globe. * From the moment you enter the World you’ll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with [...]
For those interested in astronomy, Saturday (June 30) could be a landmark day, for they will be in a position to cite a `Blue Moon’. According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, the “Blue moon” is a quirky astronomical term used to describe the second full moon in a calendar month, an event which occurs [...]
Ack:- Vishal Shah In an experiment revealed last week, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s departments of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source seven feet away with no physical connection between the power source and the bulb. The [...]
Now a days often use to hear the word “Missile defence shield” from Bush What was that ?? What it is all about ?? So finally found something quite flashy and interesting that explains what it is and how it works Look the flashy presentation @ BBC Share and Enjoy:
Microsoft has unveiled a new touch-sensitive coffee table-shaped computer called “Surface”. Experience it…….. http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Designed to do away with the need for a traditional mouse and keyboard, users can instead use their fingers to operate the computer. Also designed to interact with mobile phones placed on the surface, Microsoft says it will initially sell the [...]
