Google‘s 1Gbps internet: 10 things to know

Google made its foray into the market for bundled internet and television services on Thursday, promising access speeds more than 100 times faster than those of traditional US cable and telecommunications companies. The web search leader unveiled its ultra-high speed Google Fiber service in Kansas City, Missouri, and could start installations in September, executives said. Google hopes to roll out the service to other cities later. Here is...

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Indian mobile apps topping global charts

In June this year, a mobile application developed by an Indian gaming company was the toast of the mobile world as it emerged as the topmost application across the US and UK, notching up 10 million downloads by users of Apple devices. Created by Mumbai-based Games2Win, the app Parking Frenzy is a mobile game where the player's objective is to park his car in challenging spots within a city, thus mirroring the parking challenges individuals face...

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Hacking experts find new ways to attack Android phones

Hacking experts on Wednesday demonstrated ways to attack Android smartphones using methods they said work on virtually all such devices in use today, despite recent efforts by search engine giant Google (GOOG.O) to boost protection. Experts showed off their prowess at the Black Hat hacking conference in Las Vegas, where some 6,500 corporate and government security technology workers gathered to learn about emerging threats to their networks. "Google...

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3 Interview Questions That Reveal Everything

Employee fit is crucial. Here's a simple way to know if a job candidate is right for your business. Interviewing job candidates is tough, especially because some candidates are a lot better at interviewing than they are at working. To get the core info you need about the candidates you interview, here's a simple but incredibly effective interview technique I learned from John Younger, the CEO of Accolo, a cloud recruiting solutions provider. (If...

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Indian-origin teacher sues UK school for racism

London: An Indian-origin model-turned teacher, once named one of Britain's top 20 hottest men, has sued his school for over 100,000 pounds after he was called a "Paki" in a volley of racial abuses and the national tri-colour was removed from his classroom and dirtied. Haresh Sood, 35, claims racist notes and pictures were put in his staff pigeonhole, including a scribbled drawing of his face captioned 'Farewell Bollywood!', shortly before he was...

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Sally Ride, first US woman in space is no more

Washington/USA: Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, died on Monday of pancreatic cancer. She was 61. Ride died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, said Terry McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company, Sally Ride Science. She was a private person and the details of her illness were kept to just a few people, she said. Ride flew into space on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, when...

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Pranab Mukherjee is going to be the 13th President of India

New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee's occupancy rights to Rashtrapati Bhawan will near-certainly be legitimized today. In a few hours, he is expected to be announced India's 13th President; the ruling coalition led by the Congress expects a pulsing 70% of the vote. While his party has not in the past checked his promotion, this time it threw its weight behind its man after some initial dithering over whether he would be its nominee. Mr Mukherjee,...

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London Celebrating for the Olympic torch arrival

London -- The Olympic torch arrived London on Friday, descending via a 180-foot line from a helicopter to the historic Tower of London. The torch's arrival in the capital begins the final week before the Games open and the final stage in its long journey. More than 10 million people have already l Eighteen torchbearers will carry the flame on the final day of the relay, with seven of them traveling with it down the River Thames on the royal barge...

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Maruti's Manesar plant GM (HR) burned to death, 91 workers arrested till yet

MANESAR/INDIA: Maruti Suzuki's General Manager Human Resources was burned to death in the violence in its car plant here allegedly triggered by workers yesterday for which 91 workers were arrested. A tense calm prevailed today as the plant was shut following large scale arson in which Awanish Kumar Dev, general manager (human resource), was burnt beyond recognition while 100 others were injured. Kumar's body was identified by his family today...

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8 ‘worst’ Indian government websites which are trying to be the best of picking to be best

NEW DELHI/INDIA: Indian government is very actively working towards e-governance and the citizens with access to internet-enabled computers and smartphones too look forward to an easier life. After all, who doesn't like to use the online option provided by almost all the organizations and save time by avoiding the long queues at different utilities and departments. However, the biggest irony is that many government or PSU websites that offer online solutions for public or enterprises are more of an online headache for them. Some of these have...

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Predication says Its being a pinch to the IT Companies for the Huge Visa Rates

NEW DELHI/INDIA: Indian IT companies, including market leaders TCS and Infosys, may have to bear huge costs towards employee visa fees going ahead, which in turn can put pressure on their profit margins. Difficult visa norms, particularly in the US -- one of the most important markets for the Indian software companies -- have already made an adverse impact on their operating margins in the first quarter of the current fiscal and the trend is...

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"Amarnath Yatra" Have to go even once in life says Puranas

Amarnath Cave Pilgrimage is an annual pilgrimage made to the Amarnath cave by lakhs of Hindu devotees on challenging mountainous terrain in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Located in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Amarnath cave is a famous shrine in Hinduism. It is dedicated to Shiva. The shrine forms an important part of Hinduism, and is considered to be one of the holiest shrines in Hinduism. The cave is surrounded by snowy mountains....

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Micrsoft with its new Office15(MS Office 15)

Microsoft is expected to show off Office 15, the next version of the company's productivity suite, on Monday at an event in San Francisco, according to numerous reports. Office has been available to a select group of users in a technical preview since January. It's not clear whether a public beta of Office might be available Monday, or whether it will arrive later this summer. Few details have seeped out about Office 15. Several reports claim...

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'Pithamaha' (godfather) of carnatic music"Kakarla Tyagabrahmam"

Kakarla Tyagabrahmam (Telugu: త్యాగరాజు) (May 4, 1767–January 6, 1847), colloquially known as Tyagayya and Tyāgarājar, was one of the greatest composers of Carnatic music or classical South Indian music. He is known as the 'pithamaha' (godfather) of carnatic music. He, along with his contemporaries Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Shastry, forms the Trinity of Carnatic music. He was a prolific composer and highly influential in the development...

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HERO behind the "God Particle", did history really forgot him? A small Tribute to the great Scientist "Mr.Satyendranath Bose"

Satyendranath Bose"Legend Behind God Particle" INDIA — While much of the world was celebrating the international co-operation that led to last week’s breakthrough in identifying the existence of the Higgs boson particle, many in India were smarting over what they saw as a slight against one of their greatest scientists. Media covering the story gave lots of credit to British physicist Peter Higgs for theorizing the elusive subatomic “God particle,”...

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