Apple iPad

Apple has just unveiled it’s long anticipated tablet device, named the iPad. iPads will start shipping in about 60 days. Here’s the rundown on it:

• 1/2″ thick
• a featherweight 1.5lbs
• 9.7″ IPS display
• full multitouch touch-screen
• Comes in 3 storage sizes: 16GB ($499), 32GB ($599) and 64GB ($699)
• WiFi 802.11n & Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. Some models will have 3G. Monthly data contracts available with AT&T. 3G models cost $130 more than WiFi-only models.
• 10 hrs battery life, 1 month in standby
• view in any direction – landscape or portrait and from any side.

The iPad is geared to be a Web surfing and multimedia device, so it can handle photos, iTunes, movies, TV, e-mail, and even video games. There is on-screen soft keyboard for those apps that need it. Unfortunately, like the iPhone, there is no Adobe Flash.

The iPad can run any app that runs on the iPhone and Apple has also updated the iPhone SDK so that apps can be developed for this sized display. Another key feature is the iBooks app that works with the newly created iBook Store, although Apple only has agreements with 5 publishers so far.

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Hindi Movies on You Tube

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Some great news for movie buffs.

You can watch some of the popular Bollywood movies on YouTube for free using this page. These are full-length videos so you can just connect your computer to the TV screen, grab a snack and watch movies from the couch with your family.

The collection is currently limited to Hindi movies from film producers like Shemaroo Entertainment, Rajshri and UltraHindi.

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High Speed Wireless Broadband in India- Plans and Comparison

Initially Broadband in India was termed as anything above the speed of 256Kbps, but now things are changing, we have now broadband plans of 16Mbps and more. Wireless broadband connections are also becoming better in India when compared to previously available speeds of 150Kbps. Most of the mobile operators and ISPs have now high speed USB based modems which can get you a speed upto 3.1 Mbps. Here we are comparing the different plans and coverage of high speed Wireless Internet in India.

 

The major high speed wireless broadband service providers in India are Reliance Netconnect, Tata Indicom Photon+, Virgin Mobile, BSNL and MTS. Below are the comparative chart of all the ISPs. Please note that we have not compared all the plans available.

ISP Name	Max Download Speed	Max Upload Speed	Cost of Device	Coverage (high Speed)	Cost of 2GB Plan	Cost of 5GB Plan	Cost of 10GB Plan	Cost of 15GB Plan	Unlimited plan	Other Features Offered
Tata Indicom Photon +	3.1 Mbps	1.8 Mbps	3600/-	70 Cities	750/-	950/-	1100/-	1500/-	NA	Photon TV
Virgin Mobile VFlash	3.1 Mbps	1.8 Mbps	3499/-	NA	750/-	—-	1100/-	—-	NA	vFlash TV coverage
Reliance Netconnect	3.1 Mbps	1.8 Mbps	3500/-	38 Cities	750/-	1099/-	1250/-	1750/-	NA
BSNL EVDO	2.4 Mbps	–	3500/-	NA	—-	—-	—-	—-	650/-
MTS MBlaze	3.1Mbps	1.8Mbps	3499/-	19 Cities	—-	899/-	1200/-	1500/-	NA

When it comes to the price of USB modems, almost all the ISPs are having the same price of 3500/- although Tata Photon the costliest one. Coverage wise, Tata Photon emerges the clear winner although we are not sure about the BSNL EVDO coverage.

When it comes to data plans, BSNL is the clear winner here with 650/- for unlimited coverage, but speed of the Internet is 2.4 Mbps when compared to 3.1 Mbps offered by others.

If you are a frequent traveler, we would suggest you to take Tata Photon+ as it has the best coverage in India. There are no roaming changes for all the connections listed above.

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Simple Google Hack Gives You Free Access to Online Newspaper Articles

Online newspaper sites like the Financial Times require users to sign-in if they want to read more than one article on their site. The New York Times too had such a restriction in place earlier but they seem to have dropped that requirement now.

The Wall Street Journal, on the other hand, is a subscription-based site. They do offer free access to some of news stories but all the premium content is behind a pay-wall and therefore available only to paid subscribers.

Since these newspaper websites are part of the "First Click Free" program, someone visiting them via Google search can read the first page of the story without registering or subscribing. The first click is therefore "free" but the user will have to sign-in or register to read further.

First Click Free & Google Visitors

However, due to a possible bug in the implementation, the registration prompt gets bypassed for Google visitors giving them free access to all the news articles -- even the premium content meant for subscribers.

It works like this. You first copy the web address of any news article that is behind the registration firewall and paste that URL into the Google Search box. Now click the first Google result and you’ll be able to read the full text of the corresponding story without registering or subscribing

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Careful about Haiti email scams

More than 400 Internet addresses related to Haiti have been registered since the devastating quake. The names reference Haiti and words such as "earthquake," "help," "aid," "victims" and "survivors." Many of the web addresses will likely prove legitimate, but many more will be bogus and associated with web sites that host malicious software.

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Cloud computing may backfire

Tech prognosticator Mark Anderson says the tendency to rely on cloud computing may backfire in some high-profile way in the coming year. "It could be a service-outage-type catastrophe or a security-based catastrophe," he says. "It will be the kind of disaster that makes you say, if you're a [CIO]: 'That's why I didn't get involved with the cloud.'"

Cloud computing Relevant Products/Services enthusiasts be warned. Next year, computing services handled remotely and delivered via the Internet may undergo some kind of "catastrophe" that alerts companies and consumers to the risks of relying on the so-called cloud Relevant Products/Services, says Mark Anderson, chief executive of Strategic News Service, an industry newsletter circulated to senior executives at technology Relevant Products/Services companies including Intel, Dell Relevant Products/Services, and Microsoft Relevant Products/Services.

A growing number of businesses and individuals are handing storage Relevant Products/Services and various other tasks to outside providers, from photographers archiving pictures with Yahoo!'s Flickr to companies turning over complicated computing operations to Amazon. Tech prognosticator Anderson suggests that the tendency could backfire in some high-profile way in the coming year. "It could either be a service Relevant Products/Services-outage-type catastrophe or a security Relevant Products/Services-based catastrophe," he says. "In either case, it will be big enough. It will be the kind of disaster that makes you say, if you're a [Chief Information Officer]: 'That's why I didn't get involved with the cloud.'"

The warning on cloud computing is one of a handful of predictions from Anderson, who in December makes forecasts for the coming year. He also says computing wars will intensify in hardware Relevant Products/Services and operating systems, especially in the mobile arena. Growth in netbooks and smartphones and increased reliance on cloud computing will continue to transform personal computing from the market dominated by Microsoft's Windows Relevant Products/Services and to a lesser extent Apple's Mac. "The desktop Relevant Products/Services will seem like a calm island that is surrounded by chaos, where all these opportunities are with no clear winners," he says.

Anderson is particularly bearish when it comes to the cloud. "My hunch is that there will never really be a secure Relevant Products/Services cloud," he says. Businesses will view cloud services more suspiciously and consumers will refuse to use them for anything important, he says.

Cloud computing experts note that high-profile security breaches have already occurred. "Clouds don't make applications fail-safe," says Chris Hoff, director of cloud and virtualization Relevant Products/Services services at Cisco Systems. He points to Magnolia, the social bookmarking service that crashed and lost all its data Relevant Products/Services earlier this year. "There will be other events like these in 2010, as there were in 2009 and 2008," Hoff says.

Still, many companies will conclude that the benefits of network Relevant Products/Services-delivered outweigh the risks. "Even if there is an outage, it won't affect adoptions," says Rich Mogull, an analyst at Securosis, a security research firm. "Providers who compete with the vendor [that) goes down will come around and tell everyone how they're different. There will be some pullback but no dramatic change in adoption of the cloud."

Also on the horizon for the coming year, Microsoft will face multiple operating system challenges, including competition from a resurgent Mac OS, Google's Chrome OS, mobile operating systems from Android, Nokia's Symbian mobile OS, and others. "Two years ago it would have seemed like Windows had this all locked up forever, and now tell me who will win on all those hardware platforms," Anderson says.

Netbooks will gain in popularity and within a couple years will become the biggest segment of the personal computing market, Anderson contends. As netbooks and smartphones and Web tablets take hold, content in all forms will continue to break free from long-held restrictions, becoming substantially more mobile-friendly than ever. First-run TV shows and movies will be as readily available on handheld phones as they have been elsewhere -- for a price.

Apple's iTunes, which sells not only music and TV shows, but also mobile applications, has proven Relevant Products/Services that people are willing to pay for content on their phones, Anderson says. "They'll pay a small amount of money, but they'll happily pay," he says. "Some things will be free, but increasingly they won't be."

Online Content Will Finally Earn Cash

The willingness to pay for mobile content, in turn, will drive adoption of small payments, or micropayments, for content, Anderson says. Those over 35 who perceive value to content will be willing to pay. Those under 35, who are accustomed to getting content for free, won't, he believes. As consumers age, Anderson predicts their attitudes will change.

News media will also become increasingly willing to charge for content online. In recent months, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has said the company will start charging for content on its newspaper sites. "I hate to say it, but Rupert is right," Anderson says. "People who have things of value in the media business damn well better charge for them."

And while software giant Microsoft will continue to dominate on the desktop, Anderson believes the company will lose relevance in the consumer electronics and mobile markets -- except in the gaming arena. "It's time to say it: Microsoft has lost its play for consumers," Anderson says. "This is mostly about the phone."

The most important mobile players will be Apple, Nokia's Symbian, and Google's Android. Microsoft is going to have difficulty finding new revenue streams, Anderson holds. "It doesn't mean its going to stop growing, but it does mean that its growth is going to be pretty moderate and then it may taper off," Anderson says.

How accurate are Anderson's prognostications? Last year he predicted that voice-activated applications would come to smart phones, harnessing computing in the cloud. He forecast that the wireless industry would settle on a technology standard known as LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, for its next-generation technology. And mobile applications such as those on Apple's iPhone, he said, would catch on like wildfire.

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Cloud computing may backfire

Tech prognosticator Mark Anderson says the tendency to rely on cloud computing may backfire in some high-profile way in the coming year. "It could be a service-outage-type catastrophe or a security-based catastrophe," he says. "It will be the kind of disaster that makes you say, if you're a [CIO]: 'That's why I didn't get involved with the cloud.'"

Cloud computing Relevant Products/Services enthusiasts be warned. Next year, computing services handled remotely and delivered via the Internet may undergo some kind of "catastrophe" that alerts companies and consumers to the risks of relying on the so-called cloud Relevant Products/Services, says Mark Anderson, chief executive of Strategic News Service, an industry newsletter circulated to senior executives at technology Relevant Products/Services companies including Intel, Dell Relevant Products/Services, and Microsoft Relevant Products/Services.

A growing number of businesses and individuals are handing storage Relevant Products/Services and various other tasks to outside providers, from photographers archiving pictures with Yahoo!'s Flickr to companies turning over complicated computing operations to Amazon. Tech prognosticator Anderson suggests that the tendency could backfire in some high-profile way in the coming year. "It could either be a service Relevant Products/Services-outage-type catastrophe or a security Relevant Products/Services-based catastrophe," he says. "In either case, it will be big enough. It will be the kind of disaster that makes you say, if you're a [Chief Information Officer]: 'That's why I didn't get involved with the cloud.'"

The warning on cloud computing is one of a handful of predictions from Anderson, who in December makes forecasts for the coming year. He also says computing wars will intensify in hardware Relevant Products/Services and operating systems, especially in the mobile arena. Growth in netbooks and smartphones and increased reliance on cloud computing will continue to transform personal computing from the market dominated by Microsoft's Windows Relevant Products/Services and to a lesser extent Apple's Mac. "The desktop Relevant Products/Services will seem like a calm island that is surrounded by chaos, where all these opportunities are with no clear winners," he says.

Anderson is particularly bearish when it comes to the cloud. "My hunch is that there will never really be a secure Relevant Products/Services cloud," he says. Businesses will view cloud services more suspiciously and consumers will refuse to use them for anything important, he says.

Cloud computing experts note that high-profile security breaches have already occurred. "Clouds don't make applications fail-safe," says Chris Hoff, director of cloud and virtualization Relevant Products/Services services at Cisco Systems. He points to Magnolia, the social bookmarking service that crashed and lost all its data Relevant Products/Services earlier this year. "There will be other events like these in 2010, as there were in 2009 and 2008," Hoff says.

Still, many companies will conclude that the benefits of network Relevant Products/Services-delivered outweigh the risks. "Even if there is an outage, it won't affect adoptions," says Rich Mogull, an analyst at Securosis, a security research firm. "Providers who compete with the vendor [that) goes down will come around and tell everyone how they're different. There will be some pullback but no dramatic change in adoption of the cloud."

Also on the horizon for the coming year, Microsoft will face multiple operating system challenges, including competition from a resurgent Mac OS, Google's Chrome OS, mobile operating systems from Android, Nokia's Symbian mobile OS, and others. "Two years ago it would have seemed like Windows had this all locked up forever, and now tell me who will win on all those hardware platforms," Anderson says.

Netbooks will gain in popularity and within a couple years will become the biggest segment of the personal computing market, Anderson contends. As netbooks and smartphones and Web tablets take hold, content in all forms will continue to break free from long-held restrictions, becoming substantially more mobile-friendly than ever. First-run TV shows and movies will be as readily available on handheld phones as they have been elsewhere -- for a price.

Apple's iTunes, which sells not only music and TV shows, but also mobile applications, has proven Relevant Products/Services that people are willing to pay for content on their phones, Anderson says. "They'll pay a small amount of money, but they'll happily pay," he says. "Some things will be free, but increasingly they won't be."

Online Content Will Finally Earn Cash

The willingness to pay for mobile content, in turn, will drive adoption of small payments, or micropayments, for content, Anderson says. Those over 35 who perceive value to content will be willing to pay. Those under 35, who are accustomed to getting content for free, won't, he believes. As consumers age, Anderson predicts their attitudes will change.

News media will also become increasingly willing to charge for content online. In recent months, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has said the company will start charging for content on its newspaper sites. "I hate to say it, but Rupert is right," Anderson says. "People who have things of value in the media business damn well better charge for them."

And while software giant Microsoft will continue to dominate on the desktop, Anderson believes the company will lose relevance in the consumer electronics and mobile markets -- except in the gaming arena. "It's time to say it: Microsoft has lost its play for consumers," Anderson says. "This is mostly about the phone."

The most important mobile players will be Apple, Nokia's Symbian, and Google's Android. Microsoft is going to have difficulty finding new revenue streams, Anderson holds. "It doesn't mean its going to stop growing, but it does mean that its growth is going to be pretty moderate and then it may taper off," Anderson says.

How accurate are Anderson's prognostications? Last year he predicted that voice-activated applications would come to smart phones, harnessing computing in the cloud. He forecast that the wireless industry would settle on a technology standard known as LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, for its next-generation technology. And mobile applications such as those on Apple's iPhone, he said, would catch on like wildfire.

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Google takes another step towards competing with Microsoft office

Google reportedly will pay about $25 million for DocVerse, whose Microsoft Office plug-in enables document sharing similar to Google Docs. DocVerse would complement Google's acquisition of Appjet and may give Google two Microsoft veterans. Microsoft is already moving to counter Google Docs with new features in Microsoft Office 2010.

Google is moving in on yet another acquisition. This time the search giant reportedly has its eye on a plug-in that lets people collaborate around Microsoft Relevant Products/Services Office documents.

According to published reports, Google is acquiring a San Francisco-based startup called DocVerse for about $25 million. The acquisition could undergird Google's recent Appjet purchase. Appjet is the maker of Etherpad, which also offers Microsoft Office collaboration Relevant Products/Services capabilities.

DocVerse officially launched on Oct. 28 to serve the 600 million Office users looking for a better way to edit and share Microsoft documents. DocVerse is a plug-in for Microsoft Office that turns the suite of productivity Relevant Products/Services applications into web-enabled collaboration tools and allows real-time sharing and simultaneous group editing of documents.

Grabbing MS Talent?

With DocVerse, Google would not only pick up a product to help its users bridge the Office gap. It could also pick up two Microsoft veterans, Shan Sinha and Alex DeNeui.

The duo founded DocVerse in 2007 to eliminate the constant back-and-forth e-mail attachments required to share and edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. Sinha oversaw Microsoft's product strategy for the $1.6 billion SharePoint business and $3 billion SQL Server business while DeNeui oversaw Microsoft's SQL Server web strategy.

Sinha is no stranger to entrepreneurship. He cofounded two venture-backed startups, one of which has already been acquired. He also has fund-raising skills. DocVerse raised its first round of investment in 2008, $1.3 million from Baseline Ventures, Naval Ravikant, and Harrison Metal Capital.

DeNeui also brings experience to the startup. Before his tenure with Microsoft, he founded a Kleiner Perkins-backed enterprise Relevant Products/Services software company delivering IT Relevant Products/Services automation Relevant Products/Services services. It's not clear whether the duo will join Google or move on to another startup if their company is acquired.

Microsoft Fights Back with Office 2010

Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence, called the reported acquisition "interesting." Although DocVerse was founded by ex-Microsoft talent, he said, the application's philosophy, with its cloud Relevant Products/Services and collaboration capabilities, is very much consistent with Google Wave and Google's efforts with its Apps and Docs suites.

"This also seems like a tool that will make Google Docs and Apps more useful in recognition of the fact that most people for the foreseeable future are going to be using Microsoft Office," Sterling said. "Yet this speeds the transition to the cloud and provides a bridge of sorts between Microsoft Office and Google Docs."

Of course, Microsoft is also moving into the cloud with its Office 2010, which will combat Google Docs. Microsoft released the beta version of Office 2010 in November with hopes that millions of people would download and test the product and offer feedback.

Microsoft is rolling out several new features in Office 2010 to sharpen its chances against an aggressive Google. One key new offering is the Outlook Social Connector, which brings communications Relevant Products/Services history, business collaboration, and social-network Relevant Products/Services feeds directly into Outlook, with support Relevant Products/Services for Windows Relevant Products/Services Live and SharePoint server Relevant Products/Services.

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FIVE RULES FOR MEN TO FOLLOW TO A HAPPY LIFE:

 

1. It’s important to have a woman, who helps at home,
Who cooks from time to time, cleans up and has a job.
2. It's important to have a woman, who can make you
Laugh.
3. It's important to have a woman, who you can trust
And who doesn't lie to you.
4. It's important to have a woman, who is good in bed
And who likes to be with you.
5. Its very, very important that these four women
Do not know each other.

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