Movies : In iPhone from Flixster

Film website Flixster launched a new version of its iPhone application "Movies" this week, highlighting how technology and the Web are bringing Hollywood directly to fans and bypassing traditional information outlets like newspapers.

The transition has wreaked havoc on the newspaper industry which has seen advertising pages plummet as movie studios shift their marketing efforts to the Web, but for social networking websites like Flixster, the change is boosting their users.

"Movies" allows users of Apple Inc's iPhone to read about films and stars, buy tickets, and write their own reviews to share with others who in turn influence word-of-mouth publicity, or "buzz," for movies.For the first time, we have a tool that goes directly to a consumer," said Jason E. Squire, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

Source: Reuters.com

15 inch Commercial OLED TV from LG

South Korea's LG Electronics said on Sunday it would launch a 15-inch television set using organic display technology next month, the largest commercial model so far.

Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AM-OLED) displays, which use self-glowing materials, have better picture quality, consume less power and are thinner than widely used liquid crystal displays (LCD) that need backlight units.

LG, the world's second-biggest TV brand, said in a statement that it would be unveiling a 15-inch AM-OLED TV at the IFA 2009 consumer electric show in Berlin in September.

Research firm DisplaySearch expects the market for OLED TV to reach 2.33 million units in 2013 compared with estimated 320,000 units in 2011, according to data provided by LG.

Nokia 5230 : the right choice for you

The Nokia 5230 is designed to matched exactly today’s life style .The scenario has changed now; everyone wants a fast and quick work. People those prefer to work in less time with more managed way will find Nokia 5230 a ‘Perfect match’ to their requirements.

The users will be able to get a view on recently added content whether it is a song from nokia owned music store or apps, videos, games and other offered services from Ovi Store all that straightaway from the mobile devices. The Nokia 5230 offers unique features, users can navigate by using A-GPS Navigation and Ovi maps most update versions with aerial images.

The Nokia 5230 will assist you while driving or searching any palace it has 3D landmarks for over 200 cities, terrain map views along with navigation for pedestrian in the recent launched products. The widely known Nokia 5230 is expected to be available from the fourth quarter of 2009 which will provide an unbeatable music experience through music services which will be available for 259 excluding taxes and subsidies.

Jo Harlow, Vice President, Nokia believes that Nokia 5230 is available at very competitive price tag of just 149 EUR, It offers a variety of services to the users like music, social networking over the popular websites like Facebook, Myspace and so on.

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Chadrayaan - 1 : Its time up

All communication links with the only Indian satellite orbiting the Moon have been lost, India's space agency says.

Radio contact with the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was lost abruptly early on Saturday, said India's Bangalore-based Space Research Organization (Isro).

The unmanned craft was launched last October in what was billed as a two-year mission of exploration.

The launch was regarded as a major step for India as it seeks to keep pace with other space-faring nations in Asia.

Following its launch from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, it was hoped the robotic probe would orbit the Moon, compile a 3-D atlas of the lunar surface and map the distribution of elements and minerals.

Mercedes-Benz : Hydrogen Car Bet

Battery electric cars are all the rage right now, with most of the major automakers promising to have one on the road within the next few years. But that doesn’t mean hydrogen is dead. To prove it, Mercedes-Benz will begin building hydrogen fuel cell cars this fall and offer them to customers next year.

The F-Cell is built on the company’s B-Class compact car platform. It has a 136-horsepower electric motor that produces 213 pound-feet of torque. Mercedes didn’t provide any performance specs but says the car is on par with a similar-size vehicle with a 2.0-liter gas engine. Top speed is 105 mph.

Mercedes was similarly stingy with details about the fuel cell, saying only that “gaseous hydrogen reacts with atmospheric oxygen at 700 bar.” The car is said to be able to start at temperatures as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius. It has a range of 385 kilometers (about 240 miles), but Mercedes didn’t say how much hydrogen it carries. There’s also a 1.4 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery “to boost power” and store energy recovered from the regenerative braking system.

Don’t expect to see a lot of F-Cells on the road. Mercedes says the first run is limited to 200 cars and concedes the obvious point — these cars won’t catch on in big numbers until we’ve got a hydrogen fueling infrastructure. To that end, Mercedes says it is working with government agencies, energy companies and utilities in Germany and California to get that ball rolling.

China gets the iPhone Officially

With over 135 million users, China Unicom is one of the world's biggest mobile phone operators and for the same reason, the iPhone now gets a whole new untapped market at its disposal. All China bound iPhones will come crippled with Wi-Fi as required by the law in China. To make the phone affordable to the masses, China Unicom will also offer subsidies to users who wish to buy the device. However, no announcement regarding the level of the subsidy has been made so far.

Gmail gets Contact Chooser Option

Gmail has been around for more than five years now and it still keeps getting new or long deserved features. Till date, Gmail had been offering auto-complete or auto-suggest the contacts in the address book for sending mails or marking a copy. But now, Google has decided to tweak that feature a bit and introduced new Contact Chooser option in Gmail. One can still use the auto-complete or auto-suggest contact feature in the box for adding recipient addresses.
Gmail users can use Contact Chooser by clicking on the text "To:", "Cc", and "Bcc". The launched Contact Chooser widget will offer contact list with group selection and also a search box in case you want to search by keywords or letters. One can select all contacts from the group selection box and can also remove few contacts from the 'To:' box below it.

Augmented reality now on the iPhone: it's real, and it's secretly inside Yelp

The hot trend of 2009 has to be augmented reality, particularly with all the impressive Tech Demos and futuristic games in development across the world. On the iPhone in particular, several companies have promised Tweetering, search, and other navigation using layers of real-time data overlaid onto live video from the iPhone's camera. Imagine a heads-up display on reality itself, and that's what augmented reality is promising.

Apple has been on-board with these developments, promising that the upcoming OS3.1 will provide full compatibility for AR apps. But it turns out we don't need to wait after all. In addition to French and British A R map programs hitting the App store early , a much better and cooler solution has been lurking under our eyes the whole time.

Called "Monocle," it's an Easter egg within Yelp. As in, Yelp 3.0, the one that's currently available on the App Store. When I first read a tweet about it, I was disbelieving. But all you have to do is shake your phone three times like some fairy tale to trigger the Monocle button, which suddenly appears on the top of the screen. Launching it brings up honest-to-goodness overlaid restaurant and bar information that moves as you move, aided by the iPhone 3GS's built-in compass. It resembles the demos seen by the layar browser.

That compass is key for AR apps to work properly, because it senses direction. GPS alone won't cut it, which means you'd better have a 3GS to pull this off. Give it a try, though, and let us know if your 3G will work on it. And don't forget to update the Yelp app before shaking.

Will we use this? Maybe not so much, but we sure will enjoy showing it off to people.

Sony Launches Cyber-shot DSC-TX1

Sony, has added more products in its portfolio, launching new digital Cyber-shot camera models - DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1 - in the Indian market. The highly-sensitive devices are equipped with illuminated CMOS sensor technology and are capable of capturing very clear views in even low light surroundings.

The cameras, having anti-motion blur multi-shot modes, can capture six separate images in less than a second which indicates its high sensitivity. It is also provided with Sweep Panorama, which uses the Exmor R CMOS sensor and the BIONZ processor to offer high quality imaginary.

The Sony Cyber-shot TX1 cameras, measuring16.5mm, are capable of recording 10 frames per second, given the high quality burst shooting mode. The 10.2 Megapixel has 3-inch Clear Photo LCD Plus touch panel, making it very comfortable to capture images through its various menu options.

The other worth-noting features of the cameras include Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, 4x telescopic zoom and Optical Steady Shot image stabilization technology. The TX1 is expected to be available in the market from mid-September at a price tag of AU$649.

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Dr.Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (1949-2009)

A few details of our great leader, the Bagheeradha of Andhra Pradesh, whom I call as 'Pedananna'.

Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (8 July 1949 – 2 September 2009), popularly known as YSR, was the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He represented the Indian National Congress party. He was elected to the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Lok Sabha from the Kadapa constituency for four terms and to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for five terms from the Pulivendula constituency In 2003 he undertook a three month long paadayaatra, or walking tour, across several districts in Andhra Pradesh. He led his party to victory in the next general and assembly elections held in 2004

Early life

Rajasekhara Reddy was born in [[Pulivendula],], Andhra Pradesh to Y S Raja and Jayamma Reddy. He graduated with a degree in medicine from [Gulbarga University], Karnataka and completed his house surgionship at S.V. Medical College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. He was the elected leader of the House Surgeon's Association at S.V. Medical College, Tirupati.

Political career

From 1980-1983 he was a minister holding important portfolios related to Rural Development, Medical Health and Education. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kadapa constituency four times and was elected to the Andhra Pradesh state Assembly six times from Pulivendula constituency. Reddy was the leader of the opposition in the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly for five years. As an MLA he was influential in obtaining water from the Tungabhadra River for the Pulivendula Branch Canal (PBC) and fought for projects like RTPP (Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant) at Muddanur and Proddatur Milk Foods and its ancillaries.

As APCC President

He was President of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) twice: 1983–1985 and 1998–2000. As the president of APCC, Reddy rendered yeomen services to the party in regaining the faith and trust of the masses. From 1999 to 2004 he was the Leader of Opposition in the eleventh state assembly.

Paadayaatra

During mid-summer in 2003, he led an unprecedented 1400 km long paadayaatra (foot pilgrimage), covering all backward areas in the state to understand the ground realities of living conditions of the people there. As a novice in the legislature, Reddy rallied all the Congress MLAs from the Rayalaseema region and led an indefinite hunger strike demanding solution to the water crisis. He also led a paadayaatra from Lepakshi to Pothireddipadu in Kurnool district.

As Chief Minister

Reddy was elected as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh by the Legislature party of the Indian National Congress after they later won 185 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the May 2004 elections. He has initiated a variety of programs that influence the economy of AP including free power supply for farmers, Jalayagnam - a large scale program to construct more than 70 pending irrigation projects in the state to improve irrigation facilities to the farmers, and an increase in the minimum support price for rice. Prominent among other programs include Arogya Shree - a Health Insurance scheme for rural masses where the government pays the entire price of any surgery and does not require people to pay any premium, Pavala Vaddi - a program that provides loans to people at 3% per year so as to encourage them to take up small scale businesses and entrepreneurship primarily targeted at rural woman, Indiramma illu - a program for construction of houses for the rural masses by charging a small amount and the government the remaining amount, an Rs 2/Kg rice scheme, reimbursement of full college fees for backward sections, reservations for minorities, and a huge loan waiver program for the farmers.

Election 2009

Reddy's major campaign slogan for the 2009 election was "Development and the credibility ".

In the elections, Reddy's party (INC) secured the required majority in the assembly (156 seats) and also won 33 seats in parliament.

Reddy was sworn in as the chief minister for the term of 2009–2014 on 20 May 2009. The ceremony was held in Hyderabad's Lal Bahadur Stadium and attended by a crowd of around 20,000 people.

Photography and the wonders (LENZ)

These are the pictures taken by my friends when then were on a holiday on away from home
Just for the sake of catching the best of the camera though their sparkling eyes and wonderful lens

Sri Koteswara Cam systems

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Yahoo peps Search, Mail and Messenger

Download the new Yahoo Messenger Here

Yahoo has added slew of new features and updates to its three core offerings - Mail, Search and Messenger. Yahoo Mail, one of the top leading email services, gets more social features as one of the key milestone in Yahoo Open Strategy. Along with that, Yahoo Messenger 10 will also bring social tinge like showing status updates, photo sharing, video calls and other notifications.
Yahoo Mail gets the long deserved attachment limit raise to 25MB from 10MB per mail. New Application box combines Calendar, Notepad, and several other third party apps for streamlined single window Inbox. The Application box will contain third party apps like Picnik, ZumoDrive or PayPal along with several others coming in future.

Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 price by 100 dollars

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Microsoft announced Thursday it is slashing the price of its top-of-the-line Xbox 360 videogame console by 100 dollars, just days after Sony cut the price of its PlayStation 3.

The Redmond, Washington-based software giant said in a statement it would sell the Xbox 360 Elite console, which has a 120 gigabyte hard drive, for 299 dollars from Friday, the same price as the PS3.

Microsoft also said it was cutting the price of the Xbox 360 Pro by 50 dollars to 249 dollars and phasing out the model.

The price of the Xbox 360 Arcade remains unchanged at 199 dollars.

Sony last week lopped 100 dollars off the prices of PS3 consoles currently on the market to 299 dollars for models with 80 gigabyte hard drives and 399 dollars for those with 160 gigabyte hard drives.

The videogame industry has been hard hit by the economic slowdown and US videogame sales declined in July for the fifth straight month according to the NPD Group.

US sales of videogame hardware and software fell to just shy of 849 million dollars in July, a 29 percent drop from the 1.19 billion dollars in sales racked up in the same month last year, according to NPD.

Sales of videogame consoles and handheld devices for the month plunged 37 percent to about 281 million dollars compared with nearly 448 million dollars in July of 2008, NPD reported.

Sony launches Amazon challenger

Sony has launched a wireless e-reader which allows users to download electronic books on the go.

Analysts said Sony's Reader Daily Edition is a direct challenge to Amazon's best-selling Kindle device.

The $399 (£250) touch-screen device is able to store up to 1,000 novels and can download books over a high-speed mobile network.

It also has an application that can be used to "borrow" books from local libraries for 21 days.

"By going open, Sony helps compensate for its biggest weakness: its lacklustre eBookstore, which pales in comparison with Amazon.com," said Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst with Forrester Research in her blog.

Wolrds Amazing Constructions

Credits: Thanks for My dear Chaitanya Paladugu for sharing such wonderful pictures with me.
We are always fascinated when we see a new building which is coming up in our neighborhood
So how about having this kind of buildings ??

Wonderful Vegetable Carvings

Thanks to my sister for sharing these wonderful vegetable carvings pictures with me for my blog

Miss Universe 2009 is MissVENEZUELA

MISS VENEZUELA, STEFANIA FERNANDEZ CROWNED MISS UNIVERSE 2009

Miss Venezuela, Stefania Fernandez, is 18-years-old and she is interested in International Relations.

Miss India Ekta Choudhary has failed to impress the bench of Miss Universe to make it. She has even failed to make it to Top 15. Earlier before leaving to Bahamas , she was in Hyderabad to attend a Urdu college has exprssed confidence that she will make to the Crown only to bring it for India after Lara Datta in 2000.

Rest of the News from the event:

The judging panel for the 2009 Miss Universe Pageant included: Dean Cain, actor and producer best known for his TV portrayal of Clark Kent/Superman; Colin Cowie, author/television personality/designer to the stars; Gerry DeVeaux, award-winning producer, songwriter and style guru; Farouk Shami, Founder and Chairman of CHI Hair Care; Heather Kerzner, Ambassador for Kerzner International and their resorts, including Atlantis, Paradise Island; Richard LeFrak, Chairman, President and CEO, LeFrak Organization; George Maloof Jr., professional sports mogul and hotelier; Valeria Mazza, international supermodel; Matthew Rolston, leading photographer and director; Andre Leon Talley, award-winning writer and editor; Tamara Tunie, actress, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit;" and Keisha Whitaker, fashion maven and founder of the Kissable Couture lip gloss line.

First Runner-Up: Miss Domincan Republic, Ada Aimee De La Cruz; will assume the duties of MISS UNIVERSE 2009 if the titleholder for some reason cannot fulfill her responsibilities.

Second Runner-Up: Miss Kosovo, Gona Dragusha.

Rest of Top Five: Miss Australia, Rachael Finch; Miss Puerto Rico, Mayra Matos Perez.

Rest of Top Ten: Miss South Africa, Tatum Keshwar; Miss Czech Republic, Iveta Lutovska; Miss Switzerland, Whitney Toyloy; Miss USA, Kristen Dalton; and Miss France, Chloe Mortaud.

Rest of Top Fifteen: Miss Albania, Hasna Xhukici; Miss Belgium, Zeynep Sever; Miss Croatia, Sarah Cosic; Miss Iceland, Ingibjorg Egilsdottir; and Miss Sweden, Renate Cerljen.

Miss Photogenic Universe™ Award: Miss Thailand, Chutima Durongdej. The general public voted on www.nbc.com for the delegate who exemplifies beauty through the lens of a camera. She was awarded a $1,000 cash prize and a gift from pageant sponsor Diamond Nexus Labs.

Miss Congeniality Universe™ Award: Miss China, Wang Jingyao. This award reflects the respect and admiration of the delegate’s peers, who voted for her as the most congenial, charismatic and inspirational participant. She was awarded a $1,000 cash prize and a gift from Diamond Nexus Labs.

The MISS UNIVERSE® 2009 prize package includes: the Miss Universe tiara and jewelry designed by Diamond Nexus Labs; a two-year scholarship from the New York Film Academy worth more than $100,000 dollars to its acting or film-making programs; an eveningwear wardrobe from Carlos Alberto;

a custom swimsuit wardrobe from BSC Swimwear Thailand; a shoe collection from Nina Footwear; an assortment of Luxe Collection video cameras from DXG USA; a six-day/five-night vacation for two at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas with air travel accommodations by JetBlue Airways;

a year-long supply of Farouk Systems products, makers of CHI, the original Ceramic Technology tools; a Skype kit featuring a laptop computer, webcam, speakers and a one-year Unlimited World plan to talk to friends and family; membership to Gravity Fitness and pampering at John Barrett Salon;

a fashion portfolio by leading fashion photographer Fadil Berisha; dermatology and skincare services by Dr. Cheryl Thellman-Karcher; consultations with personal stylist Billie Causieestko and access to an event wardrobe from leading fashion designers;

a New York City apartment for the year of her reign including living expenses and professional representation by the Miss Universe Organization to further her personal and professional goals.

The Wonderful colorful beaches of the world

These are the most wonderful colored beaches of this world that is a gift for us.
Sharing with you.
The THEME OF THIS POST IS :
World's ENVIRONMENT AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

Seat Blet Celebrating its 50th BirthDay

The seat belt that we use in today's cars and heavy vehicles is celebrating its 50th birthday.
From its birth date it has been in the service of human beings and has saved so many millions of them

Bose brings QuietComfort 15

Bose Corporation, the leader in developing the best of equipments to bring out the paramount acoustic devices, has launched its finest ever headphones that have been devised to reduce more noise across a wider range of frequencies – QuietComfort 15s.

The new QuietComfort 15s (QC15s) has designed its fourth generation of consumer noise-cancelling headphones which feature Bose’s exclusive noise reduction technology. The appearance of the new set of headphone is identical to its popular QC2s, which would no longer be on sale.

Bose claims that the new headphone “is a combination of benefits unmatched in the industry.” With improvement in its proprietary ear cushion technology, it blocks more unwanted noise before it enters the earcups. They have been devised on the advanced noise reduction technology that reduces the noise around the ear spectrum of human ears.

Along with the advanced noise reduction technology, QC15s are integrated with Bose’s signal processing and audio reproduction technology for quality sound. It makes the experience more pleasing while enjoying your favourite music tracks.

QC15s, as noted by Bose, are so advanced and well equipped with its technologies that if you are in mood to seek peace in a room with deafening noise you can just put on the headphones and relax.

They are comfortable and fit easily around-the-ear. QC15s is equipped with AAA battery that has 35 hours of average life. It weighs just 207.5 g.

In the box, Bose is providing detachable audio cable, AAA battery, airline adapter and carrying case along with the QuietComfort 15 headphones. It has been priced at approximately $299.95.

Google to let site owners customize searches

Internet search leader Google Inc. is expanding an existing service to let businesses customize the search results that visitors see when they search for information within their own sites.

Instead of offering visitors to a particular website the same slice of search results they find by searching Google.com, the new Google Site Search Service lets website owners show previously untracked pages deep inside their sites.

The new Google service is hosted on Google's network of computers instead of requiring customers to install and maintain search equipment of their own. Google aims to improve the search quality of sites with rich content but cluttered ways of finding information lodged within the sites.

Site Search is the new name for Custom Search Business Edition, which Google introduced in late 2006.

It adds business integration features through a machine-readable computer programming interface, the option to turn off advertisements, a more tailored look-and-feel for searching the site and technical support via e-mail or phone.

Mangalore in Australia

Confused....then read this....
Did you know that there is another Mangalore in Victoria, Australia, which has a railway station and an airport?

This fact came to light during a workshop aimed at helping people to contribute and edit Wikipedia content on the Internet held at St. Aloysius College here on Friday. Participants came to know that there is another place called Mangalore when they were discussing the Wikipedia page on Mangalore, which is available in 25 languages including French, Suomi, Galego, Polski, and Svenska, besides many Indian languages.

A participant surprised everyone when he asked whether resource person G.N. Prasanth, a medical professional from Bangalore, was from “our own port city or the Australian township”.

My 50th Post -- A tribute to the abolition of Slavery

International Day for Rememberace of the slave trade and its abolition

Happy Vinayaka Chavithi

Hi Friends.... I wish you all a Happy Vinayaka Chavithi...I wish that Lord God Ganesha will be there with us all to help us through all the up's and down's in our life. Give us the best and the most wondeful days.

Awesome wallpapers and there is no doubt in it!!!

These were some of the art wallpapers that i have found while randomly surfing the net. Mind you all these are not licensed and copyrighted. Even some of the pics are provided by NASA and are free to be distributed.
I was so awestruck that really wanted to post these on my blog for you all.

Halo 3

Halo 3 redefined multiplayer gaming on Xbox live, it sold more copies on a single platform than most games sell on multiple platforms combined. The game was a huge hit and Microsoft is making the most of it by releasing this follow-up expansion called ODST. There aren't many details about the game out yet but we do know that you don't play as Master Chief and that it will further enhance your MP experience.

Heavy Rain (PS3)

Games to Look Forward to in 2009 (Part1)

Quantic Dream make some great games, they were the brilliant minds behind Omikron: Nomad Soul and Indigo Prophecy. Their latest project is called Heavy Rain and is due in the later part of the year on the PS3. The game is based on mature themes and will feature a very intense and dramatic storyline. Their last venture a.k.a Indigo Prophecy was very well received but the last part of the story was a little too abstract and led to criticism. David Cage (co-founder of Quantic Dream) has promised that this time around the game will feature a rich story and possibly no aliens. On a more serious note, the game does look brilliant and given the developers past record, this looks like a game that will break a few barriers in game design.

KadaSwamy Movie Review

Film Review: Kandaswamy
Director: Susi Ganesan
Cast: Vikram, Shriya Saran
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Ratings: 3/5

Kandaswamy. It is the buzz word in every mouth for the past few months. There was immense hype and hoopla around the movie. Touted to be Tamil cinema's ambitious project, the end-product can be described as a marvel on screen, oozing with style and substance.

The duo of Vikram and Susi Ganeshan have come out with a project (though far from logic) that is laced with all commercial ingredients at right mix. They have lived up to the faith imposed on them by producer Kalaipuli S Thanu.

Sending a message within commercial parameters is no easy task for any filmmaker. But kudos to Susi Ganeshan for achieving the same. Coming out with an unpretentious entertainer, Susi has ensured that he plays to the strength of Vikram. An action extravaganza with technical finesse was lacking in Tamil cinema. But Kandaswamy has filled the void now. The computer graphics and the breathtaking stunt sequences has been captured well by cinematographer Ekambaram.

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BHUVAN- India's ISRO's answer

Seven days after it was launched, Isro’s answer to Google Earth gets nearly 23,000 downloads a day.
Touted as India's answer to Google Earth and Microsoft's Virtual Earth, Bhuvan — a geoportal that allows users to explore a virtual world for free in a 3D environment, with specific emphasis on India — is receiving phenomenal response. Just seven days after it was launched on August 13, nearly 23,000 people from 70 countries around the world have been downloading it daily — amounting to156,000 downloads till date.

It displays satellite images of varying resolution of India’s surface, allowing users to see things like cities and important places of interest looking perpendicularly down or at an oblique angle, with different perspectives and can navigate through a 3D viewing environment.

The degree of resolution showcased is based on the points of interest and popularity, but most of the Indian terrain is covered up to at least 5.8 metres of resolution.

Google Doodle Contest For Indian Children

Recently Google announcement regarding its Google Doodle contest for Indian school children. So, if you are currently a student in any school in India (between standards 1st and 10th), you are eligible to have your work of art displayed on the Google Homepage on Children's Day. (You know when that occurs, we believe!). All you need to do is to win this contest!

The theme of this competition is 'My India' and for your work to feature on the Google Homepage, all you need to do is to create a Google Doodle, with an India-specific theme in mind and impress the judges. As the theme says, you should create a doodle that represents India. You have many ideas to work on, ranging from India's culture to its advances in terms of science and technology.

Your friends over at Google are interested in seeing these representations of what India means to you and how you represent it using images. Since this happens to be a contest, there will be one winner whose work, apart from being featured on the Google Homepage, will also receive a brand new laptop and a help your school avail a technology grant of Rs. 1 lakh!
To apply, students can register online at www.google.co.in/doodle4google

Protection from Swine Flu in Style

After the Swine Flu spread across the world and the demand for masks to protect self from swine flu also has grown.
It now has become a common sight every where to find people with masks over their face in an intent to protect themselves. But the masks are now not just masks but are a fashion statement for young guns.Here why it is .....