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Source: Online Education

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Top 10 games of year 2009 which I played 1. Uncharted 2 (PS3) 2. Killzone 2 (PS3) 3. Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) 4. Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3) 5. Left 4 Dead 2 (XBOX 360) 6. Ghostbusters (XBOX 360) 7. Demon's Souls (PS3) 8. New Super Mario Bros. (Wii) 9. inFamous (PS3) 10.Assassin's Creed II (XBOX 360)Worst games of 2009 which I tried to play 1. Velvet Assassin (PC) 2. Saboteur (Full of glitches) (

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Today I got my copy of Hanuman which is India's so called first game on PS2 (Actually it is Singstar Bollywood) and published by Sony. I spent Rs. 499 for that which is not a bad price for a PS2 game. People might argue that we should sell it in 100-200 range to beat piracy but Aurona/Sony is not copying the DVDs, they are making it..they are making a game and any PSx owner will happily pay this

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OMG

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One thing which is rarely talked about in the PM or upper group is about one of those competent folks who grew up though the technical ranks and took his place as a project leader though wit, skill, and the ability to communicate clearly to non-technical audiences.These folks can maintain a tremendous bridge among non-technical, QA and all people relevant. These guys assess technical risks,

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Few days back, we had an internal seminar on User Contribution System and I'm publishing my presentation which had two parts; one is My Experience with User Contribution System and other is What we can do in our company.Here's the first part:Throughout my professional life, I’ve taken advantages of various User Contribution mediums like:1. Codeguru.com: Always been a great resource of beautiful

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A new computer game developed by MIT and Singaporean students ve taken the video out of videogames, making it possible for visually impaired people to play the game on a level field with their sighted friends.The game, called AudiOdyssey, simulates a deejay trying to build up a catchy tune and get people dancing. By swinging the remote-control device used by the Nintendo Wii, which senses motion,

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-First Download RemoteJoyUDL And Extract To Your Desktop.-Make Sure You Have MS .NET Framework version 2.0 installed.-Now you need to install the PSP drivers to your PC.1) Connect you PSP to your PC and copy the "PSPLink" folder from the "PSP FW 3.XX OE" to ms0:/PSP/GAME3XX folder. If you do not have the"GAME3XX" folder in the "PSP" folder, create it.2)On you PSP got to "Games" and run "PSPLink".

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My new big small car. I wanted a hatch and I found Getz 1.3 GLS the best of the lot and I trust Hyundai because I've been driving their vehicle for last seven years.Here are some shots:

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Today I took my Wii to the office and connceted with NEC projector. The huge projection was up in no time and in one shot and projected Wii content on an extra huge wall in one of our demo room. The experience was like playing in a 70 mm theater. Guys started coming in and nothing less than forty people tried their hands with Wii and for most of them, it was the first time experience with Wii.

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Few days back, I read it somewhere that John gonna feature in a game based movie. It largely excited me because I like him and I just love games (u know that). There's no confirmation but rumour is that John is going to act in the movie adaption of Prince of Persia game. Let's see....

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Once a programmer, always a programmer and I've used "not my fault" statement number of times and almost always successfully so here I go again and explain why I'm busy so much that I'm not blogging....Well, working on simulation needs altogether different understanding and though it looks like games in first go but it's much more than that and accuracy is so crucial that you nearly end up

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This is definitely the most proud moment of life. I'm so rich now and so old.I'm amongst those few who have used 10+ game engines in a short span and I'm talking about production value and not about looking at the engines (that way I'm 20 +).I started a long back with Conitec's A4 Engine and then I moved to 5 and later to 6. I created a rally game using that which never saw the light of the day

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Well, all the views in this post are not my views and they are of industry experts. One year back I was working on a project which was supposed to be on PC and then decision was taken to develop both for XBOX and PC and I was really amazed how company took the decision of XBOX and not XBOX 360 but so called visionary grand old man of gaming industry predicted XBOX 360 a failure and was sure that

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Those of you who just don't miss a single opportunity to curse Microsoft, take a gun and shoot at your head!! Those of you who think that XNA is good only for games like tetris and all, c'mon give me a break. Why would Microsoft invest its resources into something which is so elementry.You wanna see what XNA can do for you?? Watch out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OHJpeCwOmkThis is as good as

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Those who've asked me about the status of Indian game companies...here's a small database of the projects being done at various companies:1. Indiagames: This is surely one of the best gaming company in India and with serious business, intention and money. They are universally available on mobile, on PC and now on web in the form of GOD-Games on Demand (god.indiagames.com). Their Emperor Ashoka

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Microsoft tries again to beat the competition. Microsoft launched Virtual Earth 3D, this new technology lets users view a three-dimensional map of, initially, 15 US cities when they use 'Live Search". With the upgraded Virtual Earth 3D, Microsoft has edged ahead of Google in at least one aspect of the race to bring immersive maps to the Net. It has added a missing piece: photorealistic buildings

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Microsoft Corp. is preparing to officially release software that helps small companies do things like build a Web site and maintain business contacts, and plans to link the product to its platform for selling online advertising. A free, ad-supported version of Office Live will give very small businesses the tools to create a Web site with a company domain name, plus 25 company-branded e-mail

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I'll get tired of writing about this company. Google released its word processing application and makes it a part of Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Google bought this for an undisclosed amount. Google is making sure that it's available to all for free (Well, I know why). Google expects that using internet for sharing document with likeminded people and being able to access the document from

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DAMMM GOOGLE!!! They bought over Youtube for $1.65 BILLION. MAN, this company is really crazy. I was so happy to see that at least one company is there which has successfully killed any of Google's recent service i.e. Google Video but here it goes..... and this is the biggest purchase in the history. The all-stock deal was announced on Monday. It came just a few hours after YouTube unveiled

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For long, I've been respecting Apple for coming out with inventions, innovations and originality. They have always been setting trends regardless the losses they were incurring but it was definitely worth the respect. DAMMMMM.... they lose the battle with Creative for iPOD's famous navigation menu and paid them $100M and my respect (only upto some extent) because I always think that Steve et al

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Hey! This is the last time, I'm thanking Knoppix not because I'll stop using this but because this will become my habit, my way of life and I can't keep on blogging that I'm breathing. This time, it was the turn of my brother who had an urgent delivery the next day and his hard disk was denying the PC to start. The minute he was connecting the HDD as slave, it was rebooting system but if you

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It was the day of 13th Sept 2006 when my wife's laptop got infected by a backdoor virus and once she restarted her PC after running Norton, it just didn't boot up. Attempted 100 times but failed in all the possible modes. She contacted me and I asked her to check for a bootable CD and check norton's CD again for any DOS based tool but there was not DOS tool available with Norton so this attempted

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Today, my personal computer is running on AMD 3800+ and with 2 GB RAM and it has nVIDIA 7800 AGP card. My cellphone is running at a blazing speed of 533 MHz (I'm sure my kid gonna laugh about it 5 yrs down the line when he'll see blazing) and has cool 256MB RAM with 2GB+ data storage. Our (my and my wife Aastha's) IBM laptops are running at 1.7 and 1.8 GHz centrino with 1 GB RAM each. I have

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My First owned one was: Date of Purchase: 18th January 1994 PC: Intel 386 (It was freakin 33MHz and my friends used to say that it was too advanced and I had Office, CorelDraw, Pagemaker, VB2 and 3, TC++, Foxpro and many more stuff) RAM: Simmtronix 4 MB HDD: Seagate 260 MB (was huge) Display: Microtek Mono VGA 14" Keyboard: TVSE Mouse: No Mouse Sorry, I bought a trackball instead and that was

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Today Microsoft launched the beta version of Windows Live Writer and this post is typed in that. Now I've to see how it works. btw it's essentially a new word processor app. Windows Live Writer is "a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service." The Windows Live Writer product features: WYSIWYG Authoring Photo

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Touch screens have reached a whole new level! Most of us use a single contact touch screen as part of our daily lives when we use an ATM or information kiosk but there's new multi-touch screen technology that will change the way we interact with computers. The brainchild of New York based research scientist Jeff Han, the screen allows you to interact with the computer screen using multi touch

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Here’s a story that proves just about anything is possible using the internet. Remember the Kerrigan’s Bonnie Doon holiday house in the hit movie The Castle? Well, it happens to be up for sale. There’s a young Canadian bloke living in Montreal who is a huge fan of the movie "The Castle" and he wants to buy the Kerrigan's Bonnie Doon Holiday house. Trouble is he has no money. So, what is a young

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In San Bernardino, USA; cops are trialling a new tech crime-fighting weapon. It’s a portable fingerprint scanner that connects police on the beat with a massive fingerprint data base and allows them to check a suspects real identity without having to drag him or her back to the police station. The officer scans each thumb print, takes a digital photo and, in just three minutes, he is armed with a

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This is crazy, innovative and creative. I don't know how user friendly it will be but it sure strikes my cords.Don't miss it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWe-TIy2Lbs&search=bumptop

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Inexpensive, easily-made medical sensors and disposable testing kits need inexpensive, easily-made power sources, but until now, these have been difficult to come by. "DNA Chip" type biosensors and the like don't need a lot of power, but they do need some. With that in mind, a research team at Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology led by Dr Ki Bang Lee has devised a

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This new external battery system is made for iPod Nano to provide an extra 12 hours of running time. A USB cable adapter lets you charge your cell phone in the middle of nowhere. Fully charged in 2.5 hours, it comes with a case and international AC adapter. Available in white and black.

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Sending flowers and a card is one of the time honored ways of showing you care. But what if the store doesn't have the right card to say what you want? Or what if you want to make a very special impression that will last even beyond when the flowers have faded? With the Flower Printer you can place messages and pictures directly on the delicate petals of flowers without damaging or ripping the

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Two of my favorite things meet up. I love Robotics and I love Microsoft and now the news is that Microsoft has finally decided to get into the Robotics with development kit. Microsoft has already setup the Microsoft Robotics Studio.Microsoft also has several academic and commercial partners that plan to support its robotics software. These include CMU, Lego, CoroWare, KUKA Robot Group, Robosoft

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Well, this blog had been silent for last 3-4 days but all for good reason. I recently experienced myself how powerful blogging has become. India's one of the finest tech magazine i.t. Magazine (EFY's Production) has selected me to write Gadgets and Gizmo section for them and definitely my blog helped them to identify my interest area and gave me this honorable task.THAT IS THE POWER OF BLOGGING.I

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I'd really say that Word 2007 is a major leap from the existing version of Word. It has tons of new features and I'll be talking about each of them here on my blog but let's start with the most relevant thing here i.e. Blogging using Word.Word has dedicated Blog Post tab. It has some special commands that you will need to manage your blog service accounts and publish your posts, Even added

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Google Spreadsheet is just around the corner which will allow you to work on your spreadsheets online and let others have a look or even edit them. I wonder if it can affect Excel's potential to even one bit but if it does then Microsoft should immediately call a meeting and prepare a warpath NOW as Excel is one of the finest tool they have created and losing dominance even by 1% would really

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I recently heard Oracle’s Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson saying that most software people are not trained to think in terms of safety, security and reliability Instead, they are wedded to a culture of "patch, patch, patch," at a cost to businesses of $59 billion."What if civil engineers built bridges the way developers write code?" she asked. "What would happen is that you would get the

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Google does it again. I recently got to hear about Google Sketchup which is a 3D Modeling tool.Here's the description straight from Google:Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. And once you've

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As promised, I've complete testing Microsoft's Onecare.First some positive points:This is the only product which offers all in one caring solution and does good (not earth shattering though). We are waiting for Symantec's Genesis (Codename) to come out in the market which will also be offering all possible features.Secondly it scores points at ease of use.It's a no-hassle way to combine hard-disk

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USB This, USB That, USBx, USBy........the list is growing and this is getting weird day by day and one recent example is USB Pencil Sharpner. I really don't understand the purpose but it's definitely fun. This connects to USB and flashing light shows that your pencil is actually sharpened.Specifications :USB powered for office/home user.Shinning flash LED shows in process.USB powered with low

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Skype has now promised free VoIP to landline calls for residents of US and Canada till the years end. This allows for free phone calls through their service for calls made within the US & Canada. Most likely a promotion based move this free trial is trying to attract new customers in the long run. Well they've gotten my friend Aaron to try it out and so far he loves it so its working. All that

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Microsoft finally ventured into standalone security software. Microsoft will start selling its latest security offering "OneCare" from 1st June. This has Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Backup and firewall.This is going to cost $49.95 to protect three computers per year.Both Symantec and McAfee are preparing all-in-one software packages that aim to do the same as OneCare.I've downloaded the 90 days

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Here I go again...I've been telling people the basic difference between Toshiba and other laptop/handheld companies. Toshiba always innovates and rest follow. See the example of first Wi-Fi PDA, Libbero and HD-DVD. Toshiba does it again by showing the prototype of fuel cell for which it was working for last four years.Electronics companies are promoting fuel cells as an environmentally-friendly

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At first it looks like a ball. It's basically a wireless communication device that can be connected to any online data source--your stock portfolio, the National Weather Service, company servers--and programmed to change colors as information changes. you can use the Orb to check the results of software tests that are run overnight. If the Orb is green, you know right away that the tests worked.

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Industry experts were sure that Nintendo will pitch its console's price lower than its competitors and that's what happened on Friday. Nintendo's Wii gonna cost us $250 or a bit less than that.The company added it aims to sell six million machines by March 2007.PS3 will be in the range of $499-599 and XBOX 360 costs $299.

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Just the day google signed the deal with Dell, Yahoo signed the deal with ebay to sell branded ad on ebay and Yahoo will use ebay's paypal service to offer payment for various yahoo owned services.What a day....

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Yesterday, google signed a deal with Dell and all dell PCs will be shipped with google's product line preinstalled on it.This is a serious threat to Microsoft but Microsoft did the same to root out Netscape and many other such products.Google promised that this is just the first step and many more news are bound to come in coming months.

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Samsung is planning to unveil their hybrid drive next week. The drive is called a hybrid hard drive, because it includes flash memory storage space apart from the usual magnetic disk storage. The flash memory acts as a storage buffer, holding data until it's full and only then writing the data to the disk.This cuts down on the amount of disk activity as the new drive spins only a few seconds

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We always knew that Acer was planning to come out with Blu-ray laptops but just came to know that Acer is planning to release laptops with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD both.This is an unofficial news but coming from reliable source so find it worth posting here.

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This week .mobi domain is launched which is intended for sites that offer mobile content.The first limited phase, which lasts a week, is for members of the world's various mobile phone industry groups to grab a .mobi domain for themselves. Almost 3,000 companies are expected to apply during this phase of the rollout.The main period for trademark owners begins on 12 June and runs to 21 August. The

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Wait is over guys!!!XBOX 360 is being launched in India sometime before Diwali and pre-order will start in June for which Microsoft has tied up with Diwali and offering a 10% discount and will be sold at Rs. 19,990/-.The company would set up 1,200 retail centres across seven cities, including four metros, in the country. The Xbox system would have 20 titles at the launch and henceforth, seven to

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It's been a long history that Microsoft kills competition, this way or that way but end result is always the same that Microsoft becomes the number one in the domain.Microsoft had promised to change web designing also which was ruled by Macromedia or Adobe Dreamweaver. Microsoft had long been working on this which was code named as Quartz. Finally Microsoft has announced first Community

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A Bluetooth mirror car kit that hides in your rear view mirror. The rearview mirror, which is larger than most car mirrors, bolts on to your existing mirror offering you information such as caller ID without the worry of taking your eyes off the road for too long. The mirror also has a built in speaker and microphone and features echo cancellation, pairing for up to three Bluetooth-enabled

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Convergence....it's finally happening and happening in India. When I was coding for smartcards sometime back in 1999, one of the guy in Singapore used to tell me that they were working on three in one smartcard which will work as your data storage, your mobile phone SIM and your credit card. Now in India, we have at least two in one where we can use our mobile phone as credit card. The service is

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While surfing the net for Windows Vista's cool features, I came across this very detailed sitewww.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/evaluate/new_network.mspxI'm sure that you'd love the insight details about Vista's networking features.

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www.samsung.com/uk/products/mobilecomputing/ultramobile/np_q1_v000suk.aspIn a bid to crack the crowded market for hand-held computers and music players, Microsoft and two electronics companies, Samsung of Korea and Asus of Taiwan, plan to unveil an ultralight tablet computer on Thursday that melds a laptop and media player into a thin, new device.Samsung’s device, the Q1, will use Microsoft’s

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Sony Corp will release the first laptop capable of playing, editing and recording next-generation, high-definition videos in the Blu-ray DVD format.Sony, which led the development of the Blu-ray format, said on Tuesday the new VAIO AR Premium model will be available this summer for $3,500. Besides the Blu-ray DVD drive, the entertainment-oriented notebook computer features a 17-inch (43-

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The world is changing, Dr. Hiroshi says that very soon it'd be difficult to recognize who's a robot and who's a human and that's what we call Android Science. He's already done it by creating Repliee.There are robots being used to simulate medical teaching for newborn delivery so we have pregnant robots also.We already have moving and working robots.Before I could breathe easy that everything is

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There was one news on the air few months back which shook most of us. It was a paper leak case in India's most reputed medical institute's entrace examination but what shook me was not the paper leak thing but the technology used for it.The guys had used Digital pen which scans and stores upto 100 A5 pages which can be sent to any bluetooth device or can be sent as MMS..One such pen I used

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I still remember that I was promised some earth shattering technologies years back in 2002 (I guess) that I'll be moving around with my PDA and I'd be able to type in the air (read without keyboards) or stroking the tables and the letters would appear on my PDA. It always felt like a scene from a sci-fi movie but I knew that it was not impossible.Now it's here in the form of Bluetooth laser

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Palm 700p Palm 700wAnother phone from Palm..... It looks like 700W except few buttons adjustments, pixel depth and smily kinda look of the phone.Phone Type: CDMA (850/900) and EVDO Compatible. If EVDO is not there then phone falls to 1xRTT.Dimension: 5.08" x 2.28" x 0.89" inches (129 x 58 x 22.5 mm)Weight: 6.4 ounces (180 g

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This year we are celebrating 10 years of first Palm release. In March 1996, Palm Pilot 1000 was released which boasted 160x160 monochrome LCD Display, 128 KB Memory and was powered by Motorola 68328 Processor.It had no backlight and it could only be connected to PC using serial port i.e. no IrDA also.I have always been a follower of Palm's technology and my first PDA was a Palm M500 which had 8MB

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IBM will give schools, libraries and community centers free access to a new website that allows young children and adults with limited English to practice reading aloud, the company announced Wednesday.The website uses newly developed speech-recognition software that "listens" to readers and helps correct errors.The Reading Companion program initially will be available to 62 schools and

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I was reading documents about HDTV and came across this page which has some very good details about HDTV. Please check http://www.theindychannel.com/technology/1455530/detail.html and I'm sure that most of your doubts about what this technology is all about will be clarified.

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We miss you on your Birthday Mr. Edsger Dijkstra!!!! You'll forever be with us as an inspiration to do constructive things in life, to think logically and to think everything analytically.Our salute to the father of Modern Programming!

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When the world was talking about humanoid robot and making movements which show the body joints etc (no offence Mr. Mark Tildon, I'm still a big fan of your Robosapien), Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University was creating absolute human replica robot.Prof Hiroshi named his robot Repliee.Repliee has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow

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Yesterday I was amongst the lucky ones who got access to New Yahoo Mail Beta. When I entered my password, I was welcomed and asked if I wanted to give it a try or switch to the regular stuff. Could I say No to see something for which world was waiting for long (ever since Yahoo acquired Oddpost). I immediately gave it a try.The loading was quick, look was familiar (like Outlook Express) and it

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NEC developed a childcare robot PaPeRo which is capable of recognizing and verbally communicating with people, sending images by mobile phone, playing games ans singing along with others.Some salient features are face recognition. It uses stereoscopic vision made possible by the two cameras in its eyes, to know the distance between it and others and it adjusts this distance. Once it recognizes

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I really wonder why I never thought in that direction? I always wanted to give my house a new look and I thought of changing curtains, paints, chairs and other stuff to suit my appeal but never thought of TV as my expression but one company Hanspree Inc. thought in that direction and changed the way people look at the television. With the tag line "Find Yourself", company is pitching itself to

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I may call it reincarnation of my favorite AIBO but to own this new stuff I'll need to wait for at least another year. Korea based DASATECH (www.dasatech.co.kr) has recently demonstrated their upcoming robo puppy: Genibo (Genius Robot). They didn't close any price for it. If we go by the video then genibo will have louder bark, blue LED eyes, a snout based camera and it will be able to interact

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Finally two weeks back, I shifted my loyalty from Palm. I'm talking about discontinuing long term relationship with my Treo 650 and shifting to O2 EXEC. Any particular reason? No....and Yes.I was quite happy with my Treo but it was getting obsolete with time and Treo itself had come out with 700w so my phone was one version old, could I accept this? No way, the gadget greedy me couldn't take this

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Hitachi claims to be the first company to offer 3.5" half a terabyte HDD. Its new Deskstar T7K500 and Cinemastar 7K500 are optimised for data and multimedia respectively. Both run on 7200 RPM and contain three platters storing 160GB apiece.Cinemastar is for consumer electronics and video devices and run cooloer than their desktop mates and can tolerate a wider range of temperatures. A thermal

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I was always under the impression that nothing can beat the fun of Roller Coaster, the sheer adventure filled with fun........ but technology evolution forces you to change your perceptions and that's what happened when I found out about Robocoaster made by Kuka Roboter, Germany.Robocoaster gives you complete freedom of movement and the best part is that you can't predict what's gonna happen next

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This has to be my first post for various reasons. This is a perfect use of technology to overcome a practical and amongst the most common problem we face. There's an Indian name behind this product.A few days back I was watching "Beyond Tomorrow" on Discovery channel and found out about some cool stuff and this awesome gadget was featured in that. The Clocky is designed by Gauri Nanda, a lifelong

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Welcome to my blog. This blog is dedicated to technology and management.

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