Digital India - Here's why I strongly support it

Let's talk about the dream of Digital India. Sorry, it's not a dream, It's a hope. As I born and brought up in a small village, so I am still struggling to get a good internet connection. And I know the struggle throughout. Maybe after 2006 I was somewhat introduced to internet in a good manner. That too from a public cyber cafe. I had some school project related work, that needed some information from internet. Though in school we taught how to send email, but I didn't had a email id then. And I don't know how to create an email id. I just know there is yahoo and google, who provide email services. So after my work done, me and one of my friend decided to create an email id. But we didn't know how to do it. We asked the cafe operator, he tried but he also failed. After few try one of my brother finally help me made an email id, later he introduced me to orkut. That time we are not aware of facebook at all. That time I can't find anyone from my locality on those sites not even my friends. I didn't hope so. Even I didn't dream of it.

Except my little work on internet, this orkut is the thing which attracted me to the internet a lot. My visits to the public cyber cafe was gradually increasing. I introduced to so many things available in the internet. Even some pink sites. So I decided to get a internet connection at my home. But the only option at my place was dial-up internet. I didn't accept it. Later I got an GPRS enabled mobile phone. Then I started using mobile as a modem cause data cards weren't available in the market that time. I learnt to download free songs from online. So, downloading songs, orkuting, funny group mails blah blah blah was my mostly used area in the internet. Though sometime checking out some result or some educational quarries was the license of mine to use the internet. But Internet is not the only place to do all those thing or put a Big status update on social networking sites. There are so many other services. It's up to you, how you'll use it. But as on today it's a necessity.

Few days back, our friends are having an chat session, one guy's phone rang, he got an mail saying that he's selected for a job. That how our life changed with digital revolution. Just hope if the govt services also become digital, how our work will be simpler. Our wait of uncertainty will be over with a click of microseconds.

That is why I strongly support Digital India...

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Namo AV - India's own free anti virus

NaMo Anti-Virus Freeware for PCs

Homegrown IT firm Innovazion has named its new antivirus software 'NaMo'--after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popular diminutive.

The software will provide free protection to PC users against malware and virus attacks.


While the current version offers basic protection, the company plans to launch advanced versions of the software as well as those for Apple's Mac PCs. The current software will also get regular updates.

"India is the third largest country globally in terms of Internet users. However, statistics show that only 13 per cent are using valid license of antivirus software and 30 per cent tend to re-install trial versions of same or other antivirus software," Innovazion CEO Abhishek Gagneja told PTI.

However, the remaining 57 per cent systems either have no protection or are using unknown applications for protection of their devices and this is the segment that NaMo AV is targetting, he added.

Gagneja, however, clarified that the company has no association with any political party or its leaders.

"By building this software, we wanted to ... congratulate the current government. We also want to pass a message to the government that the nation has high expectations from them," he said.

The anti-virus has features like real-time detection of infections, intelligent scanning, custom detection and is light on the hard drive.

Started in 2007, Innovazion has a presence in seven countries including India, the US, the UK, Germany, Canada, Romania, China and Singapore with over 500 employees.

Its primary services are application development, business consulting, IT infrastructure management and marketing research.

Asked about the revenue model, Gagneja said the company would continue to offer the security software for free.

"We have other businesses that are doing well. Last year, the group's revenue was USD 16 million, which we expect will grow 100 per cent this year. NaMo AV will continue to be a free product," he said.

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Computer Virus Funny By Koushik Basu: A very funny video about how computer viruses works in our computer.

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FIFA Brasil World Cup - 2014 Schedule/ Tournament Fixtures in IST (Indian Standard Time)

FIFA 2014 Brazil World Cup Fixtures in IST

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Google: GPA, test scores aren't the criteria for hiring

MOUNTAIN VIEW: Last June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The New York Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google — i.e, the guy in charge of hiring for one of the world's most successful companies — noted that Google had determined that "GPAs are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. ... We found that they don't predict anything."

He also noted that the "proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time" — now as high as 14% on some teams. At a time when many people are asking, "How's my kid gonna get a job?" I thought it would be useful to visit Google and hear how Bock would answer.

Laszlo Bock, the guy in of hiring for Google

Don't get him wrong, Bock begins, "Good grades certainly don't hurt." Many jobs at Google require math, computing and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can apply, it would be an advantage. But Google has its eyes on much more.

"There are five hiring attributes we have across the company," explained Bock. "If it's a technical role, we assess your coding ability, and half the roles in the company are technical roles. For every job, though, the No. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it's not IQ. It's learning ability. It's the ability to process on the fly. It's the ability to pull together disparate bits of information. We assess that using structured behavioral interviews that we validate to make sure they're predictive."

The second, he added, "is leadership — in particular emergent leadership as opposed to traditional leadership. Traditional leadership is, were you president of the chess club? Were you vice president of sales? How quickly did you get there? We don't care. What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else? Because what's critical to be an effective leader in this environment is you have to be willing to relinquish power."

What else? Humility and ownership.

"It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in," he said, to try to solve any problem — and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. "Your end goal," explained Bock, "is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back."

And it is not just humility in creating space for others to contribute, says Bock, it's "intellectual humility. Without humility, you are unable to learn." It is why research shows that many graduates from hotshot business schools plateau. "Successful bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don't learn how to learn from that failure," Bock said.

"They, instead, commit the fundamental attribution error, which is if something good happens, it's because I'm a genius. If something bad happens, it's because someone's an idiot or I didn't get the resources or the market moved. ... What we've seen is that the people who are the most successful here, who we want to hire, will have a fierce position. They'll argue like hell. They'll be zealots about their point of view. But then you say, 'here's a new fact,' and they'll go, 'Oh, well, that changes things; you're right.'" You need a big ego and small ego in the same person at the same time.

The least important attribute they look for is "expertise." Said Bock: "If you take somebody who has high cognitive ability, is innately curious, willing to learn and has emergent leadership skills, and you hire them as an HR person or finance person, and they have no content knowledge, and you compare them with someone who's been doing just one thing and is a world expert, the expert will go: 'I've seen this 100 times before; here's what you do.'" Most of the time the non-expert will come up with the same answer, added Bock, "because most of the time it's not that hard." Sure, once in a while they will mess it up, he said, but once in a while they'll also come up with an answer that is totally new. And there is huge value in that.

To sum up Bock's approach to hiring: Talent can come in so many different forms and be built in so many nontraditional ways today, hiring officers have to be alive to every one - besides brand-name colleges. Because "when you look at people who don't go to school and make their way in the world, those are exceptional human beings. And we should do everything we can to find those people." Too many colleges, he added, "don't deliver on what they promise. You generate a ton of debt, you don't learn the most useful things for your life. It's [just] an extended adolescence."

Google attracts so much talent it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like GPA. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers. But Bock is saying something important to them, too: Beware. Your degree is not a proxy for your ability to do any job. The world only cares about — and pays off on — what you can do with what you know (and it doesn't care how you learned it). And in an age when innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, it also cares about a lot of soft skills — leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability and loving to learn and re-learn. This will be true no matter where you go to work.

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Intel Edison: an SD-card sized PC, Intel is on the way towards Wearable Computing

LAS VEGAS: Consumer Electronics Show (CES), 2014
How small a computer can get?
If you ask Intel it is already as small as a SD card!
Intel has unveiled Edison, a computer housed in an "SD card form factor".

The device uses Quark microprocessor technology that was showed by Intel a few months ago. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said that the "computer" is meant to be used in wearable smart devices like a health tracker or in everyday products like coffee mugs that has to be connected to the internet.



Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has revealed the company's vision for wearable computing - and at its core is an SD-card sized PC called Edison.

Edison is based on Quark technology, the tiny, low-power system-on-a-chip that was designed for wearable computers, such as smart watches, and the Internet of Things.

Quark was unveiled in September, and Intel used the first keynote at CES 2014 to reveal Edison, a dual-core, 22nm version built in an SD card housing for easy development.

"It's a full Pentium-class PC in the form factor of an SD card," Krzanich said.

It not only supports multiple OSes and has built-in support for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but it also has its own app store - and has Wolfram Alpha's Mathematica baked in by default.

Edison will be available in the middle of this year, Krzanich said. "We believe that Edison will enable rapid innovation and rapid product development," he said.

What is Wearable Computing? 

A term that refers to computer-powered devices or equipment that can be worn by a user, including clothing, watches, glasses, shoes and similar items. Wearable computing devices can range from providing very specific, limited features like heart rate monitoring and pedometer capabilities to advanced “smart” functions and features similar to those a smartphone or smart-watch offers.

These more advanced wearable computing devices can typically enable the wearer to take and view pictures or video, read text messages and emails, respond to voice commands, browse the web and more. While wearable computing devices are only just now starting to emerge from the realm of science fiction into reality, rumored devices like Google Glasses and the Apple iWatch may soon bring advanced wearable computing devices into the mainstream.

Wearable examples

Krzanich admitted wearables were an area that needed kick-starting. "Why aren't wearables everywhere, what's holding back wearbles in this market place?” he asked.

He had his own answer: current wearables require the user to carry another device at the same time, and they don't solve real life problems. To fix that, he called for the industry to "make everything smart" and advised that "simplicity makes technology desirable."

To lead by example, Krzanich unveiled Intel's own versions of key devices to inspire the rest of the industry.
First up was a connected headset, a pair of smart earbuds that track biometrics such as heart rate and pulse while still playing audio. The data is sent to a smartphone, and the earbuds harvest energy directly from the wearer, so they don't require batteries.

Smart Earbuds

The second device was a smart charging bowl. Simply drop a device - such as the smart earbuds - into the bowl, and they charge automatically without fiddling with wires.

"It's a very simple device you can leave on your counter, and it will go ahead and charge what you need," he said. "This is one of those key deliverables that will make wearables work."

The third demo Krzanich showed off was a smart watch, which has its own connectivity so it doesn't require tethering. It also features what he calls geofencing, letting it track the wearer.

For example, a parent could use it to track a child on their walk to school. If the child deviates from the standard path, or doesn't get to school on time, the parent is automatically notified.

Smart turtles

Krzanich also showed off a "smart turtle" baby monitoring system, created by MIT based firm Rest Devices using an early version of Edison.

Calling it nursery 2.0, Krzanich showed how the turtle-shaped monitoring device can be clipped to a baby's clothing to keep watch of its movement, pulse or breathing.

Turtle

The signal is interpreted and sent to a coffee cup that displays breathing patterns and other notifications that indicate if a child is unhappy.

Intel Cup

The system can even be connected to an Edison-embedded smart bottle warmer, so if the child's activity suggests it's hungry, the bottle will be ready to go by the time mum or dad realises it's feeding time.

Wearable contest

To help spur such creativity in wearables, Krzanich unveiled an Intel competition to create innovation designs using Edison.

The top prize is $500,000, with a total $1.3 million at stake, and the top ten creations will be brought to market by Intel and partners, he said.

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It's Blue Monday aka most depressing day of year

 New York, Jan. 06:

Feeling the Monday blues a bit more today?

You're not alone.

With millions of people around the world coming back to work on Jan. 6, various web analytics and social media statistics showed that Jan. 6 is the most depressing day of 2014. Further analysis showed it is mainly because it is the first Monday of getting back to work.

Researchers have named this Monday as the most depressing day of the year.
Researchers for protein drink Upbeat analyzed two million tweets that were posted in the last three January's, and found that it was a day when people break their new year's resolutions, the New York Daily News reported.

The study also found that people, who are unhappy with their love lives, look for a new partner and those unhappy at their work place consider switching.

The first Monday of the month also sees record posts about feeling guilty, being tired, eating too much, being broke or wanting to quit the UK for warmer climate.

According to relationship experts, the strains of festive family get-togethers coupled with alcohol could lead to marriages crumbling.

IllicitEncounters.com also sees a 25 per cent increase in activity after the festive break.

Feeling Glum?

 Reasons: Why People Are Depressed on Jan. 6, 2014

The most recent report revealed that most feel low because of lack of sleep and the struggle to keep up with their New Year's resolutions. Guilty-ridden tweets are also five times higher as people go back to work and get to arrive in a lot of realizations. The report also showed that the female population seem to stay more positive throughout the entire first month of the year.

Out of a total score of 100, most women got an average of 67. Susan Hignett, brand manager of a high energy protein drink called Upbeat, said it is normal for people to find some days very tough to stay positive.

However, there are also the leading times of the year when almost everyone feels great, upbeat, motivated and positive. Those top six dates of 2013 include Dec. 24 and 25, Jan. 1, Feb. 14, April 20 and July 7.

Jan. 6 can truly be a depressing day. But there are ways that an individual can do to keep him on top of his moods and stay happy.

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Hackers steal 2 million Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo passwords

BOSTON: Security experts have uncovered a trove of some 2 million stolen passwords to websites including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo from internet users across the globe.

2 Million Google, Facebook, Twitter Passwords Stolen

Are you safe?

Researchers with Trustwave's SpiderLabs said they discovered the credentials while investigating a server in the Netherlands that cybercriminals use to control a massive network of compromised computers known as the "Pony botnet."

The company said that it has reported its findings to the largest of more than 90,000 websites and internet service providers whose customers' credentials it had found on the server.

The data includes more than 3,26,000 Facebook accounts, some 60,000 Google accounts, more than 59,000 Yahoo accounts and nearly 22,000 Twitter accounts, according to SpiderLabs. Victims' were from the United States, Germany, Singapore and Thailand, among other countries.

Representatives for Facebook and Twitter said the companies have reset the passwords of affected users. A Google spokeswoman declined comment. Yahoo representatives could not be reached.

SpiderLabs said it has contacted authorities in the Netherlands and asked them to take down the Pony botnet server.

An analysis posted on the SpiderLabs blog showed that the most-common password in the set was "123456," which was used in nearly 16,000 accounts. Other commonly used credentials included "password," "admin," "123" and "1."

Graham Cluley, an independent security expert, said it is extremely common for people to use such simple passwords and also re-use them on multiple accounts, even though they are extremely easy to crack.
"People are using very dumb passwords. They are totally useless," he said.

The list of hacked account provided SpiderLabs:
· 318,000 Facebook accounts
· 70,000 Gmail, Google+ and YouTube accounts
· 60,000 Yahoo accounts
· 22,000 Twitter accounts
· 9,000 Odnoklassniki accounts (a Russian social network)
· 8,000 ADP accounts (ADP says it counted 2,400)
· 8,000 LinkedIn accounts

Opinion:

Were you on the hackers’ hit list? How can you find out and what do you do about it?
Like most of you, I am on Twitter, Facebook, Google and every other major website or social network out there, and though I have learned that privacy and the Internet in the same sentence is an oxymoron, we still hope for a certain modicum of security when using these sites.
Maybe I should say an illusion of privacy. With that said, shouldn’t Facebook, Google, Twitter and the rest notify users of the breach? If they did, I have yet to receive an email or notification.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and ADP claim they have notified the compromised users, but CNN Money said Google and Yahoo declined to comment.
To be on the safe side, I recommend changing all your passwords immediately and refraining from posting all your personal information online, although that ship may have already sailed for most of us.

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India To Have World's Largest Facebook Population By 2016: Study

Indians are increasingly logging into their Facebook and Twitter accounts, with the country recording the highest social networking growth of 37.4 per cent this year, according to a new study.

India To Have World's Largest Facebook Population By 2016

India will also have the world’s largest Facebook population by 2016, according to research firm eMarketer.


India, with the highest growth this year, will increase the user numbers by 37.4 per cent, while Indonesia’s numbers will climb 28.7 per cent and Mexico will grow its social network user base by 21.1 per cent.


All the three countries are also high-growth areas for Facebook, the world’s largest social network, which eMarketer estimates will reach a worldwide monthly user base of 1.026 billion this year.


The US remains the single country with the largest number of Facebook users, at 146.8 million this year, and India comes in a distant second.


But with India’s large population and high expected growth rate, eMarketer believes the country will develop the largest Facebook population of any country in the world by 2016.

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Two Indian Institute of Science scientists crack mystery of black holes

Theoretical physicists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore have unraveled new facts about black holes that are expected to have significant impact on understanding these cosmic bodies better. A black hole is a region of space-time from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping.

Banibrata Mukhopadhyay and Indrani Banerjee

IISc researchers, Banibrata Mukhopadhyay and Indrani Banerjee for the first time established a correlation between two fundamental and important facets of black holes (BHs) — their mass and their spin.

 Black holes of stellar mass are expected to form when very massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. After a black hole has formed it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings. By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes, super-massive black holes of millions of solar masses may form. There is general consensus that super-massive black holes exist in the centers of most galaxies. The hole is called “black” because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics.

Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with electromagnetic radiation such as light. Matter falling onto a black hole can form an accretion disk heated by friction, forming some of the brightest objects in the universe. Astronomers have identified numerous stellar black hole candidates in binary systems, and established that the core of our Milky Way galaxy contains a super-massive black hole of about 4.3 million solar masses.

Until the last decade, while the masses of several BHs had been determined independently through observation, there was no estimate of their spin. The IISc team has found that for a fixed accretion rate, the mass of Black Holes increases with the increasing spin, thus establishing a correlation between the two parameters for the first time.

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