Huawei to launch cheaper MediaPad 7 Lite Android tab

After the Google Nexus, Huawei is also eyeing the low cost tablet market with the feature rich Huawei MediaPad lite.

Chinese handset manufacturer, Huawei is planning to launch a low cost version of its MediaPad tablet. To be called as MediaPad 7 Lite, the tablet is expected to compete with other low cost tablet counterparts like the Google Nexus 7 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. The pricing details however are not available but the company might soon reveal the details about the pricing of the device.

Huawei had announced its entry in the Indian tablet market last year with the launch of the MediaPad tablet. Although internationally several other models of Huawei tablets were made available, India only got the MediaPad.

The MediaPad 7 Lite features a 7 inch display with a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution, a front and rear camera capable for high definition recording. The tablet is powered by a 1.2GHz Cortex A8 architecture based dual core processor, 1 GB of RAM and comes with 8 GB of internal storage. The operating system chosen by the company is Android 4.0 with expected upgrade to Android jelly bean 4.1 too.

Similar to the earlier MediaPad, Huawei has given this tablet a metal unibody to give it rich looks and strength. Along with this MediaPad tablet will feature integrated 3G with calling capabilities. For connectivity, the MediaPad 7 Lite has b/g/n wireless, Bluetooth 3.0 and a 4,100 mAh battery for decent backup time as well.

Famous Scientist ( Gerhard Domagk )

-: Gerhard Domagk :-

Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (30 October 1895 – 24 April 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730) – the first commercially available antibiotic (marketed under the brand name Prontosil) – for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg, the son of a school headmaster. Until he was 14, he attended school in Sommerfeld (now Lubsko, Poland). Domagk studied medicine at the University of Kiel, but volunteered to serve as a soldier in World War I, where he was wounded in December 1914, working the rest of the war as medic. After the war, he finished his studies, and worked at the University of Greifswald, where he researched infections caused by bacteria. In 1925, he followed his professor Walter Gross to the University of Münster (WWU) and became professor there himself. He also started working at the Bayer laboratories at Wuppertal. The same year, he married Gertrud Strübe. Later they would have three sons and a daughter.

Swipe Telecom launches Android ICS 3D tablet

Swipe Telecom has launched 3D tablet PC called 3D LIFE which runs on Android 4.03 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system. Priced at Rs 5,999, it has a 7-inch TFT five point touch capacitive screen packing 800x480 pixels.

Swipe Telecom's new tablet 3D LIFE is powered by A13 Cortex processor with a 1.5GHZ clock speed, 4GB internal memory and a 512 MB DD RAM.

Swipe Telecom says that the tablet can play videos for 5-6 hours at a stretch, being powered by a 3400 mAH battery.

3D LIFE boasts of a 2MP front camera which supports video calling.

Famous Scientist ( Pierre Jean George Cabanis )

-: Pierre Jean George Cabanis :-

Pierre Jean George Cabanis

Pierre Jean George Cabanis (5 June 1757 – 5 May 1808) was a French physiologist and materialist philosopher.

He was born at Cosnac (Corrèze), the son of Jean Baptiste Cabanis (1723–1786), a lawyer and agronomist. At the age of ten, he attended the college of Brives, where he showed great aptitude for study, but his independence of spirit was so great that he was almost constantly in a state of rebellion against his teachers and was finally expelled. He was then taken to Paris by his father and left to carry on his studies at his own discretion for two years.

 From 1773 to 1775 he travelled in Poland and Germany, and on his return to Paris he devoted himself mainly to poetry. About this time he sent to the Académie française a translation of the passage from Homer proposed for their prize, and, though he did not win, he received so much encouragement from his friends that he contemplated translating the whole of the Iliad.

At his father's wish, he gave up writing and decided to engage in a more settled profession, selecting medicine. In 1789 his Observations sur les hôpitaux (Observations on hospitals, 1790) procured him an appointment as administrator of hospitals in Paris, and in 1795 he became professor of hygiene at the medical school of Paris, a post which he exchanged for the chair of legal medicine and the history of medicine in 1799.

Partly because of his poor health, he tended not to practise as a physician, his interests lying in the deeper problems of medical and physiological science. During the last two years of Honoré Mirabeau's life, Cabanis was intimately connected with him, and wrote the four papers on public education which were found among the Mirabeau's papers at his death, and were edited by the real author soon afterwards in 1791. During the illness which terminated his life Mirabeau trusted entirely to Cabanis' professional skills.

 Of the death of Mirabeau, Cabanis drew up a detailed narrative, intended as a justification of his treatment of the case. He was enthusiastic about the French Revolution and became a member of the Council of Five Hundred and then of the conservative senate, and the dissolution of the Directory was the result of a motion which he made to that effect. His political career was brief. Hostile to the policy of Napoleon Bonaparte, he rejected every offer of a place under his government. He died at Meulan.

His body is buried in the Pantheon and his heart in Auteuil Cemetery in Paris.

Creative Ziio 10 inch tablet - CES 2011

Reebok ZigTech - Technology

Reebok ZigTech once again delivers a bold, unique style that provides the perfect combination of cushioning and energy return. This in depth video provides the science and engineering of how ZigTech performs like no other running shoe.

Lenovo unveils All-in-One PC

MUMBAI: Lenovo, India's biggest PC vendor, announced the launch of IdeaCentre A720, the world's slimmest All-in-One computer, in the country at a price of Rs 89,990 onwards. The USP of this PC, which is powered by a 3rd generation Intel Core i7 processor, is its thin, frameless display.

The sleek 27" Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 also boasts of a 10-finger multi-touch screen that folds down flat for interactive tabletop games. This computer's adjustable hinge allows the screen to be pulled towards the user and folded back. It has various integrated entertainment features, such as Lenovo High-Sense (720p HD) webcam and Lenovo IdeaTouch, a suite of touch-optimised applications and games.

Key highlights of the product are as follows:

Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® 2GB Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 8-ready 27" full HD (1920x1080) frameless 10-point multi-touch display (16:9 widescreen) Up to 8GB DDR3 memory, up to 1TB HDD and up to 64GB SSD storage DVD reader/writer or Blu-ray Disc drive Bluetooth Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) USB2.0, USB3.0 connectors & 6in1 card reader HDMI in/out Integrated stereo speakers supporting Dolby Home Theatre V4 audio enhancement Integrated TV tuner 40% faster boot time than standard Windows 7 computers 

Famous Scientist ( Marcellin Berthelot )

-: Marcellin Berthelot :-

Marcellin Berthelot

KPierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot (25 October 1827 – 18 March 1907) was a French chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen-Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances and disproved the theory of vitalism. He is considered as one of the greatest chemists of all time.

He was born in Paris, the son of a doctor. After doing well at school in history and philosophy, he became a scientist.

The fundamental conception that underlay all Berthelot's chemical work was that all chemical phenomena depend on the action of physical forces which can be determined and measured.

When he began his active career it was generally believed that, although some instances of the synthetic production of organic substances had been observed, on the whole organic chemistry remained an analytical science and could not become a constructive one, because the formation of the substances with which it deals required the intervention of vital activity in some shape.

To this attitude he offered uncompromising opposition, and by the synthetic production of numerous hydrocarbons, natural fats, sugars and other bodies he proved that organic compounds can be formed by ordinary methods of chemical manipulation and obey the same principles as inorganic substances, thus exhibiting the "creative character in virtue of which chemistry actually realizes the abstract conceptions of its theories and classifications—a prerogative so far possessed neither by the natural nor by the historical sciences."

His investigations on the synthesis of organic compounds were published in numerous papers and books, including Chimie organique fondée sur la synthèse (1860) and Les Carbures d'hydrogène (1901).

He stated that chemical phenomena are not governed by any peculiar laws special to themselves, but are explicable in terms of the general laws of mechanics that are in operation throughout the universe; and this view he developed, with the aid of thousands of experiments, in his Mécanique chimique (1878) and his Thermochimie (1897).

Famous Scientist ( Claude Bernard )

-: Claude Bernard :-

Claude Bernard

Claude Bernard (12 July 1813 – 10 February 1878) was a French physiologist. He was the first to define the term milieu intérieur (now known as homeostasis, a term coined by Walter Bradford Cannon). Historian of science I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science".Among many other accomplishments, he was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations.
Bernard was born in 1813 in the village of Saint-Julien near Villefranche-sur-Saône. He received his early education in the Jesuit school of that town, and then proceeded to the college at Lyon, which, however, he soon left to become assistant in a druggist's shop. His leisure hours were devoted to the composition of a vaudeville comedy, and the success it achieved moved him to attempt a prose drama in five acts, Arthur de Bretagne.
At the age of twenty-one in 1834 he went to Paris, armed with this play and an introduction to Saint-Marc Girardin, but the critic dissuaded him from adopting literature as a profession, and urged him rather to take up the study of medicine. This advice Bernard followed, and in due course he became interne at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. In this way he was brought into contact with the great physiologist, François Magendie, who was physician to the hospital, and whose official 'preparateur' at the Collège de France he became in 1841.

Claude Bernard's aim, as he stated in his own words, was to establish the use of the scientific method in medicine. He dismissed many previous misconceptions, took nothing for granted, and relied on experimentation. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he insisted that all living creatures were bound by the same laws as inanimate matter.

Famous Scientist ( Theodor Curtius )

-: Theodor Curtius :-

Theodor Curtius

Geheimrat Professor Dr. Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius (27 May 1857 — 8 February 1928) was professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg University and elsewhere. He published the Curtius rearrangement in 1890/1894 and also discovered diazoacetic acid, hydrazine and hydrazoic acid.

Theodor Curtius was born in Duisburg in the Ruhr area in Germany. He studied chemistry with Robert Bunsen at Heidelberg University and with Hermann Kolbe at Leipzig University. He received his doctorate in 1882 in Leipzig.

After working from 1884 to 1886 for Adolf von Baeyer at the University of Munich, Curtius became the director of the analytical chemistry department at University of Erlangen until 1889. Then he accepted the chair in Chemistry at the University of Kiel, where he remained very studious, writing numerous articles and publications.

In line with this success, Curtius was appointed Geheim Regierungsrat (Privy Councillor) in 1895. After a one-year appointment as the successor of the famous Friedrich Kekulé at Bonn University in 1897, Curtius succeeded Victor Meyer as Professor of Chemistry at his old university in Heidelberg, in 1898, where he remained until his retirement in 1926. He was succeeded by Karl Freudenberg, who wrote Curtius' biography in 1962.

In his free time, he also composed music, sang in concerts, and was an active mountaineer. In 1894 he founded the Kiel section of the Association of German and Austrian Alpinists, which he personally supported with gifts. In his Munich time, he became close friend with alpinist guide Christian Klucker, with whom he made mountaineering hikes for many years after.

10-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 now in India

Global electronics brand Samsung has announced the launch of its latest tablet -- the Galaxy Tab 2, 10.1 -- in the Indian market. The tablet was announced earlier this year during the Mobile World Congress.

The tablet comes with the latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and is the second generation 10.1-inch Android tablet from Samsung.

The Galaxy Tab 2, 10.1 features a dual core 1 GHz processor along with 1 GB of DDR 2 RAM for better multitasking and performance in applications.

The Tab 2 features the all new PLS (Plane to line switching) technology based display; this technology allows the display to show superior colours, contrast and even wider screen viewing angles than the existing IPS technology based displays.

The 10.1-inch display features a capacitive touch and 1204 x 800 pixel native resolution.

The tablet features HSPA+ 3G connectivity allowing it to get data download speeds of up to 21 megabits per second which will come in real handy while accessing social media web sites or while sharing content on various web sites online.

Famous Scientist ( Karin Büttner-Janz )

-: Karin Büttner-Janz :-

Karin Janz

Karin Büttner-Janz (born 17 February 1952 in Hartmannsdorf a district of Lübben (Spreewald), German Democratic Republic (GDR, commonly:East Germany) is a medical doctor, Olympic medal winner in artistic gymnastics and, since March 1990, chief physician of the orthopedic Vivantes hospital in Friedrichshain.

Her first coach was her father Guido Janz, who taught her excellent basics. Karin moved to a sports school in Forst, where she trained under Klaus Helbeck. Her final coach was Jürgen Heritz.

In 1967, at the age of fifteen, Karin Janz was nominated as East German Athlete of the Year despite not yet having had any international success. She went on to win the silver medal on the uneven bars and a bronze medal as part of the country's gymnastics team at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

At the 1970 world championships she overcame Ludmilla Tourischeva on the uneven bars to win the gold medal. In a controversial finish, she delivered another gold medal winning performance on the uneven bars at the 1972 Munich Olympics, defeating Olga Korbut on her favourite apparatus. She also won the gold medal on the vault, a silver medal as part of the East German women's gymnastic team, and bronze on the balance beam.

She was the most successful sports woman of the GDR (German Democratic Republic) at the 1972 Summer Olympics and was recognized there as Sportswoman of the Year in 1972. After these successes she announced her intention of ending her competitive career to turn to the study of medicine to become a physician.

HTC Evo Design 4G

The good: The HTC Evo Design 4G boasts a premium, well-crafted design. It also offers WiMax 4G data, Android 4.0, and HTC's Sense interface.

The bad: The Evo Design 4G suffers from short battery life, a slow processor, and poor call quality.

The bottom line: The HTC Evo Design 4G may be Boost Mobile's top dog but it's fenced in by a high price and weak performance.

Many of the phones and features once reserved for nationwide major carriers have begun to trickle down to prepaid cellular providers. A case in point is the HTC Evo Design 4G for Boost Mobile. This pricey $299.99 smartphone appears to be a modern handset at first glance, running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and offering 4G data. A closer look reveals the device's flaws living below the surface. A slow single-core processor, short battery life, and fuzzy call quality make it a tough sell even considering that its high price doesn't include an onerous service contract.

Design

With its deep black-on-black paint job and metal unibody construction, the HTC Evo Design 4G is darkly delicious and has a luxurious feel. That's quite a feat considering this phone isn't exactly new, first coming to Sprint last fall. The back and edges of the handset are coated in a smooth, soft-touch surface that wicks away moisture, repels fingerprints, and gives fingertips good grip.

Measuring 4.8 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide by 0.47 inch thick and tipping the scales at a hefty 5.2 ounces, the Evo Design 4G is compact but on the chunky side. That's especially true compared with many ultrasvelte numbers like the current king of the Evo line, the HTC Evo 4G LTE (0.35 inch thick, 4.72 ounces). Even the LG Marquee, the Evo Design 4G's closest competitor on Boost Mobile, is smaller, thinner, and lighter (0.36 inch thick, 3.95 ounces).

Features

Originally the Sprint version of the HTC Evo Design 4G shipped with Android 2.3 Gingerbread but backed up by HTC's latest mobile interface, Sense 3.0. Now HTC and Boost Mobile have tried to breathe new life into the phone by updating its core software to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

I certainly appreciate the extra effort, and as a result, the Evo Design 4G feels and acts like a modern smartphone. My test unit came with HTC Sense 3.6 grafted on top of ICS. Those familiar with Sense will recognize the lock screen, which displays time and date up top and four quick-launch icons down below.

Dragging a virtual ring from the foot to the middle of the screen unlocks the phone. Pulling any of the icons into the ring's center fires up the phone function linked to it. By default, icons for Phone, Mail, Camera, Messages, and Camera are listed but you can swap them out for other shortcuts if you'd like. Once it's unlocked, you'll be greeted by seven home screens that you can customize with application shortcuts and widgets. In typical HTC fashion, the company's trademark weather clock widget enjoys a prime spot on the main home screen.

 Sense also provides a strong link to social-networking sites, one of my favorite features of the UI. Natively supported are Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In accounts, which the phone will automatically cross-check against your phone book and suggest contacts to match up across services.

As an Android smartphone, the Evo Design 4G comes with the standard allotment of Google apps and services, including Gmail, Maps, Navigation, Places, YouTube, and Google+. HTC has thrown in its own apps too, such as Friend Stream, Peep, and Footprints, all designed to make social-networking easier. Also onboard is HTC Watch, the company's video download store, HTC Hub for curated apps, Connected Media to access music and other network files, and a transfer app for contacts.

YouTube launches Face Blur to help keep activists anonymous

Video website YouTube unveiled on Wednesday a way for users to automatically blur human faces in videos they upload, a feature that would help protect the identities of political dissidents, YouTube parent Google Inc said.

Once known more as a repository for fuzzy, home-made cat videos, YouTube has become a growing destination for slick, highly produced entertainment and serious news content. Earlier this week, a study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism said amateur "citizen journalism" footage from events such as the 2011 tsunami in Japan were some of the most-watched clips on YouTube.

In recent months YouTube has hosted dozens of videos from the rebellion in Syria, often uploaded by rebels seeking to publicize their struggle. But the videos have also revealed the identity of rebel fighters.

"Whether you want to share sensitive protest footage without exposing the faces of the activists involved, or share the winning point in your 8-year-old's basketball game without broadcasting the children's faces to the world, our face blurring technology is a first step towards providing visual anonymity for video on YouTube," YouTube said in a blog post Wednesday.

The feature also allows for the original copy of the uploaded video to be deleted. Videos may also be kept private.

"YouTube is proud to be a destination where people worldwide come to share their stories, including activists," YouTube said.

Android 4.0 based Funtab Fit launched

New Delhi: Delhi-based Company Go Tech has launched Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-based tablet PC called Funtab Fit.

Funtab Fit—health-oriented device, priced at Rs 5,999, boasts of various health-related applications.

Funtab Fit has a health application feature called Guide My Treatment which according to Go Tech, will help you to get timely attention to your health problems in a simple and hassle free manner.

The tab is also pre-loaded with educational content. Students have access to more than 1500 books and 7500 educational videos.


Interesting Features

7inch display with 800 X 480 pixels resolution

Powered by a 1GHz processor

512 MB of RAM (4GB internal storage capacity, expandable up to 32GB via microSD card)

0.3MP camera for video chats

3,600 mAh battery (4 hours of movie playback and 8 hours of music playback)

Wi-Fi, 3G, and USB 2.0

Has over 20 games and applications like Angry Bird, Tic Tac Toe, Solitaire, Minesweeper et all

Famous Scientist ( Ernst Boris Chain )

-: Ernst Boris Chain :-

Ernst Boris Chain

Sir Ernst Boris Chain FRS (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.

Chain was born in Berlin to a Russian father who moved from his birthland to study chemistry abroad, and a German Berliner mother. In 1930, he received his degree in chemistry from Friedrich Wilhelm University. After the Nazis came to power, Chain knew that he, being Jewish, would no longer be safe in Germany. He left Germany in 1933 and moved to England.

He began working on phospholipids at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University under the direction of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins. In 1935, he accepted a job at Oxford University as a lecturer in pathology. During this time he worked on a range of research topics, including snake venoms, tumour metabolism, lysozymes, and biochemistry techniques.

In 1939, he joined Howard Florey to investigate natural antibacterial agents produced by microorganisms. This led him and Florey to revisit the work of Alexander Fleming, who had described penicillin nine years earlier. Chain and Florey went on to discover penicillin's therapeutic action and its chemical composition. He also theorized the structure of penicillin, which was confirmed by X-ray crystallography done by Dorothy Hodgkin. For this research, Chain, Florey, and Fleming received the Nobel Prize in 1945.

Towards the end of World War II, Chain learned his mother and sister had perished in the war. After World War II, Chain moved to Rome, to work at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Superior Institute of Health). He returned to Britain in 1964 as head of the biochemistry department at Imperial College London.

He was a life long friend of Professor Albert Neuberger, whom he met in Berlin in the 1930s.Chain was knighted in 1969. After his retirement, he moved to Mulranny near Castlebar in the west of Ireland. He died at the Mayo General Hospital in 1979. A road in Castlebar has been named after him.  

Famous Scientist ( Magnus von Braun )

-: Magnus Von Braun :-

Magnus von Braun

Magnus "Mac" Freiherr von Braun (10 May 1919 – 21 June 2003) was a German chemical engineer, Luftwaffe aviator, and rocket scientist at Peenemünde, the Mittelwerk, and after emigrating to the United States via Operation Paperclip, at Fort Bliss. He was the brother of Wernher von Braun.

Von Braun was born in Greifswald, Pomerania, to Magnus Freiherr von Braun and Emmy von Quistrop. After completing boarding school at Hermann Lietz-Schule in Spiekeroog, he began his studies in 1937 at Technische Universität München. There he remained after receiving his Masters degree in organic chemistry, and became an assistant to Nobel laureate Hans Fischer.

Von Braun arrived at Peenemünde in July 1943 at the request of Wernher von Braun. In March 1944 he was arrested with fellow rocket specialists Wernher von Braun, Klaus Riedel, Helmut Gröttrup, and Hannes Lüersen, but was later released.

Von Braun arrived in New York on 16 November 1945 aboard the SS Argentina and was soon at work at Fort Bliss, Texas and later at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. He became a US citizen and produced a version of A Christmas Carol, but with the future in the year 2000 and 88-year-old Wernher von Braun seeing man's first flight into space.

 Von Braun was interrogated as a witness for the Andrae war crimes trial in which Mittelwerk general manager Georg Rickhey was acquitted. Fort Bliss Army CIC agents believed Magnus von Braun was a "dangerous German Nazi", with one agent remarking, "his type is a worse threat to security than a half a dozen discredited SS Generals."

After evacuating from Nordhausen, Magnus von Braun was at the Behelfsheim in Weilheim when Wernher von Braun arrived there from Oberammergau on April 14, 1945. The next day, Magnus had arrived at the Haus Ingeborg in Oberjoch by the end of the day. When Huzel became von Braun's assistant, Dr. Kurt Debus became Engineer in Charge of Test Stand VII -- Huzel had served since May 1944 after replacing his old friend Hartmut Kuechen.

 
The Mittelwerk was designated for production after the August 17, 1944 Operation Hydra bombing of Peenemunde, and production started well afterward, so Magnus von Braun's claim that he was selected to transfer in October 1943 is inaccurate.

After hearing the radio report of Hitler's death, Wernher von Braun announced to his group early in the morning of May 3, 1945 that "Magnus, who speaks English, has just left by bicycle to establish contact with the American forces at Reutte

In 1955, he began a career with Chrysler -- first in the missile division and then in the automotive division. After living in Michigan, he relocated to the UK, working in London and Coventry as Chrysler UK export director. Magnus also resided in Huntsville, Alabama, for a while.

LG Optimus Pad.....!

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HTC phones to support Indian languages

HTC will soon roll-out an update to bring full language support for Hindi, Tamil and Marathi on its One and Desire series of phones.

HTC has announced that it will soon roll-out an update to bring full language support for Hindi, Tamil and Marathi for some of its smartphones. This update will allow users to read and write in these languages on all HTC smartphones that have been launched this year.

The language support will also be available while browsing the internet and in all applications available through Google Play. HTC smartphones that have been launched so far this year include HTC One X, HTC One S, HTC One V, Desire C and Desire V.

HTC Explorer already supports Hindi and Tamil. In fact the company had announced last September that all its smartphones will support Indian languages, and if we go by that statement, patches for Oriya and other languages too will be available soon.

Additionally, HTC also plans to add support for a fourth language, Bengali, on selected applications available on Google Play.

The existing HTC One and Desire series of smartphones will soon get a software update that will add reading and writing capabilities for Hindi, Tamil and Marathi; while Bengali viewing will be available from August.

"HTC is committed to helping Indian consumers communicate easily through a more intuitive mobile experience, which can only be offered with full Indian language capability on their smartphones. HTC continues to be the smartphone brand of choice for the Indian market due to our focus on what the consumer needs, and delivering that in an encompassing, holistic manner," said Faisal Siddiqui, country manager, HTC India.

Last month, Google had announced system-wide support for 18 new input languages on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The list included Indic languages like Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam. This means that all smartphones and tablets that either come with or are upgraded to Android Jelly Bean will support these languages by default.

Showing Off the Best Ultrabook at CES: Acer's Aspire S5

Ultrabooks were the talk of CES this year. Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback looked at Acer's Aspire S5 to show what sets it apart from all the other versions we saw of this ultra-thin, ultra-light laptop.

Famous Scientist ( Max Born )

-: Max Born :-

Max Born

Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Walther Bothe).


Max was born on December 11, 1882 in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), which at Born's birth was in the Prussian Province of Silesia in the German Empire. He was one of two children born to Gustav Born, (b. 22 April 1850, Kempen, d. 6 July 1900, Breslau), an anatomist and embryologist, and Margarethe ('Gretchen') Kauffmann (b. 22 January 1856, Tannhausen, d. 29 August 1886, Breslau), from a Silesian family of industrialists.

Gustav and Gretchen married on 7 May 1881. She died when Max was just four years old, on 29 August 1886.

Max had a sister Käthe (b. 5 March 1884), and a half-brother Wolfgang (b. 21 October 1892) from his father's second marriage (m. 13 September 1891) with Bertha Lipstein.

Initially educated at the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium, Born went on to study at the University of Breslau followed by Heidelberg University and the University of Zurich. During study for his Ph.D. and Habilitation at the University of Göttingen, he came into contact with many prominent scientists and mathematicians including Klein, Hilbert, Minkowski, Runge, Schwarzschild, and Voigt. In 1908-1909 he studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

After Max's Habilitation in 1909, he settled in as a young academic at Göttingen as a Privatdozent (Associate Professor). In Göttingen, Born stayed at a boarding house run by Sister Annie at Dahlmannstraße 17, known as El BoKaReBo. The name was derived from the first letters of the last names of its boarders: “El” for Ella Philipson (a medical student), “Bo” for Born and Hans Bolza (a physics student), “Ka” for Theodore von Kármán (a Privatdozent), and “Re” for Albrecht Renner (a medical student). A frequent visitor to the boarding house was Paul Peter Ewald, a doctoral student of Arnold Sommerfeld on loan to David Hilbert at Göttingen as a special assistant for physics. Richard Courant, a mathematician and Privatdozent, called these people the “in group.”


In memory of his important contributions, the Max Born prize was created by the German Physical Society and the British Institute of Physics. It is awarded annually.

Microsoft unveils Office for tablets

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft unveiled a new version of its Office suite tailored for tablets and other touchscreen devices, in the company's largest-ever overhaul of the workplace software it relies on for much of its profit.

The revamped Office, touted by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer on Monday as the most ambitious version so far, takes advantage of cloud computing and is designed for use with the upcoming Windows 8 operating system.

It makes use of cloud computing by storing documents and settings on the Internet by default, and is compatible with touch screens widely used in tablets. It also incorporates Skype, the video-calling service Microsoft bought for $8.5 billion in 2011.

The latest version of Office comes as Apple Inc and Google Inc make inroads into the workplace, long Microsoft's stronghold. Office is Microsoft's single-biggest profit driver.

"The Office that we'll talk about and show you today is the first round of Office that's designed from the get-go to be a service," Ballmer said at a news conference. "This is the most ambitious release of Microsoft Office that we've ever done."

Microsoft has a lot riding on the 15th version of Office. Windows is one of the world's biggest computing platforms, and the Office applications -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other tools -- are used by more than 1 billion people around the world.

The world's largest software company has been slow to adapt to a boom in mobile devices and cloud computing.

Microsoft is hoping corporate IT managers will fork over the cash to upgrade internal software just when global tech spending is looking shakier than it has in years. The 2013 picture is uncertain but budgets are expected to tighten, with Europe's economic crisis and a deceleration in the Chinese economy.

Famous Scientist ( Peter Beyer )

-: Peter Beyer :-

Peter Beyer

Peter Beyer(born 9 May 1952, in Hanover, Lower Saxony) is a German Professor for Cell Biology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg. He is known as co-inventor of the Golden rice, together with Ingo Potrykus from the ETH Zurich

Peter Beyer studied Biology at the universities of Marburg and Freiburg. In 1981 he was awarded his doctorate in Cell Biology from the University of Freiburg and received his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 2000. Afterwards he was appointed Professor for Cell Biology at the Faculty of Biology. Since 2001 Beyer is Vice-Director Plant Biotechnology of the Centre for Applied Biosciences (ZAB) in Freiburg.

Starting 2005 Peter Beyer became Principal Investigator in the ProVitaMinRice Consortium, a program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and one of the selected Grand Challenges in Global Health projects. The project «Engineering Rice for High Beta-Carotene, Vitamin E and Enhanced Iron and Zinc Bioavailability», designed to further biofortify Golden Rice with other vital micronutrients has been awarded 11.3 Million USD to achieve its goals.

Research is handled by a consortium of seven laboratories in a number of countries. Apart from Beyer's group the project involves groups from Baylor College of Medicine, Michigan State University, the International Rice Research Institute and PhilRice, both in the Philippines, the Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Samsung Galaxy S3 Commercial

A sneak peek into the tablets of the future

San Francsico: Tablets with paper-thin screens that can be folded and tucked into your back pocket, artificial intelligence and augmented reality - the stuff of science fiction may be coming to a store near you.

It's been two years since Apple launched the iPad and spawned rival tablets from the likes of Samsung Electronics, Amazon.com, Sony, and now Google and Microsoft.

Much of the competition so far has centered on making smartphone and tablets lighter, slimmer, faster and longer-running than their predecessors, and the trend shows no signs of slowing. The increasingly crowded marketplace is also galvanizing hardware designers and software engineers to explore new technologies that may revolutionize the look and feel of mobile devices in coming years.

"We should think beyond just the touch-screen device," said Lin Zhong, a professor at Rice University who does research on mobile systems. "Why do we have to hold tablets, carry many displays? We should think about wearable computers."

Some researchers are experimenting with wearable devices, such as Google Glass, a stamp-sized electronic screen mounted on eyeglass frames to record video, access email and surf the Web. Others, like Microsoft, are investigating the use of 3D cameras to create images that pop up when a person calls. Samsung has a concept video that shows a bendable, transparent 3D smartphone-hybrid tablet that can also be used as a real-time interpreter.

Few of these new technologies will hit store shelves any time soon - companies and researchers are more actively working on touchscreen innovations in the near term.

In particular, organic-light-emitting diodes, or OLED, is widely touted as the successor to liquid crystal displays. OLED displays, such as in Samsung's Galaxy Note smartphone, are lighter, thinner and tougher than current displays.

The main attraction of OLED at first are their ruggedness, but the technology could one day allow tablets to be folded or rolled up like a newspaper. Reaching that point poses challenges like making the delicate chips and components inside them more flexible and resistant to damage.

Famous Scientist ( Ludwig Aschoff )

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Ludwig Aschoff

Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (January 10, 1866 – June 24, 1942) was a German physician and pathologist. He is considered to be one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and is regarded as the most important German pathologist after Rudolf Virchow.

Aschoff was born in Berlin, Prussia. He studied medicine at the University of Bonn, University of Strasbourg, and the University of Würzburg. After his habilitation 1894, Ludwig Aschoff was appointed professor for pathology at the University of Göttingen in 1901.

Aschoff transferred to the University of Marburg in 1903 to head the department for pathological anatomy. In 1906, he accepted a position as ordinarius at the University of Freiburg, where he remained until his death.

Aschoff was interested in the pathology and pathophysiology of the heart. He discovered nodules in the myocardium present during rheumatic fever, the so-called Aschoff bodies. Aschoff's reputation attracted students from all over the world, among them Sunao Tawara.

Together they discovered and described the atrioventricular node (AV node, Aschoff-Tawara node). Numerous travels abroad, to England, Canada, Japan, and the U.S. led to many research connections, whereas the trips to Japan proved to be especially productive. Aschoff's popularity in Japanese medicine had its roots in his work with Tawara and a journey through Japan in 1924. In the early 20th century, 23 of 26 Japanese pathological institutes were headed by students of Aschoff.

Among his pathological studies was also the issue of racial differences. "Pathology of constitution" invented by him became a special branch of research of National Socialist doctors under the name of "military pathology". Franz Buechner is reported to be Aschoff's most prominent pupil.

His grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof I der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No. I of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor.

Holographic TV in the air - the Future of Television

Holographic TV in the air - the Future of Television

Famous Scientist ( William Giauque )

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William Giauque

William Francis Giauque (May 12, 1895 – March 28, 1982) was an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized in 1949 for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero. He spent virtually all of his educational and professional career at the University of California, Berkeley.

William Francis Giauque was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on May 12, 1895.

As his parents were U.S. citizens, they returned to the U.S. where he attended public schools primarily in Michigan. Following the death of his father in 1908, the family returned to Niagara Falls, where he studied at the Niagara Falls Collegiate Institute. After graduation, he looked for work in various power plants at Niagara Falls both for financial reasons and to pursue a career in electrical engineering. He was widely unsuccessful.

Eventually, however, his application was accepted by the Hooker Electro-Chemical Company in Niagara Falls, New York, which led him to employment in their laboratory. He enjoyed the work, and decided to become a chemical engineer.

After two years of employment, he entered the College of Chemistry of the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a bachelor of science degree with honors in 1920. He entered graduate school at Berkeley, becoming a University Fellow (1920–1921) and a James M. Goewey Fellow (1921–1922). He received the Ph.D. degree in chemistry with a minor in physics in 1922.

Although he began university study with an interest in becoming an engineer, he soon developed an interest in research under the influence of Professor Gilbert N. Lewis. Due to his outstanding performance as a student, he became an Instructor of Chemistry at Berkeley in 1922 and after passing through various grades of professorship, he became a full Professor of Chemistry in 1934. He retired in 1962.

He became interested in the third law of thermodynamics as a field of research during his experimental research for his Ph.D. research under Professor George Ernest Gibson comparing the relative entropies of glycerine crystals and glass.

The principal objective of his researches was to demonstrate through range of appropriate tests that the third law of thermodynamics is a basic natural law. In 1926, he proposed a method for observing temperatures considerably below one kelvin (−457.87 degrees Fahrenheit or −272.15 degrees Celsius). His work with D.P. MacDougall between 1933 and 1935 successfully employed them.

Acer launches Travelmate TM P243 notebook

NEW DELHI: Acer India has announced the launch of its new notebook range under the TravelMate series - the Acer TM P243. The notebook, which offers a 25,000-cycle recharge, is priced less than Rs 36,000.

Targeted at the SMB and SOHO segment, the TM P243 has enhanced multitasking capabilities and is powered by 3rd generation Intel Core i processor with Turbo Boost Technology. The notebook has a 14" high-definition LED backlit display with 16:9 aspect ratio consumes less energy and saves more than 30% of power in comparison to the tradition display.

Acer has packed the TM P243 with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M graphics card, HDMI port and USB 3.0 port that enables quick charging of mobile devices via USB even when powered off. The notebook is embedded with Wi-Fi CERTIFIED connection and Gigabit Ethernet for wireless connectivity. The laptop also comes with features like Bluetooth 4.0+HS to ensure fast internet connectivity.

Acer's SignalUp wireless technology guarantees strong wireless pick up, even at the outer limits of available access points. The laptop's dual antenna design ensures multi-fold faster performance compared to the traditional uni-polar antennae. This makes sure that the wireless connection remains strong even at the farthest end of an access point's range.

The notebook is EPEAT Gold compliant, which means that it maintains the most stringent energy standard for greater energy saving and longer battery life. The TM P243 also conforms to the guidelines set by Europe's RoHS and contributes to better the global environment.

Acer TM P243 comes with the Acer FineTouch keyboard for accurate and comfortable typing experience to boost productivity. The keyboard is also spill-resistant and features a water drainage design which ensures that accidental spills seep through the notebook without damaging any of the internal components. The multi-gesture touchpad supports quick browsing and enables superior control.

Featuring Acer's unique suite of security and manageability solutions, the TM P243 ensures data protection through its Acer ProShield Security and eRecovery Manager. The TravelMate P243 comes with an option of Acer Office Manager (AOM), a manageability solution which allows SMB to deploy security policies, monitor IT assets, and schedule maintenance tasks in one simple manageability package.

Toshiba - 25 years of laptop innovation

In 1985, Toshiba introduced the world's first mass market laptop with the T1100. In the twenty five years since, we have introduced a number of new innovations and a range of other world's first. This video takes you through 25 years of laptops resulting in the launch of the Portégé R700, AC100 and Libretto W100.

Sony Vaio Sonic Demo !!!

Sony Vaio Sonic Demo

Retinafied 13-inch MacBook Pro not a given, but screens on tap

A 13-inch Retina version of the MacBook Pro is not yet a certainty, though production of displays that could be used by Apple is expected to start this quarter.

Displays that could be used on a 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina are slated to begin production this quarter, but "business plans" for Apple are not definite yet, an analyst told CNET.

Retina-class 13.3-inch displays with a pixel density of 2,560-by-1,600 are slated for production this quarter (Q3), said Richard Shim, an analyst with DisplaySearch.

But when this would result in a Retina-endowed 13-inch version of the MacBook Pro is unclear at the moment, according to Shim.

Production of the 13.3-inch Retina-class display is about a quarter behind the Retina screen used in the 15.4-inch MacBook Pro. The PPI (pixels per inch) on the 13-inch display is 227, denser than the 220 PPI of the current 15.4-inch Retina.

Taipei-based Digitimes, which routinely reports chatter from Asia-based suppliers, said Tuesday that Apple is asking its manufacturing partners to begin supplying components for a new 13-inch MacBook Pro model in the third quarter. 

Micromax launches Superfone - A80

On the camera front Micromax A80 sports a 5.0MP camera with flash.

Micromax today announced the launch of Superfone A80 for Rs 8490 which company claims has a long lasting battery.

A80 Infinity features a 9.525cm full touch screen and runs on Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread). This dual SIM phone is powered with an 800 MHz processor and has a humongous 2500mAh Li-ion battery.

On the camera front Micromax A80 sports a 5.0MP camera with flash. A80 comes with multiple camera settings such as night vision setting, multi shot option, camera censor and multiple video recording formats. The phone also has a 0.3MP front facing camera for a video calling as the device allows 3G connectivity too. Users can store images, videos, mp3 in the phone's memory which could also expanded up to 32GB.

Micromax A80 comes with voice recognition tool Aisha which helps users to update social networking sites, figure out phone status, operate functions of the device, find locations, know horoscopes, make language translations, view recipes, inquire date and time, weather conditions, and pose knowledge questions and a number of jobs to count on.

Famous Scientist ( John J. Clague )

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John J. Clague

John Joseph Clague PhD FRSC (born 1946) is an award-winning Canadian authority in Quaternary and environmental earth sciences. He is a Professor of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University and an Emeritus Scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada.

Clague was the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, President of the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group and Vice President of International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA).

Clague is an expert in the science of the last 2 million years of earth geological history, and specializes in geological hazards, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, and floods. He has 35 years experience in surficial/terrain mapping, Quaternary stratigraphic investigations, engineering and environmental interpretations of surficial geological information, and natural hazard studies. He is noted for international research collaboration with other geologists, geographers, biologists, and physicists. He has published 250 papers, reports, and monographs on a wide range of earth science topics of regional and national importance. He has prepared innovative geoscience products for educators and the public, has had numerous television and radio interviews, and has been featured in newspaper and magazine articles.

He has been recognized for his internationally renowned research, his innovative communication of science to the public, and his exceptional service and leadership in geoscience

In 1967, Clague earned an A.B. magna cum laude from the Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Two years later he obtained a M.A. in Geology from the University of California in Berkeley, California. In 1973 defended his thesis and was given a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C.

From 1973 to 1998, Clague worked for the Geological Survey of Canada in Vancouver studying the evidence and effects of historic disasters. Specializing in the study of major earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.

Clague spent many years mapping the glacial deposits over a large area of the Fraser drainage basin of central British Columbia. This research allowed him to describe the character and extent of the ice sheet that once covered the area, the pattern and timing of ice growth and decay, and the effects of the ice sheet on the crust of western Canada.

In 1984, he and fellow geologist Prof. G.H. Eisbacher had their book Destructive Mass Movements in High Mountains published.

In 1998, Clague took the position of Professor and Shrum Chair at the Department of Earth Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU). He established an interdisciplinary research program drawing together researchers from different fields together, for example, geologists, biologists, physicists, and physical geographers. His collaborators include scientists at the Geological Survey of Canada, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the British Columbia Geological Survey, and faculty at SFU, University of British Columbia and Carlton University.

Exploring Kerala with smartphones

Kerala Tourism’s latest mobile-based services and IT-driven projects, which will enable travellers to explore destinations without external guides, were launched by Minister for Tourism A.P. Anil Kumar at a function here on Tuesday.

Be it casual visitors, luxury revellers, or adventurists, mobile phones can become their perfect guide in ‘God’s Own Country.’

Kerala Tourism’s latest mobile-based services and IT-driven projects, which will enable travellers to explore destinations without external guides, were launched by Minister for Tourism A.P. Anil Kumar at a function here on Tuesday. Mr. Anil Kumar said the aim was to make the services transparent, simple, and readily available, which would enable the State to attract more tourists. It was important to bring modifications in tune with changing times, and this transition, along with efficient marketing, was strategic to the development of the sector, he said.

The services include Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) site, Mobile WAP guide, tourism-based mobile applications for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms, and Bluetooth Kiosks.

Famous Scientist ( Moira Brown )

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Moira Brown

Dr. Moira Brown is a Canadian-born North Atlantic right whale researcher and senior scientist instrumental in spearheading the initiative to get the Government of Canada, shipping industry and scientists to address ship strikes and North Atlantic right whale mortality in the Bay of Fundy, Canada. After a five-year effort, the year 2003 marked the first time in the history of the International Maritime Organization that shipping lanes were amended to avoid an endangered marine species.

About 25 years ago, before her quest to save the North Atlantic right whale began, Moira Brown taught Physical Education Class in schools across the West Island District of Montreal. After four years of teaching, Moira decided to return to McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, to study renewable resources, which resulted in her acquiring a Bachelor of Science Degree.

In 1985, after working as a research assistant for Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) on a project about the history of whaling, Moira started to work as a volunteer at the New England Aquarium, studying North Atlantic right whales in the Bay of Fundy, Canada.

After working with and studying these whales for ten years, Moira made the decision to return to university yet again: This time, she was in pursuit of a Doctorate Degree from the University of Guelph in Ontario.

Moira Brown has been researching right whale population biology and demographic studies in Canadian waters since 1985 and in Cape Cod Bay since 1997. Her studies on right whale genetics commenced in 1988. She focuses her marine conservation efforts on diminishing the human-related threats to the right whale population in Canadian waters. As a result, she, along with many other researchers under the direction of Dr. Scott Kraus (Vice President for Research at the New England Aquarium), has contributed to one of the most comprehensive databases of individual whales: The Photo Identification Catalogue which was originally created by Dr. Kraus in 1980 and now considered to be the best profile of any endangered species yet.

Moira Brown worked at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, for three years and then became Director at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts, for seven years dedicating her time to the conservation of marine mammals and their ecosystem.

She is Co-Chair of the North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery-Implementation Team, is currently the senior scientist at the Canadian Whale Institute and has been the senior scientist at the New England Aquarium's Edgerton Research Laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts, since 2004.

Facebook and Twitter feed anxiety and study finds....

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter feed anxiety and make people feel inadequate, a study has found.

A poll of those using the technology found more than half of those surveyed said the sites had changed their behaviour - and half of those said their lives had been altered for the worse.

Most commonly, those who suffered a negative impact from social media said their confidence fell after comparing their own achievements to those of friends online.

Two-thirds said they found it hard to relax completely or to sleep after spending time on the sites.

And one quarter of those polled said they had been left facing difficulties in their relationships or workplace after becoming confrontational online.

In total, 298 people were polled by Salford Business School at the University of Salford, for the charity Anxiety UK.

Of those, 53 per cent said the launch of social networking sites had changed their behaviour - and of those, 51 per cent said the impact had been negative.

The research also demonstrated the addictive powers of internet, with 55 per cent of people saying they felt "worried or uncomfortable" when they could not access their Facebook or email accounts.

More than 60 per cent of people said they felt compelled to turn off electronic gadgets in order to have a break, with one in three of those surveyed saying they switched the devices off several times each day.

The findings about behaviour changes after using social networking sites came from smaller in-depth research which was then carried out by Anxiety UK.

Nicky Lidbetter, the charity's chief executive said: "If you are predisposed to anxiety it seems that the pressures from technology act as a tipping point, making people feel more insecure and more overwhelmed."

She said the charity was surprised by the high proportion of people who found that the only way to ensure a break from the demands of their devices was to switch them off, as they were not capable of simply ignoring their mobile phones, BlackBerry devices and computers.

Dr Linda Blair, a clinical psychologist said many people suffered increased anxiety because they failed to take charge of the demands being placed on them.

She said: "I think one of the key things is that people have begun to behave as though technology is in control of them, instead of the other way round. We can switch the gadgets off but a lot of us have forgotten how to".

Last year, a global study found that turning off mobile phones, avoiding the internet and tuning out of the television and radio can leave people suffering from symptoms similar to those seen in drug addicts trying to go "cold turkey".

Scientists asked volunteers from 12 universities around the world to stay away from computers, mobile phones, iPods, television and radio for 24 hours.

They found that the participants began to develop symptoms typically seen in smokers attempting to give up. The majority of those who enrolled in the study failed to last the full 24 hours without demanding their gadgets back.

Opera Software bets big on digitisation wave in India

NEW DELHI: Betting big on Indian government's digitisation drive, Norway-based Opera Software today said it looks to partner with set top box (STB) manufactures, which will help DTH, IPTV and cable subscribers to access Internet from their television sets.

Browsers such as Opera, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome are used for accessing Internet.

"It is a good time to get into this (digital devices space)...We would look at partnering someone like say Huawei to built our browser onto their platform," Opera Software Sales Director (India and SAARC) Sunil Kamath told reporters.

He, however, added that no such deals have been signed as of now but the company, which offers Opera Web browser, is exploring the option. The company offers browsers for computers, mobiles and tablets and other devices.

The government has declared that analogue cable service would be phased out and complete digitisation will usher in cable sector in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata by November 2012.

To implement this decision, STBs have to be installed in households subscribing to cable service. According to estimates, there are at over 103 lakh subscribers in the four metros alone.

IT peripherals maker Amkette had recently launched a new device 'EvoTV' priced at Rs 9,995, which allows users to surf Internet on their television sets. Globally, Apple and Google have also introduced similar offerings.

Opera has also partnered with telecom companies like Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular to distribute a co-branded version of Opera Mini, its mobile phone browser. Many handsets, especially those from domestic handset makers, come embedded with Opera browser.

"Such tie-ups help us reach out to more consumers and gives us another distribution channel," Kamath said, adding that Opera Mini has close to 179 million users globally.

Though he declined to comment on India-specific numbers, Kamath said its userbase in the country has grown 4-5 times over past two years.

"India is a strategic market for us. We support 14 Indian languages and we are confident that we will continue to see the strong growth that we have seen in the last few months," he added.