Edunology - Saumya Aggarwal

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With iPhone 4 already a hit, are you waiting for iPhone 5?

That could be your next iPhone -- or it could be a tear-shaped dream. It's a mock-up of what is said to be the iPhone 5, according to anonymous sources quoted by Joshua Topolsky. A continuation of the concepts laid out in our post-CES look at what's next for Apple, the design here is said to be thin, metal-backed, tapered, and sporting a 3.7-inch display with the same 960 x 640 resolution in the iPhone 4's retina display -- resulting in a slight drop from that phone's vaunted 326ppi density. The home button is quite obviously enlarged, possibly adding some thumbable gestures into the mix. Internals are said to include a "swipable" area, possibly meaning NFC, along with a Qualcomm Gobi chipset with support for CDMA and GSM, so this could be the one phone to rule all the carriers. Or, it might wind up only ever having domain over a single .PSD file. To us, well, it looks a little too thin to be packing all that and a bag of antennas as suggested and, with all the weight at the top, we can see this things flying out of hands left and right. But, we're certainly willing to be surprised. Place your bets in comments below.

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Gnome 3 is a major new update to the Gnome desktop environment that redefines the desktop interface entirely. The Gnome developers have left no stone unturned, and have come up with new paradigms for the way you interact with windows and workspaces.

In the process of evaluating every aspect of the desktop environment, many of the the things that you may have taken for granted have been removed or changed significantly.

Are all these changes for the better? That answer will depend greatly on how you use your computer. First things first, Gnome 3 still comes with the a fallback Gnome 2-like UI. However, this is just a temporary measure while there is still hardware that is incompatible with Gnome 3. The old UI will probably be going away, so we will not consider that option, and will instead talk only of the new Gnome Shell, and here-on all our references to Gnome 3 mean Gnome 3 with the new shell. Gnome is more than just the shell though, it also includes a number of great applications such a Nautilus for browsing files and folders, and Empathy for instant messaging. These applications have also been updated, and some have better integration with the shell now.

There is one thing for certain, Gnome 3 is a lot less flexible than Gnome 2 was, and Gnome 2 wasn't very flexible ‒ at least not compared to KDE. If you have become used to moving panels around and arranging widgets to your linking, we're sorry to say you're out of luck with Gnome 3, better luck with KDE or stick to Gnome 2!

Despite that, Gnome 3 is beautiful! A clean interface, and smooth animations ‒ as long as you have a supported graphics card ‒ make this a significant step up from Gnome 2, which while being a brilliant desktop environment, was somewhat dated. If you've never used a computer before, Gnome 3 is brilliant way to get introduced, and will instill an aversion to what we might call traditional interfaces.

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After partially getting RIM to allow them monitoring access to the BlackBerry Mail service, the Government of India has turned its attention to Nokia's Push Mail services. The government wants Nokia to set up a method that will allow government and security agencies to access telephone numbers, device ids, email IDs, IP addresses and keywords, on a real time basis. This is much in line with what RIM had to do, recently.

RIM integrated a satisfactory solution to intercept the enterprise mail services, which has been already expired. After a comfortable run for such activated services for the consumers, DoT has decided to clamp down on communication via channels like the Blackberry Enterprise push mail services, calling it a security risk. The security agencies want access to all incoming or outgoing content, both to monitor communication and to help track certain communication, in the interest of national security.

Now with Nokia, the government demands the implementation of a necessary framework suggested by the telecom and the IT department, a framework that will soon finds its way into the Indian Telegraphy Act of 1885 and the Information Technology (Amendment) Act of 2007. It will also be ensuring operator compliance with demands of security agencies.

Nokia has not responded until this time, and must be busy weighing the available options on how to implement the necessary framework. In the past however, Nokia had said it would cooperate with the Indian goverment, and that its push mail servers would comply with the demands.

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Dear Google Video User,

Later this month, hosted video content on Google Video will no longer be available for playback. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now we’re removing the remaining hosted content. We’ve always maintained that the strength of Google Video is its ability to let people search videos from across the web, regardless of where those videos are hosted. And this move will enable us to focus on developing these technologies further to the benefit of searchers worldwide.

On April 29, 2011, videos that have been uploaded to Google Video will no longer be available for playback. We’ve added a Download button to the video status page, so you can download any video content you want to save. If you don’t want to download your content, you don’t need to do anything. (The Download feature will be disabled after May 13, 2011.)

We encourage you to move to your content to YouTube if you haven’t done so already. YouTube offers many video hosting options including the ability to share your videos privately or in an unlisted manner. To learn more go here.

Here’s how to download your videos:

Go to the Video Status page.
To download a video to your computer, click the Download Video link located on the right side of each of your videos in the Actions column.

Once a video has been downloaded, “Already Downloaded” will appear next to the Download Video link.

If you have many videos on Google Video, you may need to use the paging controls located on the bottom right of the page to access them all.

Please note: This download option will be available through May 13, 2011.

Thank you for being a Google Video user.

Sincerely,

The Google Video Team

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Microsoft has shown its commitment to improving the browsing experience, increasing the use of standards, and its commitment to maintaining its leadership in the cloud-space.

Just 4 weeks after releasing IE9, Microsoft has announced the first platform preview of  Internet Explorer 10 today at its MIX 11 Web developer event, going on all week.  Platform previews illustrate technologies that Microsoft  considers viable.  Platform previews for IE 10 will appear every 12 weeks, allowing for continuous developer  feedback, according to Microsoft’s announcement.

The current platform preview contains a demo of  CSS 3 gradient backgrounds, achieved using the HTML 5 spec, and another demo shows CSS3′s multiple columns handling.  Varying-length paragraphs of text  from a Twitter feed are flowed into multiple columns.  Microsoft also continues  to hammer home its point that the browser, operating system, and graphics acceleration hardware all contribute to the user experience by presenting the new IE 10 platform preview in a fish-bowl demo, showing how Google’s Chrome browser is unable to match the animation and rendering speeds of the IE 10 platform preview.

Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s corporate VP for  Internet Explorer discusses these points and more on stage during the MIX keynote address, and in Microsoft’s IE blog.

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Its been my first week at Makemytrip as Product Manager. Though I am still getting feel of the things but I feel I am not here to waste time. Already made a mark and talk of CxO over lunch table, its about work all around in a company which is growing at phenomenon pace.

The culture fun@work is the center theme of the company. HR department is most active and suprised me company from cultures of London Based MNC ION Trading, Microsoft. We are few people from premier B-schools across India and are already friends. Its a diverse batch with people from across India and will be joining different departments in the company.

The first week has marked induction where we are meeting Line of Business Heads and people from L-Team (senior leadership team as they call in MMT). The meeting with renowned Deep Kalra, CEO, has left a mark in everybody's heart.

I think following days will hold harder work and key responsibility of taking company to next level.

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When a tablet version of Chrome OS was teased back in February of last year, we found it a legitimately exciting proposition. Now that we have Android's Honeycomb iteration designed specifically for slates, however, we're having to wonder just why Google's still chasing that keyboard-less dream with its web-centric OS. CNET has been doing some snooping in and around the latest iterations of Chrome OS, where it's discovered numerous pieces of circumstantial evidence, such as a new onscreen keyboard, suggesting tablets are still very much on the menu. Chrome OS kicked off life on the development device known as Cr-48 and will resume availability this summer courtesy of Acer and Samsung, though we'd kind of assumed it would stick to notebooks now that Android's making a sincere effort on devices bigger than an EVO. Mountain View has responded to CNET's queries with a pretty inconclusive statement, saying only that "We are engaging in early open-source work for the tablet form factor, but we have nothing new to announce at this time."