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Google Drive -a Cloud-Based Storage Service from Google.

Posted by admin On April - 26 - 2012

Google launched Drive, a cloud-based storage, on Tuesday. The service would allow users to store up to 5GB data in Google’s servers for free.

According to Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president for Chrome and apps, wrote on official blog “Today, we’re introducing Google Drive – a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond.”

According to Pichai, Google Drive will work with Google Docs, hence giving users ability to edit or create documents within the app itself.

RSS -Really Simple Syndication

Posted by admin On April - 16 - 2012

RSS (originally RDF Site Summary, often dubbed Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a “feed”, “web feed”,or “channel”) includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.

RSS feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favorite websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.

RSS feeds can be read using software called an “RSS reader”, “feed reader”, or “aggregator”, which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed’s URI or by clicking a feed icon in a web browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user’s subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds. RSS allows users to avoid manually inspecting all of the websites they are interested in, and instead subscribe to websites such that all new content is pushed onto their browsers when it becomes available.

New Technology Trends-Cloud-based Services and Internet

Posted by admin On January - 26 - 2012

Cloud-based services are those services in which software is accessed over internet by a company, and maintained at data centres of the service provider, instead of a company’s computers.

The Aakash tablet and Ubislate7

Posted by admin On December - 15 - 2011

About Aakash and Ubislate 7

The much awaited India’s ultra low cost Aakash tablet is finally here and is creating ripples all around. Datawind launched Ubislate7 in India, and the student version is named as the Aakash tablet. It offers a web delivery platform that enables quality and interactive knowledge over the internet.

The CEO of DataWind, Mr. Suneet Singh Tuli says ‘This is a made-in-India product. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do this.’ He adds, ‘The final goal is to either provide the same features at a lower cost or provide better functionality and features at the same cost.’

The team of engineers at Datawind has come up with the upgraded version of the Aakash tablet. This upgraded version of Aakash is called Ubislate 7.

Ubislate 7 will be commercially available everywhere and to everyone. This next generation of Aakash is loaded with better features and specifications, and any person can buy it.

The Telecom and Education Minister, Kapil Sibbal, said at the launch of Aakash, “The rich have access to the digital world, the poor and ordinary have been excluded. Aakash will end that digital divide.”

There is definitely no other touch pad tablet or computing device anywhere near the price of Aakash tablet or Ubislate 7. It is a new generation device which comes with attractive features. This is the world’s cheapest tablet pc. This tab is made for the requirement of the users and especially for student needs.

Aakash Tablet’s Features

    • Aakash tablet comes loaded with a lot of features and supports up to 150,000 apps.
    • Aakash tablet comes at an unbeatable price of Rs. 2,999 only.
    • Aakash tablet is perfect for anytime anywhere web access.
    • The internet can be accessed at a monthly charge of Rs. 98 only. Fast web access is possible though Datawind’s patented acceleration technology.
    • One can also connect to social networking sites like Facebook, twitter etc. through Aakash Tablet. It offers a lot of multimedia options with high definition quality videos.
    • Watching movies and listening to songs also becomes easy through Aaksh Tablet. Not only can it be used to play games, Aakash Tablet can also be used to make notes and presentations.
    • It has a full-sized USB port and Micro-SD slot which can be used to expand the memory up to 32 GB.

 

The official website of Aakash Tablet  is http://www.aakashtablet.com/

Mobile Operating Systems

Posted by admin On December - 9 - 2011

Major mobile operating systems are: Android from Google, BlackBerry OS from RIM, iOS from Apple, Symbian OS from Symbian Foundation, Windows Phone from Microsoft.

HSDPA-The New protocol for MobilePhone Data Transmission

Posted by admin On November - 2 - 2010

HSDPA, short for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access, is a new protocol for mobile telephone data transmission. It is known as a 3.5G technology.

HSDPA  standard will provide download  speeds on a mobile phone  equivalent to an ADSL  (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) line in a home, removing any limitations placed on the use of your phone by a slow connection.

HSDPA improves the data transfer rate by a factor of at least five over W-CDMA. HSDPA can achieve theoretical data transmission speeds of 8-10 Mbps (megabits per second). Though any data can be transmitted, applications with high data demands such as video and streaming music are the focus of HSDPA.

Technical Abbreviations starting with the Alphabets E,F,G,H

Posted by admin On October - 16 - 2010

EUP    Enterprise Unified Process

FAQ    Frequently Asked Questions
FIFO    First In, First Out

FLOPS    Floating Point Operations Per Second

GIGO    Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIS    Geographic Information Systems
GPS    Global Positioning System

HDTV    High Definition Televsion
HDV    High-Definition Video

HFS    Hierarchical File System

What is a Net Book ?

Posted by admin On September - 19 - 2010

Netbooks (sometimes also called mini notebooks or ultraportables) are a branch of subnotebooks, a rapidly evolving category of small, light and inexpensive laptop computers suited for general computing and accessing web-based applications.

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Technical Abbreviations starting with the Alphabets A,B,C,D

Posted by admin On September - 15 - 2010

ANSI    American National Standards Institute
ARP    Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII    American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CDMA    Code Division Multiple Access
CMYK    Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
CPS     Classroom Performance System
CTP    Composite Theoretical Performance

DDL    Data Definition Language
DPI     Dots Per Inch
DRM    Digital Rights Management
DTD    Document Type Definition
DV     Digital Video

DVD   Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc

DTP  Desktop publishing

What is Encryption

Posted by admin On September - 15 - 2010

The translation of data into a secret code. Encryption is the most effective way to achieve data security. To read an encrypted file, you must have access to a secret key or password that enables you to decrypt it. Unencrypted data is called plain text ; encrypted data is referred to as cipher text.

There are two main types of encryption: asymmetric encryption (also called public-key encryption) and symmetric encryption.(also called private-key encryption)