OVERVIEW OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC
The music of India is said to be one of the oldest unbroken musical traditions in the world. It is said that the origins of this system go back to the Vedas (ancient scripts of the Hindus). Many different legends have grown up concerning the origins and development of Indian classical music. Such legends go a long way in showing the importance that music has ...
Microsoft, News Corp weigh Web pact: source
Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
News Corp, which owns such papers as the Wall Street Journal and the Sun, started the discussions, which were at an early stage, the source said.
News Corp Chief Executive Rupert ...
Google Chrome 3
Chrome 3 has a re-designed startpage (New Tab Screen), 25% faster JavaScript, an improved address bar, and better HTML 5 support.
The new design of the New Tab Screen, lets you rearange your most visited web pages by drag and drop. You can alse choose to see your most visited webpages as a list.
Chrome 3 has better HTML 5 support, including the <video> and <audio> tags, ...
India Is Going To Launch Oceansat-2 On Sep 23
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would launch Oceansat-2 satellite, which would help identify potential fishing zones and in coastal zone studies, on September 23 in a mission that would have European flavour.The 970-KG spacecraft would set-off by the home-grown Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from Sriharikota spaceport on the east coast, where preparations for the launch are in full swing.
"Oceansat-2 is tentatively scheduled to be ...
Bored From Twitter? Yahoo Meme Is Ready
A few weeks ago, we heard that Yahoo was readying a Portuguese-only Twitter clone under the name Yahoo Meme. Today, we finally got our invitation to try this new service, and while it is indeed an interesting micro-blogging service, we wouldn't go as far as calling it a "Twitter killer." Instead of cloning Twitter's communications features like @ replies and direct messages, Meme goes back ...
Now 1 bn+ users enjoying pure internet browsing with Mozilla Firefox
The Mozilla Organization has said that the open source browser Firefox has crossed the milestone of one billion downloads, taking its global market share to around 30%.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer had once controlled over 90 per cent of the browser market but has seen its dominance steadily eroded by Firefox, which grew out of the now defunct Netscape browser in 2004.
Firefox reached the 500 million download ...
HOW is LHC now?
Repairs to two small helium leaks in the world's largest atom smasher will delay the restart of the giant machine another month until November, a spokesman for the operator said. As we all know that nothing is right with LHC.
James Gillies(A technition) said an additional setback to the timing could result if some other problem is found, but the European Organization for Nuclear Research is ...
DDR2 v/s DDR3 RAM
DDR2
Operate at 400MHz to 800MHz.
operates at 1.8V
4 internal banks used
based on “T branches” conventional topology
(OCD) off-chip driver calibration
can not deal with termination impedance
popular in industry.
No Thermal Sensor
DDR3
Operate at 800MHz to 1666 MHz. This will reduce read and write time to just half of the DDR2 memory.
operates at 1.5V
8 internal banks used
initialization process uses new Mode Registers (MRS) are re-engineered for quicker configuration of the memory ...
Lizard’s new species found in INDIA
Scientists/ve discovered a new species of lizard in the lush Western Ghats mountain range in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The small reptile is a form of gecko and was found by taxonomist Varad Giri in the Kolhapur district. It has been named Cnemasspis kolhapurensis. Mr Giri and his co-workers published their findings in this month's edition of the Zootaxa journal. It ...
1 billion video views.. hit by facebook!!
Facebook has hit another milestone--over a billion video views last month. Since launching Facebook Video in June 2007.
In a promotional video that Facebook posted on its Career site Wednesday, two engineers, Soleio Cuervo and Chris Putnam, talk about how they conceived of Facebook Video and then built it out at a "Hackathon" in January 2007.
At Hackathon events, Facebook engineers spend one night, all night, working ...