19/08 World's Photography Day

World's Photography Day is being Observed Today On 19/08 .

PHOTOGRAPHY

The word photography comes from two ancient Greek words: photo, for "light," and graph, for "drawing." "Drawing with light" is a way of describing photography. When a photograph is made, light or some other form of radiant energy, such as X rays, is used to record a picture of an object or scene on a light-sensitive surface.
Early photographs were called sun pictures, because sunlight itself was used to create the image. Mankind has been a maker of images at least since the cave paintings of some 20,000 years ago. With the invention of photography, a realistic image that would have taken a skilled artist hours or even days to draw could be recorded in exact detail within a fraction of a second.

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I have some Photo taken by Kamlesh Kawadkar (me) of Lake ( Bada Talaab ) in Lake City Bhopal , MP ,India. on 20 Dec 2008 , almost 8 months ago ....

LAKE CITY BHOPAL....

VAN VIHAR , BHOPAL.....

Now thinking What Rubbish is this ???.....hmm

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Blog 10th Birthday

On 17/8/09 , Blog turns 10 years old. Yes , it was 10 year before in 1999 when blog was came into existence. There are more than 7 crores Blog in the world in just 10 years. Today Blog is used to express feelings , providing information & many more...

In past most of the people use blog as their dairy entry , or for writing Poems , Stories , etc But Now You Can find blog providing Religious , Techinical , Social......information.

To become a good blogger you need to post good original content daily !!!
One can easily open his/her Blog & can earn from it .
If u Leave a good Comment on someones blog then people will visit your blog this is one of the way to get popularise your blog.

If you dont have blog open one on blogger & earn money from it.

happy birthday BLOG !!!

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Bing , Vodafone , Orkut Celebrates Indias Independence

On 15th August 1947 , India got independence from British Rule. On this great Occassion Bing also joined India in their Celebration. Not Only Bing , Vodafone & Orkut too joined Indians with enhanced Indians Patrioism.

Before Looking on their way of celebrating Indias Independence Day.....

Lets See What was the first Speech given by JawaharLal Nehru ....It is the most famous speech given by Jawaharlal Nehru....the "Tryst With Destiny" address to the Constituent Assembly of India in New Delhi on the night of August 14th and 15th, 1947.

Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.

Lets See What BING , Vodafone & Orkut has done.

BING changes its homepage....




Orkut has also changed its Front Page Showing Indian Flag....




Vodafone Launches a Commericial AD ZooZoo...



HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !!!!

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MICROSOFT & NOKIA ALLIED

First time MICROSOFT is going to make Office Application for non-Windows mobile phones....ya its True MICROSOFT is going to do this as Microsoft and Nokia have formed an alliance to bring Microsoft (MS) software applications on the Nokia phones and to counter the dominance of the Research in Motion's (RIM)Blackberry.

NOKIA which contributes 45% of the global smartphone market with 200 million users. Now ,these Nokia phones will b available with the latest versions of the Microsoft's Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and messaging. The companies expect to offer Nokia phones running on the Symbian operating system and hving Office in the next yr, initially targeting enterprise customers integrated into Nokia's E Series phones.

This is giving some of their competitors; let's spell it out, RIM, a run for their money. I don't think BlackBerry has seen the kind of competition we can provide them now.

Research in Motion's BlackBerry has created the market for mobile e-mail, and has a dominant position in the corporate sector, especially in North America.

RIM should be reasonably safe in the near-term bcos Nokia's presence in the U.S. is relatively small. Partnering more closely with Microsoft will help to raise Nokia's profile in the U.S.

The alliance is also looking to counter Google recent move into free online software, targeted at Microsoft's business customers and the growing popularity of Apple's iPhone device.

Microsoft's new Office suite of applications could be available to large numbers of users as compared to the users of Windows Mobile phones, which make up nine percent of the smartphone market.

source: siliconindia

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Caffeine a NEW SEARCH ENGINE

Caffeine a NEW SEARCH ENGINE by Google, the preview version of Caffeine is out ,caffeine a new search engine technology which promises to kick off the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.It seems the tie up of Yahoo and MS made Google to think differently. This proactive idea is really fabulous....

The new search engine is the redeployment of the computing network that Google uses to connect searchers and results. The search engine can change how the company ranks in its search engine. The companies will have to change their Search Engine Optimization(SEO) to protect their Google ranking.

Google is not changing the user interface as part of the Caffeine update. So the average user is not likely to be surprised by the way results appear. The update does not affect the ranking of ads on the search engine.

For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google's web search, it's the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.

Google makes constant changes to its search algorithms and infrastructure, but such a change in this magnitude has not been done since 2006.

The search page is identical to the classic, clean Google web page.

Google is opening a web developer preview to collect the feedback regarding how Caffeine performs compared to its current search engine and is not looking for comparisons to offerings from rival internet firms.

Microsoft has been praising the momentum of its recently-launched Bing search engine and is believed to take long term approach for closing the gap with Google. Microsoft has also announced a tie-up with Yahoo. Google has a two-third share in the search engine market, as Yahoo stands second and Microsoft at third in a search engine market.

This seems to be an update from google to its search engine..but anywhere innovation would be the key to success and lets see how far the competition can make companies embark on creativity.

source : siliconindia

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HACKERS CRASH TWITTER AGAIN

0n 11 august, Hackers Crash Twitter again....twitter's servers went down again for a brief period, just days after an attack forced the microblogging site to shut down last week. Twitter said that "Responding to site downtime. We're working to recover from a site outage and will update as we learn more."

The service was continuing to come under attack. However, they had better at dealing with them such that Twitter remains active. Their systems are looking good and the platform is healthy.

Last week, Twitter along with Facebook and LiveJournal were victims of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. A pro-Georgian blogger has been identified as the target of the DDoS attacks believed to be an attempt to silence his online criticism of Moscow's role in last year's Georgia-Russia War.

Outages used to be common at Twitter when the small start-up's servers were unable to keep up with the massive amount of data flowing through them. They had gradually become less frequent, before these latest round of attacks started.

source : siliconindia

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HACKERS ATTACKED TWITTER & FACEBOOK

On 6 august , Facebook and Twitter were attacked by hackers with denial-of-service attack .It is strange that established portals/ brand names are also vulnerable to such attacks. This only shows we are not yet fool-proof in security advancements.Some options in twitter still not working. Like upload picture, background image etc.

In a denial-of-service attack a Web site or server is bombarded with more traffic than it can handle, effectively causing online congestion. Such attacks are done from multiple computers and usually hackers send malware data to the target site in unison. After initial denial of any such attack, both Facebook and Twitter have now acknowledged attack on their site by denial-of-service attack.


Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. Twitter is defending against this attack now and will later investigate.

Twitter had declared their scaling problems in early 2007. And as much as the great Twitter outages of 2007 and 2008 frustrated users, these outages are much more serious. Twitter has come a long way since 2007 as 45 million people worldwide now rely on Twitter as a communication platform. They will have to scale if they really want to be the 'Pulse of the Planet.'

Earlier this morning, Facebook encountered network issues related to an apparent distributed denial-of-service attack that resulted in degraded service for some users. No user data was at risk and we have restored full access to the site for most users. We're continuing to monitor the situation to ensure that users have the fast and reliable experience they've come to expect from Facebook. As compared to Twitter, Facebook and Google were able to minimize any impact to their sites along with sites such as Blogger, YouTube and other Google Sites.

Pingdom, a site that tracks server uptime, states that Twitter was offline for about two and a half hours. Last time, Twitter was down due to unplanned downtime was on May 30 this year due to a software error. Denial-of-service attacks are becoming common nowadays. According to Information week, Gawker Media sites and AT&T were hit with it earlier this week. Last week, Internet Systems Consortium warned that BIND 9, the most common domain name server, contained a vulnerability that could be exploited to crash the server, leading to a denial-of-service. The company said that the vulnerability is actively being exploited and it urged users of the software to update immediately.

Amongst all this commotion an interesting piece of news has emerged. A pro-Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites, according to a Facebook executive. "It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard. We're actively investigating the source of the attacks and we hope to be able to find out the individuals involved in the back end and to take action against them if we can," said Max Kelly, Chief Security Officer at Facebook to CNET. The blogger whose account was attacked uses the account name 'Cyxymu' (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia). Kelly declined to speculate on whether Russian nationalists were behind the attack.
source : siliconindia

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System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors

Microsoft.Unix.Computer announces System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors
Lets See What Microsoft tells about it........

The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors provide Operations Manager 2007 R2 alert forwarding to remote systems, such as an Enterprise Management System
(EMS) or a help desk system. After Operations Manager 2007 R2 forwards an alert
to a remote system, the alert data is synchronized throughout the lifetime of
the alert. The result of that data synchronization is a robust and seamless
systems management environment. Such an environment enables cross-organization support processes to take advantage of the resources and strengths of formerly independent support groups. The ultimate effect is improved enterprise systems health through improved organizational communication.

Sharing data between Operations Manager 2007 R2 and remote systems enables enterprise correlation of events from Windows-based systems, hardware, network, and UNIX systems. Correlating these events allows IT staff to determine the causes of issues and reduce the time to resolution of IT outages. Synchronization of data
between Operations Manager 2007 R2 and remote systems also enables operational
groups to use familiar management interfaces. Users update an alert by using
their management tool, and the data is updated in tools that are used by other
operational groups.

The following connectors are available in this initial RTM:

* Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Management Console

*Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for HP Operations Manager (formerly HP OpenView Operations)

* Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for BMC Remedy Action Request System (ARS)

* Operations Manager 2007 R2 Universal Connector

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source : blogs.msdn

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SmartWorkflow - new security management software.

SmartWorkflow, a new security management software blade by Check Point that provides customers the option of extending their security infrastructure with policy change management functionality. Check Point continues to develop innovative ways to make complex tasks simple and security policy enforcement effective. SmartWorkflow delivers on those two essential customer benefits.

Security administrators are challenged by a constant stream of change requests. SmartWorkflow helps to ensure consistency across the company's security policy, reducing the possibility of errors and policy mis-configuration. It also allows administrators to enforce a step-by-step workflow through a single management console create a new session, work on the session, review session changes, submit session for approval, get approval and deploy changes. Reports can also be easily generated to show what was changed, added or removed before submission for approval, and administrators can compare and restore policies to a previous state.

Changing business needs and threat scenario compels organizations to make changes to security policies, Check Point's Smart Workflow automatically reviews and authorizes these changes against approved configuration standards and in return help customer reduce dangerous mis-configurations. SmartWorkflow is available through Check Point's Software Blade architecture, which allows customers to select the exact security software blades they need and combine them into a single, centrally managed gateway on the hardware of their choice. With the flexibility to deploy the software blades on existing security infrastructure, the total cost overhead remains low.

SmartWorkflow addresses our need for powerful and comprehensive policy change management and enforcement in an integrated console. The SmartWorkflow Software Blade functionality lightens the management workload of our security administrators while also helping avoid dangerous mis-configurations.

source: siliconindia

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IT Professionals give thumbs down to Microsoft

IT Professionals give thumbs down to Microsoft

Microsoft has received some awful feedback from its customers with regard to its services. All the products of the software gaint have received poor ratings by IT professionals for customer satisfaction, integrity, reliability and more.......

This result came from online survey on IT professionals of 347 hardware, software, telecom and service vendors during the second half of 2009. The participants were asked to rate vendors in 10 categories, including integrity, timeliness, communications, customer service, expertise, effectiveness, and whether they would recommend the vendor to others. It then added all the categories for each vendor to come up with a total.

For Microsoft, the ratings were generally miserable. Three different Microsoft businesses were given separate ratings, including operating systems, applications, and infrastructure. Looking at the poor ratings received by Microsoft for this quarter.

IT professionals rating vendors in April, May and June has hit Microsoft with poor customer satisfaction scores for the company's server and infrastructure software (55 out of 100, down nearly 17 percent), operating systems (67, down 9.5 percent) and applications (64, off nearly 18 percent).

The survey also saw some of the other major technology companies take the bottom positions. Verizon was at the bottom of the list, with a 61 rating, followed by Sprint Nextel with 64, and Microsoft applications with 64. Microsoft operating systems was tied with AT&T Wireless for the next worst rating with a 67. That means Microsoft took two of the bottom five spots. IBM Informix, meanwhile, took the top spot for vendors with a 96. After this poor performance by Microsoft, all eyes are now on Windows 7, to see if that can bring some respite to the company.

credits:siliconindia.

A Great Tension for Microsoft . Hope Microsoft will think over it & Improve it soon.

source: siliconindia

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PC Consumption

PC consumption in the current fiscal year 2009-10 is expected to cross 7.3 million units, registering a seven percent growth after improving market sentiments, as the sales comprising desktop computers, notebooks and netbooks dropped by seven percent in the period between April '08 and March '09. The total sales figure were 6.79 million (67.9 lakh) units, which is a decline by seven percent as compared to the previous year. IT consumption in 2008-09 was severely impacted in the second half of the fiscal year. A study commenced by Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT), a body representing India's IT hardware, training and R&D services sectors, stated the findings of its Industry Performance Review for fiscal 2008-09.

Sales of notebooks dropped sharply by 17 percent, compared to 114 percent previous year. Desktop sales went down by four percent. The October - December quarter was the most severely impacted, subsequent to which growth in PC consumption started to show signs of revival.

"Consumer sentiment was subdued due to uncertainty in the economy in 2008-09 which impacted the consumption of IT in the country. While consumption in the first-half of the fiscal was satisfactory, less than expected off take in sales in the second-half pulled down the overall growth into the negative quadrant. A silver lining in the second-half of 2008-09 was the emergence of a new product category, the net book that took the fancy of the consumers. This new form-factor appeared to be better insulated from the prevailing market sentiments," said Vinnie Mehta, Executive Director, MAIT.

"Desktop sales registered 5.27 million (52.7 lakh units) declining by four percent, Notebooks along with netbooks recorded 1.51 million (15.1 lakh) units with a fall of seven percent. Consumption of netbooks exceeded 70 thousand units in fiscal 2008-09. There were traditional downward trend in pricing for IT products as the dollar continued to be strong against the rupee," informed Mehta.

Western India led PC consumption accounting for 37 percent, and South followed by 23 percent of the market respectively. Sales in the West grew by twelve percent over 2007-08, while in South it declined 22 percent. PC consumption in the East increased by 18 percent, accounting to 22 percent of the market, a reflection of IT activities making their way in the region. The Northern states witnessed a decline of 34 percent in PC sales, they accounted for 18 percent of the market.

MNC's had a share of 51 percent of the total desktop market in 2008-09, registering eight percent growth as compared to 45 percent share last year. Indian brands fell from 22 percent to 18 percent, a decline of 22 percent in overall. Assembled desktops and unbranded systems witnessed a negative growth of 10 percent in absolute units accounting for 31 percent, down from 33 percent, of total desktop sales in 2008-09.
Desktop consumption in 2008-09 was dominated by P4 based units, which accounted for 59 percent of total sales.

Server sales declined by two percent, as the number of internet users rose from 7.2 million to 8.6 million.
credits:siliconindia.

source: siliconindia

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