India On – Qualcomm 2009 Conference in New Delhi

Visionary business leaders from leading companies in the Indian telecom market will come together at the “India On” Conference in New Delhi on September 2, 2009.

India On is an initiative led by Qualcomm to bring together leaders of Indian industries to envision and create a wireless India like never before, where wireless technologies are deeply integrated with our everyday lives.

Please visit http://www.qualcommindiaon.com for details of the conference agenda, the list of distinguished speakers, topics of discussion and more related information.

Check out blog posts at http://qualcommindiaon.blogspot.com/ by top level Qualcomm executives, sharing their opinion on different aspects of the wireless industry.

Follow the website for updates on the significant announcements that will be made at the conference by several of the leading companies present at the event. Watch online videos of some revolutionary new innovations in the wireless space. Post your comments online and join related threads of discussion on Twitter.

Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers

firefoxFirefox is any web developers dream just for its add-ons so many available to ease and speed up development. some prominent among them are listed here.

1. Tamper data

This is used to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters.

2. MeasureIt

Using this one can draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any element on a web page.

3. Colorzilla

Colorzilla offers eyedropper, color picker, page zoomer and other tools for color based development.

4. showIP

Well as the name suggests this add-on reveals the IP of the current page, the ability to copy the Ip onto a clipboard etc

5. Greasemonkey

Allows the ability to view pages with slight modifications with the help of javascript codes.

6. FireFTP

FireFTP is basically a free cross platform FTP client.

7. PixelPerfect

this requires firebug and allows web developers and designers to overlay a  web composition over top of the  developed HTML.

8. Web Developer

This Firefox add-on adds a menu and other tools with various web developer tools.

9. Firebug

Firebug has a lot of tools that can be used to do many things like debugging CSS, JavaScript and a whole lot of other features.

Celebrate the spirit of Onam

Its Onam time and and what better way to show the joyful spirit of Onam by wearing it on your sleeve oops I mean how about a twibbon on your twitter image???

Well follow the think http://twibbon.com/cause/onam/Join and do as shown below

FireShot capture #001 - '#onam - Support now! - Twibbon_com' - twibbon_com_cause_onam_Join

And your avatar on twitter  profile would show as below….

FireShot capture #004 - '#onam Details - Twibbon_com - Start Something!' - twibbon_com_cause_onam

HAPPY ONAM TWEEPLE !!!!

Microsoft Surface will be live in 4 years

Here is the killer technology from Microsoft, Apple Keep an eye on it. ;-)

Nokia and their new Netbook

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Nokia has announced it’s new notebook and the specifications by Nokia looks very impressive. this will be the first time that Nokia will be entering into the net book market. the specifications of the phone include 12 hours battery life , 3G/ HSDPA, and Wi-Fi connectivity, HDMI port, a display spanning 10 inches, and A-GPS integrated into it. Prices over the new net book will be announced only after the release of the product into the market. The net book is supposed to be running the Windows 7 Operating System. The expected release of the note book would coincide with the release of Windows 7 Operating System since it seems to run on Windows 7. Nokia’s suits of OVi services will be supported since it is a Nokia product and also support Nokia phones and sync. The 3G has also facility to added SIM directly.

Dr. Shashi Tharoor flagged off the ‘I am an Entrepreneur’ Campaign

ajith 044 copy copyUnion Minister for State External Affairs, Govt. of India, Dr.Shashi Tharoor, flagged off the ‘I am an Entrepreneur’ Campaign from Technopark on August 21, 2009. Ms. Sheela Thomas IAS, Principal Secretary, Kerala State presided over the official inaugural session. Prof. Jyothi John, Hon Chief Editor, TechnoFIRST Magazine and Mr.Haroon.S, Business Head- AIRCEL, Mr. Sanjay Vijayakumar, CEO , MobME Wireless were present for the function. Technopark CEO- Mr. Mervin Alexander welcomed the Chief Guest and Mr.K.C.C Nair, CFO and Programme Co-ordinator, New Initiatives, Technopark, gave away the vote of thanks.
The campaign, initiated by Technopark-TBI/TUC, in association with Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), executed by TechnoFIRST Magazine and sponsored by AIRCEL will be visiting all the engineering colleges and few arts and science colleges across Kerala. The campaign has its sole intention as to identify and promote entrepreneurial talents in the state, especially from student level.

The objective of this campaign is to ignite the young minds in the Engineering colleges and Business Schools, changing the Entrepreneurship climate of the state and get more innovators and find out more students start-ups right from college campuses. This campaign is carried in a motivational video which shares the experiences of some of the very successful entrepreneurs and visionaries in our state and which aspires to inspire the students to take up on new projects on their own. It will be an informative and inspiring video on Entrepreneurship and Incubation Awareness. The video contains inspirational talks from various personalities, including Mr.Kris Gopalakrishnan (CEO, Infosys), as a successful entrepreneur from Kerala, and Dr.Shashi Tharoor (Hon. Minister), as a well known visionary.
Dr.Shashi Tharoor said, after lighting the lamp, that Keralites spread outside the state has extraordinary success as businessman. He urged more and more Keralites to stand up and say that ‘I am an Entrepreneur’. He pointed out that failure as an entrepreneur is not something unacceptable, but it’s only a learning phase for budding entrepreneurship. He lauded the efforts of Technopark-TBI for creating a fertile eco-system for budding entrepreneurship in the state.
Ms. Sheela Thomas presided over the function and also read the wishes from Chief Minister Sri. V S Achudanandan that Govt is very happy with the ‘I am an Entrepreneur Campaign’ because of the fact that the Campaign is addressing the Arts and Science Colleges and Rural Innovators along with the Engineering Colleges and Polytechniques and she offered to extend all possible support for the success of the campaign.

“To encourage budding entrepreneurship we provide a fantastic system called Technopark-TBI. The Campaign will give the required motivation for the students to take up the entrepreneurial route” says Mr.Mervin Alexander, CEO-Technopark.

www.iamanentrepreneur.in, a website solely dedicated to this campaign will bring the latest updates about the campaign and tips and advices from the market leaders and business gurus and an interaction forums to be aware about what others think.

Firefox Mobile: Fennec 1.0 Beta 3

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Mozilla rolled out Fennec 1.0 Beta 3 for Nokia N800 and N810 Internet Tablets. Fennec is the mobile version of Firefox. The latest beta is target for the Maemo operating system based on Linux. (This blog previously carried an article on Maemo). The latest release addresses issues relating to performances, user interfaces and themes refresh. the interface is targeted to the future with the ability to support a large variety of devices and other orientations. It also try to address the issues of slow scrolling and panning. As usual every updates try to improve performance in general and this version too attempts to do the same. It also adds the ability to scroll iframes. Refreshing screens would also take less time with the new image rendering system. the version is rolled out for testers and a desktop emulator can also be downloaded.( Mac OS, Windows and Linux)

Orkut Promote

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Orkut has recently launched Orkut Promote anew tool which helps an Orkut user to promote anything that a users sees fit to all his or her Orkut friends. A user can promote anything pictures, blogs, communities and funny youtube videos. The tool allows one to create announcements and this can be sent to all of Orkut friends at one go. Along with the intended photos or youtube videos to be promoted one can add titles and a description of the featured picture or video to be promoted.
Features of the promote tool include.
1.Create promotions by adding suitable titles,descriptions to the videos on youtube and orkut albums.
2. There is a built in trash and promote feature that allows any of the friends to trash the promote or further promote to more friends.
3. The My promotion tool allows one to view ow many viewed, clicked ,deleted and further promoted their promotions giving vital statistics.
4.One can also stop and delete their promotions when they wish to do so.

FIOS TV gets Twitter and Facebook

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Verizon’s FIOS TV gets Twitter and Facebook widget. Compulsive users of Verizon’s FIOS TV can now get Twitter and Facebook streams live on their FIOS TV with the help of widgets dedicated to them. The drawback is that users wont be able to tweet and post messages. They will be able to view their twitter updates. Additionally trendy topics and a twitter feed relating to the current program can also be viewed. Initial logon is needed and is maintained for additional sessions with the help of a ID code. FIOS remote can be used to navigate the feeds. the conversation rolls on the screen while users can be used to feed in tweets via Laptop or their mobile phones. The widgets are present on the right side of the screen. The Facebook is similar and all the major contents on the Facebook home page can also be viewed here. The access to Facebook is similar to that of twitter they sign in at the beginning and later make use of a four letter code to access later sessions. Links to friends, users profile, status updates and albums are available on the widget. It can also be used to post live feeds about the show they are watching at present.

Windows7 Aero Peek Pinning

windows74Windows7  Aero Peek is the cool feature which makes every other window transparent while highlighting the thumbnail preview of an application window . This enables a clear view of the window which we want to take a look at. Clicking on a silver button at the bottom right corner of the window gives us a peek at the windows desktop making all other windows transparent and the gadgets which are free floating.

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Pinning is the new feature which replaces the Quicklaunch . Now they are sided along with the open applications . All such applications pinned get a spot on the taskbar thus allowing easy access. All the running appplications has a glossy sheen over it and the rest remain dull . Adding of more than folder puts them under the Windoes explore icon and adding a file makes it associated with the application . So we actually have to use the jump list to select it.

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