India's Heaviest Communication Satellite Successfully Launched

Bangalore: India's heaviest communication satellite with 30 communication transponders was launched
successfully early Saturday by an Ariane-5 rocket from French Guiana in South America, ISRO said.
The GSAT-10 satellite weighting 3,400 kg and India's 101st space mission "is in good health" and would
be operational by November, the Bangalore-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
said in a statement here.
"GSAT-10 satellite has 30 communication transponders - 12 in Ku-band, 12 in C-band and 6 in extended
C-band. Besides, it has a navigation payload "GAGAN" that would provide GPS signals of improved
accuracy (of better than 7 meters) to be used by the Airports Authority of India for civil aviation
requirements," the statement said.
GAGAN stands for GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation.
The satellite was placed in an elliptical geosynchronous transfer orbit half an hour after liftoff at 0248
hours Saturday.
"Preliminary health checks on the various subsystems of the satellite-power, thermal, command,
sensors,controls" by ISRO's Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan, about 180 km from Bangalore,
showed "all the parameters were satisfactory", the statement said.
Over the next five days, orbit raising maneuvers would be performed to place the satellite in the
Geostationary Orbit (36,000 km above the equator), it said.
GSAT-10 is expected to have operational life of 15 years, the statement said.
10 Ways Technology Could Promise You An Eternal Life

The immortality is something which humans always wanted; Ages ago, to present, and may be in ages
ahead too. This idea took many routes through human psyche- possibility of achieving it by religious and
spiritual means, or by science. While religions offered immortality through salvation, or life after death,
science offered it through fictions and research. One cannot help but wonder about Egyptian rituals,
pyramids, which were assumed to bring immortality to its emperors.


The movie Frankenstein was quite a rage with its zombie stuff, a bio scientific life and recent Tom
Cruz movie Vanilla Sky is about providing possibility for a person to live in next era, while the present
one is resentful.
Some of scientists, futurists, and philosophers, have theorized that the immortality can be a reality in
first few decade of 21st century while others say it is a achievable goal in short term. Aubrey de Grey, a
researcher who has developed a series of biomedical rejuvenation strategies to reverse human aging
(called SENS), believes that his proposed plan for ending aging may be implementable in two or three
decades. The absence of aging would provide humans with biological immortality, but not invulnerability
to death by physical trauma.
While thinking about age of 100 and beyond can fill us with amazement, read on to get amazed more.
Samsung wins reconsideration of Galaxy Tab sales ban

(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that a lower court should reconsider a sales ban against
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 won by Apple in a patent dispute with the South Korean electronics maker.
The injunction was put in place ahead of a month-long trial that pitted iPhone maker Apple Inc (AAPL.O)
against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) in a closely watched legal battle that ended with a
resounding victory for Apple last month on many of its patent violation claims.
However, the jury found that Samsung had not violated the patent that was the basis for the tablet
injunction and Samsung argued the sales ban should be lifted. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said she could
not act because Samsung had already appealed.
In its ruling on Friday, the Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington said Koh could now
consider the issue.
The decision comes just a month before the South Korean corporation is expected to unveil the second
generation of one of its most successful devices, the stylus-equipped Note.
The Galaxy 10.1 is an older model, but the ban still hurts Samsung in the run-up to the pivotal holiday
shopping season.
The world's top two smartphone makers are locked in patent disputes in 10 countries as they vie to
dominate the lucrative market, which is growing rapidly.
A U.S. jury found during the just-concluded trial that Samsung had copied critical features of the iPhone
and iPad and awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages.
(Reporting By Dan Levine; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn. Editing by Andre Grenon

5Teenage Inventors Who Changed The World

Bangalore: Its frustrating to be a teenager. You know how to drive, but they wont give you a license.
You can neither vote nor drink. Society blames you for almost everything and they dont trust you with
anything!
Well, in most cases the society cant be blamed; granted 80 percent of the teenagers will do wicked
things after getting a small sense of freedom. But that doesn't change the fact that there are some
very ambitious teens in the rest 20 percent, who have changed the world with their inventions.
Here are Five of them.
#5 Superman Was Invented By Two High School Kids
Superman was born from the creative minds of two Jewish teens Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, whose
boyhoods were rich with comic books and science fiction. At the age of 18, these teenagers created the
man of steel, inspired by Zisha Breitbart, a strongman from Poland, who performed many
unbelievable stunts.
They never knew that their drawing of a superhero would capture the imagination of future
generations. They first published their comic in a fanzine, where Superman was given a villain
background. Later, Siegel and Shuster reinvented him as the captain of truth and justice. We know what
happened next, Superman is saving the world for the last 65 years

Smart' robots to be next major US weapons

WASHINGTON: The US military's current fleet of drones will soon be overtaken by a new wave of robots
that will be faster, stealthier and smarter -- operating virtually without human intervention, experts say.
The Pentagon is investing heavily in "autonomy" for robotic weapons, with researchers anticipating
squadrons of drones in the air, land or sea that would work in tandem with manned machines -- often
with a minimum of supervision.
"Before they were blind, deaf and dumb. Now we're beginning to make them to see, hear and sense,"
Mark Maybury, chief scientist for the US Air Force, told AFP.
Unmanned aircraft are now overseen by "pilots" on the ground but as the drones become more
sophisticated, the role of remote operators will be more hands-off.
Instead of being "in the loop," humans will be "on the loop," said Maybury, explaining that operators
will be able to "dial in" when needed to give a drone direction for a specific task.
"We're moving into more and more autonomous systems. That's an evolutionary arc," said Peter Singer,
an expert on robotic weapons and author of "Wired for War."
"So the role moves from being sort of the operator from afar, to more like the supervisor or manager,
and a manager giving more and more of a leash, more and more independence," he said.
Despite the dramatic advances in technology, the American military insists humans will remain in
control when it comes to using lethal force.
But the next generation of increasingly capable drones will stretch man's capacity to control robots in
battle, generating unprecedented moral and legal quandaries.
"These (technological) responses that are driven by science, politics and battlefield necessity get you
into areas where the lawyers just aren't ready for it yet," Singer told AFP.
Over the next decade, changes in computing power will enable teams of hi-tech drones to operate
virtually on their own, or as "robotic wingmen" to piloted aircraft, said Werner Dahm, the Air Force's
former top scientist.
At a testing range in the Arizona desert, Apache helicopters are flying together with unmanned choppers
in experiments the Pentagon believes will serve as an eventual model for future warfare.
"We're not far away from having a single piloted Apache or other helicopter system and a larger number
of unmanned systems that fly with that," said Dahm, a professor of mechanical and aerospace
engineering at Arizona State University.
"These require very high levels of machine reasoning. We're much closer to that than most people
realise," Dahm told AFP.
The new technology has turned the US Air Force's doctrine upside down. For decades, the military
trained pilots to face an enemy "alone and unafraid," flying deep into hostile territory to strike at a
target and then return home.
Now the Air Force is planning for scenarios in which different tasks would be divided up among manned
and unmanned "systems," with drones jamming enemy air defenses, tracking targets and assessing
bomb damage, while piloted warplanes oversee the launching of bombs and missiles.
Instead of the slow-flying turbo-prop Predator, future drones likely will more closely resemble their
manned counterparts, with a longer range, more powerful jet engines and radar-evading stealth design,
which the bat-winged Sentinel drone already has pioneered.
But the biggest technical hurdle for Pentagon-funded scientists is delivering an iron-clad guarantee that
the more autonomous vehicles will not make a grievous mistake with potentially catastrophic
consequences.
"You have to be able to show that the system is not going to go awry -- you have to disprove a negative,"
Dahm said. "It's very difficult to prove that something won't go wrong."
One veteran robotics scientist, Ronald Arkin, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, believes
that countries will inevitably deploy independent robots capable of killing an enemy without a human
pushing a button.
Arkin, who has worked on US defense programs for years, argues that robotic weapons can and should
be designed as "ethical" warriors, with the ability to distinguish combatants from innocent civilians.
Without emotions to cloud their judgment and anger driving their actions, the robots could wage war in
a more restrained, "humane" way, in accordance with the laws of war, Arkin said.

"It is not my belief that an unmanned system will be able to be perfectly ethical in the battlefield, but I
am convinced that they can perform more ethically than human soldiers are capable of," he wrote.
Google can't enforce German Microsoft injunction, says court

A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unit cannot enforce a patent
injunction that it obtained against Microsoft Corp in Germany, diminishing Google's leverage in the
ongoing smartphone patent wars.
The injunction would have barred Microsoft from "offering, marketing, using or importing or possessing"
in Germany some products including the Xbox 360 and certain Windows software.
The ruling against the German injunction came from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San
Francisco.
Microsoft deputy general counsel David Howard said the company was pleased with the ruling. A
representative for Google's Motorola unit declined to comment.
Brian Love, a professor at Santa Clara Law school in Silicon Valley, said the decision helps Microsoft
counteract a favorable dynamic for Google in Germany.
"To some extent Germany has a reputation as place you can go and get an injunction relatively easy,"
Love said.
The current Xbox 360 is the market-leading console in the United States. Microsoft is expected to unveil
its next generation Xbox video game console in 2013.
Microsoft has said that Motorola's patents are standard, essential parts of its software and that
Motorola is asking far too much in royalties for their use. Google closed on its $12.5 billion Motorola
Mobility acquisition this year.
Microsoft sued Motorola in the United States in 2010, and Motorola then filed a lawsuit in Germany.
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced plans to move its European distribution center to the Netherlands
from Germany ahead of a possible injunction.
After a court in Mannheim issued the sales ban, U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle granted
Microsoft's request to put the German order on hold earlier this year. According to Robart, the ruling
would remain in effect until he could determine whether Motorola could appropriately seek a sales ban
based on its standard essential patents.
In its ruling on Friday, a three-judge 9th Circuit unanimously upheld Robart's order. Since Microsoft had
already brought a lawsuit against Motorola for breach of contract in the United States, U.S. courts have
the power to put the German injunction on hold, the 9th Circuit said.
"At bottom, this case is a private dispute under Washington state contract law between two U.S.
corporations," the court ruled.
European regulators are investigating claims that Motorola over-charged Microsoft and Apple Inc for
use of its patents in their products and thereby breached antitrust rules.
The case in the 9th Circuit is Microsoft Corporation vs. Motorola Inc, Motorola Mobility Inc and General
Instrument Corporation, 12-35352
Latest technology inventions
Analysts predict that by 2014 the latest technology inventions related to cloud computing will
significantly influence how we use our computers.
Cloud computing is where tasks and file storage on your computer are performed and stored elsewhere.
By using an internet connection you can connect to a service that has the architecture, infrastructure
and software to manage any task or storage requirement at less cost.
The advantages of cloud computing is that it eliminates the difficulty and expense of maintaining,
upgrading and scaling your own computer hardware and software while increasing efficiency, speed and
resources.
Your computer's processing speed, memory capacity, software applications and maintenance
requirements are minimized.
You could store and access any size or type of file, play games, use or develop applications, render
videos, word process, make scientific calculations, or anything you want, by simply using a smart phone.
As a comparison, let's say you had to generate your own electricity. You would need to maintain,
upgrade and scale these resources as required to meet your demands. This would be expensive and
time consuming.
Cloud computing could be compared to how a utility provides electricity. It has the architecture,
infrastructure, applications, expertise and resources to generate this service for you. You just connect to
their grid.
Microsoft, IBM and Google are some of the companies that are investing heavily into the research and
development of cloud technology. Read more...Cloud Computin
Car Gps Tracking
Car Gps Tracking is fairly common in new vehicles, providing drivers with tracking and navigation.
However, latest technology inventions have made car gps tracking systems more sophisticated, allowing
for a wide range of additional uses.
Smartbox technology is one example of how car gps tracking systems are being used to lower car
insurance.
A comprehensive recording of a driver's habits allows insurance companies to provide "pay-as-you-
drive" car insurance.
City officials in New York City are considering how car gps tracking could be used as "Drive Smart"
technology.
Most large cities have a limited capability to change the infrastructure of their roadways.
A car gps tracking system that integrates with traffic information would give drivers the ability to select
routes in real time that were more fuel efficient, less congested, faster or shorter.
A driver's recorded routing selection could then be used to penalize or reward drivers by lowering or
increasing their related licensing fees or by calculating mileage based "road-use" fees.
Eventually, such a system would replace gasoline tax since these revenues will decline as more vehicles
become less dependent on fossil fuels.
Air Into Water
Johathan Ritchey has invented the Watermill, which is an atmospheric water generator. It converts air
into fresh water.
This latest technology invention produces fresh water at a cost of about 3 cents a liter (1 quart).
Originally designed for areas that do not have clean drinking water, the Watermill is for households that
prefer an eco-friendly, cost effective alternative to bottled water.
Atmospheric water generators convert air into water when the temperature of the air becomes
saturated with enough water vapor that it begins to condense (dew point).
"What is unique about the Watermill is that it has intelligence," says Ritche. This makes the appliance
more efficient. It samples the air every 3 minutes to determine the most efficient time to convert the air
into water.
It will also tell you when to change the carbon filter and will shut itself off if it cannot make pure clean
water
Vein Identification
Another technology innovation is the biometric identification and security device known as PalmSecure.
It works by identifying the vein pattern in the palms of our hands.
Similar to our fingerprints, vein patterns are unique to each individual. The purported advantages of this
technology is that it is less expensive, easier to manage, and is more reliable than traditional methods of
identification
World's Fastest Motor
A new motor developed by researchers at ETH Zurich's Department of Power Electronics and marketed
by the Swiss company, Celeroton, can spin in excess of 1 million revolutions per minute.
As a comparison, collapsed stars spin at 60,000 rpms, a blender at about 30,000 and high performance
engines at around 10,000 rpms.
The matchbook-sized motor has a titatnium shell, ultra-thin wiring and a trade secret iron formulated
cylinder. The need for smaller electronic devices requires smaller holes, which means smaller, faster,
more efficient drills
Camera Mask
This mask is one of the latest technology inventions in underwater photography.
The "Liguid Image Digital Underwater Camera Mask" as the name implies, is an underwater mask with a
built in digital camera.
It records photos and videos by pressing a shutter button on the top of the mask.
It also features bright LED lights for illumination.
The camera mask is powered by (2) 1.5 AAA batteries and images are uploaded from a USB port.
Photo/video software is included. The maximum operating depth is about 30 meters.

A House that Walks
A new prototype house walked around the campus of the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire,
England.
The eco-friendly house is powered by solar cells and minature windmills, and comes with a kitchen, a
composting toilet, a system for collecting rain water, one bed, a wood stove for CO2 neutral heating, a
rear opening that forms a stairway entrance, and six legs.
A collaborative effort between MIT and the Danish design collective N55, the house walks about five
kilometers an hour similar to the walking speed of a human.
The legs reguire a software algorithm to calculate the movement and position of the legs to provide
stability over varying terrain.
The house can turn, move forward or backwards, or change height as required and can be programmed
with GPS waypoints for travelling to destinations.
5 COOL INVENTIONS TO BE EXCITED ABOUT IN 2012
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Whos ready for The Blazes next top whatever list? If youre like us, and we know we are, youve been
anxiously awaiting the release of another arbitrarily ranked list of similar-but-different things.
For todays installment, we thought wed steer away from the more financially focused top whatevers
and stray into Liz Klimass territory. That is, were going to bring you a tech list.
So without wasting any more time on introductory remarks, here are the top 5 coolest tech items and
services (that we know of) for 2012, as presented by CNN Money [all block quotes from the same]:
5. WHITE SPACES WI-FI
Hidden between individual television channels is a small but valuable collection of airwaves that will
allow for a kind of super Wi-Fi network.
The Federal Communications Commission recently opened up the spectrum that sits between television
channels numbered 1 through 51. Wireless communications in those white spaces have been
permitted since Jan. 26 in Wilmington, N.C., the FCCs designated testbed location. After the bugs are
worked out, the spaces will be opened up nationally in the coming months.
The FCC designated the white spaces as unlicensed band, meaning anyone can broadcast in it for free.
Its a primo band that sits lower than todays Wi-Fi, allowing signals to travel over significantly longer
distances and through buildings and walls.
Itll take time for all the necessary infrastructure including new chipsets for smartphones and other
devices to roll out, but FCC expects the expansion to lead to innovative new kinds of wireless
networks, including connected highways, schools, parks and towns. Wireless carriers scrounging for
more spectrum could also begin to broadcast Wi-Fi to customer-dense areas to reduce stress on their
3G and 4G networks.
4. MICROSOFT WINDOWS 8
Windows 8 has a completely new visual interface thats unlike anything youve seen on a PC before. Its
optimized for touch screens on mobile devices like tablets, but it will also work for those with a
traditional mouse and keyboard setup.
The result is a computer that operates as a hybrid, with all the functions of a standard PC operating
system but the user experience of a tablet. [...]
3. LYTROS LIGHT-FIELD CAMERA
Ever snapped a picture in a hurry, looked back and realized you forgot to focus? The much-hyped Lytro
has the solution, with a light-field camera that lets you adjust a picture after its been snapped.
Whats often been said about us is that were camera 3.0, says Kira Wampler, Lytros vice president of
marketing. You can do things that youve never been able to do before.
Lytro CEO Ren Ng worked for six years to commercialize the technology, which he pioneered as part of
his Ph.D. research at Stanford University. [...] It comes in two models: a $399 8 GB camera in Graphite or
Electric Blue that takes 350 pictures, or a 16 GB Red Hot model for $499 that holds 750 pictures.
2. ANYTHING RELEASED BY APPLE (HEAR US OUT)
Lets face it, the most talked-about tech product (or products) this year will probably come from Apple.
The company is widely rumored to be prepping a television for release in 2012 that will run its Apple TV
software. Though Apple TV set-top box sales havent been impressive, the late Steve Jobs told
biographer Walter Isaacson that he had finally cracked the code for success. Jobs said that the device
Apple is creating will have a simple user interface and will sync easily with other devices in the home.
Some Apple believe Apple had a more significantly overhauled iPhone in the works that just wasnt quite
ready to launch last fall. It could make an appearance this year.
1. GOOGLES VIRTUAL REALITY GOGGLES
Augmented reality may end up being one of the hottest fashion accessories of 2012. Google is secretly
working on Android-powered virtual reality glasses that it plans to begin selling by the end of the year,
according to reports in the New York Times and the blog 9 to 5 Google.
Details are scant about the rumored glasses, but the basic idea is to beam contextually relevant
information straight to your eyeballs. Like augmented reality apps, the glasses could deliver an added
layer of information about, say, a landmark youre looking at, or offer up a discount to a restaurant that
catches your gaze.
If facial recognition software becomes accurate enough, the glasses could remind a wearer of when
and how he met the vaguely familiar person standing in front of him at a party, the New York Times
Nick Bilton theorizes. They might also be used for virtual reality games that use the real world as the
playground.
A Google representative declined to comment.
Now LG Hits Samsung With Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Its been just a month, since Samsung has fined $1 billion on a law suit from the Cupertino Giant Apple.
And then, here is the next one, not from U.S., but from Samsungs own home, South Korea
Its LG who has filed a law suit in Seoul, this time. The lawsuit alleges Samsung of infringing 7 Organic
Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) technology patents on five of its products including the flagship Galaxy S3
and Tab. "This lawsuit has been filed both to enforce LG Display's intellectual property rights and
promote fair competition. Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display must stop using the patents
without permission, said an LG official at a press conference. The company is seeking 7 billion won
(about $6.26 million) in damages.
Earlier this month, Samsung has filed an injection against LG over technology leaks, after some workers
at Samsung were arrested for leaking the information. According to a ZDNet report, Samsung has called
LG's latest lawsuit a scheme to overcome its own difficulties, and said it will file a countersuit if
necessary.
Off late, the South Korean manufacturer had been dragged into law suits around the world. In the most
prominent one against Apple, where it is fined $1 billion, Samsung has requested for a new trial,
claiming that it wasn't given a fair go during the legal proceedings. The U.S. district judge has set a
hearing date on December 6.
Intel launches tablets powered by Atom processors
Intel Corp roped in device makers such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Hewlett Packard Co on
Thursday to showcase tablets powered by its new "Atom" processor - a chip it hopes will help it
biannually break into that crowded market.
Intel initially brushed off any threat from tablets such as Apple Inc's iPad, but now hopes the
combination of a low power consuming processor with touch friendly Microsoft Corp Windows 8
software will win over enterprise customers looking to deploy tablets, but keep PC-based software and
hardware.
The world's largest chip maker says the "Atom Z2760" - formerly code named "Clover Trail" - is tailored
to work with the latest version of Microsoft's operating system, due in late October. Tablets that use
both the Atom and Windows 8 will be able to run widely used software such as Word and Excel, while
connecting to peripherals such as printers.
It also lengthens battery life, enabling tablets to run 10-plus hours of streaming high-definition video,
said Intel applications processor division chief Eric Reid.
Targeting corporations and government agencies means the first wave of Intel-powered tablets and
tablet-laptop hybrids will avoid the worst of the consumer war now raging between Google Inc and
Amazon.com Inc.
"These new Atom-based tablets have been targeted at spaces where Intel and Microsoft can win, the
enterprise market, and as an alternative to a notebook," said Patrick Moorhead, head of Moor Insights
and Strategy.
Dell Inc, Acer Inc, Asustek Computer Inc and ZTE Corp round out the half-dozen PC makers that trotted
out their upcoming tablets, some of which sport a detachable keyboard or stylus designed to support
free-form drawing and writing.
"Every tablet shown today does what neither an iPad or Kindle Fire HD does well, which is creating
content and controlling via a keyboard and trackpad," he said. "This provides differentiation while not
going head to head with Apple and Amazon."
With PC sales expected to stagnate over the next year or two, Intel hopes to make up for lost time and
regain market share ceded to rivals such as Qualcomm Inc, Texas Instruments Inc and Nvidia Corp,
whose applications processors now power most tablets except the iPad.
Although the "Intel Inside" sticker remains affixed to 80 percent of the world's PCs, the Santa Clara,
California, company has been slow to adapt its chips for smartphones and tablets.
Analysts say the semiconductor industry leader has woken up to the tablet threat only in the past year.
It is now rushing into the mobile market, motivated in part by slowing PC sales across consumer,
usinesses and even the emerging market segments it once relied on to propel sales.
This month, it cut its third-quarter revenue estimate by a more than expected 8 percent and withdrew
its full-year outlook entirely.
Intel's tablet strategy so far has focused on Windows 8 and its "x86" architecture found in most of the
world's PCs. But executives said this month that tablets running their processors and based on Google's
Android software are also in the works.
Microsoft's main assault on the tablet market involves Windows RT, a version of Windows 8 that works
off the ARM Holdings chip designs that now dominate the market and drive the iPad and other mobile
devices.
IBM To Get Its First Female Chairman
IBM has announced recently that its President and CEO, Virginia Rometty will be appointed as Chairman
on October 1.
Rometty will be the first woman to head the company and IBMs ninth CEO. She was elected by the
board of directors that voted in favor. As a chairman, Rometty will succeed IBMs former CEO, Sam
Palmisano.
Rometty had joined IBM in 1981 as a system engineer and became a member of its consulting group in
1991. She is being credited with IBMs growth strategy over the years and is seen as a leading reason
behind IBM getting into cloud computing and analytics businesses.
Over the years Romeety has been working in IBM she has held a number of positions including some of
the top positions in IBMs sales and service units.
Rometty is already a member of IBMs Board of Directors which will be reduced to 13 members after
Plamisano steps down as the Chairman.
Digital Pen
A digital pen is one of the new electronic inventions that can help us record information.
Despite the digital age, we still use pens. But it would be great to have our handwritten notes and
drawings digitally recorded without having to use a scanner.
The Zpen from Dane-Elec is a wireless pen that uses a clip-on receiver to digitally record what you write.
It uploads the information to your computer where it can be viewed, edited and filed as a word
processing document.
The digital pen utilizes character recognition software and works by recording movement. Features
include profile creation, a dictionary and fifteen language options.

Soon, data card that will last for '100 million years

Researchers claim to have developed a new water proof storage device that can endure extreme
temperatures and hostile conditions like fires and tsunami 'forever' without degrading.
Japanese multinational conglomerate Hitachi has unveiled the chip, which it claims is resistant to many
chemicals and unaffected by radio waves, can be exposed directly to high temperature flames and
heated to 1,000 degrees Celsius for at least two hours without being damaged.
The chip is also waterproof, meaning it could survive natural calamities, such as fires and tsunami, the
'Daily Mail' reported.
"The volume of data being created every day is exploding, but in terms of keeping it for later
generations, we haven't necessarily improved since the days we inscribed things on stones," Hitachi
researcher Kazuyoshi Torii said.
"The possibility of losing information may actually have increased,' he said, noting the life of digital
media currently available - CDs and hard drives - is limited to afew decades or a century," he said.
The company's new technology stores data in binary form by creating dots inside a thin sheet of quartz
glass, which can be read with an ordinary optical microscope.
Provided a computer with the know-how to understand that binary is available - simple enough to
programme, no matter how advanced computers become - the data will always be readable.
"We believe data will survive unless this hard glass is broken," said senior researcher Takao Watanabe.
The material currently has four layers of dots, which can hold 40 megabytes per square inch,
approximately the density on a music CD, researchers said, adding they believe including more layers
should not be a problem.
Samsung Building Its Own Web Browser

The next wave of new releases from Samsung, like Galaxy and Note series may come with the
companys own web browsers.
According to the reports, Samsung is working on its own browser, based on Webkit, an open-source
browser engine that is currently powering browsers like-- Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome.
Electronic Times in South Korea reported that the manufacturer has been recruiting WebKit developers
to work on browser at Samsungs Advanced Software Platform Lab, its R & D center in Silicon Valley.
For many users, the phones built in browser is still favorite, and the browsers of all the Android phones
has no much difference. So Samsung may want to provide its own browser, to carve out the exclusive
experience with the users. Also, since they design their own chip, they may know what could be the best
browser option for their devices.
The current favorite browser for users is Googles Chrome, for it offers features like cross-device data
synchronization including passwords, bookmarks and history. So chrome could be biggest competitor of
Samsungs yet to be released browser. Well it is not clear yet that Samsung will be building a browser
from scratch, or may code their Bada browser on to Android platform, but we may expect more clarity
from Samsung soon.
Indian Internet Economy Registers Aggressive Growth:

Of lately, Indians got bitten by get by click bug, thanks to the myriad internet sites, offering everything
from travel, shopping, education, entertainment, mobile recharges, ticket bookings, online dating,
marriage and many more; only a click away.
Adding to it, India is a country of young population lured by new and exciting offers from telecoms and
internet providers, so it is obvious that the country couldnt have resisted growth in internet economy.
Here are some interesting facts, from the Internet Economy Watch Report for the month of August
released by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).
#1 In the e-tailing (electronic retailing) category, the services like designer labels and spa/restaurant
segment have noticed 18% year on year growth compared to August 2011.
Designer labels category registered 2.60 million visits in August this year as compared to 2.20 million
visits in August previous year and spa/restaurant segment witnessed 0.84 million user visits when
compared to 0.71 million last Year.
#2 Data captured from prominent e-tailing sites reveals a significant growth in number of online visitors
for mobile phone segment, which recorded a whopping 5.05 million hits in August 2012 as compared to
4.92 million in August previous year.
# 3 Online user visit for books recorded 57% growth in July 2012. It witnessed 1.60 million user visits in
August 2012 as compared to 1.39 million in August 2011, a 14 percent y-o-y growth.
#4 irctc.com, Indian Railways online booking site registered 48 percent y-o-y growth in the e-ticketing
segment. Air tickets booked online in August 2012 were 1.49 million as compared to 1.19 million in
August last year, a 26 percent y-o-y growth.
While above sectors recorded growth, some others showed decline; the monthly tracker revealed that
the number of resumes uploaded online for jobs has gone down to 1.99 million in August 2012 from
2.60 million in August previous year.
Some other sectors saw poor growth, like the profiles uploaded on matrimonial sites saw a marginal
growth of 6 percent in August, which is 2.18 million compared to 2.05 million in previous year.
The monthly internet tracker by IAMAI is based on absolute numbers captured from various relevant
sites, and encapsulates online usage for E-tailing, Online Travel and Vertical Classifieds.
With fast changing tech world one can expect a different and better number game for next year.