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How slow is our high speed internet dreams?

Pramod Thomas — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:10:47 +0000

Everyone has dreams. Not only persons but nations also have dreams. India’ biggest dream is to become a developed nation by 2020. We have been a poor country for decades, then we got the status of developing nation. Now we are running to get the unique status of a developed nation. India is the youngest country in the world. Japan, which enjoys the credit of developed nation, is older in nature. Yet it is technologically strong. But in normal case youth is more addicted towards communication and technology. But it is true that world’s youngest nation is not that much obsessed towards technology.
22 percent of India’s total population is living below the poverty line. 70 percent of India’s population resides in villages. The internet penetration in India is much slow compared to other developing nations. Our high speed internet dreams are slower than others. We observed 2004 as ‘broadband year’. Six years have passed. But we have done little in order to increase internet penetration in India. In 2005 India’s target was 40 million internet subscribers by year 2010. But we are far behind and now this dream seems unattainable. At present India has only 14 million internet subscribers. One of the recent survey states that Internet access is a fundamental right, but in India it is not considered so. In a recent development US has proposed to give super fast internet access to every citizen by 2020. An estimated cost of $350bn has been set aside for this project. Australia has also made this provision followed by UK. But India being a large market is not moving it’s finger to achieve this goal.
Rural population density, illiteracy, infrastructure problems are the main reasons behind this low penetration. There are approximately 40 crore mobile phone users in India. On a monthly basis at least 10 million new subscribers are added. Internet access is essential considering the economic growth of a nation. Because communication and transfer of data plays a key role in this regard. India’s internet penetration is only about 2 percent of the population.
After the 3G spectrum auction there will be a change in these figures. The online world in this country is growing on a day to day basis. The existing bandwidth and speed will not be sufficient in the near future. Latest budget put forward a vision for the country as a whole. But super fast internet was not there. Actually now is the time to think about and act on the very issue. As the BBC survey stated access to internet is a citizen’s fundamental right. High speed internet is inclusive in it. Some kind of lobbying should be there to provide us the same.

Super-fast broadband – The US choice

Pramod Thomas — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:04:10 +0000

Now speed is the way of life. In this digital era speed determines everything. From news to day today affairs speed is essential. According to BBC report United States of America takes speed to the next level. For the internet users across the globe, speed is as important as their lives. Recently US government unveiled a plan to give super-fast broadband to every citizen in that country by 2020. The commission proposed this plan and termed it as the greatest challenge. This plan is now before the US congress awaiting for approval. It is estimated that one fourth of US population still don’t have broadband at home. A BBC survey termed internet access as a human right and the participants reiterated that it is the duty of the government to provide the same.
This move is in line with the global outlook about internet. Everyone now a days needs a common platform to interact and internet is the most suitable one. America’s first comprehensive broadband road map was formulated by The Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In the plan it is predicted that super-fast broadband would provide more opportunities for the youth. It will be a foundation stone for “economic growth, job creation, global competitiveness and a better way of life” the plan states. Now 20 crore Americans are using high-speed internet, it took 20 years to reach this figure. It is estimated that the new plan would cover more people in less time. According to BBC the total cost for the same will be $350bn.
US government may take the way of spectrum auction to find money for this scheme. This would be of PPP (public private partnership) model. Major companies including Microsoft and Facebook have already expressed their interest in the plan. Now the ball is in congress’s court. If everything goes fine, US will be the first nation to provide high speed internet to all. But Republican representatives will say yes? Only time will give the answer.

Tabbed mobile browser – Opera Mini 5

Albin Sebastian — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:26:04 +0000

Opera has released the new version of mobile browser Opera mini. This time opera introduce Mobile browser with Tabbed browsing. Opera mini 5 have some new features like speed dial, password manager, virtual keyboard etc. full screen mode is also a great advantage for Opera mini. Now Opera mini is also available for android. Opera Mini compresses pages by up to 90% before being sent to your phone, meaning faster page-load times than in other mobile Web browsers.

Features

Speed Dial — You can set your favorite sites in speed dial. This help us to avoid typing urls each time.

Tabbed browsing — Browse several Web sites at the same time.With a touchscreen phone, you can enjoy even easier tab switching with visual tabs.

Virtual Keyboard – There is an effective virtual keyboard for you touch phone. This will help to auto fill the urls from the history

Password manager — Opera Mini is a virtual memory bank, securely saving all passwords for e-mail, social-networking sites, online banking and more.

Find in page – Search option is a nice feature to find text in the sites.

Progressive loading – Opera mini will show a progressive bar inn the address bar.

Download manager - No need to wait for finish downloading, you can browse the same time, also it can handle multiple instance of download

Video

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Download to your computer : http://www.opera.com/mini/next/download
Go to following URL from your mobile browser : http://m.opera.com/next

Internet and the world

Pramod Thomas — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:44:39 +0000

Recently BBC disclosed the estimate number of Internet users in the world. According to their calculation 171.95 Crore people around the globe use internet. Every day 3.37 laks blog posts are updated in the cyber space. The emergence of social networking also contributed largely to this huge figures. Nobel peace prize for the internet is not a big surprise!. It not only reduced the distance but also revolutionized the communication method of mankind. BBC conducted a world wide survey and the result of the same declared that Internet access is ‘a fundamental right’. Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right-the poll suggests. 27,000 adults from 26 countries participated in the poll. A major mile stone is paved by countries like Finland and Estonia. They “ruled that access to internet is a human right for their citizens”. International organizations such as UN and others are working hard to push universal net access. Recent duel between Google and China seems to be settle down and signals a major change in the internet access scenario across the globe. No one can ignore the possibilities offered by internet now. One can, with out any fear, say that internet access is more than human right.
According to Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) “The internet is the most powerful potential source of enlightenment ever created.” In his opinion internet should be regarded as basic infrastructure-just like roads, waste and water. Majority of the participants shared the view that governments should never involve in regulation of internet. The poll came in the light of the UK government’s Digital Economy Bill. Which intend to “to disconnect or slow down the net connections of persistent illegal file-sharers” more countries such as France ans some European countries also considering similar regulation. Meanwhile UK is going to provide universal broadband in the country by 2012. 87 percent of the people expressed their views in the poll felt that Internet is the “fundamental right of all the people”.
People from the developing countries such as Brazil and India backed the view that Internet is one’s fundamental right.
Food, cloth and shelter are the basic needs of man. But these are not enough to survive. A man living in the global village access to information is vital for survival. Internet provides the fourth basic need. It is the responsibility of the government to provide internet access to it’s citizens. It is believed that with in no time delay half of the world population would be using internet. Surely, it is the future. And a promising future is everyone’s right so as internet.

Google ready to resume talks with China

Pramod Thomas — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:55:39 +0000

It seems the ice is going to melt. There are reports that Google is ready to resume talks with China. According to the wall street journal report, Google explores opportunities to talk to Chinese authorities regarding search results. Further clarifications regarding the talks are unknown. Last January, Google threatened China of a possible pull back because of the government restrictions in search engine results. Google accused that with the help of government itself cyber criminals are hacking gmail accounts of human right activists in china. These ‘cyber crimes’ according to Google were reported from two schools in China. Chinese government as well as the school authorities denied the report. Google-China fight became an international issue without much time. US president Barack Obama asked Chinese government to give a proper reply to Google. He also said that these cyber crimes are very serious in nature. Talks will resume after the Chinese New year celebrations reports wall street journal.
China stands extreme opposite to these allegations. They are against Google and said that it helps US and the western countries to intrude into China. Earlier China made it mandatory to install special software in all the PCs in the country. Search in China will only provide the desired results as approved by the government authorities. China made it clear that they will never loosen their rules for the smooth operation of Google in the country. Communist China told Google that they have to obey the social responsibilities of the country If they want to do business in the most populated country in the world. There were reports that Google took the decision all of a sudden. China ranks first in terms of most internet users in the world. Which means china is a huge market for Google. These facts forced Google to rethink. It is believed that Google would agree with Chinese terms of edited search results!

Text formatting in Google buzz

Albin Sebastian — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:12:47 +0000

Yes you can Format your texts with bold italics and a strikethrough, to format your text in Google Buzz use the following methods . You can make a text bold by placing a word in between “ * ” , italic by placing a word in between “ _ “ and ~~strikethrough~~ by placing a word in between “– “ , you can also use this In Your Google chats (Gtalk)

Eg,

*Hi this is a bold test*

_Hi this is a italics test_

-Hi this is a strikethrough test-

NB : Don’t put space after the symbols.

HBO provides online video service

Pramod Thomas — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:01:11 +0000

The online world is big. It is getting bigger and bigger day after day. Recently there was a revelation that email will be replaced with twitter in short term. YouTube made the started the visual revolution in the online world. There after so many similar service providers came into the scene. In India also video sharing became a habit. It is believed that after the 3G aution the online world will become more bigger than now in India.
Online video service is the new fashion now. In India also the recently launched ET now shares the footages through their website. CNBC TV18 also doing the same in their website moneycontrol.com. The worlds major television group HBO made it clear that they are going to provide online video service. HBO channel subscribers of verizon’s Fios TV can view cable network shows online. This move is to attract the large number of web users. The new services is known as ‘HBO GO’. Subscribers can view their favorite shows through web without television. According to the communication from the company this service is cost effective too.
In the beginning, only Verizon Fios subscribers can access ‘HBO GO’. Comcast-HBO subscribers also can view the shows through web. Recent surveys show that the number of viewers of TV ondemand progarmmes increased rapidly. HBO research shows that the growth rate is 20-30 percent. Company also expects that online ondemand will also grow at a rate similar to this.
There is bad news for the online crowd in India, since the service will only be available in US at first. Subscribers in US can view the programs using PC,Mac any where in the country. HBO is trying hard to make this service available in smart phones too. Since India is a major market for HBO, when the move will become successful in US they will soon provide this service to other countries including India. Cheers to the online video revolution.

Watch full length movies on YouTube

Albin Sebastian — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:51:01 +0000

YouTube recently announced their Movies and Shows channel. You can watch Full length Movies and Shows free of cost . Many good movies are there but most of them are from old collections. Its include many Hollywood movies too, the page http://www.youtube.com/movies Categorized in the sidebar. From there you can select deferent categories like Family, Comedy, Horror, Romance Etc …. The main advantage is it is legal and You can see High definition quality movies. To watch Shows Go to http://www.youtube.com/shows . Shows channels are well updated.

The service expands on YouTube’s existing partnership with several studios, whose parents include Sony Corp., Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., CBS Corp., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Liberty Media Corp. Single video ads are planned to be inserted in scheduled breaks in shows and movies, Rajaraman said. Sometimes the ads will be sold by Google and sometimes by the content providers.

You can Download this High definition Movies and Shows using Firefox plugging, Read this article

How to Disable Google Buzz Messages Showing in Your Inbox

Albin Sebastian — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:57:21 +0000

Filter in Gmail allow you to manage the flow of incoming messages. Using filters, you can automatically label, archive, delete, star, or forward your mail, even keep it out of Spam — all based on a combination of keywords, sender, recipients, and more. Following steps helps you to create a filter in your Gmail account for blocking Buzz messages.

To create a filter:

Go to “Settings” In Gmail page

Click on “Filters “

Click “Create a new filter”

Enter your filter name “BUZZ” in subject box

Press “Next”

Tick “Skip the Inbox (Archive it )”

Click “Create Filter”.

By using this steps you can control flow of Buzz messages in your Gmail inbox.

How to use Google BUZZ

Albin Sebastian — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:31:52 +0000

Google Buzz has now been announced! Now a days all are familiar with social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut, And may of you in Twitter also. If you are experienced with this sites, It is easy to understand the Google BUZZ. Here is a how to use Google BUZZ For others who are not active in this social sites.Google integrated this BUZZ with Gmail. So you can easily check the Mail and BUZZ Messages in a single window.

However The Public Timeline of the Google BUZZ will show in your profile Google page See binbert’s Profile Page

http://www.google.com/profiles/binbert#buzz

Remember this type services are mainly for Share your Ideas and messages to the Public. We have many option to share with your personal contacts. So Consider it as a Public announcement area. This is something like Broadcasting the messages.

Message

If you Send a message It will reach to all of your followers

Comment

Followers can comment in that message

Here Mutual following is not mandatory like Google Chats. That means You can follow one person who is not following and vice versa. So the followers vs. following ratio will not be 1:1 always

The BUZZ tab in Gmail will show all the messages from the profiles which you are following.

Reply:

You can reply to a person using “@” symbol. Same like twitter

Eg : @binbert@gmail.com

It will disply as @binbert and will be linked to the Google profile

Follow

You can follow your friends which is showing in the friends list. or go to any profile page, there you can see a “Follow” Button in the right hand side. there is one more option to search for peoples in your BUZZ Window “Find People”

Connect to sites

You can Connect with your other accounts like twitter, flickr, YouTube etc. Also your site feeds. It will Update the messages from that accounts.

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Key feature of Google BUZZ

Auto-following

Rich, fast sharing experience

Public and private sharing

Inbox integration

Friends suggests

Reply by chat

Like/unlike