Rozlyn Khan, another bollywood actress make a strip show for MS Dhoni after the Poonam Pandey.
As the headlines about Poonam pandey's nudity drama hasn't over yet, Another model cum actress Rozlyn Khan went topless to show loyalty to MS Dhoni and support Chennai Team. Is nudity only way to show support or cheer teams or there might be a publicity stunts? Most of the people who even doesn't heard the name of the model like Poonam Pandey or Rozlyn Khan might search Google for their nude pics. This might be a new trend to get focused by people and get noticed.
Google’s self-driving cars may be out on the road already, but it will take awhile before public is truly ready to give up all driving control to artificial intelligence. In the interim, Volvo has a solution that lets drivers (sometimes) sleep at the wheel while still improving highway safety--and it just completed the first real-world tests.
Dubbed SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), the EU-backed project is working on road trains--vehicles equipped with software already found in many Volvo vehicles (including laser sensors, cameras, and radars) that are automatically led along the highway by a lead vehicle, which is commandeered by a professional driver. Regular drivers could one day simply use in-car navigation to find the nearest highway road train, get on the tail end, and let the vehicle platoon take over steering, braking, and acceleration.
Earlier this month, SARTRE let a road train loose on a highway in Spain (see video above). The train, which consisted of a Volvo XC60, a Volvo V60, a Volvo S60, a truck, and a lead vehicle, traveled at a respectable 53 mph. All the vehicles in the train copied the actions of the lead vehicle--including steering and braking--using wireless technology.
If unleashed en masse, these road trains could cut down on highway accidents, reduce traffic, and save fuel (since drivers aren’t constantly stopping and starting in traffic).
It’s hard to say when road trains will end up on a highway near you (Volvo hopes to have them on the road in Europe by 2020), who will hire people to drive the lead vehicles, or what happens if the lead driver makes some sort of error. But as Linda Wahlstrom, project manager of the SARTRE project, recently explained in a statement: "Apart from the software developed as part of the project, it is really only the wireless network installed between the cars that set them apart from other cars available in showrooms today."
Dubbed SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), the EU-backed project is working on road trains--vehicles equipped with software already found in many Volvo vehicles (including laser sensors, cameras, and radars) that are automatically led along the highway by a lead vehicle, which is commandeered by a professional driver. Regular drivers could one day simply use in-car navigation to find the nearest highway road train, get on the tail end, and let the vehicle platoon take over steering, braking, and acceleration.
Earlier this month, SARTRE let a road train loose on a highway in Spain (see video above). The train, which consisted of a Volvo XC60, a Volvo V60, a Volvo S60, a truck, and a lead vehicle, traveled at a respectable 53 mph. All the vehicles in the train copied the actions of the lead vehicle--including steering and braking--using wireless technology.
If unleashed en masse, these road trains could cut down on highway accidents, reduce traffic, and save fuel (since drivers aren’t constantly stopping and starting in traffic).
It’s hard to say when road trains will end up on a highway near you (Volvo hopes to have them on the road in Europe by 2020), who will hire people to drive the lead vehicles, or what happens if the lead driver makes some sort of error. But as Linda Wahlstrom, project manager of the SARTRE project, recently explained in a statement: "Apart from the software developed as part of the project, it is really only the wireless network installed between the cars that set them apart from other cars available in showrooms today."
We have consulted few small business owners, who have started pharmaceutical business recently. If they want to promote their medicines, they need to offer some kind of perks or offers or sometimes cash commission. If doctor convinced with his share, then your product will be prescribed by doctors and pharmacy shop will sell it. The shocking thing is doctor's commission varies from 30% to 50 % of retailer price, which is very high. All the burden is included in MRP of the products as 30 % of doctors' commission and 30% of retailer's discount. Retailers' are doing business so he can ask for his margins, but doctors are charging fees to the patients and writing only those medicines, from which they get maximum commission irrespective of how much it will hurt to patients in terms of money. They want to get rich in any case. Big companies offers big perks like holiday trips and electronic gadgets. While small companies need to compete with big companies not in terms of quality but in terms of doctors' share. The end result is patients always suffering after paying higher cost for medicines and doctors' consulting fees.
According to a CNBC-TV18 poll, the Q4 GDP was expected to be flat at around 6.1 per cent on a quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) basis. Fiscal deficit was estimated at 5.9 per cent.
Reflecting slowdown in the economy, the growth rate of eight infrastructure sectors slowed down to 2.2 per cent in April because of poor
performance of crude oil, natural gas, petroleum refinery products and fertilisers. The eight core sectors that also include coal, electricity, cement and finished steel, and have a weightage of 37.9 per cent in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had grown by 4.2 per cent in April 2011.
The cumulative growth rate of infrastructure industries during 2011-12 also slowed down to 4.4 per cent, from 6.6 per cent in 2010-11, according to the data released by the commerce and industry ministry on Thursday.
Natural gas and crude oil production contracted by 11.3 per cent and 1.3 per cent respectively during April. Petroleum refinery products and fertiliser production shrunk 2.8 per cent and 9.3 per cent respectively during the month.
Coal, Steel and cement output grew by 3.8 per cent, 5.8 per cent and 8.6 per cent in April 2012. In the same month last year, coal output had grown 2.7 per cent, steel - 2.9 per cent and cement - 0.1 per cent. However, electricity generation slowed down by 4.6 per cent, from 6.4 per cent in April 2011.
Amazing, free, HDTV is all around us.
Most Americans have access to the major networks – ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, PBS – with a simple HD antenna. Yet most of us pay a fortune every year just so the cable companies can deliver it to us in our living rooms. But we’re not watching all our shows in the living room anymore, our lives are mobile; We’re watching TV shows on our iPads and our laptops... in the airport… our favorite coffeeshops... at our friend’s apartment… in the back seat of the car.
Why can’t we get all that great free content onto our iPad, Roku, Apple TV, Roku Box, Mac, connected TV? Why isn’t there a DVR app that lets you watch and record all the live TV and primetime shows you can’t get on Hulu, Netflix, or other Internet services?
That’s what we asked ourselves last year. And over the past 12 months, we made one. Actually, we made a home-based DVR that you control with an app and that you can watch nearly anywhere.
The DVR for our connected TV world - Simple.TV.
Simple.TV isn’t your standard DVR. It doesn’t plug into your TV set. And it won’t let you get encrypted cable or satellite TV. What it will do is capture free-to-air broadcast TV or basic cable shows and make them available on all your favorite connected screens – inside your house, or on the road. And up to five family members can watch Simple.TV simultaneously. Anytime you want to watch your favorite shows, Simple.TV will serve it up, wherever you are, and on nearly any screen you can get your hands on.
With Simple.TV, you can cut your cable bill and take advantage of all of the amazing HDTV that virtually all of us get for free.
Simple.TV captures live TV from its antenna/cable input, encodes it into variable bit-rate video, and stores it on a USB hard drive that you provide (network attached storage will be supported down the line).
It’s easy—Plug in your antenna
Connect a USB hard drive
Connect to your network
Power it up
After set up, download the Simple.TV app on any number of your connected devices (or access via browser) and you’ll be ready to start watching and recording live TV. It’s... simple!
App and Browser Support
Simple.TV is designed to work with modern HTML-5 browsers like Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. We also have dedicated apps for iOS and the Roku media streamer. Additional custom apps are in the pipeline as well - tell us where you want to watch your favorite TV shows. Boxee? Google.TV?
When we ship, you'll be able to watch TV on your iPad, PC, Mac or Roku box.
Simple.TV allows up to five simultaneous connections so your family can all log in and watch live TV or recorded shows. Everyone can watch live TV at the same time, as long as it’s the same channel. When watching recorded shows, up to five different programs can be streamed at once.
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| The Color Genius App |
As enjoyable as it is wandering up and down the cosmetics aisle desperately hoping you’re making good decisions, L’Oreal Paris has developed a free iPhone app that takes the guesswork out of complementing any outfit with just the right shades of makeup. With The Color Genius, simply snap a photo of the clothes in question, select your desired tint, and then decide whether you want to Match It, Blend It, or get 10 kinds of funky and Clash It with your day or evening fashion choice--and just like that, a carousel of perfectly selected lipsticks, eyeshadows, and nail polishes are instantly suggested with their names and description.
L’Oreal Paris was even kind enough to have one of its go-to beauties--the incomparably lovely Madame Inès de La Fressange--demo the app’s usefulness when making up your face in a hot pink number for a little event like the Cannes Festival (while making the most fabulous, inimitably French exclamations throughout: "schtumpf!" "Buf!").
For many villagers in rural areas of India, personal banking is pricey in ways American could never imagine. First, there is the cost of reaching the nearest branch. Bus fares are expensive, and a day’s labor is lost in the journey. Simply installing ATMs in villages that don’t have reliable electricity (or don’t have at all) is problematic, while building bank branches in every hamlet is out of the question.
Indian engineering company Vortex has taken on the challenge by creating solar-powered ATMs. Superficially similar to the cash dispenser in your corner convenience store, these rugged little bank tellers are a distant species altogether.
So far, Vortex has deployed about 450 across almost every state in India, mostly in small towns about 60 kilometers from bank branches, reports Yale Environment 360. Vortex officials say they plan to install about 10,000 more within the next two years, while an international expansion is also underway.The Gramateller ATM is lean, efficient and designed to live almost anywhere humans do. It carries its own solar panels, alongside four to eight hours of battery storage. Despite the ability to operate in temperatures as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, it never needs cooling, unlike most ATMs. Clever engineering also means it’s 90% more efficient than conventional machines, consuming about $10 of electricity per month in India. The ATM also comes with a fingerprint identification system, making it easy for those unfamiliar with digital devices to withdraw cash.
Convenience cash may never be far away. The poor living in far flung locations just need to be able to earn enough of it to withdraw.
With the mission of helping banks reach out profitably to unbanked & under-banked regions, and years of R & D ably supported by IIT Madras, Vortex has designed ATMs which are highly reliable, rugged, easy to use and eco-friendly. They consume up to 90% lesser power and hence can be economically operated using solar power. Vortex ATMs are currently serving even the remotest parts of rural India – using technology as an enabler to improve quality of life.
Vortex’s innovative ATM portfolio comprises Gramateller Indi ATM, Gramateller Duo ATM, and solar power options for both these models. Additionally, the company provides related software solutions to help banks roll out end-to-end ATM services.
The company has been selected as one among the 10 start-ups that will change your life by TIME magazine, is one among 31 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2011 by World Economic Forum, and was a finalist of the Wall Street Journal Asia Innovation Awards 2010.
Zagat Lands Star Role In New Google+ Local
Long silent since Google bought it in September last year, ratings champ Zagat has resurfaced as part of Google's newest limb, Google+ Local, a product that melds together the social spirit of ratings and check in apps. An icon to Google+ Local now appears at the bottom left hand corner of your Google+ page. It displays ratings for local restaurants and lets you check into and rate places using your Google+ account. Sensibly, Google+ Local fits right into other Google products--Zagat ratings and reviewer comments will show up on Google searches and Google Maps. As we predicted, Zagat has also landed a plum role in Google's mobile plans--Google+ Local is now available as an app for Android.
Mitt Romney's iPhone App Is For All Amercia [Sic]
Mitt Romney's campaign team just released a new "With Mitt" iPhone app to promote his run for President of America. Or--perhaps he intends to run for a different country: Amercia. Because that's what it says in large letters across the app's clever photo-stamping system: "A Better Amercia." Is this a scary hint at CIA moon bases in the nation's future? Or a subtle reference to closer ties with Britain--specifically the core of old Saxon England, named for an Old English word meaning "border people"? Or is it simply another embarassing design crime by team Romney? You decide. And take your time. The Romney campaign has submitted a correction to apple but as of Wednesday morning, it was still waiting for approval. In other news, Romney has secured enough support to stand as GOP's Presidential candidate.
Security Companies, Government Groups Unite Against Botnets
2012 is looking like a rocky year for cybercrime, and private and government groups and companies are unifying to face one emerging threat--botnets, a malaise in which a group of computers are compromised and used to access or transmit information. McAfee estimates they affected 5 million systems between January and March 2012. The Industry Botnet Group(IBG), which was formed in January this year, today released a set of voluntary guidelines to unite private companies and government organizations in their fight against this breed of Web-spread threat. In the new Principles for Voluntary Efforts to Reduce the Impact of Botnets in Cyberspace, the IBG suggested cross-border collaboration, educating users, coordinating across sectors, among others, to share information about botnet attacks and incidents.
The announcement was made at a White House event led by exiting Obama Administration Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt. Michael DeCesare, the co-president of security giant McAfee, one of the event's industry speakers, stressed the collaborive spirit of the new guidelines in his address. "As an industry we must adapt, we must unify, simply and strengthen the way we provide security," DeCesare said, adding that real time feedback system tracking botnets and other threats, and built-in hardware assisted security would be critical to gaining better control on the issue. Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, also addressed the gathering and, like DeCesare, repeated the need for working together across sectors. "We have to move faster than they do if we are going to control the problem to a greater degree than we have today. This is not a problem that one person can solve alone... we all need to work together," Smith said.
What Tim Cook Said (And Didn't) In His D10 Interview
Tim Cook hasn't appeared in many interviews, and last night's appearance at the AllThingsD D10 event ranks as perhaps the most important in his short time as Apple CEO. It was also revealing, not only of Apple's plans but of Tim Cook himself, as he artfully played politics when asked tough questions.
The word cloud below shows us a quick visual summary of Cook's interview and right away "people" stands out as one of Cook's most-used word--with 40 uses. "We" in all its variants isn't shown in the image, but in total Cook said it 135 times, underlining his sense of Apple as a team and its ability to do "many" (18 uses) "great" (24) "things" (26). He's a man who likes to "think" (25 uses) about what he and customers "want" (23). Cook also paid many meaningful compliments to "Steve" (9 times).
But Cook did dodge some questions, such as ones about hot-topic matters like the rumored Apple television--sometimes straightforwardly saying he wouldn't answer, sometimes ducking and even complimenting the dogged nature of his interviewers, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. And several times the Apple chief redirected his answers back to matters he felt important enough to underline. This is a calm, measured intelligent personality in action...and he again showed he's a different kind of man to Steve Jobs (who was "laser-focussed," "a pain in the ass" but had "a gift" for turning a change of mind into "an art"). Most interestingly he revealed his view of Apple product secrecy may even be tougher than Jobs' was--he promised he was "serious" Apple was "doubling down" on it.
As for the rest: He promised more transparency on China and the environment, in the hope other companies would follow Apple's wake. The Apple television rumor was ducked, but TV is an area of "intense interest" and he doesn't feel Apple has to own content. Siri is another key tech that will be seriously improved in the "coming months" and he's got "cool ideas about what Siri can do"--partly because she's got some AI built in that changes how people relate to the phone (perhaps Cook's read our plea for a smarter smartphone?). And as for more Facebook integration, Cook said "stay tuned."
Long silent since Google bought it in September last year, ratings champ Zagat has resurfaced as part of Google's newest limb, Google+ Local, a product that melds together the social spirit of ratings and check in apps. An icon to Google+ Local now appears at the bottom left hand corner of your Google+ page. It displays ratings for local restaurants and lets you check into and rate places using your Google+ account. Sensibly, Google+ Local fits right into other Google products--Zagat ratings and reviewer comments will show up on Google searches and Google Maps. As we predicted, Zagat has also landed a plum role in Google's mobile plans--Google+ Local is now available as an app for Android.
Mitt Romney's iPhone App Is For All Amercia [Sic]
Mitt Romney's campaign team just released a new "With Mitt" iPhone app to promote his run for President of America. Or--perhaps he intends to run for a different country: Amercia. Because that's what it says in large letters across the app's clever photo-stamping system: "A Better Amercia." Is this a scary hint at CIA moon bases in the nation's future? Or a subtle reference to closer ties with Britain--specifically the core of old Saxon England, named for an Old English word meaning "border people"? Or is it simply another embarassing design crime by team Romney? You decide. And take your time. The Romney campaign has submitted a correction to apple but as of Wednesday morning, it was still waiting for approval. In other news, Romney has secured enough support to stand as GOP's Presidential candidate.
Security Companies, Government Groups Unite Against Botnets
2012 is looking like a rocky year for cybercrime, and private and government groups and companies are unifying to face one emerging threat--botnets, a malaise in which a group of computers are compromised and used to access or transmit information. McAfee estimates they affected 5 million systems between January and March 2012. The Industry Botnet Group(IBG), which was formed in January this year, today released a set of voluntary guidelines to unite private companies and government organizations in their fight against this breed of Web-spread threat. In the new Principles for Voluntary Efforts to Reduce the Impact of Botnets in Cyberspace, the IBG suggested cross-border collaboration, educating users, coordinating across sectors, among others, to share information about botnet attacks and incidents.
The announcement was made at a White House event led by exiting Obama Administration Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt. Michael DeCesare, the co-president of security giant McAfee, one of the event's industry speakers, stressed the collaborive spirit of the new guidelines in his address. "As an industry we must adapt, we must unify, simply and strengthen the way we provide security," DeCesare said, adding that real time feedback system tracking botnets and other threats, and built-in hardware assisted security would be critical to gaining better control on the issue. Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, also addressed the gathering and, like DeCesare, repeated the need for working together across sectors. "We have to move faster than they do if we are going to control the problem to a greater degree than we have today. This is not a problem that one person can solve alone... we all need to work together," Smith said.
What Tim Cook Said (And Didn't) In His D10 Interview
Tim Cook hasn't appeared in many interviews, and last night's appearance at the AllThingsD D10 event ranks as perhaps the most important in his short time as Apple CEO. It was also revealing, not only of Apple's plans but of Tim Cook himself, as he artfully played politics when asked tough questions.
The word cloud below shows us a quick visual summary of Cook's interview and right away "people" stands out as one of Cook's most-used word--with 40 uses. "We" in all its variants isn't shown in the image, but in total Cook said it 135 times, underlining his sense of Apple as a team and its ability to do "many" (18 uses) "great" (24) "things" (26). He's a man who likes to "think" (25 uses) about what he and customers "want" (23). Cook also paid many meaningful compliments to "Steve" (9 times).
But Cook did dodge some questions, such as ones about hot-topic matters like the rumored Apple television--sometimes straightforwardly saying he wouldn't answer, sometimes ducking and even complimenting the dogged nature of his interviewers, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. And several times the Apple chief redirected his answers back to matters he felt important enough to underline. This is a calm, measured intelligent personality in action...and he again showed he's a different kind of man to Steve Jobs (who was "laser-focussed," "a pain in the ass" but had "a gift" for turning a change of mind into "an art"). Most interestingly he revealed his view of Apple product secrecy may even be tougher than Jobs' was--he promised he was "serious" Apple was "doubling down" on it.
As for the rest: He promised more transparency on China and the environment, in the hope other companies would follow Apple's wake. The Apple television rumor was ducked, but TV is an area of "intense interest" and he doesn't feel Apple has to own content. Siri is another key tech that will be seriously improved in the "coming months" and he's got "cool ideas about what Siri can do"--partly because she's got some AI built in that changes how people relate to the phone (perhaps Cook's read our plea for a smarter smartphone?). And as for more Facebook integration, Cook said "stay tuned."
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Rayfish Footwear is looking to offer consumer customization, not by dye or stitching, but at the genetic level. On their site, you can mix and match various patterns of stingrays, and Rayfish will combine their DNA to match the design of your choice, actually growing you a genetically manipulated pair of stingrays to harvest as the leather for your shoes. The colors are bold. The patterns are intricate. And every pair is inherently unique. “It would not be feasible for ordinary people to code their desired pattern in the DNA, so we made a design tool that allows them to create a pattern that we can actually grow on the stingrays,” says Dr. Raymond Ong, head of Rayfish Footwear. That tool eschews esoteric DNA snippets for a graphic-laden UI, allowing you to drag and drop up to nine patterns into your shoe, selected from a library of 29 styles of leather. With so many choices combining into such an array of designs, the possibilities seem endless, though obviously there are some natural limitations to just how specific users can be about a shoe that is ostensibly grown.
“We cannot breed any desirable shape or logo on the fishes, as our patterning process works by recording and recombining DNA of existing animals…. Squares are for instance not possible, as the expression of the DNA on the skin doesn’t allow it,” Dr. Ong explains. “Also, the patterns that grow on the actual fish sometimes slightly differ from what you see in the design tool. Although it is almost perfect, we are still developing the mapping between the design tool and the DNA encoding further.”
For these practical reasons, Rayfish is honing their product while soft-launching their line with a series of design contests. You can go on their site now, try out their tool, and submit your own stingray shoe design. Winners will be given a free pair of shoes, which is a hefty prize: These bio-customized kicks will start at $1,800 when they hit the market later this year.
Online store will go live after the Grow Your Own Sneaker contest period has ended. Pricing of a pair of genuine Rayfish sneakers currently ranges from $14,800 to $16,200, depending on your shoe size and the complexity of the desired pattern.
Once regular production begins in late 2012, Rayfish sneakers will cost approximately $1,800. This price includes bio-customization of a pair of stingrays, growing your shoes to maturity, and shipping them to any address on the planet.
