Global markets were under pressure due to the Spain debt worries and deadlock between European Union. Greek exit is also a focus for the market traders as next election to be held on june 17. If greece plans to exit euro, it will be catastrophic for markets and market might sell off. Meanwhile US economic indicators are loosing momentum and slipping added to more economic woes. Unemployment data is picking up in US and manufacturing dropped more than expected. Today's job data will clarify the picture, although no one is expecting any surprise on positive side, but if it comes on lower side of estimate, S&P will loose its important 1300 support level and another round of selling will start. S&P 500 is just holding up 1300 levels and bouncing back from the support. Watch out for those levels.
Nifty Trading Tips & Outlook Today
Our last call was buy on dips on Nifty as index has gained a momentum but unfortunately, it couldn't get above 5000 levels and stayed there. Selling pressure due to global uncertainty as well as worst GDP number for the quarter put a pressure on the markets and might see downgrades and revised earning targets for large caps. All these events lined up in next few days and might continue pressuring Nifty. Long positions squared off and one might look to short Nifty around 4980-5000 levels ( Spot ). The range for Nifty will be 4800-5000( Spot ) for next trading strategy. Trade accordingly
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Nifty Trading Tips & Outlook Today
Our last call was buy on dips on Nifty as index has gained a momentum but unfortunately, it couldn't get above 5000 levels and stayed there. Selling pressure due to global uncertainty as well as worst GDP number for the quarter put a pressure on the markets and might see downgrades and revised earning targets for large caps. All these events lined up in next few days and might continue pressuring Nifty. Long positions squared off and one might look to short Nifty around 4980-5000 levels ( Spot ). The range for Nifty will be 4800-5000( Spot ) for next trading strategy. Trade accordingly
Check out our previous recommendation here
SpaceX Dragon Makes Fiery Re-entry, Watery Landing
SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully undocked and deorbitted this morning after a historic launch and hookup with the International Space Station. The capsule completed its mission today, re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and splashing down in its general target area in the Pacific. (Elon Musk, SpaceX chief tweeted that the next version would "land with helicopter precison.") The craft was located after splashdown and is being recovered off the Baja Coast of California.
New Cyberweapon IXESHE Discovered
A new advanced persistent threat named IXESHE (pronounced I-Sushi) was recently discovered on the computer networks of Taiwanese electronics companies and several East Asian governments. The IXESHE campaign appears to have been underway since early 2009. According to a research paper by Trend Micro, IXESHE spread via infected PDF files that were sent to deliberately targeted employees. Once the APT infected a computer, the malware binary allowed unknown parties to remotely control and monitor operations. The spearphishing emails had titles such as "Discussion on Cross- Strait Maritime Cooperation," "The Obama Administration and the Middle East," and "China’s Charm Diplomacy in BRICS Summit."
Mobile News Reader Taptu Releases Web App Powered By HTML 5
News discovery and reader app Taptu just released a version of their reader app for the Web, powered by HTML5.
The web version of the news reader adds to Taptu's existing apps for iOS, Android, Nook, Blackberry and Kindle. Its creation was motivated by responses from its users, CEO Mitch Lazar told Fast Company. "Of all the requests we get regularly, the number one request has really been, 'Give us Taptu on the Web.'"
For Taptu, getting on the Web, is a break from tradition set by most newsreader apps, which tend to be mobile app focused, and in the case of Flipboard, only available on iOS devices. The Taptu Web app also prepares the company for a potential future in the versatile and cross-platform HTML5 as opposed to native apps. Though, for now, Taptu's focus won't stray too far from its mobile heritage. "If the market does move that way we'll be ready," Lazar said.
A little less like Flipboard, but a little more like Zite, Taptu's trump card is its search feature which throws up news stream suggestions based on word-search algorithms. Also, Taptu lets you "DJ your news" by mixing source streams within the app itself, as you might do with a Twitter list, or a Google Reader folder. Taptu is now porting those strengths to the desktop-accessible Web.
Up to 50 percent of Taptu's 800,000 readers are based in the U.S., home turf to other reader apps like Flipboard and Zite. 30 percent of Taptu's following is based in the company's base in the U.K.
ACTA Rejected In EU, As Google Faces Piracy Accusations
Today the Industry Committee, the Civil Liberties Committee and the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament formally registered their recommendations to not sign the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ahead of a full EU vote in July.ArsTechnica points out it's the latest step in rejection of ACTA (which was designed by international bodies to protect assets of content creators with punitive measures, and ratified by President Obama in 2011), coming after national-level Dutch, Polish, German and Czech disapproval.
Meanwhile the RIAA has openly accused Google of failing to move dramatically against piracy-enabling websites linked through its search results, despite Google's recent moves to make its actions more clearly understood by adding Copyright Removal Requests to its Transparency Report. RIAA's EVP Brad Buckles has complained in a blog post that Google places "artificial limits on the number of queries that can be made by a copyright owner to identify infringements," and also "limits the number of links we can ask them to remove per day." The recording industry spokesbody is thus squarely blaming Google for merely linking to sites that then themselves link on to enable piracy of music.
Speaking at AllThingsD's D10 conference last night, Hollywood agent and head of William Morris Endeavor Agency Ari Emanuel made a number of controversial comments that similarly blamed Google for enabling piracy by not suppressing links to piracy-related search results. Faced with a question on the matter from The Verge's Josh Topolosky, Emanuel seemed confused and angered that this position was analagously compared to blaming the road a burglar drove down before burgling someone's house. Emanuel also point blank refused the notion that cable companies would unbundle content.
Earlier this month a study by North Carolina State University was the latest in a line of studies to show that piracy actually promotes sales of online content by showing torrented albums sold better than non-pirated peers. Also speaking at AllthingsD, Spotify's Daniel Ek noted that he expected his wildly successful online music streaming service, which generates reliable income for labels and may dissuade piracy due to its convenience and low cost, was blocked from entering the U.S. by inflexibility by record labels throughout a two and a half year process.
Cricket Wireless To Sell Pre-Paid iPhone Plans In The U.S.
Cricket Wireless has just become the first carrier to sell the iPhone in the U.S. as part of a pre-paid plan. Starting June 22, for $55 buyers of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S will have access to unlimited talk, texting, and data. The cost of the Cricket iPhone models are pegged at $150 less than the unlocked iPhone models sold by Apple, making it a sweeter deal for U.S. buyers reluctant to commit to one cellular network. While the Cricket pre-paid plan for the iPhone is a first for the U.S., pre-paid phones are much more common in international markets, which account for 60% of Apple's sales. Leap Wireless, which owns and sells phones though Cricket, has been selling phones of all kinds on pre-paid plans for about 10 years now, using a flat-rate, pre-paid, unlimited access model. Cricket also sells contractless access to broadband.
Virgin Galactic Space Crafts Get FAA Approval For Rocket-Powered Test Flight
The U.S. Federal Aviation Authority has granted Virgin Galactic's aircraft builder, Scaled, a permit to test launch vehicles using rocket motors. Two spacecrafts, the Spaceship Two and WhiteNightTwo have been approved to fly free, carrying the full weight of a rocket motor on board--the motor and craft have previously been tested independently. According to Virgin, Spaceship Two is the first human-carrying vehicle to receive such approval. This news comes just as another historic moment for private space flight winds down--over the last week,SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully launched and docked with the ISS in spac, becoming the first privately built rocket to do so. As of this morning, Dragon has undocked and begun its journey back to Earth.
Online Advertising Rises Past 20% Of Ad Spending In Europe
The advertising industry seems somewhat resistant to the economic woes in Europe right now--it rose 0.8% in 2011. Online ads seem to be growing best with 14.5% year-on-year growth, while passing the €20 billion annual total for the first time. Considering that the entire European ad industry was worth about €100 billion in 2011, that means one in every five ads was seen online, with video ads being a particularly robust area of growth. The trend is likely to continue considering the growing integration of computing tech into daily lives, particularly when mobile, and may be one reason that Facebook is said to be working on a smartphone.
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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."
Aamir Khan was asked for apology for accusing doctors of malpractices in his TV talk show 'Satyamev Jayate'. Is he doing something wrong? If we see the highlights of the points in his fourth episode, it is mainly indicating what is actually happening in the society in more or less amount. He has tried to gather proofs and exposed them amongst general public. People who involved in pharmaceutical manufacturing or trading business knew better that everything shown in the episode was true. Doctors are getting different kind of perks from the pharmaceutical companies to promote their products. Pharmaceutical companies offers a foreign trip to some expensive gadgets, sometimes cash as well.
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.
India's growth story is slowly losing its sheen and has hit a three-year low with the GDP growing at just 6.5 per cent in 2011-12, as compared to an impressive 8.4 per cent in the previous fiscal. The GDP growth in the January-March quarter, 2011-12, was just 5.3 per cent compared to 9.2 per cent in the same period in 2010-11.
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.
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.
How does it work?
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.
| 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!").
It’s hard to do your banking when the nearest branch is a day away and you don’t have any electricity. These new cash machines run on the sun’s power, and can bring some modern banking to truly out-of-the-way places.
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.
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.










