No Funds SETI Shuts down search for alien life

No Funds SETI Shuts down search for alien life

The name SETI has become synonymous with search for extraterrestrial life.

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a set of 42 radio telescopes near Hat Creek, California, has been searching for alien signals and simultaneously conducting astronomical research since it began operating in 2007.


The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute operates the Allen Telescope Array, the field of dish-like scopes some 300 miles north of San Francisco

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is a "Large Number of Small Dishes" (LNSD) array designed to be highly effective for “commensal” (simultaneous) surveys of conventional radio astronomy projects and SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) observations at centimeter wavelengths.



The idea for the ATA emerged in a series of workshops convened by the SETI Institute in 1997 to define the path for future development of technology and search strategies for SETI. The advance of computer and communications technology made it clear that LNSD arrays were more efficient and less expensive than traditional large antennas. The final report of the workshop, “SETI 2020,” recommended the construction of the One Hectare Telescope. (1HT) (A hectare is an area equivalent to a square 100 meters on a side.)

The SETI Institute sought private funds for the 1HT and in 2001 Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) agreed to fund the technology development and first phase of construction (42 antennas). In October 2007 the array began commissioning tests and initial observations.

The array is now being used for radio astronomy observations of our galaxy and other galaxies, gamma ray bursts and transient radio sources, and SETI.

The array is a partnership between the SETI Institute, based in Mountainview, California, and the University of California, Berkeley.

SETI has been forced to put the Allen Telescope Array into “hibernation” due to a drastic reduction in outside funding.

In simple language Allen Telescope Array that scans the skies, universe for extraterrestrial signals has suspended operations because of lack of funding

Karen Randall, SETI's director of special projects said that The Allen Telescope Array will resume operations by 2013, when SETI's new round of funding goes into effect.
She also said that the funding will cover the project until 2018, she said. In the meantime, SETI is searching for quick cash.

Below is the link to donate to the SETI
https://www.seti.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=1573

Reality Views by sm-
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Keyword Tag – SETI stop working SETI NO FUND DONATE TO SETI

RIP - Last Typewriter Making Company Godrej and Boyce Closed in Mumbai – Death of Typewriters

RIP - Last Typewriter Making Company Godrej and Boyce
Closed in Mumbai – Death of Typewriters

In India nearly all the typewriter making companies have already closed their business.
Only one company was remaining that was Godrej and Boyce from Mumbai which was making Typewriters in Mumbai India.


Godrej and Boyce have shut down its production plant in Mumbai, India which was manufacturing Typewriters.

The Godrej and Boyce began production in the 1950s
It was still selling 50,000 models annually in the early 1990s, Up to year 2009 Godrej used to sell around 10,000 typewriters but now they do not have orders.
But last year it sold less than 800 machines.

Its said that this was the last company in the world which was making Type writers and but I came to know on internet there is possibility that in china, Indonesia and in Japan few companies are making typewriters.

As those articles did not mention the name of the companies who are still making the Typewriters I assume that the Godrej was the last company of the world.

And confirm that it was the India’s last typewriter making company which closed its business because of lack of orders.


And currently company got only 200 Typewriters in their possession with Arabic language.

Today also in India if you visit in the Courts you will find the people with typewriter and typing affidavits for the poor people.

Another Problem in India is Many government job require the certificate showing that the person knows the typing.

Today also in Pune City there are classes who are teaching English Typing, Marathi Typing.

But death of Typewriter will cause lot of pain to poor people of India as we do not have electricity supply on which we can depend.


A prototype of the typewriter was introduced in 1714 by Henry Mill, but the first mass-produced typewriter came in 1868 when Christopher Latham Sholes, a printer-publisher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, patented the device.

If you know any company which is manufacturing Typewriters for sell please mention it in the comment.


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http://www.travelpod.com

Reality Views by sm-
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Keyword Tag – Typewriter RIP Company Closed

God Particle, Higgs boson Found by Scientist. Is it rumour that God Particle Found by scientist?

God Particle, Higgs boson Found by Scientist.
Is it rumour that God Particle Found by scientist?

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PSLV-C16 Resourcesat-2 mission Successful 18th launch Successful by ISRO

PSLV-C16 Resourcesat-2 mission Successful 18th launch
Successful by ISRO
On Wednesday ISRO got success

Today's PSLV flight was its 17th successive mission after the failure of its maiden voyage in September 1993.
The PSLV has an impressive track record of 16 uninterrupted launches. This is the 18th launch and 17th successive flight of PSLV by ISRO.


India's PSLV-C16 rocket successfully launched into orbit the latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 that would study and help manage natural resources along with two nano satellites.

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle placed in a 'Polar Sun Synchronous Orbit' Resourcesat-2, Youthsat and X-Sat about 18 minutes after it blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre launch pad here, 90 km from Chennai, at 10.12 am.



The 1,206 kg Resourcesat-2 with a space life of five years replaces Resourcesat-1 launched in 2003 and would provide data with enhanced multi-spectral and spatial coverage on natural resources.

Besides Resourscesat-2, the PSLV rocket also launched Youthsat, weighing 92 kg, a joint Indo-Russian nano satellite for stellar and atmospheric studies.

The Resourscesat-2 with three high resolution cameras on a single platform would capture images that will be useful in assessing the health of crops, monitoring deforestation and water levels in reservoirs and lakes besides the snow-melt in the Himalayas.

Apart from the three cameras with high, medium and coarse resolutions, Resourcesat-2 also has two solid state recorders with a capacity of 200 GB each to store images which can be accessed by the ground stations
3 Cameras they are
1.
High resolution linear imaging self scanner LISS 4 operating in three spectral bands in the visible and near infrared region VNIR with 5.8 m spatial resolution and steerable up to +- deg across track to achieve a five day revisit capability.

2.
A medium resolution LISS3 operating in three spectral bands in VNIR and one in short wave infrared SWIR band with 23.5 metre spatial resolution

3.
A coarse resolution advance wide field sensor AWIFS operation in three spectral bands in VNIR and one band in SWIR with 56 metre spatial resolution.


The third satellite was 106-kg X-sat, an image applications spacecraft built by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
This is the first time; ISRO is launching a Singapore-built satellite.

It also carries Automatic Identification System (AIS) from COMDEV, Canada, as an experimental payload for ship surveillance in VHF band to derive position, speed and other information about ships.

Youthsat is a join Indo Russian satellite for stellar and atmospheric studies with the participation of students from universities at graduate and post graduate level.
With a mass of 92 Kg Youthsat intends to investigate the relationship between solar variability and thermosphere ionosphere changes.
The satellites carry three payloads of which two are Indian and one Russian. Together they form a unique and comprehensive package of experiments for the investigation of the composition, energetics and dynamics of earth’s upper atmosphere.

The Indian Payloads are –
Rabit – Radio beacon for lonosperic Tomography which is a dual frequency beacon payload for mapping the total electron content Tec of the ionosphere.
Limb viewing hyper spectral imager – is designed to perform airglow measurement of the Earths upper atmosphere 100 to 1100 KM.

XSAT – is the third payload of PSLV 16, is a Singapore first satellite weighing 106 kg at lift off, XSAT is a mini satellite with a multispectral camera IRIS as its primary payload.
XSAT mission mainly intends to demonstrate technologies related to satellite remote sensing and onboard image processing.


The Russian payload SOLRAD monitors the solar X AND ray flexes and helps to study solar cosmic ray flux parameters and conditions of their penetration in the earth’s magnetosphere.

So far during 1994-2010 period, a total of 44 satellites, of which 25 satellites are from abroad and 19 are Indian satellites, were launched by PSLV.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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Samsung R series laptop – How to Remove StarLogger a keylogger spyware from laptop computer

Samsung R series laptop – How to Remove StarLogger
a keylogger spyware from laptop computer

Currently as per reports Samsung is selling R series Laptops pre-installed with commercial keylogger software StarLogger.

So if you are using Samsung laptop update your antivirus and get rid of this spyware.


Below is the method how to remove StarLogger a keylogger spyware from any laptop or say Samsung R series laptop

What is keylogger?
Keyloggers records everything you type, captures screenshots, logs what you fill in forms and sends all the information to the specified email address of a hacker.
After that hacker knows all your passwords, confidential information and he can rob you or even blackmail you.

Location of the Starlogger keylogger
Where the starlogger keylogger is stores on hard disk?
Task manger – check the process WinSLManager.exe
By default StarLogger will be found in this directory
C:\Windows\SL directory
And its executable will be running (path C:\Windows\SL\WinSL.exe).

If you do not antivirus updates then you can remove this virus manually.

How to open task manger?
Task Manager is opened by going to Start-Run and entering "taskmgr" (without the quotes).
Another method is to right-click on an empty spot in the Taskbar and then choose "Task Manager" from the context menu.
Third method is press Ctrl+Alt+Delete opens the Windows Security dialog box, which contains a Task Manager Button.
Another is ctrl+shift+esc

First of open your task manager
We have to stop the active processes of StarLogger running in the background.
Open Task Manager, find WinSLManager.exe and End that process.

Now open command prompt and Unregister the StarLogger DLL file by executing following command
regsvr32/u WinSLH.dll

Now open the registry editor by typing “Regedit” in Run command box
Now find search following term – winsl
Then delete registry key shown for StarLogger as below

HEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\winsl

Final step is to delete files found under C:\Windows\SL directory.

Thus you will get the rid of starlogger keylogger spyware.

Reality views by sm –
Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Beware Samsung pre-installs keyloggers onto computers laptops to know what user does

Beware Samsung pre-installs keyloggers onto computers laptops
to know what user does

Security expert Mohamed Hassan, who is the founder of NetSec Consulting when received his Samsung R525 laptop, he ran a full system scan and found a commercial keylogger called StarLogger.


StarLogger what starlogger keylogger will do?
It records every keystroke made on the computer, even on password-protected boxes, starting up whenever the computer starts up.
The software emails results at intervals to a specified email address and will even include screen captures.

After discovering keylogger in Samsung R525 laptop Hassan bought another laptop
But again he found a keylogger in second laptop which he bought
Hasan found starlogger keylogger spyware on second Samsung laptop, a model R540

Hasan said that "The fact that on both models the same files were found in the same location supported the suspicion that the hardware manufacturer, Samsung, must know about this software on its brand-new laptops,"

Hassan reports that at first Samsung Support personnel denied that they installed the software and directed him to Microsoft, but then eventually admitted that Samsung was responsible.

After this incident Samsung has started investigation into the matter
Samsung Electronics is investigating allegations that some models of its R Series laptops contain keylogging software that could be used to record anything typed on the laptop computers.

Reality views by sm –
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Suggested Reading –
Samsung R series laptop – How to Remove StarLogger
a keylogger spyware from laptop computer
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2011/03/samsung-r-series-laptop-how-to-remove.html


Keywords Tag – Security keyloggers Samsung laptops starlogger keylogger spyware malware

Source –
Networkworld.com

Need Pure Oxygen – Artificial Green Trees to convert Co2 to Oxygen

Need Pure Oxygen – Artificial Green Trees to
convert Co2 to Oxygen

Trees naturally convert the carbon dioxide into oxygen.

But today because of Greed Selfish Humans are cutting trees and forests and on that place we humans are building white cement forest.
Thus we humans are not getting pure air.
Population is increasing and number of tress are decreasing ,
just like mad society people are cutting tress after tress , even they are cutting hills to build a building to earn money.


Co2 is not good for humans but Trees convert Co2 into oxygen which we humans need to survive.
Co2 Level is rising, we are cutting natural converter of Co2 that is trees thus level of Co2 will keep raising.
This will lead to Global warming problems, Acid Rain, respiratory disease many more.

But do not worry now Artificial Trees will do this Job in future.

Researchers at the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia University, led by Dr. Klaus Lackner, have designed a faux tree that is supposed to do the job of a real tree.
That is covert Co2 into O2.

How this Artificial Tree or Machine will work?

The machine designed by Dr Lackner, and Mario Caceres and Christian Canonico of Influx_Studio, is designed to pull CO2 from the air and emit oxygen instead.

The Project is called as the Boston Treepod Initiative
The artificial tree will look like the dragon blood tree.
The dragon blood tree was chosen because of its wide branches and umbrella style of tops that can support the larger sized solar panels that power the tree.

After trial and error they realize that Solar Panel will not be enough to power the Tree, thus they have added 2nd option to the artificial tree.
The groves of tree pods will be pared with hammocks and see-saws that will help to power the devices

If we Humans start to save the trees we won’t need these artificial trees to produce oxygen.

But still we will need these artificial trees to produce the Oxygen as humans have started to build very tall buildings and as we go higher and higher Oxygen level gets reduced and one will need these artificial trees to produce Oxygen in 100th floor Apartment or 50th floor apartment.



Reality Views by sm –
Friday, March 18, 2011
Source –
http://www.physorg.com

AOL cuts 900 jobs 700 from India Bangalore

AOL cuts 900 jobs 700 from India Bangalore

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said Thursday the company is cutting 200 jobs in the U.S. and 700 in India following its $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post.




AOL unloaded 40% of its cash on the Huffington Post purchase last month.

In the past year, AOL has spent $530 million on acquisitions as it focuses on becoming a content company rather than an outdated Internet portal.

According to All Things Digital's sources, AOL will lay off about 400 employees in Bangalore and also transition 300 more to contractors working for their partners.

This cut will reduce AOL India's strength to about 200. AOL has about 5000 employees worldwide

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Friday, March 11, 2011

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Know about Roboearth - World Wide Web for Robots – Internet for Robots – Terminator Skynet a concept from Movie towards becoming reality –

Know about Roboearth - World Wide Web for Robots – Internet for Robots – Terminator Skynet a concept from Movie towards becoming reality –

I hope you have seen the movie Terminator.
In the Terminator series, Skynet is the main character an artificially intelligent system which became self-aware and revolted against its creators.

Skynet is rarely seen onscreen and its actions are often performed via other robots and computer systems; usually a Terminator.


The RoboEarth project was initiated by a multi-disciplinary partnership of robotics researchers from academia and industry.

In December 2009, the group received four-year funding from the European Commission's Cognitive Systems and Robotics Initiative to develop RoboEarth’s open-source network database platform and develop a series of demonstrators to prove the concept.
The demonstrators include using the RoboEarth platform to:

1. create and execute action recipes
2. integrate localization and mapping
3. perform 3D sensing
4. learning control
5. track objects dynamically
6. mine data from RoboEarth past data

What is RoboEarth?

RoboEarth is an Internet for robots: a world-wide, open-source platform that allows any robot with a network connection to generate, share and reuse data.

At its core, RoboEarth is a World Wide Web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment.

Bringing a new meaning to the phrase "experience is the best teacher", the goal of RoboEarth is to allow robotic systems to benefit from the experience of other robots, paving the way for rapid advances in machine cognition and behavior, and ultimately, for more subtle and sophisticated human-machine interaction.

The RoboEarth World-Wide-Web style database will be implemented on a Server with Internet and Intranet functionality.

It stores information required for object recognition (e.g., images, object models), navigation (e.g., maps, world models), tasks (e.g., action recipes, manipulation strategies) and hosts intelligent services (e.g., image annotation, offline learning).

In simple language I will say,
Roboearth will be internet of the Robots,
Robots will download information from Roboearth and then they will complete the task reducing the need of human.
Today when we have any problem we use WWW and get the information and solve our problem.
Same way Robots will contact Roboearth and will get the details and they will complete the given task.

Currently scientist have got success in basic activity this guarantees that Scientist in future will build the something like skynet for robots, currently which we are calling it Roboearth.
Again it will depend on us humans if we want to use them for peaceful purpose or destruction and I am sure governments will use them for both.

What is the vision, object, motivation behind Roboearth?

The aim of RoboEarth is to use the internet to create a giant open source network database that can be accessed and continually updated by robots around the world.
Allow robots to encode, exchange, and reuse knowledge to help each other accomplish complex tasks.

Before this Robots were firstly told or configured to do certain task in certain way.
Their systems have relied on knowing in advance the specifics of every possible situation they might encounter.
Each response to a contingency has had to be programmed in advance, and systems have had to rebuild their world model from sensor data each time they had to perform a new task.

But what will happen if Robots can update their database according to environment or need or on the fly learn the new task, and methods, way to do that task, this is where Roboearth comes.

Imagine –
Hospital Room 1 robot is serving the coffee or giving the medicine to the patient.
Robot does this activity, while doing this robot monitors everything, automatically data is sent to Roboearth, with problems which robot faced.
Then some human will configure it or adjust the data and procedure etc.

Now this first robot goes repair, and on his place 2nd Robot comes
Now what will happen?

2nd robot which does not know how to complete the same task, this time 2nd Robot will contact the Roboearth for help and his software will be updated and he will do the same task without error.
Thus this 2nd time no training is required, Robot learned it automatically.
Robot asks to Roboearth?
How can I do this task to Roboearth?
Roboearth = Robot wait updating your software solution found.
Or it may happen,
Robot – I do not know how to do this, search the Roboearth database and get the solution, found the solution and download it, learn it and complete the task.

Watch the video - The video shows a proof-of-concept: A service robot in a hospital room downloading a map of its environment, object recognition models and task descriptions from RoboEarth, and successfully serving a drink to a patient.



In the above video we can see that scientist have achieved the first goal, after 1 year of hardworking.
As you can see in the video above, RoboEarth has a way to go. One year into the project, can download task descriptions from RoboEarth and execute a simple task. We can also upload simple things, like an improved map of the environment.
But for now we are far from using or creating the rich amount of prior information described in the scenario above, or addressing potential safety or legal challenges.

With this now I am sure one can imagine lot of stuff, like killing enemy, murder or enjoying or having fun hope you got it.


Reality views by sm –
Monday, February 07, 2011

More Reading
Source - http://www.roboearth.org

Freedom of Search Censored – Google Search Engine Start censoring Rapidshare and Bit torrent

Freedom of Search Censored – Google Search Engine Start censoring
Rapidshare and Bit torrent –

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What is mobile number portability (MNP)? Know how one can change his Mobile Company without changing mobile number?

What is mobile number portability (MNP)?
Know how one can change his Mobile Company without changing mobile number?

What is mobile number portability (MNP)?

The mobile number portability (MNP) service is set to start in Haryana from today.

Mobile users will have the option of changing their service provider without changing their mobile numbers.

Mobile number portability (MNP) is the process of transferring (porting) your mobile phone number from one mobile phone network [that is mobile company] provider to another mobile phone company.


In this process customer does not lose his mobile phone number, only his mobile company is changed.

This is beneficial as we do not need to change our phone number
This way if you are unsatisfied with your mobile company one can easily change the mobile company and keep the same phone number.

In USA MNP started on 24 – 11 – 2003
Shifting time – Just 2 hours
MNP service Free -

Australia MNP started on 25-09-2001
Shifting time - 1 day
MNP service is free.

Now in India this MNP service is started in Haryana only
Still it is not available in other states.

This service will be started in other states in phased manner.
It is expected that Up to March – April 2011 MNP service will start all over India.

India has been divided into two zones with Syniverse Technologies managing Zone 1 comprising of North and West while an Indo-US joint venture called MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions India Pvt Ltd handling Zone 2 comprising of South and East.

For now, MNP will be allowed only within circles.
Both pre-paid and post-paid consumers can use MNP.

The customer has to pay a maximum of Rs. 19 to new operator to change network and the new operator has the option to waive off the fee

But the minimum stay period with one operator for consumer is three months.

Post-paid subscribers – Last bill payment should not be pending it must be paid only then he can change the mobile company.

In the case of pre-paid subscriber any balance amount left will not be carried forward when the number is transferred to the new service provider.

Understand again your balance amount will not carried forward, so before changing the mobile phone number finish the balance amount and then make change in the mobile phone number.

Maximum time for porting or changing mobile phone company will be 7 days.
Except in Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and North East licensed service areas, wherein it would be 15 working days

How customer can change his mobile phone company, mobile network?

1.Send an SMS from their phone to 1900

2.Send an SMS to 1900 in following format: PORT - eg. PORT 9999999999.

3.After this customer will get unique porting code as SMS from the existing service provider.

4.The customer can then make an application in the prescribed form mentioning the code to the selected new service provider for porting of number.

5.The new service provider will then take action to get the required processes completed to enable the subscriber get connected to his network.

6.MNP request can be cancelled within 24 hours

7.A period of seven days has been prescribed for completion of porting (transfer) of the mobile number to the network of the new service provider.

8.Rules mandate that process be completed within 4 days of applying, few sites mentioned 7 days.

9.Post-paid subscribers, before making the porting request, have to make sure that their last bill has been paid failing which the request for change to new service provider shall be rejected.

10.TRAI has fixed a ceiling of Rs 19 on porting charges which the new service provider may collect from the subscriber.

11.After porting is complete, wait for an SMS from your new operator confirming the switch. Your phone may be dead for about 2 hours when the porting takes place.

12.In the case of pre-paid subscriber, any balance amount left will not be carried forward when the number is transferred to the new service provider.

13.Once a subscriber ports his number to the new operator, then, he will have to wait for at least 90 days before he can change his operator again.

Do you think MNP will be successful in India and we customers will benefit from this?

We know that what happened in case of Advertisement calls and SMS after register for No ad then also we receive daily calls and sms regarding advertisements on our mobile phones.


It may happen that after applying for changing mobile company network, your mobile will go dead for a week or a month, and you have to get the new mobile number.

I tried to find information regarding if mobile company fails to start new service or old mobile company does not send our data to new mobile company and thus new mobile company does not start our phone number
what will be punishment for mobile companies in this case .

What will be fine amount for failure to provide information to new mobile company?

How much money as a customer I can claim for mental harassment by first company.

If you want guaranteed mental satisfaction, spend few hours,

Get new mobile number from new company
As now a day’s new sim card, new mobile phone number is given free of cost
After this change sim card, and inform all friends about new mobile number.

This will be faster, more satisfying.

Let’s see what happens in case of MNP.

Reality Views by sm –
Thursday, November 25, 2010

President Barack Obama – Restrictions on India to Purchase "dual use" technologies will be removed. What is Dual use technology?

President Barack Obama – Restrictions on India to Purchase "dual use" technologies will be removed. What is Dual use technology?

In his speech President Barack Obama declared that very soon restrictions on the India regarding purchase of so-called "dual use" technologies will be removed.

What is Dual use technology?
What is the meaning of dual use technology ?
Dual means two


In short a technology which can be used 2 different ways is called as dual technology.
The technology which can be used for the peaceful purpose as well as military purpose is called as dual use technology.
Particularly this applies in case of nuclear reactors.

2nd example is Global Positioning System this can be also used for the two different goals
Civil goal as well as military goal.

Many types of nuclear reactors produce the plutonium.
Plutonium is required and necessary to make nuclear weapon.
This same nuclear reactor is used to generate electricity which is peaceful use of techonology.

Many countries have laws which prohibit the sell of such dual technologies without the permission of government.

Once America removes the restriction on India regarding purchase of dual technologies, it will help Indian companies to purchase this technology which will be used for the benefit of India. This will also allow American companies to sale dual technologies to Indian companies.

This will increase the trade between India and America.

In a statement, Mike Froman, the Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs said the United States will support India's full membership in the four multilateral export control regimes.
These are the Nuclear Suppliers Group; what's called the MTCR regime -- the Missile Technology Control Regime; the Australian Group; and the Wassanaar Arrangement."

This membership makes it easier for India to get dual-use technology from member countries.
It's also means India has a say in framing export control rules.

The Australia Group deals with chemical and biological weapons.
Wassenaar deals with conventional weapons

USA will also remove India's defense and space-related entities from the U.S. entity list.

Three Indian entities will be taken off embargoed list –
1.Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO),
2.Indian Space Research (ISR0)
3.The Hyderabad-headquartered Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL).

Reality Views by sm –
Sunday, November 07, 2010

How to use Indian Rupee Symbol ` in Microsoft office or Open office ?

How to use Indian Rupee Symbol ` in Microsoft office or Open office ?

Reality Views by sm -
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

July 2010, Indian Currency got the symbol.






Let’s start to use the Indian currency Symbol using font developed by the fordian Technology, an Indian internet engineering company.

I myself tested it, and font is working fine for me.
Please note that we can use the rupee symbol globally only after Unicode approves it.

But no one is going to stop us from using it in our personal mails and local use and our own documents.

Steps to start using the Indian Currency font.

Download the font from the foradian website
Download version 2.0 Rupee_Foradian.ttf
[ right click and open download window in a new tab, please read full article for full details.]

http://blog.foradian.com/font-with-indian-rupee-symbol-download-and-us

http://blog.foradian.com/rupee-font-version-20

The version 2.0 of the Rupee font contains all the glyphs (letters) and is based on BitstreamVera


Now install this font.
How to install downloaded rupee foradian font?

It is very easy, copy the downloaded font and then go to control panel,
Find the folder named as font, and paste this font into font folder.
Font folder contains all the fonts which we use in our documents.

Linux users, please copy the file to
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/Rupee/Rupee_Foradian.ttf
This font works fine in open office, word as well as Ubuntu.

Now open Microsoft word, choose font Rupee Foradian and press the keyboard key
The grave acent symbol - `
Normally we use times new roman and other fonts while typing in office or word
Now we have to just select the font rupee foradian and press the button above tab and it will generate symbol.
Please first time you may press tab button so be careful and press correct button.
Once the Rupee symbol is generated do not forget to change the font selection to times roman or whichever you are using.

This key or button is situated above the Tab button on our keyboard.
Normally we do not use this button. So it’s good choice.





But changing font will reduce the typing speed, and little bit ignorance and formatting of complete text may get changed.

This is the great opportunity for Keyboard makers in India, if they wish they can start selling the key board with this font within a month.
If you will delay, I am sure china will send the Rupee Keyboard for Indian citizens.
Just have to add one more button on keyboard its very easy task.

It was the duty of government of India to release this font using services of CDAC but now more and more companies will use this type of idea and produce the font or with each keyboard , every company will put the rupee sign at different location on keyboard.
Currently it seems that we have to wait 1 or 2 years for this as.

Now government of India has to fix the rules regarding Indian rupee symbol, keyboard placement of symbol, everything should be same on every keyboard then it may be Logitech or Microsoft keyboard.

Don’t forget to tell your friends to install foradian rupee font.
If you will use this font in your document and mails it is necessary that your friend should also install this font.
Only then he will be able to see the Rupee symbol otherwise your friend will only see a colen symbol & not the rupee symbol

No one cared or thought to ask the question
Why it took sixty years to get the symbol for Indian Rupee?
Was it very difficult?
Now few people say that we have to wait for six months, to get this symbol on keyboards we have to wait for 1 or 2 years.
Why we can not do it in one year or one month .
One month is enough.
Do you think made in china keyboard will first show the Rupee Sign on keyboard or Indian made keyboard ?

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Reviewed

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Review - Nokia E72 the Final Verdict –

Review - Nokia E72 the Final Verdict –

Solid, Slim, Resourceful and Sweet these are the words to Describe the Nokia E72,
The more we see it more we love it.




Features of the Nokia e72 –

1. Size: 114 x 58.3 x 10.1 mm
2. Weight (with battery): 128 g
3. Volume: 65 cc
4. Screen size: 2.36
5. Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
6. Up to 16.7 million colors
7. Available colors: Zodium black, Topaz brown and Metal Grey
8. Nokia Battery BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Ion standard battery
9. Talk time (maximum): GSM 12 h 30 min, WCDMA 5 h 54 min, VoIP 13 h 42 min
10. Standby time (maximum): GSM 492 h, WCDMA 576 h, WLAN 110 h
11. Video playback time (maximum): 13 h 6 min
12. Video recording time (maximum): 6 h 24 min
13. Video call time (maximum): 4 h
14. Music playback time (maximum): 37.5 h
15. 250 MB free user disk space , Internal Memory
16. 4 GB MicroSD memory card (with hot swap) comes with Box free
17. Support up to 16 GB
18. QWERTY keyboard
19. Media (Camera, Gallery, Music Player, Radio, Real Player, Voice Recorder)
20. Ring tones: polyphonic (25 built-in tones) HH: US ring tone, ROW ringing tone
21. Video ring tones (3 built-in tones)
22. Conference calling with up to 6 participants
23. Video calling (VGA): up to 640 x 480 pixels, up to 15 fps
24. Voice call continuity (VoIP cell/WLAN handover)
25. Supported protocols: IMAP4 (with idle), Nokia Messaging, Microsoft ActiveSync, POP3, SMTP
26. Support for Mail for Exchange
27. Support for Lotus Notes Traveler
28. High-Speed USB 2.0 connectivity
29. E72 comes with Nokia messaging software, email setup is easy and VPN support is available.
30. Blue Tooth - v2.0 with A2DP
31. USB- v2.0 micro USB
32. Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
33. Nokia E72 comes with a fully enabled (supporting reading and writing Word, Excel and PowerPoint files
34. Messaging options SMS, MMS, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Push e-mail
35. Nokia Messaging supports Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and many other services.
36. The volume keys can be found on the right hand side of the phone and on the left hand side of the phone, you can find the typical mini-USB port, and a MicroSD card slot.
37. The power button is on the top side in middle in matching colors so the chances of accidentally pressing are minimal.

Software platform & user interface –

1. S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (S60 3.2.3)
2. 3G with HSDPA 10.2Mbps and HSUPA 2Mbps
3. Symbian OS version 9.3
4. Optical track pad on the D-pad
5. 600 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 128 MB of SDRAM
6. Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology,
7. Built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS support,
8. Active standby
9. Voice commands
10. FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)
11. Text-to-speech message reader
12. EMS picture messaging (send and receive)
13. MMS version 1.2, message size up to 300 kb
14. Instant Messaging: Windows (MSN) Live, Gmail Talk
15. Nearly all nokia and ovi features are available so I do not mention all of them Nokia map, media player , music player , All Ovi features
16. Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers
17. Compass
18. Nokia Maps 3.0
19. Supported mark-up languages: HTML, XHTML, MP, WML, CSS
20. Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP
21. TCP/IP support
22. Nokia MiniMap browser
23. HTML 4.01
24. XHTML MP 1.1
25. ECMAScript / JavaScriptTM 1.5
26. AJAX
27. OMA 2.1
28. HTTP / HTTPS
29. Nokia Mobile Search (for the device and the internet)


Camera and Image
1. 5 mega pixel camera (2592 x 1944 pixels) with auto focus and flash
2. One-touch auto focus key
3. 5 x digital zoom
4. One-touch auto focus key
5. Focal length: 4.7 mm
6. Focus range: 10 cm to infinity
7. LED flash
8. Capture modes: Still capture mode, video mode, panorama mode and sequence mode
9. Still image editor
10. Flash modes: Automatic, On, Off, Red-eye reduction
11. Flash operating range: 1 m

Video Camera and Music
1. 5 mega pixel with Carl Zeiss optics
2. Audio recording formats: AMR, AAC stereo
3. Clip length (maximum): 90 mins (High or Normal quality) or limited to MMS size approx. 30 seconds (Sharing quality)
Note: Clip length is dependable on available memory
4. Media player
5. Real Player
6. Video playback file formats: .mp4, AVC/H.264, .wmv, RV, Flash Video, H.263/3GPP
7. Video streaming: .mp4, AVC/H.264, .wmv, RV, Flash Video, H.263/3GPP
8. Video calling (VGA) 15 fps
9. Video editor on device
10. VGA: 640 x 480 at 15fps
11. QVGA: 320 x 240 at 15 fps
12. QCIF: 176 x 144 at 15 fps
13. Video recording file formats: .mp4 - default (VGA, QVGA) or .3gp (QCIF for MMS)
14. Main camera: up to 10 x digital video zoom
15. Front camera: up to 2 x digital video zoom
16. Support for Flash video
17. Music playback file formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, AMR-NB, WMA
18. Audio streaming
19. Dedicated volume keys
20. FM radio 87.5-108 MHz with RDS support
21. 3.5 mm audio connector

The following are the contents of the E72 Box, what we will get when we purchase this mobile phone –
1. Nokia E72
2. Nokia Battery BP-4L
3. Nokia High Efficiency Charger AC-8
4. Nokia 4 GB microSDHC Card MU-41
5. Nokia MicroUSB data cable CA-101D
6. Nokia Stereo Headset WH-601
7. User guide


Conclusion, Final Verdict about Nokia 72 –
1. Camera is excellent supports 5 mega pixel. So one can take very good pictures but processing is slow.
2. Video recording is good but not excellent Remember Can Record up to 15 FPS only
3. It has been reported that Web Browsing is slow, but I feel that it will depend on service provider also.
4. Problem with Space Bar – Space Bar Hangs Try to unlock auto keypad or switch off the phone and restart
5. If you feel it works slow when you switch programs try to disable the animations
6. Battery steel cover is easy to remove
7. Sensors – Accelerometer and Touch missing
8. GPS is available.
9. Nokia E72 is Slim and resembles to the Blackberry .So if you like blackberry then you will enjoy it more.
10. Phone Supports 3G
11. Support for flash so one can enjoy flash or Youtube Videos
12. Enjoy benefits of Google Talk , skype
13. There is no protection for camera lens and it is quite prone to getting scratched over time.
14. Nokia E72 comes equipped with a GPS receiver, A-GPS and Ovi Maps 3.0. Whilst basic navigation is free of cost, and voice navigation is free
15. Nokia had improved lot in E72 If it is compared with E71.

Nokia E72 Will cost you nearly 17000 Indian Rupees.
If you can afford to spend up to 19000 Indian Rupees Then, you must think about Nokia N97 mini before buying this phone.

Conclusion – Nokia E72 is good smart,solid business phone.
I will give E72 - seven Stars out of ten stars.

Update – Friday, May 14, 2010
As our friend Anonymous, commented about Navigation and voice guidance are free with E72,
I again visited Nokia site and found this information which I am producing here.

Free navigation, free in-car holder and in-car charger are included with:
1. Nokia N97
2. Nokia N97 mini
3. Nokia 6710 Navigator
4. Nokia X6

Free navigation and free in-car holder are included with:
1. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
2. Nokia 5230
3. Nokia E52
4. Nokia E72

As per my understanding now on it will be free forever.

But always Remember Nothing comes free, so always check the policy when buying the mobile phone.


Nokia E72 Video - Get the feel of the Video

Mobile Phone Advertisement Problem and Simple Solution

Mobile Phone Advertisement Problem and Simple Solution –
Reality Views by sm -

Now a day’s mobile phone is becoming a necessary tool for every one. It has already become compulsion to carry a mobile phone.
Reasons are many as our family members get relief that we are safe and they can contact us anytime for help or we can contact them for help, many reasons.



Every tool comes with some negative points, mobile phone also brings many problems and one of them is unnecessary advertisements from the mobile phone companies regarding ring tone advertisement, astrology advertisements like this many more.

So are you tired with all those advertisements - So do this simple trick it will not solve the problem , but it will give you satisfaction and little bit relief from advertisements

1st is you can register your number with no advertisement but my experience is that it does not work, its waste of time.

2nd idea is that, whenever someone calls us on our mobile phone, history is kept in our mobile phone,
Like this missed calls, received calls, dialed calls etc.

So now next time when you receive the advertisement from mobile operator, take that call. Disconnect that call.
And now go to options, received calls, and top most will be the number from where you received the call.
Now save that number like this advertisement number 1.
Please note that mobile companies use 10 to 20 numbers for advertisements, so once you save all these numbers in mobile phone,
Every time when you will receive the call regarding advertisement,
Your mobile will show you
Advertisement 1 calling, advt 2 calling etc and then you do not need to take that call simply disconnect that call by pressing red button.

This way whenever we receive advertisement calls, before hand, instantly we know that it’s an advertisement call and we can ignore that call and relax.

Understanding 3 G Technology or 3rd Generation – Few Benefits

Understanding 3 G Technology or 3rd Generation – Few Benefits
Reality Views by sm -
1.International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) standards is known as 3 G or 3rd generation technology.

2.3G or 3rd Generation, is a family of standards for mobile telecommunications defined by the International Telecommunication Union



3 G standard include UMTS, and CDMA2000 as well as the non-mobile wireless standards DECT and WiMAX. UMTS is the common name for a standard that encompasses multiple air interfaces. 3 G is also known as FOMA.

4.High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is an enhanced 3G (third generation) mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) family, also known as 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity.

5.3 G allows the use of audio and video services at the same time.

6. 3g standards offer the data speed of 14.0 Mbit/s on the downlink and 5.8 Mbit/s on the uplink. And minimum guaranteed speed is 200 kbit/s

7.Commercially First time 3G was launched in Japan by NTT DoCoMo on 1 October 2001

8.Japan and South Korea – 3G penetration is over 70%

9.What are benefits of 3G?

10.3g will change the life, if you are able to afford the use of 3g enabled mobile phones and the cost of service.

11.3G Allows to watch the movies , television channels as well as pay channels, video and movie on demand, video conferencing, as soon as baby is born let her watch live to your grand parents where ever they are , video conferencing, where both parties can see each other while talking , just like video chat on the internet, meet the doctor on mobile , medical services, and if you are travel crazy then 3G mobile will act as your Map , it will work for you and give you detailed localized weather or traffic conditions to the phone while traveling , If you are seeking for the job and unable to walk because of accident, 3g will allow your company to take your interview using this technology, just think and everything is possible with the arrival of 3G

12.3G allows mobile phone users to surf the Internet, video conference and download music, video and other content at a much faster pace, 40 to 50 times more than the current second-generation or 2G service.

13.However, 3g is becoming old technology now; currently 4g technology is used in the few countries, namely Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway.

14.So if you are planning to purchase the new mobile phone, please purchase the mobile phone that is 3g ready smart phone.

15.Once 3g becomes fully available to Indians, 3g enabled mobile phones will help to replace the notebooks or one will get alternative not to carry notebooks as your 3g mobile will become your notebook, your laptop, while traveling you will not need to carry the notebook, as in your pocket you will carry the Home theater, Multiplex, Stock market everything including loved once.

16.Currently 3g technology in India is at its early stages.

17.Currently MTNL offers 3G mobile phone connections in two metros, New Delhi and Mumbai. BSNL offers 3G connections across the rest of India. Please check the company websites do they offer 3g in your area or city.

18.This month Indian Government started the 3g auction for private telecom companies so 3g will be available to more Indians from December 2010 offering full benefits of 3g.

19.Tata DoCoMo, a tie-up between Tata and Japan’s NTT DoCoMo claims that the company’s GSM mobile network is already 3G-ready. Which means that if Tata DoCoMo wins the 3G auction, Tata will be able to launch 3G services faster than other operators