The coding Marathon: AppFest Mangalore: In less than a week from now, thousands of students in Karnataka will get together at the St Aloysius College, Mangalore at the Beeri campus, to develop apps for the Windows platform. On February 26, more than 10,000 students from across the length and breadth of country will gear up to code applications for a whole day, at more than 50 hub centers like the St Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT). The colleges are currently holding training sessions for students who wish to brush up their coding skills as they register.... 

  Updating life:SMS! On December 3, 20 years ago, the first text message ever was sent. On Dec. 3, 1992, Neil Papworth, an engineer working in the UK, sent the world’s first short message service or SMS. It read “Merry Christmas.” The History — In More Than 160 Characters At the age of 22, Papworth was working for a company called Semea Group Telecoms, which had been working on a mobile messaging project for Vodafone, a European cellular carrier. “It happened that day that Vodafone wanted to try sending a message to Richard Jarvis, one of the directors there,... 

  Catching the sun power! Schanti Partners, New York Patna: A US-based agency, Schanti Partners, New York, has expressed its keen interest in investing Rs 580 crore for a solar energy project in Kaimur district of Bihar. Initially, a 10MW unit would be set up. The agency has already submitted its proposal to the Bihar State Electricity Board (BSEB) and received approval from the Bihar State Investment Promotion Board as also no-objection letter from Bihar Renewable Energy Development Agency (BREDA). The agency intends to enter into a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with BSEB. The proposed... 

Bihar does GIS mapping of its major towns to document properties   Patna: according to reports, the state urban development department of the Bihar government is now carrying out geographic information system (GIS) mapping in towns and cities of Bihar.  The move will enable urban local bodies to document the properties in a digitized data bank, leading of course to greater tax collection for the civic bodies. But the benefits to the citizens from this should also be obvious in the context of legal disputes. The main question here however is how the civic bodies are to be enabled to... 

दरभंगा में बनल फ्रेंडोमेनिया मचेलक धूम   दरभंगा । फेसबुक, ट़यूटर आ आर्कुट सन विदेशी सोशल नेटवर्किंग साईट आइ दुनिया भरि मे धूम मचेने अछि। एहन मे खाटी बिहारी सोसल नेटवर्किंग साईट बना कए दरभंगा दुनिया भरि मे छा रहल अछि। लक्ष्मीसागर... 

Cognizant now in close contest with Wipro for third place among Indian IT companies! According to the latest reports in the press, Cognizant is now in close contest with Wipro for a position among the top three Indian IT services companies. The IT services firm Cognizant recently posted an unexpected 37.5 per cent jump in net profit at $208.32 million for the January-March quarter with good forecasts for the second quarter. A net profit of $208 million, against $151 million last year in the same quarter indicates robust growth. Cognizant’s first quarter revenues touched $1.37 billion, going... 

Kweezzzing is Fun on Twitter By Ratnakar Sadasyula its fun... While  i   earlier  used  to log  into  Twitter, i  was not  really  an  enthusiastic user.  For  starters  the  140  word limit  put me off.  It  was  frustrating  to  type  something  out,and  then see  those  red  marks, and  then  having  to  edit  it  again. Add to it  watching  most of the  Bolly  celebs  exposing  their  “ignorance”, “stupidity” and  “banality”  did  not really make things  better. Not  to mention the  sheer  amount of  arse... 

Learn some physics from biology: from a woodpecker’s head banging! Berkeley, CA: Engineers and physicists have long been inspired by the living world. For example, aeronautical engineer’s fascination for the dragon fly is well known – the way it abruptly stops in the middle of a flight may actually split up an aircraft not designed for the purpose. Sang-Hee Yoon and Sungmin Park of the University of California, Berkeley, however studied video and CT scans of the woodpecker [commonly called kathphorwa in Bihar] bird’s head and neck. The question the researchers asked was – how... 

The new Mobile number portability: the procedure The purpose behind mobile number portability: a customer is free to change service provider and yet retain her/his old number saving the bother of changing phone numbers. Does portability allow technology switch? A customer may retain the same technology, or change between GSM and CDMA. This is applicable to post-paid and prepaid connections. How much time will it take to change service provider? Normally seven working days, but 15 days in Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast. What will the charges for this be? The new service provider will... 

Multi intelligence analysis [MIA] software developed by a Bihari proves success in Bihar schools Patna: A multi intelligence analysis [MIA] software developed by Ceon Solutions Ltd, Ahmedabad has proved highly successful in a trial run at five selected government schools in Bihar. This software enables a teacher to evaluate and identify a student’s specific weaknesses, also guiding a teacher in customizing his approach and inputs towards individual child. In the context of mass education, where we are dealing with large and often unwieldy numbers, the software may prove a boon. Within...