IPL permitted to seek new broadcast deal

The Bombay High Court has cleared the way for the BCCI to seek a new broadcast deal by rejecting a plea from Sony TV, which had challenged the Indian cricket board's decision to terminate its five-year deal to televise the IPL.

The BCCI has, meanwhile, signed a fresh broadcast rights deal worth a reported US$1.2 billion with World Sports Group (WSG), which in turn has been engaged in discussions with various broadcasters for a new IPL deal. It has been reported that Sony is among those who are now trying to negotiate a new deal with WSG and sources have indicated that ESPN-Star Sports (ESS) and NDTV, the New Delhi-based media organisation, are also in discussions to telecast the IPL.

It is unclear, though, if Multi Screen Media Pvt Ltd, which held the IPL contract under the Sony umbrella, will approach the Supreme Court to appeal against Monday's decision.

Sony had sub-licensed the IPL's subcontinent broadcast rights last year from WSG, who had won an original ten-year bid for US$1.02 billion, but moved the court after receiving a notice of termination from the BCCI, which runs the IPL. The Indian board claimed that Sony had repeatedly violated the integrity of telecast by prematurely cutting to breaks and inserting commercials during a live match, replays and other on-field action.

The court placed a freeze on IPL signing another broadcast deal and in the meantime, attempts between Sony and the IPL to negotiate an out-of-court settlement failed after the broadcaster agreed to the Indian board's commercial terms but sought a "non-terminable contract".

IPL officials were unavailable for a reaction. Rohit Gupta, president of network sales at Multi Screen Media Pvt Ltd said he could not discuss "anything at all" regarding the issue.

The IPL's relationship with Sony had turned rocky last month after the IPL lost out on a US$31.16 million deal because of a dispute between Sony and Big TV, a direct-to-home provider. Ties between the two dipped further after the subsequent resignation of Kunal Dasgupta, the then Sony CEO, who was known to be close to Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman. Sony is also understood to have been keen on renegotiating the financial terms of its contract with the IPL and had concerns about the tournament's revised dates and some of the venues that were being considered.

'123456' is world's worst password used on the Internet

'123456' is the most common password used by people on the Internet.

Obscenities, names of fast cars and even ncc1701 - the ship number for Star Trek's Starship Enterprise, have made it to the list of top 500 worst passwords of all time.

Compiled by Whatsmypass.com, the list features passwords most commonly used by Internet users.

And topping the list of the most common password is 123456, followed by "password" in second place.

Other popular password choices were first names, repeated letters and numbers, pop-culture references.

Even batman, bond007 and cocacola made it to the list, reports the Courier Mail.

The website said that almost one out of nine people use at least one of the passwords mentioned on the list, and one out of every 50 people use one from the top 20.

In fact, a study commissioned by digital communications agency @www found that an average adult had as many as 15 passwords to remember.

But 61 per cent of people used the same passwords for as many different accounts as possible in order to make life easier.

Indian Premier League Season II Match schedule

The DLF Indian Premier League today announced the match schedule for Season II of the DLF Indian Premier League, which is due to commence on April 10th 2009.

The Opening Ceremony and inaugural match of the Season will be hosted by last year’s winners namely the Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur, where they will clash against Sehwag’s Delhi Daredevils in the opening fixture.

Lalit Modi, Chairman & Commissioner, Indian Premier League said “I am happy to announce the schedule for the season II of the DLF Indian Premier League with the opening ceremony & the inaugural match in the pink city, home of the defending Champions the Rajasthan Royals. Jaipur has always been close to my heart and I promise the people of Jaipur – an opening ceremony the likes of which has not been witnessed in India ever before with some truly world class entertainment.”

The two Semi-Finals will be played out in Chennai and have been scheduled on Thursday, May - 21st and Friday – May 22nd respectively at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium at Chepauk.

The Grand Final will once again be hosted by Mumbai on Sunday – May 24th 2009.

The Hyderabad Deccan Chargers have further confirmed that they will host their home games at two separate venues namely Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi Stadium and the ACA and VDCA Stadium at Visakhapatnam.

All day matches are from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and the night matches are from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Attached below is the tentative Match Schedule for Season II of the Indian Premier League 2009…….

Download the Season II Match Schedule>>

Friday, 10-Apr-09
Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils, Jaipur

Saturday, 11-Apr-09
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers, Kolkata
Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers, Chennai

Sunday, 12-Apr-09
Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab, Delhi
Mumbai Indians Vs Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai

Monday, 13-Apr-09
Deccan Chargers vs Chennai Super Kings, Hyderabad

Tuesday, 14-Apr-09
Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Bangalore

Wednesday, 15-Apr-09
Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians, Mohali

Thursday, 16-Apr-09
Deccan Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils, Hyderabad
Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals, Chennai

Friday, 17-Apr-09
Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers, Mumbai

Saturday, 18-Apr-09
Kings XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers, Mohali
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Darevils, Kolkata

Sunday, 19-Apr-09
Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals, Bangalore
Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai

Monday, 20-Apr-09
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata

Tuesday, 21-Apr-09
Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians, Delhi

Wednesday, 22-Apr-09
Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers, Jaipur

Thursday, 23-Apr-09
Royal Challengers vs Kings XI Punjab, Bangalore

Friday, 24-Apr-09
Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai

Saturday, 25-Apr-09
Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab, Chennai
Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers, Delhi

Sunday, 26-Apr-09
Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians, Vizag
Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Jaipur

Monday, 27-Apr-09
Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers, Mohali

Tuesday, 28-Apr-09
Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai

Wednesday, 29-Apr-09
Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai
Kings XI Punjab vs Rajasthan Royals, Mohali

Thursday, 30-Apr-09
Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers, Vizag

Friday, 1-May-09
Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils, Chennai

Saturday, 2-May-09
Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers, Mumbai
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata

Sunday, 3-May-09
Royal Challengers vs Delhi Daredevils, Bangalore
Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings, Mohali

Monday, 4-May-09
Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals, Hyderabad

Tuesday, 5-May-09
Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings, Delhi

Wednesday, 6-May-09
Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab, Jaipur
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians, Kolkata

Thursday, 7-May-09
Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers, Bangalore

Friday, 8-May-09
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata

Saturday, 9-May-09
Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils, Mohali
Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians, Jaipur

Sunday, 10-May-09
Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Hyderabad

Monday, 11-May-09
Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals, Delhi

Tuesday, 12-May-09
Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai
Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers, Chennai

Wednesday, 13-May-09
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers, Kolkata

Thursday, 14-May-09
Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings, Jaipur
Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers, Delhi

Friday, 15-May-09
Royal Challengers vs Mumbai Indians, Bangalore

Saturday, 16-May-09
Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi
Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab, Hyderabad

Sunday, 17-May-09
Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers, Jaipur
Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians, Chennai

Monday, 18-May-09
Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Mohali

Tuesday, 19-May-09
Royal Challengers vs Chennai Super Kings, Bangalore

Thursday, 21-May-09
Semi Final 1, Chennai

Friday, 22-May-09
Semi Final 2, Chennai

Sunday, 24-May-09
FINALS, Mumbai

Top Pakistani cops were lazing at home during Lahore 3/3 carnage

A high level probe into the security lapse during the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team has revealed that all three Superintendents of Police (SP) who were entrusted to look after the security arrangements during the Lankan convoy's movement didn't reported on duty on the day the attack took place, and were in their residences.

It has been learnt through an enquiry conducted by the Additional Inspector General of Police Salahuddin Niazi that SP Model Town, Dr Raja Abid, SP Security Ehsan Younis, and SP Civil Lines Rai Ijaz were at their residences when the Lankan team was being sprayed with bullets in the heart of Lahore.

The enquiry report said these officers should have been on duty at around 6:00 a.m. to check security measures along the route, but they reached Liberty Chowk 40 to 45 minutes after the attack.

Sources also revealed that only one DSP was present on the route to check security measures.

All other DSPs' reached the Gaddafi Stadium before the arrival of the motorcade without combing the route.

"DSP Civil Lines, Faisal Gulzar who had visited the route of Sri Lankan team and match officials found many police jawans missing from various important points," The Nation quoted sources, as saying.

Gulzar also delivered emergency messages about the missing policemen over the wireless, but this went unnoticed by the concerned authorities, the report said.

Saravana Bhavan founder gets life for murder

Founder of the popular Saravana Bhavan hotel chain P. Rajagopal was Thursday sentenced to life in a murder case by the Madras High Court that enhanced his 10-year rigorous imprisonment awarded by a trial court.

The verdict was announced by a division bench comprising Justices P.K. Mishra and R. Banumathi, who convicted Rajagopal and six others for the 2001 murder. The court also increased his conviction from culpable homicide not amounting to murder, to culpable homicide amounting to murder.

Rajagopal, 59, who had founded the Saravana Bhavan chain of hotels worldwide in 1981, had been found guilty of murdering an employee Prince Shantakumar in 2001. A fast track court had in 2004 sentenced him to 10 years rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs.5.5 million.

Rajagopal had also been accused of sexually harassing Shantakumar's widow, Jeevajothi, and the daughter of another employee Ramaswamy.

Of the fine, Rs.5 million was to be handed over to Jeevajothi, the court had ruled.

Rajagopal, who was rearrested for violating bail conditions during his trial after allegedly attempting to threaten Jeevajothi, had appealed to the high court.

The Saravana Bhavan chain of hotels and restaurants, popular for their range of idlis, dosas and the like, gained further notoriety in November 2008 after Rajagopal's son P. Shiva Kumar was arrested on a charge of forging documents to smuggle people into the US.

The charges were based on the findings of the US consulate. The arrest also resulted in the cancellation of several lucrative contracts of the hotel chain to supply food to American diplomatic missions.

According to the hotel group's website, its outlets are located 'across 22 outlets in South India, three in the North and seven countries with 22 outlets across the globe'.

Lahore Police fired 423 bullets without even nicking a single 3/3 terrorist!

The Lahore police has been widely criticized for its incompetence to retaliate during the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, has now claimed that it fired 423 bullets during the shootout, but none of them hit the attackers.

According to a report submitted by the police officials, 17 policemen through 21 weapons fired 423 bullets at the assailants, but all escaped unhurt.

"The attackers were firing from a safe place, due to which they could not be hit," the report stated.

It also said that the security officials chased the terrorist after the incident, but they failed to arrest any of the terrorists.

The report, amazingly, also has a meticulous detail of arms used and shots fired from them during the gun battle.

245 fires were made through six SMGs, 73 fires through four MP5 rifles, 52 fires through five Glock pistols and 25 fires through three Beretta pistols, The Daily Times reports.

However, according to sources privy to the police department said that the policemen could not fire as many bullets as it is being claimed.

"The policemen found no time to take their positions and open fire at the militants, and were injured before firing bullets,"

US recession could end this year

US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said in a television interview aired Sunday that the recession could end this year if the banking and financial systems can be stabilized.

'I do think that we will get it stabilized, and we'll see the recession coming to an end probably this year,' he told news programme 60 Minutes. 'We'll see recovery beginning next year. And it will pick up steam over time.'

The decline 'will begin to moderate and we'll begin to see leveling off. We won't be back to full employment. But we will see, I hope, the end of these declines that have been so strong in a last couple of quarters,' he said.

The biggest risk to recovery remains a lack of political will to attack the problem, Bernanke said in what was the first television interview with a central bank chief in decades.

INVASIVE BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACING

Brain computer interfacing is a technology that bridges the human brain and an external machine. The idea is to capture the brain signals and use it to actuate an external device like a robotic arm, after signal processing. This technology promises to restore the mobility in people suffering from CNS (CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM) disorders, which impairs the motor movements. There are basically two types of BCI, the invasive, non invasive. In case of noninvasive bci, signals are extracted from the skull as a result it suffers from poor spatial resolution, signal dampening, limited mobility etc. In case of the invasive bci, a set of microelectrodes are implanted in the primary motor cortex and this method has its own disadvantages. These include tissue scar, complex equipments for signal processing, bulky power supply, high power consumption due to radio communication and the necessity of frequent surgery for replacement of the chip and the power supply. Our project focuses on the enhancement of chip design. This chip will be implanted invasively in the primary motor cortex of the cerebrum that governs the motor movements. We have proposed the usage of volume conduction property for the communication between the chip and the external device and x shape antennae for the signal transmission. We have also introduced a new method of supplying power to the chip which uses the blood flow inside the brain to run a nano size turbine to generate power to the chip. With the above mentioned features the disadvantages of the invasive bci can be overcome and helps achieve complex task in reality. With the advancement of this technology physical challenges for paralyzed persons will no more be a dream.

OZONE GAS GENERATOR FOR WATER PURIFICATION

This is used to produce ozone gas. Ozone gas is used for many purpose. One of the main uses of ozone is to remove the impurities from the water. So, ozone is mainly used for water purification.

We can implement this concept in hotels for purifying water present in the swimming pool. By passing ozone, we can purify the water. So, there is no need to change the water often. This can also be used in Variety of applications where we want the water purification eg., Industries, commercial places.

The principle used here is that when air is subjected to pass through high voltage field, ozone gas is produced. Here high voltage field is produced by using ignition coil. Using IGBT, we can give the required signal to the ignition coil for producing high voltage.

There will be two units. One unit is responsible for producing the signal required to the ignition coil . Using the another unit we can generate the ozone.

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WEB ENABLED ENERGY METER USING MICROCONTROLLER

The energy meter is the device used to measure and record the power consumption in a consumer area on a KWH basis. In our project, we calculate the power consumption and find out the amount to be paid for the usage. Our module replaces the existent analog meter into digital meter, which is to transfer the power reading to the sub-station.

Here, we measure the power reading with the help of a potential transformer and current transformer. The power here is calculated by the product of the current value and the voltage value from the current transformer and potential transformer respectively. The analog outputs of the transformers are conditioned using suitable signal conditioning circuits like ADC0809.

The output is sent to a microcontroller which reads the current value and the potential value from the respective transformer. It then converts the value to power. The calculated value is transferred to the client system using RS232 serial communications.

Java is used as a bridge to connect the client and web server. The reasons behind choosing java are it is a platform independent language and it is a very secure. The obtained value is transferred to the web. The web server processes the data and finally transfers it to the data receiving station through Ethernet. The EB station checks the obtained value and generates the billing statement through the two way communication. Thus, the consumer and the EB dept, benefit through our project.

American recklessness led world to recession: Canada PM

In the first such attack by any western leader, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has blamed reckless American consumers and investors for leading the world into the current recession and said the marketplace is not the solution to the problems.

The prime minister of America's largest trading partner also found fault with President Barack Obama's stimulus package to kick-start the economy.

Speaking at a fundraising dinner in the capital Ottawa Thursday night, the prime minister said the Americans were reckless in believing that they could borrow without consequences.

The Conservative (party) prime minister said:'We are in a global recession principally - and we have to face this - because a lot of people on Wall Street, because of a lot of people in the private sector more generally - homeowners or consumers - pushed or bought into a very unconservative idea that they could live beyond their means.''

Harper, who was close to former president George Bush, said the Conservative philosophy of big-spending and big government was not to be blamed for the current crisis.

Harper said: 'Regulators may have failed to prevent it but, in the end, it was a failure of the private sector to live according to the values we as conservatives know to be true.''

Obliquely criticizing Obama's stimulus package which raises taxes on those earning more than $250,000, the prime minister said had the opposition party (Canada's Liberal Party which is close to the Democrats in America) been in power here, it too would have raised taxes.

Canada would also have witnessed what is happening 'in the States now,'' he said.

Harper said the welfare state was not the solution to all problems. 'We didn't believe it before the recession. We are not about to start believing it now. But neither can conservatives believe today that the marketplace - that which I call Wall Street - is the solution to all problems.''

TALKING IPOD

Apple has launched its smallest ever talking iPod equipped with 4GB memory and priced at $79.99, being the least expensive iPod yet.

The new shuffle iPod is enabled with a VoiceOver feature to speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. The third generation iPod shuffle is significantly smaller than a AA battery, holds up to 1,000 songs and is easier to use with all of the controls conveniently located on the earphone cord.

With controls located on the earphone cord, music lovers can play, pause, adjust volume, switch playlists and hear the name of the song and artist. The new iPod shuffle comes in silver or black and features a sleek and ultra-wearable design with a built-in stainless steel clip iPod and iPhone™ product marketing vice president Greg Joswiak says, “Imagine your music player talking to you, telling you your song titles, artists and playlist names. The amazingly small new iPod shuffle takes a revolutionary approach to how you listen to your music by talking to you, also making it the first iPod shuffle with playlists.”

iPod shuffle is based on Apple’s shuffle feature, which randomly selects songs from your music library. And now, when you can’t remember the name of a song or an artist playing, with the press of a button iPod shuffle tells you the name of the song and artist. The device can last 10 hours on a charge and can provide status information, such as battery life. With the ability to hold up to 1,000 songs and the VoiceOver feature, you can now easily switch between multiple playlists on your iPod shuffle. iPod shuffle can speak 14 languages including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

6yr-old Indian-American boy's IQ is greater than that of Einstein

An Indian-American boy has an IQ greater than that of Albert Einstein at the tender age of six.

Pranav Veera has an IQ of 176, while Einstein's IQ was believed to be about 160.

The little boy can recite the names of the U.S. presidents in the order they served in office, and is able to say the alphabet backward.

Given a date back to 2000, Pranav can even tell which day of the week that was.

He is highly competitive at playing Wii video games, and likes to play outside.

Pranav's parents have revealed that he seemed unusually intelligent while playing with alphabet sets, when the boy was just four-and-a-half years old.

He could even recall which letters were certain colours, they say.

"That kind of puzzled us. You have to have not a normal memorization, but some other means of recall," the Chicago Sun-Times quoted his father Prasad Veera as saying.

The little boy's mother, Suchitra Veera, has revealed that he presently loves all kinds of alphabets.

"He loves to collect them, like different colors, different sizes, different materials," she said.

Pranav's parents decided to have his IQ tested at Powers Educational Services in Hyde Park three months ago

"I said, 'Let's try it out, because he seems to do a lot of stuff kind of not quite normal for his age. He tested 176," his father said.

Pranav's teacher Marci Taylor, at McCormick Elementary in the Milford School District, calls him "an amazing child".

"He knows so much, yet he's probably more excited about learning than any child I've ever seen. He shakes with excitement," she said.

What she finds impressive about Pranav is the fact that he knows so many incredible things at the age of 6.

"He loves to go play at recess and climb on the monkey bars," Taylor said.

When asked what he wants to be when he grows up, Pranav says: "An astronaut."

Sehwag powers India to series win

Virender Sehwag blasted India's fastest ODI hundred as the visitors swept to a comprehensive win that secured their maiden one-day series triumph in New Zealand. Sehwag reached three-figures off 60 balls with a signature six and his awe-inspiring hitting overshadowed Gautam Gambhir's near run-a-ball half-century. Daniel Vettori and the rest of the New Zealand bowlers were powerless in the face of the onslaught and what had seemed a challenging target was chased down with ridiculous ease. Even the two stoppages due to rain couldn't stem the run-deluge with Sehwag completing his century as early as the 18th over.

Astonishingly, only five runs came behind square on the off side, generally Sehwag's favourite hitting area. But the batsman still displayed his range of strokes in one Iain O'Brien over, hitting four fours off five balls: a powerful pull to midwicket, a drive that nearly took the bowler's head off, a whip off his pads and a pull-drive over mid-on to a short delivery.

In an innings filled with scintillating strokeplay, Sehwag was at his most murderous when play resumed following a rain break at the 10-over mark. With intermittent showers holding up play at regular intervals, Sehwag decided to make sure there was an early finish - in a five-over period, starting from the 12th over, he moved from 52 to 92. The high backlift showed his intentions as he set about dismantling O'Brien, Ewen Thompson and Jacob Oram. Only Daniel Vettori's intelligent variations of pace managed to draw a measure of respect from Sehwag.

Spare a thought for the debutant Thompson, who sends down gentle medium-pacers of the sort New Zealand so favoured in the 90s. After more than eight years of toil on the domestic scene, he was rewarded with a place on the national team, only to come up against a rampaging Sehwag on a small ground and a benign track with field restrictions in place. His four overs were taken for 42 runs, Sehwag's mighty hit into the scoreboard behind midwicket being the pick of the strokes against him.

South African board puts financial rider to ICC proposal

The South African board has said it will host the next Champions Trophy, if and when it is formally offered the tournament, but has attached a financial rider to the ICC's proposal. Gerald Majola, chief executive of Cricket South Africa (CSA), said a final decision would be taken by the South African board only after it received an official invitation - and, more importantly, found acceptable the ICC's financial model for the event.

Under ICC protocol, its executive board has to first endorse Wednesday's recommendation by its Chief Executives' Committee (CEC) to shift , due to weather concerns, the tournament from Sri Lanka to South Africa. The ICC will then extend an official invitation to CSA to host the event.

"We have asked the ICC to provide us with a financial model and our board will discuss the matter once we have received this model and an official ICC invitation," Majola said. "We would also have to follow the government protocols for hosting a major international event. If the finances and protocols are right and our board agrees to accept the invitation, we have the infrastructures and the expertise from recently hosting two ICC world championships to stage a successful tournament at short notice."

This is not the first time there's been an element of uncertainty over hosting the Champions Trophy. In 2002, the tournament was awarded to Sri Lanka after the Indian government refused to grant tax exemption for the event, as required by the ICC. Four years later, India and Pakistan were in the running to host the event, which was finally held in India after the government agreed to a tax exemption.

India had said then that it would not participate in future editions as the event is traditionally held during the peak cricket season - September-October. Lalit Modi, the BCCI vice-president, said holding the event in October cut into India's season and so affected revenue. The deadlock was subsequently resolved at the ICC level.

The Champions Trophy's financial model has been designed to generate revenue primarily for the ICC, which then pumps the money back into the development of the game worldwide.

NO IPL IN CHENNAI

Hi friends .........
This time one sad news for chennai guys as according to ndtv and times now channel there will be no ipl match hosted by chennai in the MAC stadium because of election duties but here in chennai the election is in the month of may only .I dont know why they are simply doing like this....And moreover kevin pietersen has said that in India chennai is only the safest place as nothing can happen there except rain situation...I dont know this time how many foreign players are going to come and play this IPL2......
Although the opening and closing ceremony is in Nerul Navi Mumbai one of the best places in India I dont know how much secured will Mumbai be after the 26/11 attack.Hope there is no confusion in this IPL 2 and everything goes on well with the blessing of the God.............

NO IPL MATCHES ON COUNTING DAYS

Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi on Friday said that there would be no IPL matches on the day of counting of votes.

Modi said a new schedule would be released soon, adding that they were working on a schedule, which was a "cumbersome process".

"We will shortly have a new schedule out," Modi told reporters here.

Stressing that the tournament was on, he said: "We want to assure our fans that the IPL is on. There is no question of the IPL moving to a foreign country".

Various media reports had claimed that the UAE and some Western countries are ready to host the cash-rich Twenty20 event, and that Modi was threatening the government about the possibility of moving it overseas.

Modi also thanked Home Minister P. Chidambaram for receiving assurances on security.

Earlier, addressing mediapersons at a press conference, Chidambaram said he was trying his best to ensure that the second edition of IPL matches would be held smoothly.

The League, involving many international players, has been thrust into the security spotlight in the wake of Tuesday's militant attack on Sri Lankan players in Pakistan.

Foreign players are raising concerns over travelling to the subcontinent after the attack.

VOICE ENABLED ROBOTIC WHEEL CHAIR FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS

Within a few years callers will be able to see each other as they chat on wireless phones with tiny video screens. Using Internet enabled wireless devices, doctors will remotely monitor patients. Smart tutors will design wireless-based online courses to adapt to the ability of individual students. Wireless innovations are in the process of changing the way we live and work by giving people access to more information than they ever imagined. Wider bandwidth will allow computers to incorporate graphic display and Internet features besides plain text. Banking websites will enable customers to make online transaction, pay bills and transfer funds.

Using this wireless communication, a virtual network can be created. This eliminates the complexity of wired networks and suits well for short distance communication. The data are transmitted using the RS232 serial interface in the form of Radio waves as a sequence of ‘0’’s and ‘1’’s.

Network Interface Card (NIC) at one end acts as transmitter and produce the radio waves for the corresponding data. NIC at another end acts as receiver and receive the
Radio waves from the air and convert to actual data. Data transfer is serial.

What is VoIP?

What is VoIP? It is "Voice over Internet Protocol". The VoIP enables the carrying of Telephonic speeches or audio over an Internet Protocol. For this purpose Data Compression techniques are used. The data transmission takes place over Packet-Switched Telephone Networks (PSTN).The VoIP is also commonly referred to as Internet Telephony or Broadband Telephony. The main goal of this service is to provide transparent communication throughout the world.

It all began with the development of Software called the VocalTec which provided the first VoIP in 1980's with some added features like Caller-ID and Voicemail. The year 2000 saw the shaping up of Soft-switch which overcame the shortcomings of its predecessor. This switch connects one phone line to another by means of computer software.

So, what is its functionality? It minimizes the existence of duplicate networks and reduces the communication and infrastructure costs. It permits the end-users to have more than one telephone line and allows conference-calls, call-forwarding, automatic redialing and much more. The most important functionality is that it is Location-Independent and thus VoIP can be activated if one has an Internet connection. The VoIP is advantageous over the existing systems as it can be easily integrated with other services which are available in the Internet. It also has the ability to accommodate more than one phone call in the same broadband spectrum.

Despite its advantages the VoIP is highly unreliable and insecure in more than one way. Since the IP's are connected to routers which depend on the local electricity, the system will not work in the event of Total black-out. The second one is the VoIP cannot accommodate MNP (Mobile Number Portability) and LNP(Local Number Portability). The inefficiency of this service to place Emergency calls is rated high in its disadvantages list. The next in the pipeline is its security. VoIP is yet to support Encryption Techniques. This makes it easy to tamper with the data (speech) being transmitted. Thus it paves the way for hackers to attack any user in the network resulting in DoS (Denial of Service).

But, these disadvantages can be overcome by usage of advanced technology and data compression techniques which would improve the security and reliability quotient of the VoIP. Once the security and other factors are looked into, the VoIP would be made accessible to all end-users. VoIP is the next big thing that is going to happen in the coming years.

Who Is Orkut????

A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....

but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20's, achievement in itself!!

He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his gf through the web..

Things went as planned...

n he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!

It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a
word with this guy n took over this application,

This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year,

which we today know as ORKUT.


The guy's name is Orkut Büyükkökten Yes it's named after him only. Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping. He is expected to b the richest person by 2009..

Orkut Büyükkökten today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to

monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!!!

Some other Cool Facts about this guy:

* He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.

* He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.

* He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if

anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.

* He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.

* He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.

* He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.

* He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.

* He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.

* He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.

* He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.

* He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend's friend-list.

Mobility management in next generation with
Wireless system

The next-generation mobile network will support terminal mobility, personal mobility, and service provider portability, making global roaming seamless. A location-independent personal telecommunication number (PTN) scheme is conducive to implementing such a global mobile system. However, the nongeographic PTNs coupled with the anticipated large number of mobile users in future mobile networks may introduce very large centralized databases. This necessitates research into the design and performance of high-throughput database technologies used in mobile systems to ensure that future systems will be able to carry efficiently the anticipated loads. This paper proposes scalable, robust, efficient location database architecture based on the location- independent PTNs. The proposed multi-tree database architecture consists of a number of database subsystems, each of which is a three-level tree structure and is connected to the others only through its root.

By exploiting the localized nature of calling and mobility patterns, the proposed architecture effectively reduces the database loads as well as the signaling traffic incurred by the location registration and call delivery procedures. In addition, two memory-resident database indices, memory-resident direct file and T-tree are proposed for the location databases to further improve their throughput. Analysis model and numerical results are presented to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed database architecture.
Results have revealed that the proposed database architecture for location management can effectively support the anticipated high user density in the future mobile networks.

Lahore attack planned inside Pakistan

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Even before the dust of the Lahore terror attack has settled, the blame game has begun. Pakistan is blaming a 'foreign hand' for the ghastly act.

Pakistan's political by lanes have also wasted no time in laying the blame on organizations outside its territory as a PPP politician, within minutes of the attack, said "This is clearly the work of a foreign hand."

The world has confirmed the existence of a terror safe haven in Pakistan again and again, then how far is Islamabad's claims of a foreign hand being behind the attacks justified, asks an editorial.

The editorial in The News, quite opposite to the official claims of Pakistan, has rebuked the notion that the perpetrators of the Lahore attack had international links.

Pakistan's claims have not been backed by a shred of empirical evidence, suggesting a foreign role.

The editorial highlights the presence of highly trained and well armed groups inside Pakistan territory.

"There is no shortage of highly-competent well-armed and trained groups within our own borders capable of such an operation," the editorial states.

These outlawed outfits are so well-off, that they do not need any foreign assistance or foreign money.

There are plenty of people in Pakistan who would be happy to finance them and offer logistical support, it added.

Tuesday's attack has put a stamp on the 'democratic' government's writ in Pakistan saying it is tattered and on the threshold of slipping into the hands of organizations which have already gripped the country's north-west.

Future Super Cars

Future Supercars are back! It will be quite exciting to talk about the future super cars which will dot our roadways and including the skies a fine morning. Some of these super cars would have appeared in the reel world of sci-fi movies, but there are many such cars out there in the open waitin for that cutting edge experience. Today, future cars are conceived on the computer in great detail with great precision. These future cars are actually prototype models or what you call blueprints ,ready to be manufactured. They are sheer imaginations of man.
Future super cars fill the empty spaces in the modern world. This kind of vehicle gives people the room to imagine and develop such prototypesBut there are some limitations because these super cars require accurate workmanship and involves a great deal of out-of-the-box thinking.
The Motor Shows are generally a place for car companies to show their most powerful coupes,hatchbacks,concept cars. Performance cars with a hint of saving the planet have not been the theme so far. And with the current fuel crisis rocking the world ,How are we going to run these super cars ?Petrol ,definitely a good option .But in the current scenario, it is a mere dream, because the fuel reserves have been estimated to last for the next 20 years and we cannot afford to spend it on super cars. So, the best option that is left behind is Hybrid fuels.
Here we have another problem. Super cars are built for the sheer thrill of speed. On the other hand, hybrid fuels cannot live upto the expectations of the so-called Super car.So, How is the future going to be for the super cars ? To be precise, grim and bleak.
With all these facts aside, It's interesting to see companies across the world catching up with each other in the race for number one super car manufacturer.Not only in terms of mere numbers, but also in terms of performance, speed ,handling and more importantly Fuel economy.
The Audi R8 has been a standing out example for manufacturing efficiency. Now, with a new model from their brand name, they have made a special kind of a diesel super car. Being built on the same platform as that of it's previous models, the new supercar has the distinction of the most powerful supercar. with an astounding engine capacity the new model can over-shadow any vehicle in the market. With this model expected around 2015,other supercar makers have started feeling the pinch due to lack-lustre performance by their cars in terms of fuel economy.so,It's high time these companies start manufacturing super cars with fuel-efficiency keeping in mind the future of the younger generation and move towards alternative sources of energy and sustainable development.
It gives a clear indication to other car manufacturers in the fray to devise these flying machines keeping in mind the current fuel-crisis. Audi committed this act at Automobile Capital of the world that will ensure and refrain itself from burning fossilfuels.So, we have to keep our fingers crossed while looking at the future of supercars which is not very far, just a span of ten odd years from now.

Lahore Firing: NO 2011 ICC WORLD CUP IN ASIA

Hello Friends
This 2011 world cup may be a shocking fact that our team INDIA dream of lifting the cup under the captaincy of Mr Cool (none other than M.S.Dhoni) in their home ground may be spoiled because of the latest terror attacks in the country which may not be there in the future Pakistanthat had targeted the Sri Lankan team players on their way to stadium by bus.The players who were targeted are being shown on picture but by God's grace they suffered from injuries but no threats to their life proving once again that no evil forces can take their life away till the absence of God.
So India's chance of hosting the WORLD CUP 2011 is in doubt.Especially the sad thing is that the Chennailities would feel depressed because the world largest cricket stadium under construction near outskirts of chennai of hosting the world cup league matches and super sixes would be a dream that just went away..So lets hope for the best and believe that still India can win the world cup........

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FIFA 2008 KEYBOARD TRICKS

There are many tricks you can do in FIFA 08 using a joystick. But you can learn those tricks in the game itself. Performing tricks using a keyboard isn't as easy as performing those using a joystick. I can help teach you a couple of tricks.

During a goalkick or a corner kick, if you want a player to come closer to you so that you can pass him the ball, press the "C" key.

You must have encountered this scenario. It’s the 90th minute and you have received a corner kick when you are down by a couple of goals. You need everyone to help you...... even the goalkeeper. To push up the keeper, press the "END" key.

You know that you can do a fast sprint by pressing the "E" key while running. To sprint even faster (read super sprint), press the "END" key while pressing the "E" key and the direction key.

During a corner or free kick, you may want to kick the ball flat along the ground. Pressing "S" may not be the best idea as the kick is not powerful. Hold down the "Q" key and power up pressing "D". The kick will powerfully go along the ground.

These are some tricks to try during a free kick which is near the opposition's goalpost. Call the second player by pressing "C". To change the first player, hold down "E" and press the arrow keys to select the player and release "E".
Ø Kick with 2nd player- Hold "C" and power up and shoot using "D" or "A".
Ø Pass the ball to 1st player and then shoot- Hold "C" and press "S". Then shoot with "D" or "A".
Ø For the 1st player to walk over the ball and 2nd player to shoot- Hold "Z" and power using "D" or "A" and shoot.

To slowly roll the ball around the field hold "C" while running.

To make the ball curve in the air press the direction in which you want it to curve while powering up with "D" or "A" and then release "D" or "A" to shoot.

I hope these tricks will help improve your game.

wat is life

hi friends.....
hello after a long time........well my post would be different regarding what is life.
Is life completely settled once when u get a job or once u finish higher studies both seems to be confusing right......yes that's the answer for my post which you can define in your own way.......thanks for now .....