China's main mobile phone company said Friday it will launch trial service of the homegrown Chinese next-generation standard next week, possibly moving the huge market closer to the long-anticipated rollout of new services.Companies expect a multibillion-dollar wave of spending on equipment once China awards licenses for third-generation, or 3G, service. But Beijing has delayed a decision while it tries to develop its own system to compete with global standards.China Mobile Communications Corp. said in a statement it will test the standard, known as TD-SCDMA, by issuing 20,000 phones and 5,000 data cards on Tuesday in Beijing
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The statement gave no indication how long the test would last, whether it would be expanded to other areas or when licenses might be awarded.China has the world's biggest population of mobile phone users, with some 520 million subscribers, and standards decisions could have a far-reaching impact on the equipment market.
Third-generation mobile phone standards are meant to support features such as video and Internet access.
Beijing has been trying to create its own standard since 2001, hoping to create opportunities for its telecoms companies and reduce the need to pay license fees to developers of the global standards, known as WCDMA and CDMA-2000. China also has approved those standards for use.The 3G decision comes as regulators are believed to be preparing to restructure China's telecommunications industry. The overhaul is expected to reassign mobile and fixed line assets among the main state-owned phone companies in an effort to create healthier competitors. The government has given no time frame for the changes.
The government said previously it hoped to have a 3G network in place before the Beijing Olympics open in August.

Suppliers such as Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. say they are ready to produce equipment based on the Chinese standards once the government picks carriers to receive 3G licenses.
TD-SCDMA has failed to attract users abroad, but industry experts say regulators are pressing Chinese carriers to use it alongside the global standards.
Chinese Mobile and its main rival, China Unicom Ltd., have declined to comment. Chinese news reports say they are reluctant to use TD-SCDMA because it doesn't work as well as the global standards.
U.S. officials say China has promised to let carriers pick their 3G standard but express concern they are being pressed to use TD-SCDMA. They say that would violate Beijing's free-trade commitments.

Motorola Inc. bowed to pressure from investors Wednesday, announcing a plan to split its struggling cell phone business from other operations to form two separate publicly traded companies.The widely expected deal comes as the suburban Chicago cell phone maker faces a second straight year of agitation from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who has become increasingly frustrated with Motorola's eroding phone sales.Executives said the move will allow the two companies to better focus on their respective strengths and weaknesses, while accelerating the turnaround plan for the cell phone unit, which has seen its fortunes slip after
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trend-conscious customers lost interest in the Razr flip phone.

"The creation of the two independent publicly traded companies provides improved management focus and a capital structure that's more tailored to the individual business needs," said Chief Executive Greg Brown, who will remain at the helm of the split company's non-cell phone unit. "And it will provide some improved alignment and agility and will help us going forward."

Specifics of the deal haven't been disclosed, but Motorola said its handset business will operate separately from another company offering its TV set-top boxes and modems and its computing and communications equipment.Schaumburg-based Motorola said it anticipates the transaction will be tax-free, allowing shareholders to own stock in both of the new companies. If the deal is approved by regulators, the two units would be separated in 2009.
Officials haven't said whether one company or both will retain the Motorola brand name or which company will distribute stock to existing shareholders.
Icahn called Wendesday's announcement "much delayed and long overdue" and continued to push for the election of his four board members.

"As one of the largest Motorola stockholders, I continue to have concerns about the speed and manner in which a new management team is selected for the mobile devices business and the separation transaction is consummated," he said in a statement.

"Time is of the essence, and decisive action is required to reposition the Mobile Devices business for success as an independent company," Icahn said.

Is it a mouse? Is it a gamepad? No, it's the Genius Navigator 365!


This USB mouse is also a 8-buttons-gamepad. Just open it and use the progammable buttons to play your favorite games.
The mouse has a laser engine with a resolution of max. 1600dpi and fits the demands of an average gamer.
Do you see the advantages? Only one USB port occupied and one device less around your computer.

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There's a video playing these days at New York's Museum of Modern Art about a curvaceous cell phone called "Morph." Unlike your typical phone, this one's form-fitting: It wraps around your wrist like a bracelet when you're not using it for calls. It also kills germs and looks out for your health by "sniffing" the surrounding air and analyzing your sweat.
And oh yeah, it's made with a derivative of insulin. Not all of it. There's still plenty of the silicon, metals, and synthetic materials commonly used to make consumer electronics. But the Morph, which is Nokia's (NOK) equivalent of a concept car, is but one hint of an emerging body of research that taps into biology for the good of gadgetry.
Viruses, silkworms, salmon sperm, and potatoes are among the multitude of living organisms that scientists at companies and universities are trying to harness to make better parts for computers, MP3 players, cell phones, and other devices. In addition to Nokia, companies pursuing this path include IBM (IBM), Motorola (MOT), Fujitsu, Honeywell (HON), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), and dozens of startups.

For a common people and for his basic need a small home with basic facility are more than enough to live in. We call home where we can seat and relax ... where we can enjoy our life with our close ones ... but below given homes are more than that ... they are the symbol of wealth ... they are the perfect definition of luxury ... so friends these are the top expensive homes from all all round the world. Just have a look -

$165 million
Beverly Hills, Calif.

Once owned by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, this expansive villa sits on six and a half acres in Beverly Hills.
A massive 75,000 square feet of living space is spread across three stories. The home boasts 29 bedrooms and 40 bathrooms.
The home was built in 1926 in the style of a Mediterranean villa and was featured in the 1972 film The Godfather. The compound comprises six buildings, three swimming pools and a movie theater.

Music is the oldest tension buster, that’s why in old age kings always carry singer and poet with them. You and me can also call ourselves as king as we also carry our singer and poet … but not with us … in our pocket … Yes … I am talking about top 10 Mp3 players. If you are planning to purchase … then read these tips and reviews

Outstanding features: Available in black and white and colour, the iPod Video 30Gb can hold 7,500 songs or 75 hours of video playback and is the best-looking player your money can buy.

It features a large 2.5 inch colour screen capable of displaying images and videos at a maximum resolution of 320 x 240 pixels.

The circular touch-pad navigation is easy to use. Besides support for audio and video, it can entertain you while you are on the go with Podcasts and audio books.

With a built-in calendar, contact list, notes, world clock, stopwatch and a few games, it also acts as ap personal information manager (PIM).

A single battery charge can last 20 hours.


Drawbacks: The LCD is too small for playing videos.

The screen is scratch prone, so be sure to invest in a protective casing. Also, the lack of in-built speakers and A/V cables (you need to buy them separately) make it a not-so-ideal portable media solution.


Final word: The name, iPod, is synonymous with MP3 players today. Though slightly expensive, it is undoubtedly the best music player around. But if you are a true audiophile and do not mind spending a few bucks extra, look no further.

These are the world most expensive and master piece car ... every one would love to have either one or more than one ... really ... you can fall in love with these cars ... just take a look into these cars ...

Bugatti Veyron 16.4

$1.4 million
The Veyron 16.4 is reported to be the only production car with more than 1,000 horsepower, at 1001 hp. Unless someone is building one in a secret lab somewhere, it’s also the only one that costs more than $1 million. It has a 16-cylinder engine that forms a "W" out of two Vs .

Version 2.0 of the popular iPhone's firmware, which is due to be launched in June this year, could turn the device into an indispensable medical tool in hospitals.

Doctors are quite optimistic about the new version of the mobile phone as it could serve as an electronic alternative for the old-fashioned clipboard and X-ray light box.

According to Adam Flanders, director of informatics at Thomas Jefferson University and an expert in medical imaging, "If you could use the gesture-based way of manipulating images on the iPhone and actually manipulate a stack of X-rays or CT scans, that would be a huge selling point."

To date, such a feature has remained an impossible dream due to most smart phones' inability to handle the sophisticated compression techniques used on large medical images. Also, most phones lack the requisite memory and image-processing capabilities.

L.A. Cicero Camera researchers

Philip Wong, Abbas El Gamal and Keith Fife are developing a digital camera that sees the world through thousands of tiny lenses, providing an electronic “depth map” containing the distance from the camera to every object in the picture.
L.A. Cicero testing platform for the image sensor chip.

The testing platform for the multi-aperture image sensor chip.

The camera you own has one main lens and produces a flat, two-dimensional photograph, whether you hold it in your hand or view it on your computer screen. On the other hand, a camera with two lenses (or two cameras placed apart from each other) can take more interesting 3-D photos.

But what if your digital camera saw the world through thousands of tiny lenses, each a miniature camera unto itself? You'd get a 2-D photo, but you'd also get something potentially more valuable: an electronic "depth map" containing the distance from the camera to every object in the picture, a kind of super 3-D.

Stanford electronics researchers, lead by electrical engineering Professor Abbas El Gamal, are developing such a camera, built around their "multi-aperture image sensor." They've shrunk the pixels on the sensor to 0.7 microns, several times smaller than pixels in standard digital cameras. They've grouped the pixels in arrays of 256 pixels each, and they're preparing to place a tiny lens atop each array.

"It's like having a lot of cameras on a single chip," said Keith Fife, a graduate student working with El Gamal and another electrical engineering professor, H.-S. Philip Wong. In fact, if their prototype 3-megapixel chip had all its micro lenses in place, they would add up to 12,616 "cameras."

Point such a camera at someone's face, and it would, in addition to taking a photo, precisely record the distances to the subject's eyes, nose, ears, chin, etc. One obvious potential use of the technology: facial recognition for security purposes.

But there are a number of other possibilities for a depth-information camera: biological imaging, 3-D printing, creation of 3-D objects or people to inhabit virtual worlds, or 3-D modeling of buildings.

The technology is expected to produce a photo in which almost everything, near or far, is in focus. But it would be possible to selectively defocus parts of the photo after the fact, using editing software on a computer

Knowing the exact distance to an object might give robots better spatial vision than humans and allow them to perform delicate tasks now beyond their abilities. "People are coming up with many things they might do with this," Fife said. The three researchers published a paper on their work in the February edition of the IEEE ISSCC Digest of Technical Papers.

Their multi-aperture camera would look and feel like an ordinary camera, or even a smaller cell phone camera. The cell phone aspect is important, Fife said, given that "the majority of the cameras in the world are now on phones."

Here's how it works:

The main lens (also known as the objective lens) of an ordinary digital camera focuses its image directly on the camera's image sensor, which records the photo. The objective lens of the multi-aperture camera, on the other hand, focuses its image about 40 microns (a micron is a millionth of a meter) above the image sensor arrays. As a result, any point in the photo is captured by at least four of the chip's mini-cameras, producing overlapping views, each from a slightly different perspective, just as the left eye of a human sees things differently than the right eye.

The outcome is a detailed depth map, invisible in the photograph itself but electronically stored along with it. It's a virtual model of the scene, ready for manipulation by computation. "You can choose to do things with that image that you weren't able to do with the regular 2-D image," Fife said. "You can say, 'I want to see only the objects at this distance,' and suddenly they'll appear for you. And you can wipe away everything else."

Or the sensor could be deployed naked, with no objective lens at all. By placing the sensor very close to an object, each micro lens would take its own photo without the need for an objective lens. It has been suggested that a very small probe could be placed against the brain of a laboratory mouse, for example, to detect the location of neural activity.

Other researchers are headed toward similar depth-map goals from different approaches. Some use intelligent software to inspect ordinary 2-D photos for the edges, shadows or focus differences that might infer the distances of objects. Others have tried cameras with multiple lenses, or prisms mounted in front of a single camera lens. One approach employs lasers; another attempts to stitch together photos taken from different angles, while yet another involves video shot from a moving camera.

But El Gamal, Fife and Wong believe their multi-aperture sensor has some key advantages. It's small and doesn't require lasers, bulky camera gear, multiple photos or complex calibration. And it has excellent color quality. Each of the 256 pixels in a specific array detects the same color. In an ordinary digital camera, red pixels may be arranged next to green pixels, leading to undesirable "crosstalk" between the pixels that degrade color.

The sensor also can take advantage of smaller pixels in a way that an ordinary digital camera cannot, El Gamal said, because camera lenses are nearing the optical limit of the smallest spot they can resolve. Using a pixel smaller than that spot will not produce a better photo. But with the multi-aperture sensor, smaller pixels produce even more depth information, he said.

The technology also may aid the quest for the huge photos possible with a gigapixel camera—that's 140 times as many pixels as today's typical 7-megapixel cameras. The first benefit of the Stanford technology is straightforward: Smaller pixels mean more pixels can be crowded onto the chip.

The second benefit involves chip architecture. With a billion pixels on one chip, some of them are sure to go bad, leaving dead spots, El Gamal said. But the overlapping views provided by the multi-aperture sensor provide backups when pixels fail.

The researchers are now working out the manufacturing details of fabricating the micro-optics onto a camera chip.

The finished product may cost less than existing digital cameras, the researchers say, because the quality of a camera's main lens will no longer be of paramount importance. "We believe that you can reduce the complexity of the main lens by shifting the complexity to the semiconductor," Fife said.

#1 Warren Buffet

Age: 77

Fortune: self made

Source: Berkshire Hathaway

Net Worth: $62.0 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Omaha, Nebraska , United States, North America

Industry: Investments

Marital Status: widowed, remarried, 3 children

Education: University of Nebraska Lincoln, Bachelor of Arts / Science Columbia University, Master of Science

America's most beloved investor is now the world's richest man. Soared past friend and bridge partner Bill Gates as shares of Berkshire Hathaway climbed 25% since the middle of last July. Son of Nebraska politician delivered newspapers as a boy. Filed first tax return at age 13, claiming $35 deduction for bicycle. Studied under value investing guru Benjamin Graham at Columbia. Took over textile firm Berkshire Hathaway 1965. Today holding company invested in insurance (Geico, General Re), jewelry (Borsheim's), utilities (MidAmerican Energy), food (Dairy Queen, See's Candies). Also has noncontrolling stakes in Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo. Insurance operations flourished in 2007. "That party is over. It's a certainty that insurance-industry profit margins, including ours, will fall significantly in 2008." The Oracle of Omaha issued a challenge to members of The Forbes 400 in October; said he would donate $1 million to charity if the collective group of richest Americans would admit they pay less taxes, as a percentage of income, than their secretaries. Had long promised to give away his fortune posthumously. Irrevocably earmarked the majority of his Berkshire shares to charity in 2006, mostly to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gift was valued at $31 billion on day of announcement; donation will far exceed that sum so long as Berkshire shares continue to rise

So the era of 13 years come to end ... Bill Gates dominated last 13 years at the top position of Billionaire list ... in these 13 years many poor countries people come to know about the terms of BILLIONAIRES ... and when they do not understand the meaning of Billionaires they show the photos of Bill Gates and tell ... see this is called Billionaire ...

No doubt he make the revolution in computer world ... and his product windows (and tailor made concept) makes him and reached him at this level ... earlier when people were wealthier they show off with quality clothes and with everything which proves them wealthier but he is really wont care about those things ... just like as his arch rival Steve Jobs ...

So Hats off to you Mr. Gates ... now we have to purchase new photo to make people understand what is the meaning of Billionaire ... Mr. Buffest can I have your close up photo ... please ...

Guys ... you are going to see Top 10 Billionaire of the world ... courtsey to Forbes.

Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc met on Monday to discuss Microsoft's takeover offer for the Internet company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The meeting was said to be the first since Microsoft made its unsolicited offer for Yahoo, worth nearly $42 billion, on Jan 31.

Yahoo rejected the offer as inadequate last month. The Journal said the meeting wasn't a negotiation and that no bankers were present.

The session was intended to allow Microsoft to present its vision of a combined company, and Yahoo executives mostly listened, the Journal quoted one of the sources as saying. Microsoft and Yahoo spokesmen declined to comment.

Few companies will look at India as their destination for offshore R&D centres in the next 18 months. In fact, there is already a sort of slowdown in the number of such units being set up in the country.

From 75 new offshore R&D centres in 2005, the number has dwindled to just 15 last year. There are about 600 MNC captives in India and R&D offshoring activity in the country is estimated at $6 billion and is seen as growing at 23%. Software product development captures over 50% of R&D market, with the balance contributed by embedded systems space.

According to a study by Zinnov Consulting, some key reasons for this trend were cost escalation of 8% to 15%, attrition of up to 20%, difficulty in scalability and lack of recruitment bandwidth. However, the silver lining is that many of the large and established R&D centres will lend a lot of buoyancy to R&D activity from India.

In fact, large companies will grow till their head count reaches 30%-40% of their global R&D workforce, the study says. While there are several challenges, what has worked for some of the successful R&D captives in India is stable and strong leadership team that has spent a good number of years to stabilise the centre

IT sectors stopped sucking Indian brains
very happy to see more R&D ,which will move India a step ahead....................

Wouldn’t it be nice to drive a car into town without worrying about finding a parking space?Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised just such a vehicle, a futuristic “City Car” that could even drive itself. Once at your destination, the vehicle’s computers would, at the press of a button, look for a parking spot behind others like itself, then fold roughly in half so you could stack it there as you would a shopping cart.

“We have reinvented urban mobility,” said Bill Mitchell, a professor in architecture and director of the project at an MIT think tank in Cambridge, just outside Boston. The vehicle hasn’t yet been built. But a miniature mock-up version has gone on display at a campus museum, and there are plans to build a full-scale model this spring.

The dozen or so engineers and architects on Mitchell’s team are confident their computer-generated work is on target. They feel their golf cart-sized vehicle could provide a novel solution to the chronic traffic congestion afflicting cities across the United States, Europe and Asia — not to mention pollution and energy use, since it would run on a rechargeable battery, the researchers say.

On the drawing board, their two-seater is roughly half the size of a typical compact automobile and a little smaller than the Smart car made by Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz. “It’s a virtual computer on wheels,” said Franco Vairani, designer of the vehicle’s foldable frame, which he predicts will shrink the car to as little as an eighth the space needed to park the average car. While parked, it would hook up to an electricity grid for recharging, he added. Hundreds could be stacked around a city and “you would just go and swipe your (credit) card and take the first one available and drive away,” Vairani said, seated by his computerized drawing board.

People wouldn’t have to worry about where to park their cars in town and automobiles would take up less urban space, leaving more room for parks and walkways, he added. Peter Schmitt, a team engineer, says the car would have independently powered robotic wheels and be controlled using a computerized drive-by-wire system with a button or joystick. Mitchell said he would like to bring the car to the manufacturing stage within the next three to four years.

But a key consultant for the project, Christopher Borroni-Bird, director of the Advanced Technology Vehicle Concepts at US automaker General Motors Corp, said he doesn’t think City Car is quite ready yet for the road.

“What we have is a very intriguing concept,” Borroni-Bird told Reuters in a telephone interview. “It is certainly a very promising idea, but I don’t want to say it is ready for production ... there’s still a lot of work yet to take it from concept to production.”

Sony Ericsson said on Monday that it was reviewing its business ties with NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile telephone operator, which is struggling amid an industry price war.

But the company, a joint venture between Japan's Sony Corp and Sweden's LM Ericsson, declined to confirm reports it will stop making handsets for DoCoMo.

"It is true that Sony Ericsson is reviewing part of its product development plans with DoCoMo," said company spokesman Toshiyuki Kawamura.

But he said the firm would continue to provide products to DoCoMo. The Nikkei business daily reported Monday that Sony Corp would stop making mobile phones for NTT DoCoMo and instead focus on overseas markets.

Sony Ericsson will end production for DoCoMo after introducing new models this summer, the newspaper, without citing sources.

But it plans to keep NTT DoCoMo as a customer by procuring handsets from other Japanese manufacturers and selling them under the brand of Sony Ericsson, the report said.

The newspaper said Sony Ericsson was planning to shift its business focus to China, Europe and North America as it battles Finnish giant Nokia, which dominates the global mobile telephone market.

But Sony Ericsson insisted it remained committed to the Japanese market. "Sony Ericsson does not intend to reduce our development plan for the Japanese cell phone market," said Kawamura.

Japan, a nation of 127 million people, has more than 100 million mobile phones in operation, creating a major challenge for service providers to achieve growth and sparking consolidation among handset manufacturers.

Sanyo Electric announced last month it would sell its mobile phone production unit to Kyocera Corp while Mitsubishi Electric said last week it would stop making cellphone.

Apple Computer, the maker of iPhone, iPod and Mac PCs, has topped 20 most admired global companies in a list prepared by Fortune magazine.

PepsiCo, headed by India-born Indra Nooyi, at 13th position is more admired than archrival Coca-Cola at 19th spot, according to the list published in the latest edition of the US business magazine, famed for its authoritative Fortune 500 lists of US and global corporations ranked on gross revenue.

Apple in the most admired list is followed at second place by General Electric, the diversified industrial conglomerate, while Japanese auto major Toyota occupies the third place.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, is the fourth most admired company.

Others in the top 10 include courier firm FedEx at sixth, Johnson & Johnson (7), known for its baby products, luxury car maker BMW (9) and software giant Microsoft (10), which is trying to acquire Yahoo!.

Aircraft maker Boeing is way down at 16th, the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart at 17th and Japanese automaker Honda Motor at 18th.

Fortune said it surveyed over 600 companies in 65 industries for the list. It partnered with global management consulting firm Hay Group for the study. Over 3,500 businesspeople were asked to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry.

The companies were ranked on the basis of eight attributes - innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management, financial soundness, long-term investment and quality of products/services.

In Fortune's list of America's most admired companies, Apple is again at the top, followed by Berkshire and GE at second and third place respectively. Pepsi figures but not in the top 20, for whom the rankings have been given.

Adobe Systems, a software company led by Indian American Shantanu Narayen, has also made it to the club, but way down among the 317 companies listed.

India added six million GSM mobile subscribers in February to reach 184.67 million, industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said Monday.
This, however, excludes the number of users added by Reliance Communications, which is mainly a CDMA major, a rival technology to GSM.

Bharti Airtel, India's leading mobile phone service firm, added 2.25 million subscribers, taking its total base to 59.67 million and market share to 32.31 percent.

Vodafone-Essar, promoted by British telecom giant Vodafone, registered 42.55 million subscribers by adding 1.41 million new users in February against the preceding month's 1.28 million.

Aditya-Birla Group's Idea Cellular added 918,871 users last month, and as of Feb 29 had a total customer base of 22.87 million.

State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) added 824,284 new users taking its total subscriber base to 34.57 million and a market share of 18.72 percent, COAI said.

India is the world's fastest growing mobile phone market with the lowest call tariffs of below two US cents. The market has emerged as the cynosure of global telecom giants. The latest to make a foray is the Richard Branson-promoted Virgin Mobile, which announced it entry into the Indian market last week in partnership with Mumbai-based Tata Teleservices.

The Indian government has set a target of 500 million users by 2010; half of this, 250 million, was reached last year.

A camera that can "see" explosives, drugs and weapons hidden under clothing from 25 metres has been invented.

The ThruVision system could be deployed at airports, railway stations or other public spaces.
It is based on so-called "terahertz", or T-ray, technology, normally used by astronomers to study dying stars.

Although it is able to see through clothes it does not reveal "body detail" or subject people to "harmful radiation", according to the designers.

"It is totally and utterly passive - it receives only," said a spokesperson for Thruvision.

The portable camera, which has already been sold to the Dubai Mercantile Exchange and Canary Wharf in London, will be shown off at the Home Office scientific development branch's annual exhibition later this week.

Body glow

Unlike current security systems that use X-rays, the ThruVision system exploits terahertz rays, or T-rays.

This electromagnetic radiation is a form of low level energy emitted by all people and objects.

These are able to pass through clothing, paper, ceramics and wood but are blocked by metal and water.

The system works by collecting these waves and processing them to form an image which can reveal concealed objects.

"If I were to look at you in terahertz you would appear to glow like a light bulb and different objects glow less brightly or more brightly," said the firm's spokesperson.

"You see a silhouette of the form but you don't see surface anatomical effects."

In addition, the system does not involve any of the "harmful radiation associated with traditional X-ray security screening", according to the firm.

The company has made previous versions of the camera, but the T5000, as it is known, is the first that works both indoors and out.

In changing sweepstakes in world’s billionaire club, India’s Anil Ambani has emerged as the biggest wealth creator, while famed American investor Warren Buffett has overtaken software czar Bill Gates and Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim to lead the list of world’s richest people released by Forbes on Thursday.

As many as four Indians — steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani and realty baron K.P. Singh — have made it to top 10 positions, as against just one, Mr. Mittal, a year ago.

India has retained its position as the top source of billionaires in Asia with total 53 persons, who have a cumulative networth of $340.9 billion on Forbes’ 2008 World’s Billionaires list consisting of 1,125 persons with a combined wealth of $4.4 trillion. A year ago, there were just 179 billionaires, Forbes said.

With a networth of $62 billion, Mr. Buffett has topped the list, followed by Carlos Slim Helu ($60 billion) and Mr. Gates ($58 billion) on second and third positions.

They are followed by three Indians — Lakshmi Mittal ($45 billion), Mr. Mukesh Ambani ($43 billion) and Mr. Anil Ambani ($42 billion) on fourth, fifth and sixth ranks.

Besides, DLF’s K.P. Singh ($30 billion) has been ranked, after Sweden’s Ingvar Kamprad ($31 billion).

Forbes said Mr. Anil Ambani is the biggest gainer with wealth soaring by $23.8 billion since the last list. He is only one billion dollars behind his brother, who is the second biggest gainer with a rise of $22.9 billion in his networth. Mr. Mittal has gained $13 billion from last year, pushing him one place higher to fourth rank this year. Among Indians, Mr. Mittal, the Ambanis and Mr. Singh are followed by Essar group’s Shashi and Ravi Ruia at 43rd rank globally with a combined networth of $15 billion, Wipro’s Azim Premji (60th with $12.7 billion), Sunil Mittal and family (64th with $11.8 billion) and Kumar Birla (76th with $10.2 billion).

These are followed by Unitech’s Ramesh Chandra (86th with $9.6 billion), Guatam Adani (91st with $9.3 billion), Savitri Jindal (110th with $8.2 billion), Anil Agarwal (164th with $6 billion), Adi Godrej (178th with $5.5 billion) and GMR’s GM Rao (198th with $5.2 billion).

Forbes said the number of billionaires had crossed into four figure for the first time and two-third of them are self-made billionaires, having built their empires from scratch. The total number of Asian billionaires jumped by a third to 211 with a total wealth of $804 billion.

Yahoo launches research lab in Bangalore Yahoo launched its first research lab in India on Tuesday. Yahoo Labs, the facility in Bangalore, will focus on search technologies and computational advertising.The research will be focused on search technologies and computational advertising.

Yahoo Research, said the company’s research in computational advertising would enable searches by users to be matched with relevant advertisements.

Whenever I visited the Electronics goods shop one thing surely made my hand to scratch my head ! What is that DVD+R and DVD-R ? Out of ignorance and negligence I would simply forget that topic and return home after purchasing the goods that i needed... Last week I made up my mind to find what those "+R" and "-R" meant!

Um not a big difference @ the customer's end but a great deal at the technical aspects..... So here it goes : Well, there are really only two "families" of DVD at the moment (unless you want to count the red laser vs. blue laser stuff that's starting to come on to the market at the high end), and one "outcast". You've got the "minus" ("-") formats (DVD-R, DVD-RW) and the "plus" ("+") formats (DVD+R, DVD+RW), then there's the older DVD-RAM format that's harder to find these days. All of these are for data, of course -- all but the newest DVD video players will choke on those, in the same way early CD players choked on CD-R discs.



A DVD-R is a write-once format: once you've burned the data onto that DVD platter, the disk is forever frozen with that information. Add the "W" to that, and you'll find that DVD-RW can be erased or rewritten up to a thousand times. Seems kinda weird, but if you can do so, DVD-RW obviously has significant advantages over DVD-R. DVD-RAM was even more flexible, however, since it let you erase and rewrite sections of an existing DVD, something that you cannot do with DVD-RW.

Moving to the plus side is where things get a bit confusing, because DVD+RW came before DVD+R. The plus formats have the same data storage capacity as the minus formats (4.7GB), but DVD+RW offers faster writing, better internal linking (a technical obscurity you don't have to worry about), and support for drag-and-drop desktop files, which makes it easy to compose the contents of a disk. DVD+R is a write-once format intended to be more compatible with more DVD players, though at this point it seems to be about even with DVD-R, which remains the most compatible computer-burned DVD format.


In your case, since your drive is a DVD-RW, you're effectively limited to DVD-R and DVD-RW format discs. Stay away from any of the "plus" formats, as those won't work with your drive (and being newer, they cost more anyway).

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