Wonders of God !!

 WISTERIA FLOWER TUNNEL in JAPAN

TUNNEL OF LOVE, UKRAINE

 

ZHANGYE DANXIA LANDFORM, CHINA

LAKE HILLIER, AUSTRALIA

Google readying WhatsApp rival, India to be test bed

      GOOGLE is planning to launch its own mobile messaging app which the search giant is likely to test in India and other emerging markets. It is in the early stages of development and is likely to be launched in 2015.   Singhal, who is a product management director for Hangouts, Photos, Google+ core & Platform, is also touring other countries in Asia Pacific to understand local ecosystems better. India is one of the fastest-growing markets for instant messaging applications. Of the 600 million WhatsApp users, 65 million are in India. Similarly, Line has over 18 million registered users, Viber is targeting 30 million users by the year end and homegrown messenger Hike claims over 35 million registered users. WeChat doesn't share country-specific data but globally, it has over 438 million monthly active users. Mobile connections in India will grow to 815 million in 2014, up 8% from last year, according to Gartner which counted the growing appetite for over the top voice services (data-based) as one of the 'biggest challenges' faced by Indian mobile operators.  

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

          Cognizant Technology Solution (CTS) was established in the year 1994 by Kumar Mahadeva.  He is a Srilanka based Tamil guy. CTS is an American Multinational Company which had its origin from the Dun and Bradstreet corporation which was a joint venture from Satyam computers. It is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. 
Selected for fortune’s “most admired company list” in 2010.             
CTS joins Fortune 500 in 2011.      

Headquarters: Teaneck, New Jersey, United States 

Vision Of the Company : To lead sustainable growths with environmental friendly practices and responsible use of natural resources.

Mission : Cognizant’s single-minded mission is to dedicate our business process and technology innovation know-how, our deep industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger.

Achivements:

• Fortune named Cognizant as fastest growing IT companies for the 10th consecutive year.
• Cognizant ranks 14th on Newsweek’s 2012 list of greenest U.S. companies.

CEO : Francisco D'Souza
Chairman : John E. Kelvin 

Services Provided:

• IT infrastructure and cloud services
• Testing Solutions
• Business process services
• Analytics, Business Intelligence, CRM, Data
• Application outsourcing
• Data Warehousing, Supply Chain Management

Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/Cognizant

An Overview Of few Organizations

ORGANIZATION	FOUNDED	FOUNDER	HEADQUARTERS	CURRENT CEO
TCS	1968	J.R.D. Tata	Mumbai	Natarajan Chandrasekaran
INFOSYS	1981	N.R. Narayana Murthy Nandan Nilekani	Bangalore	Vishal Sikka
HCL	1976	Siva Nadar	Noida, UP	Anant Gupta
CAPGEMINI	1967	Serge Kampf	Paris, France	Paul Hermelin
COGNIZANT	1994	Kumar Mahadeva	Teaneck, NJ, USA	Francisco Dsouza
L&T	1938	Henning Holck-Larsen Soren Kristain Toubro	Mumbai	K. Venkataraman
WIPRO	1945	M.H. Hasham Premji	Bangalore	T. K. Kurien
FACEBOOK	2004	Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin	Menlo Park, CA, USA	Mark Zuckerberg
YAHOO	1995	Jerry Yang David Filo	Sunnyvale, CA, USA	Marissa Mayer
GOOGLE	1998	Sergey Brin Larry Page	USA	Larry Page
APPLE	1976	Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak Ronald Wayne	California, USA	Tim Cook

Larsen and Toubro

L&T was founded in Mumbai in 1938 by two Danish engineers, Henning Holck-Larsen and Soren Kristian Toubro. 


1944 - ECC was incorporated
1945 - the company represented British manufacturers of equipment used to manufacture products such as hydrogenated oils, biscuits, soaps and glass.
      Also L&T signed with Caterpillar Tractor Company, USA, for marketing earthmoving equipment.
On 7th Feb 1946, L&T Private Limited was born.
In December 1950, L&T became a Public Company with a paid-up capital of Rs. 2 million. The sales turnover in that year was Rs. 10.9 million.
The sixties saw a significant change at L&T and rapid growth for the company.
By 1973, it had become one of the top 25 Indian companies.
In 1976, Holck-Larsen was awarded the Magsaysay Award for International Understanding in recognition of his contribution to India's industrial development.
S.K. Toubro retired from active management in 1962.
Larsen retired as Chairman in 1978.

Today, L&T is one of the India's biggest and best known industrial organisations with a reputation for technological excellence, high quality of products and services, and strong customer orientation.

Subsidiaries: L&T Infotech, L&T Mutual Fund, L&T Infrastructure Finance Company, L&T Finance Holdings, L&T IES,  L&T MHPS

Products:                                                     

• Construction
• Heavy Equipment
• Electrical equipment
• Power
• Ship building
• Financial services
• IT services             

Headquarters : Mumbai
CEO & MD : K. Venkataraman
Executive Chairman : A.M. Naik
Employees : 84,027 in March 2014
Revenue : US$ 13.6 Billion (2013)

THE FABULOUS LIFE OF MARK ZUCKERBERG - CEO OF FACEBOOK

             Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York. He grew up with his three siblings in the nearby town, Dobbs Ferry. At the age of 12, Zuckerberg used Atari Basic to create a messaging programme his dad used in his dental office.
    Zuckerberg enrolled in Harvard University in 2002, where he quickly became known for his developer skills. After his sophomore year, he decided to drop out and focus on 'The Facebook', which he had been running out of his dormroom.
    By the end of 2005, Facebook had surpassed 5.5 million users and received $12.7 million from Accel Ventures.
    Zuckerberg continued to see success with Facebook and in 2010 was featured as Time magazine's person of the year. Vanity Fair also placed him at the top of its New Establishment list, and Forbes ranked him at No. 35 on its '400 list', ahead of Steve Jobs.
    He took Facebook public on May 18, 2012. The IPO raised $16 billion almost instantly, making it the biggest tech IPO in history.
   Another sign of Zuckerberg having made it is the fact he received a $1 salary in 2013. (Not including the $653,164 for "other compensation," most of which covered bills for private chartered jets.)

    Also, he was the most charitable philanthropist in 2013, having donated half a billion dollars worth of Facebook stock to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. He has also donated a lot of money to Newark, New Jersey's public school system and his non-profit Internet.org.


Earlier this week, Facebook crushed its second quarter earnings and its stock hit an all-time high — which really just means Mark Zuckerberg is one step closer to being the richest man in the world.

Zuckerberg's current net worth is about $33.1 billion, putting him at No. 16 in Forbes's ranking of the world's billionaires. More impressively, he is one of just three people who currently have more billions under their belt than years lived.

 

SMART WATCHES TO RULE OUR WRIST!!

LG G watch (left) and Samsung gear live (right)

The long awaited smart watches has been released this week. The two watches built on Android wear platform. One is from LG, the G watch, and the other is from its arch Korean peninsular rival, Samsung, the Gear live.
 Android wear does two things, it moves app notifications to the watch’s face, and it puts Google Now’s voice-powered search capabilities on your wrist.

Both runs on the same platform and more or less same software. Using these watches one can check calendar, set remainders, set timers, send emails, Google search and even get map directions. Also can dictate a note and that will show up in Google Keep. Both watches need to charge every day, just like phone. And that means cradling it, neither watch can power up directly from a USB cable.

The Samsung Gear Live costs $200, got a better-looking body, it’s more comfortable, and has a better display to boot. It can detect your heart rate on command, the LG cannot. The Samsung watch is the clear winner on overall build quality. It has a slightly curved backside, and the band connection is angled, both of which means that it rests more comfortably on your wrists than the LG. Its screen is brighter than LG. 

The LG G Watch costs $230, let us upgrade relatively quickly, replacing this watch in a year. It has a nice cradles and covers the complete backside of the watch and feels rather hefty and substantial. Better yet, it connects magnetically to the back of the watch to charge the wrist computer. 
 

 Besides all its pros and cons they are pretty amazing and are the first truly useful smart watches to hit the market.

Nik Wallenda's Highwire Walk

Wallenda walking the high-wire at King's Island

Nik Wallenda, 7th generation of the "flying wallenda" family, is a first person to walk on a tight rope directly over Niagara falls in 2012.
 Click to watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSBye1LFaug

In 2008, Wallenda set Guinness World Records for longest and highest bicycle ride on a high-wire 250-foot-long (76 m) ride at 135 feet (41 m) above the ground in New Jersey. He nearly doubled the height record in 2010 to 260 feet (79 m). On the same day in 2010, he upped his personal best by tightrope walking over 2,000 feet (610 m) in a single performance.


Wallenda’s two-inch (5 cm) cable spans 1,400 feet (426 m) across the gorge, 1,500 feet (457 m) above ground; that’s higher than the Empire State Building. Also the site is likely to be buffeted with winds up to 30 mph (48 kph). Wallenda says, “I’ve trained for holding on to that cable if there is an emergency”. He performs that with no safety net or harness and inspired many people.

Watch the unimaginable art of brave Wallenda at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIWp_25WOhE

Incredible visual translation app WORD LENS !!!

Word lens - an augmented reality application that recognizes printed words using its optical character recognition capabilities.It translates printed words from one language to another with smartphones's video camera, in real time.

It was developed by Otovio Good (a former video game developer), John DeWeese, Maia Good, Bryan Lin and Erin Park. 

Initially released on December 16, 2010, only English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English were supported.

Later on December 14, 2011, English-to-French and French-to-English were released.

In 2012, English-to-Italian and Italian-to-English

2013 - English-to-German, German-to-English, English-to-Portuguese and Portuguese-to-English

2014 - English-to-Russian and Russian-to-English were released.

Current version : Word Lens 2.2.3(43.3MB)

Word lens is available for Apple iPhone, iPod, iPad and also for some selected android smartphones.

It does not require internet connection to translate the languages which adds value to it. 

Click to watch demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs

APPLE - Mac in 30 years

1984 - Macintosh (computer that changed everything)
1985 - Macintosh XL (pioneering electronic music)
1986 - Macintosh Plus (bringing design into the digital space)

MacBook

1987 - Macintosh II (harnessing the power of data)
1988 - Macintosh IIx (setting topography free)
1989 - Macintosh Portable (visualizing the impossible) 
1990 - Macintosh LC (making art-kind friendly)
1991 - PowerBook (making liberal arts and technology)
1992 - Macintosh Quadra 950 (deconstructing traditional design)
1993 - Macintosh TV (re-imagining the video game)
1994 - PowerBook 540c (orchestrating music and technology)
1995 - Power Macintosh 8500 (envisioning the graphic novel)
1996 - PowerBook 1400 (designing pop culture)
1997 - Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (chronicling the digital age)
1998 - iMac (making the world smaller)
1999 - Power Mac G4 (reinventing music production)
2000 - iBook (bringing fashion to life)

PowerMac G4

2001 - PowerBook G4 (breaking down musical barriers) 
2002 - iMac (mobilizing the photo studio)
2003 - Power Mac G5 (leading the way in sports) 
2004 - iBook G4 (unleashing every student's potential)
2005 - iMac G5 (building an icon)
2006 - MacBook Pro (redefining radio)
2007 - iMac (charting new territory) 
2008 - MacBook Air (designing on the world stage)
2009 - iMac (taking science out of the lab)
2010 - MacBook Air (visualizing surgery from the inside out)
2011 - MacBook Pro (teaching the world to code)
2012 - MacBook Pro with Retinal display (exploring frontiers of art) 
2013 - iMac (performing at the highest level)
2014 - MacPro (creating future)

Information Technology

Sixth Sem Notes

http://www.4shared.com/folder/eg_FmE-t/Sixth_Sem_Notes.html

MOJAVE DESSERT - Largest Solar Plant

The Mojave Desert is blooming.

Construction crews are erecting mirrors, each measuring 70 square feet at a rate of 500 per day across some 3,500 acres.

The project has a partnership of NRG, BrightSource, Google and Bechtel.

Unlike photovoltaic technology, which converts solar radiation directly into electricity, the Ivanpah facility generates heat. More than 170,000 mirrors will gather tremendous amounts of sunlight and focus it on three towers filled with water, raising temperatures to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and producing steam that spins turbines that generate electricity. The Bechtel corporation, says that using sunlight instead of fossil fuels to power the turbines will reduce carbon emissions by more than 400,000 tons annually. 



The world's largest solar thermal is now comprises the GOOGLE logo which is spell out in heliostats(mirrors reflect sunlight onto a central receiving point).

THIRD CEO OF MICROSOFT

       SATYA NADELLA

Nadella, born 1967 in Hyderabad, India. He was appointed as CEO of Microsoft on 4 February 2014 succeeding Steve Ballmer. He joined Microsoft 22years ago and was working as an executive vice-president of Microsoft's cloud and Enterprise group. Now he is the CEO of Microsoft and also head for its cloud computing.

"Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation," he says. "The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must move faster, focus and continue to transform. I see a big part of my job as accelerating our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly."

iPhone on China mobile

Apple and China mobile announced have entered into a multi-year agreement to bring iPhone to the world's largest mobile network. As part of the agreement, iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c will be available from China Mobile's expansive network of retail stores as well as Apple retail stores across mainland China beginning on Friday January 17,2014. iPhone 5s, the most forward-thinking smartphones in the world and iPhone 5c, the most colorful iPhone yet, wll be available for pre-registration from China Mobile's official website(www.10086.cn).

iPhone on China Mobile will support 4G/TD-LTE and 3G/TD-SDMA networks, providing customers with high-speed mobile service. iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c come with iOS 7, the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone, featuring a stunning new user interface, completely redesigned with an elegant colour palette, distinct, functional layers and subtle motion that make it feel more alive. iOS 7 has hundreds of great new features, including Control Center, Notification Center, improved Multitasking, AirDrop, enhanced Photos, Safari and Siri. 

The collaboration between Apple and China Mobile will give a big boost to the development of China's homegrown 4G/TD-LTE technology.

For more information on iPhone, www.apple.com/in/iphone.