Friday, May 27, 2011

The World’s Most Peaceful Countries

The 2011 Global Peace Index, which gauges domestic and international conflict, safety and security in society, and militarization in 153 countries, found that the world has become "slightly less peaceful" in the last year. The indicators of potential for terrorist acts and likelihood of violent demonstrations had the largest increases from the previous year.

Iceland, New Zealand and Japan topped the list,followed By Denmark and Czech Republic.Turns out the World super Power And Leader In Economy America Is More Likely to Be Peaceful Than Other Countries .America Made Out to be At 82 nd Spot falling behind China (80) and Egypt (73).India was ranked 135th, Sri Lanka 1263rd, Pakistan 145th, and Afghanistan 150th.
Iraq Managed to Be at 152 POsition Eventually Avoiding the Last Position for First Time And Pirate Country "Somalia " Stood at Last.

Among Contients Wise Europe is Most Peaceful Then Followed by North America .For the fifth year in a row, Western Europe is the most peaceful, most of its countries ranking among the first 20.


Here are the world's top 10 most peaceful countries according to the Global Peace Index 2011:
1. Iceland
2. New Zealand
3. Japan
4. Denmark
5. Czech Republic
6. Austria
7. Finland
8. Canada
9. Norway
10. Slovenia

Friday, May 20, 2011

world competitiveness Rankings

According To The World Competitiveness Rankings Report By the International Institute For Management Development Us Hiked Top Position Continuously For The 15 th Time Followed By Honkong.The both Countries Are ahead of last year's winner, Singapore, which fell to the third spot Now.

IMD  is a business school based in Lausanne, Switzerland, that operates a number of research centres, including the World Competitiveness Centre. 

The rankings are decided based on four main factors – economic performance, government efficiency, business efficiency, and infrastructure.
India,One Of The Fastest Growing And Powerful Economy In the World Dropped one Position to 29th .India Has Topped second Best After China Among The developing Countries "BRIC" (Brazil Russia India China ).
China Placed At 17th And Russia Improved Six Positions to be At45.While Brazil Slips Six Positions.It Was Mixed Result for Bric.

Asian economies that have seen their world rankings improve are Taiwan, which moved from eighth to sixth; South Korea, from 23rd to 22nd; and Japan, from 27th to 26th. Notably, Hong Kong's competitiveness ranking moved from second place to first, tied with the United States, which last year was in third place.
Here is the List top 20 Of World Competitiveness
  • USA
  • Singapore
  • Hong Kong
  • Luxembourg
  • Denmark
  • Switzerland
  • Iceland
  • Netherlands
  • Sweden
  • Canada
  • Austria
  • Australia
  • Norway
  • Ireland
  • China 
  • Germany
  • Finland
  • Taiwan
  • New Zealand
  • UK
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10 most marketable sports-persons

bAttracting Customers Is Always A Hell of job For companies Besides Following New Ideas ,The Companies Look For Celebrities For endorsing Their Brand !!
The World Of Business Has Become Fully Commercial .The Endorsment Of Product by Sports men Have Become More Common Because Sports And Business Have Bonded Never Before And People Often Look for Favourite Sports Person Brand ! They Follow Him And Want to Be Like him .
Celebrity endorsement creates more impact on people. People they want to show their status in their life style. So they use what the celebrities brand.
A company who wish to earn by selling their products wants celebs to endorse their products and raise their sales bar and on the other side people believe on their thoughts and purchase that as it is endorse by their favourites.
So Companies go For the Sports Person who are Successful .Higher The Sucess and Fan Likeablity Higher Would Be The Endorsement of Their Product !!
According To The SportsPro magazine The World's Fastest Man "Usian Bolt" Is The Most Marketable Sports Man In the World Followed by Lebron James.
The Football Sensations Who Does'nt Require any Introduction Christiano Ronaldo and Messi at third and fourth respectively.
The list comprises the 50 athletes deemed by SportsPro to offer value for marketing money if signed today to a long-term global endorsement deal.

 The Man Behind The Historic Win of World Cup Indian Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni Managed To Rush Into Top Leaving Behind The Iconic basket Ball player Kobe Bryant and Rafal Nadal.The Worldcup Player of The Tournment and Dhoni's Team mate Who Played Vital Role in India's Victory Had To Satisfy At 49th Position.
The Only Women To Get a Spot in Top 10 Was Recent Danish Sensational Tennis Beaurty "Caroline Wozniacki".
The List Features 16 new entries Out of Them Only 6 Are Women .
Here is The List of Top Ten Marketable Sports Personalities .

1. Usain Bolt
2. LeBron James
3. Cristiano Ronaldo
4. Lionel Messi
5. Lewis Hamilton
6. Carmelo Anthony
7. Sebastian Vettel
8. Michael Phelps
9. Caroline Wozniacki.
10. M.S. Dhoni

Friday, May 13, 2011

Google launches the Chromebook

Google Has Officially Announced the Launch of Browser Based "Chrome Book" And Unveiled The Samsung And Acer Chrome Books At the Second Day of Google I/O 2011 Throwing Up a Direct War Against Software Gaints Windows And Apple.

There Have been A Buzzing and High anticipations on the Release Of Google's machine From over A Year.Finally after So much Of Wait Google came up With a Promising "Chrome Book".

These will optimize the computing experience for the web, taking advantage of Google’s Android operating system, the Google Chrome browser, gmail, Google documents, Google maps, and the many other great web-centric products.With This Launch Google Has Proved Its Presence in usage Of Cloud .
 These Chrome Books Would be Available In the Market US and six other European countries from June 15. Google Also Provides Chromebooks On Monthly Subscription Basis For corporates and educational institutes. Monthly subscriptions with all in one service start at $28 per user for businesses and $20 per user for educational institutions.
These Chrome Books are Not just Ordinary Notebooks It Can Let You To Access Your Mails Within Just Seconds Without booting And Browser To Start.
The Main Difference Between Traditional Notebooks And Chrome Book ,Is It Do not Have An operating System.Everything Runs From Cloud.Ie It Boots After Browser After Logging In using a Google Account and Every application Is Run Using Browser.All You Need A High Speed Internet Connection.Every Application Would Be Run On Cloud.Unlike Notebooks Chromebooks do not have any inbuilt memory. They rely totally on the web for storage.

Chrome Book Features

The Samsung Chromebook features a 12.1" screen, a dual-core Intel processor, HD webcam and sports a battery life of 8.5 hours of continuous usage. It can be connected to the Internet using Wi-Fi and 3G.  The Acer Chromebook sports an 11.6" screen, an Intel Atom dual-core processor, HD webcam and 6 hours of battery life.
 This Release From Google Could Possible have An Adverse Effect on Microsoft Office's Outlook And Office Tools As The Chrome Os Provides Every Thing AS Spreadsheets .While Microsoft Started Week With Good News Taking A Lead in Internet Market With Buying Skype But Ending up With Bad news With Google Launching Chrome Books which Could Possibly Effect Its Share In Operating Systems Market .

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5 billion

Microsoft  Corp. Have Made A Biggest ever acquisition, In over Three Decades of Company's History To Buy Internet Telephone Service Provider And Famous Video Messenger Skype With an Impressive $8.5 Billion .

This was announced in a Press meet in San Francisco that was held by Skype Chief Executive Tony Bates and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft Clevery Moved Its Steps in An Attempt To Take The Internet Market .This Deal Would Defineltly Bolster The Presence of Software Gaint In Highly Competitive Internet Market.
In An Attempt To Be Ahead Of Google and Cisco,Who Are Already Been Doing Their Own Software in Voice And Video Commuincation,Microsoft Opt For This Buyout.

The Largest deal Clearly Shows The Intention Of Microsoft To Compete With its Rivals Such As Google Inc, And Apple.It Shows The Courage Of Microsoft,How Far It Could Go And How Desperate Its In need Of Grabbing the Top Position In Internet Market.It Made a Jaw Dropping Deal Of $8.5 Billion ,Agaisnt Its Company's Estimated Worth of $48 Billion.Which Accounts To Nearly 18% .Microsoft's Last Big Deal was The $6 Billion Purchase Of An Advertising Firm aQuantive And A Deal With Facebook in 2007.
 Probably In one way or The Other the Winner Would Be Facebook.(Facebook outBid Skype In past)
With microsoft As a Common Part In Skype And Facebook ,It Can Access The Assets Of Skype As We All know About The Interest Of microsoft in Facebook .Its Special Interest May be To Supress the Undisturbed Reign of Google .
Now Facebook Can use Skype’s peer-to-peer network to offer video and voice services to the users of Facebook Chat.

Microsoft's interest in the money-losing, but popular service highlights a need to gain new customers for its Windows and Office software.
Skype which was already being the top in messengers with over 500 million users and 8.1 million paying users.Reports say skype users spend Over 520 million minutes taking to one Another.
Skype has 145 million users on average each month and has gained favor among small business users.
Skype Has Been Loosing Its Revenue In Recent Times .The Only source Of Income For Skype Is From Users Who Intend To Make Long Distant Calls.
It May USe Skype To support Its Devices Such as Gaming Console Xbox,Kinect And Windows 7( It Doesnt Have Skype Support).Microsoft Will Connect The Skype USers with Lync,Outlook,Xbox Live And Windows Messenger Could Take a New Look And Interface.


Read more Information on Yahoo News And Skype Blog.

Split a large .pst file in Microsoft Outlook 2007

Here Is An Important Trick to Make You Comfortable While You Working With Microsoft Outlook 2007.

You Might Have faced some performance issues while working with Outlook 2007 which can cause Outlook to stop responding or it became very slow.
This non responsive behaviour of outlook can occur while sending, receiving, deleting or moving mails. The major Reason for this Malfunction is that the size of the .pst file has increased more than 2 GB.
This increased size of pst file can later cause the corruption and you may lose your Outlook data.

For proper functionality of Outlook it is required to reduce the size of the large .pst file to save it from corruption. One of the methods to reduce the size of a large pst file is to split the file. PST file which have exceeded the 2 GB limit can be split into multiple small .pst files

Ways to Split large .pst file into multiple smaller .pst files. In Outlook 2007 you can split a large .pst file into multiple smaller .pst files by following below mentioned steps.

A. Move items to a new .pst file by using “archive” feature

Select .pst file in navigation pane.
*Click File menu –> Archive –> Archive this folder and all sub folders and select a folder from the list
*Select a date from the Archive items older than
*Browse to specify a destination path and name for the new PST file

This new PST file is stored in Mail folder list as Archive folders but if you want to change the display name of .pst file then follow these steps.

Right click on Archive Folders, Select Properties –> Advanced
In the Personal Folder dialog box enter the new name for the file
B. Move items to a new .pst file by using “Move to Folder” feature

Select File menu –> New –> Outlook data file –> Office Outlook Personal Folders File
Enter a new file name and path for .pst file
In Create Microsoft Personal Folders, enter the .pst file that will be used in mail folder list
Select items in the folder to move in the new .pst file
Click Edit –> Move to folder –> Move items –> New –> Create new folder, enter a name for .pst file and in Select where to place the folder click new .pst file
Now in Move items select the new folder in the new pst file and click ok.
By following above steps you can split pst file into multiple small .pst files. But, if even after following these steps you are not able to split a pst file then a third-party tool can be used which can enhance the performance of outlook.


Saturday, May 7, 2011

Revolutionary new paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets

Canadain Scientists Have Developed A New Prototype of The Flexible Samrt Phone that Has Been Made of Electronic Paper,The World's First Interactive Paper phone which Is Set To Revoultionise The New Generation Of Computing.

The device emerged from a collaboration between researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queen's University, Canada and Arizona State University's Motivational Environments Research group.
The Paper Phone made up of Thin -film Can Do All Functions such As Playing Songs,do calls,Text As of High end Smart phones Like Iphone And Tablets .
 The paper phone will have the look and feel of a sheet of translucent paper, and will utilize electronic ink technology, similar to what is used with e-readers. Squeezing, curving and bending the paper give different instructions for everything form making a phone call to changing which song is playing.
What Makes Quite Impressive About the Device is Taht It Uses no Power When it is Idle,Ie When No Application is Running Or nobody is Interacting With Device.
The Device May Be Found In Certain Science Fiction Movies.Now This Is No Longer A Fiction .This is The Future .We Been Thinking of this Type Of Phone over Years.The Mobile phone Have Taken Shape From Size of The Book To The thing That Could Be Carried In Hand Bags And Now To the Size of Credit Card.It Can Be Folded by Bending At The Corner Ends.
The Prototype Device Consists of  a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible E Ink display. The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer: it will shape with your pocket.


The Device Will Be Unveiled At The Association of at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI 2011 (Computer Human Interaction) conference in Vancouver.http://www.chi2011.org/

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Most Spoken Languages

Language a system of communication consisting of a set of letters ,part sand set of rules which decide the ways in which these parts can be combined to produce Meaningful messages.language is a barrier for communication between two individuals. A communication will be successful if they know a common language to express themselves.
There Are Plenty of Languages in world the figure may upto 7,000 living languages .languages are arbitrary. Every one of us might have acquainted with two or More languages. It becomes difficult to Communicate when you are not in home land where you are language is different from local lang. Then people will treat you as "ALIEN " .This raised To The Need of A Global Language. English is Often called Global Language As half The world Knows it. The languages most spoken in most countries are English,french,Spanish. If we know the above we can express ourselves more Conveniently in any part on globe.
The Languages Spoken In Most Countries
English 57 Countries
French 33 Countries
Arabic 23 Countries
Spanish 21 Countries
Portuguese 7 Countries


And May be In Future technology would Make it More Easy By bringing the Hypothetical ,fantasy device "Universal language Translator " into Reality. It gives you Freedom to Speak In our Own Language and it automatically interprets it other Person. And vice versa. 
                              HERE ARE THE LIST OF MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGES. 
Chinese (MANDARIN) approximate Number of Speakers: 1075 Million.
Not A Surprise The World's Most Spoken Langugae is Obivoulsy Would Be of Most Populated Country China .
Chinese has Many dialects but about two thirds of the people speak mandarin. Wu is the Common dialect with approximately .as the China is One of the Fastest Growing Economy.At least 30 Million People Around The World Are Learning Mandarin Chinese.

Spanish :Worlds Second Most Spoken Language is Spanish With an Approximate Number Of Speakers 400 Million.Spanish Is the One of the Most Widely Used And Popular Language In Middle Ages.Spanish Has Its roots from Latin .Its Spoken By Wide Range Of People In South America,Spain ,Cuba and US.

English:
Even Though English doesn’t have the most speakers, it is the official language of more countries than any other language. Its has speakers  from all around the world, including New Zealand, the U.S., Australia, England, Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, South Africa, and Canada.Its A Popular Communication Vehicle In World and Internet Language.Its Been an Official Language in many countries.Things have Now Become That "English is Necessary For living".Native Speakers Would be Around 450 million And If we Count It as First and Second Language the Figure May go up to 1.8 billion.


Hindustani: Hindustani Is the Primarily Used Language In World's Second Most Spoken Language And Worlds Fastest Growing Economy.Hindustani Includes Languages Like Hindi,Urdu .
Approximate Number of Speakers Over 405 million.


Arabic
Arabic is the Official Language of 17 Countries and it Is Also the primary Language of Muslim religion.It has 280 Million Native Speakers.Its one of The Oldest Language Mainly spoken In Middle East.Arabic is the language of the Koran,Many Muslims Would Have Some Knowledge of The Language.It is One of the Sixth Official Language of United Nations (made in 1974).

Portuguese:
Portuguese is first Spoken by People Of Portugal And Later expanded All over the world By the Famous Explorers like Vasco De Gamma.It had been Carried To Lands of south America And east Africa.
Nearly 240 Million People Speak Portuguese.Its the National Language of Brazil.

French.,Often Known As The Romantic Language .French is a descendant of the spoken Latin language .French Is The Dominant Language in Medieval Centuries.It Has A Special Position For Itself in Literature It is an official language in 30 countries, most of which form what is called, in French, La Francophonie, the community of French-speaking countries. It is an official language of all United Nations agencies and a large number of international organizations. According to the European Union, 129 million (or 26% of the Union's total population), in 27 member states speak French, of which 65 million are native speakers and 69 million claim to speak French either as a second language or as a foreign language, making it the third-most spoken second language in the European Union, after English and German. Twenty-percent of non-Francophone Europeans know how to speak French, totaling roughly 145.6 million people .

Other Most Spoken Languages List Include

Bengali
With 250 Million People From Bangladesh and West Bengal(India).Bengali is The Official Language of Bangladesh.
Russian
German 
Punjabi

 

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

ISRO builds India's fastest supercomputer

ISRO,Indian space research organisation has build a Supercomputer Named SAGA-220 which will be the India's Fastest Super Computer with an ultimate Performance of 220 Tera FLOPS I.e 220 trillion floating point Operations Per Second. SAGA, an acronym for Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture, as its name suggests imbibes the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU).

It Was built at the Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).SAGA Super Computer Was Built with a Budget of 14 Crores.

The Super Computer was Completely Designed By VSSC With Open Source Software Components.And The Components used include 400 NVIDIA Tesla 2070 GPUs and 400 Intel Quad Core Xeon CPUs manufactured by Wipro. Each of these 2070 GPUs and 400 CPUs would expectantly 500 GigaFLOPS and 50 GigaFLOPS, respectively.

What Makes Interesting and Makes Special With This Super Computer Is the Fact It is Completely Envirnomentally Green And USe Less Power 150 kw Unlike other Super Computers Around The World .

SAGA Would be used in Astronomical calculations And Solving Complex Aero space problems,Analysing The Astronomical Data Etc.
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