Honda Motor Co Yesterday Launched a new robot ("U3-X") that enables people to move around easily to any direction. The U3-X, equipped with the world's first omni-directional driving system, makes it possible to adjust speed and move, turn and stop an all directions when rider leans the upper body to shift body weight, Honda said.
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If you are a News hunter you may want to find out news all over the world very quickly.
But one of main problem is slow speed of loading pages and time consuming to find out recent news.
However Google recently developed and launched an attractive and modern news finder.
It's called Google fast Flip: http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
That lets you browse news pages without loading the actual page.
it flips the screenshots of news pages around the world and bring them in to an one page.
It also have a mobile version and this lets people who uses mobile internet to view news items very speedily and select the one that they really wants.
Mobile version of Google Flips: http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/mobile
Recently Facebook the giant of social networking has taken over 'Friendfeed' that was previously acquired by Google.
You may also know about what is Facebook and Google.
next, what is Friendfeed and what it can do ?
In simple terms Friendfeed is an aggregater of all of your social networking, blog, and other RSS updates. So that people can have all their RSS and other social networking like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter updates in one place.
And also people can subscribes to others updates and news.
So why Facebook bought Friendfeed ?
One key reason is to become a real time search engine rather than Google's regular search.
another may be Facebook wanted to expand it's services over other social networks.
Also they need to became the leader in community networking.
How it affects to Twiiter ?
Twitter is considered as the leader in real time news updates.
With Twitter people can post what just happenning here and there and others can search these updates.Freindfeed is also has a similar feature which people can do real time updates and searches like twitter.
previously Facebook wanted to bought Twitter but the deal did not continue as Twitter is not for sale at that time.
So we can come to an conclusion that Facebook wants to develop a real time search engine that is similar to Twitter. Hence it may affects the Twitter. On the other hand currently people messed up with Google's regular search and they needs to have a real time searches. Friendfeed will do that with challenging to google.
Microsoft announced the End of Encarta , its multimedia encyclopedia that started life as a CD-ROM-only product offering way back in 1993. Back then, even a CD-ROM drive was a novelty. A lot has changed in the intervening years, including Internet resources like Wikipedia that tap into the collective knowledge of the world.
Before electronic encyclopedias, most people had to go to the libraries and refer to one or more of the massive volumes. However, encyclopedias of the paper kind began their decline when products like Encarta, Britannica and Wikipedia emerged. Electronic information is easier to search, update and store.
Microsoft will exit its operations of Encarta encyclopedia later this year after losing ground over the years to freely available reference material on the Internet on web sites like Wikipedia.
(Microsoft has lost many of it's branded products because of huge increase of freely available products on the internet)
Encarta websites worldwide, except Encarta Japan, would be discontinued on June or October 31 and Encarta Japan will cease after December 31, Microsoft said.
Encarta and related products still available on Microsft, Microsoft Encarta Home.
The Microsoft co-founder colossus spends his last day at the office on Friday.
After decades devoted to Microsoft, Gates will turns his attention full time to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation he established with his wife.
Gates leaves at a time which faster growing and competitive computer era.
There are 03 who filled the vacancy of gates.
Ray Ozzie : chief software architect
Craig Mundie: chief research and strategy officer
Steve Ballmer: executive officer at the software colossus based in Redmond.
Gates remains chairman of the Microsoft board of directors and its largest shareholder.
Google and other online industries have controlled lager part of services which Microsoft dominated previously.
Meanwhile, Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system released in January of 2007 has flopped with customers, many of whom are clinging to its predecessor Windows XP.
However Windows is still used on 90 percent of the world's computers, Macintosh computers have grown to more than five percent of the market.
Microsoft failed in a recent bid to buy Yahoo for nearly 50 billion dollars in order to combine online resources to better battle Google in the booming Internet search and advertising.
the best way to end an insurgency is, quite simply, to beat it."
Very strongly arguing against what it called "the mindless" and irrelevant phrase that there is no "military solution" to an insurgency the influential Wall Street Journal said in an editorial that President Mahinda Rajapksa of Sri Lanka now promises victory over terrorism by the end of year even as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continue to launch high profile terrorist attacks.
Written by Bret Stephens the powerful editorial board member of the paper who was also the former Editor in Chief of the Jerusalem Post, the editorial said, "In Sri Lanka , a military offensive by the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has wrested control of seven of the nine districts previously held by the rebel group LTTE, better known as the Tamil Tigers. Mr. Rajapaksa now promises victory by the end of the year, even as the Tigers continue to launch high-profile terrorist attacks."
The editorial entitled "There is a military Solution to Terror" said, that Sadr City in Baghdad, Guviare Province of Colombia and the Northern Districts of Sri Lanka have become crucial reference points on a global map in which long running insurgencies suddenly find themselves on the verge of defeat.
The editorial categorically said, "Tigers are notorious for killing other Tamils seen as less than hard line in their views of the conflict. The failure to defeat these insurgencies thus becomes the primary obstacle to achieving a reasonable political settlement acceptable to both sides."
The editorial strongly advocated: "the best way to end an insurgency is, quite simply, to beat it."
The following is the full text of the editorial:
Sadr City in Baghdad , the northeastern districts of Sri Lanka and the Guaviare province of Colombia have little in common culturally, historically or politically. But they are crucial reference points on a global map in which long-running insurgencies suddenly find themselves on the verge of defeat.
For the week of May 16-23, there were 300 "violent incidents" in Iraq . That's down from 1,600 last June and the lowest recorded since March 2004. Al Qaeda has been crushed by a combination of U.S. arms and Sunni tribal resistance. On the Shiite side, Moqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army was routed by Iraqi troops in Basra and later crumbled in its Sadr City stronghold.
In Colombia , the 44-year-old FARC guerrilla movement is now at its lowest ebb. Three of its top commanders died in March, and the number of FARC attacks is down by more than two-thirds since 2002. In the face of a stepped-up campaign by the Colombian military (funded, equipped and trained by the U.S. ), the group is now experiencing mass desertions. Former FARC leaders describe a movement that is losing any semblance of ideological coherence and operational effectiveness.
In Sri Lanka , a military offensive by the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has wrested control of seven of the nine districts previously held by the rebel group LTTE, better known as the Tamil Tigers. Mr. Rajapaksa now promises victory by the end of the year, even as the Tigers continue to launch high-profile terrorist attacks.
All this is good news in its own right. Better yet, it explodes the mindless shibboleth that there is "no military solution" when it comes to dealing with insurgencies. On the contrary, it turns out that the best way to end an insurgency is, quite simply, to beat it.
Why was this not obvious before? When military strategies fail -- as they did in Vietnam while the U.S. pursued the tactics of attrition, or in Iraq prior to the surge -- the idea that there can be no military solution has a way of taking hold with civilians and generals eager to deflect blame. This is how we arrived at the notion that "political reconciliation" is a precondition of military success, not a result of it.
There's also a tendency to misjudge the aims and ambitions of the insurgents: To think they can be mollified via one political concession or another. Former Colombian president Andres Pastrana sought to appease the FARC by ceding to them a territory the size of Switzerland . The predictable result was to embolden the guerrillas, who were adept at sensing and exploiting weakness.
The deeper problem here is the belief that the best way to deal with insurgents is to address the "root causes" of the grievance that purportedly prompted them to take up arms. But what most of these insurgencies seek isn't social or moral redress: It's absolute power. Like other "liberation movements" (the PLO comes to mind), the Tigers are notorious for killing other Tamils seen as less than hard line in their views of the conflict. The failure to defeat these insurgencies thus becomes the primary obstacle to achieving a reasonable political settlement acceptable to both sides.
This isn't to say that political strategies shouldn't be pursued in tandem with military ones. Gen. David Petraeus was shrewd to exploit the growing enmity between al Qaeda and their Sunni hosts by offering former insurgents a place in the country's security forces as "Sons of Iraq." (The liberal use of "emergency funds," aka political bribes, also helped.) Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has more than just extended amnesty for "demobilized" guerrillas; he's also given them jobs in the army.
But these political approaches only work when the intended beneficiaries can be reasonably confident that they are joining the winning side. Nobody was abandoning the FARC when Mr. Pastrana lay prostrate before it. It was only after Mr. Uribe turned the guerrilla lifestyle into a day-and-night nightmare that the movement's luster finally started to fade.
Defeating an insurgency is never easy even with the best strategies and circumstances. Insurgents rarely declare surrender, and breakaway factions can create a perception of menace even when their actual strength is minuscule. It helps when the top insurgent leaders are killed or captured: Peru 's Shining Path, for instance, mostly collapsed with the capture of Abimael Guzman. Yet the Kurdish PKK is now resurgent nine years after the imprisonment of Abdullah Ocalan, thanks to the sanctuary it enjoys in Northern Iraq .
Still, it's no small thing that neither the PKK nor the Shining Path are capable of killing tens of thousands of people and terrorizing whole societies, as they were in the 1980s. Among other things, beating an insurgency allows a genuine process of reconciliation and redress to take place, and in a spirit of malice toward none. But those are words best spoken after the terrible swift sword has done its work.
LOS ANGELES--Speaking at IBM's Business Partner Leadership Conference here, Google CEO Eric Schmidt reiterated his position that social networks are still too closed. "If it's not searchable by Google, it's not open, and open is best for the consumer," he said.
He added that "searchable by Google" means also searchable by other search engines, such as Yahoo. "People should be able to move from place to place, and their data is available everywhere," Schmidt said. "Social networks are a real phenomenon of people living their lives online, and it has has legs. We will have to deal with it as a society."
Google has focused efforts on creating code, such as the open source OpenSocial APIs and the Social Graph API, to make social data more portable and accessible to applications. So far, Facebook is the only major social network that has not endorsed the OpenSocial initiative, which is now managed by an independent organization, the OpenSocial Foundation.
'Mahalo' is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms
as a human intervened search engine it takes the time to find and organize the best links for search terms.
Mahalo search results are not contains spamy or dead links, you frequently encounter with traditional search engines like 'yahoo' and 'google'.
but it contains great links for your searches.
Their results contain everything you need to know about a topic and are organized into sections to help you quickly find what you need. For example, our travel pages for cities contain sections on basics (weather, current events, maps, history), flights, vacation packages, transportation, activities, attractions, events, tours, hotels, restaurants, shopping, nightlife, and local blogs.
Now you may think that it is not fast because of human intervention.
NO ! . it is fast as google and yahoo.
If you want to know how is it,
go to their home page and try some searches and compare them with google searches.
Earn money with Mahalo
You can also earn with Mahalo by providing high-quality links to any search term.
if it is approved by the mahalo then you will be credit for it
first of all you have to register with Mahalo green house.
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The future of the mahalo will be a bright one.
I says it as for several reasons.
when searching on the internet, most of people are very concern about their time and
careful in not going to harmed web sites. using google their are plenty of such links may encounter.
but mahalo analyzes every web site and only shows if it is relevant for you searches.
It not means that you are not getting prearranged web sites. there is a option open to you if you can not find the web site and knows the appropriate link, then submit it to mahalo.
The computer network within the Ministry of External Affairs has been broken into, allegedly by Chinese hackers, government sources told Hindustan Times on Thursday.
India’s relations with China are delicately poised with the Tibet issue gaining centre-stage internationally, but the alleged hacking predates the current crisis, the sources added. Officially, the MEA refused to either deny or confirm the reports.
The hackers broke into MEA’s internal communications network, possibly accessing e-mails through which officials communicate policy and decisions across the ministry’s offices in India and in our foreign missions.
I have found a company registered in England and wales.
Vine On Line Limited
Company number 5955358
Registered Office:
Unit 1A, Wrexham Enterprise Park,
Ash Road North,
Wrexham Industrial Estate,
Wrexham, LL13 9JT
who pays for their members for search the internet.
Have you ever used the google to search any thing.
this also same as it.
Instead they use ask.com search engine and pays for every searches.
It's completely free and earn as much as you can.
You don't need any special softwares to install or sign in with them every time to make searches. Instead use their search bar.
My recommendation is to get the firefox browser (it's free and fastest and only 5MB in size) and start search.
Most of my friends asks me about this matter.
So I decided to write something on making money on the internet.
Being a US resident you have plenty of opportunities to earn cash, but if you are a srilankan, Indian or any other except an European, you will find hard to make some cash.
But my views is different from you.
If you clever enough to find good earning programs, tools and tricks, it will easy to make some cash.
First of all we begin with pay to read (PTR) or pay to click (PTC) programs.
PTC, PTSU, or PTR are same in operating.
they pays for their members for viewing ads, sign up with their partner sites or holding contests.
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