India Calling Cards

Language is obviously crucial to describing and understanding the world around us but did you know the particular language you speak can influence how you see the world as compared to speakers of other languages? This weekend I had a chance to read a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal on the topic authored by Lera Boroditsky who is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology.

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Altering Language to Achieve Government Objectives

Posted by Kripa Krishnan, Technical Program Manager, Google Apps for Government (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) Today we’re excited to announce a new edition of Google Apps. Designed with guidance from customers like the federal government, the City of Los Angeles and the City of Orlando , Google Apps for Government includes the same great Google applications that people know and love, with specific measures to address the policy and security needs of the public sector. We’re also pleased to announce that Google Apps is the first suite of cloud computing applications to receive Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification and accreditation from the U.S

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Introducing Google Apps for Government

Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist Bending, walking, breathing, hearing, seeing and sleeping are simple things that are often taken for granted, as are thinking, learning, and communicating. Twenty years ago today, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law.

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Honoring the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Get out of the way, old man! You’re being Disrupted! Screw you, newspapers: blogs are stealing your readers and Craigslist is pillaging your revenue! Take that publishers: Andrew Wiley doesn’t need you and your stupid dead trees! And as for you, hotels – ha! hotels! – if ever there was an industry ripe for disruption, it’s you clowns. Charging $300 a night for a bed and a shower and a tiny plastic enema of shampoo when AirBnB will let you get the same, and more, for $50, so long as you don’t mind the creepy thrill of living in a stranger’s apartment.

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NSFW: Sorry AirBnB Hipsters, I’ll Take Health and Safety Over the Cult of Disruption

The LG Vu Plus GR700 is AT&T’s latest Mobile TV-enabled phone designed for watching TV shows. As a successor to the LG Vu, the Vu Plus now boasts a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard, a revamped interface, an improved camera and AT&T Social Net, while preserving some goodies of its predecessor, like the 3-inch capacitive touchscreen.

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LG Vu Plus GR700 – Keeps You Entertained On the Go

Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Public Policy Communications Google’s Marissa Mayer wrote in the Financial Times today about the impact for consumers of governments potentially regulating search results. Because the article is behind the FT ’s paywall, we thought we’d share the complete text here (also, check out search analyst Danny Sullivan’s take on this issue). Do not neutralise the web’s endless search By Marissa Mayer Published: July 14 2010 Think about the word “jaguar” – what comes to mind?

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Our op-ed: Regulating what is “best” in search?

Republic of China Voice Holding Corporation (CHVC) (OTC: CHVC) announced today that it has established a new calling cards service distributed through its wholly possessed subsidiary, Wize Prepaid Inc., to be sold to various ethnic groups placed within the U.S. who are looking for a cost-effective way to call family and friends in their country of origin. The service is marked as “Wize Family and Friends” and is sold through the Company’s current Wize Prepaid master allocators.

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New Calling Card – Online Investment

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Convergence is an overused and misused term, but fortunately it’s back in vogue for all the right reasons at the Federal Communications Commission. Back in December, Google and others suggested that the FCC pave the way for the convergence of the Internet and the television screen in their National Broadband Plan.

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Convergence Brought Home

Sprint’s new flagship Evo 4G smartphone has been selling well, but the company is also facing some spot product shortages of the phone, according to Dan Hesse, Sprint’s chief executive. At the Forrester Customer Experience conference in New York, Hesse admitted that the company was having issues meeting the high demand for their new high-speed phone. Sold out on Sprint ‘s official website and some of the retail stores, the device is more popular than both the carrier and the handset maker, HTC , had anticipated

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Spot Shortage of HTC EVO 4G Due to Strong Demand

In regards to the reception problem users have been complaining about since the iPhone 4 launch, Apple explained it is due to the wrong formula it has been using to calculate the number of signal bars to display. In a letter to iPhone 4 owners, the company said after investigation, it was “stunned” to discover that the calculation formula used on all iPhone models often overstates signal strength by two bars. This explains the sudden drop in bars when the iPhone 4 is held in a way that covers the black strip on its lower left corner (circled in picture), which is known as the “death grip” across the Internet

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Apple Attributes iPhone 4 Poor Reception to Wrong Calculation Formula – What are the solutions?

Posted by Yariv Adan, Product Manager A few months back we launched a feature in Gmail that notifies you when our servers automatically detect suspicious log in activity on your account. Since this has been effective in helping people identify improper access, we decided to extend it to all our Google Account users, not just Gmail.

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A Better Dashboard: Helping Detect Suspicious Log ins

Teachers at my school are required to create a list of course expectations that they give to students (typically on the first day of school) and often also post to their website. This is pretty much what you would expect, a list of general information, procedures, and rules and regulations regarding the class

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Transparent Algebra: Course Expectations

The Garmin-Asus Garminfone from T-Mobile is a capable smartphone fully integrated with Garmin’s advanced navigation software. As a successor to the Garmin Nuvifone G60, the Garminfone is powered by the Android platform, offering a lot more applications and better messaging features to customers. The Garminfone has a 3.5-inch HVGA (320×480 pixels) capacitive touchscreen and four touch-sensitive buttons on the front

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Garmin-Asus Garminfone – A Sophisticated Navigation-centric Smartphone

For drivers who talk on phones behind the wheel a lot, in-car Bluetooth certainly comes in handy. However, if your car, van or lorry does not have Bluetooth integration, this Speaker Steering Wheel Bluetooth Handsfree Car Kit is what you need. Comes with a clamp, the car kit can be easily attached to a steering wheel, saving you from the complicated installation required by some other in-car handsfree devices.

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Speaker Steering Wheel Bluetooth Handsfree Car Kit

Posted by Bob Boorstin, Director, Public Policy A year ago today, Neda Soltan was shot on the streets of Tehran amid protests over the disputed results of the Iranian elections. Officials locked foreign journalists out of the country and stalled all modes of communication, but an individual caught the final moments before her death on video. That video was posted to YouTube, and captured the hearts and minds of millions around the world

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Universal mediums and languages

One day several years ago I received a telephone call that completely baffled me. It was someone from Michigan inquiring about sending me their cremains to be mixed with paper pulp and made into a book. I asked them where they had heard about this, and they told me that they had read about it in The Atlantic Monthly

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Bibliocadavers and Other Foolishness

Patrick Parrish was vacationing in North Carolina when he spotted this long-abandoned yet fully stocked machine shop : It looked like one day possibly in the 1960s or 70s that they just up and closed without even clearing off their desks. The window were so filty, but it looked AMAZING inside.

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Sid Barnett’s Machine Shop

Natal outed as Kinect while 360 slim rumor gains speed: On the eve of the E3 conference, Microsoft’s official name of its Natal control system has been outed as Kinect. On a similar token, the Xbox 360 “slim” rumor is starting to look more and more credible by the hour. Then the Xbox 360… PC World – Fear and Loathing at E3: Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony Computerworld – E3 2010 News Wrap LA Times – E3: Nintendo booth tour, 3DS wows crowds

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Week in gaming: all E3, all of the time… well, mostly

One month after releasing its open-source, royalty-free VP8 video compression technology, the company already is working on significant revisions to the technology. VP8, combined with the Vorbis audio technology, form the WebM codec with which Google is trying to unfetter Web video from the patent and royalty encumbrances of rival codec H.264

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Google opens up VP8 for Web video tweaks

A very interesting survey has been recently completed by Indiabiz News & Research Services (INRS). The survey was conducted with the aim of tracking the emerging social media behavior in the youth. 350 respondents were questioned across the 4 Indian metropolitans Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore.

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30% Indians Access Social Media Via Mobiles: Social Media Survey

The death sentence is out officially ! India has officially discontinued use of type writers in all its day to day operations!!! Type writer is no more!! Let’s pay our last tributes to this incredible machine. For the generation who grew up on Imax Multiplexes, Mc Donald’s Burgers, Levis Jeans and the more recent advent of iPads (which has endangered the existence of desktops and laptops), the end of a Golden era of Type writer may look insignificant. But like every industrial item of its day, Typewriter has had its days of glory

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R.I.P Typewriters – Paying Tributes to End of an Era !

Official Google Blog: Easier sharing in Google Docs Google Documents, spreadsheets and presentations can now be identified as “Private,” “Anyone with a link” or “Public on the web.” As before, all docs start out as private by default. These new visibility options appear as a link next to the title of every doc. Clicking this link or the “Share” button takes you straight to the new interface where you can see who has access, manage sharing access and invite others to share the doc

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Google Docs now easy to share

Posted by Vikki Chou, Software Engineer (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) Today, I rarely work on documents in isolation. I share docs with teammates for feedback, help them with their design docs and presentations and regularly make my files available to all of Google

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Easier sharing in Google Docs

(Credit: Google) Neither enabled by default nor particularly stable, the long-sought-after browser feature to synchronize extensions across multiple computers arrived Thursday in the developer’s builds of Google Chrome. Available for Windows , Mac , and Linux , Google Chrome dev 6.0.437.1 for Windows and Linux, and version 6.0.437.2 for Mac, include a rudimentary version of extension sync that users need to manually activate, a collection of the usual bug fixes and performance tweaks, and also combines the stop and reload buttons into one to streamline the omnibox and free up space for extension icons

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Shaky extension sync debuts in Chrome

Kroger surprised the Street with better-than-expected profits Thursday, but investors will want to know more about how the company plans to manage continued pressure from Wal-Mart. Sales during the grocery chain’s first quarter rose 8.7% to $24.8 billion, from $22.8 billion.

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Kroger’s Strong Earnings Feed A Rally For Grocers

The Supreme Court said Thursday a California police officer’s privacy was not breached when his superiors read transcripts of hundreds of his text messages. The Ontario Police Department was looking at the transcripts as part of an effort to determine whether it was providing an adequate quota of monthly pager texts to its officers

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Supreme Court: Officer’s Texting Not Private

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel This morning the FCC asked for public comment on its proposed “ third way ,” a light-touch approach that would restore legal clarity after the recent Comcast decision . As we have said before, broadband infrastructure is too important to be left outside of any oversight.

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The FCC’s third way approach

Thingiverse user Ben of Camas, WA, designed and printed this sleek rocket , filled it with baking soda and vinegar, shook it, then placed it on the ground and watched it take off. True success! Today, powered by pure bicarb ($1.99) and 5% strength pickling vinegar ($0.99) it flew as high as the house – about 30 foot! Unfortunately, the wind blew it onto the roof and it’s now in the gutter.

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3D-printable baking soda & vinegar rocket

The reconciliation between the estranged Ambani brothers was followed by the scrapping of the non-compete agreement allowing both the group companies to foray into newer industries (except that Mukesh-led companies should not venture into gas power plants till 2022), where either of the two Ambani bandhus already have their active presence. The only apprehension in the mind of shareholders of Reliance Group companies would be as to why was this amicable solution not reached before the tussle in the court of law

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Markets betting on Ambani Brothers truce – ADAG Stocks Rally Hard

An Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified information to Wikileaks has still not been charged with any crime, three weeks after being arrested and put in pre-trial confinement. PFC Bradley Manning, 22, is being held at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, and has been assigned a military defense attorney. The Army and State Department are investigating claims Manning made to an ex-hacker in online chats that he disclosed classified information

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3 Weeks After Arrest, Still No Charges in Wikileaks Probe