So my Algebra blogging has been taking up what little “extra” blogging time I have, but here’s the summary of the first week of Algebra: I’m rusty. So far I’ve over-planned (or underestimated the amount of time things take, depending on your perspective) every day. I guess the good news is that I don’t think I’ve done any irreparable harm to my students
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Blackberry and RIM has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately and if you thought of dumping your Blackberry in a trash can, Hang on to it becuase you can now make VOIP calls via blackberry… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide.
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World’s Most Powerful Native VOIP Client App for Blackberry
Image via Wikipedia The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is planning to enhance the maximum investment limit for retail individual investors in public issues from Rs 1,00,000 to Rs 2,00,000. In a discussion paper floated by the market regulator, SEBI has argued that “retail individual investors, who have the capacity and appetite to apply for securities worth above Rs 1,00,000 were constrained from doing so because of the Rs 1,00,000 limit.” The discussion paper also contends that since 35 per cent of the public issue is to be allocated to retail investors, in case of large public issues – with issue size in the range of Rs 4,000-6,000 crore — the limit of Rs 1,00,000 would mean that the issue has to receive a minimum of 1,50,000 to 2,00,000 applications from retail category. “This could be a daunting task considering that in case of well oversubscribed issues, the number of applications received from Retail Individual.
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Apple’s popular iPhone has been bringing a lot of subscribers to AT&T in the U.S., but it seems the carrier is having trouble keeping them. A new survey by Morpace suggested that nearly half of AT&T’s current iPhone users might switch to other carriers once AT&T loses its exclusive deal.
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AT&T Customers Ready to Jump Ship for Verizon iPhone
craigslist is committed to being socially responsible, and when it comes to adult services ads, that includes aggressively combating violent crime and human rights violations, including human trafficking and the exploitation of minors. We are working intensively as I write this with experts and thought leaders at leading non-profits and among law enforcement on further substantive measures we can take
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Manual Screening Matters
The company behind the magicJack, the Internet mobile phone gadget heavily promoted on television, has announced totally free phone telephone calls from computer systems, via phones and iPads. The cost of cell phone calls routed more than the World wide web has been on a long slide. There are by now a multitude of programs that enable totally free calling involving computer systems, and some that permit totally free, but brief, cell phone calls to regular cell phone amounts
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MagicJack will go for completely free calls
An interesting Facebook page recently came to our attention, dedicated to the proposition that one can literally “stop human trafficking” by using eBay’s “family friendly” classifieds instead of craigslist . eBay touts the advanced filtering technologies eBay employs to “make sure all of our categories and content are family-friendly,” technologies it no doubt applies to the “broader eBay Classifieds family including Gumtree, Marktplaats, Mobile.de and Loquo, which extends the reach of eBay Classifieds to more than 20 countries.” As a practical example of eBay’s “advanced filtering” and “family friendly” classifieds, we’ve been shown some ads currently live on eBay’s Loquo.com classifieds site, which features thousands of paid ads offering various sexual acts in exchange for money (NSFW).
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“Family Friendly” eBay classifieds
by Bindu Ananth and Nachiket Mor. Much has been said about the astronomical SKS valuations and the personal fortunes of the original investors. Speaking for ourselves personally, we are not at all disturbed by how much money was made by whom
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Don’t like the SKS valuation? Compete, don’t complain
Month of July This month the world saw the Microsoft Windows LNK shortcut flaw bring a smile to black hat hackers running Stuxnet, Chymine, Vobfus, Sality and Zeus, as they quickly updated their malware to leverage the vulnerability.
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Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding our announcement of a policy proposal on network neutrality we put together with Verizon. On balance, we believe this proposal represents real progress on what has become a very contentious issue, and we think it could help move the network neutrality debate forward constructively. We don’t expect everyone to agree with every aspect of our proposal, but there has been a number of inaccuracies about it, and we do want to separate fact from fiction.
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Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal
This is a follow up post to the earlier write up . Whilst it’s difficult to update it on a regular basis, you can follow up on the news. Interestingly, there has been an editorial about the same in Business Standard and this has been followed up with my letter to editor today
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RIM Blackberry India: Update and more anger
If you looked toward the Santa Ana Mountains Monday, they might have appeared hazy and indistinct — the result not of smog or wildfire, but of a thick marine layer that some feel has lingered far too long. “Typically, we have a maritime layer of some type out there,” said meteorologist Mark Moede of the National Weather Service. “It’s just that in August, it starts to convert a little shallower than it has been this August.” calling cards The reason
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Summer calling cards
Two days back, Vonage announced some good news to all Vonage users (I am assuming most of you must be having a facebook account). It is obviously much cheaper to post a message on your Facebook wall instead of making call or texting your facebook friend. But…
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Free Calls to your Facebook friends by Vonage
Skype has once again some news for all the people making voip calls to India. Skype has again reduced its calling rates to India offering a cheaper voip plan. The news is official with a post on Skype voip blog and the rates are also updated on Skype website….
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Skype reduces call rates to India
It seems customers who have been waiting for Apple’s white iPhone 4 will not be able to get what they want anytime soon. In a recent brief statement, the company announced that the availability of the white models is pushed back again until later this year. The white iPhone 4 was initially expected to hit store in late July
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The company Of motorola announced novelty – the cell phone Of motorola Of grasp. The index of device – WX404, we previously wrote about it in the news, when apparatus was certified Bluetooth SIG. As it proved to be, it is positioned as [ekologichnyy].
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The [ekologichnyy] telephone Of motorola Of grasp is represented officially
Last year, security researcher Chris Paget highlighted concerns over the security of RFID transmissions which although important, perhaps didn’t concern many outside the industry. His latest demonstration could perhaps have more of an impact though. On stage at the Defcon 2010 security conference in Las Vegas this weekend, Mr
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GSM Hack Fakes Base Station, Records Mobile Calls
Following the earlier news that Windows Phone 7 could be launching in Europe in October and the USA in November, we’ve been treated to a leak of a new Samsung phone running the Microsoft operating system. Named the Cetus, it appeared on the Bluetooth Special Interest Group website, albeit briefly. However, the moments that it did hang around was enough for the specification to be noted, so here is the proposed feature list for one of the first Samsing phones to use Windows Phone 7: A 4″, 800
It has been a long wait to hear exactly when Microsoft will bring Windows Phone 7 to market and although we still don’t have an exact date, this is closer than we’ve been yet to that elusive day and date. Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, who took to the stage at the Worldwide Partner Conference a short while ago, addressed Microsoft’s future in the smartphone arena, saying: October likely across Europe and November likely across US, we’re back in this game! Who would have expected Europe to be the first to see Windows Phone 7 in the shops? Very few people we would imagine, as most would have laid money on a day/date launch across several countries at the same time
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Micromax, Lava, Spice, Zen, Karbonn and many other Indian handset brands are making more than a mark in the market today. They have together occupied more than 14% market share . The best part for them is that this has been at the cost of certain brands specifically Nokia losing its market share by more than 12% over the past year
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Are Indian Mobile handset brands giving their foreign counterparts a run for their money? [Telecom Tuesday]
Deadline extended, if you do OSH – submit a talk! **Call for Speakers***Please Redistribute*** NOTE: CALL HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO AUG 3rd! OPEN HARDWARE SUMMIT: www.openhardwaresummit.org Bug Labs, Creative Commons and MAKE invite open hardware advocates to submit a talk to the Open Hardware Summit. The Open Hardware Summit will be a venue to present, discuss and draw attention to the open source hardware movement currently happening. The summit will focus on hardware as a system, thus encompassing conversations of software, management, legal, and other factors surrounding open source hardware
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OPEN HARDWARE SUMMIT: Call for Speakers!
Sony Ericsson Cedar, a music focused phone comes in two colours of either Black/Silver or in Black/Red. This Sony handset comes with standard Li-Po battery which gives it a standby time of 415- 485 hours and talk time of 3- 4 hours. The Sony Ericsson Cedar deals have already in news even before this handset has released.
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Sony Ericsson Cedar With Gleaming Musical Features
The 24/7 hardware hacking juggernaut known as Jeri Ellsworth whipped up this controller hack for a Star Trek pinball game. You fire a Nintendo Zapper light gun at some IR sensors that trigger the flipper switches. Jeri shows you the simple circuit she used and the operation of the machine.
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Nintendo Zapper-controlled pinball
Faire photo taken by Matt Mets Karen Dybis has been doing some nice installments of her “Unfiltered” column on Time.com’s Detroit Blog . She concludes her series with ” Jules Pieri on Looking Back — at the Faire and Detroit :” I spoke to11-year-old Jillian who said, “I’ve always been good at art, and when I started reading MAKE magazine, I realized I could make science into art.” Jillian’s 16-year-old sister Alyssa told me about the family’s latest hacker project
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Looking back at Maker Faire, two perspectives
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics A twisted torus is a donut which twists as it closes on itself. It is a visually engaging mathematical design used by many artists through the ages. The origins of the idea are unknown, but below is a woodcut, published by the German graphic artist Johannes Lencker in 1567, which shows that the idea has been around for a long time.
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Math Monday: The twisted torus
The UK land grab continues. Real estate startup Zoopla has acquired property technology company Byteplay Ltd , whose assets include OnOneMap.com, DotHomes.com and Extate.com, all three of which are now pointing to Zoopla.co.uk.
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Zoopla continues land grab, acquires UK property technology company Byteplay
(Credit: Microsoft) As planned , Microsoft released a fix on Monday for a critical Windows vulnerability that was being exploited by a fast-spreading virus and other malware. The software patch fixes the way Windows Shell handles shortcut files, which are links to a file represented by an icon and implemented with the .lnk extension.
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Microsoft plugs Windows shortcut hole
What do you do when your Hulu and Netflix streaming iPhone app remains in Apple’s App Store purgatory a little too long? You do just what Steve Jobs encouraged developers to do before there was even an App Store–you make your app in Safari instead. That’s just what PlayOn has done.
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PlayOn skips App Store, uses Safari for streaming
An absconding member of right-wing Hindu organisation Sanatan Sanstha has been arrested by Maharashtra ATS for his alleged role in the 2009 Goa blast – the sixth person to be held in the case. An ATS team laid a trap and arrested Prashant Juvekar, absconding since October 16 last year, from near Bhusawal railway station in Jalgaon district on July 31, state ATS chief Rakesh Maria said. Juvekar, 24, hailing from Ratnagiri, was produced before a Nashik court which remanded him in police custody till August 3.
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Goa blast: absconding Sanatan member arrested
I’ll admit to having wargame minis on the brain this morning. As a commenter on my earlier post pointed out, a cheaper alternative to Shapeways printing of your entire computer-modeled miniature army is to print just one of each unit type, then use the print as a master to make your own mold and cast a bunch of duplicates.
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How-To: Cast your own miniatures from a master model