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China Tightens Controls on Internet Use

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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">China</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">’s legislature has approved new
rules that will tighten government control of the Internet by requiring users
to register their real names, and demanding Internet companies censor online
material.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The state-run Xinhua News Agency says lawmakers
approved the measures Friday at the closing meeting of a five-day session of
the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Beijing</span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> says the regulations are aimed
at protecting the personal information of Web users and cracking down on abuses
such as junk e-mail. The rules also aim to “safeguard national security and
social public interests,” according to Xinhua. They have the same legal effect
as a law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> has long tried to get Internet
users to register their real names rather than pseudonyms with service
providers, but with nearly half a billion netizens, the task has been an uphill
battle. The new regulations aim to change that and, for the first time, lay the
written groundwork to police companies that are not complying with the
government’s censorship policies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or censorship?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The decision says network service providers
will “strengthen management of information released by users” by instantly
stopping the transmission of “illegal information” once it is spotted and by
taking relevant measures. Those measures, Xinhua reports, include removing the
information and saving records, before reporting to it to authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The rules did not say what constitutes
illegal information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Beijing</span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> has a complex information
management system that includes blocking foreign websites like YouTube and
Facebook, censoring Internet searches for sensitive words and phrases and
deploying an army of bloggers to steer online discourse away from potentially
volatile political and social issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Despite that, the growth of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
Internet has lead to a growth in online calls for reform. Complaints on Chinese
microblogs about corruption, abuse of power, human rights violations and
environmental pollution have led to action offline, including street protests
and the dismissal or resignation of corrupt officials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Fighting corruption<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Human rights and free speech advocates say
real-name registration will curtail people's ability to report, often
anonymously, corruption and official abuses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Li Fei, a Standing Committee member,
dismissed those concerns Friday at a news conference in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"We still call on the public to expose
any corruption by all means after the law comes out," he said. "The
illegal and corrupted will be punished.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Online chatter about a string of sex and
financial scandals has led to the downfall of several local officials in recent
weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Duncan Clark, a Beijing-based consultant and
a senior adviser to <st1:placename w:st="on">Stanford</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>'s Graduate School of Business, says <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> seems to
be trying to strike a balance between information control and government
accountability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"We’ve seen for a long time the
Internet being used to expose corruption but what’s been interesting in the
recent few weeks, which may be a counter current to these new crackdowns on the
Internet, is a lot of this has been followed up,” he said, describing the
Internet as a “scary thing” for many officials who don’t want their actions
questioned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The latest Internet regulations come amid a
crackdown on virtual private networks, or VPNs, which Web users need to get
around <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
so-called “Great Firewall.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Chinese officials say there has been no
change in the policy toward VPN providers, which they say must be registered
with the government. But the move has caused an uproar among Chinese netizens,
as well as foreign companies and journalists who say the crackdown is
preventing them from doing their jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Clark said there is often a spike in
Internet controls around sensitive events, like the recent 18th Communist Party
Congress that elected <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
new generation of leaders. He said after such events, there is a general lack
of enforcement, followed by another drive ahead of another big event. But this
time is different, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“Since the Party Congress, we’ve seen
increased measures, not lessened,” <st1:place w:st="on">Clark</st1:place> said.
“So the big question I would say, is when we get to the spring of next year,
when the new leadership takes up the formal positions in the new government, is
this the new normal?”</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Additional reporting by Victor Beattie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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China Tightens Controls on Internet Use

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President Unveils Aakash Version 2.0 Tablet on National Education Day Launches Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10pt;">he President, Pranab Mukherjee launching the Aakash Version 2.0 tablet, at the National Education Day 2012 function to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New Delhi</st1:city></st1:place> on November 11, 2012. The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju, the President of ICCR, Dr. Karan Singh, the DG UNESCO, Ms. Irina Bokova, the Ministers of State for Human Resource Development, Dr. Shashi Tharoor and Jitin Prasada are also seen. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8pt;">Photo © PIB</span></td></tr>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">NEW DELHI</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (PIB) ---The President of India,  Pranab Mukherjee took the occasion of National
Education Day to release and dedicate to the nation, the innovative and
modestly-priced Aakash Version 2.0 tablet in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New Delhi</st1:city></st1:place> today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Unveiled
in the presence of Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju, Union Minister of Human Resource
Development, Sh Jitin Prasada and Dr Shashi Tharoor, Ministers of State for
Human Resource Development, Aakash Version 2.0 is a full-fledged tablet computer.
IIT Bombay along with the Ministry of Human Resource Development has created
several useful educational applications for the tablet. Teachers and students
in the remotest corners of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
can join a classroom and benefit from lectures delivered by the best teachers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Some
of the initiatives in technology-enabled education that can run on Aakash
Version 2.0 tablet include Ten Thousand Teachers Training Programme – a live
video interaction with participants , Clicker applications for real time
feedback in country-wide classroom, Daisy Books for differently-abled students,
NCERT content , GNU Khata- an accounting package for barefoot accountants in
rural areas and Scholarship Portal integrated with Aadhar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">On
National Education Day, which is also the 124th birth anniversary of
Independent India’s first Education Minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, rich
tributes were paid to the great freedom fighter and eminent educationist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">President
Mukherjee recalled the great visionary and extolled his exemplary contribution
to nation –building, promoting secularism and particularly his indelible
imprints in the field of education and culture. Sh Mukherjee also appreciated
the launch of UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and
Sustainable Development, which is the first Category-I Institute of India to be
set up in entire <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Crediting
Maulana Azad for laying the foundations of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s education system, Dr M M
Pallam Raju said The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act
(2009) is indeed a major step forward in concretizing Maulana’s vision of free
and compulsory education for all. He said we need to promote research and
innovation in our institutions and create the right educational eco-system
because in a knowledge economy, the wealth of a nation will not be measured in
terms of its natural resources but in terms of its human capital. The Minister
said even more important than development of job skills is the need to develop
appropriate values of tolerance, non-violence, secularism and humanism amongst
children and youth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Pointing
out that educational indicators for SC, ST, Minorities, Girls, OBCs and persons
with disabilities show much lower levels in comparison to the general population,
Sh Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for HRD said we need to understand the
importance of enhancing educational participation by all sections of our
society which is significant for achieving overall growth and development. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attention to a world undergoing several unprecedented changes in almost every
sphere of human life, Dr Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for HRD said it is
all the more imperative that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
brings about far-reaching educational reforms to cope with these dynamic challenges.
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designated Representative to UNESCO, and Ms. Irina Bokova, Director-General
UNESCO also spoke on the occasion. On the occasion, a brochure on Mahatma
Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development was also
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President Unveils Aakash Version 2.0 Tablet on National Education Day Launches Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development

T he President, Pranab Mukherjee launching the Aakash Version 2.0 tablet, at the National Education Day 2012 function to co...

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NATIONS (NNN-PTI) -- <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
which assumed this month's rotating Presidency of the Security Council, will
showcase its low-cost Aakash tablet at the United Nations, highlighting the
country's innovation involved in the "most competitively priced"
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Hardeep Singh Puri said a presentation on the tablet will be held on Nov 28 at
the world body's headquarters here to which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
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tender for making and supplying the tablets, will also be present on the
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Indian-origin entrepreneur," Puri said at a news conference on Friday to
outline the Council's monthly agenda under <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s presidency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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showcase the tablet at the world body and other UN member states as well as
mediapersons will be invited to the event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Tuli
would make a presentation to the UN audience on Aakash, which was launched in
October last year by the Indian government to make available computing devices
to students at subsidised rates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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member states.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Datawind
had won the tender in 2010 to supply one lakh Aakash tablets for a price of
around USD 49 per unit. The project had run into controversy following the
Indian<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Institute</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Technology</st1:placename></span></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> at Rajasthan rejecting the devices
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">A
new version of the tablet PC, featuring one Ghz processor, four-hour battery
time, capacitive screen and Android 4.0 operating system, is expected to be
launched in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
on November 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Indian mission will also organise a cultural event at the UN on November 26
featuring the Shahi qawwals, who will be flying in from northern city of <st1:city w:st="on">Ajmer</st1:city> for a Sufi music concert at UN on occasion of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
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India to Showcase Askash Tablet at UN

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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">NAIROBI — The U.S.-based technology firm IBM and the Kenyan Ministry of Information, Communication, and Technology are teaming up to create an information technology research lab in Nairobi, making it the first of its kind on the African continent.  They hope the lab, which opens in the next few weeks, can solve problems relevant to Africa, like traffic congestion, while automating some sectors of governance.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tony Mwai, the country general manager for IBM East Africa, says one goal of this research lab is to develop government capabilities that will help people make better use of public sector services, and allow the government to digitally manage huge amounts of data.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“There’s other ways, in other parts of the world where citizen services are delivered on top of an IT foundation, but in many other countries, especially the more developed countries, services are delivered over the Internet, making the assumption that many people have computers and they can log in, and apply for a driver’s license or passports or whatever kind of citizen services are available," says Mwai. "But you know, it’s not readily prevalent, and Internet access is not, on a non-mobile platform, is not as prevalent here in Africa, and certainly in Kenya, than it is in other parts of the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In 2011, IBM conducted a survey indicating that 35 percent of Nairobi drivers have spent three or more hours in traffic.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Since fixing or constructing infrastructure is not always possible, Mwai says that technology may be able to help alleviate some of the problems of traffic congestion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“One of the things that I would love to have and I think many people would love to have is the ability to predict how long it’s going to take to get from Point A to Point B, from one part of the city to the other," says Mwai. "Or, in real time, get knowledge of where traffic is building up, so you can find an alternate route to get to where you’re going.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Kumar Bhaskaran is the IBM Program Director for Technology and Strategy for Research in the Growth Markets. He says that although the main objective is to find solutions for problems in Africa, the benefits will not stop there.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“It’s not simply bringing in technology from outside, it’s also fundamentally having innovations spawned here and applied elsewhere," he says. "Not only in Africa but also impacting outside of Africa.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">IBM operates in 170 countries around the world. It currently has research labs in nine countries. Kenya will be the 10th.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Kenyan government has pledged an investment of $2 million per year for the next five years to help the project. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

IBM Opens Its First Research Lab in Africa

By Jill Craig NAIROBI — The U.S.-based technology firm IBM and the Kenyan Ministry of Information, Communication, and Technology are team...

Mobile Internet Overtaking Conventional Media in India

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By Saraswathi Muniappan<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">NEW DELHI, India (NNN-Bernama) -– Smart devices are fast overtaking conventional media in India with 20 million of the estimated 48 million mobile Internet users having shifted 50 per cent of their newspaper and television time to their mobile screens.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They browse for entertainment, all categories of news, travel and sports content, a survey on Mobile Internet behaviour and usage study conducted by ViziSense, India’s leading online audience and ad measurement platform, revealed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of all mobile Internet users in India, 87 per cent are online on mobile every day and 70 per cent of the daily mobile Internet users fall in the age group of 24-34 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Almost half of these users go online through their cellphones every 2-3 hours and the duration of these visits is more than an hour. Almost 60 per cent of these users have been on this medium for over a year already,” said ViziSense in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Email and social media are the primary drivers of mobile Internet, said the study, which combined an online survey conducted with ViziSense India online panellists (Internet users with mobile phones) and recorded responses from 2,024 users who accessed the Internet through their cellphones.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, consumption of content is starting to shift in favour of the two new screens -– Mobiles and Tablets -- and the categories which see frequent or daily consumption include News, Games and Entertainment, Travel, Education and Search, it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These users are also easing into mobile e-commerce with almost 80 per cent having performed some form of financial transaction through their mobile phone -– payment of utility bills, purchase of products and services -- and 28 per cent of mobile internet users have even used ‘mobile money’.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The penetration of tablets, and rising demand for them, is keeping the IT and media industries excited. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The survey also revealed that 14 per cent of these users already possessed a tablet while another 60 per cent planned to buy a tablet soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The survey establishes two major trends: the shift in screens is for real, and English print is migrating to mobile phones through Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) sites and applications, especially around lifestyle, travel and sports content.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The survey also tracked the usage by the 18 per cent women subset within this group of Mobile Internet users, and found that women outscore men when it comes to accessing books or education, entertainment and travel-related content through their cellphones.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India has the world’s second largest mobile phone user base with over 929.37 million users as of May 2012. It has the world’s third-largest Internet user-base with over 121 million as of December 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-- NNN-BERNAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Mobile Internet Overtaking Conventional Media in India

By Saraswathi Muniappan NEW DELHI, India (NNN-Bernama) -– Smart devices are fast overtaking conventional media in India with 20 million o...

Computer Virus Could Leave Thousands Unable to Use Internet

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The virus caused by Eastern European computer hackers will make it impossible to access the Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facebook and Google, websites used by billions of people every day, are alerting users who they suspect may have infected computers. They also provide information on what people can do to fix the problem.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The hackers used an online advertising scam to take control of nearly 600,000 computers last year, harvesting information about users and directing them to fraudulent websites.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation smashed the computer ring and temporarily set up two Internet servers so that users can remain on line.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But that temporary fix will be closed down at 0401 UTC Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Computer Virus Could Leave Thousands Unable to Use Internet

By VOA News Hundreds of thousands of people around the world could be in for an unwelcome surprise Monday, unless they check their comput...

India: Cloud Computing an Important Government Agenda, Says Kapil Sibal

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Union Minister for Human Resource Development and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Communications and Information Technology, Kapil Sibal delivering<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">the inaugural address at the Cloud Summit 2012 – Enabling the Indian Cloud Revolution,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;"> in New Delhi on July 04, 2012.  Photo © PIB</span><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div></td></tr>
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">NEW DELHI (PIB) --- The government is willing to collaborate with the industry and academia to develop a secure and progressive ecosystem for cloud services in India. This was stated by Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology while inaugurating the Cloud Summit 2012 here today. The theme of the Summit is “Enabling the Indian Cloud Revolution”. Highlighting the need for outlining technical and other parameters for cloud providers, standardization of contracts, privacy and security conditions, the Minister urged the industry to work out details for setting up cloud services. Describing cloud computing as a fine economic solution in a complex knowledge economy, the Minister suggested that the focus could be on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and the starting point could be clusters, which have commonality of purpose and vision.  Sibal also released the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) White Paper on 'The Indian Cloud Revolution', on the occasion, saying that India was still in the process of evolving appropriate architecture to take advantage of the possible revolution." Later CERT Director-General Dr Gulshan Rai pointed out that concerns of privacy, security, compliance and vigilance with regard to cloud arose because of the absence of physical infrastructure at the user-end. He suggested that an alliance on the lines of the US-based Cloud Security Alliance be set up in India to answer all issues and concerns. He stressed on the need for setting up a framework for data sharing. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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India: Cloud Computing an Important Government Agenda, Says Kapil Sibal

Appropriate Framework and Mechanism Needed for Cloud Services The Union Minister for Human Resource Development and Communications and ...

Solar Plane Soars from Europe to Africa

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Bertrand Piccard took off from the Spanish capital Madrid, early Tuesday aboard the Solar Impulse plane on an 830 kilometer journey to the Moroccan capital, Rabat. Several hours later he was nearing Spain's southern coast while cruising at an altitude of 3,600 meters. After crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, the plane is due to enter Moroccan airspace over Tangiers and land at Rabat's airport after 9 pm local time (2200 UTC).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Organizers picked Morocco as the flight's destination to highlight the North African nation's plan to build the world's biggest solar power plant. Piccard said the solar power plant will help Morocco to create jobs and become more independent from fossil fuels. He said many other nations can boost their purchasing power and wealth by following Morocco's example.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Solar Impulse's flight from Madrid to Rabat also is a trial run for a much longer round-the-world flight scheduled in 2014. Piccard said his team is preparing for that attempt by building a second, larger plane with water-tight wings that can fly in rainy conditions for five to six days in a row without landing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The team's current aircraft made history in 2010 as the first manned plane to fly for 24 hours using only the sun's energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Internet users can follow the flight's progress with live images from an on-board camera at solarimpulse.com. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Solar Plane Soars from Europe to Africa

By Michael Lipin A Swiss adventurer is flying an experimental solar-powered plane from southern Europe toward northern Africa in a bid to...

Internet Fair Showcases Innovation, Diversity

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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Internet Week Conference Tackles Information Overload<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By Adam Phillips<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The atmosphere is electric at Internet Week New York’s headquarters in the city's trendy Soho neighborhood, as computer programmers, artists, entrepreneurs, investors and journalists browse and compare notes on the latest trends in the Internet industry. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I think that people who work in this industry are really, really vocal advocates for what they do," says Greg James of the global advertising agency, Cake. "There is a real passion about it. So you come to an event like this and you just feel in the room everyone wanting to talk to everyone else - people wanting to connect and learn more and really get onto the latest thing. So there is a sort of social one-upsmanship as well about this, which is great. You get that kind of competition and camaraderie.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With so many different types of devices connecting to the Internet and with online content proliferating, advertisers have to be more creative than ever in competing for consumer attention, according to James.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“They have to almost turn their marketing into value and extensions of products and services a lot of the time," he says. "Because people don’t necessarily want you hitting them over the head, telling them, ‘Buy more of this, buy more of that.’ They want to say, ‘Why should I buy more of it? Why should I buy more of it from you in particular? What is your point of view in the world and how are you going to deliver it for me?’ So actually, the worlds of advertising and technology are very closely aligned now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Leyla Farah of Demand Media cooks up interest in her company's specialised websites at Internet Week New York.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Demand Media is a company that seems to embody that trend. It creates online articles, videos, slide shows and other online content for special interest websites and mobile phone users, and sells targeted advertising to companies that want to reach those niche consumers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We provide content that is health and fitness related as well as mobile applications to help you quit smoking, to track your daily intake of calories if you are looking to lose weight or eat more healthily," says Leyla Farah of Demand Media’s display. "And we provide a community around that as well. So if you need help or you need encouragement, you can get all that in one place.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Farah’s company also publishes a popular instructional site Internet site called e-How that helps people with their home repair and other household projects as well as eHowMom, which caters to mothers.   <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to Farah, their Cracked.com site - part magazine, part social medium, and part advertising revenue generator - is one of the most popular humor sites on the Web.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“The interesting thing about Cracked.com is the way the content gets produced," she says. "We actually have something we call a 'writers' room,' which has thousands of people pitching ideas into it and voting ideas up or down, so that we know that the ideas we’re going to write about already have gone through a process to vet them. Our audience has told us that before we even create the content.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some old fashioned trade show gimmicks can be found among Internet Week's high-tech displays. At the Vitamin T booth, there is colorful green candy, a photo booth and souvenirs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“It draws people in to the booth. We are trying to get people to talk to us,” says Sharon Strauss says Vitamin T, a one-stop agency for “digital creatives” - the people who have flocked to Internet Week New York. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sharon Strauss is at Internet Week to spread the word about Vitamin T, a company which connects people with ad agencies, Web development experts and design help.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She explains how the year-old company does business.   <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"So an ad agency wins a brand new account and they are very excited to get this account, but they don’t have enough staff to handle that.  So they come to us and they hire Web designers and copywriters and production designers and Web developers, and we place them to handle that project. It’s fun.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In addition to the many small companies like Vitamin T, there are some industry giants here at Internet Week New York. Galileo Vieira is here to promote Hotmail. The pioneering free email service, founded in 1996 and acquired soon after by Microsoft, leads the industry with its 364 million registered users. But in recent years, critics have panned the service for its poor performance. Vieira wants to reintroduce Hotmail to this crowd.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Many years ago, the product wasn’t up to what people expected," Vieira says. "We had a lot of issues. So concerns around spam, concerns around storage size of the in-box, performance overall. So over the last year and half, two years, we fixed most of those problems, and we are really good at the fundamentals today. In addition, we’re tackling new problems.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For example, Hotmail engineers have developed a way to screen so-called “graymail" - bulk email that has been solicited, such as newsletters, discount offers and news alerts, but which can choke a user's in-box.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“So we are really out there to show off these features," Vieira says, "to tell folks, ‘We know what we did the past. We know why you folks aren’t using us, but give us a shot.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The approximately 500 companies and 40,000 attendees in attendance make Internet Week New York one of the biggest fairs of its kind.  The week's other offerings include mini-courses, the Webby Awards, art installations, lots of parties and seemingly endless networking -- online and face to face.---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Internet Fair Showcases Innovation, Diversity

Internet Week Conference Tackles Information Overload By Adam Phillips The atmosphere is electric at Internet Week New York’s headquart...

India's IT Infrastructure Market to Reach Us$3 Billion by 2016: Agency

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">MUMBAI (NNN-Bernama): India's growing IT infrastructure market will reach USD 2.05 billion in 2012 and USD 3.01 billion by 2016, according to market research agency Garner.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A 10.3 per cent increase will be registered in the domestic IT infrastructure market this year compared to 2011; Press Trust of India quoted the agency as saying.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Servers are the largest segment of the infrastructure market, as revenues are forecast to reach USD 754.5 million in 2012 and grow to USD 967.2 million in 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"Technology's role in enterprise is increasing and IT's closer alignment with business and vice versa is a topic of much focus within Indian enterprises today," Gartner's Research Director Aman Munglani said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"Soon there will be a time when there is no IT strategy, only a business strategy, as technology is seen as a business enabler and an engine for innovation," he added.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The external controller-based storage disk market in India is expected to grow from USD 439.4 million in end-user spending to USD 842 million in 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is the fastest growing segment within the IT infrastructure market.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The domestic enterprise network equipment market, which includes local area network and wide area network equipment, is expected to grow from USD 861 million in 2012 to USD 1.2 billion in 2016, Gartner said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 0%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The agency said Indian IT organisations are making a big shift from a distributed IT setup to a more manageable and efficient centralised model, leading to consolidation of branch and remote IT resources into fewer, but larger data centres. -NNN- -BERNAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

India's IT Infrastructure Market to Reach Us$3 Billion by 2016: Agency

MUMBAI (NNN-Bernama): India's growing IT infrastructure market will reach USD 2.05 billion in 2012 and USD 3.01 billion by 2016, accord...

Men & Women in India Spend 81 Hours A Month on Smartphones

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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> By M.Saraswathi <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">NEW DELHI, India (NNN-Bernama) -- In India, which has the world’s second-largest mobile phone users, men and women spend 81 hours a month on their smartphone devices. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, there are sharp contrasts in how they use their devices, men likes browsing, women texting. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nielsen Informate Mobile Insight revealed that women spend 25 per cent of the time on calls and messaging, 19 per cent browsing, 29 per cent online applications and 27 per cent offline activities. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Men, meanwhile, spend 50 per cent more time browsing the web. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Men use 28 per cent of the time to browse, 37 per cent on offline activities, 19 per cent on calls and messaging and 16 per cent on online applications,” the study shows. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As of January, India had over 903 million mobile phone users. It has the world’s third largest Internet users with over 121 million as of December 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The average number of websites visited by men is 20 in a month compared to just 14 among women. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, women prefer social sites more than men as 43 per cent of web pages visited by women are social networking sites, compared to just 32 per cent for men, said Nielsen. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Men also experiment more with apps -- they install, on an average, 16 applications in a month compared to just 11 by women. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nevertheless, women use online apps substantially higher compared to men, driven mainly by chat apps such as WhatsApp Messenger (which women use three times as much as men), Google Talk and Nimbuzz. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: kashida; text-kashida: 20%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Men however, don’t mind asking for directions on their smartphones, accessing the Google Maps app more than women. -- NNN-BERNAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

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India: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Presents National Awards on Technology Day 2012

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The former President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam addressing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">at the celebration of the Technology Day 2012,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">in New Delhi on May 11, 2012. Photo© PIB<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">New Delhi (PIB) --- </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Former President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam gave away National Awards on Technology to the industrial/individual concern for developing indigenous technology here today. The Awards are instituted by Department of Science & Technology and Department of Bio-Technology to the successful commercialization of indigenous technology by an industrial/individual concern.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The National Awards have two components: (i) to the industrial concern, which has successfully commercialized indigenous technology and (ii) to the developer / provider of such technology. Each component carries a cash Award of Rs. 10.00 lakhs along with the Trophy. In addition to this Technology Development Board (TDB) has introduced cash Award of Rs. 5.00 lakhs to be given to maximum three SSI units which have successfully commercialized a technology based product. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The National Awards of Rs. 10.00 lakhs for the year 2012 was awarded to M/s Scanpoint Geomatics Limited, Ahmedabad, Gujarat for indigenous development and commercialization of Integrated GIS and Image Processing Software: IGiS developed jointly in collaboration with Space Applications Center, ISRO, Satellite, Ahmedabad. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Award to SSI units 2012 of Rs. 5.00 lakhs each was awarded to two companies, M/s Zen Technologies Limited, Sanathnagar, Hyderabad and M/s Diaonics Automation (I) Pvt. Limited, Nasik Road, Nasik for developing and commercialization of product. The DBT award was given to M/s Perfint Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Chennai. The award for the best technology business Incubator was given to SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre (SIIC), IIT Kanpur. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The former President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presented the <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">National Awards on Technology, at the celebration of the Technology Day 2012,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> in New Delhi on May 11, 2012. The Union Minister for Science and Technology <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and Earth Sciences, Vilasrao Deshmukh is also seen. Photo© PIB<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the function, the Chief Guest, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam also launched two new programmes in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. The “Global Innovation and Technology Alliance (GITA)” is a programme jointly created by DST and CII which seeks to leverage innovations taking place around the world by enhancing technology competitiveness of Indian Industry & Institutions through joint development, technology transfer and joint ventures. Whereas “Millennium Alliance” programme is jointly created by India and U.S. and here DST is partnering with USAID & FICCI to promote cost-effective and rigorously tested solutions for critical development challenges that have the potential for sustained global impact. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the occasion, The Union Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Vilasrao Deshmukh emphasised that country needs technological self reliance, affordable innovations and global competitiveness in critical technology areas. He said that Technology Development Board has developed fruitful partnerships with the private sector. This needs to be further strengthened. He said, greater participation of Indian industry in R&D and development of new technologies is a must. The Government would encourage public-private partnerships as a catalyst for achieving this objective. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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India: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Presents National Awards on Technology Day 2012

The former President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam addressing at the celebration of the Technology Day 2012, in New Delhi on May 11, ...

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Facebook Mobile in Three New National Languages

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NEW DELHI (NNN-Bernama) -- Mobile phone users will soon be able to access Facebook in three new national languages, namely Hindi, Malay and Vietnamese via the "Facebook for Every Phone" application. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The application will also be made available in seven local Indian languages, namely Gujarati, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali and Marathi. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The mobile application in Hindi and the phased-out launch in other languages will enable more people to connect and share, said Facebook Country Growth Manager Kevin D'Souza in a statement. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earlier, users could access Facebook only in English. The application was originally launched in July 2011 and now works on more than 3,600 Java-enabled phones around the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">India is the second largest market for the social networking website after the United States. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are 800 million active users worldwide and 350 million of them access the Facebook on mobile devices. -- NNN-BERNAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Facebook Mobile in Three New National Languages

NEW DELHI (NNN-Bernama) -- Mobile phone users will soon be able to access Facebook in three new national languages, namely Hindi, Malay an...

Milky Way Likely Has Tens of Billions of Rocky 'Super-Earths'

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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) say new data indicates there is an abundance of rocky Super-Earth-type planets orbiting in the habitable zones of a common type of star known as a red dwarf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They estimate there are tens of billions within our Milky Way galaxy alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Super-earth is the term astronomers use to describe a type of rocky planet outside our solar system - an exoplanet - that measures less than 10 times the mass of the Earth. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The ESO astronomers say their calculations show that about 40 percent of all red dwarf stars have a super-Earth orbiting within a habitable zone where liquid water can exist on the surface of the planet - the best indicator for the possibility of extraterrestrial life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The researchers made the new findings from data collected with the planet-finding HARPS spectrograph at ESO’s La Silla observatory in Chile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They say HARPS’ observations provided the first direct measurement of the frequency of super-Earths orbiting red dwarf stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Red dwarfs are small, cool stars that have an extraordinarily long evolutionary life, and therefore are very common.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They comprise an estimated 80 percent of the stars in the Milky Way - that amounts to around 160 billion red dwarfs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The results of a separate study announced earlier this year indicated that rocky Earth-like worlds far outnumber massive gas-giant planets in the Milky Way galaxy. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The new ESO study will be published in the journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Red dwarfs may be among the most ubiquitous of stars in the cosmos, but our relatively young, bright, yellow Sun is not one of them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Milky Way galaxy has a diameter of approximately 120,000 light years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>That means it would take 120,000 years for light to travel across the galaxy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second. --- VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Milky Way Likely Has Tens of Billions of Rocky 'Super-Earths'

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) say new data indicates there is an abundance of rocky Super-Earth-type planets orbi...

Apple Unveils New iPad, Apple TV Device

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Apple computer company introduced a new version of its popular iPad Wednesday, with a sharper screen (featuring the "retina display"), an improved (5 MP) camera, and the ability to use Verizon's 4G LTE wireless service, a faster method to access the Internet over cellular networks.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The iPad is a mobile computer and the new version has a nearly 25 centimeter screen.  Apple's iPad is the best-selling of the so-called "tablet" computers, and the improvements are apparently designed to help it keep its market share.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Bloomberg financial news service says Apple will probably account for about two-thirds of the more than 100 million tablet computers that will be sold this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Apple also unveiled an upgraded version of its Apple TV box that allows users to take high quality video and audio programs from the Internet and elsewhere and play them wirelessly on high definition televisions and other devices.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
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Apple Unveils New iPad, Apple TV Device

The Apple computer company introduced a new version of its popular iPad Wednesday, with a sharper screen (featuring the "retina disp...