Mumbai students to get the Aakash tablet for Rs. 1,138

Mumbai college students will be soon given the Aakash tablet at a subsidised price of Rs. 1,138. It's notable that the market price of the ultra low-cost Aakash tablet is Rs. 2,500. According to a TOI report, the subsidised Aakash will be made available in 100 varsities including Mumbai University.
Rajpal Hande, director, board of college and university development, tells TOI that the department had issued circulars to all affiliated colleges and department in this regard and they have already given their requirements. Hande further says that the students might also be offered the upgraded version of the Aakash tablet a.k.a UbiSlate 7, which is scheduled to be launched in January.

The official further says that the Aakash will help students access online content for different courses. To get the Aakash tablet, students need to place an order with their respective colleges or the departments concerned. The tablet will allow both teachers and students in the university to access online content whenever they require.
The Aakash tablet was sold out in less than a week after it was released online. DataWind, the maker of the Aakash, has stressed on pre-booking of the UbiSlate 7, which is said to be the upgraded version of the Aakash tablet. The UbiSlate 7 comes with various improvements over the original Aakash tablet and costs just Rs. 499 more.
The Aakash tablet is still not available in the retail stores and DataWind has not yet provided any information on its availability. You may wait for another few weeks to lay hands on a better version of the Aakash tablet.

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Facebook's new tool allows users to report suicidal behaviour

Facebook has come up with a new tool that allows users to help friends, who have expressed suicidal thoughts on the social networking site. With the new tool, users can instantly connect with a counselor through Facebook's chat messaging system. It's notable that Facebook has previously taken measures to report offensive content, fake profiles and bullying. Facebook says the new tool will help improve safety on the social networking site, which has more than 800 million users.
How it works? Users can report suicidal behaviour by clicking the report option, placed next to any piece of content on the site. Users then need to mark the content under the harmful behaviour option. The reported user will receive an e-mail from Facebook which will have a direct link for a private online chat with a crisis counselor. "This was a natural progression from something we've been working on for a long time," Facebook spokesman Frederic Wolens is quoted as saying.

Facebook users can also report the suicidal behaviour by visit the site's Help Centre or by searching the suicide reporting forms. Users can also use the reporting links around the site. Facebook will also send an e-mail to friends who reported the suicidal behaviour, confirming the resolution of the problem.

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Facebook brings follow option with 'Subscribe' button

Facebook has launched a Subscribe button, which allows users to follow the public updates of others, without necessarily having to be approved friends. Facebook says the new button gives more control to users on their news feed and accounts.
The Subscribe button helps connect you with "interesting people you're not friends with—like journalists, artists and political figures," Blake Ross, director of product at Facebook, wrote in a blog post. To start using this feature all you need to do is click on “subscribe” button available on someone's profile page. It is notable that you will not be “friends” with that person and you will be only able to see their updates that are for public view.

"Just like with friends, you can choose how many and what types of updates you see after you've subscribed," adds Ross. To add the Subscribe button, go to the subscription page and click on "Allow Subscribers."
Facebook users also have option to decide who can comment and what notifications they receive after allowing subscribers. The Subscriber tab will be available on your profile, through which can find out who subscribes to you. Facebook has already started rolling out the Subscribe feature and will be available to all users in coming days.

Facebook's new feature is apparently similar to Twitter, which allows users to follow others, including those whom they do not know and see their public posts in a timeline. The new Facebook button gives same power to Facebook users.
Soon after the launch of Google+, Facebook has made some significant improvements in its site. It recently announced some new features to streamline grouping of friends and improve privacy settings. Prior to these, Facebook rolled out video chat feature, which it did not possess when Google+ launched with its video chat feature.

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Make Multiple E-Mail Accounts Using Single Mail-Id Gmail

Make Multiple accounts using single Mail-id in Gmail....See how

Lets say your gmail id: YourGmailID@gmail.com
Now any mail sent to following will go in your inbox.
Yo.u.r.g.m.ailid@gmail.com (you can use as much DOTS as you wish to and at any location within this id before @ sign)
YourGmailID+321@gmail.com (any number can be used between + and @)

Means your one Gmail account acts as millions of gmail accounts.
People creating account on twitter, FaceBbook or any other forum can register using these ids and verification email will hit one gmail inbox.

and

You can also replace @gmail.com with @googlemail.com
and with this one the dots and the numbers will still work and all emails will hit to your real gmail account.

Enjoy..!!

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Paper-Thin, Flexible Phones Are Here,Are They The Future Of Mobile Technology ?

Ever since their worldwide debut in the 1980's, Mobile phones have been getting smaller and thinner. It’s a good thing, too, those first phones were quite literally the size of your average house brick. All that has changed and modern smartphones can be as thin as 8.7mm, such as with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. As impressive as this sounds, it’s nothing compared to what researchers at Canada’s Queen’s University have come up with.

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How is google working..?

Google runs on a distributed network of thousands of low-cost computers and can therefore carry out fast parallel processing. Parallel processing is a method of computation in which many calculations can be performed simultaneously, significantly speeding up data processing. Google has three distinct parts:

1. Googlebot, a web crawler that finds and fetches web pages.
2. The indexer that sorts every word on every page and stores the resulting index of words in a huge database.
3. The query processor, which compares your search query to the index and recommends the documents that it considers most relevant.

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