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How To Hack HTTP Passwords With Wireshark

2013-04-08T01:06:00.003+05:30

Most of the websites on the Internet use HTTP protocol for comunication which runs on Port 80, The data send to the server is Un-encrpypted and goes in plain text. If you are using HTTPS (Port 443), The data will be send to the server encrypted. When ever you enter the data in a Form, Your browser either sends a POST Or Get Request to the webserver, In most cases you will see POST method used in forms. Now most of the websites on the internet use Http protocol for the authentication, which enables an attacker on the local area network to sniff every thing that goes through that form, That's the reason why you see websites like Paypal, Ebay, Gmail with https.

In this tutorial, I will show you how a hacker can hack passwords sent via http to the server with wireshark. Wireshark is a network analysis tool used to capture and analyze all the packets being send from your computer to the server.
Attack Scenario
Let's suppose that you went to starbucks to have a coffee with your friend, You have connected to the wifi hotspot, An attacker comes in and starts wireshark and captures your HTTP Post passwords and therefore compromising your security.
How To Hack HTTP Passwords With Wireshark
Before, you i show you how to hack http passwords, i would like to let you know that for a successful capture, your network card should be in Promiscuous mode, which will enable to capture all the traffic going through your network.

Step 1 - First of all download wireshark from the official website and install it on your computer.

Step 2 - Next open up wireshark click on analyze and click on interfaces at the top.

Step 3 - Next choose the appropriate interface and click on start. Wireshark would start sniffing the network.

Step 4 - Continue sniffing for around 10 minutes. Step 5 - After 10minutes stop the packet sniffing by going to the capture menu and clicking on Stop.

In the mean time, Log into any website (For Testing Purposes), having http Authentication.

Step 6 - Next set the filter to http.request.method == "POST", This will enable it to capture all the HTTP Post request going through your computer. Start analyzing the packets and locate the website in which you logged in having http authentication.

Step 7 - Next click on Follow TCP stream. You will see the username and password that you entered. In this particular senario i logged in my wordpress account, where i entered the username:admin and password:rafayhackingarticles, Since wordpress uses http for authentication, The data that was entered was successfully captured.

Navneet Kaur Dhillon is the new Pond's Femina Miss India

2013-03-25T11:28:00.000+05:30

Beauties From Patiala, Visakhapatnam And Mumbai Walk Away With Tiaras At Pond's Femina Miss India 2013.
All that glittered at Pond's Femina Miss India 2013 on Sunday evening was gold indeed. In the golden jubilee year of the pageant, this colour radiated throughout the evening—from the theme to the detail in the contestants' gowns.

Finally, Navneet Kaur Dhillon (20), the daughter of an army officer from Patiala, was crowned Miss India 2013; after Army Public School, Ambala, she attended Patiala's Punjabi University. The first runner-up was Sobhita Dhulipala of Visakhapatnam. The 20-year-old ex-student of Vishakha Valley School currently studies at HR College, Mumbai.

The city is also the present home of Zoya Afroz (18), who was the second runner-up; originally from Lucknow, the Land of Nawabs, Zoya, an actor, studied at RN Shah High School and then Mithibai College.

Faced with a rather morbid question of what her one regret would be if she were to die the following day, Navneet gathered her wits quickly and said, "The only thing I would regret would be not having done as much for society as I would like to. Issues of women's empowerment and child labour and other social evils are a big concern."

Amid cheers, Miss India 2000 Priyanka Chopra told the three to appreciate the crown. "It stays with you forever. It changes you from who you could have been to who you are going to be," she said.

This year's pageant, held at Yashraj Studios, Andheri, marked a double milestone, given that 2013 celebrates the centenary of Indian cinema as well as the 50th year of the Miss India contest. In this span of time, India has won 34 international titles — second only to Venezuela. Host Manish Paul opened the evening with a nostalgic audiovisual tracing the golden history of the contest. From Nutan, Meher Castelino Mistry, Persis Khambatta and Zeenat Aman, down to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sushmita Sen and Priyanka Chopra, the winners have done the country proud.

The crowns the winners wear are laden with significance. The Miss India crown bears a peacock feather in the centre, symbolizing the graceful, proud national bird of India. The tiara worn by the first runner-up derives inspiration from 'the curves of a woman', albeit in a metaphorical sense. The curves represent the ups and downs that confront a woman on her journey to the top. The crown for the second runner-up is modelled along the 'ladder of success', showing the levels a contestant has to cross to win the pageant.
The event started with host Manish Paul quoting an Urdu verse celebrating womanhood. As the event's judges, Karan Johar, Asin, Shiamak Davar, Yuvraj Singh, Ritu Kumar, Chitrangada Singhand John Abraham, entered, their fans rose and cheered.

And then, kitted out in black, ivory and flame, the contestants, aged 18-25, walked down the ramp and introduced themselves. They had come from all over the country—Assam's Dibrugarh to Orissa's Bhubaneswar, Patna to Pune, and the metro cities. Among them were models, actors and even an aeronautical engineer and a yoga trainer.

Comedy trio Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Aftab Shivdasani pretended to gatecrash the event to ease the nerves of the women onstage. They performed a ribald act before moving on to a dance medley. Miss India has long been known as a passport to cinema and there were no pretensions this time. All 23 finalists wore ethnic Bharatanatyam costumes or ghagra-cholis and danced to a robust 'Radha Teri Chunri' as if they were ready for the next logical step.

A special award called woman of substance was given to Urmi Basu for her work in the field of prostitution and trafficking. It was presented by Miss India 2012 Vanya Mishra.

Allhitdeals Latest News: Where is Tapas Rai

2013-03-21T09:06:00.003+05:30

hello Frnds,

jaisa ki aap sab ko pata hai allhitdeals company ab puri tarah band ho gayi hai. allhitdeals company ka owner Tapas rai karodo dollor lekar gayab ho gaya hai, aur hum sab membars pareshan hai.

Tapas rai ne pehle bhi kayi website bana kar logo ko bewkoof bana kar karodo rs. loote hai. tapas rai ki kuchh purani website ye hai aur shayad aaj bhi in site par work hota ho- http://www.bhartiads.com/categories/view.php?id=114419, http://yahoo.getit.in/c/efameadsensepvtltd1/

har person ka koi na koi ek permanent thikana { adress } jaroor hota hai, bas hum sab ko tapas rai ka thikana khojna hai taki agar kisi membar ka lakho rs. dub gaye hai aur wo tapas rai ko pakdna chahta hai to pakad sake.

maine kuchh information nikali hai jo shayad kisi ke kaam aaye-

Tapas rai

Owner E-Fame Adsense PVT. Ltd.

adress- 167, Rajendra Place,

Rajendra Bhawan,

New Delhi - 110008

Education- BCS from shimla in 1991-1998

Tapas also know about- Photoshop, editing, blogging, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, HTML, web designing, CSS, advertising, Wordpress.

from-http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tapas-rai/43/96b/198

MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Tpas rai Personal mobile number-98100 79761

Tapas rai personal email id- tapasrai2803@gmail.com

Tapas rai Second Email id- sunil.bizmail@gmail.com info from- http://allhitdeals.net.ranklite.com/

Tapas rai personal Facebook id- http://www.facebook.com/tapas.rai.7

allhitdeals LATEST NEWS

2013-03-20T19:28:00.000+05:30

ALL HIT DEALS में अपने सुनहरे भविष्य को तलाश रहे एक नेटवर्कर ने अपना नाम छिपाते हुए ALL HIT DEALS के प्रबंधन से अपील की है कि वो कंपनी को फिर से चालू करें तो लोग अपनी तकलीफ भूलकर फिर से जुड़ जाएंगे।

दभास्कर.कॉम को मिले एक मेल में नेटवर्कर ने बड़े ही भावुक अंदाज में अपनी बात को रखने का प्रयास किया है। हम इस मेल को शब्दश: जैसा मिला है वैसा ही छाप रहे हैं। आप भी देखिए क्या अपील की है अपने नेटवर्कर साथी ने:—

HI,

SABHI DOSTO KO MERI TARAF SE NAMSTE ME YE NEWS KHAS TOR PR ALL HIT DEALS K DIRECTOR OR MD K LIYE LIKH RHA HU. AAJ BHI COMPANY EK ACCHE MUKAM PR KHADI H BUT SIRF TIME PR PAYMENT NA DENE K KARAN COMPANY OR CUSTOMER'S DONO KO HI BHUT TAKLIFE HUI H PR AAJ BHI YE PLAN KAL KI TARAH CHAL SKTA H YDI SABHI CUSTOMER KA PAYMENT KR DIYA JAYE OR AANE WALE SAMAY ME TIME PR SABHI PAYMENT KRE TAKI COMPANY BHI LAMBE SAMAY TK CHALE OR COMPANY K SATH KAM KRNE WALE BHI GARV SE KHE KI HUM ALL HIT DEALS K LIYE KAM KR RHE H. ..

SO MERE IS NEWS PR GOR KRE MR. TAPAS RAI AND MR. SUNIL KUMAR PLZ IS NAAM KO AAGE BHI CHALNE DE ME OR MERI TEEM APKE SATH H

KISI BHI CUSTOMER KA VISHWAS NA TODE. HUM COMPANY K SATH H BUT COMPANY CUSTOMER KA SATH DE. CUSTOMER IS COMPANY KO EK ACHHE MUKAM PR LE JA SKTEH OR LE JAKR DIKHAYENGE. YDI COMPANY COMPANY OR CUSTOMER DONO APNI BHUMIKA NIBHAYEGE.

ALL THE BEST.

The Xperia™ Z

2013-03-19T17:44:00.000+05:30

The Xperia™ Z

Introducing the precision engineered full HD smartphone which packs 443pixels per inch on its wide 5 (12.7cms) screen. Its slim 7.9 mm body, with its reflective glass surface, looks and feels slick. Here are more innovations that Xperia Z brings in its slim & stylish package.

Launch of the new flagship smartphone Sony Z

Sony showcased its new flagship phone Sony Z at a press meet in Chennai earlier this week, but an interesting piece of information that one heard was the launch of a new budget smartphone Xperia E next month.

With multiple products lined up — the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL and Xperia E — Sony India hopes to take the smartphone fight in India to the level of the dominant Samsung and the emergent Apple. According to the latest statistics from technology research firm IDC, Samsung headed the smartphone market in the last quarter of 2012 with a 38 per cent share with Apple jumping to the second spot with a 15 per cent share because of its revamped distribution strategy of selling through smaller stores, and at affordable EMI schemes. Sony was in the third spot with a 9 per cent share.

Now with Sony Z, the company’s new flagship phone priced at an MRP of Rs. 38,990, Sony India says it has kick-started a campaign to triple the sales of its Xperia brand of smart devices in the country, and challenge the likes of Samsung and recover lost ground. At the briefing, Sachin Thapar, business head of Xperia, Sony India said: “With the launch of Xperia Z, we hope to triple our sales to Rs. 3,500 crore for the financial year 2013, more than doubling the sales channel counters to 8,000 and increasing the service touch points to 300.”

In what should augur well for consumers, Sony has also decided to throw open its exhaustive Sony Music library open to users with a 6-month free unlimited streaming and download option on its 15-lakh strong catalogue of international, Bollywood and regional songs. Nokia and Samsung have already been offering such free offers on purchase of their smartphones, but in terms of range and scale, Sony Music is way more exhaustive and it is a surprise that it took the company so long to get to the decision.

PHONE SPECIFICATIONS

Sony Z seems to be a solid flagship offering from the Japanese electronics giant, combining the best of its already available technologies: the 13 megapixel camera on it leverages its Exmor camera sensor, its display is powered by Bravia Engine 2 and its music the Walkman technology.

Powered by a Snapdragon 4 Quadcore Engine and running the Android Jelly Bean 4.1 operating system, the 5-inch full HD screen handset with a 13 mega-pixel fast-capture back camera is dust and water resistant. Last year, Sony candidly agreed that its flagship had failed to take on the likes of iPhones and the Samsung Galaxys. But with Sony Z, it seems to have hit the winning formula.

While Sony Xperia Z wowed the media with its prowess, the other scene-stealers were the Xperia E and Xperia E dual that were previewed ahead of their next month release date. The phones have essentially the same specifications — the only differentiator with the Xperia E Dual being dual-sim ready — and are competitively priced at Rs. 9,990 and Rs.10,990. The 3.5-inch HVGA touch screen phones, running a 1 Ghz single-core processor with 512 MB RAM, operate on Android Jelly Bean and will make the entry level Xperia phone. They will have a 3.2 MP rear camera and an expandable memory card slot, in addition to 4 GB internal storage.

Its Time For BlackBerry 10

2013-02-02T11:48:00.000+05:30

Blackberry has been the epitome of a business smartphone for some time now. But over the past few years, the Canadian firm manufacturing it, Research in Motion (RIM), has lost precious ground to emerging mobile operating systems such as Apple's iOS and Google's Android in terms of sheer innovation.

Blackberry was not quick enough to adapt to large touchscreens at a time when the most popular phones flooding the market — the iPhones, the Samsung Galaxys and the HTC phones — were all offering large touch screens and several developers were making Apps for them.

Now Blackberry has emerged with Blackberry 10, the latest iteration of its mobile operating system, thereby promising to thrust the phone back into the competition — which is now primarily a three-way split between the leaders iOS and Android, and the dark horse Windows 8.

But based on the preliminary enthusiasm online, and also a sneak peek this journalist took at an Alpha device running Blackberry 10 at the Startup Village in Kochi, Kerala, Blackberry 10 will not only keep device enthusiasts happy but is also likely to push the envelope for all mobile operating systems.

Reinventing mobile OS

The Blackberry 10 experience promises to be unlike anything already available in the market.

While the Windows 8 user interface seems to have stolen a march on the now stale iOS and Android user interfaces with its Live Tiles, the Blackberry 10 introduces two new concepts — 'Peek' and 'Flow'.

'Peek' allows Blackberry 10 users to quickly get to their notifications centre with a simple upward swipe. In case a person is looking at an App, and wants to quickly check his notifications, he can “Peek” at it any moment he wants to. This is pretty handy because there are times when a person is immersed in an App — a game for example — where it makes it cumbersome to glance back at notifications to know if there is an email or a text message to respond to. ‘Peek’ allows Blackberry 10 users to be in touch with the notifications at a single finger swipe.

The ‘Flow’ is integrated into the overall user-interface experience and takes touch technology to a more exciting level of engagement. For example, if a person is looking at an email, the 'Flow' interface of Blackberry 10 would allow him to swipe all the way from the inbox to the email to its attachment, all at one go. To understand this better, here’s a suggestion. Look at the YouTube videos of the Blackberry World 2012 demo by Vivek Bharadwaj that went viral last year.

The Blackberry 10 also features the ‘Hub’ concept that allows users to integrate contacts, calendar, email and social Apps such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare under one umbrella. (The ‘Hub’ concept is similar to the ‘Social Hub’ seen on Windows 8 phones.)

With the Blackberry 10, RIM has also introduced a smart predictive typing interface, that recognises the words commonly used by the user and makes those words a suggestion as the user gets acclimatised to his phone. The smart assistant gets smarter the more the Blackberry is used.

Local Apps

One of the biggest challenges Blackberry 10 faces will be the availability of local Apps as the devices get ready to hit Indian shores by February-end.

Rubus Labs, Blackberry's innovation centre at the Startup Village in Kochi, has been a hub for Blackberry 10 developers for some months now. Several App developers have been able to develop directly and also port their other platform Apps on to Blackberry 10 with ease. They have already submitted their Apps to the now rebranded 'Blackberry World' so that several Indian Apps might be featured on the release day of Blackberry 10.

Speak Asia : Second batch of test payout in January 2013

2012-12-24T15:04:00.002+05:30

Dear Panelist,

Further to our last update on the execution of the exit policy. we wish to inform our SpeakAsia community that we have finished analysing the results of the first test batch of payouts that were sent.

We have i*entified certain roadblocks such as multiple claimants to the same panelist i* or bank d*****s not matching with the ones submitted at the time of applying for the exit policy, because of which not everyone got the remittance in their accounts.

We are at this moment addressing those issues and hope to have a resolution to them by the end of this month. Once we have the resolutions in place we will then send out a second batch of test payouts. On successful completion of this second batch we will commence the payout as per the exit policy.

We understand that there are delays in the process. One of the main contributor to this delay is the fact that we have had to do all the transactions and checking manually as our old automated systems are still under the custody of EOW Mumbai Police. We appeal to all the SpeakAsians to remain patient and bear with us as we work feverishly towards attain*** our goals.

Warm Regards,
SpeakAsia Corporate Marketing Team

Latest : Current News About Speakasia Online Till December 2012 Startup

2012-12-01T18:24:00.001+05:30

An online survey company named Speak asia online who got its major glimpse and popularity among India masses during the last year is now again gaining its panelist confidence back. The panelist after a due course of waiting for more than 15 months since May, 2011 are getting some signs of relief from the company side as company has started giving them there money back to their accounts.

The company was in controversies since last year when the company tried to launch ‘Genx Bazaar‘ and it got bated into questions raised by media and soon began the chronology of F.I.R.‘s, than court cases, than arrest of its officials, the company COO Tarak vajpai and so on.The company website and servers were taken in- charge byEOW, economic offense wing which till now has not been returned to the company.Cases were filed against the company for money laundering charges of more than Rs 2000 crore .The panelist also started raising there voice against media and Govt. bodies for the return of their hard earned money but it was not entertained anyhow. An association was also formed named AISPA , All India Speakasia Panelist Association which took the charge of safeguarding the rights of the Speakasia online panelist but was not able to make much more than filing out some application and writ petitions in the court which till now some of them has been withdrawn or some of them has been disposed by the concerning court.

There was also a writ petition ( WP 323 ) filed in the Honorable Supreme court of INDIA by a group of panelist for returning the panelist sum which after a long duration was withdrawn and disposed by the court without any favorable outcome for the panelists . The supreme court in its order disposed the case by giving authority to the Mumbai court to make the final result and so happened as Mumbai court allowed the EOW to continue its stagnant Investigation.

This was the all scenario which passes on, but after the disposal of the WP 323 some thing came in favor for the panelist that the company took charge to distribute a series of test payments to those panelist who wants to exit out of the company profile. The company in its latest communication on 21 Nov said,
“On the payout front, the company had sent out the first set of test remittances to the bank accounts of some of the panelists. The company at the moment is collating the data as to who all have received it and for those who didn’t get it, the company is identifying the cause and finding remedial solutions for it. Once this exercise is complete the company will then start the payout process in full swing. “

We have also got some proof for the payments made by the company to the panelists during last few days which looks as a good news for the panelists who have got there money back. Some snapshots are posted here ..

It can seem to be good to see the proof but it is not finished yet since there are more than 1 million panelists who are waiting for there turns and from them are also those who don’t want to exit but want to remain a part of the company. It can now be speculated that the probe can continue for more time against Speakasia but also company is now a bit free to put on its efforts for the business Restart. Even there is a question which rises here ” The website is with EOW, how will the company going to get its database for start up? ” can be answered as simply as similarly as they have explored there business to such an extent without a permanent office in India and made a market of more than 1 million panelist or Rs 2000 crore.

For the people who wants to know about the exit option and how to exit, we would like to inform that exit option is closed for now since it is in process for the past applications. The company is making a promise to start it up again as soon as the old one get cleared and for the people who does not wants to exit are asked to wait as they are waiting for more than 15 months.

Till today there was a case WP 3210/2011, 3211/2011 listed in the Mumbai court today for the final disposal for quashing the F.I.R. against speakasia and was adjourned for December 7, 2012.It leaves us with a no matter to altercate and it can now be easily understood that if the company wants a Restart than company will be putting more efforts and worries for that since its a matter of having a Database of more than 1 million people and it has a lot value for a ‘Business’.

We will be updating you on this topic with all major proceeding, exit option, restart news in the future.

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection(IBPS) COMMON WRITTEN EXAMINATION [CWE] FOR RECRUITMENT IN CLERICAL CADRE IN PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS

2012-10-12T20:57:00.003+05:30

The next Common Written Examination
(CWE Clerk-II) as a pre-requisite for selection of personnel for Clerical cadre
posts in the Public Sector Banks will be conducted online by the Institute of
Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) tentatively in December 2012.

Age (As on 01.10.2012):
Minimum: 20 Years Maximum: 28 Years
The maximum age limit specified is applicable to General Category candidates

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS (as on 01.10.2012)
Degree in any discipline from a recognized University or any equivalent qualification
recognized as such by the Central Government.
Computer literacy: Operating and working knowledge in computer systems is mandatory
i.e. candidates should have Certificate/Diploma/Degree in computer
operations/Language/ should have studied Computer / Information Technology as one of
the subjects in the High School/College/Institute.
Proficiency in the Official Language of the State/UT (candidates should know how to
read/ write and speak the Official Language of the State/UT) for which vacancies a
candidate wishes to apply is preferable.
Ex-Servicemen who do not possess the above civil examination qualifications should be
matriculate Ex-Servicemen who have obtained the Army Special Certificate of
Education or corresponding certificate in the Navy or Air Force after having completed
not less than 15 years of service in the Armed Forces of the Union.

HOW TO APPLY
Candidates can apply online only from 15.10.2012 to 05.11.2012 and no other mode
of application will be accepted

Start date for Online Registration 15.10.2012
Online Payment of Application Fees 15.10.2012- 05.11.2012
Offline Payment of Application Fees 17.10.2012- 09.11.2012
Last date for Online Registration 05.11.2012
Download of Call letter for Examination After 03.12.2012Start date for Online Registration 15.10.2012
Online Payment of Application Fees 15.10.2012- 05.11.2012
Offline Payment of Application Fees 17.10.2012- 09.11.2012
Last date for Online Registration 05.11.2012
Download of Call letter for Examination After 03.12.2012

EXAMINATION CENTERS
(i) The examination will be conducted online in venues across many centres in
India. The list of Examination centres is available in Annexure I.
(ii) IBPS, however, reserves the right to cancel any of the Examination Centres and/
or add some other Centres, depending upon the response, administrative
feasibility, etc.
(iii) As far as possible candidates will be allotted to a centre of his/her choice
however IBPS also reserves the right to allot the candidate to any centre other
than the one he/she has opted for and a candidate may be allocated a centre of
exam outside the State/UT for which vacancies he/she is applying.
(iv) Candidate will appear for the examination at an Examination Centre at his/her
own risks and expenses and IBPS will not be responsible for any injury or losses
etc. of any nature.
(v) No request for change of centre for Examination shall be entertained.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY ONLINE

SpeakAsia Exit option started.

2012-10-10T09:44:00.002+05:30

Dear SpeakAsians,

As per the recent Order passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court, the mediation proceedings have come to an end. However, SpeakAsia continues to stand by its commitment for releasing the payment to its panelists. It is therefore putting in motion the execution of its exit policy and as an initial step, SpeakAsia will be executing the payouts for a test batch of panelists.

This exercise should take a couple of weeks as confirmation e-mails would be sent first to those panelists and then the amounts would be transferred upon receipt of confirmation. After successful execution of the test batch, we will initiate the rest of the payout based on the data available with us as per the exit option. Should we face any difficulties in executing the payouts, we will then approach the concerned authorities to seek remedial solutions. We will also keep all of you posted on the developments as it happens.

We thank you for the patience shown till date and request you to kindly bear with us as we execute this new effort of ours.
Warm Regards,
SpeakAsia Corporate Marketing Team

check out www.speakasiamarketing.com/ for more details

SBI Recruitment - 19000 Clerks and 1000 PO Jobs to be announced Soon

2012-09-23T21:21:00.004+05:30

SBI (State Bank of India) is the country's largest bank and is set to announce huge clerical and PO Staff vacancies in the year to come. It is something to cheer about for the bank jobs seekers as having a job in SBI is always considered a big pleasure.

SBI Is currently conducting interviews for its clerical and Stenographers recruitment 2012 and will soon announce final results for it.

20000 Positions to be filled in one year:-

As per a report on Businessline, SBI is looking to recruit 19,000 clerks and 1,000 officers in next one year. SBI currently has 80,329 officers and 95,018 clerks on its rolls in June, 2012.

Mr. A. Krishna Kumar, Managing Director and Group Executive (National Banking), said that SBI will soon open about 1200 new branches and new recruits will serve these branches majority of which will be in Metro/Urban Areas. As clerical staff is less in many branches majority of new vacancies will belong to clerical cadre.

35% to retire in 5 Years :-

Mr. A. Krishna Kumar said that vacancies will continue to arise in future as 35-40% (About 80000) employees are set to retire in next 5 years. So, new people will be needed to replace these people and also to serve newly opened branches.

1000 PO recruitment to be announced soon:-

According to sources, SBI will soon announce 1000 PO Vacancies. As far as clerical vacancies are concerned, they may take some time as they can be announced only after finishing the currently ongoing clerical recruitment process for which Interviews are being conducted currently. So clerical notification is expected to arrive in Late 2012 (Dec - Jan).

However, PO vacancies are on road to be announced and its something to cheer for the aspirants that have complaints with the current recruitment process. SBI has been and always will be the largest job creator in banking sector in India.

We have an eye on the same and will post here as soon as any info is available about new vacancies. So, Gear up for this opportunity!!

We wish you All The Best!!!

Speak Asia : Update from Corporate Marketing Team on 12th Sep 2012

2012-09-13T23:30:00.000+05:30

Wait is over now its time for Twenty20 World Cup

2012-09-08T23:30:00.002+05:30

Twenty20 World Cup

Sep-2012
Tue 18 14:30 GMT, 19:30 local	1st Match, Group C - Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota

Wed 19 10:00 GMT, 15:30 local	2nd Match, Group B - Australia v Ireland R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Wed 19 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	3rd Match, Group A - India v Afghanistan R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Thu 20 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	4th Match, Group C - South Africa v Zimbabwe Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota

Fri 21 10:00 GMT, 15:30 local	5th Match, Group D - Bangladesh v New Zealand Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Fri 21 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	6th Match, Group A - England v Afghanistan R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sat 22 10:00 GMT, 15:30 local	7th Match, Group C - Sri Lanka v South Africa Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota

Sat 22 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	8th Match, Group B - Australia v West Indies R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun 23 10:00 GMT, 15:30 local	9th Match, Group D - New Zealand v Pakistan Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Sun 23 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	10th Match, Group A - India v England R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Mon 24 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	11th Match, Group B - West Indies v Ireland R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Tue 25 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	12th Match, Group D - Pakistan v Bangladesh Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Thu 27 10:00 GMT, 15:30 local	13th Match, Super Eights, Group 1 - C1 v D2 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Thu 27 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	14th Match, Super Eights, Group 1 - A1 v B2 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Fri 28 10:00 GMT, 15:30 local	15th Match, Super Eights, Group 2 - D1 v C2 R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Fri 28 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	16th Match, Super Eights, Group 2 - B1 v A2 R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sat 29 10:00 GMT, 15:30 local	17th Match, Super Eights, Group 1 - C1 v B2 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Sat 29 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	18th Match, Super Eights, Group 1 - B1 v C2 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Sun 30 10:00 GMT, 15:30 local	19th Match, Super Eights, Group 2 - D1 v A2 R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun 30 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	20th Match, Super Eights, Group 2 - B2 v D2 R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Oct-2012
Mon 01 10:00 GMT, 15:30 local	21st Match, Super Eights, Group 1 - A1 v C1 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Mon 01 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	22nd Match, Super Eights, Group 1 - B1 v D1 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Tue 02 10:00 GMT, 15:30 local	23rd Match, Super Eights, Group 2 - A2 v C2 R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Tue 02 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	24th Match, Super Eights, Group 2 - A1 v D2 R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Thu 04 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Fri 05 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun 07 14:00 GMT, 19:30 local	Final - TBC v TBC R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sony Xperia Sola Review

2012-08-28T20:39:00.001+05:30

Sony Xperia Sola Review~Youth Information Center

The Xperia Sola was launched along with the likes of the Sony Xperia S and Xperia P – two of the most high-end handsets a couple of months ago. While The S and the P were strikingly similar in terms of designs as well as features, the Sola, Sony’s mid-range offering comes with its own set of unique traits.

Design

We’ve pointed this out earlier and won’t be wrong in doing so, hopefully, for some more time to come - Sony handsets, across price ranges, are endowed with a certain level of aesthetics which competitors often fail to emulate. The Sony Xperia Sola is no exception. Although it doesn’t come with the transparent LED-lit bar that has becomes Sony’s trademark lately, it still manages to look convincingly premium.

The Xperia Sola features a 3.7-inch touchscreen with a slightly recessed bottom panel. Running on Android Gingerbread (Ver 2.3.7), the smartphone gives you five homescreens to play around with. Sony’s proprietary widgets also come handy – with one-touch buttons to enable Wi-Fi, Mobile Internet, NFC and so on. The keypad on the Sola felt slightly more cramped than it did in the Sony Xperia U or Xperia S. Most of the time, it was more comfortable for us to type on the virtual keypad in the landscape mode rather than the portrait mode.

Features

The Sola is the first of Sony’s handsets to feature a new technology called ‘floating touch’. The proximity sensor on the device tracks the location of your finger, hovering above the screen, when you are browsing the Web. The smartphone then automatically starts highlighting the portions that you might want to click on. While it’s something that is not absolutely essential to the browsing experience, I guess it helps a bit to have something like this especially on smaller touchscreens.

Xperia Sola, like most other smartphones entering the Indian market now, is NFC-enabled. While we await NFC services and apps to catch on in the country, an NFC-enabled smartphone such as the Sola can be used with SmartTags (included with the Xperia Sola in select countries) and can be personalised with up to 10 commands. By default, the smartphones are designed to be used to turn the Wi-Fi on or launch Google Maps. Xperia Sola supports NFC pairing hence you can pair this smartphone to another and interchange media, apps, and data with a quick tap.

Timescape remains the same ol’ interface with feeds from Twitter and status updates from Facebook sharing the same space on your touchscreen.

Camera

The Sony Xperia Sola comes with a 5-meg clicker and it gave us really good images for a device with that capacity. Most times, the colours were rich and well-saturated with barely a blur on any of the pictures we shot. The light from the flash too was evenly distributed in most of the pictures we shot in low light. Despite the fact that the Sola’s clicker did not feature Sony's proprietary Exmor R, the device still managed to impress with its clicks.

The Sola, like the Xperia S and P, also gives you the option of clicking pictures with a ‘3D Camera’ app. It’s not exactly 3D like the LG Optimus 3D Max, which renders pictures shot in 3D. You can only take Sweep panoramas and a Multi-Angle Panorama shots (which we were not sure could be put to good use in any situation).

However, images shot with both the modes were a lot grainier than would be desirable.

Performance

The Xperia Sola is powered by a 1GHz dual core processor. On our usual Quadrant Standard benchmark test, the Sola clocked in 2253 points ranking beneath the likes of LG Optimus 2X and Samsung Galaxy Nexus and scoring more than HTC Desire HD and Samsung Nexus S.

The 1320 mAh battery wasn’t powerful enough to keep the device running for a full work day. There were times when without any apparent activity (no voice calls even), the device would still have run out of power after a full charge in less than a day.

The quality of voice calls on the device gave us no room for complaints. Although it wasn’t very obviously loud and clear as with, say a BlackBerry device, it still made for clear enough conversation.

While we had no complaints with the performance or build of the Xperia Sola, we are a little disappointed with the fact that the battery isn’t powerful enough to handle a modern-age workday, which inevitably involves a lot of calls and constant connection to the internet. The battery dying out within the end of day is one of the most frustrating things to happen, especially when it is a fairly expensive smartphone that is at hand.

Rs 19,999

Love – Decent build, good camera

Hate – Short battery life, battery not removable

Laptops, tablets and their problems with heat

2012-08-07T21:15:00.000+05:30

The summer’s excess heat isn’t just tough on people. When it hits 30 degrees in the shade, computers can struggle too.

Most modern computers come with some kind of safeguards against heat. But that doesn’t mean some extra steps can’t be taken to protect them: not least of all making sure they have enough fresh air.

When temperatures skyrocket, computers might start slowing down.

In extreme cases, they might even suffer damage, warns Stephan Scheuer of TUV Rheinland, an agency that rates consumer products.

“If the ambient temperatures go up by 10 degrees for an extended period, then the life expectancy of a computer can half,” says Scheuer.

Short-term temperature spikes don’t have such a dramatic effect, but can still have long-term consequences.

That’s why users should always be on the lookout for signs that a computer is suffering from heat stress. Keep an eye out for lowered performance. Even a ventilation fan that goes on for no apparent reason can be a reason for suspicion.

“You’re more likely to notice high temperatures in a laptop on the underside,” says Scheuer. As a test, he recommends putting the laptop on one’s lap. If the heat grows unbearable within 30 seconds, then the computer needs a break.

Still, it’s unusual for a computer to crash due to excess heat these days. Most will shut themselves down as a precaution before it gets that far.

“If you’ve had the device at the lake in the sunshine and then try to turn it on, it can be that it won’t start up,” says Juergen Ripperger of VDE, the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technology in Germany.

Some models will also warn about heat problems before an automatic shutdown. But one should not rely on these safeguards, warns Ripperger. If the computer has been overhauled or the battery replaced, some temperature controls might not work any more. “I would not rule out the danger of fire here,” he says.

Ripperger recommends reading the warning notes in the manual.

Here, users will find how high surrounding temperatures can be. Otherwise, users just have to be careful about how they go about operating the machine.

“The important thing is that warm air can be cleared without hindrance.” That means the computer can’t be set up on a pillow or a blanket, and that the ventilation exits cannot be blocked. Be sure to keep clear the vents on the back or side and ensure that the machine has some space around it. “At least 20 centimetres to the wall,” recommends Scheuer.

You can provide fresh air with a small fan. And be sure to give the computer regular short breaks during the summer and avoid doing demanding jobs like video editing or graphics rendering for long periods.

Just like notebooks, tablets can be sensitive to sunshine and heat. These touchscreen devices don’t rely on vents and fans for cooling. That means less annoying noise and that they can be set upon a blanket while working. However, they get away with this by giving off heat via their exterior hull.

“In borderline situations, that can become very noticeable,” says Christian Just, an editor with Computer Bild. “But it doesn’t usually become uncomfortable, unless it’s right on the bare skin, if you’re wearing shorts, for example.” High temperatures can be especially noticeable in models with metallic housing, which conduct heat better than plastic.

Check out programmes like CoreTemp, SpeedFan or PC Wizard if you want some help monitoring temperatures. But be aware, they only show how hot the processor is.

“Other computer parts might be warmer,” warns Scheuer. After all, the processor produces a lot of heat, but is also, generally, pretty well cooled. Keep in mind, as a rule of thumb, electronics shouldn’t get warmer than 60 degrees.

Silver for India Thanks to Vijay's fabulous performance!

2012-08-03T20:05:00.001+05:30

The finals of the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event took place at the Royal Artillery Barracks and Vijay Kumar was aiming to finish as high as possible. Unlike other events, the finals in this event would not have the scores from the previous round added to calculate the final score. So, irrespective of how the shooters did in the qualification stage, everyone started with a clean sheet and whoever performed well in the round would end up the winners.

In the finals, there would be 8 series of shooting. In each series, the shooter has to shoot 5 shots in 4 seconds. The points would be calculated based on the number of hits that he has. After 4 series of such shots have been fired, the shooter that has the lowest score would be eliminated and the remaining shooters would continue with the 5th round of shooting. This would continue till the 8th series of the shooting, where the top 2 will fight for the gold. If there is a tie, then there would be a shoot off to determine the winner.

The competition, as has been the case in the entire Games, was tough with medal favourites being Alexei Klimov, Feng Ding and Leuris Pupo. But Vijay Kumar was in his elements and did not succumb to the pressure. He started off with a brilliant 5/5 and then continued with a consistent 4/5 for the next 2 rounds. He was always at the joint top with Pupo and Fend Ding. At the end of 4 rounds, Klimov got eliminated after a disappointing day for him. Vijay was never in danger of getting eliminated. He kept consistent scores of 4/5 and outclassed Feng Ding to assure himself of a silver medal. On the other hand, Pupo was relentless and kept hitting the targets with his final score of 34 equalling the world record. Vijay finished with a score of 30, with his last round redundant as he would not have been able to beat Pupo anyway.

This was another fabulous day for India as the unheralded Vijay Kumar made the country proud by winning the silver to add to the bronze already won by Gagan Narang. If shooting were given even more support, maybe India would have even more medals. Nonetheless, this is a time to rejoice and the whole country would be proud of Vijay Kumar’s achievement!

Speakasia's Writ Against RBI : Hearing Update : Hon. Bombay High Court : 30th July 2012

2012-08-01T20:34:00.001+05:30

Speakasia's Writ Against RBI : Hearing Update : Hon. Bombay High Court : 30th July 2012

Burning skies

2012-07-22T10:29:00.003+05:30

Resistance Burning Skies

THE NEXT LEVEL Despite its flaws, Resistance on the PS Vita is the first competent handheld FPS

Did the Resistance series ever really take off? It’s had a decent run, with a trilogy of good, if not spectacular games on the PS3 and a PSP outing. The series now returns in the form of Resistance: Burning Skies on Sony’s latest portable for what could be its swansong, with the publisher possibly looking to pull the plug on the franchise. We will probably see it being entirely abandoned (which is a shame considering the premise has potential) or rebooted, but for now, we’ve got one last instalment in the series albeit a portable one, and it’s pretty good. Burning Skies’ story occurs at the start of the Chimera invasion, with you playing as Tom Riley, a New Jersey fire-fighter and future hero of the Resistance. That means you get an axe, but we’ll get to that in a bit. Over the course of Tom’s journey, he is separated from his wife and kid and sees several American lives claimed by the invasion. There’s a conspiracy somewhere in the plot as well. It’s typical fare, and while most of the content that is designed to evoke emotion falls terribly short, the plot fits well into the lore of the series, even if it doesn’t break new ground. And as a result, you’ll see the ending coming from a mile away, but that doesn’t make the ride any less fun. This is all in spite of some average writing, characters that aren’t particularly memorable and long (now ubiquitous) retro-themed cutscenes that can’t be skipped.

Now let’s get back to Tom’s axe. A simple finger’s tap of the ‘axe’ icon will see Tom swing it with considerable venom at whatever is in the centre of your Vita screen, often with gory results. Grenades can be tossed with a simple drag-and-drop, while targets can be ‘tagged’ so that your Bullseye assault rifle’s secondary fire can home-in on targets, raining bullets down on it; the touchscreen controls are nifty, to say the least. And they’re greatly complemented by the Vita’s dual analog sticks. While the dual sticks aren’t as accurate as their console counterparts, they definitely work, making Resistance: Burning Skies very playable both offline and online. One great example of great use of touch and dual stick controls is Burning Skies’ new shotgun/crossbow hybrid weapon, the ‘Mule’, which can be switched into crossbow mode by a diagonal swipe of the screen that results in an explosive arrow being loaded. The gun can also be used as a regular sawed-off shotgun. Admittedly the touchscreen controls can be annoying at times, particularly since you need to abandon one of the analog sticks to use them, and then there’s the risk of wasting precious secondary ammo with inaccurate screen taps, but that’s something you can learn to live with — unlike the game’s choppy frame rate, blocky textures and poor character models, which are the real culprits when it comes to adversely affecting the overall gameplay experience. It’s amazing that the Vita has a game that looks as impressive as Uncharted: Golden Abyss and one that looks like Resistance: Burning Skies. Apart from the issues mentioned previously, the special effects are particularly disappointing — it doesn’t look like the development team leveraged the PS Vita’s hardware effectively.

But despite its flaws, Resistance: Burning Skies can claim to be the first FPS to actually work well on a handheld platform thanks to well implemented controls. Fans will want to play it, but might leave disappointed if they set their expectations too high. On the other hand, if you own a Vita and want an FPS to play, it might seem like you don’t have a choice, but Burning Skies is competent enough to warrant a purchase.

~The Hindu

Over 19,000 may lose net connectivity on Monday

2012-07-08T09:44:00.002+05:30

Over 19,000 may lose net connectivity on Monday

As the cyber world awaits Monday, when the FBI will shut down servers affected by the DNS Changer malware, a list of affected countries shows India in the third spot.

Domain Name System (DNS) is part of the internet that links up a website name (like example.com) to its numerical Internet Protocol equivalent (like 123.456.789.098).

According to the DNS Changer Working Group, as of July 4, there are 19,642 IP addresses infected in India. At the top of the table is the US with 45,619, and next is Italy with 21,831. The DNS Changer Working Group monitors DNS servers as part of efforts to undo the worldwide damage done by the malware.

The DNS Changer malware hit the headlines last year, after the FBI and Estonian police arrested many criminals who had floated a company called Rove Digital and spread viruses under various names. These viruses altered the DNS settings of computers, leading users to fraudulent websites rather than the real ones.

Under a US court order that expires on Monday, the Internet Systems Consortium had mounted an operation to clean up the servers. When the FBI shuts down the rogue servers on Monday, users whose network has been infected will not be able to log on to the internet.

Vinoo Thomas, product manager, McAfee Labs, says it is difficult to determine the exact number of infected computers in India which might go down on Monday. "If your system has been hit, then it means your IP address points to the infected server. Since these servers will be shut down on Monday, you will not be able to access internet. To set it right, you will have to contact your internet service provider, like BSNL and Airtel, to reset the IP addresses."

Is your system infected?

There is still a day to check if the system has been affected. Various cyber security firms have offered free solutions. For example, users can go to www.mcafee.com/dnscheck to check if their computer is infected. Symantec customers whose computer has been hit are being notified through their product. Users can also go to the DNS Changer Check-Up page (http://www.dcwg.org/detect), maintained by the DNS Changer Working Group, to determine whether their computer has been compromised or not.

Source : Times of India

www.onlinespeakasia.net is fake

2012-06-26T19:30:00.001+05:30

Dear Speakasians,

It has been brought to our notice that there is a fake website by the name of www.onlinespeakasia.net has been circulating on the web space and asking consumers for their details like Name, Address, Phone numbers etc.

This website has no connection with SAOL and we request all Speakasians not to give out any details as it could be used for wrong purposes.

Warm Regards,

SpeakAsia Corporate Marketing Team

so don't give your information to anyone until our legal site will be open

-YIC

HP launches Ultrabook, Sleekbook

2012-06-26T19:15:00.002+05:30

Hewlett Packard sees no impact of tablets and latest mobile gadgets on the PC/notebook segment as the latter are critical for productivity.

Tablets constitute a niche market, and they come with some handicaps, particularly infrastructure-related, but notebooks can be used on the move if they have built-in features such as adequate battery life, HP India Senior Director Vinay Chandra Awasthi said. “There is talk about convergence, but we should not forget the mobility factor, staying connected everywhere,” he said.

Mr. Awasthi was here on Wednesday in connection with the launch of HP’s latest Ultrabook and Sleekbook. Most of the tablet users needed to install Wi-Fi equipment in their house to secure connectivity, but a notebook could be used anywhere if a dongle was attached to it.

The market share of tablets was less than 5 per cent as the first computer could never be a tablet.

“Most probably, it has to be a notebook,” he said. The notebook market was growing between 10 per cent and 15 per cent every year with close to 11 million units being sold.

In view of the requirement from different categories, HP launched the Ultrabook, priced at Rs.57,990, and the Sleekbook with latest Intel core processors at Rs.41,990.

Source : The Hindu

Pyan is Back in Max Pyan 3

2012-06-20T21:16:00.001+05:30

Remember the turn of the millennium? Or more specifically, around this time in the year 2001 when you had just bought yourself one of those new Pentium 4s and a fancy GeForce 3 series graphics card? Remember the time you installed Max Payne and played the hell out of it for nearly a year? Well, there wasn't a serious gamer in the country at the time who hadn't played Max Payne — in fact, the game still sells a healthy number of copies today. So saying that Rockstar Games' Max Payne 3 has “a lot to live up to” is an understatement. But everyone knows that Rockstar is incapable of making a bad game — however, even a great game is a failure by its incredibly high standards. So is Max Payne 3 Rockstar-great, or just “plain old” great?

We're introduced to the new Max Payne in Brazil, working security for a rich businessman named Rodrigo Branco. Max's pal Raul Passos was responsible for getting him this gig — it was supposed to be easy money. But everyone knows trouble finds Max Payne, and as a result, Max's skills are immediately required when Branco's wife is kidnapped during a party. Within a span of ten minutes, Rockstar Games introduces you to all the gameplay and storytelling elements that have been changed or introduced. The comic book narrative has been replaced with a more cinematic style and there's a cover system, destructible environments and a tonne of insane visual effects. The “bullet time” mechanic, the series' staple is back, and needs to be called into service immediately during the introductory level. Other minor gameplay tweaks primarily revolve around this mechanic such as “last man standing”, which sees the game revive Max if he shoots whoever shot him last. The gunplay feels as solid as ever, greatly complemented by a variety of real-world firearms that behave very differently from one another. Max can now dual wield two different single-handed weapons if he needs something with a bit of punch (say, a revolver, perhaps) and a rapid-fire weapon (like an Uzi). Max Payne 3 thrusts the player into one intense firefight after another. However, while combat requires strategy and skill, it is made occasionally monotonous and repetitive by poor checkpoint placement.

The writing is as self-indulgent as ever and we wouldn't have it any other way in a Max Payne title. Max's monologues are filled with cynicism and self-loathing, yet fuel his drive to go out and get the job done. Dan Houser (supported by Rupert Humphries and Michael Unsworth) has done an excellent job taking over from Sam Lake (the original's writer), showing that he can do ‘gritty and serious' just as well as ‘funny and clever'. The writers are often the unsung heroes of a game, but it's difficult to ignore them here. Disappointingly, however, Max remains the only truly interesting character in the game — the other bit part players contribute nothing to the story. There's no Mona Sax here.

In the end, we're left with a solid linear shooter which, despite no innovations, looks and plays well majority of the time. The single player is exactly what you would expect from the third instalment, with Brazil serving as an excellent setting for the game's many bloodbaths. Poorly placed checkpoints and bullet-time overdose aside, Max Payne 3's story mode is good, if not spectacular. The narrative's overhaul involves comic book-style cutscenes being replaced by Tarantino-inspired cinematics, but fortunately, despite this Hollywoodisation, the game retains the tone of Payne's previous two outings. The multiplayer is easy to get into, but fails to remain interesting for long periods, which unfortunately is a problem because a lot of the unlocks require a fair amount of time investment. Overall, despite a few hiccups, this is a shooter that looks and plays great, offering enough violent entertainment to keep players interested. Max Payne 3 is available on PC, PS3 and X360.

Source : The Hindu

Window based laptop soon Available @ unbeatable price of Rs. 5000

2012-06-11T21:38:00.001+05:30

Low cost Laptops range

Allied Computer International (Asia) Limited, is now all set to launched super low-cost laptop for Indian @ 4,999 Rupees only .
"We are launching India's super low cost laptop at Rs 4,999 in mid-June. It will be real fully functional, windows compatible working laptop at a lowest price tag in the country," Allied Computers managing director Hirji Patel said.

London-based missile scientist turned entrepreneur, Hirji Patel established Allied Computers International (Asia) Limited under the ACi brand in May 2002.

ACi India offers laptops and PCs in the Indian market with innovative design.

Talking about the viability of the project, Patel said, the company will import the product from China and depend on volume growth and will have thin profit margin.

Patel is all set to unveil to market few third generation models of laptops including Rs 4,999 windows compatible with 10" screen. Among other low-cost models, laptop PC for lower-mid class segment for Rs 9,999 and latest 3rd generation model housing Intel i3 CPU for Rs 19,999 will be launched shortly.

Low cost Laptops range

The company is also launching latest 3rd generation model housing Intel i7 with 32GB RAM - fastest gaming laptop ever built - first laptop in India with RAM exceeding 8GB for Rs 49,999, Patel said.

"We will never compromise on quality with price. The range we will be offering are carefully designed and developed just like majority of our models launched both in UK and India," Patel said.

In the recent times, we have seen much hype and heard much hoopla around so-called low-cost computing devices, which created enough buzz, but failed to live up to their expectations purely because they could never deliver computing, Patel said.

Patel pointed out that although, India today enjoys a volume sales of around 2.5 million laptops per annum, it is still barely 10 per cent of what western countries like UK and other leading European countries are churning out into the market.

Laptop cost-to-earning factor is still rather high in India and in lower middle class to the poor it is still considered beyond reach.

Introducing such low-cost computing devices becomes more significant in the wake of various state governments like Tamil Nadu, UP and others announcing to provide laptops for students. The company is looking at offering the low cost laptops to these state governments, Patel added.

Venus Solar Transit

2012-06-07T09:45:00.002+05:30

From the U.S. to South Korea, people around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the once-in-a-lifetime sight of the transit of Venus.

For some astronomers, it wasn’t just a rare planetary spectacle as it won’t be seen for another 105 years. They hoped the passage of Venus between the Earth and the sun would spark curiosity about the universe and our place in it.

Sul Ah Chim, a researcher at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute in South Korea, said he hoped people see life from a larger perspective, and “not get caught up in their small, everyday problems.”

“When you think about it from the context of the universe, 105 years is a very short period of time and the Earth is only a small, pale blue spot,” he said.

While astronomers used the latest technology to document the transit, American astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station was planning to take photos of the event and post them online.

In Mexico, at least 100 people lined up two hours early to view the event through telescopes or one of the 150 special viewing glasses on hand, officials said. Observation points were also set up at a dozen locations.

Venus, which is extremely hot, is one of Earth’s two neighbours and is so close in size to our planet that scientists at times call them near-twins. During the transit, it will appear as a small dot.

The transit is happening during a 6-hour, 40-minute span that began just after 2200 GMT. What you can see and for how long depends on what the sun’s doing in your region during that exact window, and the weather.

Those in most areas of North and Central America will see the start of the transit until the sun sets, while those in western Asia, the eastern half of Africa and most of Europe will catch the transit’s end once the sun comes up.

In Hawaii, astronomers planned viewings at Waikiki Beach, Pearl Harbor and Ko Olina. At Waikiki, officials planned to show webcasts as seen from telescopes from volcanoes Mauna Kea on the Big Island and Haleakala on Maui.

NASA planned a watch party at its Goddard Visitor Centre in Maryland with solar telescopes, “Hubble-quality” images from its Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission and expert commentary and presentations.

Experts from Hong Kong’s Space Museum and local astronomical groups were organising a viewing on Wednesday outside the museum’s building on the Kowloon waterfront overlooking the southern Chinese city’s famed Victoria Harbour.

This will be the seventh transit visible since German astronomer Johannes Kepler first predicted the phenomenon in the 17th century. Because of the shape and speed of Venus’ orbit around the sun and its relationship to Earth’s annual trip, transits occur in pairs separated by more than a century.

It’s nowhere near as dramatic and awe-inspiring as a total solar eclipse, which sweeps a shadow across the Earth, but there will be six more of those this decade.

Source : The Hindu

SBI GK PAPER held on 27-05-2012 EVENING SESSION BASED ON MEMORY

2012-05-31T12:44:00.000+05:30

1. Which actress won National Award for Best actress ?
Ans . Vidhya Balan

2.Who among the following person mention below is a singer a awardee of Padama Shree Award ?
Ans : Anoop Jalota

3. In 2011, the 3 rd BIRCSsummit held at ?
Ans : Sanya(China)

4.G-8 Meeting was recently held at which place ?
Ans: USA

5. The recently elected Railway Minister Mukul Roy is from Which political party ?
Ans Trinamul Congress

6. one question related to NABARD is regulated by
Ans : RBI

7. Loans given to Self-help group (SHG) is called ?
Ans: Micro Credit

8. Who is the Present Election Commissioner of India ?
Ans :S.Y Qureshi .

9. what dose "C" represent in "ECB" ?
Ans: Commercial

10. Who among the following is a Chief Minister of ____
Ans Prem Kumar Dhumal.

11. Which among the following books is Written By Vikram Seth.
Ans. The golden Gate.

12. Who among the following represent India in the recently held India-russia meet?
Ans . Dr. Manmohan Singh.

14. Waht is Current Bank Rate as Fixed by RBI?
Ans : 9 Percent.

15. World Population day is celebrated every year on ?
Ans 11th July.

16. Which Among the following terms is not associated with the game of Cricket ?
Ans : Jockey

17. Which Among the following terms in not associated with Banking sector?
Ans : Amplitude

18. Who Won Australian Open 2012?
Ans : Novak Djokovic

19. What is maximum of members of Rajya Sabha?
Ans : 6 Years

20: What is the measurement of unit "work" ?
Ans: Joule

21) Gross Domestic Product divided by National Income is equal to ?
Ans. Per Capita Income

22) The instrument used for measuring Earth quake is ?
Ans. Seismograph/ seismometer

23) Nobel Prize for Peace was recently won by ?
Ans. Tawakul Karman

24) Kamla Prasad Bissessar is the Prime Minister of which country ?
Ans. Trinidad and Tobago

25) Which among the following terms is related to economics ?
Ans. arbitrage

26) India was recently declared free from which epidemic disease ?
Ans. Polio

27) Business correspondent is related to which term ?
Ans.Financial inclusion

28) Which country had recently ordered the fighter jets "Rafael" ?
Ans. India

29) A Questions was asked on Country's and Capitals ?
Ans. ____

30) Who represented India in the recently held India - Russia summit ?
Ans. Man Mohan Singh

31) Gavaskar-Border Trophy is associated with which game ?
Ans. Cricket

32) Which country had founded the Nuclear Treaty Pact ?
Ans. USA

33) Who among the following is the recipient of Padma Bhushan Award ?
Ans. Homi K. Bhaba

34) Which among the following is true as related Union Budget 2012-13 ?
Ans. Increasing tax limit marginally

35) Which among the following is not a function of RBI

36) Who among the following is the winner of Shooting Championship ?

37) One Question is asked on NATO ?

38) New Frame work for Minor and Small Banks

39) Ranbir Kapoor won the Best Actor Award for which film ?
Ans. Rock Star

40) Savings Account With Insurance Benefits is called as ?
Ans.value added services

Please Cross Check All answer as it was based on memory .,

Youth Information Center .

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