As per Google India blog, there were more than 1 Trillion i.e. – 1,000,000,000,000 playbacks on YouTube this year which makes about 140 views for every person on the earth.

In India, where people mostly watch bollywood related videos hence bollywood ruled the charts on YouTube in year 2011. Be it Kolavari Di or the KBC Video of 20th Oct. episode Indians enjoyed them all on Youtube. However some new talented people has also jumped in, such as Shraddha Sharma, who is now a popular teen sensation and became First YouTube Born Teen Sensation of India often coined as India’s own Justin Bieber. Her Video Haal E Dil – became the most watched user generated video of the year 2011.

Following are the other stats of YouTube video, those toppped the list in year 2011.

Top 10 most-watched YouTube videos of 2011 :

1. Don 2 – Official Teaser -
2. RA.One – Teaser Trailer
3. Agneepath Trailer – Official
4. Singham – Trailer Full HD
5. Star Light Star Bright – Mother Goose Club Nursery Rhymes
6. Mission Impossible 4 – Ghost Protocol – Official Trailer
7. The 7 Trumpets of Revelation | The Day Trumpet 1 Hits Earth
8. iPhone 5 Concept Features
9. Bodyguard – Official Trailer HD
10. The Silent Indian National Anthem

Videos who made other milestones on YouTube include:

• Kolaveri Di – became the fastest rising music video of the year in India, garnering over 25 million views within a month of its release on YouTube
• Haal E Dil – from ‘shraddharockin’ – topped the most watched user generated video of the year
• Teri Meri – “Bodyguard (2011) – was the most watched bollywood music video of the year
• Jennifer Lopez – On The Floor ft. Pitbull – was the most watched international music video of the year
• KBC: 2011- Episode 40 -20th Oct 2011 – Full Episode – was the most watched popular TV show – video of the year

Via - Google India Blog

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Feb 19, 2011, on start of World Cup Cricket, posted by Mike Dutton.

Mar 14, 2011, on occassion of 80th Anniversary of – Alam Ara,  a 1931 film directed by Ardeshir Irani and was the first Indian sound film.

Mar 20, 2011, on occassion of Holi festival, one of the main festivals of India ans also a national holiday, posted by Mike Dutton.

Jun 15, 2011, a rare 100-minute long total lunar eclipse. Moreover it was a special interactive doodle, which updated throughout the day to show the latest state of the moon, one ca still see the interactive Doodle at – Total Lunar Eclipse 2011 page. Lunar imagery provided by Slooh. Posted by Noel Gorelick, Chief Extraterrestrial Observer and Technical Lead in Special Projects.

Sep 17, 2011, on ocassion of Anant Pai’s 82nd birthday popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967.

Nov 14, 2011, its a Indian Winner of Doodle 4 Google 2011, the doodle is made of Indian musical instruments and created by Varsha Gupta studying in Ryan International School, Greater Noida, India.

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Microsoft have a plan to automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PCs having OS – Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Starting from January 2012 for customers in Australia and Brazil for customers who have turned on automatic updating via Windows Update. However point to be noted here is that Windows XP is not compatible to have latest version of IE i.e. IE ver.9 so how would this plan will be accomplished for Windows XP user to have latest version of IE.

As per W3C statistics of Browser market share IE (all version) has 21% of market share. Web Developers and designer always have hard time to make specific coding for each versions of IE be it 5,6,7,8 or even 9. The CSS and javascript standards that these version of IE browser follows are far different and shows drastic variation comparing to any other browsers such as Firefox, Safari or Chrome as these browsers are least effected across their versions as far as UI CSS or javascript coding is concerned.

China, South Korea, Japan and India are major areas of world that still uses IE 6 comparing to rest of the all world, however Microsoft has chosen to initiate this from Australia and Brazil as of now.

But in China, over 90% of OS software is pirated, most Chinese users never connect to Windows Update or even upgrading their web browser as they disable the automatic windows update process fearing that it would catch their pirated OS installation as under software countrfiet,  now questrion arises here how would China be off from older versions of IE browser, inspite this kind of initiative of microsoft.

More or less this initiative of Microsoft is welcomes as no matter how much it would eradicate the old web standards but still it will do it gradually, as something is better than nothing atleast the more oolder version will soon be hostiry to web users.

Via – WindowsSteamBlog

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DRDO Chennai wing is in process of building such robots to function as soldiers. V K Saraswat, scientific advisor to defence minister and director general, DRDO, said that – DRDO is working on building soldier robots that can work like a human soldier and for same they require database, artificial intelligence to carry out its humanoid development activities and the DRDO is planning to build such a robot.

Noticeably, DRDO has already developed Daksh, an electrically powered and remotely controlled robot used for locating, handling and destroying hazardous objects such as bombs safely. It has robotized arm which can lift a suspect object and scan it using its portable X-Ray device. If the object is a bomb, Daksh can defuse it with its water jet disrupter and if necessary Daksh can be armed with a shotgun.

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Felice Beato in 1866 made a complete Panorama of Yedo, Edo (now Tokyo) Japan comprising five albumen prints, which actually comprises seven photographs joined together almost seamlessly for a total length of more than 2 metres (6 1/2 ft) see picture below. His mastery was flawless over photography, however now people have gained the power of computing and graphics.

1865 or 1866 Panorama of Yedo from Atagoyama: a panorama (comprising five albumen prints) of Edo (now Tokyo), showing daimyo residences
Picture Credt – Wikipedia –

If you’re trying to capture that amazing view, but one picture doesn’t do it justice, one can create a panorama with multiple images in Windows 7 using Windows Live Photo Gallery. Under create tab menu, select multiple images and and with just one click of Panorama button stitch mutiple photos.

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In 2011, anti-corruption leader and social activist Anna Hazare became the fastest rising people query of 2011.On the other hand IBPS (Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) and free SMS website way2SMS made new entries in this year’s list as one of the fastest rising searches.

Katrina Kaif, yet again became the most searched person in India and the most searched celebrity in India for the fourth year in a row.

With Indians getting more inclined towards doing every thing online be it – buying, purchasing, booking tickets, register for any event and searching for train timings and other railway-related information Indian Railways remained a popular search term this year as well along with BookMyShow.com in shopping category.

The Year-End Google Zeitgeist interactive website is available at – http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/#en/ to see the top searches of 2011 across the globe and 40+ countries.

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This includes short lessons from top teachers around the world, full courses from the world’s best universities, professional development from fellow educators and inspiring videos from thought leaders, right from top institutes like MIT to Smithsonian which is a large museum complex offering a variety of live and archived video experiences, inspirational/ thoughful videos from TED, Steve Spangler Science, and Numberphile.

Some of the best features of ‘YuTube for school’ or YuTube EDU are -

School admins and teachers can log-in and watch any video however students can’t log in and can only watch YouTube EDU related videos and only those videos that their school has added. Moreover, all comments and related videos features are disabled and search is limited to only YouTube educational videos.

YuTube EDU is pretty good at customization as well, as schools authorities can customize the videos, create playlists of videos that will be available at their school respectively.Moreover, YouTube.com/teachers is also there, as a tool for teachers, to allow them to learn use of YouTube as a powerful educational tool.

This is first of the initiative by Google to make YouTube as educational tool as well

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Although the main content of news article published is true, nevertheless the headlines make your eyes wide open if you have anything to do IT & ITES industry.

The headlines just caught the attention as I searched in Google news, which put headlines as a biggest breaking  news that Indian IT Industry could ever handle as few of the top 5 IT companies in India has around $6 billion of total turnover comparing to $2.38 billion in just one quarter of year as apparently published in headlines by TOI.

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Founded in year 2000, One97 is a delhi based mobile internet services company offering its services for consumers in India and delivers mobile content, advertising and commerce services to mobile consumers. One97 is the largest private independent provider of telecom managed value added services in India. Earlier the company has also got fundings from others investors ranging from Intel Capital, SAIF Partners and Silicon Valley Bank.

The founder of One97, Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an engineer, who belongs to town Aligarh, he has started first business venture XS Corps, a web solutions firm while he was in third year off his engineering. The start-up was later sold to US based technology firm Lotus Interworks in 1999. Afterwards he also worked togather with Bhari Airel as VAS (value added service) partner. In 2004-2005, his revenue was Rs 7 crore per year and than in 2005-06, he earned Rs 11 crore and in 2006-07, he acquired Positive Consol, a data services company in Noida, India. One97 is now a INR 250 crore company i.e. around USD$ 2.5 billion dollar revenue per year.

SAP ventures has also invested in JustDial, iYogi, Connectiva and Newgen among which are among SAP’s Indian portfolio companies. SAP venture is more keen on companies based in US, Europe, India, Brazil and China.

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Jobs was the man behind all the modern technology innovations such as computing, mobiles, music, telecommunication that we all now get used to those innovation whom he innovated. His revolutionary iPhone and App Store, its family of iPod media players and iTunes media store and its Mac computers and iLife and iWork application suites these are all when he re-join Apple after being fired from his own co-founded company Apple. Apple earlier introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

People might not know the fact that he was also the man behind the typefonts we used today such serif, sans-serif as he was in love with typography and than it triggers creation of many more fonts further and raised the font families.

Steve Jobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in 338 US patents or patent applications related to a range of technologies from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages.

Steve also co-founded and was the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, which created some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time including Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Ratatouille. Pixar merged with The Walt Disney Company in 2006 and Steve jobs also served as Disney’s board of directors until his death.

One of the most memorable video of Steve Jobs of his life time was his speech at Standford university in 2005 which includes some of the very unforgettable quotes from him inlcuding “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”, in his speech he also advises, “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

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