Well, the border that India shares with Pakistan is lit almost across the entire stretch. The lightning is what makes the border visible from space.

The photo displayed above is taken from the International Space Station.

NASA adds – A striking feature is the line of lights, with a distinctly orange hue, snaking across the center of the image. It appears to be more continuous and brighter than most highways in the view. This is the fenced and floodlit border zone between India and Pakistan. The fence is designed to discourage smuggling and arms trafficking. A similar fenced zone separates India’s eastern border from Bangladesh (not visible).

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Recently, Microsoft’s Bing search engine has incorporated information from Facebook users’ accounts to create a search experience that is completely unique to the internet today. While Bing has trailed behind search engine superpower Google since its release, linking up with the social media rock star could certainly help its rankings. Pioneering the concept of true social searching, Bing displays Facebook “likes” from your own social circle as you search the web. While there are many debates as to whether this approach truly makes for a stronger and more reliable search engine, the true reasoning comes down to preference and philosophy.

Bing’s thinking behind their social searching mechanism is that users can make “better decisions” by being more aware of their friends’ social activity and social interests. For example, you can now use Bing to search for the best vegetarian hamburger in your area and see what friends of yours have to say about the selection. If you see that Alex really likes one place’s burger and Jeff really likes a different place’s burger, you can decide which friend you trust more and go with that one (and then de-friend the other one). Okay, maybe that isn’t quite the idea behind the new social Bing, but it could work that way. This social searching approach tailors your searching experience around your social circle. The idea is that if your friends and family members like something, then you probably will too. This searching approach can make the sometimes sterile world of the internet feel personable and relatable.

While Google has incorporated some aspects of social media into their searching mechanism, social searching does not appear to be Google’s central concern. In fact, Google’s philosophy about searching and the internet seems almost opposed to what Bing has recently done in collaboration with Facebook. Where Facebook and Microsoft appear to endorse the philosophy that the internet should be linked to your community and personal interests, Google seems to believe otherwise. Google’s search strategy relies on having as much information displayed as possible, so that users have all of their options available. Furthermore, Google displays results not simply from people you know, but rather based on what experts and the majority of the entire internet has to say.

To some, Bing’s social searching strategy limits their internet experience. To others, Google’s expert only search results feel sterile and uninviting. There are arguments for both sides. While it can be comforting to hear a place, thing, idea endorsed by a friend, it can also be reassuring to know that it is endorsed by an authority. The question may not be which searching method is the “right” method. Rather, it is possible that both methods are worthwhile in different situations.

Author Bio:
This is a guest post by Nadia Jones who blogs at online college about education, college, student, teacher, money saving, movie related topics. You can reach her at nadia.jones5 @ gmail.com.

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Nokia E7, the communicator has an elegant outlook with a sleek design with more features that attract most of the mobile lovers. The wide touch screen and tilt slider key pad with newly added outlooks and advanced technology has made the smart mobile phone eye catchy. The outward appearance is attractive with 4 inch polarized display AMOLED screen with quick mobile resolution that weighs 176gm with 123.7 x 62.4 x13.6mm Dimensions. It’s fully QWERTY keyboard with Home, Power, Lock, Volume and Camera Key that works with finger touch support for textual input and UI control.

This stylish Nokia E7 smart mobile phone has an Anodized Aluminium casing with different color shades or dark grey, Green, Blue, Orange and Silver white. Mobile resolution is 16:9nHD with 16 million colors with clear black display with outstanding outdoor visibility.

Hardware

Memory is 16GB with internal memory of 350MB, 256RAM and 1024 ROM. Its network frequency of operation includes 850/900/1700/1900/2100 WCDMA and 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/EDGE with automatic switching amid WCDMA and GSM. It has got a BL-4D 1200mAh Li-on Battery with a maximum talk-time of 9Hours on GSM and 5Hours on WCDMA and at the standby time it is 430 hours on GSM and 470 hours on WCDMA.

Technology and Applications

Symbian 3 Operating system with Java MIDP 2.1, Flash Lite 4.0, Qt 4.6.2, Web Runtime 7.2, HTML 4.1 and Software updates over the air and internet (FOTA and FOTI) has made the technology more outstanding with fast access performance and utility factor. Applications that support the activity include a list of Preloaded and PC applications. Mail for Exchange, Adobe PDF reader, Ovi Maps with free GPS navigation, Quick office dynamic premium, F-Secure security service for mobile are some listed under the preloaded features of applications that work on utility with Nokia Ovi Suite and Player under PC applications.

Call management

Video calling, conference calling, logs on received, missed and dialed numbers are maintained with speed dialing features. Phone tracking is the one which is lacking that adds more security over calls from anonymous numbers. There are several Phone tracking devices that are worthy in making the best debut among the other mobile devices with best features of technology upgradation.

Connectivity features

Bluetooth 3.0, Micro USB connector and charging (USB On-the-Go), Standard 3.5 mm AV connector (FM Radio) and High-Speed USB 2.0 are best featured that helps over connectivity. It has a capacity to serve a data modem with good support on MS Outlook sync of contacts. Data network id via WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g/n, GPRS/EDGE class B with multi slot class 33.

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With the need to safeguard the viral attacks over computer one must be aware of the update informations and facts about computer viruses that harm the computer as a whole. Knowing how the computer virus works helps in protecting the computer system at once. Here is some of the beneficial information that one must know to keep off the viral infectivity in computers.

What is a virus?

Computer virus is a software parasitic program that is written in an intention to affect a computer’s data by entering into the system without authentication or user’s knowledge. The term parasitic refers to the viral activity in the PC as they have the properties of attacking data, booting sectors and replicates to spread through various systems via e-mail forwards, sharing of files, internet downloads and via messengers.

How does a virus get acquired?

Executing an infected program, Booting with the helps of a viral infected diskette, Opening or accessing an infected email attachment or Downloading a viral infected file from internet can cause the virus infection to a computer.

Viral actions

Viruses invade the private data that is protected and damages files format or deletes the file, or hacks the file informations as per the virus logic formulation. The main aim of the virus activity is the destruction fulfilling the purpose it is constructed for.

Malware

Malware is one of the common programs that are created with the intent of harming the computer. Adware is one of the forms of Malware where it puts ads over the screen until the Malware is removed. Spyware is another form of Malware that collects the personal data such as username, password, bank account and credit cards numbers as you type.

Virus history

Theory of computer virus was first studied by John von Neumann in1949. He took lectures on ‘Theory of Organization of Complicated Automata’; his research on the virus infectivity was then published as a book called ‘Theory of self-reproducing automata’. Floppy disk was the first device that served for the spreading of the virus.

Defense tools

The first step in defending the virus is to turn the firewall on so that unauthentic files and internet data are blocked at the entry level. Anti-virus or Anti-Spyware protection is considered more effective in preventing the virus that affects the computer as a whole. Computer hacking is also performed with the help of certain viruses that are specifically written for the same.

Firewall

Firewall is the former defender that keeps off unauthorized access over communication link and they also protect your computer from unexpected and unwanted files from your processing patterns keeping off the viral effects.

Boot infector

Booting with the help of infected disc or non bootable diskette loads the virus to your memory. Once the boot code with virus is loaded on your system, on every start up of the computer it loads into the memory and starts execution.

Top ten virus destructors of all time

ILOVEYOU virus, CIH virus, Melissa virus, Code Red, Bagle, Blaster, Sasser, MyDoom, Sobig.F and SQL Slammer are the most famous types of computer virus that are more destructive in their activity all time.

System Upgradation

System updation is more important with the latest features of the virus protection and anti-virus softwares that are more helpful in preventing the computer virus at full force.

With the help of certain security terms of types of viruses it is made easy to keep off computer hacking and viral infectivity at once.

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Owning an iPad is no less than a dream come true to every gadget freak. The entry of the Apple iPad into the technology market has taken technology to its summit. There are various actions you can perform using an iPad.

The objective of developing an iPad is for enjoying the audio and visual media that can include books, movies, music, games and web content. The operating system of the iPad is the same as that of iPhone and an iPod Touch.

The Apple iPad boasts of various features that are not available in many other hi-tech gadgets. Though there are so many features in the iPad, you need to be safe while operating. Here are a few tips that can help you to use the iPad effectively and also to keep it safe.

• Before you learn how to use the high technology features of the iPad you need to learn the basics that are involved with the iPad. Learn to set up the iPad. First tap the icon called settings and select mail, contacts, calendars. Now pick the Add account button and select MobileMe. You will now have to enter the Apple ID and password to get started, after which your account will be verified.

• To prevent any unauthorized usage of your iPad, you will have to set a secret passcode. This passcode is important to keep unconstitutional usage of the iPad in case it is lost or stolen. This is one of the most important safety tips for your iPad.

• You can also set the auto-lock feature so that it can automatically lock after a particular time of idleness.

• Though the display or the screen of the Apple iPad is scratch-resistant, you need to keep the display of the iPad safe from harsh handling. For this you can use screen protectors which not only keep the screen safe but also prevent the glare while using in the bright lights.

• To keep away from the fraudulent sites and enhance the security features you need to enable the fraud warning in the safari browser.

• You can also lock the screen orientation on the iPad by holding the device in the direction you want to lock and like a double click press the home button twice. Once this is done, the new task switcher is shown on the bottom of the screen. To access the new screen hidden on the left, slide your finger over to the right. Now tap the button on the bottom left of the screen for locking it.

• To increase the life of the battery of the iPad, it is must that you keep the device as far away from the sun as possible as it is the heat that spoils the battery faster than any other factor. You can also reduce the brightness of the screen to extend the life of the battery.

• Streaming videos and to iPad is possible by installing Air Video Server and use it by clicking on it in the main menu and clicking on the ‘+’ button to find the servers that are currently running. Choose the computer where the server was installed on the select server screen. Now pick one of the folders you added to the Shared Folders Tab.

• Be careful while choosing the applications for your iPad as the third party applications are not authorized by Apple and can cause harm to your iPad.

• To safeguard your important data you can have back it up and encrypt it within iTunes. This comes in handy if you lose your iPad device.

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Facebook has made a change to the way their Like button works. It now acts as a Share button. So, if you hit Like, which necessarily means you approve of the information shared by your friends or a particular site, Like will display a picture, a headline and a little blurb, along with the option to comment. This is exactly what the Share button does.

What will happen to the Share button?

There are several versions of what could happen to it. Official Facebook update was to continue to support the Share button. They say that strengthening the Like is just a pilot phase, and decision regarding what could be done post this phase is company secret as of now. If it’s a test phase, I wonder why it has been rolled out to everyone? Why not pick some, and do what they did for the new Facebook profile? Some questions are best answered when it comes from the horses’ mouth!

Here’s another version – Inside Facebook reports that the Share button has been removed from developers’ documentation. Developers always had the option of pushing content to Facebook as they wanted – a share button, a simple, comment-less like, and a recommend-with-comment option. The current change will enforce full details to be pushed to Facebook and not just pieces. Maybe it’s a good thing after all!

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This may come as a surprise for many employees, especially those working in IT. A survey conducted by e-mail management company Mimecast concludes that around 85% of the sample aged under 25 years used Gmail for their official communication.

The sample size chosen was fairly small at 2400. The biggest concern that the employees who fell within the 85% complained was the minute file attachment limit employed in IT organizations – especially when their jobs demand them to share data rapidly. It is a well known fact that many IT companies restrict users to much smaller attachment sizes compared to Gmail and other free email service providers.

Using personal emails is high risk for the company, and could end up with clients moving away as far as possible. Many multi-national corporations have enforced curfews using softwares such as websense which ensure that websites such as Gmail, Yahoo amongst others that are potentially unsafe, are on the ban list.

Mimecast’s chief scientist Nathaniel Borenstein has a sympathizing take on the situation – “The results show that workers frustrated with corporate restrictions are using personal email accounts in order to maintain productivity.”

Another interesting fact that was revealed in this survey was the use of file sharing websites such as Megaupload.

To me, it looks like the IT management isn’t supporting the needs of their employees effectively in order to be productive. I believe it is time to free up the space, and let all data flow within the office network. These things could have adverse effects if the company goes for an ISO27K1 certification.

A solution that one of my previous organizations implemented was a file sharing website such as Megaupload, but access controlled to company employees only. It worked pretty well, and it mainly prevented choking the email servers when large attachments have to be shared across a huge chunk.

Another simple solution would be to implement MS SharePoint, or any other similar portals. This would put the load on the file server, and not on the database. And, the load may not come up at the same instant as in a mail system.

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Google has added a new feature in the United States and Japan earlier yesterday, which provides users the filters to search recipes across the net.

The new feature is christened recipe view.

To access this view, go to google.com, and type the name of a dish. In the example chosen here, it is vegetable biryani, seasoned rice from North India. On the left, select Recipes to enable recipe view. Here, you can filter recipes based on ingredients, calories, cooking time, format (video or text) amongst others.

The search result displays some key information to help the user make a choice whether to click on a link. It provides rating on five, number of reviews and the cooking time – pretty slick.

The recipe view feature is currently in pilot phase, and if (when) successful, will find home in other countries sometime down the line.

Click on the image above for a full size view.

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The impact of total internet shutdown in Libya is causing tremors around the globe, and it gravely threatens the .ly domain shutdown.

Libya’s top level domain, .ly, is commonly used for url shortener websites, the biggest being bit.ly.

John Borthwick, CEO of bit.ly allayed all fears – “For .ly domains to be unresolvable the five .ly root servers that are authoritative *all* have to be offline, or responding with empty responses. Of the five root nameservers for the .ly TLD: two are based in Oregon, one is in the Netherlands and two are in Libya. ”

The .ly registry lies within Libya, and Kim Davies rightly states that despite having servers outside Libya will not help, as the updates should flow in through the registry.

So, the big question is whether a country top level domain be controlled within a geography?

I think this is something we should look at closely. Countries must be able to provide guidelines, and put rules around the block for registering country TLD. But, once an address is allocated, the presence of the url should not come under the purview of any nation, but directly under ICANN. This will ensure that politics within a country does not affect the rest of the world.
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In what could change the turn of history for future to admire (or admonish), the biggest mobile phone giant has partnered with perhaps the most hated mobile phone operating system. Nokia and (say what!) Windows. But, the OS that will sit on Nokia hardware is the under performing Windows Phone 7 OS. Is this a strategy to grow or to disappear into oblivion for the Finnish mobile giant?

This is definitely a shocker of a news if you are a cellphone freak, especially if you own a high end Nokia phone. The new partnership will signal the end of Symbian operating system for starters, and all the development of applications that go around it. So, if you are in the market for a cellphone, don’t buy Nokia! At least for now.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, an ex-Microsoft executive had hinted at a strategic move that the company would take in his employee communication last week, but the turn of events that unfolded today would have sent shock waves (literally) across the Nokia cubicles. On the other hand, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would be pleased to get WP7 off the runway, but at the end of the day, for Microsoft, it is business – nothing more.

So, what are the changes a Nokia fanatic (if left to endure) can expect?

- WP7 will sit on Nokia smartphones.

- Nokia will be involved in the future development of this operating system, and they would contribute its expertise on hardware design and language support.

- Microsoft’s search engine Bing will be exclusively used on Nokia devices and Microsoft adCenter would provide search advertising services on Nokia’s line of devices and services.

- In exchange for Bing, Microsoft will do away with their MS Maps and take Nokia Maps onboard.

- Nokia’s content and application store would be integrated with Microsoft Marketplace.

- Nokia will provide Microsoft revenue opportunity. Cell phone users can purchase from MS Marketplace through their Nokia phone, and the cell phone provider would append the charges to the monthly bill.

In retrospect, I am beginning to wonder if this strategy is just what Nokia was looking for in the smartphone business. Their smartphones are outclassed and outnumbered by the iPhones and HTCs. Their market depth is shallow, and adding a powerful OS to their smartphone shoal will definitely count to a resurrection of sorts.

The coming months will clearly indicate how the market would react to this unholy marriage. Unholy may not always mean non-profitable!

press release

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