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Apple was ’supposed’ to release the new OS for iPhone Ver. 3.0 today. I have been waiting since last night to upgrade my device since this new version is ’supposed’ to give my 3G iPhone some really cool divine powers!! You know..copy/paste, landscape keyboard, push notification, turn by turn gps guidance and stuff. The stuff that geeks like me with no social life dream of!
As for the wait for 3.0..since I am in the same timezone as that of Apple HQ at (Cupertino) I expected that I will get the SW as soon as the date rolls over at midnight. But apparently that’s not the case. Its 7 am in the morning and still no news of the new OS. Gotta go to the office now. Hopefully they will release the sw during the day and I will upgrade my device in the evening when I get back home.
Last weekend while returning from Target we drove past Krispy Kreme and guess what. the “HOT” sign was glowing bright. That meant that I HAD TO stop and have some of those yummy hot n fresh original glazed Donuts.
For the uninitiated – Krispy Kreme is the most famous Donut chain in US and twice a day they switch ON the ‘HOT’ neon sign placed outside every Krispy Kreme store. When this sign is glowing it means that they are making original glazed Donuts at right that moment. You can go in and watch how the Donuts are being made and enjoy the yummy hot donuts.
By the time we parked and got in, the line was already quite long. So while we were waiting for our turn I clicked some pics of their Donut ‘assembly line’.
THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.
At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.
The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.
David Britton, professor of physics at Glasgow University and a leading figure in the grid project, believes grid technologies could “revolutionise” society. “With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine,” he said.
The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their “red button” day – the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates.
Cern, based near Geneva, started the grid computing project seven years ago when researchers realised the LHC would generate annual data equivalent to 56m CDs – enough to make a stack 40 miles high.
This meant that scientists at Cern – where Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989 – would no longer be able to use his creation for fear of causing a global collapse.
This is because the internet has evolved by linking together a hotchpotch of cables and routing equipment, much of which was originally designed for telephone calls and therefore lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission.
By contrast, the grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years.
Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of the grid project, said: “We need so much processing power, there would even be an issue about getting enough electricity to run the computers if they were all at Cern. The only answer was a new network powerful enough to send the data instantly to research centres in other countries.”
That network, in effect a parallel internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world.
One terminates at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire.
From each centre, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions using existing high-speed academic networks.
It means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system – so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn.
Source: Timesonline
3rd April, 1973: Martin Cooper of Motorola uses the first portable handset … to make the first cellphone call … to his rival at Bell Labs. Rub it in.If you wanted to make a mobile-phone call in those days, you might have a radiophone in your car. You’d need to spend thousands of dollars, stash about 30 pounds of equipment in your trunk and install a special antenna.Bell Laboratories (then the research division of AT&T and now part of Alcatel-Lucent) had conceptualized cellular communications in 1947. But it was locked in a competition with Motorola in the ’60s and ’70s to go truly portable.At Motorola, Cooper and designer Rudy Krolopp worked on the "shoe" phone, using many of the company’s existing electronics patents. They produced the Motorola DynaTAC (for DYNamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage): 9 inches tall, 2½ pounds, with 30 circuit boards. You could talk for 35 minutes, and it took 10 hours to recharge.Cooper set up a cellular base station in New York and made his first call to Joel Engel, Bell Labs’ research chief. Ouch.Cooper recalls: "I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter — probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life."Motorola spent another 10 years to get the cellphone over technological and regulatory hurdles. Commercial service started in 1983, with a slimmed-down, 16-ounce DynaTAC. First adopters paid $3,500 for the phone ($7,400 in today’s money). It was 1990 before cellphone service reached a million U.S. subscribers.The world’s lightest cellphone is now the Modu at just 1.41 ounces. The world’s cheapest are free, if you sign a two-year service plan.
Source: Wired.com
Below is an interesting article I found on Mutiny.in regarding the hidden features that might be integrated specially for India edition of Apple iPhone:-
Apparently, Apple Inc is secretly working on a draft plan to release a customised iPhone to capture the Indian market. Mutiny.in has obtained some exclusive information about a ’special button’ that activates a plethora of amazing features.
Special Features:
MMSi
Miss-call Management Service Integrated allows you to make calls to friends without giving them a milli-second to pick up your call.
IRK
Irritating Ringtone Killer allows you drain the battery of the offending phones in your area.
MVMS
Misleading Voice Message Generator plays auto generated voice messages to your boss/parents/wife leading them to think that your phone is busy or out of coverage area.
GPMS
Gutter & Pothole Manouevering System gives you updated reports on the size, depth and physical state of gutters and potholes on your way to work.
EFDM
Emergency Feign Death Mode is activated automatically once a user in your STL (Suspicious Tresspasser List) like your dad or mom attempts to access the recent call history or some private folders.
RCWWP
Replace Current Wallpaper with Wife’s Photo mode is well, self-explanatory.
BCPWS
Bulk Conversion of all Pirated Windows Softwares is included considering public demand.
Note: Requests to imprint the price of the phone on the back will be considered in the next release.
Source:- Mutiny.in
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