Aakash Tablet Price $35 in India,Aakash Tablet Full Specifications and Features

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Aakash Tablet-World's Cheapest Tablet

Aakash Tablet Price in India:

The much talked tablet, which was earlier branded as Sakshat Tablet, will be known as Aakash.The Aakash tablet is priced at USD 35 and will be developed by DataWind.The tablet will be officially launched later on Wednesday, by the minister and DataWind, the small British-based company that developed it. The expected price tag is 1,750 rupees.

Datawind is a Canadian based (montreal based) company and not British based Specs:

7-inch display with 800-by-480 pixel resolution, 256MB of RAM, 2GB
flash storage, and a 366MHz processor from Connexant. The tablet runs
the Android 2.2 operating system.




The tablet will also be commercially available from November at a price of Rs 2999. A cellular modem will be the additional feature in the commercial model.
Aakash Tablet Full Specifications and Features:

Specifications:

Hardware:

Processor: 366 Mhz. Connexant with Graphics accelerator and HD Video processor

Memory (RAM): 256MB RAM / Storage (Internal): 2GB Flash

Storage (External): 2GB to 32GB Supported

Peripherals (USB2.0 ports, number): 1 Standard USB port

Audio out: 3.5mm jack / Audio in: 3.5mm jack

Display and Resolution: 7″ display with 800×480 pixel resolution

Input Devices: Resistive touch screen

Connectivity and Networking: GPRS and WiFi IEEE 802.11 a/b/g

Power and Battery: Up to 180 minutes on battery. AC adapter 200-240 volt range.

Software:

 OS: Android 2.2

 Document Rendering

* Supported Document formats: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP

* PDF viewer, Text editor

- Multimedia and Image Display

* Image viewer supported formats: PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF

* Supported audio formats: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA

* Supported video formats: MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV

- Communication and Internet

* Web browser – Standards Compliance: xHTML 1.1 compliant, JavaScript 1.8 compliant

* Separate application for online YouTube video

- Safety and other standards compliance

* CE certification / RoHS certification

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iphone 5 Launch, Apple iphone 5 Launch Date, iphone 5 Price In India, Apple iphone 5 Specifications and Features

iphone 5 Launch, Apple iphone 5 Launch Date, iphone 5 Price In India, Apple iphone 5 Specifications and Features

iphone 5 Launch Date:

iPhone 5 release date might be most buzzing topic among tech geeks. The rumors about the iPhone 5 launch being in October have finally been confirmed: Apple has officially set iPhone 5 launch event for October 4. One of World’s most expected smartphone Apple iPhone 5 may launch on the 21st of November. According to UK retailer Phones4u iPhone 5 will be release on 21st of November.
iphone 5 Launch Date Is 4th october 2011

iphone 5 Price In India:

Price (Indian Rupees): Expected to be around Rs.40,000/- (Approx.)

iphone 5 Specifications and Features:

4-inch display, iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5 Nano are also expected to pack in a A5 or A6 processor. Other rumors include a GSM/CDMA dual-functionality with an eSIM, 4G connectivity, free Mobileme, a slide-out keyboard, a 12-megapixel camera, 3D and NFC capabilities among others.
Supporting Network band: 2G (GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), CDMA 850, 1900 MHz (Sprint), 3G( CDMA EVDO rev.A (Sprint)) HSPA/UMTS 850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz

• Design Type: Candy bar
• CPU: Apple A4 1GHz Processor
• Operating System: Apple iOS 5
• Size of Camera: 8.0 Megapixels
• Digital Zoom, Auto focus
• Resolution of Camera: 3264×2448 pixels
• Video Recording
• Video Calling
• Secondary Camera
• Geo tagging
• LED Flash
• Size of Display: mysterious
• Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
• Input/ User Interface: Retina Display
• Multi Touch
• 3-axis Gyroscope
• Fingerprint/Scratch-resistant oleophobic surface
• Light-Sensor (Ambient)
• Browser: HTML, Safari Browser
• Messaging: MMS, SMS, Push Mail, Email
• Connectivity for Data Transfer: Bluetooth v2.1 with EDR Stereo & USB v2.0
• Connectivity options for Internet: WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz, 3G
• Internal RAM: 512MB RAM
• Internal memory (in built): 16GB / 32GB built-inGPS A-GPS
• 3.5mm stereo headset jack
• Tethering
• No FM Radio
• Digital Compass
• Skype Mobile Video Calling
• Video Editing with iMovie
• Additional Microphone for Noise Cancellation
• Scratch-resistant glass back panel
• Supporting Format of Video: MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, eAAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, Audible
• Audio Formats Support: MPEG4, Motion JPG, MOV, H.264
• Colors variants: Black & White
• Model of Battery: Li-Ion Standard Battery
• Dimension (Size) of Phone: N.A

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Sakshat Tablet PC Price In India | Sakshat Tablet PC Specifications and Features |Sakshat Tablet PC Photos

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Sakshat Tablet PC Price In India:

Sakshat Tablet PC Price In India Expect Rs 1500/-

India released a Rs.1,500 ($30) laptop / Tablet PCfor students and teachers in colleges and Universities. The device is currently not available for sale in the market as government has decided to launch it for students in 2011.

Sakshat Tablet PC Specifications and Features:

The Sakshat tablet PC will have a multi touch resistive touchscreen display with headset control and the memory will be 2 GB DDR2 with a micro-SD slot for expandable memory the battery of the tablet is a lithium-polymer non removable battery.


Here is the specifications of Sakshat Tablet

• 2 GB RAM
• 2 USB 2.0 ports and USB hosts
• in-built keyboard (QWERTY)
• three hours or more uninterrupted operation via battery or batteryless device
• battery charger with adapter
• SD card slot (supports minimum of 8GB)
• support to connect LCD projector
• support for external hard disk drive(minimum 32 GB)
• Ethernet port
• Headphone jack
• Wi-Fi enabled
• Touch Screen Display
• 2 GB of memory using memory card
• webcam (embedded desirable)
• shock resistant casing of suitable form factor for the device
• operating temperature 0 to 48 degrees Celsius
• operated by a 2 watt system
• Android operating system
• Educational software developed at Indian Institute of Technology
• Web browsing Software
• video conferencing software
• word processing software

Sakshat Tablet PC Video:

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ASOS Magazine September 2011: Florrie & iPad Launch‏

ASOS expands its publishing efforts onto the iPad platform, seamlessly integrating editorial, entertainment and shopping, the UK’s largest independent online fashion and beauty retailer, announces the launch of its first iPad application giving free access to the ASOS magazine globally―scheduled for 5th August 2011.

Coinciding with the re-designed September issue of ASOS magazine, the app offers free access to the publication’s editorial content, enabling the reader full shopping capability, 360-degree product views and exclusive rich media content like behind-the-scenes video and music. The ASOS September cover features rising star Florrie, an English female drummer, model, singer and songwriter.

Developed in-house, the app offers seamless integration of free editorial, entertainment and shopping and will be marketed through all ASOS channels to its global customer base of 15 million users.

“This is not just a version of the print edition, or web content, but refreshingly it delivers unique and compelling tablet-based experiences all of its own and is free to download. We’re also working on additional mobile developments in the next few months, resulting in Android and PlayBook versions in time for the Christmas market and menswear focused tip-ons. ASOS is opening its doors to global brands to benefit from the same seamless experience.” Nick Robertson, CEO, ASOS

“Our September issue redesign offers a new look and feel that’s in-sync with ASOS.com and all its channels. We have downsized slightly and now include collectable art posters and inserts, including regular newspaper-style pullouts dedicated to menswear. Inside, there’s more style advice from ASOS, bloggers, writers, musicians, new faces and real girls than ever before, and we continue to champion new talent by featuring up and coming stars such as Florrie, Mickey Sumner, Jazmine Rocks and many more.” Melissa Dick, Head of Editorial, ASOS

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Toshiba Launches Glass Free 3D Notebook

Toshiba is reported to have launched its 3D glasses free notebook, power TV brand of LCD TV and announced business strategy for India, which includes the establishment of an R&D centre at Gurgaon to ‘localize and develop’ new products for India, open a one-stop call centre to support all digital products and expanding its network of Toshiba stores to 6,000, across the country.

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Google Plus|Google launched Google+Project like Facebook |Google introduces Facebook competitor,

New York:  Google took its biggest leap yet onto Facebook's turf on Tuesday, introducing a social networking service called the Google plus  project  which happens to look like Facebook.

The service, which will initially be available only to a select group of Google users who will soon be able to invite others, will let people share and discuss status updates, photos and links.

But the Google+ project will be different from Facebook in one significant way, which Google hopes will be enough to convince people to use yet another social networking service. It is designed for sharing with small groups -- like colleagues, college roommates -- instead of with all of a user's friends or the entire Web. It also offers group messaging and video chat.

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HTC Tablet PC "HTC Flyer" Price RS.39,890 | New Tablet Company in India after Blackbarry and Apple

Smartphone manufacturer, HTC  launched its first tablet in India -- HTC Flyer and it priced at Rs.39,890.
'We saw an opportunity to create a tablet experience that is different, more personal and productive,' said Faisal Siddiqui, country manager, HTC India.

According to the company, the seven-inch touch screen tablet is powered by a 1.5 Ghz processor coupled with HTC sense -- a graphical user interface which combines natural touch and pen interaction.

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Smart Phone can be uesd as TV Remote | Turning your smartphone into a smarter TV remote |My 24News

Maksim Ioffe was sitting around his San Francisco living room watching TV one day in 2009 when he noted how ridiculous it was that on his coffee table were no less than five remote controls. He thought to himself, "This has got to go."

But instead of replacing them all with yet another remote, he looked to something he already owned: his smartphone.

Fast forward to 2011, and that germ of an idea two years ago has spawned the Dijit Universal Remote App, which turns an iPhone--or iPod Touch, iPad, or Android phone--into a remote control.

Ioffe is not alone in looking for ways to substitute the smartphone for a remote control. There's actually a whole crop of companies that are trying to break into what some are calling the "smart-remote" business by taking advantage of the device that one-third of all U.S. cell phone owners already have on hand.

There's no agreed-on standard just yet for how best to replace the ubiquitous multibuttoned plastic living room staple. Different approaches are being offered, from free apps that control individual devices, like just your TV or just your set-top box, to a hardware accessory paired with an accompanying app that lets you control both "dumb" devices that only take infrared input and "smart" or Internet-connected devices in your home entertainment setup.

The cost can vary depending on the solution, from free to about $100. The appeal is the convenience: you probably already own a smartphone. And then there's the vast potential that the smartphone, really a minicomputer, brings to the coffee table: a bright screen with rich graphics, the ability to customize onscreen buttons as you wish, and the power of the Web to help you discover new programming or filter for just the stuff you like.

Of course there will be home theater devotees who insist they just can't give up their fancy 80-button universal remote, but there are plenty of advantages that could prove tempting for others looking for a simple and decidedly 21st century solution.

Take it from Tom Cullen, one of the founders of Sonos, the whole-house music system trailblazer that started nine years ago. As part of the Sonos system, the company also sells a $350 dedicated remote and has a free iPhone or Android app. Guess which one most people go for?

"When we started, our own physical controller was what we sold to 100 percent of our customers," said Cullen in a phone interview last week. "Today 20 percent of new customers use a dedicated Sonos controller."

In other words, the rest of them, or 8 out of 10 new buyers, choose to just use the free iPhone or Android app now with their new Sonos system. "It's extraordinary how it's moved," he said. And he and others within the company credit their first iPhone app as "one of the most important things that ever happened to us."

The customer response Sonos saw could easily be considered a case study for where the smart-remote business could go some day.

What are the options?
Most Internet-connected or "smart" TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, and others make single-purpose Android and iOS apps that will control their TVs from a phone, tablet, or iPod Touch. TiVo has an iPad app--with an iPhone version coming soon--and of course Apple has its own Remote app that can control Apple TV and iTunes over your Wi-Fi network.

There are also apps that come paired with a piece of hardware that connects to the phone's headphone jack. My TV Remote is a $10 round dongle that plugs into an iPhone. The accompanying free app enables customizable remote buttons on screen for TVs and a variety of set-top boxes, allows users to search for shows in a program guide on the phone, and gives users the ability to see what friends are watching, chat with friends in the app, and comment on the shows.

The L5 Remote is a little more basic: it's a $50 hardware attachment that also turns an iPhone into a universal remote for most home entertainment devices that use IR (infrared) signals. It's also programmable, so you can delete buttons you don't use and save and back up different remote configurations you create.

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Microsoft to test white-space spectrum for wireless | New Band for Super Wi-fi|My 24News

A Microsoft-led consortium will begin a test in Britain this week to investigate how unused TV spectrum could be employed for new wireless broadband networks, according to a Financial Times report.

The group, which includes the BBC, British Sky Broadcasting, and telecommunications giant BT, hopes to tap "white spaces" to create "super Wi-Fi" networks to sate bandwidth-hungry smartphones, according to the report.



"Spectrum is a finite natural resource. We can't make more and we must use it efficiently and wisely," Dan Reed, Microsoft's vice president of technology policy and strategy, told the newspaper. "The TV white spaces offer tremendous potential to extend the benefits of wireless connectivity to many more people, in more locations, through the creation of super Wi-Fi networks."

The 300MHz to 400MHz of unused "white space" spectrum is considered prime spectrum for offering wireless broadband services because it can travel long distances and penetrate through walls. The Federal Communications Commission unanimously agreed in November 2008 to open up this spectrum for unlicensed use.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and others have compared the white-space market to Wi-Fi--a $4 billion-a-year industry that also does not require a spectrum license. Last year, Microsoft commissioned research that suggests white-space applications may generate $3.9 billion to $7.3 billion in economic value each year.

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Japanese 'K' Computer is World's most Powerful computer |2nd Chinese Computer

SAN FRANCISCO — In the rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, a Japanese machine has earned the top spot with a performance that essentially laps the competition.

The computer, known as “K Computer,” is three times faster than a Chinese rival that previously held the top position, said Jack Dongarra, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville who keeps the official rankings of computer performance. 


Where is 'k' computer built?
A: K, built by Fujitsu and located at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, represents a giant leap forward in speed. It will also undoubtedly be a source of national pride for Japan, at least among computer scientists, who take the race for fastest computer quite seriously.

It’s a very impressive machine,” Mr. Dongarra said. “It’s a lot more powerful than the other computers.”
The latest ranking of the top 500 computers, to be released Monday, is determined by running a standard mathematical equation. The winning computer was able to make 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second, or in more technical terms, 8.2 petaflops.
The performance of K is equivalent to linking around one million desktop computers.

Usage of supercomputers:-
Supercomputers are used for earthquake simulations, climate modeling, nuclear research and weapons development and testing, among other things. Businesses also use the machines for oil exploration and rapid stock trading.

Rank:
2nd Rank:
China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer, at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, to second place.
3rd Rank:
The fastest computer in the United States, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Next Powerful supercomputer:

Mr. Dongarra said a computer called Blue Waters, being developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, may rival K in speed.  

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A new Stronger Internet Security is Deployed |secure DNS or DNSSEC

A small group of Internet security specialists gathered in Singapore this week to start up a global system to make e-mail and e-commerce more secure, end the proliferation of passwords and raise the bar significantly for Internet scam artists, spies and troublemakers.

The Singapore event included an elaborate technical ceremony to create and then securely store numerical keys that will be kept in three hardened data centers there, in Zurich and in San Jose, Calif. The keys and data centers are working parts of a technology known as Secure DNS, or DNSSEC. DNS refers to the Domain Name System, which is a directory that connects names to numerical Internet addresses.

The event in Singapore capped a process that began more than a year ago and is expected to be complete after 300 so-called top-level domains have been digitally signed, around the end of the year. Before the Singapore event, 70 countries had adopted the technology, and 14 more were added as part of the event. While large countries are generally doing the technical work to include their own domains in the system, the consortium of Internet security specialists is helping smaller countries and organizations with the process.

“In the very long term it will be voice-over-I.P. that will benefit the most,” said Bill Woodcock, research director at the Packet Clearing House, a group based in Berkeley, Calif., that is assisting Icann, the Internet governance organization, in deploying Secure DNS.

the authors of the Stuxnet computer worm that was used to attack the Iranian uranium processing facility at Natanz were able to steal authentic digital certificates from Taiwanese technology companies. The certificates were used to help the worm evade digital defenses intended to block malware.

In March, Comodo, a firm that markets digital certificates, said it had been attacked by a hacker based in Iran who was trying to use the stolen documents to masquerade as companies like Google, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo.

“At some point the trust gets diluted, and it’s just not as good as it used to be,” said Rick Lamb, the manager of Icann’s Secure DNS program.

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Indian IPad "Sakshat" Tablet to be launch June 2011 | Only 1500 of IPad in India

It's being announced that the "Sakshat" (which sounds conspicuously dirty in Americanese), the $35 tablet codenamed 'Sakshat' is expected to launch by the end of this month.And there's nothing desi about it; the tablet is made by Canadian firm Datawind Ltd.

The7-inch touchscreen tablet features a inbuilt keyboard, video conferencing facility, multimedia content, Wi-Fi, USB port, 32GB hard drive and a 2GB RAM. There's support for Open Office, SciLab and Internet browsing.


Specification :

QWERTY keyboard, mouse and a
minimum display of 7” colour LCD/TFT (touchscreen optional)

2 USB 2.0 ports and USB hosts

batteryless device

SD card slot (8GB expandable memory)

Support to connect LCD projector

Support for external hard disk drive (Minimum 32 GB)

Ethernet port

WLAN

80% shock resistant

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Nokia launches new Smart Phone N9 | Photos of N9 | Nokia's new Phone Browser

Nokia launches new smart phone N9 and also inbuilt Nokia Mobile Browser with 90% compression.

Mobile phone-maker company Nokia today announced the "beginning of a new era" for the company with the launch of four new mobile phones like Nokia N9 smart Phone, including a full-screen touch-based smartphone. "Earlier this year, we outlined a comprehensive strategy to change our course," said Stephen Elop, the president and CEO of Nokia. "Innovation is at the heart of our strategy and today we took important steps to demonstrate a new pace of innovation at Nokia. It''s the beginning of a new era for Nokia," he added. less

Nokia revealed its latest smartphone, the Nokia N9, an all-screen device that will allow user to navigate the phone by swiping on the screen. "The phone application will follow direction of the finger on the screen," Nokia Senior Vice-President, Design, Marko Ahtisaari said.

Nokia today announced its own internet browser and these phones have the Nokia browser loaded on it. "Nokia browser can compress data size up to 90 per cent. All phones to be shipped in future will Nokia browser loaded on them," Nokia Executive Vice-President, Mobile Phones, Mary McDowell said.

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Report: Facebook users more trusting, engaged | Facebook new survey

A new survey is countering views that social networks isolate people.

According to the study from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, Facebook users are more trusting, have more close friends and get more social support than their non-networked counterparts.

The survey released Thursday found that, when all else is equal, people who use Facebook have 9 percent more close ties in their overall social network than other Internet users.



Facebook users are also more politically engaged than people who are not on Facebook, says the survey, conducted among 2,255 adults from Oct. 20 to Nov. 28, 2010.

Social networks are more prevalent than ever. Of U.S. Internet users, 59 percent use at least one social network. That's up from 34 percent in 2008.

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Google launches voice search on desktop

San Francisco: Making Google search requests on many office and home computers soon won't require a keyboard.

A feature announced Tuesday will allow people to speak their search requests while sitting in front of their desktop computers just as they already can on smartphones running on Google Inc.'s Android software.

The spoken-request option will be available only on Google's Chrome browser. It will be activated by clicking on a microphone icon inside Google's search box. Chrome users will get the new feature within the next few days.



Google also unveiled a way to get results by dragging digital images into its search box.

The technological tricks are the latest Google innovations aimed at making it quicker and easier to search.

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Airbus unveils transparent airplane by 2050

Airbus invites the passengers of 2050 to discover its Concept Cabin - a whole new flying experience inspired by nature. Charles Champion, Airbus Executive Vice President Engineering, says: “Our research shows that passengers of 2050 will expect a seamless travel experience while also caring for the environment. The Airbus Concept Cabin is designed with that in mind, and shows that the journey can be as much a voyage of discovery as the destination. Whichever flight experience is chosen, the passenger of 2050 will step out of the Airbus Concept Cabin feeling revitalised and enriched.”

 

for more info visit www.airbus.com

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Chris Messina invented the hashtag |Twitter’s Secret Handshake

Hashtags, words or phrases preceded by the # symbol, have been popularized on Twitter as a way for users to organize and search messages. So, for instance, people tweeting about Representative Anthony D. Weiner might add the hashtag #Weinergate to their messages, and those curious about the latest developments in the scandal could simply search for #Weinergate. Or Justin Bieber fans might use #Bieber to find fellow Beliebers.

But already, hashtags have transcended the 140-characters-or-less microblogging platform, and have become a new cultural shorthand, finding their way into chat windows, e-mail and face-to-face conversations.



This year on Super Bowl Sunday, Audi broadcast a new commercial featuring a hashtag, #ProgressIs, that flashed on the screen and urged viewers to complete the “Progress Is” prompt on Twitter for the chance to win a prize. Then, in Canada’s English-language federal election debate in April, Jack Layton, the leader of the New Democratic Party, set the Canadian Twitterverse aflame when he attacked Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s crime policies, calling them “a hashtag fail.”

And when Chris Messina, a developer advocate at Google, wanted to introduce two friends over e-mail, he wrote #Introduction in the subject line. No need, he explained, for a long preamble when a quick, to-the-point hashtag would do.

Then again, Mr. Messina is no ordinary Twitter user. The self-described “hash godfather,” he officially invented the Twitter hashtag in August 2007, when he sent out a Twitter message suggesting that the pound symbol be used for organizing groups on Twitter. (For example, if attendees at the South by Southwest music and technology conference all add #sxsw to their messages, they can more easily search and sort themselves on Twitter.) Though the idea took awhile to catch on, it quickly snowballed — on Twitter and offline.

“At first, people who weren’t using Twitter were saying: ‘What’s this pound sign? Why am I seeing it?’ ” said Ginger Wilcox, a founder of the Social Media Marketing Institute. “I would say 2010 was really the year of the hashtag.”

Soon, people began using hashtags to add humor, context and interior monologues to their messages — and everyday conversation. As Susan Orlean wrote in a New Yorker blog post titled “Hash,” the symbol can be “a more sophisticated, verbal version of the dread winking emoticon that tweens use to signify that they’re joking.”

“Because you have a hashtag embedded in a short message with real language, it starts exhibiting other characteristics of natural language, which means basically that people start playing with it and manipulating it,” said Jacob Eisenstein, a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in computational linguistics. “You’ll see them used as humor, as sort of meta-commentary, where you’ll write a message and maybe you don’t really believe it, and what you really think is in the hashtag.”

So, for instance, a messages that reads “3 hour delay on Amtrak #StimulusDollarsAtWork,” likely implies that the user does not, in fact, think that their stimulus dollars are hard at work.

Hashtags then began popping up outside of Twitter, in e-mails, chat windows and text messages. When Adam Sharp was hired as Twitter’s Washington liaison, he said he received a number of e-mails wishing him well — and, of course, #congrats.

In a time-crunched world, the hashtag proved itself a useful shorthand. “If Twitter is a compression of ideas and a compression of expression, then hashtags are just an extension of that, so of course it bleeds over into other forms of communication, because our time is compressed, our thoughts are compressed and our space is compressed,” said Tracy Sefl, a Democratic strategist. “In Washington, it’s a very happy extension of an acronym-happy culture.”

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Technology and the Political Sex Scandal | The Newyork times

In 1791, while serving as secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton began an affair with Maria Reynolds, being blackmailed by her husband for several years to allow it to continue. When a muckraker exposed the affair and the cover-up, Hamilton turned to the communications technology of the day to defend himself, publishing a pamphlet in which he argued that he had never abused any public resources.

More than two centuries and many scandals later, Twitter has replaced pamphlets as the medium of the moment – and become the new means for politicians to engage in sexual misconduct. Now, it is Representative Anthony D. Weiner, under pressure to resign after he first denied and then admitted “sexting” lewd messages and pictures of himself in his underwear via Twitter to college students and a porn star, among other young women. (The New York Democrat has defended himself — plus ça change — by arguing that he did not abuse public resources in his misdeeds.)

Certainly there are things particular to Washington that make sex scandals as predictable as swampy weather in July — and to politicians in general, especially lately, as the recent scandals involving Arnold Schwarzenegger (child out of wedlock) and John Edwards (child out of wedlock, and last week indicted for allegedly lying over his affair) have served to remind.

But technology keeps adding new and in many ways more seductive temptations to the mix. And this is happening at a time when, many argue, a more prying press corps, stricter public standards and greater partisanship have combined to make Washington oddly more puritanical than it once was. Hamilton, after all, had confessed his affair to investigators in Congress several years before he was actually exposed for it. But 15 years after the House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton, revealing lurid details of his sexual dalliances with a White House intern, most politicians now know that they can’t count on the press or their peers to stay silent about straying.

The Internet, with its promise of simultaneous intimacy and distance, offers a new way to flout moral strictures.

“The tweeting seems as though it restores a degree of anonymity,” said Suzanne Garment, whose 1991 book, “Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics” keeps proving its relevance. “After Watergate and the women’s movement, it became much less permissible to act this way, but technology seems to have restored this veil, or the sense that there is a veil. People don’t meet in hotels, they tweet.”

In 1974, when Wilbur Mills, the powerful Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was caught cavorting with an Argentine stripper who performed under the name Fanne Foxe, it was only because she had jumped into the Potomac River tidal basin after the police had stopped Mills for driving without his lights on. “If she hadn’t dumped herself in the water, probably they wouldn’t have gotten caught,” Ms. Garment said. “They were running all over Washington, but people weren’t looking in the same way then.”

If politicians recognize that they can’t get away with hard drinking and carousing in public, some have simply found new outlets for bad behavior online. They may understand that they cannot be seen leaving a party with a lobbyist of the opposite sex, but sending raunchy pictures online at midnight seems somehow different.

“My guess is that the behavior is not more strait-laced, but the coverage and the newsworthiness of this is what has changed,” said Thomas Mann, an expert on Congress at the Brookings Institution and a longtime observer of Washington. “The opportunities for titillating relationships that don’t involve affairs, per se, have increased. So there is potential for exposure.”

In 2006, Representative Mark Foley, a Republican from Florida, was caught sending sexually explicit messages online to underage congressional pages. In February, Representative Christopher Lee, a Republican from upstate New York, resigned after he was revealed to have posted a shirtless photo of himself on a dating site (his description of himself failed to mention that he was married, much less a congressman).

“It’s fascinating the extent to which the warnings about the high risk of exposure and severe political damage have not dissuaded some people,” Mr. Mann said.

So why doesn’t memory last as long as it takes to hit send?

Part of that has to do with politics, which self-selects for people with risk-taking behavior and a high degree of self-regard.

“The mere fact that you’re willing to put your name on the ballot and have people vote you up or down takes an enormous amount of self-confidence,” said Chris Lehane, a Democratic political strategist who has been watching the Weiner scandal unfold from a Hollywood set, where he is helping make a movie about — surprise — politicians involved in sex scandals. “The flip side of that is that type of personality and that sense of confidence in your own decisions allows them to make reckless decisions. It’s the Icarus phenomenon: you think you have wings and you can fly up to the sun and down to the water. Sometimes you get burned, and then you sink.”

Doug Sosnik, who was a senior adviser to President Clinton during his impeachment, notes another reason that politicians stray: “Because they can.” And the public sometimes turns a jaded eye from scandals, deeming them private. (Even when a politician is punished for sexual transgressions, there can be a second act. Witness Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as governor of New York after he was revealed as a repeat client of a high-end escort service, and has been commenting on the recent spate of sex scandals as the host of his own show on CNN.)

At some point, though, a line is crossed. And the lines between acceptable and unacceptable behavior with technology are becoming clearer.

“It’s really a new frontier,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster. “There was a temporary honeymoon where people thought this was the way to go, and they’re seeing pretty fast that it doesn’t work.”

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At Qualcomm, Rise of Founder’s Son Defies Hazards of Succession

SAN DIEGO — When Paul E. Jacobs took over from his father as chief executive of the chip maker Qualcomm in 2005, mobile phones were just beginning their transition from tools for talking to hand-held computers delivering data and entertainment.
Irwin Jacobs, the founder of Qualcomm, retired as chief executive in March 2005, handing the reins to his son Paul.



“We talk about the future of computing being mobile, but I don’t feel that way,” said Mr. Jacobs, 48. “I feel the present of computing is mobile.”

Mr. Jacobs has spent the last six years expanding Qualcomm’s business beyond his father’s tight focus on the digital wireless technology known as C.D.M.A. (code division multiple access).

While Irwin Jacobs, 77, the M.I.T. professor and electronics wizard who founded the company in 1985 and retired in 2005, was known for his dogged defense of the company’s intellectual property, his son Paul is more prone to talk breathlessly about a connected world where mobile devices diagnose our illnesses, turn on our lights, control our thermostats and allow doctors to remotely monitor our health in real time.

Such a family succession in publicly traded companies is rare; Ford Motor and Comcast come to mind. For it to succeed is rarer still.

Corporate governance specialists often disapprove of such successions. But the younger Mr. Jacobs has positioned Qualcomm, which builds chips for mobile devices, to lead the smartphone chip market as consumers increasingly do their computing in their palms and not tethered to their desks.

Last year Qualcomm dominated a diverse field of smartphone chip makers with 41 percent of the total market share in terms of revenue and nearly 61 percent of the market share for application processors used in smartphones powered by Google’s Android operating system, according to the market research firm Strategy Analytics.

Part of the company’s success is that the market for smartphones has been so robust. In 2010, smartphone shipments shot up 74 percent over the year before, while the market for PCs increased just 14 percent, according to the market research firm IDC.

Such huge growth in hand-held computers has rival chip makers like Intel, Nvidia, Samsung and Texas Instruments in a tight race to build smaller, more power-efficient chips, capable of running the increasingly complex apps, location-based services and graphics consumers have come to expect in their phones. Intel, which dominated PC chips, is late to this market, so it is anyone’s game to win.

Qualcomm’s strategy has been to create high-function, low-powered chip sets for smartphones and tablets that connect with other devices in various ways — a feat that has thus far largely eluded Intel. Qualcomm’s ARM-based Snapdragon chips are just such all-in-one processors.

“Qualcomm has a two- or three-year advantage in terms of integration,” said Stuart Robinson, an analyst at Strategy Analytics.

Qualcomm managed a leadership feat unusual in the modern business environment.

“Qualcomm has been able to do the handoff from father to son that most other companies have not been able to do,” said Cody Acree, an analyst at the Williams Financial Group who has covered Qualcomm and the chip industry for more than a decade.

“Paul is an engineer who owns patents in his own right and was a brilliant technologist before moving into this position,” he said. “And I think the industry as a whole respected him, knowing he was not just being given the job because it was his dad’s.”

Still, the stigma of nepotism trailed Mr. Jacobs. “I could walk into a room and people would just underestimate me. ‘You’re the son of Irwin,’ ” he said. “They would think, ‘This person is only here because of that.’ ”

The third of four sons, Mr. Jacobs took to computers early, learning to program in middle school on a Teletype terminal. Beginning in seventh grade he worked part time at Linkabit, another technology company founded by his father, which made communications equipment for the military. During college he worked summers at Qualcomm.

“Another thing that my father did for me was that every summer I worked in another area of engineering, so that by the time I went to college, I had done almost every kind of engineering there was,” said Mr. Jacobs, who went on to earn a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on robotics.

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Google chrome OS ready for sale in june | Android not merging with Chrome: Google

TAIPEI: Google Inc, the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, will keep the focus of its Chrome operating system on notebooks for now, a senior executive said.

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president for Chrome, made the comment at a news conference during the Computex PC show in Taipei in response to a question on whether Chrome would also be available for tablet PCs.

He also said the company had no current plans to merge Chrome with its Android system for mobile devices.

Web-centric PCs, made by Samsung and Acer Inc using Google's Chrome operating system will go on sale in June, as it challenges Microsoft Corp and Apple on their home turf.

The bare-bones operating system is essentially a web browser that steers users to use applications like email and spreadsheets directly on the web, instead of storing software such as Outlook or Word directly on PCs.

The fast-growing market for smartphones and tablets using Google's Android operating system has quickly taken center stage for the Internet heavyweight, and some observers say Google should reconcile or merge the two.

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