Samsung Announces Nexus S handset in India

Samsung Electronics, a leading mobile phone provider, made public declaration on Wednesday the launch of Nexus S smartphone in the Indian market. Developed in joint venture with Google, Nexus S is powered by Gingerbread - Android 2.3 platform.



Addressing to media -  Ranjit Yadav, Country Head, Samsung Mobile and IT, said that this was the foremost handset from Samsung with a four-inch super clear curved LCD screen and near field communication (NFC) technology which permitted users to read details from close by tags that were embedded with NFC chips.

The features incorporated Wi-Fi hotspot, true multitasking and access to over 1.50 lakh applications and widgets on Android market.

The phone comes with a 16 GB internal memory and a prevailing battery which offers a talk time of up to 6.7 hours on 3G - 14 hours on 2G and a standby time upto 17.8 days on 3G - 29.7 days on 2G.

India’s Most Recent Satellite Begins Beaming Pictures

World knows that India’s most recent advanced remote sensing satellite - Resourcesat-2 has been launched last week and there is a message from ISRO that it has beamed first set of pictures on Thursday.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that all the three cameras of Resourcesat-2 are ON and very goos and high quality images were established by the National Remote Sensing Centre’s Earth Station, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C16) launched three satellites – the 1,206 kg Resourcesat-2, the 92 kg Youthsat for stellar and atmospheric studies and a 106 kg mini satellite X-SAT for imaging applications on April 20, 2011.

Remote sensing satellites will get back to ground station with pictures and other important data for use. India has the most of remote sensing satellites in the world offering best imagery in a different of spatial resolutions, from over a metre ranging up to 500 metres, and is a major player in dealing such data in the global market.

 

The data is used in different applications covering agriculture, water resources, urban development, mineral prospecting, environment, forestry, drought and flood forecasting, ocean resources and disaster management.

As per statement from ISRO, Resourcesat-2 has multispectral cameras – Advanced Wide-Field Sensor (AWiFS) with 56 meter spatial resolution; the Linear Imaging Self-Scanning Sensor (LISS-III) with 23.5 meter spatial resolution and LISS-IV Camera with 5.8 meter spatial resolution.

As scheduled by ISRO, the cameras were put ON during the satellite’s 115th orbit. The satellite covers a 3,000 km stretch of Indian landmass from Uttarakhand to Kerala. The data from Resourcesat-2 will be made accessible for operation to the users in few weeks time after owed calibration and corroboration.

ISRO had prior said that the accurate booster of Resourcesat-2 has saved around 20 kg of onboard fuel boosting its life span. The satellite at the time of launch was said to have a life span of five years.

Innovative and Latest Twitter version Available for Android

The official Twitter application acquires updated to 2.0.2, which transfers a swarm of most recent developments and tweaks. The official Twitter application for Android, which has a flaxen quantity of bugs, has been patched with a latest update. Twitter version 2.0.2 adds a bundle of latest functionality.

 

The application at the moment includes much required search improvements incorporating tabbed search exhibit and search history controls. At the present it utilizes a further secure SSL connection for data transmit between the device and the network. Furthermore, an all enhanced data management system permits the smartphone to save decisive storage space. All this and some design alternations will make the application friendlier to the eye while operating the accessible space in a much enhanced way. At the moment users will also be able to open links embedded in the tweets unswervingly from where they are without having to copy and paste it in the browser for opening.

The Twitter version can be easily downloaded from the Android Marketplace.

Google Reveals 'Time Machine' to Explore Space and Time

Google has developed a 'Time Machine' with which one can concurrently explore space and time at tremendously elevated resolutions. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have powers the most recent browser technology to generate GigaPan Time Machine, a system that allows spectators to discover gigapixel-scale, high-resolution videos and image series by berating or zooming in and out of the images whereas at once poignant back and forth through time.

Users can use the structure to spotlight in on the information of a booth surrounded by a panorama of a carnival halfway, but also quash time to see how the booth was erected. Or they can gaze at a group of plants sprout, cultivate and flower, shifting viewpoint to observe some plants budge outrageously as they produce while others get eaten by caterpillars. Or, they can scrutiny a computer simulation of the early universe, viewing the gravity functions across 600 million light-years to compact topic in to filaments and lastly in to stars that can be seen by zooming in for a close up.

"With GigaPan Time Machine, you can at the same time explore space and time at tremendously high resolutions," said Illah Nourbakhsh, associate professor of robotics and head of the CREATE Lab.

"Science has always been about tightening your point of view by choosing a meticulous experiment or observation that you think might offer imminent. But this system guarantees what we call comprehensive science, incarcerating enormous amounts of data that can then be explored in astonishing ways," added Nourbakhsh.

An enabling technology for time-lapse GigaPans is a feature of the HTML5 language that has been incorporated into such browsers as Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari. HTML5, the latest revision of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) standard that is at the core of the Internet, makes browsers capable of presenting video content without use of plug-ins such as Adobe Flash or Quicktime.

When the Time Machine GigaPan has been developed, users will able to interpret and save their explorations of it in the form of video ‘Time Warps.’