Can Google, Motorola deal hamper Apple?

Google's smash hit deal to buy Motorola mobility for $12.5 Billion has created a fuss around analysts, critics and industry observers. The commotion is all about will this deal have an impact on Apple's business and on the mobile industry. The Apple's stock value has become a question for the future and for the other companies in mobile market.


After the announcement of Google obtaining Motorola mobility, the Apple's share value increased. On August 16th there was a downfall in Apple's share. The Wall Street and Main Street says that this deal will not be affecting Apple in anyway. The iPhone will be topping the list in mobile space.
But, there are chances for Apple to be affected by the Google's deal. The 10 reasons are listed below:

1.Motorola Smartphones had good reputation in market:
Motorola mobility was a good competitor for Apple and other mobile companies in mobile space even before the Google's announcement about the acquisition. The Motorola Android phones were of good quality and were available in affordable prices. They had good options for the customers who never wanted to own an iPhone. Now this Google- Motorola deal may lead to the enhancement of the quality and features of the mobiles which can affect the demand of iPhones in market. 2.Google is rich:
The monetary issue was a major problem for Motorola mobility. It was unable to invest money on their mobile product features, whereas Apple's investment on their iPhones always kept their competitors off shore. Google has money and if they invest on the Motorola mobility in a healthy way they can improve the devices by using the best technologies similar to Apple iPhones. So the money spurring battle is sure to take place.
  3.Increase in demand of Android phones:
The customers of android phones are increasing day by day which can harm the demand of iOS, BlackBerry OS and other mobile OS. Now the Motorola mobility in the hands of Google, the improvement in OS is possible as Google owns Android and people have Goodwill for the Google's product which can affect the sales of iPhones.
4.Apple has to compete with two Android dealers:
Samsung was the only major competitor of apple in mobile space and was the only mobile company whose sales matched the sales of iPhones. Now Motorola's tie up with Google can increase the demand of their Cellphones as customers have an option of another Android phone. So now it will be Samsung and Motorola who will be giving a tough competition to Apple phones. This doubles the worry of Apple in mobile space.

Google Maps adds a weather layer

 Internet search giant Google is providing current weather information and cloud data from across the world on its Google Maps application, a move that will hopefully make travel and activity planning easier.

“We’re adding a weather layer on Google Maps that displays current temperatures and conditions around the globe,” Google User Experience Designer Jonah Jones said in a blog post on Thursday.

The company is providing this facility through an arrangement with weather.com and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

The information about weather is visible through a widget in the upper right corner of Google Maps. Clicking on the weather icon for a particular city opens a window with data like current humidity and wind conditions, as well as a forecast for the next four days.

In addition, users can also click on the left-hand panel to change the units for measurement of wind speed and temperature and enable or disable the viewing of clouds when zoomed out from the map. 

Google tricks you didn’t know about

We all know how to search on Google. But not many of us know the tips and tricks that can make Google searches better and in easier on Google.

Having an alternative to something as useful and vast as Google can help us anytime, anywhere. We bring you eight alternative ways to search the most searched engine: We all know how to search on Google. But not many of us know the tips and tricks that can make Google searches better and in easier on Google.

Having an alternative to something as useful and vast as Google can help us anytime, anywhere. We bGoogle’s ‘What Do You Love’ service is a one-stop-shop destination for all its other services. It collates data from all its services such as YouTube, Translate, Images and News and to you at a single place and in a single click. ring you eight alternative ways to search the most searched engine: Having a hard time reading searching on your mobile? Screen is not large enough to accommodate Google’s advertisements, sidebars, images, et al.? Type Google.com/m in your browser to access a cleaner version of the site, minus all its ‘unnecessary’ frills. Wish you could look at the two most prominent search engines side-by-side saving you considerable amount of time and energy? Yes you can do it.

You can check your search results on both Bing and Google at the same time on www.bing-vs-google.com. On the same page you will get the information displayed on both the sites. This alternative way to search Google will, for once, remind you of your HTML lessons. Goosh.org is a Google-interface that behaves similarly to a unix shell. Written by Stefan Grothkopp, Goosh calls itself ‘the unofficial Google shell.’ Users can type commands such as ‘video’ or ‘news’ to obtain results from a particular Google service. Results can be accessed by clicking on their respective links or their numbers can be typed in Goosh. To see more results type ‘more’.

Forget .coms, your name alone can be an internet address

Forget confusing web addresses. Soon if you just type SBI on your browser you can to go to the web site of the State Bank of India or by merely typing SpiceJet, the airline’s portal opens before you —— no .com, .net, .in, .org or .edu.

The way you surf the net is set for another revolution. The global non—profit organisation that oversees domain addresses is lifting the restrictions on suffixes, which will enable companies and people to personalise their presence on the web even further.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will open up the new domain name system beyond the current 22 generic domains such as .com, .gov, .info, .biz, or .int to just about anything. These will be supplemented by thousands in virtually any language.

But this is where the happy story ends.

The application money alone will set you back by $185,000 (Rs.85 lakh) and more for the process. The window for applying will be open for four months starting Jan 1. And if you miss the bus, it is uncertain when fresh applications will be accepted.

“You can call the fee steep. But look at the potential. It creates a separate level of branding,” said Jasjit Sawhney, chief executive of Net4 India, one of the largest web hosting providers, and among those authorised to register domain names in India.

“For established names, it creates a separate level of branding. There is no doubt a few thousands of top global brands will go for this. In their overall spend, this will just be a drop in the ocean,” Sawhney told IANS.

“Now, it is very easy to go phishing, hijacking people’s identities and diverting them to another place. If you register sbicreditcardschennai.com and place an SBI logo on the page, it will look authentic and easily misguide users to this domain address,” he said.

“But if SBI itself is the extension, there is no chance of deception.”

For the new domain extensions, three categories will be permitted - based on the brand or firm names, generic names and community or geographical names. But domain names like India will be reserved for the government - but get it only if it applies.

“For some government bodies, it can also become a significant revenue model as they can sell domain prefixes. We are already in discussions with four state governments,” said Sahwney, but declined to name them.

“Then there are the generic domains which do not belong to anybody. These would be like .web, .food, or .shoes. There is going to be a frenzy for these. They will be auctioned and my bet is each of them would fetch over $10 million,” he added.

Accordingly, smaller players - say, someone running a stand—alone restaurant - can buy a prefix of the entity’s name from whoever has the rights for the generic names of food or restaurant.

“These will, of course, come cheap. My guess is as low as $5—$10.”

Russia to launch 'space hotel' with 'intergalactic view'

A Russian company has unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a ‘space hotel’ in orbit 217 miles up which would have huge windows for views of the Earth turning below.

A five—day stay in the hotel, which would house seven guests in four cabins, would cost 100,000 pounds, on top of 500,000 pounds for journey, the Daily Mail reports.

Orbital Technologies will construct the hotel, and has claimed that it will be ‘far more comfortable’ than the International Space Station used by astronauts and cosmonauts. In the weightlessness of space, visitors can choose to have beds that are either vertical or horizontal.

Tourists, who will be accompanied by experienced crew, will dine on food prepared on Earth and sent up on the rocket, to be reheated in microwave ovens, the paper said.

The freeze—dried tubes of nourishment given to astronauts would be replaced by delicacies such as braised veal cheeks with wild mushrooms, white bean puree, potato soup and plum compote.

Iced tea, mineral water and fruit juices will be available, but alcohol will be strictly prohibited. Toilets will use flowing air instead of water to move waste through the system. Waste water will be recycled, while the air will be filtered to remove odour and bacteria and then returned to the cabin.

A plan for the hotel to be used as an emergency bolthole for astronauts aboard the International Space Station if there is a crisis, rather than bringing them all the way back to Earth is also underway, the paper said.

Hybrid Solar System Makes Rooftop Hydrogen - New Discovery For Energy Generation

While roofs across the world sport photovoltaic solar panels to convert sunlight into electricity, a Duke University engineer believes a novel hybrid system can wring even more useful energy out of the sun's rays.Instead of systems based on standard solar panels, Duke engineer Nico Hotz proposes a hybrid option in which sunlight heats a combination of water and methanol in a maze of glass tubes on a rooftop. After two catalytic reactions, the system produces hydrogen much more efficiently than current technology without significant impurities. The resulting hydrogen can be stored and used on demand in fuel cells.

For his analysis, Hotz compared the hybrid system to three different technologies in terms of their exergetic performance. Exergy is a way of describing how much of a given quantity of energy can theoretically be converted to useful work.

"The hybrid system achieved exergetic efficiencies of 28.5 percent in the summer and 18.5 percent in the winter, compared to 5 to 15 percent for the conventional systems in the summer, and 2.5 to 5 percent in the winter," said Hotz, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering.

The paper describing the results of Hotz's analysis was named the top paper during the ASME Energy Sustainability Fuel Cell 2011 conference in Washington, D.C. Hotz recently joined the Duke faculty after completing post-graduate work at the University of California-Berkeley, where he analyzed a model of the new system. He is currently constructing one of the systems at Duke to test whether or not the theoretical efficiencies are born out experimentally.

Hotz's comparisons took place during the months of July and February in order to measure each system's performance during summer and winter months.

Like other solar-based systems, the hybrid system begins with the collection of sunlight. Then things get different. While the hybrid device might look like a traditional solar collector from the distance, it is actually a series of copper tubes coated with a thin layer of aluminum and aluminum oxide and partly filled with catalytic nanoparticles. A combination of water and methanol flows through the tubes, which are sealed in a vacuum.

"This set-up allows up to 95 percent of the sunlight to be absorbed with very little being lost as heat to the surroundings," Hotz said. "This is crucial because it permits us to achieve temperatures of well over 200 degrees Celsius within the tubes. By comparison, a standard solar collector can only heat water between 60 and 70 degrees Celsius."

Once the evaporated liquid achieves these higher temperatures, tiny amounts of a catalyst are added, which produces hydrogen. This combination of high temperature and added catalysts produces hydrogen very efficiently, Hotz said. The resulting hydrogen can then be immediately directed to a fuel cell to provide electricity to a building during the day, or compressed and stored in a tank to provide power later.

The three systems examined in the analysis were the standard photovoltaic cell which converts sunlight directly into electricity to then split water electrolytically into hydrogen and oxygen; a photocatalytic system producing hydrogen similar to Hotz's system, but simpler and not mature yet; and a system in which photovoltaic cells turn sunlight into electricity which is then stored in different types of batteries (with lithium ion being the most efficient).

Top 5 gaming websites in India

Games are considered as the ultimate souse of stress busters and entertainment for both adults and kids. Since the inception of the gaming phenomenon in India, gaming websites have garnered huge demand and popularity. Today every one of us wants to get our hands on the latest and the best games in the market, but who brings in the best and the fastest is the matter of the crux.


So, here we bring to you some of the top gaming websites ruling in India.

1. Zapak.com-Zapak.com- is the most famous and sought after gaming portal in India. One can play free online games, multiplayer flash games, cricket games, free racing games, online sports games, action games, arcade games, strategy and puzzle. Its huge list of database of online game is something that is rarely found in any internet website and it is sure to give you the best deal in the market.
 2. Sify.com/games-Sify.com is one of India's most trusted website in India. This portal features games like SpiderMan & Mission Impossible, Lifeguard & Pearl Harbour. Apart from this awesome list, they also features online flash games for kids.

3. Yourfungames.com-This is the ultimate hub for enjoying freaky free online games and especially if you are a shooter fan this is the place for you. It offers variety of free online games, from its kitty ranging from Arcade Games, Card Games, Puzzles, Shooting Games, strategy games, etc. Moreover, every week the website lists out few top online games that you can cash on.

4. Gameguru.in-This is one portal where you can find the best games till date like Battlefield 3 etc. Along with games it also features reviews, interviews and previews of upcoming games. It also lay outs the trendy games in Indian Gaming zone and as well as global too.

5. Gamesonline.in-This gaming portal is fully dedicated to all the pumped-up folks ever ready to make a dangerous voyage through the sea of adventures. The big list of online adventure games like Online Casinos, Pharaoh Phobia, Mario World, Gold Strike, Shoot Out, Wheel Lego Adventure, The Ghost, the Steppenwolf series, etc.