LG's "Quad Core" phone

2/23/2012 12:02:00 PM 4.7 inch display, 720p, 8 mega pixel camera, LG obtimus 4x HD, Mobile, quad core

LG has promised to launch a new phone with Quad core processor and an amazingly 4.7 inch display with other high end features.

The phone will be launch at Mobile World Congress. The phone's major features includes but not limited to

• 4.7 inch display
• 1270x720 pixel resolution(720p)
• 1.5GHz quad-core processor(Nvidia Tegra 3)
• OS - Android IceCream Sandwich 4.0
• 16GB internal Memory
• 1GM RAM
• 8 Mega Pixel main camera mounted on back
• 1.3 Mega Pixel front camera
• 2150mAh battery
• Screen depth of 8.9mm

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World's First Lab produced meat to be used in hamburgers

2/22/2012 02:17:00 PM Science

All the Cow, Goat and hens are having a party after this news. As their life might be spared forever. Not only their lives but it might crush the whole meat industry forever.

Lab Grown Hamburger

Scientists are aiming to produce skeletal muscle tissue in the laboratory that will be exactly similar to that of meet. in the coming month or so, a planned media event will be organized for the meat hamburger eating ceremony in which a celebrity will be tasting the first lab grown meat inside a hamburger. The ingredients for his first burger are "still in a laboratory phase," but by fall "they have committed to make a couple of thousand of small tissues, and then assemble them into a hamburger."

Growing meat on a bone in lab
might look like this

The project is funded by anonymous who has contributor a stagring amount of 250,000-euro ($330,000) contribution to turn the dream into reality.

for the record Meat production already takes up more than half of the world's estimated agricultural capacity, in one way or another. U.N. figures show that animal farming takes up 30 percent of the planet's exposed land mass. And over the next 40 years, the demand for meat products is expected to double.

So let's wait and watch when our stomach will be digesting a lab grown meet which has never been a part of any animal .. sounds weird ain't it?

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Chief Information Officer's(CIO) Trends

2/20/2012 10:14:00 PM Tech News

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A Time Traveller, caught on tape

2/13/2012 01:37:00 AM Tech News, Time Traveller, TimeTravel

This is the first time 'A Time Traveller is caught on tape". The video has become a sensation and is the talk of blogosphere. In case you missed it somehow, just watch it now.

If you have not been able to figure it all out yet. There is a lady/man holding a cell phone and talking. Not amazed yet? The clip is from Charlie Chaplin's  footage on a DVD of the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus at Graumann's Chinese Theatre in 1928.

No one even know what Cell Phone was in 1928, it was until 1983 that cell phones were invented. The question is "Did this person gone back to the past?" This is not the best part, the question is whom this lad/lady is talking to, another time traveller? well I am just guessing.

To get the full details of who posted this video in YouTube with this revelation. Check the link:

Chaplin Time Traveller

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How Big is this Universe

2/12/2012 12:50:00 AM galaxy, microscopic, Space, universe

Ever wonder how big this universe is? Yes, just like a child's answer we can say 'Very Big'. To exactly know where we stand in the universe, Cary Huang has created an ultimate animation; where you can scroll from the tiniest of the things to the mega galaxies and even you can reach till the end of the universe. The Animation is called " The Scale of the Universe".

The Scale Starts from the Human i.e. 10^0..As you scroll right the things starts zooming in and animation starts showing smaller and smaller things. Each of the part is also explained when it is clicked.

The same scroll bar can also takes you to the Sky, above and beyond galaxies. Each of the part is very well explained.

The range of things that are listed are from  10²⁷ to 10^-35. So you can well imagine the beauty you will experience.

Click: How Big is this Universe

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Self Chilling Can, Open and Can gets chilled by 30 Degrees

2/06/2012 01:02:00 AM Cans, gadgets, Self Chilling Can

Though the technology was under developement since 1998, and Pepsi spent  more or less 18 years to develop a technology to get a can chilled itself once opened. They were even successful in the technology however due to the refrigerant(CFC) that was used to cool the can was very harmful for the environment. The idea of mas production was dropped

Self Chilling Can

Recently, West Coast Chillers has released a press release of launching a new can in the market that can can cool the drink by 30 degrees lower by just the push of the button.

How are they doing it? and what is the science behind this cooling technology ? all the details are kept as a secret.

The can will be available in the market at the cost of $3, the good thing about these cans are are that they are recyclable. and the can can remain cool by 30 minutes.

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Facebook offers IPO of $5 Billion

2/02/2012 11:31:00 AM facebook IPO, IPO, Tech News

Facebook has filled IPO (Initial Public Offering) of $5 Billion dollars with the Securities and Exchange commission (SEC). The SEC website went down with the Facebook IPO announcement.

The company is seeking to raise 5 Billion dollars through IPO. The complete IPO document can be seen here.

Facebook a tiny company which started in Feb 2004, has made a big mark now. Given below are some of the Facebook stats in the document for the IPO.

• Company made 3.7 Billion in revenue in 2011
• Advertising make 85% of revenue.
• Net Profit in 2011 : $1Billion
• Zuckerbergs base salary was $500,000 in 2011 which is more than triple the salary of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin when Google filed for its IPO.
• Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg enjoyed a base salary of $300,000 in 2011.
• Facebook now has 845million active users.
• Facebook makes 12% of its bottom line income from Zynga games.
• Zuckerberg set to make 28billion off of Facebook IPO.

Facebook finance 2009-2011

Risk Factors:

• Increased SmarPhone Users: Google ads are not shown on mobile phones and google makes 85% or its revenue from mobile phones.
• Competitors: Facebook competitors are Google+, Cyworld in korea, Mixi in Japa, Orkut in India and Brazil and VKontakte in Russia.
• Mark Xuckerberg is control to much of the Facebook i.e. 58% of the Facebook stock. so any wrong decision on his part could lead the company to disaster.
• Users fleeing the website: The less user visits the site the less profit FB makes.
• Design Changing too Much: Users never like changing the desigin of facebook so quickly. and this may result in not liking leaving Facebook.

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Wacky Green Gadgets

1/31/2012 05:46:00 PM gadgets, green gadgets

Blood Lamp
To get the taste of how much power do one need to turn a lamp on. The below lamp was made which require you a drop of blood to activate it. I bet such a small personal sacrifice will still make you think twice before truing on the lamp.
The lamp has a luminance, a chemical substance that forensic scientist use to check for the blood, which turns blue and glow when it react the the iron of the red blood cells.

Green Warrior Shower Curtain
Turn of the water or else....... The more time you keep the water on while bathing, one of the curtain will slowly inflate, and then soft spikes will come out of the curtain  if you keep on using the shower.

White Goat
The Device converts Paper into toilet paper. Insert 40 sheets of paper from one side, and within 30 minutes you will get a paper roll of toilet paper. The machine actually shred the paper and then convert the paper into tolier paper by wetting it first and then drying it.
The price of this device is wopping $1000000.

Moss Carpet

Bring a little green into your bathtroom. The carpet outside your bathroom is made up of moss.

Solar Bikini

yeah! you read it right. The swimwear has solar cells and a USB port and you can charge your iPod with this device, while taking sun bath, now listen to all your favourite songs, which having the strain of you ipod battery getting low.

FishBowl Sink

The more water you will use to wash your hand, the Gold fish with left with the less amount of water for her.

Pencil printer

The pacil is used to print your documents. and you can also reuse the paper with the attached rubber after rubbing the doument.

Biodegradable coffins

Now that is something every one should used for their loved ones, These final resting places are made from paper, bamboo and all such materials which gets consumed by the soil

Grow your Own Grass Furniture
London-based contemporary design firm Purves & Purves offered a flat-pack DIY cardboard armchair frame along with a package of grass seeds in the summer of 2006, promising outdoor furniture that blends in perfectly with your lawn. You assemble the 14 pieces, fill it with soil, sprinkle the grass seeds over it and watch your new Chia Chair grow right before your eyes. Interesting idea, but mowing it could be a challenge.

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Test Case Prioritization in Software Quality

1/30/2012 12:11:00 PM Software Testing, test case, Test Case Prioritization, Time box testing

          I heard many testers, including me, complaining most of the time: “So many Tests and They expect us to do in so less time. That’s Unfair!!!!”. This is the most common problem, faced in our software industry, that management expects 100 percent testing in less time.

You must have heard a phrase “TimeBox the testing”. This is a time management technique in which you can complete the most important tests in a given time and deliver a high quality product. 

Always prioritize your tests to achieve time-boxing in testing. One major task before prioritizing your tests is to work out plans addressing these two concepts:

• Identify necessary features that are a MUST.
• Identify the risks associated with the features which will not be tested.

Whenever you make a test case, you must have noticed a “priority” column. This is the easiest way to assign priority. Mostly companies follow three-level priority categorization scheme:

Low: Allocated to the tests, which if not executed, will not cause big upsets.

High: Allocated to all tests that MUST be executed in any case.

Medium: Allocated to the tests which can be executed, only when time permits.

However, this categorization scheme is not mandatory; you can customize it according to your company’s requirement. While setting priority, always keep in mind that you have to set the priority according to criteria which suits your company’s needs. I was going through a research in which analysis was done for prioritized and non-prioritized case with the help of Average percentage fault detection metric.

The research, proved that the number of bugs found per minute are greater in case of non-prioritized test cases as compared to prioritized test cases. Before prioritizing test cases, always consider these things:

·        Criteria which suits your company’s needs.

·        Where a failure would be most severe Test

·        Where a failure would be most visible

·        Always ask customer what is most important to him.

·        Areas which are more complex and where changes are more frequent.

·        Areas which have created most problems in the past.

Adeeba Aatif : A freelance writer and a software Analyst 

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Google uses Colossal Energy(260million watts continuously)

1/27/2012 03:25:00 PM Google, Google Data Center, Google energy, Tech News

260 million watts of energy is being consumed continuously by none other than our favourite search engine group Google. To make it understand better

260 million watts are equivalent to a quarter of output of a nuclear power plant.

Google has always kept their energy consumption statistics a secret, but in a good move, they have recently released the amount of energy they consume.
Google also estimated that its total carbon emissions for 2010 were just under 1.5 million metric tons, with most of that attributable to carbon fuels that provide electricity for the data centers. when it calculates that average energy consumption on the level of a typical user the amount is small, about 180 watt-hours a month, or the equivalent of running a 60-watt light bulb for three hours.

Google also released an estimate that 'an average search uses 0.3 watt-hours of electricity', a figure that may be difficult to understand intuitively. But when multiplied by Google’s estimate of more than a billion searches a day, the figure yields a somewhat surprising result: about 12.5 million watts of Google’s 260-million-watt total can be accounted for by searches, the company’s bread-and-butter service.
Though Google should be applauded for the efforts it make to make use of renewable energies, Google says that 25 percent of its energy was supplied by renewable fuels in 2010, and estimates that figure will reach 30 percent in 2011.

Take a look below at the Google's DataCenter in Hamina(Finland)

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