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It is a great moment of pride for every Indian that finally the personal belongings of Gandhiji have been won in an auction by Vijay Mr. Mallya and the same are being brought to India.

Mr. Mallya, who was among 40 registered bidders, including several Indian Americans, was ready and went up to a whopping $1.8 million to clinch the deal.

The auction of Gandhi’s memorabilia in New York ended on a triumphant note for India as business tycoon Vijay Mallya put in a bid of $1.8 million, winning not only the five heritage items Gandhi’s steel-rimmed spectacles, a pair of sandals, a Zenith pocket watch, an eating bowl and a plate were put under the hammer but also gushing praise from Indians young and old…

Mr. Mallya said”I will always have the emotional satisfaction of having bought them and gifted them to the government of India,”

Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of the Mahatma said “I am delighted, absolutely delighted,”

Mr. Mallya wants to gift the memorabilia to the Indian government, Mahatma Gandhi had appointed the Navjivan Trust as the sole heir of his personal belongings through a will registered in 1929.

It will take a while for the Gandhi memorabilia to come back home. The US justice department has asked the auction house to hold the lot for two weeks pending a resolution between the new owner and the US and Indian governments.

Kollywood Star Vijay amazed all with his appearance in a string of Coca Cola ads on TV. Six years later, Coke has once again taken Vijay to endorse their product!
the second week of March, Coke will be launching brand-new commercials featuring Vijay. the ad will be like has been kept a secret. Wow.. Its Amazing Now

A.R. Rahman has created history by winning two Oscars and made India proud. This is the first time that three Indians are receiving Oscars in the same year.

Oscars 2009 Winners

• Its party time for Slumdog Millionaire. it has won eight awards, including Best Director, Best Music and Best Picture. What an achievement. What a night. The whole cast and crew is up on high. Jai Hindi!
• Best Actor Sean Penn for his role in Milk.
• Best actress goes to  Kate Winslet for The Reader! She breaks the 13 year curse and is justly rewarded for her fantastic work
• Best Director goes to Danny Boyle for his Slumdog millionaire. He jumps for joy (literally), and with good reason.
• Best Foreign Film is Departures, a Japanese film.
• Jai Ho has won the Oscar for Best Song! Two Oscars for India’s finest modern musician! What a night to remember. a classy, gracious acceptance speech from Mr Rahman. Well deserved. You’ve made all of India proud.
• Mr Rahman won the oscar for best Original Score
• Best Film Editing is goes to Chris Dickens
• The Best Sound Mixing award goes to Slumdog Millionaire’s Resul Pookutty.
• Best Sound Editing goes to The Dark Knight
• The Academy Award for best Visual Effects is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
• The best supporting actress is Penelope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona!
• The Best Original Screenplay goes to Dustin Lance Black for Milk!
• Best Adapted Screenplay goes to Simon Beaufoy for his Slumdog Millionaire.
• Wall-E won the Best Animated Film.
• The Best Animated Short Film goes to La Maison en Petit Cubes.
• The Best Art Direction goes to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
• Best Costume Design goes to The Duchess (Michael O’Connor).
• Best Make-Up goes to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button!
• Best Cinematography goes to Slumdog Millionaire- Anthony Dod Mantle
• Best Live Action Short Film goes to Spielzeugland (Toyland)
• The Best Supporting Actor goes to Heath Ledger
• The Best Documentary goes to The Betrayal.
• Best Documentary (Short) goes to Smile Pinki, a film based in Benares

—–Congrats to everybody

Men’s ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup 2009 schedule

Group A

• India
• Bangladesh
• Ireland

Group B

• Pakistan
• England
• Netherlands

Group C

• Australia
• Sri Lanka
• West Indies

Group D

• New Zealand
• South Africa
• Scotland

Group E A1, B2, C1, D2
Group F B1, A2, C2, D1

The scientists demonstrate the ability to decode a person’s preference for one of two drinks with 80 per cent accuracy by measuring the intensity of near infrared light absorbed in brain tissue.

This new technique that uses infrared light brain imaging to decode preference with the goal of ultimately opening the world of choice to children who can’t speak or move.

“This is the first system that decodes preference naturally from spontaneous thoughts,”
After teaching the computer to recognize the unique pattern of brain activity associated with preference for each subject, the researchers accurately predicted which drink the participants liked best 80 per cent of the time.

Most brain-computer interfaces designed to read thoughts require training.
Wearing a headband fitted with fibre-optics that emit light into the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, they were shown two drinks on a computer monitor, one after the other, and asked to make a mental decision about which they liked more. “When your brain is active, the oxygen in your blood increases and depending on the concentration, it absorbs more or less light.”

Luu says. The brain is too complex to ever allow decoding of a person’s random thoughts. “However, if we limit the context limit the question and available answers, as we have with predicting preference – then mind-reading becomes possible.“

“In some people, their brains are more active when they don’t like something, and in some people they’re more active when they do like something.”

Happy Valentines Day!

You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it is the best thing in the world.

When you’re in a relationship and it is good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Today technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research.

Researched by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.

“If we want to develop a variety of skills, we need a balanced media diet. Each medium has costs and benefits in terms of what skills each develops.”

Among the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did.

More than 85 percent of video games contain violence, one study found, and multiple studies of violent media games have shown that they can produce many negative effects, including aggressive behavior and desensitization to real-life violence, Greenfield said in summarizing the findings.

In another study, Video game skill predicted laparoscopic surgery skills, Greenfield said. “The best video game players made 47 percent fewer errors and performed 39 percent faster in laparoscopic tasks than the worst video game players.”

Visual intelligence has been rising globally for 50 years. Greenfield believes much of this change is related to our increased use of technology, as well as other factors, including increased levels of formal education, improved nutrition, smaller families and increased societal complexity, etc.

India in New Zealand Cricket Match

Date           Match                       Venue              Time

Feb 20            India arrive in New Zealand
Feb 25            1st Twenty20 International (D/N)  Christchurch     11:30 IST
Feb 27            2nd Twenty20 International (D/N)  Wellington         11:30 IST
Mar 3              First ODI (D/N)                           Napier                06:30 IST
Mar 6             Second ODI (D/N)                  Wellington         06:30 IST
Mar 8             Third ODI (D/N)                         Christchurch    06:30 IST
Mar 11           Fourth ODI (D/N)                        Hamilton            06:30 IST
Mar 14           Fifth ODI (D/N)                          Auckland            06:30 IST
Mar 19-23    First Test                                   Hamilton             03:30 IST
Mar 27-31    Second Test                               Napier                  03:30 IST
Apr 4-8         Third Test                                Wellington          03:30 IST

GPS (Global Position System) utilizes satellite signals to track location. It will monitor and manage your entire fleet from a single computer. By Using Feet GPS Tracking system, you can monitor your cargo, assets, employees, etc It will helps you if your products are misplaced, stolen, etc

By Using GPS Tracking system, you can track down the stolen or misplaced products. Technology is getting newer everyday with a lot of new inventions especially in the area of security. GPS Fleet tracking technology in vehicles or any other objects is one of those important technology.

By attaching a GPS device in vehicles or any other objects , we can monitor the vehicles or any other objects from a remote place from anywhere across the globe.

GPS Fleet Tracking will allow their companies to monitor all their vehicles and other assets from a single computer. This will greatly reduce the operating costs for them and eliminating unnecessary cost and wasted time. There are a lot of benefits of using these fleet tracking systems with some different features. Most of these GPS systems are also equipped with alarm systems, cameras, audio (voice) recorders, telephones and added security devices.

These systems also helps their parent to track down where their teenage kids are driving. Parents really just want to make sure their kids are driving to some safest place. but I too feel uncomfortable being monitored while driving. But then again the safety comes first.

These systems also helps in rough terrain such as into the desert or forests it is too easy to lose your bearing and your directions when nightfall. A GPS Tracking System can literally save your life, they have saved many lives in recent years and authorities use them in such locations religiously.

In recent years the process has been refined to the degree where Some phones have GPS tracking built in System.

GPS Fleet Tracking Systems are definitely great ways to monitor your business by tracking your vehicles or any other objects. There are so many GPS fleet tracking device are available according to our usage.

Wow $10 laptop unveiled yesterday? Yeah, it’s not a laptop. I’ve been reading conflicting information about this device for the past few months. Sometimes it’s supposed to cost $10, sometimes $100. And sometimes it’s called a laptop while other times it had been referred to as a portable computer, which isn’t necessarily the same thing as a laptop. Now that the first image of the device has popped up online, the picture is becoming a bit more clear. As I predicted last week, there’s no keyboard or CPU. The box is a portable device that’s about 10 inches by 5 inches, and which can store information. You can access that info from a full fledged computer. It sounds to me like this is a glorified USB flash drive, but it’s also supposed to be able to let users connect to the computer, so I’m guessing there’s some sort of processor in there. The price right now is being pegged at closer to $30 than $10, but the goal is to bring the cost down so that the Sakshat doesn’t cost much more than a textbook. You know, unless you also want to plug in a monitor and keyboard.