Unweaving of Thoughts: 2013

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Google person Finder for Uttarakhand Floods 2013

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Google Person Finder : http://google.org/personfinder/2013-uttrakhand-floods/

Uttarakhand, in Northern India has been ravaged by floods with around 150 feared dead and more than 15,000 stranded according to the latest statistics. As the government of India battles to save lives, Google is doing its bit to help people by launching a web application called ‘People Finder’— a temporary tool set up to help people find their missing friends or relatives.

The tool is very easy to use and just like the Google homepage sports a Spartan UI. There are two buttons— one to find a missing person and the other to share information on some person. If you need to search for someone, you click on the green box and any information relating to that person will show up on the results. If you need to share some information, you click on the blue box and you type in the name of the person and the information that you may on them. All the information shared through this tool is available to the public and shared with press agencies, NGOs and others to help keep the database up-to-date.

Google has also shared the emergency numbers listed on the National Disaster Management Authority, and people can call on the following numbers to get an update.

Uttarkashi: (+91) 1374-226461
Chamoli: (+91) 1372-251437, 9411352136
Rudraprayag: (+91) 1364-233727, 9412914875
Tehri: (+91) 1376-233433, 9411548090
Kedarnath: (+91) 1364-233727
Control Room (Uttarakhand): (+91) 135-2710334, 9557444486

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Pune Warriors India to leave IPL forever

Pune Warriors India, owner by Sahara India Pariwar has been pulled out the Indian Premier League for the second time. This decision came out when the firm demanded BCCI to reduce the franchise fee for Pune Warriors India which BCCI refused.

In result to which the bang guarantees for Pune Warriors India were encashed and led to the termination of the franchise of the team from Indian Premier League.

A spokesperson from Sahara confirmed " This is the firms final decision to withdraw Sahara from the IPL".

Once again after 2012 this has happend, Sahara had withdrawn the team Pune Warriors India once before also in 2012 for similiar reasons where as those differences were cleared and the team went forward.

Reportedly, Sahara has completely refused to join IPL even if the entire fee is waived. Sahara has also planned to discontinue the sponsorship from Indian Cricket Team once their contract ends in December 2013. Whereas they refrained due to the interest of the players.

Pune Warriors India was the most expensive franchise of the whole league. The franchise was purchased by Sahara for Rs.1,702 crore in 20122 for 10 years.

Pune Warriors India finished eighth in the sixth season of the IPL, winning four of the 16 matches played.

Sources : Times of India

Friday, May 17, 2013

Google Wallet - Simply WOW

Once again, Google comes up with something and something really cool.

Google Wallet.

I dont know if you have heard about it or no, But for me its new and its something cool.

Google Wallet is a virtual wallet for in store and online shopping. With the help of google wallet you will very soon be able to send money which will be integrated with gmail.

Google Wallet is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows its users to store debit cards, credit cards, loyalty cards, and gift cards among other things, as well as redeeming sales promotions on their mobile phone. Google Wallet uses near field communication (NFC) to "make secure payments fast and convenient by simply tapping the phone on any PayPass-enabled terminal at checkout."

Google Wallet is currently available on the following devices:

Phones

Samsung Nexus S 4G on Sprint
Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Sprint
Samsung Galaxy Nexus GSM/HSPA+
Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE on Sprint
Samsung Galaxy SIII on Sprint, MetroPCS, and US Cellular
Samsung Galaxy S4 on Sprint
Samsung Galaxy Axiom on US Cellular
LG Viper™ 4G LTE on Sprint
LG Optimus Elite™ on Sprint and Virgin Mobile
LG Nexus 4 GSM/HSPA+ (available for purchase on Google Play)
HTC EVO 4G LTE on Sprint
HTC One on Sprint

Tablets

Asus Nexus 7 (available for purchase on Google Play)
Samsung Nexus 10 (available for purchase on Google Play)

Currently, Google Wallet does not support devices purchased anywhere besides United States. Even an unlocked mobile phone will not work with Google Wallet.

Tap your NFC-enabled phone to pay anywhere contactless payments are accepted. Look for these symbols at checkout:

Google Wallet also let's you discover new deals and purchase them from your cell phone.

Let's see when does this masterpiece arrive India and allow us to send us money through our email i'd.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Blackberry Messenger (BBM) to go Cross Platform

Today morning brought a new surprise to the consumers which was ecstatic and something we all were waiting for. Our very own Blackberry Messenger, Blackberry's popular messaging app will finally be operational on other operating software's like iPhone and Android besides Blackberry.

This is the first time BlackBerry has brought BBM to other platforms, and it’s something the company’s fans have been begging for over the past few years. It’ll be available on iPhones running iOS 6 or greater and Android Phones running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

In the first version of multi-platform BBM, iOS and Android users are expected to be able to experience the following BBM features:

- The immediacy of BBM chats
- Multi-person chats
- Voice note sharing
- BlackBerry Groups, where BBM users are able to set up groups of up to 30 people and share calendar, photos, files and more

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Google to pay $1 billion to Apple

Even though Apple wants to remove Google from iOS, the internet tycoon is ready to shed big bucks to battle in the game.

According to the analyst of Morgan Stanley, Google is ready to shed as much as $1 billion to become the search engine powered on iOS of Apple.

By this, iOS users will be able to search anything on their devices which will be powered by Google in 2014. Although this is the projected cost which would differ from the per-device acquisition cost, Google is ready to shed any amount to stay in the loop.

Presently, Google provides search results on Apple iOS for the Safari users where as the branding was removed by Apple for iOS 4.0. Also it was noted that in iOS 6, Google Maps was replaced by their own Apple Maps. But things did not work their way and Apple had yo allow Google for their mapping service again.