Hey did you check www.cuil.com (Google's new competition)???

Google's new competition: Ex-employees

“Cuil has indexed a whopping 120 billion Web pages, three times more than what they say Google now indexes”

Check the below information for more on cuil……..

Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil.

A start-up led by former star Google engineers has unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.

Cuil Inc (pronounced "cool") is offering a new search service at http://www.cuil.com/ that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google, which boasts the largest online index.

The would-be Google rival says its service goes beyond prevailing search techniques that focus on Web links and audience traffic patterns and instead analyzes the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request.

"Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user," Tom Costello, Cuil co-founder and chief executive, said in a statement.

Danny Sullivan, a Web search analyst and editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, said Cuil can try to exploit complaints consumers may have with Google -- namely, that it tries to do too much, that its results favour already popular sites, and that it leans heavily on certain authoritative sites such as Wikipedia.

"The time may be right for a challenger," Sullivan says, but adds quickly, "Competing with Google is still a very daunting task, as Microsoft will tell you."

Microsoft Corp, the No. 3 US player in Web search has been seeking in vain, so far, to join forces with No. 2 Yahoo Inc to battle Google.

Cuil was founded by a group of search pioneers, including Costello, who built a prototype of Web Fountain, IBM's Web search analytics tool, and his wife, Anna Patterson, the architect of Google Inc's massive TeraGoogle index of Web pages.

Patterson also designed the search system for global corporate document storage company Recall, a unit of Australia's Brambles Ltd.

The two are joined by two former Google colleagues, Russell Power and Louis Monier. Previously, Monier led the redesign of ecommerce leader eBay Inc's search engine and was the founding chief technology officer of two 1990s Web milestones, AltaVista and BabelFish, the first language translation site.

"They do have the talent that is used to build large, industrial-strength search engines," Sullivan says of Cuil.

Cuil clusters the results of each Web search performed on the service into groups of related Web pages. It sorts these by categories and offers various organising features to help identify topics and allow the user to quickly refine searches.

User privacy is another appeal of its approach, Cuil says. Because the service focuses on the content of the pages rather than click history, the company has no need to store users' personal information or their search histories, it says.

"We are all about pattern analysis," Patterson says. "We go over the corpus (Web pages) 12 times before we even index it."

Does size matter, once again? Cuil has indexed a whopping 120 billion Web pages, three times more than what they say Google now indexes, Patterson said, adding the company has spent just $5 million, Google itself preemptively responded to Cuil's arrival with a blog post on Friday boasting of the growing scale of its own Web search operations.

Sullivan said he puts no stock in either company's boasts about the size of their indexes, since it has only an indirect effect on the ultimate success Web surfers have in searching. And Cuil's privacy virtues are exaggerated, he adds.

Founded in late 2006, the Menlo Park, California-based Cuil has raised $33 million in two separate rounds: The first, for $8 million from Greylock and Tugboat Ventures, and the second for $25 million by Madrone Capital Partners.

Initially, Cuil is optimised for American English. Later this year, the company plans to enable Cuil users to perform searches in major European languages, Patterson said. Eventually, Cuil plans to make money by running ads alongside search results, she said, but provided no further details.

Cuil is one of a number of start-ups that are looking to introduce new technology that can change the competitive dynamics of the Web search market that Google dominates.

Earlier in July, Microsoft bought Powerset, a San Francisco-based search start-up that enables consumers to use semantic techniques -- conversational phrasing instead of keywords -- to search the Web.

MOORE'S LAW and New material called Hafnium

Technical information that I read always makes me to share the things to all other technical persons I come accross......

The silicon industry has already introduced new materials such as Hafnium





For more than 40 years the silicon industry has delivered ever faster, cheaper chips.
The advances have underpinned everything from the rise of mobile phones to digital photography and portable music players.


Chip-makers have been able to deliver many of these advances by shrinking the components on a chip.


By making these building blocks, such as transistors, smaller they have become faster and firms have been able to pack more of them into the same area.
But according to many industry insiders this miniaturisation cannot continue forever.



"The consensus in the industry is that we can do that shrink for about another ten years and then after that we have to figure out new ways to bring higher capability to our chips," said Professor Stanley Williams of Hewlett Packard.


MOORE'S LAW
The number of transistors it is possible to squeeze in to a chip for
a fixed cost doubles every two years
First outlined by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel
Published in Electronics Magazine on 19 April, 1965


Even Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel and the man that gave his name to the law that dictates the industry's progression, admits that it can only go on for a few more years.
"Moore's Law should continue for at least another decade," he recently told the BBC News website. "That's about as far as I can see."


Tiny tubes:
As a result, researchers around the world are engaged in efforts to allow the industry to continue delivering the advances that computer users have come to expect.
Key areas include advanced fabrication techniques, building new components and finding new materials to augment silicon.
Already new materials are creeping into modern chips.
As components have shrunk critical elements of the transistors, known as gate dielectrics, do not perform as well allowing currents passing through the transistors to leak, reducing the effectiveness of the chip.
To overcome this, companies have replaced the gate dielectrics, previously made from silicon dioxide, with an oxide based on the metal hafnium.
The material's development and integration into working components has been described by Dr Moore as "the biggest change in transistor technology" since the late 1960s.
But IBM researchers are working on materials that they believe offer even bigger advances.
"Carbon nanotubes are a step beyond [hafnium]," explained Dr Phaedon Avouris of the company.

'Superior' design:
Carbon nanotubes are tiny straw-like molecules less than 2 nanometres (billionths of a metre) in diameter, 50,000 times thinner than a strand of a human hair.
"They are a more drastic change but still preserve the basic architecture of field effect transistors."
These transistors are the basic building blocks of most silicon chips.
Dr Avouris believes they can be used to replace a critical element of the chip, known as the channel.
Today this is commonly made of silicon and is the area of the transistor through which electrons flow.
Chip makers are constantly battling to make the channel length in transistors smaller and smaller, to increase the performance of the devices.
Carbon nanotube's small size and "superior" electrical properties should be able to deliver this, said Dr Avouris.
Crucially, he also believes the molecules can be integrated with traditional silicon manufacturing processes, meaning the technology would more likely be accepted by an industry that has spent billions perfecting manufacturing techniques.
The team have already shown off working transistors and are currently working on optimising their production and integration into working devices.

Tiny improvement:
Professor Williams, at Hewlett Packard is also working on technology that could be incorporated into the future generations of chips.
As well as exploring optical computing - using particles of light instead of electrons to significantly increase the speed of today's computers - he is building new electronic components for chips called memristors.
He says it would be the "fourth" basic element to build circuits with, after capacitors, resistors and inductors.
"Now we have this type of device we have a broader palette with which to paint our circuits," said Professor Williams.
Professor Williams and his team have shown that by putting two of these devices together - a configuration called a crossbar latch - it could do the job of a transistor.
"A cross bar latch has the type of functionality you want from a transistor but it's working with very different physics," he explained.
Crucially, these devices can also be made much smaller than a transistor.
"And as they get smaller they get better," he said.
Professor Williams and his team are currently making prototype hybrid circuits - built of memristors and transistors - in a fabrication plant in North America.
"We want to keep the functional equivalent of Moore's Law going for many decades into the future," said Professor Williams.

BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLIES

ESOL ET-KERNEL/EXTENDED RTOS FOR I.MX31 PROCESSOR

eSOL eT-Kernel/Extended RTOS for i.MX31 Processor:

eSOL recently announced the eT-Kernel/Extended realtime operating system (RTOS) coupled with the eBinder integrated development environment (IDE) for the i.MX31 multimedia applications processor from Freescale. eT-Kernel/Extended supports a process model and memory protection with a memory management unit (MMU), and is based on the latest T-Kernel/Standard Extension specifications standardized by the T-Engine Forum. The memory-protected and process-model RTOS detects and prevents an executing process from accidentally destroying another process's memory area or kernel resource.

eT-Kernel/Extended offers a UNIX-like process management function using virtual addressing. Each component can be divided into a distinct process, independent of others. Development and debugging by process is perfect for a large team working on a large system that consists of multiple independent software modules, such as audio/video codecs, 2D/3D user interface engines, device drivers, firmware, middleware, and applications. eT-Kernel/Extended also offers a process for building upper-layer applications, and a system program for building kernel applications, including loadable drivers and middleware. This combination is best for a large team developing a large system because the entire system can be designed and developed in parts instead of one team working on everything. In addition, a mixture of shared libraries and DLLs can be used from a process, making system configuration flexible while saving memory space.

Freescale's i.MX31 multimedia applications processors, based on the ARM11(tm) core, are high-performance mobile entertainment engines for the ultimate multimedia experience. The devices have a built-in Image Processing Unit (IPU) that includes the functionality required for image processing and display management. This includes deblock, dering, color space conversion, independent horizontal and vertical resizing, blending of graphics and video planes, and rotation in parallel to video decoding. The IPU accelerates loop deblocking for H.264 decode as well as encode. It is engineered to provide acceleration of image processing to deliver up to VGA 25 fps video quality.

Inspite of being such a complicated Railway network, we never hear about any accidents in Frankfurt Germany

SURFACE-CONDUCTION ELECTRON-EMITTER DISPLAY (SED)

Surface-Conduction Electron-Emitter Display (SED):

A Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display (SED) is a flat panel display technology that uses surface conduction electron emitters for every individual display pixel. The surface conduction electron emitter emits electrons, that excite a phosphor coating on the display panel which is similar to the basic concept found in traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions. This means that SEDs can combine the slim form factor of LCDs with the high contrast ratios and can also refresh rates making the picture quality of CRTs better .The researches so far claim that the SED consumes less power than the LCD displays. The surface conduction electron emitter apparatus consists of a thin slit, across which electrons tunnel when excited by moderate voltages (tens of volts).

When the electrons cross electric poles across the thin slit, some are scattered at the receiving pole and are accelerated towards the display surface by a large voltage gradient (tens of kV) between the display panel and the surface conduction electron emitter apparatus. The SED display offer brightness, color performance and viewing angles on par with CRTs. However, they do not require a deflection system for the electron beam. Engineers as a result can create a display that is just a few inches thick which is still light enough for wall-hanging designs. The manufacturer can enlarge the panel merely by increasing the number of electron emitters relative to the necessary number of pixels. Since 1987, SED technology has been developing. Canon and Toshiba are the two major companies working on SEDs.

MAGNATORESISTIVE RAM (MRAM)

MAGNATORESISTIVE RAM (MRAM):

MRAM, the new breed of semiconductor memory uses magnetic properties to store data. This new kind of chip will compete with other established forms of semiconductor memories such as Flash memory and random access memory (RAM). Most engineers believe that the technology called magnetoresistive random - access memory (MRAM) could reduce the cost and power consumption of electronics for cell phones, music players, laptops and servers.

The feature, that makes MRAM an alluring alternative to other forms of semiconductor memories, is the way it stores data. For example, flash memory and random-access memory (RAM) hold information as electric charge. In contrast, MRAM uses the magnetic orientation of electrons to represent bits. Using MRAM, reading and writing of data can be done unlimitedly with in nanoseconds. MRAM can also hold the data without a power supply.

4G

4G:

The technology called 4G has redefined the whole concept of today’s sophisticated communication. According to the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), 4G is a combination of wired and wireless networks in computer, consumer electronics and communication technology systems based on the internet technology, that can merge applications like the Wi-Fi and WiMAX capable of transmitting at a speed ranging from 100 Mbps (in cell-phone networks) to 1 Gbps (in local Wi-Fi networks).

This collection of technologies and protocols delivers high quality of service at both ends and high point security. Officially named by IEEE as Beyond 3G (B3G) it provides with the lowest cost wireless network.

CELL PHONE VIRUSES AND SECURITY

CELL PHONE VIRUSES AND SECURITY:

As cell phones become a part and parcel of our life so do the threats imposed to them is also on the increase. Like the internet, today even the cell phones are going online with the technologies like the edge, GPRS etc. This online network of cell phones has exposed them to the high risks caused by malwares viruses, worms and Trojans designed for mobile phone environment. The security threat caused by these malwares are so severe that a time would soon come that the hackers could infect mobile phones with malicious software that will delete any personal data or can run up a victim’s phone bill by making toll calls.

All these can lead to overload in mobile networks, which can eventually lead them to crash and then the financial data stealing which poises risk factors for smart phones. As the mobile technology is comparatively new and still on the developing stages compared to that of internet technology, the antivirus companies along with the vendors of phones and mobile operating systems have intensified the research and development activities on this growing threat, with a more serious perspective.

SYNCML

SyncML:

The popularity of mobile computing and communications devices can be traced to their ability to deliver information to users when needed. Users want ubiquitous access to information and applications from the device at hand, plus they want to access and update this information on the fly.

The ability to use applications and information on one mobile device, then to synchronize any updates with the applications and information back at the office, or on the network, is key to the utility and popularity of this pervasive, disconnected way of computing.

Unfortunately, we cannot achieve these dual visions:
1. Networked data that support synchronization with any mobile device
2. Mobile devices that support synchronization with any networked data

Rather, there is a proliferation of different, proprietary data synchronization protocols for mobile devices. Each of these protocols is only available for selected transports, implemented on a selected subset of devices, and able to access a small set of net-worked data. The absence of a single synchronization standard poses many problems for end users, device manufacturers, application developers, and service providers.

SyncML is a new industry initiative to develop and promote a single, common data synchronization protocol that can be used industry-wide. Driving the initiative are Ericsson, IBM, Lotus, Motorola, Nokia, Palm Inc., Psion, Starfish Software. Additional companies are being recruited to join and participate.

The SyncML initiative recognized the worldwide need for one common data synchronization protocol. With the industry-wide proliferation of mobile devices and the evolution toward mobile devices as the major means of information exchange, remote synchronization of data will be of integral importance. The SyncML initiative, officially supported by well over 200 device manufacturers, service providers and application developers, is currently developing and promoting an open global specification for mobile data synchronization.

SMARTQUILL

Smartquill:


Lyndsay Williams of Microsoft Research’s Cambridge UK lab is the inventor of the Smartquill, a pen that can remember the words that it is used to write, and then transform them into computer text. The idea that it would be neat to put all of a handheld-PDA type computer in a pen came to the inventor in her sleep. “It’s the pen for the new millennium,” she says. Encouraged by Nigel Ballard, a leading consultant to the mobile computer industry, Williams took her prototype to the British Telecommunications Research Lab, where she was promptly hired and given money and institutional support for her project. The prototype, called SmartQuil, has been developed by world-leading research laboratories run by BT (formerly British Telecom) at Martlesham, eastern England. It is claimed to be the biggest revolution in handwriting since the invention of the pen.

The sleek and stylish prototype pen is different from other electronic pens on the market today in that users don’t have to write on a special pad in order to record what they write. User could use any surface for writing such as paper, tablet, screen or even air. The SmartQuill isn’t all space-age, though -- it contains an ink cartridge so that users can see what they write down on paper. SmartQuill contains sensors that record movement by using the earth’s gravity system, irrespective of the platform used. The pen records the information inserted by the user. Your words of wisdom can also be uploaded to your PC through the “digital inkwell”, while the files that you might want to view on the pen are downloaded to SmartQuill as well.

It is an interesting idea, and it even comes with one attribute that makes entire history of pens pale by comparison—if someone else picks your SmartQuill and tries to write with it- it won’t. Because user can train the pen to recognize a particular handwriting. Hence SmartQuill recognizes only the owner’s handwriting. SmartQuill is a computer housed within a pen which allows you to do what a normal personal organizer does. It’s really mobile because of its smaller size and one handed use. People could use the pen in the office to replace a keyboard, but the main attraction will be for users who usually take notes by hand on the road and type them up when returning to the office. SmartQuill will let them skip the step of typing up their notes.

Technical Seminar / Essays topics

Technical Seminar / Essays topics:

Learning to write well is one of the most challenging tasks for anyone, regardless of age.

It takes time, practice, and lots of encouragement.
Parents, teachers and knowledgeable persons can help children / others develop their skills and, equally important, a love for words and writing.

A seminar should aim to:

*The Seminar topic have good technical content
*Seminar should be understood by the audience
*Be accompanied by appropriate handouts
*The Seminar should be interactive

General Essay Writing Tips

General Essay Writing Tips:

1. Step One: Brainstorming - The most important part of your essay is the subject matter. You should expect to devote about 1-2 weeks simply to brainstorming ideas. Having completed step one, you should now have a rough idea of the elements you wish to include in your essay, including your goals, important life experiences, research experience, diversifying features, spectacular nonacademic accomplishments, etc. You should also now have an idea of what impression you want to make on the officers.

2. Step Two: Selecting a Topic - After evaluating your essay topics with the above criteria and asking for the free opinions of your teachers or colleagues, and of your friends, you should have at least 1-2 interesting essay topics.

3. Step Three: Writing the Essay - Even seemingly boring topics can be made into exceptional admissions essays with an innovative approach.
Unfortunately, there is no surefire step-by-step method to writing a good essay.

But still following few steps can make the essay successful:

01 - Answer the question – Check what are all the questions that will arise from the Essay that you will present.
02 - Be original - Even seemingly boring essay topics can sound interesting if creatively approached.
03 - Be yourself
04 - Don't thesaurize your composition - For some reason, students continue to think big words make good essays. Big words are fine, but only if they are used in the appropriate contexts with complex styles. Think Hemingway.
05 - Use imagery and clear, vivid prose
06 - Spend the most time on your introduction - Expect officers to spend 1-2 minutes reading your essay. You must use your introduction to grab their interest from the beginning.
07 - Body paragraphs must relate to your introduction - Your introduction can be original, but cannot be silly. The paragraphs that follow must relate to your introduction.
08 - Use transition - You must use transition within paragraphs and especially between paragraphs to preserve the logical flow of your essay.
09 - Conclusions are critical - The conclusion is your last chance to persuade the reader or impress upon them your qualifications.
10 - Do something else
11 - Give your draft to others
12 - Revise, revise, and revise

In writing the essay you must bear in mind your two goals:
1. Allow for the evolution of your main topic.
2. Do not assume your subject must remain fixed and that you can only tweak sentences.

Editing takes time: Consider reordering your supporting details, delete irrelevant sections, and make clear the broader implications of your experiences. Allow your more important arguments to come to the foreground. Take points that might only be implicit and make them explicit. To persuade the officer that you are extremely worthy of and to make the officer aware that you are more than a GPA and a standardized score, that you are a real-life, intriguing personality.

How To Write A Good Technical Essay

How To Write A Good Technical Essay??

For students in undergraduate and Master's degree programs, writing a good technical essay means earn good grades.

For college and graduate students, writing a good technical essay means good grades. If you are one of those college and graduate students who want to finish their studies with flying colours, you must learn the basic principles of technical essay writing. To help you write a good essay and earn good grades, here are five easy steps for you.



1. Following Instructions:

If your professor specifies essay topics for you to write on, make sure that you write your technical essay according to the instructions provided. The best way to please your professor is to follow instructions and make his or her life easier when reviewing your essay. Always remember that your professor have to review hundreds of essays from other students in his or her classes.

2. Formulating Your Thesis:

Just because your professor provided you with a topic for your technical essay doesn't mean you’re professor controls what you have to say about the essay topic. You need to come up with a good thesis for your essay. A thesis contains the point or points that you want to say and to prove in your essay. When formulating your thesis, you need to take an interesting stand on the topic and then proceed to argue your point in your technical essay.

3. Structuring Your Technical Essay:
When structuring your technical essay, make sure that you follow the basic principles of academic writing. You need to have an introduction in your technical essay. When you introduce the topic in your essay, write fairly general statements at first and then gradually narrow down the discussion in your essay to a specific thesis. Establish the thesis of your essay well from the very beginning and create a strong impact on the reader. Always remember that your readers will want to know what you are driving at right from the start.
The body of your technical essay contains statements that support your thesis. Use a review of related literatures to support your arguments and remember to always acknowledge your sources. Do not plagiarize the work of others. Come up with your own arguments and simply use the review of related literatures to strengthen your position. Always remember that in academic writing, you need to be accurate in your facts. Your arguments will be worthless if you cannot support them with facts and figures.
Your technical essay must contain a conclusion. You need to sum up all your arguments in the conclusion of your technical essay. When writing the conclusion for your technical essay, you start by summing up the specific arguments of your essay and then gradually expand it to general discussions. In other words, your conclusion will need to clench all your arguments to make a strong ending.

4. Review Your Work:
Before you submit your technical essay to your professor, make sure that you review your work several times. You need to write and rewrite your technical essay a few times over to make sure that you have a good quality essay that is free from grammatical mistakes, typographical errors and all material is properly cited.