Paper Presentation on ANDROID TECHNOLOGY

ABSTRACT

                 The unveiling of the Android platform on was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 48 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Google has made most of the Android platform available under the Apache free-software and open source license.

           Android is a freely downloadable open source software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications based on Linux and Java.

           Google developed Android collaboratively as part of the Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 mobile and technology companies working to open up the mobile handset environment. Android's development kit supports many of the standard packages used by Jetty, and so, due to that fact and Jetty's modularity and lightweight footprint, it was possible to port Jetty to it so that it will be able to run on the Android platform.

          This paper on Android deals with the history of the Android, the early prototypes, basic building blocks of an android application and the features of the android.

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Laptops Vs Tablets: What to Buy & Choose?

Laptops Vs Tablets: What to Buy & How do I Decide?

With the advent of so many new gadgets every season it’s a tough call for an inexperienced customer to decide what he wants. Starting from smartphones, slate tablets, netbooks, kindle, laptops or high end gaming devices there are plenty of gadgets available depending on your needs

I own an iPhone since quite long, but with Apple announcing iPad and recent explosion of multi-touch slate tablets, I did some research on feasibility of these gadgets. Whether I really need a tablet or will a small netbook or a laptop will solve my purpose ?
Following is the table that we came up with for novice people who can see their purpose of buying a new gadget and assign a score (1-3) for each of the purpose.

Purpose	Tablet(Slate) score	Laptop/Netbook score
Listen to Music	3	2
Travelling	3	2
Browsing	3	2
Casual Gaming	2	1
Portability	3	3
Data Processing	1	3
Official Work	1	3
Programming	1	3
School Homework	1	3
Watching movies	3	2
Economical	1	3

Using this table is quite simple, just see the purpose you want to use your gadget and keep adding the score for tablet slate and laptop. For example, if your main purpose of getting a new gadget is to listen to music, browsing,watching movies and portability, then you may decide on a good tablet instead of getting a laptop.
However the table is for novice people, they should carefully review the list and also plan for how much time are they going to use their new device as with age technology gets better and cheaper.
Good Luck! in buying your New Technology Toy…!! 

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Famous ringtones for ur mobile: all HQ mp3

Ringtones List:

Appidi Podu - Gilli - Tamil
Boro Boro - Arash
Endrem drum - Alai payuthey - Tamil
Tokyo drift - Fast and Furious
Daud - Theme
Rang de basanthi - Theme
Thathi Thathi - Kaadhal Kondein
Ek hockey doonge - Chak de india
Paatshaala - Rang de basanti
Hare rama hare krishna - Bhool bhulaiyaan
Taratha yethuku potha - Krishna
Jagadame - Pokiri
Hey chinna raa chinna - Ranam
Cash - Cash
Maddy - Minnale - Tamil
Burning up - Kylie Minogue
Lets go Jhonny - Jhonny
Stalin - Theme
Cheliya cheliya - Gharshana
Hooray hip
I'm a scatman - Scatman
Baba blaze - Baba
Chatrapathi - Theme
Dhoom again - Dhoom
Hips dont lie - Shakira
I wanna swing - Anukokunda oka roju
Khallas - Company
Ladies pop - Khia
Lemme hold you - Sting
Lonely - Akon
Mumbhai - Bombay boys
Music is my hot hot sex - Canser Di Sier
Nani vayase - Nani
Roses are red - Aqua
Shock - Theme
Who let the dogs out - Baha men
Ee enaichi - Kaadhal Virus

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The World Islands,Dubai

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• The World involves the creation of over 300 man made islands that are designed to represent the world map
• The vision for The World project was provided by His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Defence Minister and was officially released on September 21, 2003
• The islands will be built in the shape of the world map and consist of four protective breakwaters on the outer perimeters to provide shelter from long and cross-shore waves. The inner breakwaters will be a submerged reef and the outer breakwaters will be above water
• Located just off the coast of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, The World is located 4km off shore from a point halfway between Port Rashid and The Palm, Jumeirah
• Construction of The World commenced in September 2003, after many years of research. The project is scheduled to be completely raised from the sea in 2008.
• Investors will have the freedom to create their own personal vision on the islands for private or commercial use, whether it is for leisure, residential or tourist developments. The 300 islands will be offered for sale on a freehold basis to selected investors only
• Nakheel will hand over the islands to the investors once the land has been reclaimed in 2008.
• The World will measure approximately 9km in length and 7km in width. It will cover over 9,340,000 square metres, and will add 232 kilometres of beachfront to Dubai’s coastline.
• All of the islands will range from 150,000 sq feet to 450,000 sq feet in size, with the average island measuring approximately 300,000 square feet
• 326 million cubic metres of sand will be used to form the islands
• 32 million tons of rock will be used to construct the breakwater
• The islands prices range from US$ 10 million – 45 million
• The average distance between islands is 50-100 metres, with an average depth of water in the navigation channels of at least 5 metres
• The World will be a sophisticated network of islands – Nakheel will integrate a series of waterways, canals and lakes to enhance the overall design
• All 300 islands will only be accessible by marine or air transport, with world-class marinas to berth boats, yachts and cruise liners. 2 mainland marinas will service The World. 4 hub islands in The World will service the islands.
• Construction on The World is round-the-clock, 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• The main Contractors for The World are Van Oord ACZ Marine Contractors Gulf FZE – Dubai who are responsible for land reclamation, dredging works and the breakwaters. This is the largest project Van Oord has undertaken in the region
• The jumbo trailers being used to build The World can handle 20-25 thousand cubic metres of sand at any one time and require a water depth of at least 12 metres to operate.

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Aakash: World’s Cheapest Tablet PC

The eagerly awaited Aakash tablet previously codenamed Sakshat is here finally.

HRD minister Kapil Sibal released the Aakash tablet, whose real price is Rs. 2,999, at a press conference in the capital.

The Govt. of India even distributed 500 free tablets to students from different parts of India who had come to attend the event. The Aakash tablet will be available for students at a subsidized price, which would bring down its value to $35 (Rs. 1,700) making it the cheapest tablet ever.

The device is equipped with a 7-inch touchscreen and runs on Android 2.2-Froyo OS. It is both GPRS and Wi-Fi enabled and available with an affordable Internet plan of Rs.98/2GB. It can also double up as a phone by inserting a SIM card and headphones.

The tablet is not only cheap. It is exciting too. Being GPRS enabled, it allows the consumer to access Internet like he/she would do on a mobile phone. No only that, it can also become 3G enabled using a dongle.

Along with that, it also offers 32 MicroSD support and a USB port. Along with numerous Android apps, it would come with Office Suite and educational softwares.

Being affordable definitely does not make it boring. In fact, it can play HD quality video and you can also store your music collection. It also comes pre-loaded with email, Facebook and Twitter.

The tablet comes from Datawind, a Canadian company run by two Indians Suneet and Raja Tulli, who beat several other bidders to win the tender for the tablet. Datawind mostly sells Chinese products, but, the Aakash tablet would be sold and manufactured in India itself by a company called Quad based in Andhra Pradesh.

The Aakash tablet has been in the news ever since it was announced back in 2009. It was earlier known as Sakshat and has been expected to release for long.

It is one of the unique initiatives anywhere in the world to empower the masses. It will bring a computer to those people who could never afford a PC for its price and power consumption.

The Aakash tablet actually achieves the main purpose of a tablet. To provide a machine that gives one an alternative to a PC, is easily portable, but most of all, making a computer most accessible ever.

Technical specifications:

Operating system: Android 2.2

Screen: 7″ resistive

Processor: 366 MHz + HD video co-processor

RAM: 256 MB

Flash memory: 2GB + 2GB Micro-SD (expandable up to 32 GB)

USB ports: 2

Network: WiFi (GPRS & 3G options)

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Cricket rules explained

Cricket the English game

Imagine the early evening of a summer's day in a country village, there's a tall church spire in the background; green trees sit against the horizon; the players are in white, their shadows are long and crisp; birds are singing; there's the smell of fresh cut grass; on the other side of the village green there's a pub; its windows are festooned with flower boxes, a few of the older generation have settled themselves in the benches outside to watch the game and you hear the sound of leather on willow. It's a quintessential English scene that sits deep in the English psyche. Cricket is the most English game. It has intricate rules and expected codes of behaviour, our language has phrases from the game that are linked to uprightness and honesty - 'play with straight bat', it's just not cricket' describes something that's amiss - the centre of the game itself is individualistic but each individual's effort must be backed up by team mates or that effort is worthless. Wherever Englishman have travelled cricket has been played; I have pictures of Sharjah where the Royal Engineers have made a wicket from matting in the middle of the dsesert, there have been cricket matches on the ice of the Arctic, aircraft carrier runways have seen the odd spin ball and a four or two has hit the waves. A sandbank off the coast of Kent is the scene of an annual match that must finish before the waves swallow up the wicket....cricket is replete with eccenctricities; beside the hospital where I was born stood a 120 ft high lime tree growing inside the field of play at Canterbury's St Lawrence Cricket Ground; when the tree died in the late 1990's it was of course replaced keeping in place, as well, the special rules created for this peculiar circumstance (4 runs scored if the ball was stopped by the tree).

cricket ball

bowler

batsman

umpire

fielding positions

shot

scoreboard

cover drive

slips

bowled

bowled

drinks interval

slip catch

The basics

• Each team has 11 men.
• One team bats and one team fields and bowls.
• When the team batting has lost 10 wickets (10 players have got out) roles are reversed.
• The team that scores the most runs wins.
• The pitch is the piece of land where the action takes place. It's 22 yards long and 10 feet wide.
• At each end of the pitch there are three stumps and twobails which make a wicket. A stump is a round stick with a pointed end that is driven into the ground; the stump is 28ins high. The bails sit in grives on the top of the stumps forming a tall lower case 'm' shape with the stumps.
• The crease is a white line drawn across and in front of the stumps two feet from their base.
• A batsman uses a bat traditionally made from willow. He wears pads that protect his shins and knees and part of his thigh. Padded gloves protect his hands. A box protects his family jewels. In top class cricket players also wear helmets, thigh pads and even body armour - some fast bowlers deliver the cricket ball in excess of 90 miles an hour.
• A bowler must bowl the ball, this means that when he releases the ball his arm must be straight, if it is bent the delivery is illegal because he has thrown the ball.
• The wicket keeper stands behind the stumps and batsman; he is similarly protected as the batsman but wears wicket keeping gloves that have extra padding.
• The boundary is the line on the edge of the cricket field. If a batsman hits the ball past the boundary without the ball bouncing he scores six runs, if he hits the ball past the boundary and the ball makes contact with the ground before reaching the boundary he scores 4 runs.
• To score a run without hitting the ball past the boundary the batsman must run from one end of the wicket to the other; each time he does this he scores one run. While he is running the fielding side has the opportunity to dismiss the batsman by hitting the stumps he is running to with the ball before the batsman can cross the crease.
• The fielding side can dismiss a batsman in a number of different ways. A batsman can be bowled out which means the ball hits the stumps directly from a bowler's delivery. A batsman can be caught out which means he has hit the ball directly into the air and a fielder has caught it. He can be run out which means the stumps he was running to were hit while he was trying to complete a run. He can be stumped which means the wicket keeper caught a bowler's delivery and knocked off the bails with the ball while the batsman was outside his crease. He can dismissed by LBW - this stands for 'leg before wicket' and this decision is made by the umpire who stands directly behind the set of stumps at the bowler's end of the wicket. The bowler asks the umpire to make a decision by shouting 'Howzat!!'. If the umpire thinks the ball has pitched in line with the wicket and would have hit the wicket if had not hit one of the batsman's leg he is out. Another way to be out is to accidentally hit your own stumps with part of your body or bat - embarassing...
• The cricket ball is made of cork, string and leather. The centre of a cricket ball is cork; around the cork string is wound and a leather exterior is sewn around the outside. A pronounced seam binds the leather. The seam runs like an equator around the middle of the ball. A cricket ball is hard and a similar size to a baseball. Traditionally, cricket balls are red but with the invention of floodlit cricket and with players in some forms of the game wearing coloured uniforms instead of the traditional whites, cricket balls are also white.
• There are different types of bowlers that describe how fast they bowl and their method of delivery. A fast bowler is what it says. 'Fast' is generally considered to be around 90 mph in the professional game. A swing bowler has the ability to make the delivery bend in the air; he does this by shinning one side of the ball and leaving the other side to be scuffed and made dirty by normal play, the effect of this is that the shiny side of the ball travels faster through the air that the rough side which will drag through the air. A seam bowler has the ability to make the ball bounce on the seam thereby making the direction of the bounce variable and unpredictable. Spin bowling - players spin the ball in order for the ball to 'turn' when it bounces.
• Fielders can stand anywhere on the pitch. There are specific names for specific fielding positions on the pitch. Many of the names relate to the fielder's position in relation to the batsman. If a fielder is standing to the left of a right handed batsman he is 'legside' and positions here are designated 'on'; if he is standing to the right of a right handed batsman he is 'offside' - hence 'mid off' and 'mid on' are basically the same position but on opposide sides of the pitch. The slips are a set of fielders' positions behind the batsman on the on side. They are near enough to catch any balls that slice off the edge of the bat. There are some wonderful names - 'silly mid on' and silly mid off' close to the batsman and are in peril if hit by the ball; gulley, third man, cover, extra cover...
• The bowler delivers six deliveries from one end of the pitch. This is an over. At the end of each over a new bowler will deliver from the opposite end - all the fielders have to rotate their positions.
• There are two batsman in at any one time. One facing the deliveries the other stands at the bowler's end and will be ready to run in order to score runs.
• An innings is the completed batting of a team.
• There is limited over cricket which usually takes place over one day - the shortest is twenty over cricket. The opposite extreme to this is international test match cricket which takes 5 days each team has two innings.
• There are two umpires. One stands behind the wickets at the bowlers end and the other stands in line with the batting crease of the batter about twenty yards away on the legside.
• Screens are whiteboards placed behind the bowler to help the batsman see the ball.
• Here's the famous summary of cricket found on a tea-towel:
• Cricket, as explained to a foreigner: You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

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