Android:New Entrant In Moblie Industry

Hi Friends,Yesterday Me And My Friend Muzzamil Hasan Went to the Market for the Search of a Mobile Phone and There We see lot of Variants from Samsung in Touch Screen Segments In Low Cost.Namely STAR Superb,SPICA,Galaxy And Many Others.Important thing is that these Mobile Sets Came With New Technology Called Android which is Somehow Fascinating.So,Here I came with Some Tech-Gyan.........

Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.

Features:

• Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components
• Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices
• Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
• Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)
• SQLite for structured data storage
• Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
• GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
• Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent)
• Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)
• Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE

Android Architecture:

The following diagram shows the major components of the Android operating system. Each section is described in more detail below.

Applications:

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Unconventional gas: May Turn Around !

Natural gas is becoming less like oil and more like coal, which is a good thing !

 The three conventional forms of fossil carbon—oil, coal and gas—differ both in the way the Earth stores them and the way its people use them. Oil is found in relatively few places, and its energy density, pumpability and ease of use in internal-combustion engines makes it particularly well suited as a transportation fuel. Coal is found in many more places—a whole geological era’s worth of rocks, those of the Carboniferous, are named in its honour—and it cannot be pumped around, but can be crushed and burned and so produces baseload power. Gas, typically found and exploited in the same sort of places as oil, is easily moved around through plumbing but is not, usually, seen as a transportation fuel. It has filled niches in between: Europeans warm their homes with it and many developed countries generate some of their electricity with it.

Now new drilling technologies pioneered in America are allowing gas to be extracted from more types of rock—most notably shales, but also so-called “tight” sands and some coal formations—and thus from much more widespread sources. Other innovations, such as producing liquefied natural gas from offshore sources and shipping it to its destinations directly, and technologies that might allow exploitation of the natural gas that is frozen into some permafrosts, further increase the scope for new production. All told, this transition to more plentiful, diverse and widespread reserves in effect makes gas a bit more like coal, and a bit less like oil.

Coal, unlike oil, is hard to embargo: and an obvious consequence of the changes in gas production is that they make gas supply a less potent political tool. In Europe, where Russia has used supply cut-offs to put pressure on.........

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Border Security Force:What They Are Doing ?

The arrest of Border Security Force Commandant R.K. Birdi in Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly ordering the shooting of a 16-year-old Kashmiri should send shock waves across the ranks in that critical paramilitary force. K.F. Rustamji, the legendary founder of the BSF, was a dynamic and respected policeman who built the BSF brick by brick and paved the way for it to become the premier ally of the Army that it is today in defending the Indo-Pakistan border.

Ironically, Rustamji was the father of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in India. Two articles he wrote in 1979 in a national daily formed the substance of the first petition of this genre: it drew the Supreme Court’s attention to the miserable plight of undertrials in Karnataka and Bihar and ensured the release of nearly 40,000 prisoners languishing in Indian jails. This he did in his role as a member of the first National Police Commission (NPC) set up in 1977. He was known for his ethical principles and respect for human rights. He should be turning in his grave as a single BSF officer’s misconduct and total insensitivity have brought ignominy to the organisation.

From what has been reported on the incident of February 5, 2010, Birdi’s action was utterly impulsive and thoughtless. He was a total stranger to his victim, Zahid Farook Shah, a high school student. He did not therefore have any motive for the killing. (When the case against Birdi ultimately goes to court, this factor of an absence of mens rea could weigh in the mind of the judge while awarding the sentence, once other facts establish Birdi’s guilt.) That there was no motive does not by itself take the sting out of an otherwise horrific act. It will also be poor consolation to the distraught parents.

These are the basic facts of the episode. Birdi and his fellow-BSF men of a battalion posted in J&K were travelling in a convoy one evening to their camp in.......

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Chak De India:Hockey's Future !

In three decades, India has not seen any success at the highest level of its ‘national game.’ The euphoria that followed a win over Pakistan in the ongoing World Cup tournament in Delhi was short-lived. The host crashed to three successive defeats, suggesting an eventual placing not much higher than what India has achieved in the competition since winning its solitary title at Kuala Lumpur in 1975. Ranked 12th before going into this World Cup, the team can be reasonably pleased with a place in the top eight. In the tough world of international hockey, fitness, speed, agility, and tactics, which were displayed so splendidly by the Australian side, count more than reputations. The tournament has exposed the chasm that exists between India and the top teams in these areas. Although chief coach Jose Brasa’s assertion that a winning combination cannot be developed in eight months is reasonable, the Spaniard’s tenure might come in for review at the end of the Asian Games in Guangzhou in November 2010.

There has been improvement in this Indian team but it is not the sort that can make an impact at the world level. Brasa was engaged only after India’s failure to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. It was a humiliating ‘first’ for a country that has gloried in its eight Olympic gold medals in the sport, though the last one came way back in 1980 in a devalued competition. A player revolt at the Pune camp demanding incentives and annual payments, manipulative establishment politics, and messy litigation marked the run-up to this World Cup. It is time to move on to settling a long-term......

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