Type these words into Google to awaken the Force

The nerds have taken over the Internet, even more than usual, with a new Google Easter Egg to add to all the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" hype.

Simply type "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" into a Google search (on desktop or mobile) and watch your screen turn to a darkened starscape as John Williams' classic theme music plays and your results scroll by in that familiar opening crawl seen at the opening of each episode from the franchise.

It's another nod to the upcoming premiere of Episode VII following the release of a Star Wars theme for Google apps and an upcoming new Google Cardboard virtual-reality Star Wars experience.

I'm all for fun Easter Eggs, but if there are more to come, I'd like to see something a little more compelling than that crawl, which, let's face it, is one of the most irritating moments in each of the movies. Who wants to learn about intergalactic trade troubles in a format that may be the most difficult way to read anything?

Perhaps, as I mentioned in this week's CraveCast, I'm just burned out on Star Wars hype. I just hope there are no Jar Jar Binks Easter eggs in the works.

MBA understudy to reject degree from Irani, challenges against 'reducing opportunities' in nation

Srinagar: A youthful MBA go out has chosen not to acknowledge his degree at the first assembly of Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) in Kashmir from Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani as a challenge against "decreasing flexibilities" in the nation. 

"However, for an understudy, accepting a graduate degree is no not exactly any prestigious recompense. Be that as it may, on October 19, (the Convocation Day) I Sameer Gojwari won't acknowledge it," Gojwari, who finished his MBA from the IUST in 2008, composed on his facebook page. 

Gojwari's post came in light of unverified reports that Irani will be giving out degrees to the pass outs of the IUST at the varsity's first ever assembly on Monday. 

"At the point when India's authors are returning abstract recompenses to dissent reducing opportunities and 41 scholars the nation over have given back most prestigious grants; informal reports say that Islamic University of Science and Technology on its first Convocation have led a Minister from Central Ministry #BJP, in all probability Mrs Smriti Irani," he said. 

The Union HRD clergyman is booked to establish the framework stone of Central University Kashmir complex at Ganderbal on Tuesday.

Bringing the Internet to more Indians – starting with 10 million rail passengers a day in INDIA

When I was a student, I relished the day-long railway journey I would make from Chennai Central station (then known as Madras Central) to IIT Kharagpur. I vividly remember the frenetic energy at the various stations along the way and marveled at the incredible scale and scope of Indian Railways.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Googleplex today

I’m very proud to announce that it’s the train stations of India that are going to help get millions of people online. In the past year, 100 million people in India started using the Internet for the first time. This means there are now more Internet users in India than in every country in the world aside from China. But what's really astounding is the fact that there are still nearly one billion people in India who aren’t online.

We’d like to help get these next billion Indians online—so they can access the entire web, and all of its information and opportunity. And not just with any old connection—with fast broadband so they can experience the best of the web. That’s why, today, on the occasion of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to our U.S. headquarters, and in line with his Digital India initiative, we announced a new project to provide high-speed public Wi-Fi in 400 train stations across India.

Working with Indian Railways, which operates one of the world's largest railway networks, and RailTel, which provides Internet services as RailWire via its extensive fiber network along many of these railway lines, our Access & Energy team plans to bring the first stations online in the coming months. The network will expand quickly to cover 100 of the busiest stations in India before the end of 2016, with the remaining stations following in quick succession.

Even with just the first 100 stations online, this project will make Wi-Fi available for the more than 10 million people who pass through every day. This will rank it as the largest public Wi-Fi project in India, and among the largest in the world, by number of potential users. It will also be fast—many times faster than what most people in India have access to today, allowing travelers to stream a high definition video while they’re waiting, research their destination, or download some videos, a book or a new game for the journey ahead. Best of all, the service will be free to start, with the long-term goal of making it self-sustainable to allow for expansion to more stations and other places, with RailTel and more partners, in the future.

This map shows the first 100 stations that will have high-speed Wi-Fi by the end of 2016

We think this is an important part of making the Internet both accessible and useful for the more than 300 million Indians already online, and the nearly one billion more who are not.

But it’s not the only piece. To help more Indians get access to affordable, high-quality smartphones, which is the primary way most people there access the Internet, we launched Android One last year. To help address the challenges of limited bandwidth, we recently launched a feature that makes mobile webpages load faster and with less data, and we’ve made YouTube available offline with offline Maps coming soon. 

To help make web content more useful for Indians, many of whom don’t speak English, we launched the Indian Language Internet Alliance last year to foster more local language content, and have built greater local language support into our products—including Hindi Voice Search, an improved Hindi keyboard and support for seven Indian languages with the latest versions of Android. And finally, to help all Indians reap the benefits of connectivity, we’ve been ramping up efforts to help women, who make up just a third of Internet users in India today, get the most from the web.

Just like I did years ago, thousands of young Indians walk through Chennai Central every day, eager to learn, to explore and to seek opportunity. It’s my hope that this Wi-Fi project will make all these things a little easier. 

(Posted by Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google)

Wonder Why India is still Developing Country!

India got the Independence on 15th August 1947, Since then as a country India have given many successful Industrialist, Business Magnet, Political Leader, Sport Players, Artist, Scientist and Philosophers who are renowned and world famous. But still after 68 year we are still labeled as developing country, wonder Why ?

After observing many instances, I came to the conclusion that the main factor is our Education System. I know many of us would say that our academic syllabus is improving gradually, But the fact is our young generation are not getting what they want- "freedom" to learn what they want.
There should be a compulsory subjects which are essential combined with optional subjects which can be changed according to student with proper counselling. How many of you know schools and colleges who give equal importance to counselling and Education!
Shockingly are very few.

How many of our Children know the law of our Country?

How many of us know, how an government organisation work?

If we are not aware of our own country's Law at young age, we will not able to grow and develop it.

We should need to introduce a subject based on Law right from the Standard First to Tenth All board

Similarly there are many subjects which we need to introduce and provide an optional subjects to our young generation. This will give them freedom to study.

If we can spread knowledge of Law and provide optional subject, our country's future will become more promising.

Just think about it!

Google launches affordable XOLO Chromebook in India, Nexian Air priced at Rs 12,999; available on Snapdeal and Amazon

Google on Friday launched three new budget Chromebooks in India focussing on education –  XOLO Chromebook is to be made available on Snapdeal priced at Rs 12,999, Nexian Air Chromebook with same price tag will be available on Amazon – in the coming months latest units from ASUS including the Chromebook Flip and C201 and Samsung will also be available from local retailers.

Google also launched a Chromebox for businesses. The Chromebox, which is a video meeting utility, will be priced at Rs 90,000 and will be manufactured by Asus for India. “HP and Acer are making the Chromeboxes that are being sold in Europe,” Smita Hashim, Global Product Manager, Chrome OS, said. “Chromebox for meetings brings together Hangouts, Google Apps and easy­ to­ manage chromebox, making it simple and affordable for any company to have high­ definition video meetings,” a release from the company claimed.

The Google Chromebook runs on a much lighter OS and thus boots up easily.

The budget Chromebooks are targeting educational institutions and during the launch, Google showed off its new capabilities and new apps that are now available in the web store. “We are trying to get a lot of Android apps on the Chrome OS as both the OS complement each other. We can send regular updates to the OS after intervals of six weeks,” Hashim said implying quicker and faster development to the new OS from the stable of Google.The budget Chormebooks will come with with Google Apps for Education enabling the user to work in an already well-defined environment.

All the new devices will come with a management control console through which the educational institution or business can manage the devices. Each device use will be charged — a revenue model that Google has long been using with its email services.With the Chromebook management console, administrators can set up and manage up to thousands of Chromebooks from a computer or phone. “Plus, regular updates from Google mean that Chromebooks actually get better over time, reducing school’s maintenance and software costs,” Hashim said.

The Chromebook runs on a much lighter OS and thus boots up easily. The tech giant claimed that it has prepared the device for more offline activity than its earlier releases. “When we introduced Chromebooks four years ago, we
wanted to build a laptop for the way people use computers today­ always fast, easy to  use,  and  secure  by  default.Since launching Chromebooks in India, we’ve been working to ensure that Chromebooks work in an environment  where  connectivity  can  be  spotty,  and  many  people’s  first experiences with technology are through a phone rather than a laptop,” Hashim added.

According to IDC’s latest report on tablets and laptops in K­12 education, Chromebooks were the best­selling device in the US last year. While the devices released on Friday will run on the RK3288 Rockchip processor, the ones to come in the market will use Intel chips at its base.

Microsoft Brings Power of its Cloud Platform to Indian education, Launches K-12-Targeted Product ‘Edu –Cloud’

Identifying India as a huge potential market for IT reforms, more particularly in Education sector, Microsoft on Tuesday launched Edu-Cloud, a K-12 targeted product combining a digital learning platform on cloud and software solutions for schools, all deployed on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform.

Edu-cloud is going to provide ERP, SIS solutions and digital library access to schools and at the same time will offer virtual learning platform and teacher training aimed at students and teachers. This will be done by a system preloaded in a Lenovo tab serving as a point of access for all digitised content and Microsoft’s other software offerings such as Office 365 and Evernote.

Edu-Cloud is expected to reach 60 lakh students and 10 lakh teachers in over 1500 institutions in the next 18 months as told by Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman of Microsoft India who was in Hyderabad to launch Edu-Cloud.

Currently Microsoft has joined hands with a chain of educational institutions, Sri Chaitanya Schools being one of them, having network in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana which plans to roll out this service by next year to the students of standard 3, 4 and 5th. Sri Charan, Director of Sri Chaitanya Schools said,

We have a tie-up with Macmillan publishers for their digitized books as well as our own content. The current tie-up will reduce the assessment time, especially for test-prep for plus-one students from one day to a few minutes

It is noteworthy that K-12 education system has been quickly gaining popularity in India after establishing its footprints in USA and Canada, especially after the launching of free primary education schemes by Indian government. In fact, the current K-12 school system in India is one of the largest in the world with more than 1.4 million schools and over 250 million students enrolled, as revealed in EY-FICCI report on the education sector in India.

This concept covers the education from Kindergarten (K) till the 12th grade and focuses more on teacher-student interaction and “learning by doing” method, unlike our conventional education system based on “rote learning for exam” method.

Just the Beginning of Cloud Services

The idea of Edu-Cloud based on cloud services can be seen as just the beginning of cloud computing services by Microsoft, with the tech-giant reporting a staggering 106%growth in its cloud-computing business over the last year with annualized revenue rate of $6.3 billion.

In India, Microsoft is gearing up to offer its cloud services through three hybrid cloud data centers in Pune by the end of 2015 and later through centers at undisclosed locations in West and Southern India.

Bhaskar Pramanik the Chairman of Microsoft India, while speaking about the Microsoft plans to offer these services to enterprises and SMEs, financial institutions and government bodies, said

The public cloud market in India is currently 1% of the IT industry. We are building for the future by trying to grow the market to capture 50% of the $40 billion IT spend by enterprises in the country.

He further added,

We have been through every single guideline including the IT Act, IDRBT guidelines for the Indian banking sector and SEBI guidelines to make sure that our functionalities meet the requirements. These centers were set up for multiple tax and security reasons.