Mapathon 2013: Create better maps for India

 Google India has announced Mapathon 2013, the country's first mapping competition. It is a crowdsourcing initiative aimed to improve Google Maps in India. 

As they say:

" Here at Google Maps, we’re constantly looking to make our maps of the world as comprehensive and detailed as possible. And, in order to create better maps for India, we need everyone’s help. That is why today we’re announcing India’s first ever mapping competition: Mapathon 2013.

VW's Double Back : A Compressed RV

It was over thirty years ago that Volkswagen first started offering "pop tops" on its camper vans. In the years since, the soft-sided interior height-extenders have become a common sight on VW vans parked in campgrounds all over the world. Now, Welsh company Overlander Motorhomes is offering what it sees as the logical compliment to the pop top - it's the DoubleBack, a sliding insulated pod that extends the interior length of Volkwagen's T5 Transporter van.

Safer Internet Day: Connect With Respect

Safer Internet Day- Feb 5,2013

Safer Internet Day (SID) is organised by Insafe on second day of second week of February each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.

Safer Internet Day 2013 will be the tenth edition of the event, and will take place on Tuesday 5 February 2013. The theme for the day is 'Online rights and responsibilities', which will encourage users to 'Connect with respect'.

Gold Shirt wort 1 crore 27 lakhs

It is often said that money can't buy love.

But trying telling that to a wealthy Indian man who splashed out 1 crore+ on a solid gold shirt in the hope it will attract female attention. 

Datta Phuge 32, from Pimpri-Chinchwad (Pune), commissioned the shirt which took a team of 15 goldsmiths two weeks to make working 16 hours a day creating and weaving the gold threads.

Cinema NINJA : Hilarious concept

The Prince Charles Cinema, in London's West End, has come up with a unique solution to the problem of patrons using their cell phones, throwing popcorn, or having conversations during a movie: NINJA.

The Cinema has teamed up with Morphsuits, a Scottish company that produces skin-tight, head-to-toe zentail suits, to create their own volunteer movie theater "ninja task force." 

These 'theater ninjas' aren't actually trained in the dark arts of Ninjutsu - they're simply film lovers who provide their services in exchange for free admission to films.

The cinema ninjas are helping clamp down on excessive noise

Ubuntu: Now for Smartphones

The Ubuntu operating system has been adapted to run on smartphones. The code will initially be released as a file which can be installed on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone, replacing Android.

Ubuntu's founder, Mark Shuttleworth, said he was in talks with manufacturers for devices to be sold with the system       preinstalled within the year.

It is for the first time in history you have the full consumer PC platform available on a phone.

Da Vinci Tower- Dubai

The Dynamic Tower (also known as Dynamic Architecture Building or the Da Vinci Tower) is a planned 420-metre (1,378 ft), 80-floor moving skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, designed by architect David Fisher. The entire tower will rotate 360° while changing shape. A single rotation will take 90 minutes.

Da Vinci Tower- Dubai, UAE

A $350 million tower to be known as the Dynamic Architecture building is to be constructed in Dubai. The 68-story tower will feature floors that can be individually rotated via voice commands.

HAPPY B'DAY INTERNET

Exactly 30 years ago, on January 1, 1983, the basic foundation for the Internet was laid down
What would the world be without the Internet? No Facebook, no Google and no e-mail? What would be the IT industry without the Internet? Exactly 30 years ago, on January 1, 1983, the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) switched from using Network Control Protocol to Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol or TCP /IP – the basic foundation or the backbone for the Internet.

Odisha bans gutkha, tobacco sale

The Odisha Government on Tuesday announced a State-wide ban on the manufacture, sale and use of gutkha and chewing tobacco containing nicotine. With this, Odisha joined 18 other states having similar prohibition on tobacco in food products.

“I appeal to people to co-operate with the State Government to make Odisha a tobacco-free State,” Health and Family Welfare Minister Damodar Rout said.

A notification in this regard will be issued in a day or two, he added.

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Best New Year resolutions

Like every year we are planning to take some resolution for the year 2013 also but confused about what. So here are 10 best New Year resolutions that would certainly reduce your confusion and you may take the best new year resolutions for you in the coming year.

 

1. Stay fit: 'Health is wealth', remember this. Develop the habit of daily exercise to keep you fit. Go for a morning walk, yoga or meditation. This will increase your longevity and helps maintain weight loss and enhances mood. Good health is the key to happiness and this should be in top of your resolution priorities. Join a gym.
2. Quit Smoking: If are thinking to quit smoking, now this is the right time for you. Take a resolution to quit smoking in the New Year. Access for some quit-smoking aids or nicotine replacement therapy. 'Smoking is injurious to health', always keep this thing in your mind. This will certainly help you to quit smoking.
3. Enjoy Life More: Avoid disliking your lifestyle, every one around you have the same. Take a resolution to enjoy life more, however hectic and stressful lifestyle you have. Give time to enjoy your hobbies or develop some new hobby. Avoid tensions and don't get depressed at any situations and always remember 'life come once'.