Why tablet computer is called "tablet" & Why Aakash can be fail

A tablet computer is called such since it is like a "tablet", that is a flat stone used for writing on. Remember Moses receiving the 10 Commandments from God, carved on two stone tablet.

• Why Askash tablet fail

  
  

  New Delhi: Days after the big bang launch of the Aakash Tablet by the government doubts are being raised over its efficiency and durability. If experts of the industry are to be believed, technical flaws, no hands-on experience, and the total cost of procuring it make the much-hyped gadget a disappointment for the buyers. The after sale report about the Aakash Tablet are extremely disappointing and those who bought the low cost gadget have only one reason to be happy- they are the privileged early users of the gadget.
  
  
  During its launch, Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said, “To improve the system of education in India. Soon, a 35 dollar computer will be made available to every child in school. The tablet shall help enhance the quality of learning of children.”
  Ironically, days after its launch doubts are being raised whether Aakash Tablet will really serve the purpose, whether it can aid students and improve the quality of education in the country. However, unfazed by the negative outlook surrounding the ‘fully sold-out low cost gadget’, its makers (Datawind) are preparing to launch the next version of it, the Ubislate Plus, which will have a few better specifications.
  According to experts, the new version will have a look similar to the Chinese tablets and have the SIM card option.
  Pricing: For those who think that Aakash comes at an astonishing low price-is really cheap, here are some figures:
  Tablet cost – Rs 2500
  Shipping cost – Rs. 200
  A 4GB or 8GB MicroSD card – Rs 500 to Rs 800
  No earphones given, purchase one – At least Rs. 400
  Total: Rs 4000
  Faulty Processor: The gadget may not be able to perform multiple tasks because the Android OS application would require enough memory to run a few applications and graphics. This can be understood from the fact that the cheapest Android mobiles from ‘Spice’ are equipped with 600 MHz processor, whereas the Aakash has just 336 MHz processor. So, half of it would always be kept on use for just running the OS.
  Low memory + short storage = no entertainment: Aakash tablet can’t store heavy files and large number of songs since it has less video storage capacity. Although, the tablet’s memory can be expanded to 32GB but that would require more cash spending since a MicroSD card of 8GB is available for a price of around Rs 800 to 1000, making the cost of gadget exceed Rs 2500, as fixed by the government.   
  Low battery, 2100 mAh: Experts say the Aakash Tablet does not have a powerful battery backup either. A longer lasting battery is important for a hassle free experience on a gadget like Aakash with comparatively big screen. This is significant since cheaper Android phone available in market come with a 1500 mAh battery, for mere 3 to 3.5-inch screens.
  In such a case, most of the battery would be drained from that 2100 mAh capacity to just run the Aakash tablet. Although, the Datawind claims Aaakash has 180 minutes of power backup, but the firm fails to mention what kind of usage is possible with it. It the firm tries to limit the storage, its low processor will slow down the web browsing and reading, but can make the battery last for a max of 3 hours.
  Poor display, reflects light: Aakash tablet’s screen resolution is very poor as its basic display has no High Definition output. Its screen reflects the light, and at its maximum brightness too, the tablet won’t be able to display the stuff well in the bright conditions. So, this restricts the use to use the tablet in a closed area, not under the sun.
  Touchscreen is resistive, but too resistive: Unlike other sophisticated gadgets, Aakash’ touchscreen feature is said to be too resistive during a push and drag sequence or to select an icon or browsing through other applications.  
  Heating up quickly: The processor installed in Aakash is heating up too quickly, experts say, as it is over-burdened to sustain speed needed to multitask. The tablet gets heated up within an hour of continuous usage, which has been confirmed through actual users who tried using the Wi-Fi and browsing the web for an hour.
  No Bluetooth support: Aakash Tablets lack support for a USB dongle, unlike other high-tech devices like Ainol Novo 7 tablet that comes with the price of USD 100 and has support for any USB dongle. This feature enables the dongle to use any 3G SIM for the network connection.
  No Android Market, no application upgrade: The Aakash Tablet misses the Android marketplace and that limits the usage to the given apps. Those who know how to get things done on it would try to install it separately, but the target buyers (in the rural areas) may have little knowledge of Androids.
  Hardware won’t support upgrades: If at all you are trying to use your skills, and install 3rd party applications, the fact remains that many of the latest applications would need the latest Android OS, at least the gingerbread 2.3 version. But with the 366 MHz processor, upgrade would be difficult too.
  Wi-Fi connectivity and poor network in India: With Aakash Tablet having the Wi-Fi option, poor connectivity is going to be a big impediment for users in rural areas.  Even the major Metropolitan cities in India struggle in providing Wi-Fi networks through the service providers, so one can easily imagine how will the users get the Wi-Fi network in rural areas?
  No external speakers: As there is no external speakers connected to the device. Audio would need earphones and that would cost money.
  
  

  Source: Zeenews Bureau

  
  
  
  

   

A tablet computer is called such since it is like a "tablet", that is a flat stone used for writing on. Remember Moses receiving the 10 Commandments from God, carved on two stone tablets

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A tablet computer is called such since it is like a "tablet", that is a flat stone used for writing on. Remember Moses receiving the 10 Commandments from God, carved on two stone tablets !

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_tablet_computer_is_called_tablet_computer#ixzz2CP777o49

A tablet computer is called such since it is like a "tablet", that is a flat stone used for writing on. Remember Moses receiving the 10 Commandments from God, carved on two stone tablets !

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‘Call for Book Chapters’ for Bank performance measurement

 

Call for Book Chapters

Edited book

on

“Bank Performance Measurement at crossroad”

After the recent financial crisis, banks are seriously concerned about how to improve their performance measurement capabilities in light of changed economic and market conditions and new management requirements. New regulatory strictures, Capital requirements, new channels e.g. mobile phones are becoming more important in current era. Revenue growth continues to be difficult to achieve due to uncertain economic conditions, low interest rates. Banks are trying to manage costs better, deepen customer’s relationships, improve product mix and pricing decisions. These and other factors are causing banks to re-examine and improve the ways in which they measure and report true business performance.

The last 3 decades has seen a revolution in bank performance measurement. Traditional accounting based measures e.g. growth performance, ratio analysis have been principally replaced by Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), that focus on the financial as well as the non-financial, and frameworks such as the Balanced Scorecard. Throughout this period we have seen significant research on the performance measurement tools/technique, but the emerging need is concerned with accurately and globally accepted uniform set of performance measures that should be able to predict the actual performance of the business enterprise.

Performance measurement is at a crossroads. The traditional measures of bank performance found weak in predicting the business failure and global crises. This suggests that our understanding of this field is incomplete. From a practical perspective, we have the additional complication of a fast moving business environment with globalization, increasing reliance on international supply chains, emerging markets and high-speed internet connectivity, not to mention the new organizational structures this brings. For all the good intents of initiatives such as Sarbanes Oxley, performance measurement and management practice failed to prevent the recent banking crisis.

In this special edited book, our intent is to draw together studies at the leading edge of the use of performance measurement. We are interested in different settings, both within and across organizations, and the application of performance measurement in different sectors and cultures. Finally, we are interested in trends and developments especially when linked to sound theoretical underpinning. Priority will be given to empirical studies of real world situations and organizations and high quality theoretical papers that make a direct contribution to our understanding of the field.

The following is a list of topics of interests for this edited book, but is not to be considered exhaustive: -

·         Relevancy of ratio and growth based performance analysis in current scenario

·         Market based performance indicators: Stock market, EVA/MVA and decision making

·         Bankruptcy/Bank Failure prediction modeling: determinants, effects and causal relationship

·         Risk Analysis and its Modeling

·         Modeling of performance measurement approaches

·         ‘Balance Score Card’ non-financial performance measurement tool

·         DEA: Emerging issues

·         Bank performance: determinants, effects and causal relationship

·         Branch level performance: Emerging issues  

·         Appropriateness of CAMELS rating

·         Issues in Statistical, Econometrics, Index and aggregation based methodology for bank performance measurement

·         Service Quality Measurement

·         Managerial potentials measurement and its effect on bank’s financial performance

·         Basal accord: Futuristic issues and effects on bank performance

·         Economic condition, regulatory framework, strategic choices and bank performance

·         Proposed techniques, approaches and modeling for bank performance analysis

We expect that studies submitted will use a variety of approaches, theoretical lenses and methodologies, quasi- experimental and experimental research. We would particularly welcome studies that show longitudinal progress of performance measurement.

The editors will acknowledge receipt of the paper and then will first review the submissions for relevance to the special issue. Only high quality and selective manuscripts will find a place in this edited book.

Useful Guidelines for authors:

v  Authors are required to submit their full papers, not exceeding 8000 words, by only electronic submission in the form of a word file as an e-mail attachment to the editor at call4bookchapters@gmail.com

v  Authors should submit only original manuscripts for consideration for review and publication for the edited book. The authors should ensure that the article has not been submitted nor published elsewhere and they are also required to fill the copyright form send by us.

v  Manuscripts should be written in clear, concise and grammatically correct language. The entire manuscript, including references, should be typed 1.5 spaced and font size should be only 11.5. Leave one line space between two paragraphs.

v  Manuscript headings should be divided into two main and sub headings. Main heading should be in capital with font size 13 & bold and all sub-headings should be in capital with font size 12 & bold. In addition, all headings and sub headings should be numbered according to their main heading.

v  Each table/figure must have a title and should be numbered consecutively.

Guidelines for References

v  Relevant works must be cited in the reference list at the end of the paper in an alphabetical order. Authors are advised to include only those references which have been used in their paper. Some of the guidelines/examples for references are as follows.

Books:      

Gujarati, D (2003), “Basic Econometrics”, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

Contributions to books:

Elson, D (1996), “Appraising Recent Developments in the World Market for Nimble Fingers” in Chhachhi and R Pittin (ed) Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press) 35-55.

Journal and other articles:

Helleiner, Eric (2006), “Reinterpreting Bretton Woods: International Development and the Neglected Origins of Embedded Liberalism”, Development and Change, 37(5): 943-967.

Conference papers:

Gupta, Vijaya (2006), “Non-Market Valuation of the Benefits of Environmental Quality of Powai Lake”, Mumbai, Ninth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, 16-18 December, New Delhi.

Important Dates:

Submission of Paper: 31^st December, 2012

Communication of Acceptance of Final Paper: 15^th March, 2013

Proposed date of Final book Print: 30^th June, 2013

Editor:

Dr. Parveen Chauhan (Ph.d)

 

Economics of Festival

Paul Tollett, the man behind the giant, weekend-long music showcase festival All Points West, which is taking over Liberty State Park in Jersey City this coming weekend, has learned a bit about holding giant, weekend-long music showcase festivals in New York, and what can go wrong.
“We felt there were a lot of things we didn’t like about last year,” he told The New York Observer in an interview this week. “I walked around as a fan and stood in those lines, and when you go stand in that line, you get mad, and even if it’s me. I don’t want to wait. Who would want to have to go through that?”
Last year, he had 27,000 people “going through that” on Friday, 30,000 on the headlining day, Saturday, and 22,000 on Sunday. From the noise coming off the Internet, it might have been a million.
Last year, the fest’s debut featured two nights headlined by Radiohead and many other impressive bands, but also endless lines for food, pain-in-the-ass ferry and parking problems and what lots of people thought were draconian restrictions on beer drinkers (small, prisonlike drinking pen, five-beer maximum). “All Points Worst” was the festival’s most prominent epitaph on the Web.
Some sample threads on the festival’s official message board in the year since have read like a summer-camp burn-book: “Sneaking In,” “The Stages Should Face The Opposite Direction,”
“How dumb is this ‘green’ deal?” “All Points West Sux” and, of course, “Paul Tollett is a D-bag.”
Mr. Tollett might have been the main candidate to get it right: He’s the mastermind behind California’s Coachella Festival, after all. He oversees Goldenvoice, which produces some 300 shows a year, and along with AEG Live puts on APW, Coachella, Stagecoach, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Seattle’s Bumbershoot festival, among others. But with local grumps—that is to say, New Yorkers—he’s found that keeping an ear to the message boards is all-important.
“We read the message boards and the emails, and people complain or give advice,” he said. “Some of it is very negative. You can do everything right and there’s still 12 people for whom it’s the worst thing they’ve ever seen, but you watch and you can see what makes sense. Enough people have a problem and it might be a real problem.”
Mr. Tollett expects similar attendance numbers this year, but he says he’s ready for them.
“The first year of Coachella, we didn’t have any lines, but that’s only because we didn’t sell any tickets!”
In place of last year’s third stage (which produced more noise interference and confusing schedules) is a tent where comedians (among them Tim & Eric, Janeane Garofalo and Eugene Mirman), DJs, electronic acts and smaller bands will perform. The Renegade Craft Fair is also along for the ride.
The pain-in-the-ass trip should be relieved somewhat by public transit discounts. But the biggest test will be at the beer garden, which is going to be larger, with shorter waits, a shady location and views of the stages.
Of course, this is New York, and major bands come through all the time. It’s the specific location—“within sight of the Statue of Liberty and ground zero”—that provides its greatest attraction and also its greatest drawbacks: drinking restrictions on federal property, the security considerations that go along with holding the event at a prominent national site. Overnight camping? Forget it.
So you’ve got to put together one hell of a lineup.
Headliners this year include Tool, Coldplay and Jay-Z (a last-minute replacement for the Beastie Boys), and other performers include Echo & the Bunnymen, My Bloody Valentine, MSTRKRFT, the Black Keys, Fleet Foxes, Neko Case and more than 65 other artists.
What’s new this time around is a bit of pandering to New Yorkers, trying to brand the fest with local flavor peppered into each day, “with the Beastie Boys—and now Jay-Z is in there—and
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, MGMT and all those bands. It’s very friendly to the area,” Mr. Tollett said.

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Source:.http://observer.com/2009/07/the-new-festival-economics/

Brack obama and indian economy

During the presidential debates, Indians bemoaned the lack of candidates' interest in India. In the upper levels of the Indian government there was relief. In his second term, Obama will have many challenges facing him. The India relationship is not among them.

With New Delhi embracing economic reforms again after years, an improvement in the bilateral investment climate is something PM would pitch for with the US. In his first term, Obama's economic instincts have been less than laudable. Publicly and privately' Indians have rued the protectionist tendencies in US.


Indians are hoping that with a sinking economy, Obama will develop more economic sense. But his anti-outsourcing mantra has been an electoral winner and Obama is unlikely to let go of that.

That won't be good news for Indian companies looking for a greater space in the US. This also means that H1-B visas and L-1 visas will remain a significant issue between India and the US. Strategically, India would want clarity on the US "pivot" to Asia and how Obama will put meat into that policy. In West Asia, India, no lover of military action, wants the US to directly deal with the Iranian leadership to resolve the nuclear issue.

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Swami Vivekananda Vs Dawood Ibrahim (Nightingale Vs crow)

Speaking at the Ojaswini felicitation programme here to honour leading women from various fields, Gadkari said, "The IQ of both Swami Vivekananda and Dawood Ibrahim would be similar, but their direction in life is so different. One used his intelligence for destructive purpose, to damage society and humanity with the spread of crime and terror while there was the other used his intelligence for the benefit of society. His thoughts remain an inspiration for the nation.''

Congress Party on Monday took potshots at BJP President Nitin Gadkari over his controversial remark (comparison of the intelligence quotient level of Swami Vivekanand and Dawood Ibrahim) and said what reply would the main opposition party give if somebody compares Nitin Gadkari's excellence with 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks accused Ajmal Kasab
"I think so this is the bankruptcy of Gadkari's mind. What is the justification of comparison of Saint Swami Vivekananda to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim? If somebody will ask Gadkari tomorrow or will compare Gadkari's mind of excellence with Kasab what reply will the BJP give," said Congress leader Jagdambika Pal.

In this regards the students of BBA 3rd (OITM, Hisar) express their views. They think Nitin Gadkari has made non-mistake in comparing the Swami Vivekananda and Dawood Ibrahim IQ level. Gadkari compare only their high IQ level that lead them to their final distinction. People know them not for their IQ level but for their role play in society. The actual meaning of this statement should be "someone uses his or her intellect in the right way it is like Vivekananda, in the wrong way it is like Dawood".


 In conclusion, the final fault is in the media, that have created this news. if Gadkari made a mistake than why we compare Nightingale and crow. Because both are same in color and both are birds.



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