Google’s ultra high-speed broadband connection

In a blog post on Wednesday morning the world No 1 search engine Google announced that it is going to build and test high-speed fiber broadband connection. It is really a great news to hear that Google is planning make Internet access faster for everyone. With the help of fiber optic broadband network customers can get connected to the Internet, Do you think what is interesting in this? You can enjoy the speed at 100 times faster than the existing broadband connections. This connection will allow the customer to download a HD movie in few minutes and is 1000 times faster than AT&T’s basic DSL offering. They are going to test this one-gigabit-per-second fiber connection with 500,000 users that too in a competitive price. Google has urged FCC to encourage these types of experiments. There is a RFI from Google to communities interested in taking part in this experiment. Another link where residents of U.S and local groups can nominate their communities. In a video Kelly says that Google is working to make the web faster for everyone with the fiber-to-the-home connections and findings from this experiment will be shared to the world. Lets wait for the result of this experiment.

TCS site hacked

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) is one of the largest and leading software concerns. The official website of this software concern has been hacked and posted a banner with a message that the site is for sale. This message has been written in both English and French. It is believed to be a French hacker. Already in the year of 2009 twitter faced the same sort of problem.

The interesting thing is the hacker added a widget “whos.among.us” to display number of people on the site at any given point of time, and also an email Id to contact regarding the sale. People say that it could be a DNS hijack where the nameservers of the site have been changed.

Anyhow now the site has been restored and working fine

Nokia

It is really interesting to know some information about a world famous mobile company. I came across some information about Nokia from my friends which really interesting.
Do you know when and through which network the first GMS call was made? It was in 1991 at Helsinki by a Nokia-supplied network and the prime minister of Finland Harri Holkeri made the first GSM call and the interesting thing is, he was using a Nokia phone.
Each and every one knows about the “Nokia Tune”. It is a guitar work by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega in 19th century and the name is "Gran Vals". The same name ("Gran Vals") was present in the Nokia phone. But later in 1998 it was changed to “Nokia Tune”.
Have you ever seen number 4 in any of the Nokia handset model number; you can’t because number 4 is considered as unlucky in Southeast/East Asia.
The tone available on Nokia phones when receiving SMS is Morse code for "SMS" and the "Ascending" SMS tone is Morse code for the slogan "Connecting People”. Again the Standard SMS tone is Morse code for "M".
Eric Spiekermann designed the Nokia corporate font AgfaMonotype Nokia Sans font. Before using the current font, Nokia was using Agfa Rotis Sans Font in its mobile phone user’s guides and also in advertisements.