Thursday, September 3, 2009

Events in pics...

Two workers are busy in preparing Channa (used to extract grains from flour) at Delhi Gate.–APP Photo.


Camel wala wait for customers to at Sea View.–APP Photo.


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A woman dries her eyes as she views the flag-draped casket of Senator Edward Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston.


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In Jerusalem's Old City, Muslim women pray during the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk.


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A farmer works in a corn field in San Salvador.


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The Chinese Military Chorus performs patriotic songs to celebrate China's upcoming 60th National Day in Beijing. 10,000 participants from 80 different chorus groups participated in the event.



A book entitled Jinnah written by Jaswant Singh, senior leader of India's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party on display at a book store in Lahore, Pakistan. Singh was expelled from India's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party after he wrote a book about Mohammed Ali Jinnah the founder of Pakistan.–AP Photo.



The Space Shuttle Discovery stands on launch pad 39-A

The Space Shuttle Discovery stands on launch pad 39-A as it is prepared for launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The shuttle will be travelling to the international space station 29 August 2009.

turns 40

Wed, Sep 2 11:34 AM

The 'Internet' turned 40 today. It may sound strange, but today it is quite impossible to think of world without the 'World Wide Web'.

On Sept 2, 1969, around about 20 people gathered in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles and two bulky computers were used to pass test data through a 15-foot gray cable. That was the beginning of the Internet. Now, 40 years later, we take a look at the Internet timeline.

Key milestones in the development and growth of the Internet

1969: On September 2, two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, exchange meaningless data in first test of Arpanet, an experimental military network. The first connection between two sites UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California takes place on October 29, though the network crashes after the first two letters of the word "logon." UC Santa Barbara and University of Utah later join.

1970: Arpanet gets first East Coast node, at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Mass.

1972: Ray Tomlinson brings e-mail to the network, choosing "at" symbol as way to specify e-mail addresses belonging to other systems.

1973: Arpanet gets first international nodes, in England and Norway.

1974: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop communications technique called TCP, allowing multiple networks to understand one another, creating a true Internet. Concept later splits into TCP/IP before formal adoption on January 1, 1983.

1983: Domain name system is proposed. Creation of suffixes such as ".com," ''.gov" and ".edu" comes a year later.

1988: One of the first Internet worms, Morris, cripples thousands of computers.

1989: Quantum Computer Services, now AOL, introduces America Online service for Macintosh and Apple II computers, beginning an expansion that would connect nearly 27 million Americans online by 2002.

1990: Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web while developing ways to control computers remotely at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

1993: Marc Andreessen and colleagues at University of Illinois create Mosaic, the first Web browser to combine graphics and text on a single page, opening the Web to the world with software that is easy to use.

1994: Andreessen and others on the Mosaic team form a company to develop the first commercial Web browser, Netscape, piquing the interest of Microsoft Corp. and other developers who would tap the Web's commerce potential. Two immigration lawyers introduce the world to spam, advertising their green card lottery services.

1995: Amazon.com Inc. opens its virtual doors.

1996: Passage of US law curbing pornography online. Although key provisions are later struck down as unconstitutional, one that remains protects online services from liability for their users' conduct, allowing information and misinformation to thrive.

1998: Google Inc. forms out of a project that began in Stanford dorm rooms. US government delegates oversight of domain name policies to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. Justice Department and 20 states sue Microsoft, accusing the maker of the ubiquitous Windows operating system of abusing its market power to thwart competition from Netscape and others.

1999: Napster popularizes music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry. World Internet population surpasses 250 million.

2000: The dot-com boom of the 1990s becomes a bust as technology companies slide. Amazon.com, eBay and other sites are crippled in one of the first widespread uses of the denial-of-service attack, which floods a site with so much bogus traffic that legitimate users cannot visit.

2002: World Internet population surpasses 500 million.

2006: World Internet population surpasses 1 billion.

2008: World Internet population surpasses 1.5 billion. China's Internet population reaches 250 million, surpassing the United States as the world's largest. Netscape's developers pull the plug on the pioneer browser, though an offshoot, Firefox, remains strong. Major airlines intensify deployment of Internet service on flights. (Agencies)




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Harsh Manglik, CMD of Accenture India at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Prakash Padukone and his wife at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Rahul Dravid's parents, at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Bobby Mitra, MD of Texas Instruments India, at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Captain G R Gopinath, at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Former cricketer Syed Kirmani at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Bhaskar Bhat, MD, Titan Company at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Narayana Murthy and wife Sudha Murthy at the wedding reception of his daughter Akshata (2R) with Rishi Sunak (R), an Indian based in US, in Bangalore. (PTI)

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Bride Akshata, daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy with bridegroom Rishi during their wedding function held at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Karnataka governor H R Bharadwaj and his wife at the wedding reception of Akshata, daughter of Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies, Narayana Murthy in Bangalore on Sunday. Narayana Murthy also seen in the picture with his wife Sudha Murthy. (PTI)

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Nandan Nilekani with Rohini Nilekani, at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy with his daughter Akshata during her wedding function at Jayanagar in Bangalore on Saturday. (BCCL)

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Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and other VVIPs arriving after attending the wedding function of Bride Akshata, daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, held at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Akshata, daughter of Infosys Chairman Narayana Murthy with her husband Rishi Sunak, an Indian based in US before their wedding reception in Bangalore on Sunday.(PTI)

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Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Dy Chairman, Planning Commission at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Anil Kumble at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Civil aviation minister Praful Patel at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)

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Som Mittal, President of NASSCOM,at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore on August 30. (BCCL)

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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw,Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon Limited, at the wedding function of daughter of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, at Leela Palace in Bangalore. (BCCL)