Navtej Kohli

Scientists discover traces of ancient Martian ocean

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:25:22 +0000

In a recent study scientist have come up with a new evidence supporting the theory that a vast ocean covered much of the Martian northern hemisphere 3.5 billion years ago. The work puts forth an image of a planet similar to earth, with an atmosphere congenial to have rivers, sea shore beaches and an ocean encompassing one-third of the surface.

Marine deltas on earth can have a range of varied features, tides, morphologies and geological make up, but one common thread that combines them all is that they are situated at the same height above sea level.

Now a fresh report claims a survey of ancient delta deposits at similar height on mars appear to show them draining into a huge ancient ocean.

Whether global ocean once covered the flat lowland regions of the northern Martian hemisphere or not has remained a topic of debate for scientists for decades now.

According to Mr. Di Achille , “if Mars ever had an extensive hydrological cycle with rain, groundwater reservoirs, ice sheets and surface run off towards lakes and possibly a northern hemisphere ocean, then there should be evidence of deltas ringing the margins of these lowlands at a common elevation.”

In order to check their theory, they used global databases of known deltaic deposits and valley networks, in addition to topography data from a laser altimeter aboard NASA’s Mars Observer Spacecraft, which is revolving around the red planet.

They also supposed that most of the Mars’ present topographical features were positioned by the end of the Martian Noachian Era around 3.5 billion years ago.

On combining their data the researchers discovered the shoreline they were drawing was largely consistent with palaeoshorelines as indicated earlier studies.

Besides, they studied deltas formed in closed basins to find any ancient aquifers saturating the crust and systematically appearing on the surface.

In all 52 delta formations were examined along the border between the northern lowlands and southern highlands.

Apple iPad – a Hit or a Miss?

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:32:15 +0000

A review of Apple iPad on Navtej Kohli blog.

After 5 long years of hype and anticipation, the apple iPad is finally here. While Apple in itself is a technology behemoth, but this tablet computer iPad was perhaps the most awaited product of apple in recent times. The technology industry had divided opinions on the product. Some called it a gizmo from some Hollywood sci-fi flick, others compared it to the holy tablets of stone. Navtej Kohli IT blog brings you a complete lowdown of the much hyped ipad, right from features, configuration, content and cost. So, read on and see for yourself if its really up for the job.

Already in tune with the apple’s other products, iPad is a slim, sleek, and smart looking gadget. Apple is establishing the tablet as a pioneer in a new genre of computing. Affirming this, Steve jobs, the CEO of Apple, said during the launch, “iPad is going to be somewhere between a laptop and a smartphone”
Featuring a 9.7 inch glass touchscreen, this stylish device is only half-an-inch thick and weighs only one-and-a-half pounds. The gadget also promises to display books, newspapers, websites and videos in a very stylish manner. Thus, the application and media companies will have yet another medium to advertise content.

Gaming industry too is not untouched by the frenzy. Referring it to as a large screen real-estate, the iPad is believed to mark a new epoch in keyboard less gaming. With a larger display players will enjoy more flexibility while controlling the games, thereby adding more zing to iPhone games, which are already available. Electronic Arts even stated that Ipad is a little bit like holding a HDTV inches from your face. Nothing can beat it for portable gaming. Besides this, the device also features a speaker, a microphone, and and accelerometer which enables you to switch between landscape and portrait mode.

It, however, doesn’t support a SIM card as the buzz was. Another snag that left the critics shocked is the lack of user facing camera, since video-chats are now considered the lifeline of online chats.

One of the biggest selling points of this aluminum backed device is its speed. As apple has embedded its own proprietary 1GHz Apple A4 chip, flipping through the gizmo is a cakewalk. Initially, the iPad will be launched in 3 models worldwide, ranging from $499 to $699, the tablet will be hitting the market in March.. Also, the device will connect to the web only through a wi-fi connection. However, the second version of the tablet will support 3G wireless access and will be released late this year. Surprisingly, the gadget lacks some common features which we have become used to in our gadgets.

One that immediately comes to head is the missing multi-tasking feature. In recent times, where running multiple programs on your laptop has become a norm, the so called state-of-the-art gizmo lets you run just a single application at a time.

This means, you can’t chat or listen to songs while you arrange your pics or browsing internet for that matter. Additionally, the flash feature, the basic software that manages video and animation on most websites, also doesn’t run on it. Besides, the users will also miss the USB port, especially with a meager 64 GB (maximum) in built storage.

Whether the ipad will be a hit or a miss is a question that time will answer. Until then, just purchase one and flaunt your newly acquired gizmo to the world.

Death Toll in El Salvador Continue to Rise

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:29:55 +0000

Nature has its own way of reminding us that we must not take it for granted. The unfortunate hurricane followed by heavy rain is not just an epic tragedy that will leave us shocked for years to come. Navtej Kohli expresses his condolences….

The death toll from flooding and landslides in El Salvador following the days of downpour has reached 124. President Mauricio Funes described the disaster as ‘a tragedy’ and said that the damages it caused are ‘incalculable’. He’s declared a national emergency.

According to the officials the capital San Salvador and central San Vicente are the worst affected regions. San Vicente is in fact nearly disconnected due to landslides and collapsed bridges. Some of the other hardest hit regions include La Libertad, La Paz and Cuscatlan.

Up till now there have been reports of over 60 people missing and more than 7,000 are in shelters.

Rescue workers recovered bodies from the wreckage of homes in the town of San Vicente. “We rescued a man this morning who had fractures, and a little girl” a local told a news agency. He with his son crossed through the floodwater and saved them both. The girl is now with her parents.

“My son and I crossed through the floodwater and brought them here, and now she is with her parents.”

Rain triggered massive rock slides from the Chichontepec volcano also devastated a lot of homes in Verapaz and San Vicente province.

There is no electricity supply and clean water in the large parts of El Salvador. The death toll continues to rise since hurricane Ida, which has now strengthened to category II storm, was hovering over the Gulf of Mexico.

Nobel Prize 2008 winner

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:16:17 +0000

Navtej Kohli want to congratulate all the Noble prize 2008 winner and his and works
in their field which makes him to be get rewarded with Noble Prize .Navtj Kohli just throwing light over Nobel prize history and why its given.

Noble prize journey was started on 1901 after that its has been given for the achievements in the physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine,literature and for peace. Basically Noble prize is an international award and a committee name Nobel Foundation which in Stockholm, Sweden choosing every year Nobel Prize winner. Since 1901 Nobel Prize is given for the extraordinary performance of woman and man across the world who did some extraordinary work in their filed and give something new to world. The foundation was started in 1985 when the Alfred Nobel who had left much cash behind with wish to establish an special award for scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author and pacifist with huge amount of money for their contribution to world and society.
Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833. His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. He was invented. He was invented dynamite which made man able to make some unpredictable creature on the earth . He and his dynamite owned near about 355 patents In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award.
Here some brief about Nobel Prize winner 2008

Nobel Prize 2008 in Physics: This year 2008 Nobel prize in physics is given jointly to three person for their achievements in the physics
Yoichiro Nambu (Born 1921 in Japan ) from USA received ½ cash amount of the Noble prize 2008 in physics . He is working in Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA . He got award for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.
Makoto Kobayashi ( Born 1944 in Japan ) from Japan will receive ¼ amount of the Noble prize in Physics 2008 , he is working in High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) Tsukuba, Japan . He will gat reward for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature
Toshihide Maskawa ( Born 1940 Japan ) also share the ¼ of the Noble prize amount for his work . Currently he is working in Kyoto Sangyo University; Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan. The ward was announced for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 : Jointly given to three scientist for their same work for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.

Osamu Shimomura ( Born Kyoto, Japan ) who is currently working in Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Woods Hole, MA, USA; Boston University Medical School Massachusetts, MA, USA receive 1/3 cash amount of the award money .

Martin Chalfie ( Born 1947 USA) Working in Columbia University New York, NY, USA now will receive 1/3 amount cash of the Awards .
Roger Y. Tsien (Born 1952) Who is currently associated with University of California San Diego, CA, USA will receive 1/3 amount of Noble prize money.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 : Will Share by three person this year having also one woman who is basically from France .
Harald zur Hausen ( Born 1936) from Germany who is currently working with German Cancer Research Centre Heidelberg, Germany will receive ½ amount of the Nobel prize for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (Born 1947) is a female scientist from France who is currently working with Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit, Virology Department, Institut Pasteur
Paris, France will receive ¼ amount of the cash prize of the award for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus.
Luc Montagnier ( Born 1932) will share 1/4 amount of the cash prize of Noble prize for medicine 2008 , currently working with World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention Paris, France and he get reward for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus.

Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 will receive by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio who is the citizen of France .
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio ( Born 1940 ) in France , according to Nobel awards foundation “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”
Nobel Prize for Peace 2008 :
Martti Ahtisaari ( Born 1937) Finland will receive Noble prize 2008 for peace for important efforts over more than three decades to resolve conflicts in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. he negotiated an end to a conflict between the Indonesian government and separatist guerrillas in Aceh. According to the Noble prize committee members “for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts”.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008
Paul Krugman ( Born 1953) form the USA nd most readable columnist New York times . He will get the award for his Analysis and prediction about US economy and world economy . He had warned many times to government to take liquidity and inflation as big concerns . Paul Krugman, the Princeton University scholar and New York Times columnist, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity.

Warm congratulation for all the Nobel Prize 2008 winner from Navtej Kohli with wish they will continue work hard for more contribution .

Google Launch new Browser Chrome

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:05:41 +0000

Navtej Kohli welcoming Google new Browser Chrome and just discussing various issue and experts view. Yet its true that Firefox and Internet Explorer dominating on web browsing tool but while
previous experience is concerns Google had Google left many other in Search engine marketing and online Ads field . Navtej kohli also not shocked but little bit surprised there is some relation between IE 8 Beta 2 version and Google Chrome launch while in the previous week Mozila updated with 3.01 version .

Internet Search giant launch its first Brower on date 2-Sep-2008 and making its first steps in daily used net software means its be Big steps of Google while there are already many competitors in the market and they updating their software on regular basis according to usability and portability . Google had launched Chrome Beta version in near about 100 countries and its taken bids to take on Internet Explore and Firefox.
There are many feature included by Google in its browser like format of tabs , view pages as thumbnail and various features on the address bar . While its programming and behind technology is concerns, its was written in open source engine in which Apple Safari was built known as Webkit.
After the launching of Google Chrome , web analytics start-up GetClicky had told that Google Chrome is able to monitor only 125 of the traffic and near about 45,00 websites. On the other hand another review published on inquisitr.com “I’ll be honest: I wasn’t expecting to fall in love with this thing… After two years of
development, though, Google’s built a surprisingly strong overall offering.” During the launch of Google Chrome Google officials announced “browser is designed to be fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.” While on the other hand most Bloggers community says that “it is fast as you-know-what”. While many one had claiming that there are very few plug-in available with this but it will be removed shortly. Many experts who always considers Mozila Firefox as by technology enthusiasts as the browser of choice and also feels that Chrome is
being viewed with a high degree of interest. John Lilly, Mozilla’s chief executive, has blogged that he welcomes the competition and he told that “Chrome will be a browser optimised for the things that they see as important, and it’ll be interesting to see how it evolves.”
While the Google Chrome browser widely adopted but there are many hopes to Internet advertiser about the impact and significance of this new browser . For companies who are totally depends upon for generating its revenues on pop-ups ad are not happy with Google Chrome launch and a Google official told to media that “In terms of building Chrome, it was really designed with the user in mind.” That means Google had open war against unwanted Ads and Pop ups. But while we take this matter seriously we find that there are significant different between hiding
the ad and blocking the ads , because actually Chrome loads the Ads which is called billable event , but its unable to see to users unless he will maximize ads window to show the add and not be able to see the add if he choose minimize the window option . Many experts say now that both advertiser and publisher real know what the real means and billing of pay-per-impression. While on the other hand Firefox had already packed up with plug-is Adblock Plus which able to ads from being loaded and make safe billing for advertiser and not be billed for unseen ads , “This is not necessarily true for other ad-blocking solutions, however,” Wladimir Palant, the software’s creator, said in an e-mail. Palant estimates that 5% of Firefox users, representing almost 1% of
Internet users as Firefox’s market share approaches 20%, use Adblock Plus.

While on the other hand founder pf Ad Auditing company Click Forensics told that many other person also commenting that typical ad blocker stops any impression from being recorded.”That scenario would not trigger a billable event,” he said. “I can’t say 100% that this is how every ad blocker works, but it seems safe to say that’s probably how all of them work.”
But Google chrome is totally safe for Google Adwords ads because Google doesn’t show any type of Pop-ups ads. But most happiness is that net surfer became happy because now they not see irritating third party ads .
There are another features with Google Chrome which also can effect online ads industry is Incognito, which is also know as browse privacy mode , preventing local files to be updated with user browsing activity
Another Chrome feature that may affect practices in the online ad industry is Incognito, the browser’s privacy mode, which prevents local files from recording the user’s browsing activities. Incognito, like Internet Explorer 8’s InPrivate mode and Safari’s Private Browsing mode, interferes with the placement of cookie files that advertisers use for ad tracking and targeting. Mozila is planning a similar privacy mode for future versions of Firefox.
Moreover its be great efforts by Google to make surfing more easy and less irritating specially protecting user from irritating user , While there are man complains commented by on blogs , like Google cached the website while we first open the websites and showing same page while we open its second time , makes the user not getting updating information specially news and big portal which are updating minute by minute and other thing that Google sharing many browser properties with Internet Explorer means connectivity and domain related issue , people want to use IE with other IP and Chrome with other IP feel some irritating. Moreover its be great and soon might be Google dominate in web Browsing with its new Google Chrome

Google 10th anniversary Belated Happy Birthday Google

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:59:06 +0000

Navtej kohli missed to wish the Google on its tenth Birthday. Decades had past when Google was stared on 7 September 1998 which was first run by two enthusiastic, dedicated techie named Larry Page and Sergey Brin and they stared Google journey in a garage. There is also be an interesting story for choosing that name , its was named by two young Stanford University electrical engineering graduate students in misspell homage to the word “googol” – an infinity-like number denoting 10 to the power of 100 (that’s the number one followed by a hundred zeros).
Google had reached in that position by its rapid growth which never be accompany by any other Industry. But Google journey was started before
1998 , in 1995 Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 24,a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 23, is assigned to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree about most everything during this first meeting. Now in the year of 1996 both Larry and Sergey collecting the students for making a search engine called BackRub for the Stanford university and worked near about one year in the servers in the 1996 year they make up their mind to make a Global search engine and named it “googol,” in the year 1997.
When the company was stated its was zero revenue company and now had reached upto 20,000 employees and revenue of around $150bn and its annual income in the year 1997 was $16bn. Now according to statically data now Google shared 66 percent of total searches. Now only search area in which Google had left its footprints but now its growing its features and launched many other things which not only informative but also best source for promoting business across the world .So what should we have to expect with Google .
Now Google also enters into the utility software with the launch of Google Chrome and had downloaded by many users across the world .Currently it is in Beta version but Google is in big hope soon its will share major parts in the web browser tools across the world . Chrome is Google product which now be in competition with Internet explorer , Mozila and Safari . Currently its launch for only Windows Vista and XP users .Google claiming that for those 70 percent Internet
Explorer users across the world at least check out one time Google Chrome , its Google gift on its 10 anniversary to all Internet users , everyone can enjoy fast and secure web surfing with Google Chrome never offered by any other web browser .
While there are many product are in Google owner ship which are now very popular and big reputation in the market. Like first we Look , Google search which be Google main task and its also offered many verities like image search , product search, video search. Google had makes successful mile stone in the SEM and Internet Market and leaving behind internet tycoon Yahoo. Now the Google dominating in SEM and Internet Marketing with its Google Adsense , Google Adwords ,froogle, Google product search , Local search and other business related search option . Google also acquire a big video search company which having big brad name in the Internet Industry , its name is Youtube. Youtube now very popular and most searchable video search engine . Google also dominating Social networking websites. Orkut now very popular and almost 70 person of the world having a profile on the Orkut. Now Goggle also boost many traveling agencies and other business with Google Earth and Google maps which enable user to find each and every location across the world . Yet Google Earth also faced many criticizes from many countries government because it also show easily many curial and important location by easy search and many government feels that its be hazardous for security.
But its be unreliable thing that before 10 years ago Google was launched and now its dominating in web browsing. Some major events Google listed below

1995 – Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin meet at Stanford University.

January 1996 – Page and Brin begin work on the BackRub search engine.

15 September 1997 – Google.com domain name registered.

7 September 1998 – The first incarnation of the Google search engine is launched.

2000 – The company starts selling keyword-related advertising.

2001
- The Google News service is introduced, inspired by the 11 September
attacks on the US. A UK-specific version is added two years later.

2003 – Google moves to its Mountain View campus, where it is still based. It has since become known as the ‘Googleplex’.

2004 – Google launches GMail, known as Google Mail in the UK.

19 August 2004 – The company floats on the stock market.

2006 – The verb ‘to Google’ added to the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time.

October 2006 – Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn (about £880m) in stock options.

November 2007 – Google forms the Open Handset Alliance to work on the Google Android project.

September 2008 – Chrome, Google’s first web browser, is launched.

Google also cheer its 10th anniversary with people across the world with its new birthday celebration section.
Navtej Kohli missed to wish the Google but now Navtej Kohli want to say Belated Happy Birthday to Google and hope another 10 ten Google will brings many things for amazing the world.

A step closer to Quantum Computers – Navtej Kohli

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:40:51 +0000

According to the recent research conducted by University of Surrey complex computer encryption codes could be solved and new drug design could be
developed significantly faster.

If the inferences of this survey are to be believed, the concept of workable quantum computer might just come true. Renouncing the findings of earlier research, this research proved the possibility of making these computers in silicon rather than a vacuum.

Being much faster than the ordinary computers, Quantum computers are said to have the potential of fixing problems that might take millions of years to solve normally. Quantum computers work when atoms are allowed to move in an undisturbed oscillating wave motion, within a fixed space. The waves thus generated can carry much more information than an average computer bit and hence making the computer programmes needed to crack a code more powerful and
faster.
Previous research in this area was successful to the extent of providing some basis for quantum computer by using atoms suspended in vacuum. However it has not been possible to make enough for a whole computer as scientists can only hold a limited number of atoms in place for a short period of time. Using atoms trapped in a silicon crystal, the research team, which also involved scientists from University College London and Heriot-Watt University, showed that the quantum waves oscillate long enough for a computer operation, and now hope to produce a higher number of computer bits.

The researchers used the ‘free electron laser’ FELIX in the Netherlands to carry out the work which has been published in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

S Korea plans to lower corporate tax rate to boost economy- Navtej Kohli

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:32:39 +0000

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South Korea plans to lower corporate rate in a bid to stimulate economic growth, the country’s Ministry of Strategy and Finance said Tuesday.

The ministry announced that it will cut the maximum corporate tax rate from 25 percent to 22 percent this year, while the minimum tax rate will be
lowered from 13 percent to 10 percent.

According to the ministry, the move is a part of the effort by the South Korean government to create business friendly environment, and is in line with the global trend of advanced countries.

The tax-cut plan is two years ahead of the initial schedule, the ministry added.

Why Stoplights are Red, Yellow and Green – Navtej Kohli

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:24:32 +0000

Hey! I’m Navtej Kohli ,When I was a child, I wondered why stoplights are Red, yellow, green. To me, it made no sense! I used to make paper traffic lights and adorn it with every color except for the above three. My inquisitive mind always questioned the relevance of these colors in the stoplight. My father
gave me n number of arguments, but to no avail. It was hard to convince me, until i found this:

Stoplights are red, yellow, and green, because traffic officials, early on copied the code system railroad engineers devised for track systems
controlling the trains.

The goal of the railroad engineers in crafting this code was to prevent often fatal train collisions, by giving the trains advance warning. Therefore they did not take their task lightly in selecting the symbolic colors for the signals.

Red, the color of blood, proved a logical choice for the stop signal, as for thousands of years, this color forbade danger. The color alone,
railroad engineers reasoned, should give people cause to pause, to abide by the signal, and to stop or suffer the consequences of death and destruction.

Engineers used the trial and error method in selecting the other colors. The first trial in the 1830s, that of choosing green for the caution signal, and clear for the go signal, failed miserably. Clear as a choice for the go signal, varied slightly from the light cast from typical street lamps, or from the glare of the sunlight, and, thus could quite easily be mistaken for the go signal…after the fact.

This failure prompted the railroad engineers to alter their color selections to red for stop, green for go, and yellow for caution. Traffic engineers, either lacking in ingenuity or a work ethic, scurried off with this system of color coding, and instituted the very first electric stoplight in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914. The first signal did not include the color yellow for caution, but that was later added within a few years. Railroad
engineers, not traffic engineers, should be credited for the lives saved in the interim, by their system of coding warning signals red, yellow, and green.

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Navtej kohli – Booze damages Pancreas

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:54:28 +0000

Navtej Kohli found this informational piece of news on internet. A study suggests that excessive alcohol consumption causes damage to the pancreas. If you want to know more, read on:

Canadian scientists have made a significant progress in understanding how excessive alcohol consumption causes damage to the pancreas.

The research conducted by experts from the University of Toronto and University Health Network involved experiments on mice.

Lead researcher Herbert Gaisano says that several studies have shown previously that rodents fed on alcohol-rich diet, and then exposed to a
drug called carbachol, develop an inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis), which resembles the pancreatitis seen in individuals who consume an excessive amount of alcohol.

He also says that it has been suggested previously that the rodents develop pancreatitis because the alcohol and carbachol exposure cause cells in the pancreas to release vesicles containing degradative proteins known as enzymes at inappropriate places.

In the latest study, he adds, a protein called VAMP8 was found to have an important role in coordinating the inappropriate release of enzyme-containing vesicles in mice exposed to alcohol and carbachol.

According to Gaisano, mice lacking VAMP8 showed reduced pancreatitis after exposure to alcohol and carbachol, during the study.