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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.

Viral Marketing is all about creativity. All it takes is, thinking out of the box that will create a buzz, thereby setting the ball rolling. Navtej Kohli blog brings you a closer insight into Viral Marketing.

For a business owner, there is nothing better than his own product or website. They are all high and mighty of their website. But did you ever bothered to look around and see where do your competitors stand? If not, I would advice you to go and see for yourself.
Soon, the loopholes in your marketing strategy would be apparent.

While you tour through competitor’s website, see if they have some special viral marketing strategies in place. For uninitiated, viral marketing denotes getting people to promote your website or product. It’s something like a chain reaction. Once you have created awareness of your product or service, the rest is taken care of automatically.

How it works?

Very simple! Viral marketing is a kind of advertising, where customer as an evangelist would pass on the information to his/her kinfolk. Thus, your purpose is to get as many people involved in the process of information dissemination.

Like I said, creativity is the hallmark of a successful viral marketing campaign. You must be creative in a way to experiment with almost anything that is beyond imagination of the ordinary. Take liberties to include video, audio, humor, or anything that stimulates audience’s interest. Add spice to your message. Then be it your own personal experience or some controversial stuff, it should be intriguing enough to be shared.

Viral marketing is one of the most cost effective forms of advertising. With just one time investment, you can reap benefits for life. Once you have created the virus, nobody can stop it from spreading. So why spend time and money on other internet marketing tactics? Let the Viral Fever catch up…

Navtej Kohli shares some amusing internet facts that you should know:

1. Who coined the phrase ‘World Wide Web’?

Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He’s also considered by most people as the person who started the whole thing rolling.

2. How did the Internet Start ?

It all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early 1960s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the States. People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. The Internet also received help from Sputnik!

3. What was ARPANET?

ARPANET stands for ‘Advanced Research Projects Agency Network’ Came about in the arena of Sputnik and the cold war. The military needed a method of communicating and sharing all the information on computers for research and development. It would also be a handy communication system if all traditional ways were wiped out in a nuclear attack.

4. What was the First long distance Connection?

In 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill, connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32 in California. The phone lines weren’t quite up to the task!

5. When was the first mouse introduced?

The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

If you wish to commence a major SEO effort, a PPC campaign is your sure shot ticket to success. Navtej Kohli gives some simple yet effective PPC campaign testing tips.

A good PPC campaign is one that not only fetches traffic, but converts shoots to flowers i.e. converts visitors to buyers.

If it doesn’t, you’re in a fix bro!

Use a PPC campaign to test your website on keywords you desire to do optimize in your SEO campaign. This will help you save loads of time and money.

Once you’ve opened your PPC account, do some brainstorming on how to test your keywords. Here are a few tips:

• Don’t pick the ‘broad match’ option.
• Instead use ‘exact phrase’: use [] to designate it.
• Third - test, test and only test can save you!

Super-Earth planets discovered beyond solar system, Navtej Kohli Blog gives a broad insight into the matter.

Scientists claim to have discovered a triple system of ’super-Earths’ around a distant star.

Super-Earths have a mass between two and ten times the Earth’s mass that is less massive than that of Uranus and Neptune.

European astronomers discovered the system of super-Earths around a star named HD 40307 that lies 42 light-years away towards the southern Doradus and Pictor constellations. They also discovered 45 further potential planets with a mass below 30 Earth masses and an orbit shorter than 50 days.

The scientists made the super-Earth and candidate planet discoveries using the HARPS instrument at the ESO.

“Clearly these planets are only the tip of the iceberg,” Mr. Mayor commented.

“The analysis of all the stars studied with HARPS shows that about one third of all solar-like stars have either super-Earth or Neptune-like planets with orbital periods shorter than 50 days.”

Researcher Stephane Udry added: “It is most probable that there are many other planets present: not only super-Earth and Neptune-like planets with longer periods, but also Earth-like planets that we cannot detect yet.

“Add to it the Jupiter-like planets already known, and you may well arrive at the conclusion that planets are ubiquitous.”

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.

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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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.

Ever wonder if your PC is keeping secrets from you? Wonder no more. The utility ‘What’s Running’ reveals all your system’s active processes, services, drivers, and connections.

It’s like Windows Task Manager, except far more informative. The cramped multipane interface is a bit hard to read, but even it has its good points: it lists processes in a parent-child hierarchy, not a bad way to accidentally spot malware. It also lets you choose which columns of information to display, and it makes stopping or prioritizing processes as simple as a mouse click. It even lets you control which programs launch at start-up, and includes information on active DLLs, EXEs, and drivers.

Lacking only the ability to replace the Task Manager outright, What’s Running tells you things you didn’t know you needed to know.

The web is changing the very nature of intimacy, emotion and dating, says a new study.

An audit of online dating sites as part of the study has found that they are informal and are fast emerging as an effective way of developing one’s “social and intimate circle”.

The study, which audited 60 sites and conducted in-depth interviews with users, also found that the online communication had more intensity and immediacy, and, in some ways, was almost addictive in nature.

The study, by University of Melbourne researchers Millsom Henry-Waring and Jo Barraket, has been published in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society.

According to the study, an important feature of online communication was the drafting of one’s personal profile - perceived as one’s own “shop window”.

“Many of our participants talked about the fact that people were judged on the basis of how they looked, but also how their photos and profiles ‘talked’ online,” the authors wrote.

“We have suggested that a type of ‘hyper-communication’ occurs in the types of communication and also in the speed and intensity of the contact. As found in other studies, this appears to be facilitated by the informal and dis-inhibitive nature of the medium.”