Facebook and Twitter to be school subjects soon!

As I said, it is exciting to know, its a superb news for the School students in Britain. The Government is planning to include Facebook and Twitter to their curriculum.

The subject is called ‘English Studies: Digital Communication’ where students will have to study the websites as per school curriculum plans for a new English GCSE.

“This qualification builds on students’ interests in digital texts and proved to excite and engage both boys and girls in our pilot. It reflects the changing needs and interests of learners,” a government spokesman said.

Students could take on the subject as stand alone or study it along with English and other subjects.

Editors Note (Monik Pamecha) : This is surely very interesting because students, i mean most of writers on our blog, Etiole are youngsters from age 13-19 so if we get a chance to study them, we would surely score pretty high marks as we spend most of our time on it!  Another advantage of teaching students such things would be actually preparing them for the practical world and if one knows how to use social networks properly, one can surely build a strong PR!

Via Telegraph and image credit : thebrandbuilder.

Lost for words? Not anymore .. Google dictionary is here

Google is on a roll these days owing to the number of new technologies they are coming up with at such great speed.One addition to the ever growing list is Google Dictionary. Earlier the same link used to provide word definitions from various web resources but now it has become a full fledged dictionary tool à la dictionary.com. It has a very simple interface and is available in many languages. Continue reading

Read More than 6000 Online Newspapers for Free!

Everyone will enjoy reading newspapers, but reading the newspapers online will definitely brings you a lot of benefits. Besides getting the latest news for free on time, you will also have many choices to choose from. Today, we have one website where you can get more than 6000 online newsapers around the world for free..

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ThePaperboy is a popular online newspaper big library or directory for newspaper readers from around the world. Although you may order or purchase newspapers from your nearer shops, but reading the news online will definitely brings you a lot of benefits.

Currently this website has over 6370 online newspapers for you to get your daily newspaper fix. So, having these online newspapers, you can view today’s front pages of leading world news easily.

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The website also allows user to browse newspapers by country and state. Most of them are free. It has almost all popular newspapers from the world. I am sure you won’t be bored anymore after visiting this website.

You can read newspaper from United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India China and other popular newspapers from rest of the world.

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Those famous newspapers are New York Post, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, USA Today, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Times of India New Delhi Edition, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, The Vancouver Sun, The Australian, The Irish Times, Moscow Times, Mail & Guardian, Bangkok Post, and many more.

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Do you have the habit of reading newspapers daily ? Share with us :-)

3000 iPhones swiped off Willebroek overnight!

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A hole in the Roof of Logistics warehouse made by robbers cost the company $3 Million. 3000 iPhones had been swiped away from the companies warehouse.

Logistics is a transport company and the iPhones were to be transported to Mobistar, which Apple’s Official Belgian Carrier. But unfortunately robbers stole them from Warehouse. 

Something more weird is that the whole in the roof was made just above the location where the iPhone were kept so this shows is was a well planned one which involved people from inside the company too.

But what we heard is that the serial numbers of the Stolen iPhones have been blocked. But, wait how does it matter? Belgian is a country which does not sell iPhone with a Sim-Lock so its not a big problem for the thieves to use other network carriers.

 

The Company Officials were Seriously Annoyed with the matter. Obviously, they would after all a loss of a loss of 2 Million Euros a good one for the company. 

[Via Fortune]

Microsoft Tablet Rumors begin to fly in the Blogosphere!

Microsoft_Tablet_Courier We are not yet over with the Rumors about Apple’s tablet PC and there comes some news from Microsoft, it’s biggest rival that it might be working on some a Tablet PC too.

The Tablet according to leaked pictures and information has a 7 Inch Screen which will be touch-sensitive (very obvious) and have stylus input and writing. It’s another purpose may be to compete with Amazon’s Kindle as a Ebook Reader :)  The device has also been named Courier, now if you can remember something that among the lists of fonts in Word, this name is also present!

The Design will be more Book-Like than actually being like a tablet. Instead of pages it will have two screens which will fold one above other and would form a Booklet like Object.
It is also being said that Microsoft Might be able to beat Apple in the Tablet race by releasing it before then it’s competitor. Yikes!

Currently it’s in Development stage and the User Interface is being worked upon. But on thing is not surely confirmed, that will it be working on Windows 7 (Maybe because Windows 7 is touch ready) or Windows Mobile 6.5 or a new system.

Prices Still seems to be a mystery. It’s not confirmed but it is not likely to be untrue because this era is of Tablets and it’s not possible that leading tech companies like Microsoft would remain behind in the race.

[Via Gizmodo]

Gmail is drowning while twitter and facebook are Growing!

Social networking are booming at the fastest rate ever. I should ask you this question now, How many times do you login to check your mail and compare the number to how many times you login in to your twitter/facebook account.social

Do you see a huge difference? Now that’s what is happening all around the world. Social Media is talking over the old email thingy. Recently a survey conducted by a research company also showed that people have found it more convenient to stay in touch with the world by using Social networking websites rather than using E-mails.

Here are few graphs which describe the current situation where Gmail is drowning and twitter is growing.

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// enter up to 3 domains, separated by a space
var sites = ['twitter.com', 'gmail.com'];
var opts = {
width: 380, // width in pixels (max 400)
height: 300, // height in pixels (max 300)
type: ‘r’, // “r” Reach, “n” Rank, “p” Page Views
range: ’1m’, // “7d”, “1m”, “3m”, “6m”, “1y”, “3y”, “5y”, “max”
bgcolor: ‘e6f3fc’ // hex value without “#” char (usually “e6f3fc”)
};
// END USER-EDITABLE VARIABLES
AGraphManager.add( new AGraph(sites, opts) );

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Now see this report where you can hardly see gmail, while facebook has taken over. /*
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var sites = ['facebook.com', 'gmail.com'];
var opts = {
width: 380, // width in pixels (max 400)
height: 300, // height in pixels (max 300)
type: ‘r’, // “r” Reach, “n” Rank, “p” Page Views
range: ‘max’, // “7d”, “1m”, “3m”, “6m”, “1y”, “3y”, “5y”, “max”
bgcolor: ‘e6f3fc’ // hex value without “#” char (usually “e6f3fc”)
};
// END USER-EDITABLE VARIABLES
AGraphManager.add( new AGraph(sites, opts) );

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Google Maps were used by terrorists in recent mumbai terror attacks

Taj hotel Mumbai on google mapsI know technology is made for our own good. But you know people are on to exploit it.

In the recent terror attacks in Mumbai a whole lot of buzz was created and after the mission by the commandos the police commissioner claimed that the terrorists had used Google’ Maps and Google Earth to guide them to locations and to get perfect information about their area.

All of the terrorists were equipped with latest blackberry’s so they were using these to keep a watch on the media , a police commissioner confirmed today.

Mumbai terrorist attacks have shaken the world

Mumbai terrorI don’t think so wandering out on streets is a good idea especially in Mumbai, India ( i live here).
Last night there was a complete bang. About 26 terrorists entered mumbai via a ship.

Then the spread out in groups and then they started their work. They started throwing grenades in Hotel Taj and Oberoi Hotel. They also open fired and injured about 300+ people and killed over 100 people in the City.

There was one blast near the domestic airport which i observed. I was really shocked. I rushed home. This is going on till 37 hours. The police and commandos are trying to rescue the people in the hotels where most of the foreigners are there.

I hope this end quite early. If you have any relative in Oberoi hotel or Taj hotel or anywhere in Mumbai you can check with those people who have been killed or are injured. If he or she is killed you can find his report out here at Mumbai help Blog.

They also open fired at CST station in mumbai.

Update: The terrorists ar Nariman house and Oberoi hotel have been knocked down. Credit cards, 1200 dollars , ak – 47 guns , 7 magazines and loads of dry fruits have been found.

Update: around 30 hand grenade explosions at taj

Gujjar’s protest in Rajasthan India



It’s gone a long way dome and now led to this. The gujjar’s are asking for reservations for their class in the jobs, schools and others as the indian constitution says that women and other tribes to get reservations. Now the have started protesting in Bharatpur, Rajasthan in India and it started with 500 people protesting and now they have collected about 10,000 people out there for protesting and also they have started throwing stones at the police forces out there to control the position. First the police let out tear gas but still the position did not come under control so police had to open fire. This led to a death of 5 or 2 people but still i m confused 1 news channel show 2 are dead and other shows 5 what is it????

Ipl – Money or money? (no cricket!)

What the hell is Indian premier league upto? only money??

there a about 8 idiots wasting millions of dollars on this crap thing?
people who hate cricket will agree with me and peope who love it will also agree because this 20-20 thing will spoil the original game of cricket. Their website is pretty cool! check it out here
But the game is just…... First the bhajji case when he slapped shreesanth and then the indian court had to check in …….. then the shahrukh khan case where he wasnt allowed to enter his team’s dressing room and the dugouts ( but now who cares? the team is already out!)
. Even before he was not allowed to enter the stadium to see the match so he bought his own team so what? would he buy?
he would have bought his own dressing room and dugout area?
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