Google's New Project Loon for All

Millions of people across the world still don’t have access to Internet. The Google Loon project is all set to change this. Balloons serving as floating networks are to be used to give people free access to Internet! Share your thoughts on this inspiring project in the comment section!

See more about project http://www.google.com/loon/.

The Floating Jail

The Vernon C. Bain Center (VCBC) is an 800-bed jail barge used to hold inmates for New York City as part of the New York City Department of Corrections as part of the vast Rikers Island jail complex. Built in New Orleans for $161 million and brought to New York in 1992 to reduce overcrowding in the island's land-bound buildings for a lower price under a David Dinkins-led crime initiative, it is designed to handle inmates from medium- to maximum-security in 16 dormitories and 100 cells. Due to the facility being on the water, a minimum of three maritime crew is maintained under Coast Guard regulations.

Firefox launched Smartphone OS

Mountain View, Calif., Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to keeping the power of the Web in people’s hands, on July 1, 2013 announced that the regional launches of Firefox OS smartphones will begin soon. Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica will release the first Firefox OS devices, the ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fire and the ZTE Open, soon. Individual partners will announce specifics about launches in each market soon. read more about this.

First Two Firefox OS Devices are ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fire and ZTE Open.

ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fire 

Read full specification for this smartphone here.

 ZTE Open

Read full specification for this smartphone here.

Google's new loading GIF image

 As the Google introduce the new designs in it's all application. The latest  loading animation is very impressive. following GIF Google used in while loading something.

MEDIUM

https://ssl.gstatic.com/s2/oz/images/notifications/spinner_32_041dcfce66a2d43215abb96b38313ba0.gif

LARGE

 https://ssl.gstatic.com/s2/oz/images/notifications/spinner_64_3f4fa14117c586c002a98cd7c5fbb2d3.gif

Before this colored loading animation google used to black and white loading animation with same size and same animation.

Movie - Jobs (The Story of Steve Job)

The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. This movie release in this summer.

BMW HP Kunst

The "BMW HP Kunst" is an hydrogen motorbike concept which represents the ecological vision of the future motorbikes. It really acts as a technological showcase with all the apparent hydrogen technologies. This is an exclusive model which is positioned in the HP range of BMW Motorrad, it combines the player temperament of the supermotard and the sportivity of a roadster. In terms of style, the whole spirit of BMW Motorrad is transcribed with dynamic and sculpted lines, an apparent technicality and a work of asymmetry on the entire motorbike.

Secrets behind Top Company Names

-ADOBE-

This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock..

-APPLE COMPUTERS-

It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock that evening..

-CISCO- 

It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco..

-COMPAQ-

This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object..

-COREL-

The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearchLaboratory..

-GOOGLE-

The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' ...thus the name..

-HOTMAIL-

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing..

-HEWLETT PACKARD-

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett..

-INTEL-

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics..

-LOTUS (Notes)-

Mitch Kapoor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi..

-MICROSOFT-

Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on..

-MOTOROLA-

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola..

-ORACLE-

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company..

-SONY-

It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster..

-SUN-

Founded by four Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer..

-YAHOO!-

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos..