NSE has launched a desktop application 7FM Financial Money Manager which helps investors to track their portfolio investments powered by NSE Data right from their desktop. This application is developed through Fidoh and contains lots of features.

The following components are required to run the application.
1.Windows Installer 3.1
2.dotNET Framework 3.5 SP1
3.SQL Server Compact 3.5

The features are user friendly and give complete details about anyone's portfolio.
The application can be downloaded from Fidoh.

After a long time some important updates from Entrecard.

1. Drops will count for 2 credits and no credits for the receiving blog, just for today. So credits will be given only if you drop. Quite interesting.

2. Another important change is the Ad Network is only for only Entrecard Blogs. So herein after ,only Active Entrecard Members can advertise through the ad network. This is in response to the feedback / backlash against the paid ads, during the initial run of the paid ads program.

These two changes definitely make things interesting at Entrecard. Meanwhile some of my Entrecard Market listings for advertising in this website - Market listings

Entrecard makes an announcement about Yommy - a Micro Payment System is based on "Credits". By using this system you can transfer money to each other with a transaction fee as low as 0.01!

Anyone can create a profile on Yommy and increase their "Trust" score based on several factors including account verifications, network of friends, user feedback, and transactions.

Yommy also allows you to send and receive payments using our "Credit" system. Users can purchase credits and sent it to anyone as a form of payment. The credits can then be converted back to cash anytime. By using the credit system, the Trust score will increase giving customers more confidence to engage in more transactions with you.

Just give it a try ! Sign up now.

You want to call back a sent email message ? Google's Gmail now gives users a brief period to hold back the sent messages.

A new feature - "Undo Send" introduced in Google's Gmail program that holds a message for five seconds before it is being sent. Gmail's sent mail confirmation message now includes an "Undo" link. Clicking on "Undo" will return a message to its original draft form.

The feature does not allow a user to recall a message that's already been sent.

Really useful feature. So, you have five seconds to decide - to send or not to send !

Plinky is the brainchild of one of the original Blogger team-members, Jason Shellen.People have come up with interesting answers, in the first few weeks of answering Plinky prompts.

What's a Plinky prompt?

According to Plinky, every day they provide a prompt (i.e. a question or challenge) and you answer.They make it simple to add rich media and share your answers on Facebook, Twitter and blogs.

Not only does Plinky provide help with what to post to your Blogger blog, but it also helps your answers look good in the process. Depending on the prompt, answers contain rich media elements like photos, maps, lists and cover art for books, movies and albums. It's easy to tell Plinky that you use Blogger and all your answers posted through Plinky can go right to your blog.

Just give it a try!

After the Chandrayaan-I moon odyssey, it's "Mission Sun" for team ISRO.Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation are in an advanced stage of designing a spacecraft named “Aditya” to study the outermost region of the sun called corona.

Activities towards 'Aditya mission' have been initiated with the involvement of scientists from ISRO centres and prime national research institutes in the country.
Aditya would be the first attempt by the Indian scientific community to unravel the mysteries associated with coronal heating, coronal mass ejections and the associated space weather processes and the study of these would provide important information on the solar activity conditions.

The temperature of the solar corona goes beyond a million degrees. From the earth, the corona can be seen only during total solar eclipses, mainly due to the bright solar disc and the scattering of the sunlight by the earth's atmosphere. One has to go beyond the atmosphere to be able to mask the bright solar disc and study the corona.

The time frame for the launch of the Aditya mission is planned to be during the next high solar activity period. However, the exact date/time is not yet confirmed.

Google has launched a contest to solicit ideas about how to help humanity - Google Project 10tothe100.

"To mark our 10th birthday and celebrate the spirit of our users and the Web, we're launching Project 10^100 (that's 'ten to the hundredth') a call for ideas that could help as many people as possible, and a program to bring the best of those ideas to life," Andy Berndt, managing director at Google's Creative Lab, said in a blog post.

Project 10^100 allows Internet users to submit ideas about how to make life better. The problems addressed can be related to social, financial, energy, environmental, health, educational, or housing issues, or something else entirely.

The goal, Google says, is to help people and to empower people to help others.

Google has committed $10 million to fund up to five of the best ideas, as determined by Google's advisory board. The submission deadline is Oct. 20. On Jan. 27, 2009, the top 100 ideas, as determined by Google staff, will be presented for the public to vote on. The top 20, chosen by the public, will be winnowed to five or less by the advisory committee and announced in February.

What do contest participants get for their gifts of thought? "You get good karma and the satisfaction of knowing that your idea might truly help a lot of people," Google says.

Google gets a bit more than that out of the deal. It gets thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars of free publicity out of its sponsorship of the contest. That's the sort of thing Google, as an advertising provider, knows and values. Were Google's interest purely philanthropic, it could donate $10 million without announcing its generosity to the world.

But more subtly troubling is that Google's insistence that contest participants part with their ideas without compensation echoes the company's tradition of making use of people's intellectual property without payment. What is Google's index after all, not to mention YouTube, but a treasure trove made from words copied from copyrighted content? Those words might be worthless in isolation but they're invaluable aggregated and indexed.

If you have a good idea, a really good idea, the sort of brilliant idea that might win Google's contest -- a way to produce a $0.01 straw that removes all impurities from contaminated water, for example -- why give that valuable idea away when you could commercialize it? You could start a company to support your idea, provide jobs to people, and help humanity at the same time.

Start Googling

Over the next few days, there would be a lot of talk about this 3G technology and hence, to understand what people are talking about and understand where India’s mobile telephony is leaping ahead, it is first important to understand what this 3G is all about. So let’s get the basics clear.

What is 3G?
3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, superseding 2G and preceding 4G. It will enable network operators to offer a wider range of more advanced services like wide-area wireless voice telephone, video calls and broadband data in a mobile environment. Right now, the mobile phones we use help us make and receive calls, send SMSes and MMSes, there is internet too but at a snails pace, ditto for music downloads. This is because, the current mobiles work on a very narrow bandwidth and 3G would mean a very high bandwidth, giving us very high wireless speeds. Its like this – when the pipe is small, water will come out in a trickle but when suddenly the diameter of the pipe is increased from 10mm to 50mm, can you imagine how the water will rush out? That in short is what 3G would mean.

What prevented us from using 3G till now?
The usage of 3G needs a very high bandwidth and that spectrum needed to be freed from the defence sector. Our defence sector has agreed to give more allocation and hence based in that assurance, we can now go ahead with 3G.
Which are the other countries which use 3G?
Japan was the first to adapt 3G and this was followed by South Korea. It is today available in a number of countries like Italy, UK, Australia, Austria, Singapore, Canada and US among others. It accounts for close to 7% of mobile service population. Countries such as Turkey, China, Indonesia, have not awarded 3G licenses and customers await 3G services. China has been delaying its decisions on 3G for many years, partly hoping to have the Chinese 3G standard, TD-SCDMA, to mature for commercial production. So here too, we may be able to trudge much ahead of China!
How will 3G change things for us?
It will revolutionise the way we use the mobile phones. Once we get onto the 3G, we will be able to transmit text, digitised voice, video, and multimedia data at rates up to 2Mbps in a fixed or stationary wireless environment, and 384kbps in a mobile environment. You can watch movies directly from the internet on your mobile and get it connected to your TV. Video conferencing will now be possible on the mobile phone and IPTV would become as easy as talking on the phone.
All cannot be roses and peaches. What are the thorns which one can encounter in 3G implementation?
For India, implementation is in itself a big challenge. For companies, implementing this technology would entail a huge amount of capital expenses. Even in the developed countries, where the technology has been implemented, many telecom companies are sitting on large amounts of debt, making it a big challenge to build the necessary infrastructure for 3G. There would be other challenges like expensive input fees for the 3G service licenses.
For the man on the street, 3G will be an expensive service. More importantly, the mobile phone which we use today, is based on 2G technology and if we decide to upgrade to 3G, we may have to buy a new mobile phone too. Don’t be surprised to see new launches of mobile phones over the next few months, touting 3G technology. Also, coverage could be spotty as it is still a new service. Also the power usage is also very high, so when you buy your new 3G phone, be sure to check on the battery life and re-chargeability.