Recipe: Gobi Korma

<div class="stname arttitletxt" style="font-size:1.75em;line-height:28px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;float:left;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 5px 10px"><span style="color:rgb(111,111,111);font-family:arial;font-size:0.75em;line-height:12px"> </span><img border="0" src="http://images.photogallery.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif" style="color: rgb(111, 111, 111); font-family: arial;" width="5"><br> </div><div class="photo" style="padding:10px 0px 10px 10px;font-size:0.75em;font-family:arial;color:rgb(111,111,111);line-height:14px"><img border="0" src="http://sp.m.timesofindia.com/thumb.cms?msid=32847927&width=283&resizemode=4" style="width: 286px; height: 209px; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); float: left;"><div class="clear" style="clear:both;height:3px"> </div>Recipe: Gobi Korma</div><div class="storycontent_outer" style="font-size:0.91em;line-height:20px;font-family:georgia;margin:0px;padding:1px 5px"><div class="storycontent" style="font-size:16px;line-height:normal;margin:0px;padding:5px"> <strong>Ingredients:</strong><br><br>Cauliflower 1 (medium)<br>1 Onion boiled and cut<br>Ginger paste 1 tsp<br>Coriander powder ½ tsp<br>Chilli powder ½ tsp<br>Garam masala ½ tsp<br>Turmeric powder ½ tsp<br>Raisin 1 tbsp<br> Cashew paste 1 ½ tbsp<br>Coconut milk ½ cup<br>Salt and sugar to taste<br>Oil 25 ml<br>Ghee 1 tsp<br><br><strong>Method:</strong><br><br>Dice the cauliflower. Heat the oil in a pan/kadhai and fry the cauliflower after coating them with turmeric. Then add onion, ginger pate, chilli and coriander in that oil and fry. Once the oil separates from the spice, add cashew paste, raisin, sugar and salt and fry. Add coconut milk and water in the end. Once the cauliflower is soft, add the garam masala and ghee and serve it. You can also add a dollop of fresh cream on top as a garnish.</div> </div>

Recipe: Gobi Korma

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Recipe: Kerala Chicken curry

<div class="timetxt" style="font-size:0.75em;line-height:12px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(111,111,111);margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 10px"><img border="0" src="http://images.photogallery.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif" width="5"></div> <div class="photo" style="padding:10px 0px 10px 10px;font-size:0.75em;font-family:arial;color:rgb(111,111,111);line-height:14px"><img border="0" src="http://sp.m.timesofindia.com/thumb.cms?msid=32779793&width=283&resizemode=4" style="width: 286px; height: 209px; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); float: left;"><div class="clear" style="clear:both;height:3px"> </div>Recipe: Kerala Chicken curry (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images)</div><div class="storycontent_outer" style="font-size:0.91em;line-height:20px;font-family:georgia;margin:0px;padding:1px 5px"><div class="storycontent" style="font-size:16px;line-height:normal;margin:0px;padding:5px"> <br><strong>Ingredients: </strong><br>Chicken, two medium sized onions sliced into pieces, tomato (sliced), potato (cut into medium sized pieces), two tbsp chicken masala powder, one tbsp coriander powder, one tsp Kashmiri chilli powder, one tsp ginger-garlic paste, one cup thin coconut milk, curry leaves, three tbsp coconut oil, mustard seeds, water, salt to taste, half tsp black pepper powder, two tbsp yogurt.<br> <br><strong>Method: </strong><br>Clean and cut the chicken into medium sized pieces and marinate it with the above ingredients. Refrigerate it for an hour. Heat a kadai or non stick pan and add coconut oil. Splutter mustard seeds and saute the sliced onions and curry leaves till the onions become translucent. Reduce heat, add chilli powder, coriander powder, chicken masala powder, ginger paste, garlic paste and saute for two minutes. Add the chopped tomato pieces along with little salt and saute well till the tomatoes are pulpy and mashed. Add the potato and chicken pieces to the kadai and add a cup of water.<br> <br>Reduce heat and simmer, covering the pan until the chicken is tender and cooked. This may take around 25-30 minutes depending on the chicken pieces used. Stir the chicken curry occasionally while it gets cooked. Finally reduce heat, add coconut milk and stir gently. Cover and cook for another couple of minutes.</div> </div>

Recipe: Kerala Chicken curry

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Indian-origin teenager Suvir Mirchandani tells US govt how to save $400 million by just changing their font

<div class="timetxt" style="font-size:0.75em;line-height:12px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(111,111,111);margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 10px"><br></div><div class="photo" style="padding:10px 0px 10px 10px;font-size:0.75em;font-family:arial;color:rgb(111,111,111);line-height:14px"> <img border="0" src="http://sp.m.timesofindia.com/thumb.cms?msid=32919994&width=283&resizemode=4" style="width: 286px; height: 209px; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); float: left;"><div class="clear" style="clear:both;height:3px"> </div>Suvir Mirchandani calculated that if the US federal government used just Garamond font in its oficial documents, it could save $136 million per year. </div><div class="storycontent_outer" style="line-height:20px;margin:0px;padding:1px 5px"> <div class="storycontent" style="line-height:normal;margin:0px;padding:5px"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14px">A</span></font><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:16px"> 14-year-old student claims to have found a way of saving the US government $400 million dollars (£240 million) — simply by changing the font they use for official documents. Suvir Mirchandani calculated that if the government chose Garamond font instead of Times New Roman, it would use 25 per cent less ink because each character is lighter and thinner. <br> <br>His idea began when he worked out how much his school in Pennsylvania could save in ink after watching multiple leaflets be handed out. <br><br>"Ink is two times more expensive than French perfume by volume," Suvir told CNN. <br> <br>He then extended the study to a national level and concluded that if the federal government used just Garamond it could save $136 million (£81 million) per year. <br><br>An additional $234 million (£140 million) could be saved annually if state governments also jumped on board, he reported. <br> <br>He has since looked to publish his findings in Journal of Emerging Investigators. Sarah Fankhauser, one of JEI's founders said: "We were so impressed. We really could really see the real-world application in Suvir's paper." <br> <br>Gary Somerset, media and public relations manager at the government printing office, described his work as "remarkable", but would not discuss whether the GPO was prepared to actually to actually implement Suvir's idea.</span></div> </div>

Indian-origin teenager Suvir Mirchandani tells US govt how to save $400 million by just changing their font

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5 things to know about microsoft office now in ipad

<p class="p1" style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:28px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;background-color:rgb(244,246,248)">In 2014, we finally have Microsoft Office for the iPad.</p> <div class="layout-object right medium" style="overflow:hidden;width:300px;clear:both;max-width:320px;margin:0px auto;padding:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:medium;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(244,246,248)"> <p class="p1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:28px"><span class="embedded-Media-image img-caption-c " style="display:block;margin-bottom:0px"><img alt="" height="2455" src="http://readwrite.com/files/satya-nadella-microsoft-ipad.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; float: left; max-width: 100%; width: 300px; display: block; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; z-index: 2; margin-bottom: 0px; height: auto !important;" width="3500"></span></p> </div><p class="p1" style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:28px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;background-color:rgb(244,246,248)">At <a href="http://readwrite.com/2014/03/27/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-san-francisco" style="color:rgb(200,15,50)" target="_blank">Satya Nadella's first Microsoft event</a> and public appearance since<a href="http://readwrite.com/2014/02/04/satya-nadella-microsoft-ceo-bill-gates-out-chairman" style="color:rgb(200,15,50)" target="_blank">being named CEO</a> in February, the company announced its longstanding productivity suite for Windows will henceforth be available to use on Apple's family of tablets, including the iPad mini and full-size iPad (2, 4, or Air).</p> <p class="p1" style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:28px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;background-color:rgb(244,246,248)">Microsoft Office is now a free download from the App Store, but only for viewing Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. For creating and editing those documents, however, you'll need to pay for Microsoft's Office 365 service, which starts at $70 per year. </p> <p class="p1" style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:28px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;background-color:rgb(244,246,248)">It was possible to use Microsoft Office on an iPad before today's announcement. <a href="http://readwrite.com/2013/06/14/office-for-ios-app-limited-in-audience-features#feed=/search?keyword=onlive+office&awesm=~ozJay8OBx3NyXC" style="color:rgb(200,15,50)">Office Mobile for Office 365 Subscribers</a> is a free app for those already paying for the service, which is a virtualized version of Office, albeit not exactly optimized for the iPad. Furthermore, there have been a handful of available third-party tools that similarly delivered a virtualized desktop version of the productivity suite on an iPad, but perhaps that's not the best way to interact with documents, since Office wasn't optimized for a smaller screen.</p> <p class="p1" style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:28px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;background-color:rgb(244,246,248)">Now that Microsoft finally got its act together to bring a native version of Office to the iPad, it seems like many people that would have really needed this, oh, let's say two years ago, have already moved on to other apps, or have simply given up on waiting for such a development.</p> <p class="p1" style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:28px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;background-color:rgb(244,246,248)">There have previously been, ahem, other numerous ways to access Office and Office-like services on the iPad. One of our favorites was the release of OnLive Desktop in 2012, which was a free virtualized version of Windows 7 that included Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint already installed. It didn’t take long for that service to shut down, as is to expected for anyone violating Microsoft’s terms of service, but now we have iPad Office, and here are five things to look forward to when it comes to that news.</p> <ul style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;list-style:none;overflow:auto;width:300px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:medium;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(244,246,248)"> <li style="margin:0px;padding:15px 0px 0px;list-style:disc inside"><strong>It’s Free.</strong> Office for iPad is free, but for creating and editing documents, an Office 365 subscription is needed. Subscriptions start at $70 a year.</li> <li style="margin:0px;padding:15px 0px 0px;list-style:disc inside"><strong>Word, Excel And PowerPoint Are Included.</strong> More Microsoft apps are sure to come, but the powerhouse items are now there for the picking.</li> <li style="margin:0px;padding:15px 0px 0px;list-style:disc inside"><strong>Word Document Formatting is Fully Enabled.</strong> Everything Word users love is right there on the iPad app, including the toolbox ribbon at the top for all of one's needed features.</li> <li style="margin:0px;padding:15px 0px 0px;list-style:disc inside"><strong>Excel Includes Specialized Numeric Keypad.</strong> To keep formulas handy, Excel includes a special numeric keypad—just for the iPad.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:15px 0px 0px;list-style:disc inside;border-bottom-width:0px"> <strong>PowerPoint Laser!</strong> While doing a PowerPoint presentation on the iPad, touch and laser pointer will appear for that crucial stage-like performance ambiance.</li></ul>

5 things to know about microsoft office now in ipad

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella brags on Twitter as Office for iPad soars

<div class="timetxt" style="font-size:0.75em;line-height:12px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(111,111,111);margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 10px"><img border="0" src="http://images.photogallery.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif" width="5"></div> <div class="photo" style="padding:10px 0px 10px 10px;font-size:0.75em;font-family:arial;color:rgb(111,111,111);line-height:14px"><img border="0" src="http://m.timesofindia.com/thumb.cms?msid=32893431&width=283&resizemode=4" style="width: 286px; height: 209px; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); float: left;"><div class="clear" style="clear:both;height:3px"> </div>Microsoft chief Satya Nadella took to Twitter to crow on Friday as Office software tailored for iPads soared to the top of the charts at Apple's online App Store.</div><div class="photo" style="padding:10px 0px 10px 10px;font-size:0.75em;font-family:arial;color:rgb(111,111,111);line-height:14px"> <span style="font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:georgia">Microsoft chief Satya Nadella took to Twitter to crow on Friday as Office software tailored for iPads soared to the top of the charts at Apple's online App Store.</span></div> <div class="storycontent_outer" style="font-size:0.91em;line-height:20px;font-family:georgia;margin:0px;padding:1px 5px"><div class="storycontent" style="font-size:15px;line-height:normal;margin:0px;padding:5px"><p style="margin-top:1px"> "Looks like it's a pretty productive Friday for #iPad owners!" Nadella said in a Twitter message that included a picture showing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint were the three most popular free applications at the App Store.</p> <p style="margin-top:1px">Microsoft unveiled a version of its popular Office software suite for iPad tablets a day earlier as the company's new chief moved to expand its "Internet cloud" footprint.</p><p style="margin-top:1px"> Apple chief Tim Cook welcomed the offerings from the company's longtime rival with a tweet of his own, to which Nadella responded at Twitter with thanks and word that he is "excited to bring the magic of Office to iPad customers."</p> <p style="margin-top:1px">While Office applications for iPad are free, subscriptions to Microsoft's online Office 365 service are needed to be able to create or edit documents, spreadsheets or presentations.</p><p style="margin-top:1px"> Presentations, spreadsheets or documents created are saved on Microsoft servers using its OneDrive online data storage service and can be access from a range of devices.</p><p style="margin-top:1px">The shrewd move lets Microsoft sidestep paying Apple the 30% cut it gets of the price of applications for its popular devices as well as in-app purchases.</p> <p style="margin-top:1px">In a note to investors, Credit Suisse described the move as a "massive revenue and operating profit opportunity for Microsoft" as people are given incentive to get Office 365 subscriptions typically costing $100 annually.</p> <p style="margin-top:1px">More than a billion people use Office, according to the Redmond, Washington-based technology titan.</p><p style="margin-top:1px">Nadella laid out a vision of making the company the master of programs and services offered in the cloud for whatever gadgets people prefer.</p> <p style="margin-top:1px">Nadella said he wants to provide full-feature versions of its widely used programmes available for all types of devices as one aspect of Microsoft's overall strategy under his watch.</p><p style="margin-top:1px"> Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as Microsoft chief executive in February, and the market is keen to learn his plans to keep the company relevant in a world rapidly shifting from personal computers to mobile devices.</p><p style="margin-top:1px"> <br></p></div></div>

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella brags on Twitter as Office for iPad soars

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Airtel Pocket TV: Airtel's New Android App For Watching TV On The Go Discussion in 'Gadgets | Software

<div class="titleBar" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;zoom:1;color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(252,252,255)"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:18pt;font-weight:normal;overflow:hidden;zoom:1"> <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:1.5">Airtel Digital TV has launched its latest mobile application called “Airtel Pocket TV” for its digital TV subscribers which allows users to watch their favorite programs or channels while on the move. The company assures to provide more than 150 live TV channels and more than 10,000 hours of video contents and can watch past episodes on 13 channels on anytime TV.</span></h1> </div><ul class="messageList messageArticle" id="messageArticle" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(252,252,255)"> <li id="post-311476" class="message " style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 20px;list-style:none;border-top-width:2px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(200,200,200);zoom:1"><div class="messageInfo primaryContent" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-color:black;zoom:1"> <div class="messageContent" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:0px;overflow:hidden"><blockquote class="messageText ugc baseHtml" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5"> <br>Currently, the Airtel Digital TV application is released only for the Android users using version 2.1 and above and is expected to come for iOS users very soon. It is available for free download on Google Play Store and is mentioned to be compatible on devices with Android 2.2 and above versions. Before this application, DishTV and TataSky have released similar apps for their consumers.<br> <br><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center"><img alt="Airtel." class="bbCodeImage LbImage" src="http://data.crazyengineers.com/attachments/airtel-jpg.10155/" style="border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%;" title="Click this image to show the full-size version."></div> <br>Airtel Pocket TV for Android can support all operator networks. It has a unique feature of adaptive streaming which allows automatic adjusts of the streaming bit-rate according to bandwidth on users device. Along with this, it allows users to select channels conveniently with Genre based UI. Users can also type the channel which they are looking for and can also set it as their favorite channel for easy access in future. Users get the list of program guide one week in advance and also have a facility to check the top viewed and top rated contents on the home screen so that they can set an alarm to view your favorite show or movie.<br> <br>Once you install the application in your Android device, you need to activate it by sending an SMS - 'ADD TV' to 54325 and get your number registered. To use this application you need to pay Rs. 60 per month which is an introductory price.</blockquote> </div></div></li></ul>

Airtel Pocket TV: Airtel's New Android App For Watching TV On The Go Discussion in 'Gadgets | Software

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Intel to Pack Big Data Into Smaller Cables

<h1 class="title" style="font-family:georgia,times,verdana;font-size:18pt;margin:10px 0px 5px"><img align="left" alt="Intel to Pack Big Data Into Smaller Cables" class="story-image" height="150" src="http://www.technewsworld.com/images/rw126067/high-speed-cables.jpg" style="margin-right: 10px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px;" width="200"></h1> <span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;line-height:18px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica">It may never be possible to fully satiate humanity's growing hunger for data, but Intel and partners will soon make it possible to serve up a lot more -- faster and more environmentally friendly, too. Intel and US Conec are hosting a forum for companies interested in adopting MXC cable technology at the Optical Fiber Conference in San Francisco this week.</span><div class="story-intro-stop" style="clear:both;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:13px"> </div><p style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;clear:left;padding:5px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-top-color:rgb(203,203,203);border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(203,203,203)"> <span style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em">Intel is set to speed up data transmission by providing MXC cables for use in data centers and with supercomputers. The company plans to start selling the high-speed cables later this year.</span><br> </p><div id="story-body" style="height:3118px;margin-top:10px;line-height:1.5em;font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica"><p>The cables are take advantage of <a href="http://www.technewsworld.com/story/70504.html" style="color:rgb(21,66,150)" target="_blank">silicon photonics technology</a>, which uses light to move large volumes of data at high speeds through thin optical fibers.</p> <p>The MXC cables require less power than copper cables to send electrical signals due at higher speeds. They are lower-costs and more energy-efficient, according to Intel.</p><p></p><div class="story-thumbnail" style="margin:10px auto;font-weight:bold;float:none;line-height:12px;width:350px"> <img alt="Mario Paniccia" border="0" height="490" src="http://www.technewsworld.com/article_images/2014/80118_350x490.jpg" style="margin: 2px;" width="350"><div style="clear:both;line-height:1.2em;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:12px"> Mario Paniccia with a 1.6Tbps MXC cable (green) next to a 128Gbps PCI Express copper cable. Paniccia is an Intel Fellow and general manager of the Silicon Photonics Operations Organization.</div></div><p></p><p>Silicon photonics can enable a variety of different approaches to data center designs, the company said, including rack-scale architectures.</p> <p></p><h2 class="subhead" style="font-size:10pt;margin:17px 0px">Hopes of Standardizing</h2><p>Intel worked with Corning to develop an optical connector and the fiber technology required for the cables. The companies are looking into ways to standardize MXC across the industry.</p> <p>The cables can transmit light over a distance of up to 300 meters at 25 Gbps, three times longer than many current technologies. The fibers have a tenth of the bend radius of traditional fibers, allowing the cables to navigate the sharp bends often seen in and around server racks. Corning will also make the ClearCurve LX Multimode Fiber available to other manufacturers.</p> <p>The MXC cable packs in up to 64 fibers. That means the cables can transmit up to 1.6 terabits of data per second. At that speed, one would be able to download a two-hour high-definition movie with a 4 GB file size in 2 seconds.</p> <p>With 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day, we need higher bandwidth in modern data centers, Intel suggested.</p><p>"There are obvious technological advantages for MXC focusing on the transmission of vaster volumes of data at far greater speeds," Charles King, principal at <a class="story-keyword-offsite" href="http://www.pund-it.com/" style="color:rgb(21,66,150)">Pund-IT</a>, told TechNewsWorld.</p> <p>"Both points resonate in a world that's becoming increasingly Big Data-happy in the sense of creating, storing and using ever-larger volumes of information. In fact, the evolving Internet of Things is likely to expand information growth exponentially, adding to the value of MXC," he observed.</p> <h2 class="subhead" style="font-size:10pt;margin:17px 0px">Other Advances Needed</h2><p>"That said, there are some potential disadvantages, too," King noted.</p><p>"For example, processing, reading and writing that data is likely to require additional advances in server, storage and networking technologies -- that's one reason the technology is initially aimed at supercomputers and high-end data center applications. Some might also note that utilizing MXC will likely require purchasing new systems capable of supporting advanced data throughput," he explained.</p> <p>"The advantage is that these cables pass through substantially more data than older fiberoptic cables with the same number of fibers," Rob Enderle, principal at the <a class="story-keyword-offsite" href="http://www.enderlegroup.com/" style="color:rgb(21,66,150)">Enderle Group</a>, told TechNewsWorld.</p> <p>"This means they can use the same conduits, as they won't be any larger, while pushing far more data. Basically this lowers the facility cost for doing a major data upgrade," he pointed out.</p><p>"From what I understand, this is a multivendor effort to develop higher-performance optical cabling," Jim McGregor, principal at <a class="story-keyword-offsite" href="http://www.tiriasresearch.com/" style="color:rgb(21,66,150)">Tirias Research</a>, told TechNewsWorld. "For Intel, it means more efficient cables for the silicon photonics efforts that the company has developed. As long as the industry identifies and adopts this as a standard, there is no downside. You get smaller cables with higher performance."</p> <p>The MXC connector uses lensed connectors to transmit light rather than physical contact with the end faces that one might see in more typical connectors. This means that the immunity to dust is increased tenfold and helps avoid the largest single cause of cable failures in data centers, according to Intel.</p> <p>Intel has spent more than a decade working on the project to ensure its viability, and Intel Labs is now pushing MXC beyond the research and development stages.</p><h2 class="subhead" style="font-size:10pt;margin:17px 0px"> Fiber Conference</h2><p>Along with Corning, Intel has partnered with US Conec (which is making parts for the connector to sell to cable companies), Molex and TE Connectivity. Intel and US Conec are hosting a forum for companies interested in adopting the technology at the Optical Fiber Conference in San Francisco this week.</p> <p>Microsoft is among the companies evaluating the cables, while Intel is collaborating with Facebook on a new rack-scale server architecture that uses silicon photonics technology.</p><p>"This kind of a performance jump in an area that is currently constrained will have a massive positive impact on computing performance," Enderle said. "Particularly as we move to higher bandwidth videos (Ultra HD) and intelligent systems, this will reduce -- if not eliminate -- one of the biggest problems the industry faces: constrained networks." Future of Silicon Photonics As for the future of silicon photonics, MXC is "a major shot in the arm," said Pund-IT's King. "Any time vendors with the heft of Intel and Microsoft join in on an endeavor, you realize that the wind is now behind you."</p> <p>Meanwhile, MXC cables are being developed primarily for data centers, though King expects "to see forms of MXC developed for everyday business and consumer use" over time.</p></div>

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Online games boost players' social lives: Study

<img alt="Online games boost players' social lives: Study" border="0" src="http://www.ianslive.in/upload/2014/March/28/online-game20140328161412_l.jpg" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; width: 301.15625px;" title="Online games boost players' social lives: Study" width="428"><br> <div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;float:left"><div class="landingstory" id="print" style="width:301.15625px;height:auto;float:left;padding:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;border-right-style:none"> <p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:10px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;text-align:justify;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">Countering recent reports that online gaming is disturbing people's social behaviour, a new research claims that online gaming is augmenting, not limiting, the social lives of players.</p> <p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:10px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;text-align:justify;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px"></p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:10px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;text-align:justify;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px"> </p><p class="rtejustify" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:10px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;text-align:justify;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">"Gamers are not the anti-social basement-dwellers we see in pop culture stereotypes. They are highly social people," said Nick Taylor, an assistant professor of communication at North Carolina State University.<br> This would not be a surprise to the gaming community, but it is worth telling everyone else. Loners are the outliers in gaming, not the norm, he added.<br>Researchers travelled to more than 20 public gaming events in Canada and Britain, from 2,500-player events held in convention centres to 20-player events held in bars.<br> They observed the behaviour of thousands of players and had 378 players take an in-depth survey.<br>The idea was to track the online and offline behaviour of gamers, focusing on how they communicated with each other.<br>They found that gaming was only one aspect of social behaviour at the gaming events.<br> "We found that gamers were often exhibiting many social behaviours at once: watching games, talking, drinking and chatting online. Gaming did not eliminate social interaction, it supplemented it," Taylor said.<br> This was true regardless of which games players were playing and whether a player's behaviour in the online game was altruistic.<br>For example, a player could be utterly ruthless in the game and still socialise normally offline.<br> The researchers also found that gamers did not distinguish between the time they spent playing games and the time they spent watching other people play games.<br>The paper titled Public Displays of Play: Studying Online Games in Physical Settings was published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.</p> </div></div>

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New Linux Office Suite Too Soft to Be King

<h1 class="title" style="font-family:georgia,times,verdana;font-size:18pt;margin:10px 0px 5px"><img align="left" alt="New Linux Office Suite Too Soft to Be King" class="story-image" height="150" src="http://www.technewsworld.com/images/rw575343/linux-office-suite.jpg" style="margin-right: 10px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px;" width="150"></h1> <span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;line-height:18px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica">An awesome feature in Kingsoft Writer is how you can change paragraph formatting on the fly. Writer has a persistent floating button next to each paragraph in the left margin. Click this button to auto-select the whole paragraph. Then drag the handles of the borders that surround the paragraph to change the length and height of the block of text. This works much like resizing a photo or text box.</span><p class="story-summary" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica"> <span style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em">The</span><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em"> </span><a href="http://wps-community.org/download.html" style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(21,66,150)" target="_blank">Kingsoft Office Suite</a><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em"> </span><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em">holds the promise of bringing a near perfect clone of Microsoft Office to Linux desktop users. However, Kingsoft's developers still have some work to do on the Linux Alpha release to make it a beta deal.</span></p> <div id="story-body" style="height:4060px;margin-top:10px;line-height:1.5em;font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica"><p><img border="0" height="24" src="http://www.technewsworld.com/images/article_images/linux3stars_580x24.jpg" width="580"></p> <p></p><div class="story-thumbnail" style="margin:10px auto;font-weight:bold;float:none;line-height:12px;width:500px"><a class="lightview cboxElement" href="http://www.technewsworld.com/article_images/2014/80209_990x557.jpg" style="color:rgb(21,66,150)" title=""><img alt="Kingsoft Office" src="http://www.technewsworld.com/article_images/2014/80209_500x281-small.jpg" style="margin: 2px; cursor: url(http://www.technewsworld.com/shared/zoomin.cur), default;"></a><div style="clear:both;line-height:1.2em;color:rgb(85,85,85);text-align:center"> All three Kingsoft Office modules have the same opening tab<br>that links to the developer's home page. (click to enlarge)</div></div><p></p><p>Other than <a class="story-keyword-offsite" href="http://www.openoffice.org/" style="color:rgb(21,66,150)">OpenOffice</a> and <a class="story-keyword-offsite" href="http://www.libreoffice.org/" style="color:rgb(21,66,150)">LibreOffice</a>, the Linux platform lacks any full-featured office suite. Both of these open source office suites have more in common with each other than truly distinguishing features. Both flip-flop in performance, depending on which Microsoft skill they attempt to emulate. Their user interface is strictly classic old school.</p> <p>AbiWord, part of the GNOME Office Suite, is a less functional word processor. Gnumeric is a less capable spreadsheet app in GNOME office. This suite has no slide deck application.</p><p>Perhaps the real competition for Kingsoft will be how it compares to the <a class="story-keyword-offsite" href="http://www.kde.org/" style="color:rgb(21,66,150)">KDE</a> Office counterparts. That is actually a double test when you consider the KOffice Suite and its forked cousin, Caligra. Both of these office suites have spreadsheet and slide deck apps, as well as other tools that are not part of the Kingsoft Office Suite.</p> <p>Kingsoft is close to its beta release. The Alpha 12 Patch 3 version released Dec. 4, 2013, is viable enough for me to complete real work with few problems.</p><p></p><h2 class="subhead" style="font-size:10pt;margin:17px 0px"> Sordid Software</h2><p>Kingsoft is not yet well known as a Linux application. It is more established with versions for the Windows, Mac and Android platforms.</p><p>The office suite is developed by the Beijing Kingsoft Software Co. and released under Open Source and Free Type licenses. The company's products, depending on platform, are titled "WP3" and "WPS."</p> <p>I initially learned about Kingsoft Writer about six months ago as an app download called "WPS" on my Android tablet. More recently, I found the Kingsoft Office Suite as the default offering in MakuluLinux 5.</p> <p>WPS Writer performed well in a tablet setting. The Kingsoft Office Suite was more impressive on the Linux desktop.</p><h2 class="subhead" style="font-size:10pt;margin:17px 0px">Package Deal</h2><p>Kingsoft (or WPS) Office For Linux is a threesome. It comes with Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheet. This dynamic package does a fairly satisfying job of imitating Word, Powerpoint and Excel from Microsoft.</p> <p>WPS has no equivalent database component, but in compairng the features stockpiled in the Kingsoft bundle, less does not suggest anything close to a tie in performance. The Kingsoft Office Suite has several features and user interface tweaks that go wanting in all of the other products.</p> <p>The WP3 -- yet another of its names -- software set has an impressive list of features. In fact, its <a class="story-keyword-offsite" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI" style="color:rgb(21,66,150)">GUI</a>sports a ribbon-like interface that resembles the one used in Microsoft Word. None of the other Linux office suites has a ribbon-style interface.</p> <p>The cloning is authentic, even down the Microsoft blue skin, although that is not a default setting. A built-in skin manager loads the default choice of Ongmani, but it's easy to change the skin to a Classic or 201 Blue skin.</p> <h2 class="subhead" style="font-size:10pt;margin:17px 0px">GUI Gorgeous</h2><p>The ribbon is a key part of the look and feel of Kingsoft's suite of office apps. I left Microsoft Word behind when I migrated to Linux before the ribbon's 2007 debut, but working with it in this Linux configuration, I have to agree that it gives new meaning to "ease-of-use."</p> <p>Users are not tied to the ribbon feature. The other option is Classic. It closely resembles the dropdown menu designs and tool bar rows of Office XP or Office 2003.</p><p>Tabs do for this office suite what they do for Web browsers. The tab concept lets you open new documents and access them by clicking a labeled tab situated between the ribbon rows and the writing window.</p> <p>This is a similar approach used by high-end text editors. It is very effective compared to moving to a writing window on another screen, as most other word processors do. It works as well in the spreadsheet. However, the tab interface is akin to the use of sheets in spreadsheets. The Presentation app uses the tab feature as well, with the same ease of navigation.</p> <h2 class="subhead" style="font-size:10pt;margin:17px 0px">Feature Fest</h2><p>An awesome feature in Kingsoft Writer is how you can change paragraph formatting on the fly. Writer has a persistent floating button next to each paragraph in the left margin. Click this button to auto-select the whole paragraph. Then drag the handles of the borders that now surround the paragraph to change the length and height of the block of text.</p> <p>This works much like resizing a photo or text box in other editing tools. Two other formatting shortcuts are selecting multiple paragraphs with Ctrl+Left Mouse Button and the whole document with Ctrl+A.</p><p>Backup Management is a better AutoSave that works in all three office modules. This feature creates periodic backups of your work in a separate folder, regardless of when you last saved them. You can open the backup document at will. this is a virtual safety net to prevent data loss, should the application crash or the hardware be hit by some other malfunction.</p> <p>A cool feature in Kingsoft Spreadsheet is Text to Columns. This lets you easily modify the way data is displayed in specified cells.</p><p>For example, you can split customer lists into First Name and Last Name. You can separate each part of the list with a space, any character or line, to easily sort a list into two columns.</p> <h2 class="subhead" style="font-size:10pt;margin:17px 0px">Format Fury</h2><p>File compatibility might be a major stumbling block with Kingsoft. The developer has done a good job of reading and writing Microsoft Office file formats, but open source formats are largely ignored.</p> <p>Kingsoft needs more formats in the Save As category to make file types more convertible. It is limited to its own format and Microsoft file types for all three modules. It only offers additional choices of JPEG/PNG/TIFF for slide decks. In Writer, only RTF, HTML and TXT formats are available. For Spreadsheets, XML, Web Page and Text are the only other choices.</p> <p>Kingsoft does a good job of not messing up the on-screen rendering of original documents created in other programs, but it fails when handling common open source file types.</p><p>Kingsoft Office does not support OpenOffice or LibreOffice formats such as ODT, ODP and ODG. Instead, it has its own native file formats with the extensions WPS for Writer, DPS for Presentation and ET for Spreadsheets.</p> <h2 class="subhead" style="font-size:10pt;margin:17px 0px">Bottom Line</h2><p>Kingsoft is too young a project to be available in Linux distro repositories. The only distro distributing it so far seems to be MakuluLinux.</p> <p>You can get it from the developer's website in RPM format for Fedora, CentOS and OpenSuse. It is also available in DEB format for Debian distros such as Ubuntu, Mint and Knoppix. Tarball packages are an option.</p> <p>If you need a well-functioning alternative to other Linux office suites, Kingsoft Office could be a good choice. The Alpha 12 release is stable and works well. It is a reliable clone of Microsoft Office. It should serve you well if you do not need compatibility with open source file formats.</p> <h2 class="subhead" style="font-size:10pt;margin:17px 0px">Want to Suggest a Linux Application for Review?</h2><p>Is there a Linux software application you'd like to suggest for review? Something you love or would like to get to know?</p> </div>

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