3-1 REVALUATION RESULTS-2012

09A41A0503	DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS	14	36
09A41A0510	DATA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS	15	44
09A41A0526	DATA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS	17	42
09A41A0545	MICRO PROCESSORS AND INTERFACING	15	40

CSE-IT INDUSTRIAL TOUR-2012

CSE & IT Industrial Tour is scheduled on 15 Sep. to 20 th Sep.

Tour Destinations:
                            1.Chennai
                            2.Ooty
                            3.Banglore
                            4.Mysore

Total charges including Transportation(to & fro),Food,Sightseeing : Rs. 5500/- only
Interested ones give their name to our class representative

Google Now becomes more useful in India with Live traffic cards

As we reported earlier today, Google has flipped the switch on its free turn-by-turn voice navigation service and traffic data in India. Any Android user can now use Google Maps Navigation to select best possible route to their destination, however the live traffic data is also available on desktop maps and mobile maps from the company.
Apart from these two developments, the traffic data availability has also made the Google Now traffic cards finally useful in India. For the uninitiated, Google Now is a new virtual assistant from the search giant for Android devices (introduced in Jelly Bean), which provides you information right when you need it. It uses your web history, habits to provide you with the best possible information.

Google Now uses card format to show this information and one of the several cards is traffic card, which gives you traffic conditions and alternate routes before you leave for work or home. Google Now also puts traffic to your next likely destination at your fingertips. But until now, the traffic cards weren't of much use in India as there was no traffic data, which has now changed.
Starting today, if you have a Jelly Bean running smartphone with Google Now, you will be able to see estimated time to your destination (home, office or any other location you search on Google) with traffic condition details. So, if you see that a particular road is seeing high-traffic, you can take an alternate route to your office and reach on time.
Google Now traffic card appears according to your pre-defined settings, like ahead of commute from home/office, or after searching Google, so as a user you don't have to do anything and everything is done in the background by the application. The application also displays the important traffic information in the notification bar of your phone, so you don't have to even open Google Now.

Google brings voice navigation to India

Google on Tuesday launched its much-awaited navigation service in India. The feature, available on Android phones and tablets for free, would allow travelers, whether they are driving or walking, to get directions to a place through turn-by-turn voice instructions.

While Navigation app was always a feature of Android phones in India, the service was not supported officially. It used to show just the route and lacked support for voice instructions. Currently, the Navigation feature is in beta and Google tells users to exercise caution while using it.

We tested the app as soon as it went live and found it to be very accurate. In case of any deviation by a user in the middle of the way, the app automatically reroutes the coordinates. There are various options. Users can select whether they want walking instructions or driving directions. They can add or remove layers to change view from basic to the one that is more detailed. They can also save routes.

Navigation, that uses GPS chips in a device, is one of the most popular features among smartphone and tablet users across the world. In India, however, only Nokia offered this service on its high-end phones for free. TomTom and MapMyIndia were among other companies that provided the navigation service through paid apps.

Several third-party apps like Waze, available on both iPhone and Android devices, offered the service for free though they were not as accurate as Nokia Maps or Google Navigation.

Given the importance of navigation and map related features, Google is quietly bolstering its offerings in India. Along with the navigation, it also offers basic map services and Local, which is a kind of dynamic directory of notable places around a user.

Recently, the company brought Transit to several Indian cities. Transit, which uses the data supplied by public transport authorities like Delhi Metro, allows a user to get information on routes covered by public transport and the time at which buses or trains can be boarded. Transit is available in several areas of Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Ahmedabad.

The turn-by-turn navigation may help Android devices stay ahead of iPhone in India. Apple, which recently decided to not use Google Maps in its devices, would be using its own map service in iOS 6. However, building an efficient map service takes time, especially in a country like India where roads and routes are not as organized as they are in the US or European countries. Both Nokia and Google have spent years perfecting their map service in India and it may take a while before Apple could match them here.

Source : TOI

Cellphones to be less harmful from Saturday

Beginning Saturday, handsets manufactured in India will have to abide by the new radiation norms rolled out by the government.

According to the new cellphone radiation norms, cellphones should emit lower radiation and emissions from cellphone towers also should be cut to to one-tenth of the present level.

The norms will come into force on Sept. 1, according to which cellphones will have a specific absorption rate of 1.6 watts per kg averaged over one gram of human tissue as compared to the earlier limit of 2 watts per kilogram averaged over 10 gram of tissue.

The handsets which are already in the market have been given one year to be phased out while those which the consumers already possess will not be affected by these new norms.

Union telecom minister Kapil Sibal said the norms are more stringent than most countries.

Revaluation Results-3-2(2012)