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The Story Behind Google’s Interactive Les Paul Guitar Logo

admin — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:46:02 +0000

On 9th June’s morning, millions of people logged onto the Google homepage and saw a newly designed Google logo in the shape of a guitar to honor Les Paul on what would have been his 96th birthday. They’ve been creating these Google doodles for a decade – usually honoring holidays and special anniversaries – but this one was different. Users could drag their cursor over the guitar strings and actually play songs, and even record their work for posterity. Within hours of the posting, users had posted videos of themselves playing “Stairway To Heaven,” “Hey Jude” and many other songs. “We were just overwhelmed with the positive response,” Ryan Germick, the Google Team Lead behind the project, tells Rolling Stone. “People just took it and ran with it.”

The guitar chords you hear actually began with Google’s Creative Lab Designer Alexander Chen’s own Les Paul guitar. “I basically just played 20 or 30 notes and then chose the ones that made sense for the doodle,” says Chen. “I specifically chose G because that was the first set of chords that I learned on the guitar and that was the one most people learn. I thought that would be a fun way to have a sort of beginner-style guitar entry point.”

Chen was well equipped to help create the Doodle: he’s released a series of albums with the projects Boy in Static and Consulate General. “It’s indie pop with some sort of experimental shoegaze-y noise layers,” he says. “I’ve opened for bands at some pretty big venues, like Irving Plaza. But I’ve sort of switched gears and now do more of this music and art intersection instead of the normal recording of albums.”

Google’s entire design team was thrilled by the creative ways in which people used the Doodle. “Some of the most unexpected uses are the ones that delight us the most,” says Chen. “We saw a YouTube video where people brought three computers and were playing as a trio. We didn’t totally anticipate that. It’s just kind of neat to see people giving each other music lessons all over the Internet.”

The Doodle is going to come down this weekend, but it probably isn’t going away forever. “Our interactive Pacman Doodle from last year was so popular we kept it alive at google.com/pacman,” says Germick. “Our engineers are working on a way to keep the guitar Doodle alive. I think it will continue to see life.”

EBay, PayPal sue Google over trade secrets

admin — Mon, 30 May 2011 09:49:59 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) – EBay and its online payment unit, PayPal Inc, on Thursday sued Google Inc and two executives for stealing trade secrets related to mobile payment systems.

The two executives, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, were formerly with PayPal and led the launch on Thursday of Google’s own mobile payment system in partnership with MasterCard, Citigroup and phone company Sprint.

The suit highlights the growing battle by a wide range of companies from traditional finance to Silicon Valley trying to take a major stake in what has been described as a $1 trillion opportunity in mobile payments. The mobile phone is seen as the digital personal wallet of the future.

The eBay suit said Bedier worked for nine years at PayPal, most recently serving as vice president of platform, mobile and new ventures. He joined Google on Jan. 24 this year.

Tilenius was at eBay from 2001 to October 2009 and served as a consultant to the company until March 2010. The suit says Tilenius joined Google in February 2010 as vice president of e-commerce.

Bedier is accused in the suit of having “misappropriated PayPal trade secrets by disclosing them within Google and to major retailers.”

The suit accused Tilenius of recruiting Bedier, thereby breaking a contractual agreement with eBay. It also claims Bedier attempted to recruit former colleagues still at PayPal.

Ebay said PayPal and Google worked closely together for three years until this year on developing a commercial deal where PayPal would serve as a payment option for mobile application purchases on Google’s Android phones.

It said Bedier was the senior PayPal executive leading and finalizing negotiations with Google on Android during this period.

It also claimed Bedier transferred up-to-date versions of documents outlining PayPal’s mobile payment strategies to his non-PayPal computer just days before leaving PayPal for Google.

“By hiring Bedier, with his trade secret knowledge of PayPal’s plans and understanding of Google’s weaknesses as viewed by the industry leader (PayPal), Google bought the most comprehensive and sophisticated critique of its own problems available,” the suit said.

Google spokesman Aaron Zamost said the company had not yet received a copy of the complaint would not be able to comment until it has had a chance to review it.

Google and PayPal have done battle in the recent past in online payments via computers with the launch of Google Checkout in 2006, but Checkout has had a minimal impact on PayPal’s market dominance.

The suit was filed at Superior Court of the State of California, county of Santa Clara, Case No: CV20l863.

(Reporting by Yinka Adegoke, additional reporting by Jennifer Saba; Editing by Gary Hill, Bernard Orr and Matt Driskill)

Acer Iconia Tab A500 is High Performance, Android Honeycomb Tablet

admin — Mon, 30 May 2011 09:45:46 +0000

Iconia Tab A500 is one of the few tablets that run on Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The tablet comes in both 3G and WiFi only version with some good features.

Hardware and Looks

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 has a 10.1 inch touchscreen that offers 1280×800-pixel resolution.

On the front you will also see a 2 megapixel camera for video calling. However, on the front you won’t find any physical buttons.

The normal home and back buttons of any Android device are replaced by virtual buttons on screen. You can see the buttons in the lower left-hand corner of the screen.

The advantage of this placement is that if you shuffle between portrait and landscape orientations, the buttons are always on the lower left-hand side of the display.

There’s another button at the lower left corner which gives access to all recently used apps.

On the back of the tablet you will see a 5 megapixel camera. The built quality of A500 gives a cheap feeling because they have mainly used plastic.

There is an orientation lock key and volume adjustment key on the top edge of the tablet. The device also features a Micro SD card slot, a SIM card slot, micro-USB port and micro-HDMI port.

On top of A500 is a headphone socket. The tablet is 13.3mm thick and weighs 765g. That means its 164g heavier than the iPad 2. The A500 runs on the Tegra 2 processor and has 1GB of RAM.

Display and Camera
The 10.1-inch, 1280 x 800 TFT LCD of A500 is a visual delight. Another plus point of the display is its viewing angle.

You can position the tablet at any angle and still the readability remains very good. Though the readability reduces significantly under sun, it performs pretty well indoor conditions.

The 5 mega-pixel rear camera takes nice photos under a bright sky and front camera is just ok. But the main problem is that cameras lose the focus if you try to capture anything away from it and produces blurry images. Despite the 720p HD video capturing capability, the captured video quality is not good at all.

Software and Performance
Acer’s Iconia Tab A500 runs on Android 3.0, a specially customized OS for the tablets and it certainly works like a breeze.

A500 features a great browser with Flash support. You can open multiple tabs and multi-task. The Honeycomb on screen keyboard is a delight. It supports multi-touch, so you can touch type.

You can also hold down the shift key or number key to get quick access to certain characters. The Gmail client, music player, calendar, photo browser, chat and maps application works brilliantly.

The apps in the Android Market for the Honeycomb devices are not so many and Google should look into this matter as the common Android apps can not utilize the screen space of the tablets. The tablet runs on pair of 3260mAh batteries and offers almost 7 hours of battery life.

Final Verdict
The overall performance of Iconia Tab A500 is good. But there are some negative points too. It’s a very heavy tablet, battery life is little poor, and compared to some tablets its price is bit high.

While ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is priced at $400 with almost the same facilities, A500 is priced at $450.

Apple usurps Google as world’s most valuable brand

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:22:46 +0000

LONDON - Apple has overtaken Google as the world’s most valuable brand, ending a four-year reign by the Internet search leader, according to a new study by global brands agency Millward Brown.

The iPhone and iPad maker’s brand is now worth $153 billion, almost half Apple’s market capitalization, says the annual BrandZ study of the world’s top 100 brands.

Apple’s portfolio of coveted consumer goods propelled it past Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable technology company last year.

Peter Walshe, global brands director of Millward Brown, says Apple’s meticulous attention to detail, along with an increasing presence of its gadgets in corporate environments, have allowed it to behave differently from other consumer-electronics makers.

“Apple is breaking the rules in terms of its pricing model,” he told Reuters by telephone. “It’s doing what luxury brands do, where the higher price the brand is, the more it seems to underpin and reinforce the desire.”

“Obviously, it has to be allied to great products and a great experience, and Apple has nurtured that.”

Of the top 10 brands in Monday’s report, six were technology and telecoms companies: Google at number two, IBM at number three, Microsoft at number five, AT&T at number seven and China Mobile at number nine.

McDonald’s rose two places to number four, as fast food became the fastest-growing category, Coca-Cola slipped one place to number six, Marlboro was also down one to number eight, and General Electric was number 10.

Following is the list of top ten Most Valuable Global Brands:

1. Apple $153bn
2. Google $111bn
3. IBM $100bn
4. McDonald’s $81bn
5. Microsoft $78bn
6. Coca Cola $73bn
7. AT&T $70bn
8. Marlboro $67bn
9. China Mobile $57bn
10. GE $50bn

Keep the future bright!! Turn off the light!!

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:45:48 +0000

Varshyl Technologies will proudly participate in the up coming event of “Earth Hour” that will be held on Saturday 26th March 2011 at 08:30PM to conserve electricity.

Friendly & Powerful: Drupal 7

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:52:32 +0000

Varshyl Technologies Pvt. Ltd. have gain their expertise in Drupal 7, the friendly and powerful content management platform for building nearly any kind of website: from blogs and micro-sites to collaborative social communities. Drupal 7′s API is extra mature & modern over Drupal 6′s API. As compared to Drupal 6, Drupal 7 is easier to use, more flexible & scalable.

Sahaita – Care for poor foundation (sahaita.org)

admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:03:15 +0000

Sahaita will help to provide resources that are readily available to the needy children and elderly regardless of their status, background, religion or caste.

We will help to provide resources in the following areas:

Providing equal opportunity and resources to needy children and elderly regardless of their status, background, religion, or caste
Organizing charitable clinics that provide preventive health education and immunizations in California and India
Providing help to shelters for orphans, disabled children and adults
Providing education tools for less fortunate children of California and Punjab
Helping other charitable organizations working for the welfare of children and poverty stricken communities around the world.

This website is integrated in Drupal as a Content Management System by Varshyl Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Varshyltech 2008 End of Year Party and Blast

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:31:23 +0000

Best party yet for Varshyltech and it’s team. Good work by all party people

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What is Varshyl Tech?

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:28:28 +0000

Find out what VTians think about it. Watch this videos.

Divyesh Speech

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Vagish Speech

http://www.fliqz.com/aspx/permalink.aspx?vid=a44e1e891ed438dcb49690a8e8eba6cd

Others Speech

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Vagish Kapila – CEO, Varshyl Tech – interviewed by TopSEOs.com

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:28:22 +0000

Vagish Kapila is a founding member of TapSmack and Varshyltech.

Both companies have been internationally recognized and TapSmack has been accepted as the hottest and the first of it’s kind online co-creation community. Before TapSmack, Vagish served as a managing member at TEAMWRKX Inc. Vagish Kapila was instrumental in taking the company from $100K to almost a $20MM in less than 3 years while creating and managing 30% of the company portfolio….

Read complete interview here -

http://www.topseos.com/ceos/vagish+kapila/75
http://topseos.in/index.php?option=com_ceo&task=viewceotails&id=54