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"Google Instant" is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.

The most obvious change is that you get to the right content much faster than before because you don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” Another shift is that seeing results as you type helps you formulate a better search term by providing instant feedback. You can now adapt your search on the fly until the results match exactly what you want. In time, we may wonder how search ever worked in any other way.


Benefits

Faster Searches: By predicting your search and showing results before you finish typing, Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.

Smarter Predictions: Even when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, predictions help guide your search. The top prediction is shown in grey text directly in the search box, so you can stop typing as soon as you see what you need.

Instant Results: Start typing and results appear right before your eyes. Until now, you had to type a full search term, hit return, and hope for the right results. Now results appear instantly as you type, helping you see where you’re headed, every step of the way.

Gmail has just rolled out a very useful and much desired feature – calling people directly over their mobile or land phones from your Gmail account.

Until now, Gmail has supported voice calling but that involved two users to be in front of their computers and use the internet for voice calling. But now you can call anyone in the world directly from your Gmail account, as long as you know the person’s phone number. Calls made from US and Canada will be completely free while calls to other countries will cost a very cheap rate.

I live in India and here the standard call rates for calling mobiles vary anywhere between 25 paise to 1 rupee. The Gmail voice calls rates in India is very low – $0.06 per minute which equals only two rupee per phone call.

How to Call a Phone From Gmail?

To call any number, first install the voice and video chat plug in and then log in to your Gmail account. Click “Call Phone” at the top of your Chat list as shown below:


Next, dial the phone number or type the contact name. Typing the name will only work when the person is in your contact list and you have added a phone number against that contact. You are done!

Google Apps users won’t see the call from Gmail option soon because Google has rolled out this feature for standard Gmail accounts only. If you have a Google Voice account and want to receive phone calls in Gmail, make sure you read these instructions

Gmail Voice Call Rates

Gmail has listed the call rates for all countries in this page, following is a quick comparion of call rates for India, United States, Canada, UK and France:


The standard call rate for Indian users is 6 ¢/min excluding connection charges. I think this is a very useful feature, you call call any phone number from the internet if you are at a place with bad reception or the mobile tower is out of range.

World Health Organization says that there are 80 countries with blood donation rates are too low, and 79 of them are in developing countries. According to UN health agency, people throughout the world makes 93 million blood donations every year. But 1 percent of the population of a country has to give blood to meet the basic needs of the transfusion.

Approximately half of the global blood donations are collected in developed countries, where only 16 % of the world’s population. The basic aim of this is to encourage more people to become blood donors. The focus of this year is that young people donate and recruit other youth to do so.

Much like his Fluid Smartphone, Brazilian designer Dinard da Mata has developed another wearable gadget that becomes a fashion accessory to complement the style of next-gen users. Hailed as “MP3 Player Creative,” the portable music player features a flexible OLED screen that other than displaying the playlist also lets the user select the song or control volume with just a touch of a finger. Worn around the wrist like a bracelet, the MP3 concept gives easy access of the functions to the user. In addition, the sleek music player includes wireless headphones to offer clutter-free music on the go.

God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.

In "The Grand Design", co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

Hawking, 68, who won global recognition with his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time", an account of the origins of the universe, is renowned for his work on black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.

Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.

His latest comments suggest he has broken away from previous views he has expressed on religion. Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.

He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."

In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.

"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.

Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesiser, has a neuro muscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralysed.

He began suffering the disease in his early 20s but went on to establish himself as one of the world's leading scientific authorities, and has also made guest appearances in "Star Trek" and the cartoons "Futurama" and "The Simpsons".

Last year he announced he was stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Newton and one he had held since 1979.

"The Grand Design" is due to go on sale next week.

With almost all cellphone makers scrambling to launch dual-SIM handsets, LePhone Mobiles has launched a triple SIM phone in the Indian market.

Called A10, the handset boasts of three SIM card slots (2GSM + 1CDMA). Sporting a 2.2-inch display, the phone comes with FM Radio, Bluetooth, GPRS support and USB support. The handset has 3D sound stereo speaker.

It has a 3 megapixel camera with flash. The phone's promises 300 minutes of talktime and 150 hours of standby time.

Latest update after Swiss Bank has agreed to disclose the funds& Our Indians' Money - 70, 00,000 Crores Rupees In Swiss Bank

1) Yes, 70 lakhs crores rupees of India are lying in Switzerland banks. This is the highest amount lying outside any country, from amongst 180 countries of the world, as if India is the champion of Black Money.


2) Swiss Government has officially written to Indian Government that they are willing to inform the details of holders of 70 lakh crore rupees in their Banks, if Indian Government officially asks them.


3) On 22-5-08, this news has already been published in The Times of India and other Newspapers based on Swiss Government's official letter to Indian Government.


4) But the Indian Government has not sent any official enquiry to Switzerland for details of money which has been sent outside India between 1947 to 2008.. The opposition party is also equally not interested in doing so because most of the amount is owned by politicians and it is every Indian's money.


5) This money belongs to our country. From these funds we can repay 13 times of our country's foreign debt. The interest alone can take care of the Center s yearly budget. People need not pay any taxes and we can pay Rs. 1 lakh to each of 45 crore poor families.


6) Let us imagine, if Swiss Bank is holding Rs. 70 lakh Crores, then how much money is lying in other 69 Banks? How much they have deprived the Indian people? Just think, if the Account holder dies, the bank becomes the owner of the funds in his accoun


7) Are these people totally ignorant about the philosophy of Karma? What will this ill-gotten wealth do to them and their families when they own/use such money, generated out of corruption and exploitation?


8) Indian people have read and have known about these facts. But the helpless people have neither time nor inclination to do anything in the matter. This is like "a new freedom struggle" and we will have to fight this.


9) This money is the result of our sweat and blood.. The wealth generated and earned after putting in lots of mental and physical efforts by Indian people must be brought back to our country.


10) As a service to our motherland and your contribution to this struggle,please circulate at least 10 copies of this note amongst your friends and relatives and convert it into a mass movement.