Hotmail is Now Outlook

Microsoft is giving its 16-year-old Web-email service a complete overhaul and a brand new name. and therefore the results are spectacular.

Starting on, it'll be known as Outlook.com. this is often a part of a brand new Microsoft strategy to use "Outlook" because the name for all its email offerings.

I've been employing a pre-release version of this new email service for the past seven days and it includes dozens of good options that simplify the otherwise-exasperating method of managing your email inbox. Examples embrace optional one-click scheduled cleanups of mail that delete all however the last message you bought from someone; a secure, built-in thanks to unsubscribe from newsletters; and simple strategies for making email sorting rules for brand spanking new and previous messages. I cut the amount of emails in my inbox in 0.5 once the primary day of using Outlook.com.

The new Web-email service conjointly incorporates social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, displaying profile photos and standing updates alongside email messages. And yes, you'll need the choice of obtaining a brand new, @Outlook.com address, though you'll be able to conjointly value more highly to keep on with your @hotmail.com address. Though Hotmail continues to be the leading internet email service world-wide with over 325 million users, in line with comScore Inc., Yahoo and Google's Gmail dominate within the U.S.


This is only 1 of the many dramatic moves at Microsoft this summer. the corporate is readying for the large fall launch of Windows eight, which can traditionally meld the desktop computer and pill operating systems in one place. It conjointly simply announced a brand new version of workplace 2013, that updates the software program to figure smarter with the online. If that wasn't enough, in June the corporate announced its upcoming iPad challenger, Surface, that favors Apple's model of planning and producing hardware in lieu of Microsoft's ancient software-only philosophy.

Not all of the options in Outlook.com can work as you expect. solely half my email contacts' names appeared with profile photos automatically pulled in from Facebook. This was as a result of those friends either weren't on Facebook or had registered for Facebook with an email apart from the one they were using to speak with me. I solely saw some friends' Twitter updates. Facebook chat is additionally inbuilt, however I rarely use this.

When Outlook.com's automatic linking to social networks did work, the result was magical. Dull, text-only contact names were suddenly enhanced by photos, some from individuals I did not recognize were on Facebook.

I did not have to depart email to visualize my friends' latest standing updates. I might click a thumbs-up icon to "like" the standing right in Outlook.com, or click a word bubble to comment, though this sent me off to Facebook.com. If somebody was registered on Facebook however we tend to weren't friends, I saw that person's profile photo and a link to feature the person as an acquaintance. I did this with one in all my longtime tennis teammates.

The overall look of Outlook.com is way cleaner and a lot of refined compared to Hotmail. Fonts are larger and easier to browse, and it's built-in, playful animations that created me wish to send emails: when I hit Send, the total message perceived to instantly shrink and be sent off removed from me.

Rather than cramming Mail, People, Calendar and SkyDrive (Microsoft's cloud storage service) into one screen, Outlook.com enables you to toggle between these classes using four giant tiles. And these tiles solely seem once you faucet a drop-down arrow, so that they do not take up area on your screen.


Microsoft Reboots Hotmail As Outlook
The previous Hotmail did a pleasant job handling photos. Outlook.com takes that a step any by seamlessly integrating SkyDrive. after I hooked up photos to emails, a message appeared within the composing screen prompting me to, instead, share the photos via SkyDrive, that sends thumbnail pictures in emails and links friends to the online to visualize actual pictures, instead of clogging my friends' inboxes with huge attachments.

Also during this email-composing screen, I might name the new SkyDrive folder that might hold my photos. folks that received these emails were delighted, like my sister, who said it had been simple to scroll through images—and she loved that there wasn't an advanced sign-in.



But what if you employ another internet mail service and every one of your friends already recognize that address and email you there? Outlook.com is barely too happy to import your contacts from different services, and it offers the simplest way to receive email from different accounts. you'll be able to conjointly send mail from Outlook.com on behalf of your different accounts, like Gmail. Outlook.com is technically in an exceedingly "preview" stage, however Microsoft said it'll take away the "on behalf of" later this year and simply send emails as if they were from your different account.

Outlook.com does not have a wise approach of automatically sorting necessary emails, like Google's Gmail Priority Inbox, that is my favorite feature in Gmail.

Microsoft's new Outlook.com appearance elegant and encompasses a remarkably user-friendly interface. If you are overwhelmed by a cluttered inbox, desire a higher thanks to type emails or would like a better thanks to share photos and files, Outlook.com may be a winner.

No have to be compelled to be kind here: telling individuals you employ Hotmail has been the web equivalent of admitting to necrophilia. however once a decade as a punchline, Hotmail simply attained the largest victory within the inbox game since Gmail. And it'd simply get you to modify.
This is setting out to look acquainted to the purpose of predictability. Microsoft takes one thing boring, partially broken, and completely entrenched: Windows, Office, Mobile. Toss nearly everything ugly and uninspired into the ash heap, place good individuals to figure on it, and pack it packed with Metro. Windows 8, Office 15, and Windows Phone have all turned stale things into vibrant, fashionable successes. And Hotmail—now Outlook—can boast a similar.

It truly appearance smart

But, come on, is Hotmail capable of a makeover? Hotmail? Even the folks that work on Hotmail can admit while not reluctance that the name itself is one in all the service's biggest liabilities. no one desires to mention Hotmail. no one desires it on their resume, on their card, or shared over drinks. it has been stigmatized notwithstanding how smart or awful it truly is—when was the last time you even checked?

Technical Cum Cultural Festival at MIET

Minister for Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports Rajinder Singh Chib today inaugurated 4th edition of largest technical-cum-cultural festival -2012 at Model Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET) Kot Bhalwal.

In his inaugural address, the Minister said that MIET College has been playing a pivotal role in producing Engineering Professionals for the State. He called upon the students to work hard in achieving excellence in their respective professional disciplines, adding that they have to contribute a lot in the development of the State. He said entire responsibility of taking the State to new heights of development was on their shoulders.

Mr. Chib also called upon the under training engineers to imbibe values of dedication, honesty and truthfulness in themselves. He hoped that they would hold the professional ethics high while serving the society after completion of their professional degrees.

Appreciating the efforts of the management of the college in holding technical-cum- cultural festival, he said such type of seminars provide additional knowledge to the students , particularly with regard to their traditions and cultural heritage. He said the event would help the students to look into their culture and heritage through the technical angle and draw relevance to the present day trends.

Mr. Chib asked the students to take part in co-curricular activities side by side professional education for the overall development of their personality. He also exhorted upon them to take part in sports activities for their physical and mental development

Listing the measures taken by the Government to improve the academic and professional education in the State, the Minister said that upgradation of infrastructure in all the institutions has received focused attention of the authorities. He said creation of skilled work force has received special attention for which a number of ITIs have been established in all major towns of the State with latest infrastructural facilities.

He said these steps have been taken considering the fact that technical education plays a pivtol role in the transformation of socio-economic condition of the society. He called upon the student community to work hard and excel in their coming examinations. He also asked to the teacher community to mould students with latest techniques of education so that they could face global challenges.

Chairman MIET Dr. Arun Kumar Gupta in his address highlighted the facilities and activities of the College. He said that college management has been making all out efforts to provide quality professional education to the students and ensure better infrastructure .

Director MIER Dr. Renu Gupta also expressed satisfaction that MIER students were developing into individuals with multi-dimensional personalities and not merely with academic skills.

Among others, Consultant BOPEE M.K Wali Director MBS College S.K Badyal, Chairman IETE Joy Ganju, Secretary IETE, Dean Academic Affairs of Jammu University, Prof. R.D Sharma, Director TBS and Dean Engineering, Prof. Neelu Rohmetra and Principal Bhupinder Singh Prof Pawnesh Abrol, Operation Head Aircel Jammu Meghna Shukla, DGM PNB Ashok Gupta and head of the departments of the Govt College of Engineering and Technology were also present on the occasion.

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Airtel lauches online library of hello tunes

Bharti Airtel, leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced the launch of www.airtel.in/hellotunes - an online library of India's largest collection of hello tunes.

By visiting this website, Airtel mobile customers in India can now enjoy the convenience of discovering, browsing, sampling, buying and even gifting.

Airtel also announced that it has rolled out a brand new and intuitive user interface for www.airtel.in/start, which allows customers to browse, search and buy from a vast collection of its Value Added Services (VAS) including missed call alerts, Airtel Radio, Airtel Talkies, Mobile TV, Friends Locator etc. Airtel mobile customers currently have online access to over key 85 VAS offered by Airtel on the refreshed website and will be able to subscribe to many more of such services in days to come.

The launch of www.airtel.in/hello tunes and www.airtel.in/start is one of the many steps taken by Airtel towards delivering an enhanced, simplified, convenient and increasingly social experience for its online customers. 

MHA gets tough on misuse of pre paid mobile connections

Acting tough on frequent complaints of SIM cards landing into the hands of militants and criminals, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has directed the Government to devise a fool proof mechanism to prevent misuse of mobile telephones especially pre-paid SIM cards, mainly by private telecom operators.

The Union Home Ministry had earlier banned pre-paid mobile connections but lifted the ban later on intervention of the State Government and assurances by the telecom operators that all out efforts would be made to ensure that the SIM cards didn’t fall in the hands of undesirable elements.

The MHA had also convened two to three meetings of telcos, having operations in Jammu and Kashmir, in New Delhi and directed them to devise mechanisms to prevent misuse of SIM cards.

As a sequel to MHA directions, Director General of Police (DGP) Kuldeep Khoda today convened a meeting of top brass of all seven telecom operators in Jammu and Kashmir and issued them specific directions to devise a fool proof mechanism and ensure that only genuine buyers were able to get the SIM cards.

The telcos, whose representatives were called by the DGP, included BSNL, Airtel, Aircel, Vodafone, Idea, Reliance and Tata Telecom Services. The DGP besides passing on the directions to the telecom operators also listened to their grievances and assured them full support but wanted that the MHA guidelines should be strictly adhered to so that the SIM cards didn’t fall in the hands of militants and criminals.

Mr Khoda has set up a separate Cell in the Police Headquarters, where the mobile operators would report their activities daily including the number of SIM cards issued, the persons to whom they had been issued including all particulars of the subscribers and the SIM cards issued to franchisees across the State. Besides, entire data pertaining to SIM cards would be sent daily to the Cell.

The Cell would be headed by DIG Crime Intelligence Vigilance (CIV) in Police Headquarters Gareeb Dass and assisted by SSP CIV Firdous Iqbal.

The representatives of telcos have been asked to ensure that their entire day-to-day activities was reported to the Cell in Police Headquarters, where a data bank would be maintained of all Cell operators and the connections issued by them. The formalities obtained by the telcos while issuing the SIM cards would be subjected to scrutiny at the Cell and verified at their own level to ensure that the SIMs had been issued to genuine persons only after completion of all formalities.

"A fool proof mechanism was worked out at the meeting and telcos were asked to follow it to prevent misuse of SIM cards’’, Mr Khoda said, adding the telecom operators have been conveyed in categorical terms that monitoring facilities shouldn’t be misused at any cost.

He said all telecom operators providing services in Jammu and Kashmir have been issued proper proformas for checks and balances. The proformas would be maintained by the Cell operators and also given at the Cell set up in the Police Headquarters.

The State police chief conveyed to the telecom companies that there should be no compromise with national security as the SIM cards, issued without observing requisite formalities, could fall into the hands of militants and criminals and create problems for the security agencies, which were fighting the militancy.

Official sources said it was observed in the meeting that though most of the guidelines issued by the MHA before lifting ban on pre-paid connections were being observed, there were still some lacunas, which required to be overcome by the companies.

As far as the problems raised by the telecom companies were concerned, Mr Khoda assured that the problems falling within the jurisdiction of Police Headquarters would be addressed immediately while other issues would be taken up with the concerned departments.

It may be mentioned here that the MHA had imposed a ban on pre-paid mobile connections in Jammu and Kashmir a couple of years ago following complaints that a bulk of them had landed in the hands of militants and other anti-national elements including the Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of different militant outfits.

Thousands of pre-paid connections of various telecom operators were disconnected after fresh verifications.

The MHA had recently stated that the pre-paid connections could be warned again if their misuse was not stopped by the telcos.

Google to Censor Blogs in India

The trickle-down effect of Kapil Sibal's policy to crack down on 'offensive' content in the Indian websphere has begun to gather steam.

After Google, Yahoo, MSN, Facebook, Twitter and several other web companies were directed by the courts to censor the content on their servers as per the regulations of the Indian government, they have begun to toe the line. Last month Twitter made a big splash by announcing it would censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. There was some backlash but, as expected, the twitterati continued to tweet as usual.

Google seems to have anticipated this mild response and has quietly moved all of its blogs from Blogspot.com onto an Indian IP address- Blogspot.in.

If a user earlier had a blog called XYZ.blogspot.com the blog is now redirected to XYZ.blogspot.in.

Here is Google's official explanation for it:

Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law. By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country’s law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD. This move, while padded with the usual legalese, is essentially the first step in enforcing local censorship laws. Google now can censor its blogs for 'offensive' or 'derogatory' comments. Blogspot.com is a popular blogging platform used by millions of Indians. It was developed by Pyra Labs in 1999 and bought by Google in 2003.

Global Understanding Course at JU

The "Global Understanding Course" at Jammu University (JU), concluded today. The course was organized in collaboration with East Carolina University, USA and the result of the students of 11th and 12th batch was also declared.

On the occasion, Prof Varun Sawhney, Vice Chancellor, Jammu University distributed the certificates to the students and while speaking appreciated the efforts being undertaken by the JU in broadening the horizon of the students.

Dr Parikshat Singh Manhas, Coordinator, said that "Global Understanding course" was started in August, 25 with the special efforts of the administration of the JU, keeping into view the importance of networking and collaborations.

He said that the initiative of collaboration with East Carolina University was undertaken to make JU a hub of Academic, Research and Extension Activities and thus the "Global Understanding Course" was started.

Dr Parikshat Singh Manhas detailed that the "Global Understanding Course" provides a format for students to learn about other cultures without actually traveling places. He added that currently there are 45 Foreign Universities from 28 countries participating in the course and these partner institutions are diverse and worldwide and communicate through live video chat technology.

During the course, the 11th batch students interacted with the students of three foreign Universities namely East Carolina University (ECU), Greenville, USA, Shandong University (SDU), Shandong, China and Faculade de Jaguariuna (FAJ), Brazil under the Global Climate Change program supported by United States of America State Department.

Meanwhile, 12th batch students interacted with the students of three foreign universities namely East Carolina University (ECU), Greenville, USA, ESAN University, Lima, Peru and University of Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia under the International Collaborative program.

2 day conference in Kashmir University

Two day conference on Geomatics for G-Governance begins at KU

Minister

for Science and Information Technology, Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, Tuesday stressed need for building the technical ingenuity of state to harness the benefits of Geo-IT for overall development of the state through good governance. This was stated by the minister while speaking at a 2-dayNational Conference on “Geomatics for G-Governance” organized by University of Kashmir, in collaboration with the Indian Society of Geomatics here today.Describing that geo-information technology and communication technology can play a significant role in development and planning, Aga Ruhullah said that use of geomatics for G. governance is only possible when the back end data is easily available. He said that geomatics is vital part of governance, adding that if the technology is made accessible the Panchayat Raj can be made more effective.

The Minister said that political will is already there for early implementation of Geomatics for G-Governance in J&K , the bureaucracy and the society at large need to gear up and embrace the technology. He called for coordinated and pragmatic approach for the collection, maintenance, updating and accessibility of the datasets at the state level to make use of geomatics possible. He said that Kashmir University initiative needs to be supplementedat all levels.About 100 professional delegates from various premier institutes across the country are attending the conference besides the officials from the state Government

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Vice-Chancellor, Kashmir University, Prof. Talat Ahmad said that University of Kashmir has endeavoured itself to work together with the academicians, scientists and other technocrats from other Universities and national research institutes of the country for developing an overarching strategy for the use and promotion of Geo-information technology for good governance in the state. Prof Talat said that Geo-information Technology is a priority area of research at the University of Kashmir. I firmly believe that through our combined efforts, we can transfer the scientific knowledge and multi-disciplinary expertise in the field of Geomatics to the planners and decision makers to develop decision support systems for improved instruments of administration at the gross root level, VC added.Organizing Secretary of the Conference and Head, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Kashmir,Dr. Shakil A Romshoo said that “Various themes related to the use of cutting edge space and information technology for day-to-day governance for rural and urban development, resource planning, disaster management, public health, municipal administration, revenue records, land and water resources management are being deliberated upon during the Conference”. He said that more about 100 technical papers, including a dozen key note speeches on various themes related to the use of Geomatics for G-governance are being presented during the Conference.He said that the University of Kashmir has taken a number of initiatives aimed at generating geospatial information for use in various

sectors to support the development planning in the state and build technical ingenuity of the government for using technology for improving governance in the state. The organization of the Regional Conference on “Geomatics for Good Governance” at the University of Kashmir is an important step towards popularizing the use and application of Geomatics in day to day governance in the state. However, these initiatives can yield the desired results only, if the government agencies are receptive to the efforts of the scientific community in improving governance structure and service delivery in various sectors in the state., he added.

In his presidential address, Dr S K Pathan, Vice president India society of Geomatics said that today we need to focus of technologicaltrends and see how they can help in good governance. Dr Pathan said that accountability, responsiveness and rule of law are most important things in G – Governance. Dr Pattan assured all the help and support to Kashmir University in their endeavour to take benefits of Geomartics to the common man. Registrar Kashmir University, Prof Syed Fayaz, senior faculties of Kashmir University besides prominent members of the civil society attended the conference.

Progress of Islamic University in jk

Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday emphasized on grooming students both academically and personality-wise to help them to face challenges of life with ability and capability.

He said higher educational institutions should provide subjects of high marketability to the students to enable them get placements in different fields freely and easily.

Reviewing the progress of Islamic University of Science and Technology at a high level meeting the Chief Minister said that universities should be seats of knowledge and academic excellence. "The students passing out from these educational institutions should be role models in all aspects of life besides academic brilliance", he said.

"Imparting best education to the students making them versatile and qualified human resource to lead from the front should be the goal of higher educational institutions", he said, adding that after passing out they have to come across different vicissitudes and face wide-ranging challenges in the world outside the campuses, as such, they should be moulded educationally and mentally in such a mould that would help them to conquer the difficulties with calibre and capacity.

Omar Abdullah said that his Government has flagged education as a priority sector and consolidation along with expansion in this sector is going on side by side. "While expansion of colleges and universities is a continuous process, the placement of faculty and other related facilities are imperative to make the educational institutions functional units in a real sense", he said maintaining that his Government is fully focusing on this aspect.

Minister for Higher Education, Abdul Gani Malik, Vice Chairman, Muslim Waqaf Board, M. Y. Qadri, Vice Chairman, Islamic University, A. R. Trag, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, B. B. Vyas, Commissioner Secretary Higher Education, Tanveer Jahan, Commissioner Secretary Technical Education, B. A. Runiyal, Director General Budgets and other senior officers were present in the meeting.

Mobile for Amarnath piligrims

Now, yatris can use mobile along pilgrim routes

The mobile phone connectivity has been made operational on both Pahalgam and Baltal routes of entire Yatra area upto the Amarnath cave shrine.

With this development, the Yatris shall be able to contact their families back home while undertaking the pilgrimage through mountainous tracks, which commences on June 29, 2011.

Governor, N. N. Vohra, who is also the Chairman of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), has com¬plimented the BSNL for timely providing the mobile phone connectivity for the benefit of the Yatris and all the Government Departments, Security Forces and other agencies involved in the management of the pilgrimage.

Giving details, the Chief Executive Officer of the Shrine Board, R. K. Goyal, said that the cellular phone connectivity is a part of a number of initiatives taken with a view to progressively improve the Yatra man-agement.