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New Computerized Tracking System To Help Blind Handle New Terrain

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Wearable Computer Helps Blind People Navigate

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New Approach Being Tested By Blind GPS Users

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Touch Sensitive Paper To Speak Its Contents To The Blind and Visually Impaired

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Tool Lets Blind See With Talking GPS

When development is finished this software should make the cell phone GPS function accessible.
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This remarkable new development allows a battery to be recharged without any physical connection to a charger.
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In The Future Will Our Washing Machines Talk To Us?

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Audio Menus For IPODS May Be In The Future

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Audio Menus For IPODS May Be In The Future

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Is The Battery, As We Know It, About To Be Replaced?

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Personalized Radio Reading Service Under Development

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New Approach To GPS For The Blind Being Developed

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Georgia Tech Tests Wireless Emergency Alert System For Visually Impaired

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Sonar System For The Blind

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Intel Cuts Electric Cords With Wireless Power System

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The Indian information technology industry has played a key role in putting India on the global map. Thanks to the success of the IT industry, India is now a power to reckon with. According to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), the apex body for software services in India, the revenue of the information technology sector has risen from 1.2 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in FY 1997-98 to an estimated 5.8 per cent in FY 2008-09. India's IT growth in the world is primarily dominated by IT software and services such as Custom Application Development and Maintenance (CADM), System Integration, IT Consulting, Application Management, Infrastructure Management Services, Software testing, Service-oriented architecture and Web services. The government expects the exports turnover to touch US$ 80 billion by 2011, growing at an annual rate of 30 per cent per annum, from the earlier few million dollars worth exports in early 1990s. As per NASSCOM's latest findings: Indian IT-BPO sector grew by 12 per cent in FY 2009 to reach US$ 71.7 billion in aggregate revenue (including hardware). Of this, the software and services segment accounted for US$ 59.6 billion. IT-BPO exports (including hardware exports) grew by 16 per cent from US$ 40.9 billion in FY 2007-08 to US$ 47.3 billion in FY 2008-09. Moreover, according to a study by Springboard Research, the Indian IT services market is estimated to remain the fastest growing in the Asia-Pacific region with a CAGR of 18.6 per cent. Despite the uncertainty in the global economy, the top three IT majors— Infosys, TCS and Wipro—have seen revenue growth from all important sources of income: from the North American and European regions, in the financial services vertical and from application maintenance and development (ADM) offerings between fiscal years 2008 and 2009. Outsourcing A research by Gartner forecasts India as the undisputed leader in the outsourcing space in the year 2008. India's most prized resource is its readily available technical work force. India has the second largest English-speaking scientific professionals in the world, second only to the US. It is estimated that India has over 4 million technical workers, over 1,832 educational institutions and polytechnics, which train more than 67,785 computer software professionals every year. The enormous base of skilled manpower is a major draw for global customers. According to NASSCOM software and services exports (including exports of IT services, BPO, engineering services and R&D and software products) reached US$ 47 billion in FY 2008-09, contributing nearly 78 per cent to the total software and services revenue of US$ 59.6 billion. Domestic Markets India's domestic market has also become a force to reckon with, as the existing IT infrastructure evolves both in terms of technology and depth of penetration. According to NASSCOM, domestic IT market (including hardware) reached US$ 24.3 billion in FY 2008-09 as against US$ 23.1 billion in FY 2007-08, a growth of 5.3 per cent. India Inc's demand for IT services and products has bolstered growth in the domestic sector with deal sizes going up remarkably and contracts worth US$ 50 million-US$ 100 million up for grabs. Such growth in the software and services sector has been achieved because of spectacular growths in some segments. According to research firm Gartner, India's personal computer (PC) market is likely to grow by 13.7 per cent to 11.1 million units in 2009, aided by a surge in demand for laptops. The laptop market is expected to grow by 37 per cent in 2009 to 3.69 million units and constitute a third of the total PC market. Rural Penetration According to a report of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) rural India has 3.3 million active internet users. Since rural India was mapped for the first time, the year-on-year growth of internet users in rural India could not be estimated. The research also notes there are 5.5 million people who claim to have used Internet at some point in time. Government Initiatives The government set up the National Taskforce on Information Technology and Software Development with the objective of framing a long term National IT Policy for the country. Enactment of the Information Technology Act, which provides a legal framework to facilitate electronic commerce and electronic transactions. The government-led National e-Governance Programme, has played an important role in increasing internet penetration in rural India. Road Ahead The Indian information technology sector continues to be one of the sunshine sectors of the Indian economy showing rapid growth and promise. According to a report prepared by McKinsey for NASSCOM, the exports component of the Indian industry is expected to reach US$ 175 billion in revenue by 2020. The domestic component will contribute US$ 50 billion in revenue by 2020. Together, the export and domestic markets are likely to bring in US$ 225 billion in revenue, as new opportunities emerge in areas such as public sector and healthcare, and as geographies including BRIC and Japan opt for greater outsourcing.

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Amazing Intel Facts

1. The 4004 microprocessor provided computing power for the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched on March 2, 1972. The Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to enter the Asteroid Belt. It obtained the first close-up images of Jupiter, charted Jupiter's intense radiation belts, located the planet's magnetic field, and revealed that Jupiter is predominantly a liquid planet. Pioneer 10 is still exploring the outer regions of the solar system, studying energy particles from the sun and cosmic rays entering the Earth's portion of the Milky Way.

2. In 1969, Busicom, a Japanese calculator manufacturer, asked Intel to design a set of chips for a line of high-performance programmable calculators. Busicom's original design required several chips, which Intel engineer Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff considered too complex to be cost effective. Also, Intel's small MOS staff was fully occupied with the 1101 memory chip, so design resources weren't available. Instead of the multi-chip solution, Hoff came up with a general-purpose processor that could be programmed for various uses. At first, Busicom was sceptical about the design, but in early 1970 they agreed to the concept and signed a contract whereby Intel would develop the calculator chips for $60,000. Intel delivered the chips, and Busicom eventually sold some 100,000 calculators. Once Intel realised the potential of the new chips, the company offered Busicom a lower price in return for the rights to the microprocessor design and the rights to market it for non-calculator applications. Busicom, by then in financial trouble, agreed to the deal.

3. The Altair 8800, often called the first personal computer on the market, was sold to hobbyists as a $439 kit. It was based on Intel's 8080 microprocessor, had 256 bytes of basic memory, and was programmed by flipping toggle switches on its front panel. One early user recalls that writing programs for the Altair wore blisters on his fingertips.
The Altair was produced by MITS, a company owned by Ed Roberts. It was wildly successful; several thousand Altairs were sold between 1975-1977. In 1977, Roberts sold MITS to Pertec Computer Corporation, and went off to medical school in Georgia.
The Altair was introduced in a cover story in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. To demonstrate the machine's capabilities to the magazine editor, MITS had to ship its one and only working Altair to Popular Electronics in the summer of 1974. Unfortunately it was lost in transit, and MITS didn't have time to assemble a second Altair before the magazine's editorial deadline. Popular Electronics editor, Les Solomon, took a gamble and introduced the computer anyway, with a cover photograph of a hastily assembled outer shell of the Altair 8800.
A quote from the Popular Electronics article about why Intel's 8080 chip was chosen for the Altair: "In practice, a lower-performance processor would have been adequate for the majority of the tasks the user might wish to initially define. But the problem with lesser-power approach is that relatively little money would be saved, and it would be doomed to near-future obsolescence for practical purposes. Our intent here was to produce a processor with more than enough power to handle any job."
Ed Roberts originally named his computer the PE-8, in honour of Popular Electronics magazine. There are conflicting stories about how it came to be known as the Altair 8800. One story is that a Popular Electronics editor named the machine for the Altair star because its introduction was such a "stellar" event. Another story is that a Popular Electronics editor wanted to give the PE-8 the same name as the computer on the starship Enterprise from the Star Trek TV show. As it turned out, the spacecraft's computer had no name, so he chose Altair, the destination of the Enterprise in one Star Trek episode.

4. The Micral, introduced in 1973 and powered by Intel's 8008 chip, was the first commercial non-kit computer based on a microprocessor. The term "microcomputer" first appeared in print in reference to the Micral. It was marketed by a company called R2E, and was the first microcomputer in France. Supposedly it was the first personal computer programmed by Philippe Kahn, founder of Borland.
The 8008 that powered the Micral was essentially an 8-bit 4004. It was originally intended to be a custom chip for Computer Terminals Corp. of Texas (later known as Datapoint). CTC rejected the 8008 because it was too slow and required too many supporting chips, but when Intel offered it to the open market, it was quite successful.

5.The 4004 and 8008 ran at .06 MIPS, the 8080 ran at 0.64 MIPS, and today's processors run at several hundred MIPS. Like the 8008, the 8080 was an 8-bit chip, but it had a much larger instruction set. Also, the 8008 required 20 additional chips to produce a working computer, whereas the 8080 design only needed 6 chips.
The 8080 was introduced in April 1974 at $360. According to Intel's Dave House, "That figure had a nice ring to it. Besides, it was a computer, and they usually cost thousands of dollars, so we felt it was a reasonable price."

6. The Compaq Portable computer, introduced in 1983, was based on the Intel 286 microprocessor. The machine was 100 percent IBM compatible, as proven by its ability to start from an IBM diskette. Despite its 28-pound weight and sewing-machine dimensions, it was considered "portable", and was popular among travelling computer users. Much higher-performance notebook computers now weigh around six pounds.

7. More than 500,000 of the Pentium Pro processor's transistors could dance on the head of a pin.
The Pentium Pro processor is the first high-volume microprocessor that combines two die in a single package to boost system performance. Inside the package are the processor itself and cache chip (a high-speed bank of memory). The cache chip incorporates 15.5 million transistors, almost 3 times as many as the processor, but the cache chip is smaller because memory transistors can be packed much more tightly than logic transistors.

8. If you had a five cent piece for every one of the 2,300 transistors on the 4004 and stacked them one on top of the other, your stack would be about 432 cm (.0043 km) high. If you had a five cent piece for every one of the 5.5 million transistors on the Pentium Pro processor, your stack would be about 10.29 km high. If you laid your 5.5 million five cent pieces out, they would cover about half of a grid iron football field.
The average human hair is about 10 times wider than the circuit lines on the 4004. The average human hair is about 285 times wider than the circuit lines on a Pentium Pro processor.

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