Government planning 3 more IITs to involve in Aakash Tablet project

As the launching scheme of Aakash tablet project, government is planning to involve three more IIT’s for same. Apart from IIT Rajasthan, which is spearheading the project, IIT Mumbai, IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur would also be roped in for the project. HRD Ministry decided that the tendering process for rolling out the improved version of Aakash, will be handled to the users. At present, several components including the processor are procured from outside.
The aim is to give shape to the indigenization plan within the next two years and make the product 90 per cent Indian. At the same time, emphasis will be laid on further lowering the prices of the device, they said. At present, the device is available to students at Rs 1,100 after government subsidy. This followed after differences cropped up between IIT Rajasthan and Datawind, the manufacturer of the tablet, over the issue of enhanced specification demands.

The HRD Ministry has already said that it will require an additional 22 crore units of Aakash and for this fresh tenders will be issued enabling other companies along with Datawind to also get a chance. Several PSUs and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing are also expected to chip in to roll out the second phase of the Aakash. The speed of the device will come at 800 MHz instead of 300 MHz at present.

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Amazing Shortcuts for Facebook users.

All netsaviers and techbies use facebook always but have you think that if we are using shortcuts in facebook then time will save.Of course, you might have heard of the ones which you use to update your status on Facebook but there are a few more shortcuts which you must know being a Facebook User. All these shortcuts help us to navigate through the social network easily. Here are the shortcuts for Facebook for Firefox and Google Chrome browsers.

Firefox Facebook Shortcuts
Shift+Alt+1: View your News Feed
Shift+Alt+2: View your own Profile
Shift+Alt+3: View pop-up of friend requests
Shift+Alt+4: View pop-up of messages
Shift+Alt+5: View pop-up of notifications
Shift+Alt+6: View Account Settings
Shift+Alt+7: View Privacy Settings
Shift+Alt+8: View Facebook’s own profile
Shift+Alt+9: Read latest Terms of Service agreement.
Shift+Alt+0: Open Facebook Help Center
Shift+Alt+?: Search
Shift+Alt+m: Compose a new message

Google Chrome Facebook Shortcuts

Alt+1: View your News Feed
Alt+2: View your own Profile
Alt+3: View pop-up of friend requests
Alt+4: View pop-up of messages
Alt+5: View pop-up of notifications
Alt+6: View Account Settings
Alt+7: View Privacy Settings
Alt+8: View Facebook’s own profile
Alt+9: Read latest Terms of Service agreement.
Alt+?: Search
Alt+m: Compose a new message

If you are using Internet Explorer then you you can use the Facebook shortcuts of Google chrome,but you have to press ENTER after each shortcut.

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