Here is a collection of the biggest and growing Kuki, Chin, MiZo Communities on Facebook. To add more kindly leave your comment below.



             2. ChinWorld – chinworld.info


             3. Proud to be Mizo


             4. Zomi International Network


             5. Zogam.com


             6. Zolengthe.net


             7. Mizoram tan


             8. Bombiel Media


             9. Mizoram Express Club


              10. Lawrkhawm.com


             11. Hmar


             12. Falam Mino

Via: Samaw.com

Kolkata, Dec 2 (PTI): The three-day nation-wide strike by BSNL employees was withdrawn on the second day after talks were held between agitating Joint Action Committee leaders and the management in New Delhi late tonight.

JAC West Bengal Convenor Animesh Mitra told PTI that the strike was called off following talks between the committee leaders and DOT Secretary, BSNL CMD which addressed among others, the two major contentious issues - scrapping of the divestment proposal and quick clearance of tender of nine million GSM lines.

As for rolling out GSM connections, the management informed that there will be 55 lakh BSNL mobile lines in the north and eastern regions this financial year, he said, adding, it was also stated that the target would be 1.5 crore GSM connections in the next fiscal.

New Delhi, N0v 25: The mobile number portability (MNP) will be rolled out across India on January 20, 2011, according to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal.

The minister on Thursday rolled out the first phase of the MNP services from Rohtak in Haryana. Customers in Haryana now have the option of changing their service provider without changing their mobile numbers. The consumer-friendly service was mooted over two years ago and was planned to be implemented by the end of 2009. However, implementation had to be deferred several times owing to reasons ranging from lack of preparedness of operators to delay in appointment of an agency to oversee MNP execution.

There are eight mobile operators in Haryana: Airtel, Idea Cellular, BSNL, Aircel, Loop, Vodafone, Etisalat and Videocon. For now, MNP will be allowed only within circles. The customer will have to pay a maximum of Rs. 19 to the new operator to change network and the new operator has the option to waive off the fee or reduce it. But the minimum stay period with one operator for consumer is three months. Both pre-paid and post-paid consumers can use MNP.

As per the eligibility criteria, there should not be any outstanding payment by way of pending bills before customers can apply for availing of MNP services, the Department of Telecom (DoT) said. It also said that the mobile number sought to be ported should not be subjudice and also there should not be pending request for change of ownership of the mobile number.

The DoT has claimed that the entire process of switching operators would take a maximum of seven days and subscribers may face disruption of services for about two hours during that period. “The maximum time period for porting would become seven working days except in Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and North East licensed service areas, wherein it would be 15 working days,” the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in a statement.

Switch by high spending, post-paid subscribers, business subscribers could start another round of price war among operators. High-end users make up 5 per cent of the total subscriber base but generate around 20 per cent of revenue.

A Nielsen survey pointed out that high-spending, postpaid subscribers and business subscribers are likely to show a greater tendency to switch if after the mobile number portability comes in. Pre-paid, low- and medium-spend users may not be motivated much to switch over.

Customers willing to exercise the option of changing their service provider without change of number will have to send an SMS from their phone to 1900.

Based on this, they will get a unique porting code as SMS from the existing service provider. The customer can then make an application in the prescribed form mentioning the code to the selected new service provider for porting of number. A period of seven days has been prescribed for completion of porting (transfer) of the mobile number to the network of the new service provider.

India has more than 700 million subscribers across the country with nearly 10 operators in each circle.

Facebook is the world's No. 1 social network, boasting of over 500-mn active users. The site also has a large number of celebrity users including US President Barrack Obama and tech billionaire Bill Gates. However, there are also several celebs who have deliberately shunned the social network.

Reasons vary from privacy concerns to lack of interest to not-so tech savvy attitude. An American news website The Daily Beast recently listed 10 celebrity Facebook "boycotters".


The American pop musician and actor Justin Timberlake tops the list of so-called Facebook "boycotters". The actor who plays the role of former Facebook president Sean Parker in the film 'The Social Network' reportedly said, "I'm sort of admittedly ridiculously stupid with computers."



The 27-year-old-actor who also plays the role of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the film 'The Social Network' also hates to be on the most popular social networking site.

According to the report, Eisenber reason for not been on Facebook is, "I have to talk about myself all the time, and I’m disgusted with myself, and don’t want to go home and write about the breakfast I tried to eat."
However, the actor confessed that he joined Facebook under a fake name for a brief period of time.


The screenwriter of the blockbuster film 'The Social Network' too is not on Facebook. Sorkin reasoned, "I don’t have that much to share, and when I do, I’ll call somebody and say I had a good cupcake today."
Sorkin also thinks people use the site mostly to talk about what they’ve eaten.

Drew Barrymore

American actress Drew Barrymore too is not a great fan of Facebook, having snubbed it publicly. The actress reportedly said that she just doesn’t like this compulsive, instantaneous, over-information, lack-of-privacy, weirdo aspect of the world.




George Clooney too is said to be among Facebook 'haters'. Clooney reportedly once remarked that he would rather have a prostate exam on live television by a guy with very cold hands than have a Facebook page.


The Twilight Saga actress Kristen Stewart too hates being on Facebook. The actress feels that the social network lacks adequate privacy controls.






The famous model and producer Robert Pattinson too claims that to have no presence on the social networking site.
In 2009, Pattinson's official spokesperson issued a statement cautioning fans that Rob has neither an official nor personal page on MySpace, Facebook, or any other networking site. His fans should not be fooled by anyone representing themselves as Rob or claiming that they have a sanctioned Robert Pattinson site. These are all false.

Popular Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston too has gone public saying that Facebook is not for her. The actress once remarked, “Facebook is not for me. I'd be opening myself up too much. I don't want to sound like a complete innocent, I've looked at things, of course. But it's such spewing. If I look at it, I'll be affected. It's like dancing with the devil."


Teenage icon Miley Cyrus of Hannah Montana fame reportedly termed her the Facebook experience as "dangerous" and "kind of lame."
She lamented that when she hangs out with her friends, she often feels that they are so busy taking pictures of what they’re doing and putting them on Facebook that really don't enjoy what they’re doing.


British actress Keira Knightley claims to hate Internet. The 25-year-old star reportedly finds it dehumanising to constantly check emails or social sites.

It’s common knowledge that almost every single geek hates Internet Explorer with a passion, but have you ever wondered why? Let’s take a fair look at the history and where it all began… for posterity, if nothing else.

Contrary to what you might think, this article is not meant to be a hate-fest on Internet Explorer—in fact, we’re pretty impressed with the hardware acceleration and new features in Internet Explorer 9—but keep reading for the whole story.

In the Beginning There Was IE, and It Was Good?

We’ve all been so used to thinking of Internet Explorer as that slow, buggy browser that is behind the times, but it wasn’t always that way—in fact, way back when, Internet Explorer pioneered many innovations that made the web what it is today.

Here’s a quick tour through the easily forgotten history of the infamous browser:


1996: Internet Explorer 3
This version of the browser, introduced in 1997, was the first browser to implement CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Yes, you’re reading that correctly—in fact, it introduced many new features like Java applets and sadly, ActiveX controls.

1997: Internet Explorer 4
IE4 introduced a blazing fast (at the time) rendering engine as an embeddable component that could be used in other applications—this was a lot more important than people realize. This version also introduced Dynamic HTML, which allows web pages to dynamically change the page using JavaScript, and added Active Desktop integration.

Even more weird? Seems like nobody remembers this anymore, but IE4 was actually cross-platform—you could install it on Mac OS, Solaris, and HP-UX—and by the time IE5 was released, IE4 had reached a 60% market share.

1999: Internet Explorer 5.x
Microsoft invented Ajax. Wait… what? That’s right, it was this version of IE that introduced the XMLHttpRequest feature in JavaScript, which forms the underlying technology behind every web application you’re using today—you know, like Gmail. Of course, the term “Ajax” wasn’t actually coined until years later by somebody other than Microsoft, but this release supported everything required to make it work.

So Yes, Microsoft Innovated
From IE3 until IE6, Microsoft used all their resources to simply out-innovate the competition, releasing new features and better browsers faster than Netscape. In fact, Netscape 3 Gold was a buggy piece of junk that crashed all the time, and Netscape 4 was extremely slow and could barely render tables—much less CSS, which would often cause the browser to crash.

To put it in context: web developers used to complain about Netscape the same way they complain about IE6 now.

What Made It Go So Very Wrong?


The trouble all started when Microsoft integrated IE into Windows as a required component, and made it difficult to uninstall and use an alternate browser. Then there was the whole business with them exploiting their monopoly to try and push Netscape out of the market, and a lot of people started to view Microsoft as the evil empire.



Microsoft Stopped Trying
By the time Microsoft released Internet Explorer 6 in 2001, complete with lots of new features for web developers, since there was no competition and they had a 95% market share, Microsoft just stopped trying—seriously, they did nothing for 5 years even after Firefox was released and geeks started migrating left and right.

Microsoft-Specific Features
The whole problem with Microsoft’s innovation is that much of it was done in ways that didn’t follow the web standards—this wasn’t as big of a problem when Internet Explorer was the only game in town, but once Firefox and Webkit came around and started following the standards correctly, suddenly it became a huge problem for web developers.

Security Holes and Crashing
Since Microsoft decided they didn’t need to try anymore, and they didn’t keep up with the competition from Firefox and other browsers, bugs and security holes just cropped up left and right—really terrible ones, too. For instance, this code is all that is required to crash IE6:

<script>for(x in document.write){document.write(x);}</script>

In fact, the screenshot at the beginning of this section was a live example of testing out this particular bug.

IE7 and IE8 Were Too Little, Too Late
It took 5 years after IE6 for Microsoft to finally get around to releasing IE7, which added tabs and made the browser slightly more tolerable, but for web designers it was still a nightmare to deal with, and only complicated the issue since now you had to make pages render correctly in two lousy browsers instead of just one.

It took another 2.5 years for Microsoft to finally release Internet Explorer 8, which greatly improved CSS support for web developers, and added new features like Private browsing, tab isolation to prevent one bad page from taking down the whole browser, and phishing protection. By this point, most geeks had already moved on to Firefox, and then some of us to Google Chrome.

Here’s the Real Reason Geeks Hate IE

Just because we’re geeks doesn’t mean we hate everything that’s inferior and outdated—in fact, we often love retro computing—that’s why we love Atari, NES, Commodore 64, etc. We take pride in our geek knowledge. So why’s Internet Explorer a different story?

Here’s a couple of reasons that fueled our hatred of the buggy browser, and finally put us all over the edge:

Supporting IE is Like a Fork in the Eye for Web Devs
Here’s a sample of a day in the life of a web designer: You spend hours making sure that your page looks great, and you test it out in Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and even Opera. It looks great, awesome!

Now you open up IE and the page looks like somebody put it into a blender and hit the Whip button. Then you spend double the amount of time trying to fix it to look tolerable in IE6 and IE7, cursing loudly the entire time.

Geeks Forced to Use Internet Explorerimage
And here’s where we come to the real issue—the whole reason that geeks can’t stand Internet Explorer:

Geeks everywhere were forced to use Internet Explorer at work even when there are better browsers, forced to support it for corporate applications, forced to make sure web sites still work in IE, and we couldn’t convince everybody to switch to a better browser.

Geeks don’t hate something that’s inferior—but they do hate it when it’s forced on them.

The Good News: The Future Might Be Brighter
Thankfully it seems like Microsoft has finally learned from their many, many mistakes in the browser world. They are below 50% in the market share wars, and they’ve finally learned to focus on using web standards.

Internet Explorer 9 is about to be released, it’s got a shiny new interface that looks a lot like Google Chrome, blazing fast hardware acceleration, and supports HTML5 surprisingly well—in fact, it’s so much better that 34% of our readers said they will switch to IE9.

Microsoft is billing Internet Explorer 9 as the browser that’s going to change the world, and they aren’t wrong—they just aren’t mentioning that they were the only ones holding the web back with their anemic browsers. And now that mess is finally over.

Read more related articles:

• Download the Internet Explorer 9 Beta in Your Language
• Internet Explorer Is Below 50% Market Share for the First Time
• Mysticgeek Blog: A Look at Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 on Windows XP
• Internet Explorer 9 Available for Download September 15th
• Ask the Readers: Will You Make IE9 Your Default Browser Once the Final Version is Released?

Imphal, October 21(HNS): General Officer Commanding, Red Shield Division, Maj Gen DS Hooda today inaugurated the Leimakhong Computer Training Centre on the premises of Mountain Calvary English High School at Leimakhong. MLA of Saitu AC, Haokholet Kipgen and MLA of Sekmai AC, Dr H Borojao along with a number of MDC representatives were present at the inaugural function.

The computer training centre is equipped with computers, uninterrupted power supply, printers, training aids and computer furniture. The project has been funded by the Army as part of the Military Civic Action incorporating fully funded two courses as pioneer. This centre will facilitate Information Technology training for youth in and around Leimakhong. The courses will be conducted by Imphal Institute of Information Technology, Imphal affiliated to the Punjab Technical University. The courses will be run for a duration of three months with a batch strength of 25 students each.

This being the first computer training centre established at Leimakhong, it will go a long way to enable provision of information technology training at par with other areas of the country. The project has been successfully implemented by the Red Shield Signals as a tribute to the people of Manipur. - Hueiyen Lanpao

Basking in the glory of the success of its tablet device iPads and mobile device iPhone, Apple has added some of their features to its computers.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled company's new ultra-light laptop MacBook Air which -- like its popular iPad -- has no hard drive. Also, Apple's popular App Store, available on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, too has come to Macintosh computers.

Introduced in two sizes, the new laptops aim to boost the company's falling share in the PC market. Here's looking inside Apple's just-launched MacBook Air.
Looks


Featuring an all-aluminum unibody design, the new MacBook Air is Apple's lightest laptop ever. The laptop measures 0.11-inches at its thinnest point and 0.68-inches at its thickest, and weighs just 2.3 pounds for the 11-inch model and 2.9 pounds for the 13-inch.







Apple Air features a full-sized keyboard for typing as well as the popular glass Multi-Touch trackpad found on Apple’s MacBook Pro. The Multi-Touch trackpad lets users pinch, swipe, or rotate to adjust an image, zoom in on text, or advance through a photo album.







Apple is also bringing the FaceTime video chatting to Macs. The feature debuted this year on the iPhone 4 and has since been added to the iPad. The new FaceTime for Mac application, currently in beta, will let users make FaceTime calls over Wi-Fi with anyone who has a Mac, an iPhone 4, or the new iPod touch.





The new generation MacBook Air models use flash drives instead of hard drives. The new MacBook Air is designed completely around flash storage. MacBook Air uses the same solid state storage technology as the iPad.
Apple has done away with CD and DVD drives in the very first edition of its MacBook Air, and in the current models the company ditches the hard disk drive. This, according to Apple, will speed up laptops' boot up time.
The 11-inch MacBook Air comes with 2GB of memory and 64GB/128GB of flash storage. The 13-inch model will pack 2GB of memory and 128GB/256GB of flash storage. The 13-inch MacBook Air also includes an SD card slot.


Like the 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air too features the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor. It gives over 2x performance over the previous-generation MacBook Air. It also packs Intel Core 2 Duo processors.






Air packs the latest version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The OS includes iTunes, Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row and Xcode Developer Tools.
At the event, Apple also unveiled a new version of Mac operating software. Nicknamed "Lion," it includes an improved "iLife" multimedia suite, its set of programs for managing photos, editing videos and music and doing other tasks.



As for the battery, the 11-inch model delivers up to 5 hours of battery life and the 13-inch model promises upto 7 hours. Both have standby time of upto 30 days.









For connectivity, MacBook Air includes Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, 802.11n Wi-Fi and 2 USB ports. The laptop also features a Mini DisplayPort that can connect to a 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display, projector or HDTV.







Apple will bring a version of its mobile applications store to the Mac. The App Store for the Mac will go live within 90 days, and developers will be able to start submitting apps from next month. They will get 70 per cent of the revenue from sales. The original App Store debuted in 2008 and helped spur sales of the iPhone.
The Apple's App Store houses more than 250,000 apps and has generated over 7 billion downloads.

New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) Delhi Metro seemed to be the transport of choice during the Commonwealth Games, carrying as many as 14.47 lakh commuters including 1.24 lakh spectators and volunteers, daily on an average since Oct 3.

A Delhi Rail Metro Corporation (DMRC) official said Thursday that from Oct 3 till 7 p.m. Thursday, the Metro witnessed an average daily ridership of 14.47 lakh.

On Thursday, the day of the closing ceremony of the Games, around 5.34 lakh passengers travelled on the entire Metro network as all central government offices, shops and commercial establishments were closed.

The Metro runs a fleet of 129 trains on a network of 138 km that has 117 stations across Delhi and the suburbs of Noida and Gurgaon.

The DMRC, in order to connect to some of the Games venues, constructed the Central Secretariat-Sarita Vihar Metro section in a record time of 41 months and opened it Oct 3 just hours before the Games.

'This was so that DMRC could provide services to the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Metro station for the Commonwealth Games. This line has been made by the DMRC in a record time which is probably among the fastest Metro constructions worldwide,' the official added.

Bangalore, Sep 28 : Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch two dedicated satellites for monitoring greenhouse gas, aerosol emissions and environment, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said today.

Delivering the 11th ISRO-JNCASR Satish Dhawan Memorial Lecture on 'Two Cultures Revisited: Some Reflections on Environment-Development Debate in India' here said while ISRO's own dedicated satellite for monitoring greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions would be launched in 2012, the forestry satellite would be launched in 2013 to enable real-time monitoring of both deforestation and afforestation in the country.

At present the environment monitoring was being done once in two years, while it would be a continuous process after both the satellites are launched.

He said the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests will be co-financing National Institute of Climate and Environment, being established by ISRO and working closely with the Space Applications Centre to model and monitor the health of the Himalayan glaciers.

He said the Ministry had decided to ensure that ISRO was an integral part of climate science and climate change negotiations team because of the tremendous capability it had built up in this area.

--UNI

Ahmedabad, Sep 28 : Zoomi, a Mobile Application that will provide up-to-date latest information on the Commonwealth Games, has been launched here.

It has been developed by Smile of India, a knowledge services firm headquartered in Ahmedabad in partnership with KPMG, the leading global professional services firm.

"From information on participating Commonwealth nations to photographs and achievements of past Games to details about Delhi
and India to latest and breaking news, the application would have it all in a Rich Visual format," a company spokesman said.

--IANS

Shillong, Sept 26 : India’s effort to build the world’s cheapest laptop is encouraging for the education sector as technology-adoption is crucial for the growth of this vital segment.

President Intel India Praveen Vishakantaiah said, irrespective of the laptop’s marketing success the effort of the Union Human Resource department is laudable and encouraging for the education sector.

“Technology-adoption in the education sector is vital for its growth. The effort to build the world’s cheapest laptop for the students is a step in the right direction,” Vishakantaiah told The Assam Tribune.

The Human Resource department in July this year displayed a prototype of the world’s cheapest laptop, which it says would be available for school children. The laptop evoked tremendous interest around the world, but critics doubt if the price could be sustained as claimed by the Ministry. The prototype laptop was manufactured at a cost of about Rs 1,500 by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Science.

The idea, for the growing education sector, is to provide technological solution for the students, how it’s done is a matter of research and development, Vishakantaiah added. “The spaces in the education sector must be augmented through technology,” Vishakantaiah said.

Emphasising Intel’s effort in this direction, he said, the company has developed several solutions for the education sector. The company, in collaboration with the National Association for Blind, has recently developed an open-source computer software for the visually-impaired.

The Intel president handed a laptop fitted with the software to a visually impaired student here who topped last year’s board exams. “Technology doesn’t differentiate and stands up to challenges,” he said, after handing the laptop to thestudent recently.

Vishakantaiah said the country must lay emphasis on the education sector more so on higher education and research for its overall development. “The IT boom of the 90’s can only be sustained through continued research and higher education,” Vishakantaiah said.

~ Assam Tribune

New Delhi, Lhajing 22 : Indira Gandhi National OpenUniversity (IGNOU) chun tunin PC hardware leh Net working certificate course thah chu HCL Infosystems Ltd toh kitho khom in ahongdoh tai tin official thulhut akimun ahi. Hiche hi in dustry hon amanchah jeng thei dinga IGNOU leh HCL in abol doh lhon ahi. Hiche programme hi Instructor Led Teaching (ILT) a kipe ding ahi tin Chief public Relation officer Ravi Mohan chun aseiyin ahi.

Tukhang hi mihem chih dung juiyin ëcomputer age' ahitan offices, schools, leh adang dang hoa computer akikoi gamtan ahi. Computer akhoi dan/ athemdan ihet vang uvin ihet loukah leh files ana mang ham ahilou leh natoh bantah leh system ahung mit ji in ahi. Hiche hochu virus analut jeh a system ho boiji ahi. Mihem natna ho bang'a computer jong hin virus jatchom chom aneiyin ahi hiche hochu aban ban'in veuhite.

New Delhi, Aug 19 : Fourteen months after the state-owned telecom company BSNL was barred from buying equipments from Chinese vendors due to security reasons, the government has lifted the ban, Parliament was informed today.