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Jan 31, 2012
Dassault bags MMRCA deal defeating Eurofighter Typhoon
Finally after years and years of delays,negotiations and rumors the Indian government sources today announced that French firm Dassault has won a multi-billion dollar contract to provide 126 fighter jets to the Indian military.
"You can take it as confirmed that Dassault has got the deal. Since there were only two companies and it has come out as the lowest bidder," a government source told AFP.
Six companies including American F-16 and F-18, Russian MiG 35, Swedish Saab Gripen alongwith Eurofighter and Dassault Rafale were in the race in the beginning.
But in April last year, the defence ministry shortlisted Dassault and EADS, evicting the American, Russian and Swedish bids.
The process was started with the issuing of a global tender in 2007 after which all the six contenders were subjected to extensive field evaluation trails by the Indian Air Force at several locations across the globe.
"You can take it as confirmed that Dassault has got the deal. Since there were only two companies and it has come out as the lowest bidder," a government source told AFP.
Six companies including American F-16 and F-18, Russian MiG 35, Swedish Saab Gripen alongwith Eurofighter and Dassault Rafale were in the race in the beginning.
But in April last year, the defence ministry shortlisted Dassault and EADS, evicting the American, Russian and Swedish bids.
The process was started with the issuing of a global tender in 2007 after which all the six contenders were subjected to extensive field evaluation trails by the Indian Air Force at several locations across the globe.
Aug 31, 2011
Page Rating on Wikipedia
Social media craze has finally caught up with Wikipedia, the ubiquitous Like
button is now showing up in many articles albeit in a different avatar as Page Ratings.This interesting new way of crowd ranking of articles aligns perfectly with Wikipedia's philosophy of creating an crowd sourced encyclopedia.
Page Rating
This nifty little widget at the bottom of the article lets you rate the page by giving 1 to 5 stars on the following properties:
Whats the use?
As we have all come to know that too many of the articles on Wikipedia can not be trusted and are poorly written which was kind of defeating the whole purpose of its existence. But hopefully this page ranking system would help the good articles[which is most of the wiki pages] to float above the poor ones.
Its is crowd sourced so the next time you are on wikipedia looking at some article do not forget to check its rating and provide your own rating too.
button is now showing up in many articles albeit in a different avatar as Page Ratings.This interesting new way of crowd ranking of articles aligns perfectly with Wikipedia's philosophy of creating an crowd sourced encyclopedia.
Page Rating
This nifty little widget at the bottom of the article lets you rate the page by giving 1 to 5 stars on the following properties:
- Trustworthy : Do you feel that this page has sufficient citations and that the citations come from a trustworthy source?
- Objective : Do you feel that this page shows a fair representation of all the perspectives on the subject?
- Complete : Do you feel that the page covers the essential topic areas that it should?
- Well-Written : Do you feel that this page is well-organized and well-written?
Whats the use?
As we have all come to know that too many of the articles on Wikipedia can not be trusted and are poorly written which was kind of defeating the whole purpose of its existence. But hopefully this page ranking system would help the good articles[which is most of the wiki pages] to float above the poor ones.
Its is crowd sourced so the next time you are on wikipedia looking at some article do not forget to check its rating and provide your own rating too.
May 1, 2011
Osama Bin Laden is DEAD!
Yes its TRUE the most wanted terrorist in the whole world is finally dead.
Osama Bin Laden was killed in a manson outside Islamabad by an US Military asset based on actionable US intelligence.Giving final credibility to the claims of all of the India that Pakistan is harboring him since 9/11 and he was hiding in plain sight.
It finally brings some closure to the family of the 3000 people that were killed in the 9/11 attacks on the world trace center in New York.
Watch President Barak Obama make the important anoucement below.
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Osama Bin Laden was killed in a manson outside Islamabad by an US Military asset based on actionable US intelligence.Giving final credibility to the claims of all of the India that Pakistan is harboring him since 9/11 and he was hiding in plain sight.
It finally brings some closure to the family of the 3000 people that were killed in the 9/11 attacks on the world trace center in New York.
Watch President Barak Obama make the important anoucement below.
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Apr 11, 2011
Trivia : The Google Way
What's that?
Google announced today on its blog that its launching a daily trivia game called "A Google a day". According to Google "A Google a Day is a new daily puzzle that can be solved using your creativity and clever search skills on Google." Unlike traditional trivia games where you cant cheat by looking up the answer on Google , here the questions are so tricky/complex that you are encouraged to use Google to find the answer.Can't I just Google someone Else's Answer?
Nope, you can't. For this Google has created what it calls "Deja Google", "A wormhole inspired time machine that searches the Internet as it existed before the game began.". Also to make sure no one else can spoil the fun of you use your super sleuth googleing skills by posting the answer in a tweet / or blog post google suggests you use agoogleaday.com instead of google.com which excludes real-time updates and other things that are likely to include spoilers as people post the answers to the puzzle online.
Your answers can be posted on agoogleaday.com. The correct answers are displayed the next day under the Question on agoogleaday.com. Also it lets you share the question on all the social media sites , you can even follow agoogleaday on facebook or twitter to get notified when a new questions is posted.
Why Should I bother?
This is an attempt by google to encourage people to use google in innovative and meaningful ways and to demonstrate the power of search. It will not be an understatement to say that google search's computational powers have hardly been put to use, through this google expects user to realize its full power.
So go ahead jump in have fun.
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