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Boring News – Indian Kid Wins Spelling Bee, Again; Sukanya Roy is 2011 Champion

 Diaspora, People  5 Responses »
Jun 022011
 
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(For SI Blog Reader Gandhiji)

Yawn, Yawn!

Hey, it’s really getting tiresome.

One more Spelling Bee championship and one more Indian American winner.

Yes, an Indian is the winner of the 84th Spelling Bee. :)

This time the top honors went to 14-year-old Sukanya Roy, an eighth grade student of the Abington Heights Middle School in Pennsylvania.

Going by her last name, Sukanya is most likely a Bengali.

Sukanya clinched the championship by correctly spelling cymotrichous.

This was Sukanya’s third shot at the championship.

She participated in the 2009 and 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bees, tying for 12th place in 2009 and 20th place in 2010.

Sukanya Roy - 2011 Spelling Bee Champion

Like many of the previous Spelling Bee winners, Sukanya is a multi-faceted personality with a finger in many pies. Continue reading »

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Does Size Matter? Will an Extra 3-Inches Change the Samsung Galaxy Tablet’s Destiny?

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Jun 022011
 
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It is safe to say that the Samsung Galaxy tablet hasn’t exactly been flying off the shelves a la the Apple iPad.

One major drawback of the first generation Samsung Galaxy Tab (based on Google’s Android software) that was launched in September last year was its 7-inch screen size.

Well, 7-inches seems might not too seem small compared to your neighbor’s better endowed 9.7-inch Apple iPad.

But remember screen size is measured diagonally and the Samsung Galaxy’ Tab’s 7-inch screen gave it only half the real estate of the iPad.

Indeed. When a friend visiting from India wanted to buy a tablet, we went over to Best Buy and played with both the Samsung Galaxy and the iPad. The Galaxy seemed so much smaller.

Although reviews for the Galaxy Tab were mostly favorable (plus it can play Flash unlike the iPad), sales of the Galaxy Tab so far are a small fraction of the iPad sales.

Clearly, the Apple iPad with its larger screen size and more applications has gobbled up the Tablet market.

Samsung Galaxy 10.1-inch TabletSamsung Galaxy Tab 10.1-inch Model

Now, Samsung is readying to launch a new version of the Galaxy tablet with a 10.1-inch screen. Continue reading »

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Indian Cloud EDA Startup Nimbic gets New Investors, Rolls Out nCloud Beta

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Jun 022011
 
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Silicon Valley cloud startup Nimbic is blowing the trumpet about a Series B financing round that brought in $6.9 million.

New investor Austral Capital joined prior round investors Madrona Venture Group and WRF Capital to pony up the money.

The financing will go toward accelerating deployment of Nimbic’s cloud computing efforts in 3D electromagnetic signal integrity, power integrity and EMI analysis.

“By taking the solutions to the cloud, we feel that Nimbic will revolutionize the way EDA software is consumed by the industry, Austral Capital managing director Gonzalo Miranda said in ‘revolutionary’ hyperbole typical of investor announcements.

Indian Startup

IIT Delhi alumnus Vikram Jandhyala, Professor and Director of the Applied Computational Engineering Lab at the University of Washington, founded Nimbic (formerly known as Physware).

Jandhyala serves as Chief Technologist at Nimbic, which is headquartered at Mountain View, California.

Nimbic Launches Beta

Concurrent with its funding announcement, Nimbic also rolled out the open beta of its nCloud scalable and secure cloud computing platform for electronic design automation. Continue reading »

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Is Salman Khan Ready to Stop Hating the Media?

 Bollywood, People  1 Response »
Jun 022011
 
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Bollywood star Salman Khan is forever in the news for all the wrong reasons finds an easy scapegoat for all his self-inflicted troubles.

For his poor image, Salman Khan has a quick response – The media is the enemy.

When the BBC asked Salman Khan about his bad image of a man who can’t control his liquor or his anger, the Hindi movie star did not engage in any introspection but instead chose to lash out at the media.

They [the media] just hate me. Those in the press who do not have access to my private life have always been furious with me and it is they who have given me this image.”

Even in this accident case they showed such animosity and hatred towards me that they did not even take my side of the story. What have I done to deserve this?

But is Salman Khan ready to introspect on why he constantly gets into serious trouble, often leading to inflict injury to others in his vicinity?

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Is Salman Khan Ready to Fall at Aishwarya’s Feet & Beg Forgiveness?

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Is Salman Khan Ready to Fall at Aishwarya’s Feet?

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Jun 022011
 
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For the sake of my well-being, my sanity, my dignity and self-respect of my family, I will not work with Salman Khan….The Salman Khan chapter was a nightmare in my life and I am thankful to god that it is over. – Salman Khan’s former girlfriend Aishwarya Rai (Source: Express India, April 6, 2003)

On screen, Bollywood star Salman Khan projects a macho image.

Playing the bold, tough inspector who can crush the bones of his opponents.

His last movie Dabangg saw him beating to pulp not one but several bad guys in the course of two hours.

But in real life, Salman Khan is allegedly given to driving his SUV over sleeping children and beating up his girlfriends.

Bollywood actress, and former Miss World and Salman Khan’s former girlfriend Aishwarya Rai has publicly complained in interviews that Salman Khan beat her up (Source: Times of India, Sep 27, 2002).

Salman Khan also allegedly harassed Aishwarya in other ways including landing at her film sets and creating a disturbance there.

After Aishwarya Rai broke up with Salman Khan, the beast is said to have harassed the family forcing Aishwarya’s father Krishnaraj Rai to lodge a complaint against Salman with the Mumbai police. Continue reading »

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Is Darpok Salman Khan Ready to Confess to Murder?

 Bollywood, People  7 Responses »
Jun 022011
 
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The murder weapon was a gleaming Toyota Land Cruiser SUV (Registration Plate No – MH-01-DA-32) belonging to Bollywood star Salman Khan.

The fateful day was September 28, 2002.

The victims were young children and the elderly, Mumbai’s poorest sleeping on the pavement in front of the American Express bakery in Bandra, Bombay (now Mumbai).

Salman Khan was driving the Toyota Land Cruiser.

Salman Khan was returning from a party and drunk.

Salman Khan was driving fast.

Salman Khan’s police bodyguard Ravindra Patil warned the actor about the high-speed and asked him to slow down.

Salman Khan refused to slow down.

Salman Khan Kills Sleeping Person

There was the huge sound of a crash as Salman Khan drove his Toyota Land Cruiser over five poor sleeping souls

Soon, followed the horrifying wails of the dying and grievously injured.

Salman Khan refused to take the injured and dying persons to the hospital (see Indian Sessions Court reports).

Salman Khan ran away from the scene.

Alcohol level in Salman Khan’s blood was “double the permissible limit” (Source: DNA, August 26, 2007).

One person died after Salman Khan drove over him and several were injured. Continue reading »

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