The Google SMS search service may be used for finding movie timings, weather, nearest pizza restaurant, currency conversion, train schedules, cricket scores and a host of other things.

One of the very useful features in SMS search is language translation. For instance, I could SMS “say hello in French” to 9-77-33-00000 to get the right French word.

Google SMS Search could be real bad news for the business of services like Indiatimes that charge a premium fee for delivering news or astrology updates on the mobile phone using short codes.

For details go to the Google Mobile website or check their help center for more details.

The Google blog says that you only need to pay the standard SMS text charges for sending the SMS query to Google – there’s no fee for the incoming messages from Google. The service is available for all popular cellular networks including Airtel, BSNL, Idea, Reliance, Spice, Tata Indicom and Vodafone.

The Cray XT, called Jaguar, has been ranked first in the list of the world’s top 500 computers, released at an annual international supercomputing conference in Austin on Tuesday.

Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset’s App Store, no matter how much customers want it.

“I’m pretty skeptical that Flash could be
implemented in a way that doesn’t violate the Terms of Service of the
developer’s agreement,” said Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous, developer of the popular Tap Tap Revenge iPhone game.

Besides, the microlight-like plane is scheduled to take off for a round-the-world flight in May 2011, project communication head Phil Mundwiller said.

The pollution-free plane would fly with zero fuel on the strength of solar power both day and night, whose prototype was displayed here as part of the 60th ceremony of India-Switzerland Friendship Treaty.

Phil said two aircraft with the investment of $100m are being designed by a team of 60 engineers. Its commercial production is expected to start by 2011.

Hundreds of climbers flock to the world’s tallest peak at 8,850 metres every year, with many simply squatting in the open or hunching behind rocks as the Everest base camp has no proper toilet facilities.

Dawa Steven Sherpa, who led an eco-Everest expedition in May to collect trash dumped by previous climbers, said his team used a plastic bucket as well as a gas-impervious bag designed to safely contain and neutralise human waste and keep in odour.

Windows desktop tweaker extraordinaire and Lifehacker reader Kaelri—who brought us the gorgeous Lightning at Sunset desktop and then showed us how to do it ourselves—is back, this time with a fresh new desktop he calls “Enigma.” Once again, Kaelri has been kind enough to package up his setup for your downloading pleasure and step through exactly how to get it going on your own system. Keep reading for a detailed guide to customizing your Windows desktop to get a similar “Enigma” effect on your own system.

So successful has this been that whole product categories have had the life choked out of their twitching bodies by the phone. The following list is an obituary to five of them, plus a look at the cellphone’s next victim.

The storm that hit Spirit came less than two weeks after similar weather in the far north sent NASA’s Phoenix Lander to an early grave.

Rover team members were awaiting a sign this week that the craft had survived the storm, which blanketed Spirit’s solar panels with dust.

According to a report in New Scientist, during the storm, the amount of energy available to the craft dropped to an unsustainable 89 watt-hours, the lowest level seen since Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, landed on Mars with about 10 times that amount in January 2004.

An article published in The New York Times said the software could be available at iTunes online store shortly.

Google will be stepping into an arena with rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, which already let people using “smart” phones scour the Web with spoken queries.

The Internet powerhouse already offers a toll-free GOOG411 telephone service in the United States that people can call and speak to a computer system that fetches contact information they seek.

But as the NASA rocket thingy shot up to the skies last night for another interesting mission, the only thing on my mind was the water they will drink.

“Now we have a good news, ASRock has overcome the technical obstacles and exclusively invented a new technology that allows you to turn on your PC in just a blink of an eye! Not only it saves energy, money, it also helps system running speed. This feature is applicable to both Windows XP and Windows Vista,” reads an excerpt of the description of this technology from ASRock (via Hardware 2.0).

http://lifehacker.com/5087789/top-10-ways-to-speed-up-your-web-browsing

more at http://www.desihotmasala.com/2008/11/100-skills-every-man-should-know.html

The research conducted using a rat model showed that prolonged exposure can increase levels of the stress hormone norepinephrine and enzymes in the heart that have the potential to reshape the left ventricle.

Over the period of five weeks, the researchers found that cigarette smoke turned on enzymes called mitogen-activated protein kinases linked to cell growth and survival in heart muscle.

Lead researcher Mariann Piano, professor of biobehavioral health science in the UIC College of Nursing and said that activation of these enzymes may be a key event in cigarette smoke-induced heart injury.

A satellite has to withstand the icy cold and the intense heat and radiation of a solar flare in space, which ranges between a super-hot 127 degrees Celsius and a frigid minus 243.

Besides, the ‘Sunshield’ will be bombarded with sand-like grains and radiation in space. It has to stand up against those things, as well as tension and ageing under the extreme space environments.

This is an online store (accessible from the iPhone as well as through iTunes on a computer) from which users can download applications for their iPhones.

These applications vary from RSS readers to instant messengers to games. What’s more, a number of them are absolutly free to download.

Here’s a look at six applications that are definitely worth a download if you possess an iPhone.

Read On : http://www.desihotmasala.com/2008/11/how-to-make-stong-passwords-password.html

The YouTube team released an example mashup that merges Gears geolocation and the video geo search. Using the demo application, you can find nearby videos based on your location, maybe even your neighbor’s Firefly tribute movie.

Since the 1990s, a number of altimeter satellites have been measuring the height of the ocean surface and this has dramatically improved our understanding of sea level rise.

Formed as a result of burning of fossil fuels and biomass, the Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs), made of soot and other manmade particles, are more than three km-thick, said a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

The layer that stretches from the Arabian Peninsula to China and the western Pacific Ocean, are in some cases and regions aggravating the impacts of greenhouse gas-induced climate change, a team of experts drawn from research centres in Asia, including China and India, said.

Recently they brought to light another prototype called Microsoft SecondLight that detects where the surface is being touched on a screen and allows an image to be projected on to the material held just above.

more at http://www.techlondon.co.uk/2008/11/robot-jules-video.html

If you are someone who always think like the guy on right hand site in the Pic then it’s the time you do some thinkover

Instead of relying on a external URL shortening service like TinyURL, they’ve come up with their own service called ff.im. The domain ff.im redirects to Friendfeed, and there is no way to use ff.im directly. Still the service has become pretty popular, judging by the twitter activity.

Check How This was Shot : http://www.yeeeeee.com/2008/11/11/when-photoshop-gets-manipulated-12-pics/

I just now wanted to know how this was shot… I opened yeeeee before google this time … ;-)

That simple act, multiplied across millions of keyboards in homes around the country, has given rise to a new early warning system for fast-spreading flu outbreaks, called Google Flu Trends.

Tests of the new web tool from Google.org, the company’s philanthropic unit, suggest it may be able to detect regional outbreaks of the flu a week to 10 days before they are reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

BERLIN – An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.

While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.

Dr. Gero Huetter said his 42-year-old patient, an American living in Berlin who was not identified, had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer shows signs of carrying the virus.

“We waited every day for a bad reading,” Huetter said.

It has not come. Researchers at Berlin’s Charite hospital and medical school say tests on his bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues have all been clean.

If you ever experienced slow WordPress admin panel, “MySQL server has gone away” message, pages taking forever to load or you want to prepare your site for a major increase in traffic (for example Digg front page) this is the guide for you.

This is good news for web developers, who’ve long hated Internet Explorer’s total disregard for existing standards, as well as end users, who can now look forward to the next generation of web apps dependent on powerful Javascript engines.