Vodafone Voicemail Trick

Just Dial *#104# you will get a number
beginning with 44 .
Replace that '44' with '0' then dial the rest of that number into any phone.
It’s a direct line to your voicemail.
you can even divert calls to it.

Vodafone Free GPRS Settings

Proxy IP:- 196.6.128.12
PORT:- 8080
Bearer:Packet data
Access Point Name :-vlive
Home Page :-http://wap.vodafone.co.in

OR

Proxy:- 10.10.1.100 or 196.006.128.012
Port:9401 or 8799
Bearer:Packet data
Access point Name :- portalnmms
Home Page :- http://wap.vodafone.co.in

OR

Proxy:- 20.108.115.1
Port:9201
Bearer:Packet data
Access point Name :- vlive
Home Page :- http://wap.vodafone.co.in

Use any of these settings. If these are not working try different combinations of Proxy IP, Port and Access Point Name.

Get Your Phone SMS Back

Normally you can't recover the deleted SMS from mobile phones . There are some mobile softwares that can recover these messages automatically .But most of these softwares are payed. So here I am posting an easy and free method to recover deleted SMS from a mobile phone .

I have personally tested this method and recovered few deleted SMS from my Nokia N73(S60 V30). And there are reports about this method working on N72 and s60 v2 mobile phones . .So I am sure that this method will work on Nokia mobile phones . Others can also give a try for this method .

For this you need a freeware mobile software called Fexplorer . It is used to explore the internal files and folders of a Symbian mobile phone .

After download , explore to to your phone memory(usually C) and select System and then mail .

Here you would see few folders like 00001001_S or similar ones.There should be some similar files inside these folders . These are actually the deleted SMS messages . Recovery software actually collects these messages . You can open these SMS by using notepad or other text viewing applications .

Free Vodafone Missed Call Alert Trick

Here is the trick for Vodafone missed call alert:

Just Dial *62*+9155705#

Thats it!!!!

Vodafone Balance Transfer Trick

VODAFONE USER:

Just type
TRAN (amount) (ph. no.)
and
send it to 144 (toll free number)

Vodafone Free SMS Trick

Just Go to message settings and change Message Centre no. to:

+919863002123

And enjoy free smsing..

Vodafone Last Caller Identity

Just Dial from your Vodafone :
*#104#
To know who called you last on your Mobile

Airtel Caller Tune Trick

• Dial 543211 and Reach till Manage my Subscription.
• Then subscribe for one year pack,make sure you have balance of atleast 55 then only you can use this service
• Activate 1 year pack .
• Your balance will become -30.

Thats all.You save rs145 and you will get + 1 year hello tune.

Airtel Free SMS Trick

Just Go to message settings and change Message Centre no. to:

+919845086020
or
+919810051905

Maharastra users.. Just change ur message centre No. to +919898051916


And enjoy free smsing.

NOTE : If the number is not working try after removing +91 from the number.

Aircel GPRS Settings

activate aircel Thrills normally by sms,SMS "AT (3 CHAR OF Ph- No) (MODEL NO) " To"57788" for ex: AT NOK 3120
activate aircel online normally by sms,SMS "GPRS BP (3 CHAR OF Ph- No) (MODEL NO) " To"57788"


The manual settings:
APN - aircelwap.pr or aircelgprs.com

PROXY- 192.168.35.201

port- 8081

Aircel Free Caller Tune Tricks

• Activate a plan of 7/- Rs

• keep balance less than 1 Rs on the 6th day

• Thats It

Aircel Caller Tunes Codes

Just follow these simple steps:

1.Open www.aircel.com
2.select VAS
3.Choose your aircel
4.Now select the dialer tones
5.Thats it now you can enter the part of song name or film name as you want or like

Then hit the search button Now you will get the dialer tone code if the song is available
Dialer Tone On UR mobile

Just DIAL *234# then you can select the Top dialer tone for your number

Aircel Unlimited GPRS Plan 2009

Aircel Has Started Unlimited GPRS Plan in most of the Areas

A Recharge of :-
Rs 14 for 3 days Unlimited Gprs (Rs 1 Talk time)
Rs 98 for 30 days Unlimited Gprs (Rs 1 Talk time)

Aircel is providing internet in really very less rates.

Enjoy Aircel GPRS Service!!!!!

Aircel Free SMS Trick

Just Go to message settings and change Message Centre no. to:

+919050563222
or
+919050563221

And enjoy free smsing..

Free Aircel Missed Call Alert

Here is the Free Aircel Missed Call Alert Trick:

Just go to call settings
and Divert all incoming calls to +919842201006.


OR

Just Dial *62*+919842201006# From your aircel then its activated for free ,After that you can get a sms like this
'Aircel Missed Call Alert : I was trying to call you at (11), Please Call Back'.

Enjoy!!!!

Free BSNL SMS While Roaming

Here is the trick to have free SMS service in BSNL while roaming

Just go to your Message settings and change your message center number to +919417399997
and enjoy free smsing while roaming.

More numbers for Free SMS while Roaming
+919417099997
+9194170999971
+9194173999971

If this numbers are not working try by removing + or +91

Note: These numbers will work only in roaming

Free BSNL GPRS Trick

Here is the way.

1.Create 2 connections with different names like "BSNL PORTAL" and "CELLONE PORTAL" with following settings.

Access Point Name-
"celloneportal"

Proxy Service Address-
"192.168.51.163"

Proxy Port-
"8080"

Security-
"NORMAL"

rest fields to be as it is.

2.now open phone's default inbuilt browser and select any of the two settings created to access the web.you will now access only bsnl's home site.

3.now keep browser working and open another browser for full internet access like opera or netfront.in these browsers use the second setting created.make sure to use second setting this time.connect to open a page.you get an error message like "ACCESS DENIED" but you dont worry.

4.keep both browsers working in background and open connection manager.in connection manager just disconnect the connection that is not working like the second one you used to connect opera or netfront.

5.again open opera or netfront from background and this time use the first connection that you are using to connect with default inbuilt browser to connect to internet.

BSNL Balance Transfer Trick

This is BSNL Balance Transfer Trick

Just from the BSNL no you want to transfer the money:

GIFT (BSNL NO.) (Amount)
and send it to 53733 or 53738

For eg.
GIFT 9451000000 50
to 53733 or 53738

BSNL Caller Tune Trick 2009

Due to server error now BSNL tunes ( dialer/hello/caller ) tunes are
fully free and you can select more than one song a day with fun

Step-1: To get BSNL Tune codes sms LIST and to search BSNL tunes send SEARCH and send it to 56799{ toll free so dont worry }

Step-2: Now you get a search result sms then you send sms as 1 or 2
or 3 for your liked song.

Step-3: now you get an thank you sms and then get a sms like this
your request not set due to low balance but no matter for this now your
caller tunes has been set.

Enjoy this tricks

Important notes:
Your balance must be below rs.3

BSNL Free Missed call Alert Trick

Now bsnl subscribers no need pay for their activation for missed call alert even if ur mobile is switched off or out of coverage area its 100% free.
Dial *62*17010#
or

---->menu
---->tools
---->settings
---->phone
---->call divert
---->voice calls
---->options
---->activate
---->to voice mailbox
type the number as '+9117010' save it and cheat bsnl

Just divert your all calls to +9117010 when your mobile is switched or you are out of coverage area.

Free Bsnl ISD SMS

Send unlimited sms free all over the world,Yes ISD sms and it is free
want to try it...you can try

so it works in most of the southern states including tamilnadu,kerala,maharashtra and gujarat.
Use these setting:-

Just change SMS center no to +919820065235 and you can send unlimited free sms all over the world.

Its only for isd or international sms.

Some new "Free SMS center numbers are:

+008074011229,

+008074011230

Free Airtel GPRS On PC (Proxifier Browser Trick)

Most people want to access free airtel gprs on their pc and I guess the solution provided next will work for many.
1. Download proxifier . Install it in your pc and run it.
2. Click on options then click on proxy settings and then click on add.
3. Then you need to write 10.2.45.155 in the server ip field and write port number as 8080.
4. Then choose the protocol as https and use the authentication method and click ok.
5. The last step is to click on no on the box that appears after step 4.
Once you are done with all these settings you are ready to enjoy free airtel gprs on your pc.
Here I will tell you about a free trick to download things for free from airtel live page
1. Open airtel live homepage
2. Click on whatever you want to download and when the download window appears you will see the cost of that download.
3. Then you should add that page as bookmark.
4. Now edit that bookmark and change the id to some other number, any number you wish to but take care that the new number should also be of equal length. Save the bookmark.
5. And now when you open the bookmark the download cost will be written as Rs.0
Enjoy another trick to download for free from airtel live.

Increse Airtel GPRS Speed

This trick is about how to increase the speed of airtel dsl DNS servers so that we experience increased speed in gprs and airtel broadband connections.since sometimes it tooks about 4 seconds for a query or it gets timed up due to the overload of the airtel server.

So i started using OpenDSN server - which is a free and powerful DNS service. Use following DNS server address:

Code:
Preferred DNS server: 208.67.222.222
Alternate DNS Server: 208.67.220.220

HOW TO DO THIS:

1. Click on Start button > Settings > Control Pannel> Network Connections
2. Right click on YOUR "airtel dialup connection" or your Internet connection,
Click on Properties button.
3. iN general TAB, Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
4. Click on Properties button and Look for Preferred DNS Server:
5. Enter the following values there,
- 208.67.222.222
- 208.67.220.220
AND KEEP....OBTAIN IP ADDRESS AS AUTOMATIC.
6. Save and close the windows. If you are using old version of windows you may need to reboot the system...

Airtel GPRS Trick For HTC Pocket PC

I tried it on Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1, and it worked like charm for me.


Here are the steps to configure settings to use internet in PDA browsers.

• Tap Start -> Settings.
  
• Select Connections Tab and tap Connections.
• Select Advanced Tab, tap Select Networks button to bring up Network Management.
• Under "Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using:" drop down, tap the New button.
• In the General Tab, type the name of the settings as Airtel Live
• Select Modem tab, tap New...
• Type the name of connection as Airtel Live, select the modem as Cellular Line (GPRS) and tap Next.
• Type Access Point Name as airtelfun.com and tap next.
• Leave username, password and domain blank and tap finish.
• Select Proxy Settings tab. Tap "This network connects to the Internet". This should enable the next check box option.
• Tap "This network uses a proxy server to connect to the Internet".
• Type the proxy server as: 100.1.200.99 and then tap Advanced...
• Tap HTTP, leave the server as 100.1.200.99 and change the port to 8080
• Similarly tap WAP, Secure WAP and Socks, type the server as 100.1.200.99 but leave the port to defaults. These are optional settings.
• Tap OK to close the Advanced proxy setup screen.
• Tap OK to close the New connection screen.
• The network management screen should now list the new connection you have created in the drop-down. Tap OK to close this screen
• Tap OK to close the connection screen.

Settings For Airtel GPRS On Ubuntu Via Mobile

Enter this command in terminal

lsusb

It will give :-
mark@ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0951:1613 Kingston Technology
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0421:04c4 Nokia Mobile Phones
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
than enter the following command :-

mark@ubuntu:~$ sudo /sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0×421 product=0×4c4
[[ Create your wvdial.conf by running the following
sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf ]] or …
mark@ubuntu:~$ wvdialconf create
Scanning your serial ports for a modem.
ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 — failed with 2400 baud, next try: 9600 baud
ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 — failed with 9600 baud, next try: 115200 baud
ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 — and failed too at 115200, giving up.
Modem Port Scan<*1>: S1 S2 S3
WvModem<*1>: Cannot get information for serial port.
ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 Z — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: Modem Identifier: ATI — Nokia
ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 4800: AT — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 9600: AT — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 19200: AT — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 38400: AT — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 57600: AT — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 115200: AT — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 230400: AT — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 460800: AT — OK
ttyACM0<*1>: Max speed is 460800; that should be safe.
ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 — OK
Found an USB modem on /dev/ttyACM0.
Modem configuration written to create.
ttyACM0: Speed 460800; init “ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0″
than edit Wvdial file :-
mark@ubuntu:~$ sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”airtelgprs.com”
Modem Type = USB Modem
Baud = 460800
New PPPD = yes
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99#
Password = airtel
Username = airtel
Stupid Mode = 1
Save and exit
To connect to internet type the following command :-
siddhartha@ubuntu:~$ wvdial
than this will appear
–> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
–> Cannot get information for serial port.
–> Initializing modem.
–> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
–> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 s0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 s0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
OK
–> Modem initialized.
–> Sending: ATDT*99#
–> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99#
CONNECT
~[7f]}#@!}!} } }2}#}$@#}!}$}%\}”}&} }*} } g}%~
–> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
–> Starting pppd at Sun Jun 15 05:17:27 2008
–> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
–> –> PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky.
–> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied
–> –> CHAP (Challenge Handshake) may be flaky.
–> Pid of pppd: 6401
–> Using interface ppp0
–> pppd: x?[06][08]
–> pppd: x?[06][08]
–> pppd: x?[06][08]
–> pppd: x?[06][08]
–> local IP address 117.98.4.246
–> pppd: x?[06][08]
–> remote IP address 10.6.6.6
–> pppd: x?[06][08]
–> primary DNS address 202.56.230.5
–> pppd: x?[06][08]
–> secondary DNS address 202.56.240.5
–> pppd: x?[06][08]
Connection successful.

Press Ctrl+c to disconnect .

Free Airtel GPRS 2009 (new trick)

Hi friends it’s a long time that the free gprs is not being used ..initially there was office hack and some other hack which was working fine. Initially we used teashark trick. But now this teashark gprs trick is also not wotking.

But finally the replace for the Teashark gprs trick is available the new UCWEB mobile browser will work as good as teashark. Recently UCWEB is named as the most used mobile browser in this is named as the latest hack for airtel gprs using UCWEB browser for 2009 and 2010 ..there is the very simple and easy procedure just download latest UCWEB browser in your mobile.
And do the following procedure and enjoy. First of all you need to activate the Airtel Live in youe mobile if its active even TYPE FUN and send to 54321 and check if its active and then you need to have a AIRTEL Live SETTING for it you TYPE MO and send to 2567.. and remember always Airtel Live setting not the airtel GPRS settings
That’s all its easy like a chees. This trick have been tested and lots of my friends are using it.

Try if it works in yours and hav a comment if you need any help
Or if you have any trick post me or mail me.I will publish it .

To Download UCWEB Browser CLICK HERE

Updated Airtel Free GPRS Tricks

Once again Airtel free GPRS is working

Follow these simple settins for Free Airtel gprs

1. Enter your cel no. into USER NAME/NO. Field (If it is blank)
2. Change access point / APN to airtelfun.com or airtelmms.com
3. Configuring your application
   
   for following proxy setting…

- If u r using airtelfun.com
IP Addr : 100.1.200.99
Port no. 8080

- If u r using airtelmms.com
IP Addr : 100.1.201.172
Port No. 8799

Thats all about settings!

I have also got some IP Addresses and Open Ports which are working for different Users so I have listed them. You can tryout if the above settings doesn’t work.

Working IP Addresses
(a) 10.2.45.155
(b) 10.49.16.10
(c) 10.4.1.55
(d) 10.6.6.6
(e) 10.89.15.15
(f) 100.1.200.467
(g) 100.1.200.211 (this one is for west bengal)

Ports
(a) 8080
(b) 9421
(c) 9201

Airtel GPRS Settings

Common settings for all phones.

You have to first subscribe for airtel gprs. Currently in India there is a prepaid paln of Rs 200 in which user will get free gprs for one month.

Follow these settings:-

Settings -> Connectivity -> Packet data -> Packet data settings -> Edit active access point

Alias for access point -> Mobile Office

Packet data access point -> airtelgprs.com

Then go back to:

Settings -> Connectivity -> Packet data -> Packet data settings

Active access point -> Mobile Office

Then go to:

Settings -> Configuration settings -> Personal configuration settings

Options -> Add new -> Web

Account name -> Mobile Office

Home page -> www.google.com

Then go back to

Settings -> Configuration settings

Preferred access point -> Mobile Office

Default configuration settings -> Personal config.

Then go to:

Web -> Settings -> Configuration settings

Configuration -> Personal config.

That's it. hope it works for you. #

For Airtel Gprs plans CLICK HERE

Predicting Initial Claims for Unemployment Benefits

Posted by Hal Varian, Chief Economist and Hyunyoung Choi, Sr. Economist

One of the strongest leading indicators of economic activity is the number of people who file for unemployment benefits. Macroeconomists Robert Gordon and James Hamilton have recently examined the historical evidence. According to Hamilton's summary: "...in each of the last six recessions, the recovery began within 8 weeks of the peak in new unemployment claims."

In an earlier blog post, we suggested that Google Trends/Search Insights data could be useful in short term predictions of economic variables. Given the importance of initial claims as a macroeconomic predictor, we thought it would be useful to try to forecast this economic metric. The initial claims data is available from the Department of Labor, while the Google Trends data for relevant categories is available here.

We applied the methodology outlined in our earlier paper, building a model to forecast initial claims using the past values of the time series, and then added the Google Trends variables to see how much they improved the forecast. We found a 15.74% reduction in mean absolute error for one-week ahead out, of sample forecasts. Most economists would consider this to be a significant boost. Details of our analysis may be found in this paper.

The bottom line is that initial claims have been generally declining from their peak and that, so far at least, the Google query data is forecasting further short term declines. It would be good news indeed if this particular Google trend continues.

ACM EC Conference and Workshop on Ad Auctions

By Jon Feldman and Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, NY

This month, the 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 2009) and the 5th Workshop on Ad Auctions took place at Stanford University. This is one of the major forums for economists and computer scientists to share their ideas about mechanism design and algorithmic game theory. Other than co-authoring several papers in the conference and workshops, Google contributed significantly in presenting tutorials.

Among the four tutorials given at the ACM EC conference, we participated in presenting two of them:

• In a joint tutorial with Google researcher Muthu Muthukrishnan, we explored research problems in sponsored search inspired by taking the advertiser's perspective. Emphasizing a cross-disciplinary approach, we presented sample research directions in keyword selection, traffic prediction and bidding strategy, encouraging the research community to build upon known auction models in order to tackle these even more challenging domains. We explored in more detail specific examples of research in bidding strategies.
• Moreover, in a joint tutorial with H. Roeglin, we presented results in convergence of game dynamics, both to equilibria and nearly-optimal solutions. This was a more algorithm-oriented variant of the tutorial at ICML (which is described in a previous blog post.)

The Ad Auctions Workshop brought together many industry and academic research leaders to discuss ongoing challenges in online advertisement. The topics presented at the workshop included the role of externalities in ad auctions, new truthful ad auction mechanisms with budget constraints, efficiency loss of generalized second-price ad auctions, and complex combinatorial ad auctions. Google researchers co-organized, participated in the discussions, and contributed the following presentations:

• Google's chief economist, Hal Varian, gave an enlightening invited talk about using Google Trends data for "predicting the present." In this work, Google Trends data is used to help improve forecasts of various economic time series. Examples illustrating this technique were drawn from the auto industry, real estate, and unemployment. He emphasized that Google Trends data is publicly available and encouraged people to use this data for their research.
• We presented two papers in the workshop, one about optimal pricing mechanisms over social networks and one about using offline optimization in stochastic online ad allocation problems. In the latter talk, we presented an algorithm in which we use an optimal offline solution in an "expected instance", and use this solution as a signal in online decision making. Using the idea of the power of two choices from the CS literature, we give a novel theoretical analysis of our method, improving the best previously known result. We also gave some practical insight about using these methods in online ad allocation. The theoretical results will appear in the upcoming FOCS 2009 conference.

Motivated by our various ad systems, there is a large research effort at Google around areas at the intersection of Economics, Computer Science and Machine Learning. The Ad Auctions Workshop and ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce are among the best forums for stimulating ideas and collaboration in these interdisciplinary areas.

Google's Research Awards Program Update

Posted by Posted by Juan E. Vargas, University Relations

When we think about innovation, it is easy to forget that it took about 55 years to spread automobile usage to 1/4 of the US population, ... 35 years for the telephone, ... 20 years for the radio, ... 15 years for the PC, ... 10 years for the cell phone, ... 7 years for the Internet (Council of Competiveness, Innovate America, 2004).

Recognizing that innovation holds the key to many of the unique technical challenges we face, we remain committed to maintaining strong relations with the academic research community. Our Research Awards Program has experienced phenomenal growth. Of the total number of applications that we received since the program's inception in 2005, more than half were submitted in the past year. To cope with the increased level of interest worldwide, we reorganized the program to accept submissions three times per year: April 15th, August 15th, and December 15th. Proposals are evaluated by teams of engineers and researchers, who make recommendations for funding. We try to move fast. Investigators receive a response about three months after their submission.

Here are some highlights from a recent round of applications:

"Recognition and Modeling of Objects from Street View Scans of Cities"
Thomas Funkhouser, Princeton University
Professor Funkhouser aims to develop methods for automatic construction of semantically-labeled, detailed, and photorealistic 3D models of cities from Street View data. The main efforts will be towards the segmentation and recognition of small objects (e.g. mailboxes, fire hydrants, parking meters, etc.) in Lidar data based on shape classification and contextual reasoning. A second objective will be to construct seamless, photorealistic 3D models of complete cities by extracting and fitting parts from repositories of polygonal models.

"An Ad Auctions Trading Agent Competition"
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan
The University of Michigan will introduce and operate a new game in the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) series of research competitions, in the domain of sponsored search. The TAC Ad Auctions (TAC/AA) game challenges participants to develop bidding strategies for advertisers in a simulated retail home entertainment market. The aim is to spur research and generate insights about advertiser bidding strategy, in a scenario more complex than those considered in the research literature to date. The TAC/AA environment features multiple interrelated keywords, a structured search user model, rich data availability, and a dynamic market context. Since 2000, the annual TAC series has catalyzed research on trading agent design and analysis, produced by a diverse group of researchers from academia and industry.

"A Suite of Automated Tools for Efficient Management and Search in Web-based Arabic Documents"
Adnan Yahya, Birzeit University, Palestine.
This research aims to design text mining and processing tools that are able to efficiently index, process, search, and categorize large quantities of Arabic data. This research addresses the challenges Arabic poses for NLP and information retrieval, automatic Arabic document categorization, root extraction, language detection, and Arabic query correction, suggestion and expansion. The PIs employ a statistical/Corpus-based approach based on contemporary data initially obtained from a local newspaper.

"When Children Search: Understanding what they do and what they could do with Google Search"
Allison Druin, University of Maryland
Children ages 5-13 are among the most frequent users of the Internet; yet, searching and browsing the web can present many challenges. Spelling, typing, query formulation, and deciphering results are all barriers for children in attempting to find the information they need. Professor Druin is trying to understand these issues in more diverse ages of children by focusing on current and ubiquitous search tools, namely, keyword-based web search engines.

"An Educational Camera for Kids"
Shree Nayar, Columbia University
Professor Nayar is desiging a novel digital camera that could be used as an innovative educational medium. His target audience is students between the ages of 10 and 13 years living in poor communities across the globe. The camera, named “Bigshot,” will be presented to students as a kit to expose them to diverse science and engineering concepts. Once assembled, the camera will be used so that students can share their photos with students in other cultures using Picasa and Google Groups.

"Discovering semantic concepts and their relations in large image collections"
Bernt Schiele, Technische Unversitat Darmstadt, Germany
Professor Schiele will investigate to what extent meaningful structures can be discovered from large sets of images both in a fully unsupervised fashion as well with minimal human supervision. To this end, Professor Schiele's work will try to first discover structure and learn multi-feature distance metrics in large collections of images and then to enrich such structure by weak annotations in order to link discovered structure and to derive semantic concepts.

"Dataspace Metrics: Measuring Progress for Pay-as-you-go Information Integration"
Michael Franklin, University of California
The goal of this project is to develop a measurement framework for gauging progress in terms of the quality and accuracy of information integration. The starting point is the development of a set of metrics for judging the “goodness’ of information integration across a number of information types and use cases. These metrics will then be analyzed and where possible, unified, so that a more general measurement framework can be developed. Such a framework will serve as a key component for future Dataspace management systems, and could provide a grounding for other collaborative information integration solutions.

For more information about this program, including submission guidelines, please visit the Research Awards Program page.

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009) in Montreal

Posted by Eyal Even Dar and Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, NY

The 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009) was recently held in Montreal in conjunction with the 22nd Conference On Learning Theory (COLT 2009) and the 25th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2009). This is one of the major forums for researchers from both industry and academia to share the recent developments in the area of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Machine learning is a central area for Google as it has many applications in extracting useful information from a vast amount of data available on the web. In addition to sponsoring this scientific event, Google contributed intellectually to several scientific forums. Here's a short report of those activities:

• There were ten papers co-authored by Googlers in these conferences, which covered several areas of machine learning including domain adaption, online learning, bandits, boosting, sparsity and kernel learning.
• Corinna Cortes, the head of Google Research NY gave one of the three invited talks of ICML. She surveyed the last decade of research in learning kernels and highlighted both the successes and the failures in learning kernels with a focus on applications of convex optimization for this purpose. Corinna concluded with a call for applying new ideas and novel techniques to overcome the current obstacles.
• We presented a tutorial on Convergence of Natural Game Dynamics. This topic has received a lot of attention recently as it stands at the conflux of many fields such as economics, machine learning and theoretical computer science. In the tutorial, we surveyed the convergence properties of the most natural game dynamics such as the Nash dynamics or the best-response dynamics to the popular no-regret learning-based dynamics. The tutorial highlighted similarities and differences between the approaches in both the time of convergence, the point of convergence, and the quality of the outcome. We believe that the influence of the learning algorithms on the behavior of the users is an exciting and intriguing topic of research for many, and in particular for the analysis of ad auctions.
  

Google's main mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," and machine learning plays a fundamental role in both of these aspects. As a result, Google has invested significant resources in this area of research, and we look forward to continued participation and collaboration at these conferences for many more years.

Airtel free gprs trick[2009] for Nokia S40 phones- For whole India

Hi guys, I was in search for a new trick for free gprs in airtel.. Finally I got a new trick from a website which seemed to be interesting and i tried it at once.. To my surprise, it was working well. So I decided to post it here.. Thanks to the one who discovered it..

Note: This trick will work on all nokia S40(Non symbian) phones like 3110c, 5300, 6300, etc..
This trick WORKS ALL OVER INDIA
1 . Go to MENU > SETTINGS > CONFIGURATION SETTINGS > PERSONAL CONFIGURATION > OPTIONS > ADD NEW > STREAMING . Then enter the following settings:
Account name : Anything you like
Upd port : No need to make any change.
Use preferred Accesspoint(Apn) : NO
ACCESSPOINT SETTINGS :
Proxy : Disable
Data bearer : Packet data.
Bearer settings > Accesspoint(apn) : airtelgprs.com
Now go back to PERSONAL SETTINGS , Then OPTIONS > ACTIVATE

2 . Now open your default browser( The WEB menu ) and in OPTIONS > SETTINGS > CONFIGURATION > Then activate airtel live settings.

3 . Now go back to your default browser,Goto OPTIONS > BOOKMARKS > ADD NEW >
Then enter url as
rtsp://100.1.200.213/skyzonemob.tk
and name - FREE

4 . Now save it and go back to default browser, OPTIONS > GOTO ADDRESS and enter http://skyzone.wapka.mobi
Now you will see a page displaying - "You are not authorised to view this service"

5 . Now goto BOOKMARKS in OPTIONS and open the bookmark- FREE
Then Keep it running for 10 to 15 seconds. Then cancel it.

Now everything is free in the default browser!!!
Now you can enter any site and download anything you like for FREE!!!