World Cups so far

So far eight world cups have been conducted.Australia has won 3 times,West Indies 2 times and India,Pakistan and Sri Lanka Once each.England has conducted the tournament 4 times, but has never won the cup.In 1987 the world cup was conducted for the first time outside England.West Indies for the first time was unable to make it to Finals.More over the games were reduced from 60 overs to 50 due to the shorter daylight hours on the Indian Sub-continent.England lost the cup to Australia by a narrow margin of 7 runs.
Lord's hosted the Final Matches for four times.The latest World Cup was won by Australia in South Africa.
World Cups Statistics
1975 : Hosted by England and won by West Indies[60 Overs Match]
1979 : Hosted by England and won by West Indies[60 Overs Match]
1983 : Hosted by England and won by India[60 Overs Match]
1987 : Hosted by India/Pakistan and won by Australia[50 Overs Match]
1992 : Hosted by Australia/New Zealand and won by Pakistan[50 Overs Match]
1996 : Hosted by India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka and won by Sri Lanka[50 Overs Match]
1999 : Hosted by England/Scotland/Dutch and won by Australia [50 Overs Match]
2003 : Hosted by South Africa/Zimbabwe/Kenya and won by Australia[50 Overs Match]

Source : http://www.icc-cricket.com

Joost Internet TV

Joost pronounced - 'juiced' is an effort from the makers of skype to bring the TV to the web.The project which earlier was called 'The venice Project' is renamed to 'Joost' to let more users test the service.The Pro being the much TV-like experience and the con being it needs a high speed broadband connection to truly experience the service.According to the words of Joost website

Joost™ is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. We're in the process of making it as TV-like as we can, with programmes, channels and adverts.

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Cricket World Cup 2007

The biggest sporting event of the year 2007 is going to start in another 50 odd days in the Caribbean islands.Despite the initial doubt in the air about the West Indies' capability in conducting the sporting event of this kind,it seems be everything is going on smoothly and the country has geared up with12 stadia in 9 venues.
Some Statistics of the Current World Cup
Total number of teams participating : 16
Groups and Compositions: 4[A,B,C and D]
Group A : Australia,South Africa,Scotland and The Netherlads
Group B : Sri Lanka,India,Bangladesh and Bermuda
Group C : New Zealad,England,Kenya and Canada
Group D : Pakistan,West Indies,Zimbabwe and Ireland
The event will start with 16 warm up matches on Mon 05 Mar.
The Opening Ceremony is on Sun 11 Mar.The actual contest wll start with Host competing with Pakistan on Tue 13 Mar and will close on Sat 28 Apr at Barbados.
Links for reference
Teams taking Part in the World Cup
Team Grouping
Match Schedule
Match Venues

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Apple iPhone

The much rumoured and the much awaited phone sort of device from the Apple stable has finally been unveiled.It called it iphone.[But I heard Cisco holds the patent for iphone].Anyway,one can say it is really a revolution in the Phone,Multimedia market.In Apples words the new iphone is a widescreen ipod,a revolutionary phone,a breakthrough internet device embedded with high technologies.

Talking about the features:

1] First it is a no key pad phone.Unlike the conventional mobile phone where the plastic key pad accupies most of the space,iphone comes with a soft/virtual keypad[both Numeric and QWERTY].In short the full screen can be used for viewing the videos,photos etc.,While viewing photos and videos,iphone can be tilted horizantally for better viewing. More here.

2]iphone is operated with Multi Touch interface, which Apple claims as the most revolutionary interface after the mouse inception.All the operations viz, making/Terminating a call,typing an SMS using the soft QWERTY keyboard,multimedia operations etc can be made with the human finger as the pointing device.

3]It is run be the Apple's proprietary OSX operating system and the Safari web browser.Because of the full screen utilastion of the device, it is better suited for viewing web pages,Emails etc.iphone supports EDGE, wi-fi,Bluetooth and other wireless standards.Speaking about the other specs it comes with a 2MP Camera, 4GB or 8GB space etc.,The 8GB iphone is expected to cost around 599 US dollars.For complete Technical Specifications click here.

Note:The photos are taken from the http://www.apple.com/iphone/
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PSLV-C7 Successfully placed the satellites into the orbits

India's maiden attempt to place four satellites into the orbits went successfully early today.The PSLV placed the two Indian , one Indonesian and the Argentina satellites in to the orbits.The success should have given boost to the Indian Space Scientists, who are preparing for the Chandrayan Mission that is planned to take place early next year.

Placing the foreign satellites will help us in generating revenue to carry out further space experiments.Among all the satellites the one which is of more interest to me is the SRE-1 - Space capsule Recovery Experiment Vehicle.The payload of this is about 550 kg and the main intention is to observe the situations under micro gravity conditions.This is will orbiting for around two weeks before it is brought back to Earth.As per ISRO before entering the Earths atmosphere it will be placed in an Elliptical orbit.The vehicle is indigenously made to withstand the atmospheric changes it undergoes as soon as entering the Earth's atmosphere.It uses a parachute mechanism to bring down the vehicles speed, before it is made to fall into the Bay of Bengal sea[some 140 km away from the Sriharikota Andhra Pradesh].The SRE is so made that is can float on the water before it is identified by the recovery department.
This all is going to happen in the coming 2 weeks and hope the SRE-1 experiment will provide valuable inputs that will be useful to the ISROs unmanned expedition to the Lunar Surface and the Manned expedition to the space.Finally if all this goes as expected , India will be fourth country to have recovered the space object after USA,Russia and China.

For complete Information about all the Satellites carried by the PSLV-C7 refer this PDF form ISRO
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MyWalkin

Here is a portal that provides info about the happennings of walkins in the IT and ITes fields.The portal sorts the list City wise, providing [rough]Date and address of the event.It will be very useful to the job seekers and freshers.

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