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  Spring 2003 : Skype is founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, two technology developers and entrepreneurs. The pair had already made their name by creating Kazaa, a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program which – rather like Napster – proved highly popular with PC users but provoked the wrath of the entertainment industry. Zennström and Friis used P2P technology developed during their Kazaa days to create a free piece of software that allowed people to make voice calls to each other over the internet – without charge. At this time, voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services were already being bought by early adopters. Skype, though, grew rapidly in popularity because it was easy to set up and use, required only a microphone and headset, and often offered better quality for long-distance calls than a normal phone line. Zennström was bullish about Skype's prospects as a disruptive technology from the start – telling News.com in an early interview: "The telephony market...

I saw this video 4 days back (3-May) and really liked the concept…Not sure how well it go..only the DC experts can comment more ;)

Google arguably tracks more online users than any other entity. The Web search giant not only owns and runs the DoubleClick ad serving system but also partners with millions of sites to serve Google ads next to content. In other words, Google has been following you for a while. But, in recent years, Google initiated a way for its users to see exactly how the site profiles them in order to target advertising. This is called Google Ad Preferences ( www.google.com/ads/preferences ). The site will show you the content categories Google has tagged you with. It even lets you remove or add interest categories. You can also just opt-out altogether. Microsoft and Yahoo! offer similar capabilities. Yahoo! calls its tool Ad Interest Manager (info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting/details.html). And Microsoft Advertising’s controls are located at choice.live.com/advertisement choice.

BANGALORE: Indian Space Research Organisation has built a super computer, which is to be India's fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second). The supercomputer "SAGA-220", built by the Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility located at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram at a cost of about Rs 14 crore was inaugurated by K Radhakrishnan, Chairman ISRO at VSSC today, ISRO said in a statement. The new Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) based supercomputer, "SAGA-220" (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 TeraFLOPS) is being used by space scientists for solving complex aerospace problems. "SAGA-220" is fully designed and built by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre using commercially available hardware, open source software components and in house developments. The system uses 400 NVIDIA Tesla 2070 GPUs and 400 Intel Quad Core Xeon CPUs supplied by WIPRO wi...