Angry Birds Land will be open soon in Asia

The company which handles Angry Birds said on 31st October Wednesday that, it would open it's first theme park in Asia next year at a place near Shanghai as it builds on the brand of the hugely popular game. They named it as Angry Birds Land.

According to the latest launched news about Ravio Angry Birds Land will be located in Haining city in China's Zhejiang province, just next to the commercial hub of Shanghai, and will be the firm's third theme park after one in Finland and another in Britain.

Rovio Entertainment's general manager for China, Paul Chen told AFP that, "People in China want to get out and spend their free time at a leisure destination"
"We're hoping to open (The Angry Birds Theme Park) by Chinese New Year next year, February," he added as the Finnish company launched a playground on the campus of Shanghai's Tongji University.

The first China theme park, featuring an interactive playground and rides, would welcome up to 400 visitors a day paying admission of 60 yuan ($9.50).
China has the world's second-highest number of downloads for Angry Birds at 190 million, trailing only the United States.

The mobile game involves using slingshots to launch birds at fortresses built by green pigs, An addictive challenge that became the world's most-downloaded app and spawned a franchise of merchandise and media tie-ins.

Peoples are too much excited about Angry Birds Theme Park, Comment out your feeling and your views on this park or on the different versions of the game.

Help PM Sahay - Mission Delhi, Connaught Place

Standing against a pillar, his head lowered, he slips the pink duck-faced puppets into his hands and waves weakly. The passers-by don’t notice. The Delhi Walla meets PM Sahay one evening in B Block, Inner Circle, Connaught Place, Delhi’s Colonial-era commercial district. A pavement hawker, he is 74.

“At this age shouldn’t you stay home?” I ask him.

“I can’t.”

Mr Sahay is a saritorialist’s man. His ironed bluish-white full-sleeved shirt is tucked into his pleated light-brown trouser that has a black leather belt. His brown shoes are polished. With his white hair and brown-rimmed glasses, he looks like a retired bureaucrat.

Mr Sahay walks towards the next block. Taking each step is an effort. “My legs ache,” he says. “The doctor says that tests are needed but that’s expensive.” The Inner Circle corridor is lined with thick round pillars. Mr Sahay draws energy by supporting himself against these columns, as he walks past them one by one.

“I come everyday from Rohtak,” he says in his frail voice, referring to a town 50km from Delhi. “I’ve a wife, a married daughter and her children to support.” Mr Sahay has a rail pass that enables him to commute daily to Delhi for a monthly sum of Rs 160. He leaves home at 2.30 pm and returns by 11 in the night. At (old) Delhi railway station, a wholesale trader gives him 20 pairs of puppets, which he hawks in Connaught Place, where he reaches by the metro. Each pair is priced at Rs 40. “I’ve sold just two and now it’s time to leave.” The puppets are stuffed in an orange cloth bag hanging from his left shoulder.

Mr Sahay’s neighbours in Rohtak are ignorant of his salesmanship. “If they discover that I sell toys in Delhi’s streets, we’ll be disgraced.”

It’s getting dark. The mannequins at a Levi showroom are bathed in orange glow. The corridor’s lamps have been lit. Mr Sahay walks out into the open. He sits down on a stack of manhole covers placed beside a rubbish bin. A man emerges from a jewelry shop and gives him chai without exchanging greetings; it seems a routine service. Mr Sahay takes out a packet of Parle G biscuits from his trouser pocket.

“I retired as a bank manager. We had a son. He had done chartered accountancy. A few years ago I spent all my savings for him to start his office in Delhi. But he moved to Bahrain without informing us. Two years ago, we heard that he had died in an accident. We could not even see his body. Now, there’s nobody to earn so I must work.”

Mr Sahay dips a biscuit into the chai and looks at the shopping crowd. After emptying the plastic glass, he gets up. “My train will leave in another hour. Goodbye.”

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This is for all Delhi guys,
Can we help this guy? 

He will be an awesome maths teacher to kids.

Meet him some time and talk to him if he is interested in teaching any subject like maths/hindi/english
If he is ready then find some kids/parents who want a good tutor, I can say he is an honest man.
Suggestions in comments please.

How to choose the right mp3 player ?

The first thing you need to do is to find out what your usage patterns are out of this device. Can you afford an expensive mp3 player, or do you want a cheaper one? You will use it while driving to and from work, working around the house or while exercising?

It needs to play video files and to show pictures as well? Or, maybe you need it to have a FM radio tuner or digital voice-recording features. There are two types of mp3 players: flash mp3 players and hard drive mp3 players.

The advantage of flash mp3 players is that they have no moving parts (they have an embedded memory chip) and are ideal to use while running or exercising. Another advantage is that they are cheaper than hard disk mp3 players.

Also, as long as the memory does not get corrupted, they will never crash. The disadvantage is that flash mp3 players have relatively low memory, but on the other hand they can be upgraded by choosing a larger memory card.

As new models of mp3 players appear all the time, older ones are available at cheaper prices, even for the hard drive mp3 players.

And lastly, research before you buy. Never purchase a gadget on impulse.

12 Year Old UK girl has IQ higher than Einstein's

London: With an IQ of 162, a 12-year-old schoolgirl in UK has been rated brainier than even Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Olivia Manning, from Liverpool, has been accepted into Mensa, the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world after she got a score of 162 in an intelligence test.

Her score is not only two points better than German genius Einstein and physicist Hawking, it puts her in the top one per cent of intelligent people in the world, the 'Daily Mail' reported. Being honoured with entry into Mensa means she will join a network of brains from across the globe.

As a confirmed genius, Olivia is now getting celebrity status at her school - the North Liverpool Academy in Everton. "A lot more people are coming up to me asking for help with their homework. I just like challenges and making my mind think," Olivia said.

Olivia admits having a knack for quickly absorbing and remembering new information, however, confessed being "speechless" after she discovered her score. Despite outdoing the likes of TV mathematician Carol Vorderman, who could only muster 154, Olivia is set to put the stage before sums.

She barely needs a script with the youngster saying she learned her lines for a Macbeth production within 24 hours. "The success of the Mensa enrichment club shows how with the right support, students can excel and become the best in the world," said her school principal.

What Wipro, HCL, Infosys want in next generation leaders?

Check what actually the best companies HCL, WIPRO and INFOSYS are looking for,

We will discuss what they want in next generation leaders..

According to the news in Times Of India Bangalore Infosys, Wipro, HCL and others are drawing up a new checklist of traits they want their next generation of leaders to have. 

"One needs to have more courage now," says Matt Barney, vice-president and director, Infosys Leadership Institute, referring to employees in leadership roles. "It takes courage to predict what may happen with clients and businesses on a cognitive and computational front." Barney is also on the lookout for those who can learn and are innovative enough to interpret complex problems and come up with practical solutions that clients can apply. 

For Barney, such traits are specific to IT because of the faster pace of change. "Till few years back, there was no cloud and before that no Java... one needs to be disruptive here," he adds. 

Wipro is putting junior and middle management employees through psychometric tests to spot leaders with resilience and detachment. Those chosen are then measured on how they have bounced back from failure. Ability to cope with setbacks is emerging as crucial trait in a volatile economic environment. 

Last year, an MNC IT firm appointed a 39-year-old as head of its business unit in India. Though he was of Indian origin, he had never worked here. He struggled initially. Later, he and consulting firm E&Y changed business tactics. The duo altered business model, made performance management razor sharp and had weekly sales performance reviews instead of bi-annually. He stabilised the Indian business in 18 months. 

"While the last downturn was a lesson for senior leaders, this dip in business cycle is for the younger lot to learn from," said Milan Sheth, technical senior trade and partner at E&Y. 

Business model changes forced by the global economic slowdown are forcing changes too. IT companies are moving to a non-linear model where they are trying to delink revenue growth from the need to hire more hands. 

In the last five years, the average revenue earned per employee in the sector has increased by 19-20% for companies like Infosys and TCS. 

"Earlier, more people on payrolls meant more revenue. But now, clients want more services from a smaller manpower," said PrashantBhatnagar, director - hiring and staffing for SapientNitro, marketing-technology division of technology firm Sapient. "This means hunting for those who are adaptable to disruption and change, can take risks and shorten their tenure of failure quickly," he added. Bhatnagar estimates that around 12% of 2.8 million industry workforce could be thrust in roles that could demand some form of leadership. Sapient employs 7,000 in India and has tweaked its talent selection procedure to seek out candidates who are comfortable with unknown settings. 

IT services firm HCL wants employees who are capable of engaging with clients across different geographies, social and economic backgrounds. "We need employees who are good at problem solving, understand different industries and not just IT. Someone who disrupts our status quo and questions our ideas", says NaveenNarayanan, global head - talent acquisition, HCL Technologies. Narayanan gives the example of a junior employee who came up with the idea of an in-house social media portal. Though the senior management was sceptical about the idea, the employee persisted and managed to convince the top brass on need for it. Today more than 3/4 th of the employees are on it. 

Aegis has picked a crack team of 500 employees with an average age of 25-35 years from its 57,000 strong workforce to help it beat competitors on price and margins. Aegis will put this lot into live projects and assignments that deal mainly with cost optimisation and negotiation with clients along with mentoring sessions. "There was not so much focus on costs earlier and now we need employees who are good at people management in these tough times," said SM Gupta, HR head for the company. 

This sector hires around 2 lakh engineers in a year and according to a Randstad study is expected to add 227,328 jobs till the end of 2012. "Till now, concentration was more towards engineering which has left space for coaching in leadership development," says Infy's Barney. 

Mid-rung IT firms that employ only a few thousands have it tough as well. They do not have the luxury of keeping people on the bench to train them. Training needs to happen even as they are executing contracts. "We need those who are good at managing paradoxes-change in business cycles that are more frequent now," said C Mahalingam, HR head of Symphony. 

While earlier these companies could afford employees who could take risks rarely after much deliberation, today they need managers who can place bets often and get them right at first shot. A lot, who can ruthlessly stop businesses that do not pay, include training only where it is needed and cut investments that take time to mature, Mahalingam added. 

The company, therefore, has changed its mentoring route that is focussed on "management of paradoxes." During leadership training, focus is now on finding answers to problems that have more than one solution rather than an 'either/or'.

Source: Times Of India

Facebook Developers World HACK 2012

Facebook officially announced "Facebook Developer World HACK 2012" which is a series of events around the world and takes place during August s / d September 2012. The goal is create a Facebook application that is amazing and you could win a trip to San Francisco. Following the success of "Mobile HACK Roadshow" in March 2012 and "f8 Event" last year (2011), Facebook is now inspired to organize "Facebook Developer World HACK 2012 " . 

This event is designed to bring developers up from one city to the developer community some of the most dynamic and fast growing in the world. event "Facebook Developer World HACK 2012" is only one emotion akian fully implemented and will take place in 12 cities of several countries (including Indonesia) on the following dates:

• Austin , USA - 23 Agustus2012
• Mexico City , Mexico - August 27, 2012
• Buenos Aires , Argentina - August 29, 2012
• São Paulo , Brazil - August 31, 2012
• Berlin , Germany - 11 September 2012
• Taipei , Taiwan - 11 September 2012
• Jakarta , Indonesia - 13 September 2012
• Bangalore , India - 17 September 2012
• Barcelona , Spain - 18 September 2012
• Vancouver , Canada - 20 September 2012
• Warsaw , Poland - 28 September 2012
• Moscow , Russia - October 1, 2012

This event is open to all coders, if you have developed through Facebook before or have an application that you want to distribute to Facebook, or just have an interesting idea for a social application that you can expect to grow rapidly. On the day of implementation will begin with a series of technical sessions designed to make your work with Facebook as soon as possible. Discusses the Open Graph, iOS, Android, mobile web, and how to build a successful social game. Facebook wants you to present as a coder. The team from Facebook will see a demo application that you created and it will give you everything you need to start developing the application. An eight-hour competition where you can demonstrate the ability (finding) a new you, with the help of engineers Facebook. 

This event will end by giving awards to the best applications and projects that can survive and thrive all time. In 2012, Facebook will collect some talented developers around the world, the best team on the continent will each win a trip to San Francisco, visiting Facebook campus and meet the team on Facebook. those of you who are interested, be sure to enroll in your city as soon as possible .

More info and registration (India): http://bangalore.fbworldhack.com/portal/login.ww

Facebook faces facial recognition fight in Norway

"It's a very powerful tool Facebook has and it's not yet clear how it all really works," Norway's data protection commissioner says of a feature that can recognize your friends in newly posted photos.

Facebook is being probed by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority over concerns regarding its facial recognition tool that automatically suggests people's names to tag in pictures. Facebook started rolling out the Tag Suggestions feature worldwide in June 2011, and ever since has faced backlash from privacy groups in Europe.

When you upload new photos, Facebook uses software similar to that found in many photo editing tools to match your new photos to other photos you're tagged in. Similar photos are grouped together and, whenever possible, Facebook suggests the names of your friends in the photos. In other words, the square that magically finds faces in a photo also suggests names of your Facebook friends to streamline the tagging process, which can be especially useful when you have the same friends in multiple uploaded shots.

"It's a very powerful tool Facebook has and it's not yet clear how it all really works," Bjorn Erik Thon, Norway's data protection commissioner, told Bloomberg. "They have pictures of hundreds of millions of people. What material Facebook has in its databases is something we need to discuss with them."

Facebook insists the tag-suggesting feature is fully compliant with European Union law and maintains that it has properly informed users about the technology, which they can turn off if they prefer. "We have given comprehensive notice and education to our users about tag suggest, and we provide very simple tools for people to opt out if they do not want to use this feature," a Facebook representative said in a statement. "We stop processing facial recognition data when someone chooses to opt out."


Data protection is currently policed by separate regulators in Europe. The EU wants to simplify the system so companies deal with only one data protection regulator in the 27-country bloc. Though Norway isn't in the EU, Facebook would of course still prefer to deal with just one privacy group.

The Norwegian investigation has thus been referred to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC). Facebook has more than 955 million monthly active users, but its U.S. headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., is not responsible for the majority of them. Facebook's international headquarters is in Dublin, meaning all users outside the U.S. and Canada are subject to Irish and European data protection laws. Facebook chose Dublin for the tax incentives: businesses are charged approximately 2 percent tax in Dublin compared with 35 percent tax in the U.S.

This past December, the ODPC completed a three-month privacy audit of Facebook's activities. A follow-up review was scheduled for July 2012 but has been pushed back to October 2012. The Norwegian authority plans to send a facial recognition questionnaire to Facebook once it has seen the Irish report.

17 years old Brittany Wenger, Wins Google Science Fair Grand Prize For Her Breast Cancer Diagnosis Application

Have you ever helped the hard-of-hearing listen to music? Or built a computer program to diagnose breast cancer? These kids have.

The 5 teenage winners of the second annual Google Science Fair were announced on Monday, according to Scientific American. Each of these brainy teens were chosen from among 30 finalists from around the world and were treated (along with the runners-up) to a gala held in an airplane hanger near the company's Palo Alto headquarters in California. (This is Google, after all.)

But the winners, of course, were awarded the best swag: Prizes included a college scholarships from Google for $25,000 or $50,000, trips to scientific hotspots like CERN and Fermilab, and (perhaps best of all), trophies made out of Lego bricks.

What did these brainiacs do to win the admiration of one of the best tech companies in the world? Read about each of their projects below.

BRITTANY WENGER FROM FLORIDA:

The Grand Prize winner of the science fair, for good reason, was a 17-year-old from Lakewood Ranch, Florida. Combining the fields of biology and computer science, Wenger wrote an app that helps doctors diagnose breast cancer, according to the description of her project on Google.

The type of computer program, called a "neural network," was designed by Wenger to mimic the human brain: Give it a massive amount of information (in this case, 7.6 million trials), and the artificial "brain" will learn to detect complex patterns and make diagnostic calls on breast cancer. Her program used data from "fine needle aspirates," a minimally invasive procedure that, unfortunately, is often one of the least precise diagnosis processes, according to Fox News. But Wenger is helping change that, as her program correctly identifies 99 percent of malignant tumors.

“I think it might be hospital ready," she told WWSB. "I'd love to get different data from doctors. Right now, I have 700 test samples.”

Visit her app at Cloud4Cancer Breast Cancer Detection (here) to see how it works.