Choosing a Satellite Provider: Dish Network

As with everything, satellite providers have competition.The great thing to know is that there are only two, Dish Network and DirecTV.Dish Network has not been on the scene as long as DirecTV, but this does not mean the quality is not present.

Dish Network provides over 250 channels to any satellite family.They have several packages so that you can choose if you want movie, sports, and other channels.Like most even cable, Dish Network provides the lower channels such as USA, FOX, NBC, and those like them in every package.This means you can just have these channels or you can add specialty channels like HBO, Starz, and the sports channels.Dish Network also provides Sirius satellite radio channels.

When you are looking to buy satellite tv, keep in mind that you need to have the equipment from Dish Network in order to use their service.Each satellite company has a signal that recognizes the individual dishes.This is how they know which channels you have paid for and which ones you have not.This also tells them that you are up to date on payments and have not cancelled service.If you have a DirecTV dish, but no longer wish to use their service for whatever reason, you will need to buy new equipment.There are deals out there to make this process a little less painful on your pocket book.Another thing to keep in mind is that both satellite providers offer the same types of packages for around the same cost.Often one company has different channels.
The Difference With Cable vs. Satellite TV
You might be wondering what difference there is in cable vs. satellite TV. You might think it is just the way you receive the signal and in large that part it is. There are other differences as well. Let us look at a few of those differences below.

Cable vs. Satellite TV can often seem like a hard question to answer. Cable television is provided by a coaxial cable. This cable actually runs a great distance to reach your television. It is very easy for your cable signal to waver in and out because of this coaxial cable. Interference can be great if there is a storm and it knocks the lines down or if someone is working on the road and accidentally hits the wires in the ground. This is not to say cable is a bad choice. Cable also can be digital, which gives you are better, clearer quality signal than regular TV. You also have to have a cable box if you have digital cable. The cost of cable for channels you receive is usually a little bit more than satellite TV especially if you want to add movie channels.

When considering Cable vs. Satellite TV, you need to consider how you receive the signal; you actually receive an uninterrupted signal from the satellite when you have a satellite dish. You do have to have a receiver and it takes a little bit to get the satellite oriented on the signal, but you only have to worry about the coaxial cable going from the receiver to the television, so the signal is usually clearer on satellite. In addition, the satellite is digital as long as you have a television that receives the digital signal you will be able to receive a digital picture.

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Sprint BlackBerry Curve 8330

Sprint Bolsters Industry-Leading Blackberry Portfolio with Addition of the BlackBerry Curve 8330
Operating on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 is the smallest BlackBerry smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard and supports exclusive multimedia content via Sprint Music Store and Sprint TV
The BlackBerry Curve 8330 is the smallest BlackBerry smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard and strikes an attractive balance between functionality, design and usability, giving users access to phone, personal and corporate email, contacts, calendar, tasks, camera, multimedia content, GPS navigation, enhanced Web browsing and other capabilities. Whether customers are interested in advanced capabilities for personal or professional use, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone delivers innovative features including a two megapixel camera with video recording*, advanced media player for music, videos and photos, 3.5mm headphone jack, Bluetooth with support for stereo headsets and car kits, microSD/SDHC card slot for expandable memory (8 GB memory cards are available today), voice-activated dialing, voice notes recorder and the ability to be used as a modem with a laptop. Customers can also take advantage of exclusive Sprint services like**:
Sprint Navigation - As the first carrier to have offered a GPS-enabled BlackBerry smartphone, Sprint continues this innovation with the addition of Sprint Navigation, which delivers voice-guided and on-screen turn-by-turn GPS-enabled driving directions, 3-D moving maps similar to an in-car navigation system or personal navigation device, as well as more than 10 million local listings and real-time intelligent traffic alerts with one-click rerouting, anywhere on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network.
“Powerful core organizational capabilities, sleek and attractive form factors, exclusive multimedia content, flexible international service options and industry-leading push-to-talk service are combined factors that give Sprint one of the most attractive BlackBerry smartphone portfolios in the industry,” said Danny Bowman, vice president of customer equipment for Sprint. “The addition of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 to our lineup gives our customers access to information now, with no compromises.”
“The BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone offers a unique blend of functionality, design and usability that hits a real sweet spot for both personal and professional use,” said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion. “It’s as adept at keeping people productive at work as it is with helping them stay connected to friends or entertained and informed with Sprint’s music, video and navigation services.”

The Sprint Difference
Sprint provides true value for its BlackBerry customers with several industry differentiating areas:

– BlackBerry(R) Pearl(TM) 8130 smartphone - includes support for the largest range of exclusive Sprint content including Sprint TV, Sprint Music Store and Sprint Navigation.

– BlackBerry(R) 8830 World Edition smartphone - equipped with international voice and data roaming capabilities offered by Sprint, as well as an unlocked SIM card slot for voice and data services. Customers can sign up for competitive international roaming service plans directly from Sprint or take advantage of service from local providers in other countries.

– BlackBerry(R) 7100i smartphone - equipped with Nextel Direct Connect(R), the industry’s largest and fastest push-to-talk service, allowing instant, efficient and economical means to communicate across the nation and in and between six international locations: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico and Peru.

Network Strength:

Customers who use BlackBerry smartphones from Sprint and subscribe to national calling plans, can make voice calls (with no additional roaming charges) in more places. Sprint provides the largest voice calling area, reaching more than 299 million people in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam. These same customers receive unbeatable value for data services as well. The Sprint Mobile Broadband Network (inclusive of data roaming) reaches more than 234 million people, 13,453 cities and 1,321 airports.

Sprint offers BlackBerry users the convenience of instant push-to-talk communication on the world’s largest push-to-talk network and largest community of users. With Nextel, BlackBerry smartphone users can connect coast-to-coast and country-to-country in under a second with anyone from the world’s largest community of push-to-talk users. The Nextel National Network continues to operate at best-ever status with internal metrics showing double-digit percent improvement year-over-year.

Simply Everything Pricing:

Regardless of whether Sprint customers are using their BlackBerry smartphones with a BlackBerry(R) Enterprise Server or with BlackBerry(R) Internet Service, they can receive great value with Sprint’s new Simply Everything pricing plan. For a flat rate of $99.99 per month the Simply Everything plan offers BlackBerry Internet Service customers unlimited voice and data. Pricing complexity and concerns about overage charges are virtually eliminated, letting customers think more about how they can use their wireless device for work and play, and less about their bill. BlackBerry Enterprise Server users can subscribe to the same plan and receive access to their corporate email, calendar, contacts and firewall protection for an additional $20 per month.

BlackBerry Curve Pricing and Availability

The BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone will be available later this month online at http://www.sprint.com, through Sprint Telesales, Sprint business sales channels and retail locations for as low as $179.99 with a two-year service agreement, a $170 instant savings credit and $100 mail-in-rebate.

Next Generation Nuclear Power

Rising electricity prices and last summer’s rolling blackouts in California have focused fresh attention on nuclear power’s key role in keeping America’s lights on. Today 103 nuclear plants crank out a fifth of the nation’s total electrical output. And despite residual public misgivings over Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the industry has learned its lessons and established a solid safety record during the past decade. Meanwhile the efficiency and reliability of nuclear plants have climbed to record levels. Now with the ongoing debate about reducing greenhouse gases to avoid the potential onset of global warming, more people are recognizing that nuclear reactors produce electricity without discharging into the air carbon dioxide or pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and smog-causing sulfur compounds. The world demand for energy is projected to rise by about 50 percent by 2030 and to nearly double by 2050. Clearly, the time seems right to reconsider the future of nuclear power.

No new nuclear plant has been ordered in the U.S. since 1978, nor has a plant been finished since 1995. Resumption of large-scale nuclear plant construction requires that challenging questions be addressed regarding the achievement of economic viability, improved operating safety, efficient waste management and resource utilization, as well as weapons nonproliferation, all of which are influenced by the design of the nuclear reactor system that is chosen.

Designers of new nuclear systems are adopting novel approaches in the attempt to attain success. First, they are embracing a system-wide view of the nuclear fuel cycle that encompasses all steps from the mining of ore through the management of wastes and the development of the infrastructure to support these steps. Second, they are evaluating systems in terms of their sustainability—meeting present needs without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to prosper. It is a strategy that helps to illuminate the relation between energy supplies and the needs of the environment and society. This emphasis on sustainability can lead to the development of nuclear energy–derived products besides electrical power, such as hydrogen fuel for transportation. It also promotes the exploration of alternative reactor designs and nuclear fuel–recycling processes that could yield significant reductions in waste while recovering more of the energy contained in uranium.

We believe that wide-scale deployment of nuclear power technology offers substantial advantages over other energy sources yet faces significant challenges regarding the best way to make it fit into the future.

Future Nuclear Systems In Response to the difficulties in achieving sustainability, a sufficiently high degree of safety and a competitive economic basis for nuclear power, the U.S. Department of Energy initiated the Generation IV program in 1999. Generation IV refers to the broad division of nuclear designs into four categories: early prototype reactors (Generation I), the large central station nuclear power plants of today (Generation II), the advanced lightwater reactors and other systems with inherent safety features that have been designed in recent years (Generation III), and the next-generation systems to be designed and built two decades from now (Generation IV) [see box on opposite page]. By 2000 international interest in the Generation IV project had resulted in a nine-country coalition that includes Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, the U.K. and the U.S. Participating states are mapping out and collaborating on the research and development of future nuclear energy systems.

Although the Generation IV program is exploring a wide variety of new systems, a few examples serve to illustrate the broad approaches reactor designers are developing to meet their objectives. These next-generation systems are based on three general classes of reactors: gascooled, water-cooled and fast-spectrum.

Gas-Cooled Reactors Nuclear reactors using gas (usually helium or carbon dioxide) as a core coolant have been built and operated successfully but have achieved only limited use to date. An especially exciting prospect known as the pebble-bed modular reactor possesses many design features that go a good way toward meeting Generation IV goals. This gascooled system is being pursued by engineering teams in China, South Africa and the U.S. South Africa plans to build a full-size prototype and begin operation in 2006.

The pebble-bed reactor design is based on a fundamental fuel element, called a pebble, that is a billiard-ball-size graphite sphere containing about 15,000 uranium oxide particles with the diameter of poppy seeds. The evenly dispersed particles each have several high-density coatings on them. One of the layers, composed of tough silicon carbide ceramic, serves as a pressure vessel to retain the products of nuclear fission during reactor operation or accidental temperature excursions. About 330,000 of these spherical fuel pebbles are placed into a metal vessel surrounded by a shield of graphite blocks. In addition, as many as 100,000 unfueled graphite pebbles are loaded into the core to shape its power and temperature distribution by spacing out the hot fuel pebbles.

History of the Digital Camera

Digital camera technology is directly related to and evolved from the same technology that recorded television images. In 1951, the first video tape recorder (VTR) captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses (digital) and saving the information onto magnetic tape. Bing Crosby laboratories (the research team funded by Crosby and headed by engineer John Mullin) created the first early VTR and by 1956, VTR technology was perfected (the VR1000 invented by Charles P. Ginsburg and the Ampex Corporation) and in common use by the television industry. Both television/video cameras and digital cameras use a CCD (Charged Coupled Device) to sense light color and intensity.

During the 1960s, NASA converted from using analog to digital signals with their space probes to map the surface of the moon (sending digital images back to earth). Computer technology was also advancing at this time and NASA used computers to enhance the images that the space probes were sending.
Digital imaging also had another government use at the time that being spy satellites. Government use of digital technology helped advance the science of digital imaging, however, the private sector also made significant contributions. Texas Instruments patented a film-less electronic camera in 1972, the first to do so. In August, 1981, Sony released the Sony Mavica electronic still camera, the camera which was the first commercial electronic camera. Images were recorded onto a mini disc and then put into a video reader that was connected to a television monitor or color printer. However, the early Mavica cannot be considered a true digital camera even though it started the digital camera revolution. It was a video camera that took video freeze-frames.

Since the mid-1970s, Kodak has invented several solid-state image sensors that "converted light to digital pictures" for professional and home consumer use. In 1986, Kodak scientists invented the world's first megapixel sensor, capable of recording 1.4 million pixels that could produce a 5x7-inch digital photo-quality print. In 1987, Kodak released seven products for recording, storing, manipulating, transmitting and printing electronic still video images. In 1990, Kodak developed the Photo CD system and proposed "the first worldwide standard for defining color in the digital environment of computers and computer peripherals." In 1991, Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS), aimed at photojournalists. It was a Nikon F-3 camera equipped by Kodak with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.

However, Kodak entered into an aggressive co-marketing campaign to promote the DC40 and to help introduce the idea of digital photography to the public. Kinko's and Microsoft both collaborated with Kodak to create digital image-making software workstations and kiosks which allowed customers to produce Photo CD Discs and photographs, and add digital images to documents. IBM collaborated with Kodak in making an internet-based network image exchange. Hewlett-Packard was the first company to make color inkjet printers that complemented the new digital camera images.

Nepal joins the information technology competition

[KATHMANDU] Nepal, following the example of its neighbours India and China, is attempting to transform itself into an information technology (IT) hub.

The Nepalese government and local companies hope to encourage IT business, promote the use of digital technologies and reduce the digital divide between urban and rural areas. But some feel development should be happening faster.

"Nepali professionals have to compete with international professionals now that we have joined the World Trade Organisation," says Lochan Lal Amatya, president of the IT professional forum. He said the IT sector hadn't developed as much as it could have.

Nepal Telecom, a state-owned telecommunication provider, has reduced the cost of Internet access by more than 80 per cent, in line with government proposals to increase access to the web. However, rural residents pay more than five times as much to access the web, compared with city-dwellers, and computer literacy is low.

He noted that there were many obstacles to overcome before Nepali companies established themselves as a reliable destination for outsourced IT work, including an emphasis on education rather than practical skills used in industry.

"We have to lure foreign companies to invest in Nepal," Amatya told SciDev.Net. "We have to win their confidence by completing the small projects that we get. Only then will bigger projects come to us," he said.
Rajan Raj Pant, general secretary of the Computer Association of Nepal, expressed dissatisfaction with the slow development of the country's IT sector.
He said it had been been more than half a decade since a proposed IT park in the Kavrepalanchowk district, 30 kilometres east of Kathmandu, was announced, but had yet to open. "The government doesn't seem as aggressive as it should be," Pant said.
He told SciDev.Net that Nepal was well placed to benefit from developments in India and China.
"There are great opportunities in Nepal itself," Pant said. "The government should promote distance learning and the use of the latest technologies to educate rural youths, so that the increasing digital divide among the rural and urban youth can be reduced."

Scientific and technological stagnation

One question that has been the subject of debate among historians has been why China did not develop a scientific revolution and why Chinese technology fell behind that of Europe. Many hypotheses have been proposed ranging from the cultural to the political and economic. Nathan Sivin has argued that China indeed had a scientific revolution in the 17th century and that we are still far from understanding the scientific revolutions of the West and China in all their political, economic and social ramifications.John K. Fairbank argued that the Chinese political system was hostile to scientific progress.
Needham argued, and most scholars agreed, that cultural factors prevented these Chinese achievements from developing into what could be called "science".It was the religious and philosophical framework of the Chinese intellectuals which made them unable to believe in the ideas of laws of nature:
It was not that there was no order in nature for the Chinese, but rather that it was not an order ordained by a rational personal being, and hence there was no conviction that rational personal beings would be able to spell out in their lesser earthly languages the divine code of laws which he had decreed aforetime. The Taoists, indeed, would have scorned such an idea as being too naïve for the subtlety and complexity of the universe as they intuited it.

Similar grounds have been found for questioning much of the philosophy behind traditional Chinese medicine, which, derived mainly from Taoist philosophy, reflects the classical Chinese belief that individual human experiences express causative principles effective in the environment at all scales. Because its theory predates use of the scientific method, it has received various criticisms based on scientific thinking. Even though there are physically verifiable anatomical or histological bases for the existence of acupuncture points or meridians, for instance skin conductance measurements show increases at the predicted points (see _The Body Electric_ by Robert O. Becker, M.D., pgs 233-236), philosopher Robert Todd Carroll, a member of the Skeptics Society, deemed acupuncture a pseudoscience because it "confuse(s) metaphysical claims with empirical claims".
...no matter how it is done, scientific research can never demonstrate that unblocking chi by acupuncture or any other means is effective against any disease. Chi is defined as being undetectable by the methods of empirical science.
More recent historians have questioned political and cultural explanations and have put greater focus on economic causes. Mark Elvin's high level equilibrium trap is one well-known example of this line of thought. It argues that the Chinese population was large enough, workers cheap enough, and agrarian productivity high enough to not require mechanization : thousands of Chinese workers were perfectly able to quickly perform any needed task. Other events such as Haijin, the Opium Wars and the resulting hate of European influence prevented China from undergoing an Industrial Revolution; copying Europe's progress on a large scale would be impossible for a lengthy period of time. Political instability under Cixi rule (opposition and frequent oscillation between modernists and conservatives), the Republican wars (1911-1933), the Sino-Japanese War (1933-1945), the Communist/Nationalist War (1945-1949) as well as the later Cultural Revolution isolated China at the most critical times. Kenneth Pomeranz has made the argument that the substantial resources taken from the New World to Europe made the crucial difference between European and Chinese development.
In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond postulates that the lack of geographic barriers in much of China (essentially a wide plain with two large navigable rivers, and a relatively smooth coastline) led to a single government without competition. At the whim of a ruler who disliked new inventions, technology could be stifled for half a century or more. In contrast, Europe's barriers of the Pyrennes, the Alps, and the various defensible peninsulas (Denmark, Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, etc.) and islands (Britain, Ireland, Sicily, etc.) led to smaller countries in constant competition with each other. If a ruler chose to ignore a scientific advancement (especially a military or economic one), his more-advanced neighbors would soon usurp his throne.

India Promises Action to Prevent Fraud After IT Industry Shaken by Scandal

Indian officials are promising to strengthen laws to prevent corporate fraud in the wake of a massive corporate scandal in the country's famous information technology industry. The revelation that one of the country's biggest technology outsourcing firms had inflated its profits and assets for years has shaken corporate India as well as foreign investors.
As the scale of the biggest corporate fraud in India becomes clear, top government officials have moved quickly to say they will do all they can to ensure there is no repetition.
This week, the chairman of Satyam Computer Services - the country's fourth largest Information Technology company - rocked corporate India by disclosing that over 90 percent of the $1.1 billion listed as cash on the company's books was fictitious. Satyam specializes in business software and back office services, and its clients include some of the world's biggest banks and manufacturers.
Regulatory authorities in India have begun searching for clues as questions are raised about how the fraud could have been hidden for so long.
Corporate Affairs Minister Prem Chand Gupta is promising stringent action against those found guilty.
"It would be the strictest possible action against the erring company … We are in fact more concerned about the investors, the stakeholders, the country's image," said Gupta.
A new management in Satyam is trying to salvage the situation. The company's interim chairman, Ram Mynampati, says they have reached out to their top 100 customers worldwide.
"The next step is to ensure that business continuity remains undisturbed … These steps include reaching out to our customers to assure them that business support deliverables will continue as usual, practicing complete transparency in all that we do," said Mynampati.
But analysts say it is unclear how the company will survive the scandal, dubbed as "India's Enron".
However the jury is out on how the scandal will impact foreign investors. Some analysts fear that global businesses will be cautious about investing in India as the country's corporate governance and accounting standards come under scrutiny.
Others say those worries will be short-lived. They say investors will continue to pump money into one of the world's fastest growing economies, although they will pay closer attention to the books of companies they are investing in.
On its part, India's information technology is reassuring customers that Satyam represents a "stand-alone case." The $50 billion IT industry has grown massively over the last two decades, and several Indian technology companies are listed on the New York Stock exchange. The New York Stock Exchange has halted trading in Satyam's shares.

Agreement with Microsoft to promote computer technology in Vietnam

New York (AsiaNews/agencies) – An agreement to promote computer technology in Vietnam has been reached between the Hanoi prime minister, Phan Van Khai, and Microsoft owner Bill Gates. The agreement, signed at the Microsoft headquarters in Seattle in the course of the Vietnamese leader's first US visit, provides for teacher training and backing for the spread of computer technology in Vietnam.

At the moment, internet is strictly controlled by the communist authorities. In August last year, the creation of a special police corps was announced to "guarantee internet security" in Vietnam. The new police unit was set up to investigate internet crimes and to stem the distribution of prohibited information. Democratic ideas are considered as such and several people have been sentenced for talking about their democratic convictions.

Around five million out of a population of 81 million Vietnamese use the internet regularly. Since the service is expensive, Vietnamese usually go online in internet cafes, where owners are obliged to record all users' personal details, as well as visits to sites judged inappropriate, and to report everything to the authorities. Dissidents often use the internet to circulate information about conditions of human rights and freedoms in the country. According to the annual report of Réporter sans frontières, in 2003, cyber-dissidents were those hardest-hit by repressive government measures.

At the end of July 2004, for example, Nguyen Dan Que, one of Vietnam's best-known democracy activists, was condemned to two and a half years in prison for "abuse of democratic freedoms against the government". He had sent a document by internet to a relative in the United States, in which he upheld the necessity of political reform and human rights guarantees.

Article 69 of the Constitution guarantees freedom of the press, but stipulates penalties for diffusion of state secrets or information which threatens national security.

New Computer Technology - When is ENOUGH?

New computer technology comes out continuously. As a computer consultant you probably want to keep up with all the new computer technology that comes along. You're most likely in love with technology - always looking for a new intrusion protection product to play with or another border-gateway protocol. What you have to realize is that your small business clients aren't experimenting with new computer technology and so you shouldn't be wasting your time investigating it.

New Computer Technology Distractions

New computer technology is a distraction you can't afford. It's easy to get caught-up with keeping-up, but, no one is paying you for your raw technical knowledge. They aren't paying you for knowing the latest new computer technology, they are paying you for knowing the technology they are using.

If you've been in corporate IT for a long time you're way ahead of the average small business anyway. The average small business is going to be at least six to twelve sometimes even 18 months behind the new computer technology you see in the average enterprise IT shop.

In the early stages of your business, you have to put learning new computer technology on the back burner. Adjust your priorities and put 90 percent of your R&D on the back burner for the next three to six months. Concentrate on finding paying clients. If those paying clients start demanding skills with new computer technology, that's when you invest your time and energy.

The Bottom Line on New Computer Technology

You're in the business you're in because you love new computer technology. Unfortunately, in the business building stage you can't afford to spend your time learning, you have to spend your time doing - and getting paid for doing it. New computer technology isn't being used in the majority of clients' applications anyway. Put your passion for new computer technology on hold for a while and be passionate about finding steady, paying customers.

CELL PHONES

Roughly 60 percent of American teenagers own a cell phone, according to U.S. Cellular statistics, and spend an average of an hour a day talking on them—about the same amount of time the average teenager spends doing homework. And cell phone companies are now marketing to younger children with colorful kid-friendly phones and easy-to-use features. According to market research firm the Yankee Group, 54 percent of 8 to12 year olds will have cell phones within the next three years.

With cell phone usage growing rapidly for children and teens, we offer the following information and tips for parents:
Health Risks


Mental health: Another study looked at addictive, problematic use of cell phones and found a link between low self-esteem and problem cell phone use. A study measuring the link between cell phones and mental health found that teens who used cell phones the most were more likely to be anxious and depressed.

Bullying: Text messaging is increasing used by bullies to torment their victims. Cyberbullying, psychological harassment in text or instant messaging, is more often perpetrated by girls, who initiate inappropriate messages or spread damaging gossip.

Eye strain and “digital thumb”: Just like other repetitive strain injuries that can result from computer use and other repetitive tasks, these conditions can result from focusing continually on a small screen and typing on small buttons.

Bacteria: Because of the close proximity to the mouth where germs can be passed from breathing, coughing and sneezing, most cell phones are crawling with bacteria. Additionally, many people use their phone everywhere, even in the bathroom.

Brain tumors and low sperm counts: While some research investigating the effects of electromagnetic radiation from cell phones in close proximity to the body have found statistical associations, other studies have found no increased risk.

Lack of sleep: One study found that some teen cell phone users are likely to be woken at night by incoming text messages or calls, and are therefore more likely to be tired and less able to focus throughout the day.


Dependence: One study finds that 37 percent of teens felt they wouldn’t be able to live without a cell phone once they had it. This study also shows that the more friends a teen has, the more likely they are to feel dependent on their phone and let calls or text messages interfere with their daily schedule.

Dishonesty: The Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 39 percent of cell users ages 18-29 say they are not always truthful about where they are when they are on the phone.

Expense: Parents often experience sticker shock when they receive the bill for their child’s cell phone. Special ring tones, text, picture and video messaging, downloadable games, overage minutes and connecting to the Internet can all be very expensive and heavily used by teens.

Protecting Your Cell Phone Number

New Internet-based technologies are making it easier than ever to protect yourself from phone predators who seek to invade your privacy
Recent court rulings have begun to treat a person’s phone number as part of their identity. You can now switch from phone provider to phone provider and keep your number; a technological advance unheard of just a decade ago. Now, more than ever, people have a vested interest in protecting their cell phone number from unscrupulous solicitors and companies that look to flood your number with unwanted sales calls. Until recently, there little you could do to protect your number.
The first big step toward safe-guarding your number was the advent of the caller ID box. With Caller ID you could identify the phone number of the person calling you before initiating conversation by picking up the phone. However, this technology was tempered by the increasing use of cell phones. Since cell phone numbers aren’t listed in any major conventional directory, your caller ID box would often give you the number of the person calling, but that was it. If you wanted to know more, you were out of luck.
These days, sophisticated internet services offer to protect your privacy through the use of reverse phone number searches. Simply take any phone number, including a cellular number, and enter it into the search window of a well-known and trusted reverse search internet service. You’ll receive all available information attached to that phone number. These sites make use of private as well as public databases to provide you with information such as name, address, previous address listings, possible relatives, and so much more, if available.
When you need to perform a reverse phone lookup in hurry, it may be worth your while to research reverse phone search services online to retrieve information fast. It is the most reliable and efficient tool available online to protect you and your family from unwanted phone calls.

Bachelor of Computer Arts

Computer arts, media arts, animation, and graphic design represent one of today’s fastest growing fields. Bachelor of Computer Arts is a multidisciplinary degree program that provides students with the creative, technical and communication skills. Students in the program are geared up to take challenging careers in arts, media, video production. They are offered courses from areas of arts, communication, media, digital media, business and design fundamentals.
The program offers a comprehensive coverage of basic principles of arts, design and multimedia through to the final artistic productions. It offers specialization in Graphic Design, Media Production, and Animation & Multimedia.

Industry trends indicate an exponential increase in demand for specialists with creative talent, artistic expression, technical expertise, aesthetic sense, and media understanding. With advances in digital technology and its integration with the field of arts, new areas of design and expression have emerged. These include digital drawing, digital imaging, graphic design, product design, advertising design, computer animation, and visual effects.

Animation & Multimedia

The Animation & Multimedia specialization focuses on providing the conceptual, technical, and visual design skills required to create multimedia applications and environments. Students build a strong foundation for a multimedia design career by learning design principles, narrative structure, storyboarding, digital imaging, basic action scripting, video and sound editing, motion graphics, and interaction design.

The specialization aims to provide the academic and practical base covering the creative, design, technical and business skills necessary within the multimedia field. Students will be able to acquire in-depth knowledge of the process of creative thinking and concept development, as well as the technical skills needed to produce lively and creative content, and the business acumen and professional competency to be an efficient and effective member of a multimedia business or enterprise.
Multimedia Lab

To enable the students to meet the above objectives, a special lab is made available with state-of-the-art software and hardware tools. The equipment includes video capturing equipment, production video equipment, sound mixers, editing equipment etc.