(Video) $600 VIA NanoBook

(Video) $600 VIA NanoBook

Priced at just $600, the VIA NanoBook features a 7-inch display, VIA C7-M ULV processor (1.2-GHz), up to 1GB of DDR memory, 30GB/60GB HDD, Bluetooth, and 802.11g Wi-Fi. Video preview after the jump.

Gadgets- Pistol Clock

Pistol Clock
This Pistol Clock could be one of the coolest desk gadgets that we’ve come across. In addition to telling time, the clock is housed in a “miniature metal revolver with moving cylinder.”

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Mechanical Head Sculpture

Mechanical Head Sculpture

If shiny silver humanoid robots existed, this is what the inner workings of its head might look like. View more pictures after the break.

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Youtube not money down tube: Google

Mumbai: More than 2 lakh people watched the video of the first rock band to make music over the Net.

Google now wants to make users pay for the videos they watch, by introducing contextual video advertising, but this may take a while to reach India, where Google has only recently appointed its reseller agents.

Companies like Next Gen publishing will buy media on Google Adwords for local clients, but internationally Google can pick from these options.

Says VP Next Gen Publishing Mandeep Singh, "When we talk about visual, either it could be topic based or it could be classified and then it can be sponsored or you never know, google might like to use a contextual search ad. For example if a child gets hurt and a band-aid ad appears, then that could be wonderful."

But that's easier said than done. Google will first need to ensure all offensive clips are removed, then classify the clips which have so far been manually tagged. It will also have to match clients with clips. And the advertising itself will have to be tailormade for the Internet.

Says Founder and CEO Pinstorm Mahesh Murthy, "When you are buying Youtube, and when you have thousands of videos, most of them user generated, plainly funny - a dog fighting a cat or a person eating off a live rat - its really hard to put that in a context and say, 'You know what do I show in that?'"

But Google may just have a googly up its sleeve. It already has content tie ups for Google video, and it could move away from the click through model and charge users and clients per view.

The other option is to tie up with broadband providers to stream the high bandwidth Youtube site exclusively. Even so, experts say, breakeven in three years is a tough ask.

Govt. of India mulls ban on Orkut

New Delhi: Popular internet networking site Orkut is facing attack by Shiv Sena workers, who went on a rampage seeing disparaging remarks made against Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray and Marathi icon Shivaji were posted on the site.

The student wing of the Shiv Sena has asked public Internet centres in India to partly block access to Orkut, and is making a software to monitor abusive communities on the popular social networking site operated by Google.

"Orkut is used by many destructive elements to spread canards about India, Hindus, our gods and cultural heritage," Abhijit Phanse, president of Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, the student group was quoted by Reuters.

"The software should be ready in 2-3 months," Phanse said, adding that they were hoping to involve Orkut authorities in the discussions.

The Shiv Sena said many Indians use Orkut to bad-mouth religious groups and disturb communal harmony, and also spread misinformation about India. The incident seems to once again raise questions about the thin line between censorship and freedom of expression.

The Sainiks vandalised a cyber cafe in Thane, Mumbai and demanded a ban on Orkut because of the remarks posted on one of its forums, essentially group blogs that allow people to write and post their views on any topic - without censors.

The controversy has assumed a nation wide debate. Is banning a public forum a direct attack on freedom of expression?