Saturday, January 7, 2012

‘Intranet Prahari Project’ for Border SecurityForce (BSF) Launched


Intranet Prahari Project , that is aimed at providing online access to personnel, operational and administrative works for Border Security Force ( BSF ) is launched by Union home minister P Chidambaram.
Set up at a cost of Rs 229 crore , the e-office initiative project will benefit about 1.98 lakh BSF personnel across all 237 Battalion level locations of the Central armed police force.
The system will facilitate operational analysis, efficient planning in the domain of procurement, finance and manpower management resulting in quicker and better decision making and is also expected to considerably reduce paper work. Theproject was sanctioned by the home ministry last February.
Another Central armed police force, Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), has a similar proposal for its personnel.
Chidambaram said while congratulating the forcefor this project:
“It will also bring the force commanders and the sector commanders in the close touch with the BSF senior officials at the headquarters. I think, this will bring them closer so that decision making is participative and cooperative effort. The idea is to move towards paperless office”.

Microsoft Celebrates the Demise of IE6 Browser : Good Riddance


Internet Explorer 6 is almost dead in the United States, based on the latest data from Net Applications. Use of IE6 , Microsft’s 10-year-old browser in this country has dropped to beneath 1 percent.
Microsoft is happily announcing “good riddance” to its aging Internet Explorer 6 browser, which was one of its flagship products. Microsoft launched the IE6 Countdown site last March to help accelerate the process.
Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway are the other few countries which have also dropped below that 1 percent mark usage ofIE6.
Microsoft is asking its users in a blog post to end IE6 and move to a modern browsers like IE8 or IE9

Download Zynga ‘Scramble With Friends’ Game for iOS


Zynga launched the next mobile social game app in its ‘With Friends’ franchise: Scramble With Friends . Available on the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch, Scramble With Friends is a fun, social, fast-paced game that combines the brain bending fun of Zynga’s original Scramble with the classic features that have made ‘With Friends’ games beloved by millions – from celebrities to flight attendants.
Scramble With Friends is a made-for-mobile game where players compete against opponents to beat the clock and find as many words as possible on the game board. Each match consists of three rounds of two-minutes, and the player with the highest point total at the end wins. The game is social, simple, fast, and bonus-packed.
Download Scramble With Friends for iPhone, iPadand iPod Touch
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scramble-with-friends-free/id485084223?mt=8

Multi-Round: When the clock starts, find as many words as your eye can spy and watch the points rain down. The game consists of three rounds:
Round One: Classic play with standard point values for each letter.
Round Two: ‘Double Down’, includes double letterand word values strewn throughout the game board.
Round Three: ‘Triple Crown’ with triple letter and word scores.
Power-Ups: Before each round, players are able to stock-up with special Power Ups:
Freeze: Take a moment to chill by temporarily stopping the clock to find more words.
Inspiration: Got scrambler’s block? Inspiration highlights up to three words you haven’t found yet.
Scramble: Shake things up by using Scramble to give a new view of the game board (5 uses per match).
‘With Friends’ Magic: Scramble With Friends offersall of the elements that make ‘With Friends’ games easy to pick up and hard to put down:
Turn-based, allowing players to play at their own pace.
Similar scoring and the same dictionary and match-making engine as Words With Friends.
In-game chat included – great for trash talking, orwhispering sweet nothings into each other’s phones.
Connect “with friends” – players can connect Scramble With Friends with their existing ‘With Friends’ account or utilize Facebook Connect to easily find new friends to challenge.
Tokens of Play: Players start each match with tokens that are replenished over a period of 20-minutes. Each players can choose to spend a token for an additional Power-Up, adding a layer of strategy for how the game is played. Additional tokens are available through In-App purchase on the App Store.
David Ko, chief mobile officer for Zynga said:
“Scramble With Friends takes one of Zynga’s earliest games and sprinkles the magic of ‘With Friends’ games to enhance play and bring players a raucously fun mobile social experience.Our ‘With Friends’ franchise brings new twists to classic favorites and Scramble With Friends is no different. We’re dedicated to innovating in mobile social games and bringing more play into everyone’s day wherever and whenever they want.”