Navtej Kohli

Navtej Kohli shares some amusing internet facts that you should know:

1. Who coined the phrase ‘World Wide Web’?

Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He’s also considered by most people as the person who started the whole thing rolling.

2. How did the Internet Start ?

It all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early 1960s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the States. People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. The Internet also received help from Sputnik!

3. What was ARPANET?

ARPANET stands for ‘Advanced Research Projects Agency Network’ Came about in the arena of Sputnik and the cold war. The military needed a method of communicating and sharing all the information on computers for research and development. It would also be a handy communication system if all traditional ways were wiped out in a nuclear attack.

4. What was the First long distance Connection?

In 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill, connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32 in California. The phone lines weren’t quite up to the task!

5. When was the first mouse introduced?

The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

If you wish to commence a major SEO effort, a PPC campaign is your sure shot ticket to success. Navtej Kohli gives some simple yet effective PPC campaign testing tips.

A good PPC campaign is one that not only fetches traffic, but converts shoots to flowers i.e. converts visitors to buyers.

If it doesn’t, you’re in a fix bro!

Use a PPC campaign to test your website on keywords you desire to do optimize in your SEO campaign. This will help you save loads of time and money.

Once you’ve opened your PPC account, do some brainstorming on how to test your keywords. Here are a few tips:

• Don’t pick the ‘broad match’ option.
• Instead use ‘exact phrase’: use [] to designate it.
• Third - test, test and only test can save you!

Super-Earth planets discovered beyond solar system, Navtej Kohli Blog gives a broad insight into the matter.

Scientists claim to have discovered a triple system of ’super-Earths’ around a distant star.

Super-Earths have a mass between two and ten times the Earth’s mass that is less massive than that of Uranus and Neptune.

European astronomers discovered the system of super-Earths around a star named HD 40307 that lies 42 light-years away towards the southern Doradus and Pictor constellations. They also discovered 45 further potential planets with a mass below 30 Earth masses and an orbit shorter than 50 days.

The scientists made the super-Earth and candidate planet discoveries using the HARPS instrument at the ESO.

“Clearly these planets are only the tip of the iceberg,” Mr. Mayor commented.

“The analysis of all the stars studied with HARPS shows that about one third of all solar-like stars have either super-Earth or Neptune-like planets with orbital periods shorter than 50 days.”

Researcher Stephane Udry added: “It is most probable that there are many other planets present: not only super-Earth and Neptune-like planets with longer periods, but also Earth-like planets that we cannot detect yet.

“Add to it the Jupiter-like planets already known, and you may well arrive at the conclusion that planets are ubiquitous.”

Navtej Kohli found this informational piece of news on internet. A study suggests that excessive alcohol consumption causes damage to the pancreas. If you want to know more, read on:

Canadian scientists have made a significant progress in understanding how excessive alcohol consumption causes damage to the pancreas.

The research conducted by experts from the University of Toronto and University Health Network involved experiments on mice.

Lead researcher Herbert Gaisano says that several studies have shown previously that rodents fed on alcohol-rich diet, and then exposed to a drug called carbachol, develop an inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis), which resembles the pancreatitis seen in individuals who consume an excessive amount of alcohol.

He also says that it has been suggested previously that the rodents develop pancreatitis because the alcohol and carbachol exposure cause cells in the pancreas to release vesicles containing degradative proteins known as enzymes at inappropriate places.

In the latest study, he adds, a protein called VAMP8 was found to have an important role in coordinating the inappropriate release of enzyme-containing vesicles in mice exposed to alcohol and carbachol.

According to Gaisano, mice lacking VAMP8 showed reduced pancreatitis after exposure to alcohol and carbachol, during the study.

Hey! I’m Navtej Kohli

When I was a child, I wondered why stoplights are Red, yellow, green. To me, it made no sense! I used to make paper traffic lights and adorn it with every color except for the above three. My inquisitive mind always questioned the relevance of these colors in the stoplight. My father gave me n number of arguments, but to no avail. It was hard to convince me, until i found this:

Stoplights are red, yellow, and green, because traffic officials, early on copied the code system railroad engineers devised for track systems controlling the trains.

The goal of the railroad engineers in crafting this code was to prevent often fatal train collisions, by giving the trains advance warning. Therefore they did not take their task lightly in selecting the symbolic colors for the signals.

Red, the color of blood, proved a logical choice for the stop signal, as for thousands of years, this color forbade danger. The color alone, railroad engineers reasoned, should give people cause to pause, to abide by the signal, and to stop or suffer the consequences of death and destruction.

Engineers used the trial and error method in selecting the other colors. The first trial in the 1830s, that of choosing green for the caution signal, and clear for the go signal, failed miserably. Clear as a choice for the go signal, varied slightly from the light cast from typical street lamps, or from the glare of the sunlight, and, thus could quite easily be mistaken for the go signal…after the fact.

This failure prompted the railroad engineers to alter their color selections to red for stop, green for go, and yellow for caution. Traffic engineers, either lacking in ingenuity or a work ethic, scurried off with this system of color coding, and instituted the very first electric stoplight in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914. The first signal did not include the color yellow for caution, but that was later added within a few years. Railroad engineers, not traffic engineers, should be credited for the lives saved in the interim, by their system of coding warning signals red, yellow, and green.

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South Korea plans to lower corporate rate in a bid to stimulate economic growth, the country’s Ministry of Strategy and Finance said Tuesday.

The ministry announced that it will cut the maximum corporate tax rate from 25 percent to 22 percent this year, while the minimum tax rate will be lowered from 13 percent to 10 percent.

According to the ministry, the move is a part of the effort by the South Korean government to create business friendly environment, and is in line with the global trend of advanced countries.

The tax-cut plan is two years ahead of the initial schedule, the ministry added.

Ever wonder if your PC is keeping secrets from you? Wonder no more. The utility ‘What’s Running’ reveals all your system’s active processes, services, drivers, and connections.

It’s like Windows Task Manager, except far more informative. The cramped multipane interface is a bit hard to read, but even it has its good points: it lists processes in a parent-child hierarchy, not a bad way to accidentally spot malware. It also lets you choose which columns of information to display, and it makes stopping or prioritizing processes as simple as a mouse click. It even lets you control which programs launch at start-up, and includes information on active DLLs, EXEs, and drivers.

Lacking only the ability to replace the Task Manager outright, What’s Running tells you things you didn’t know you needed to know.

The web is changing the very nature of intimacy, emotion and dating, says a new study.

An audit of online dating sites as part of the study has found that they are informal and are fast emerging as an effective way of developing one’s “social and intimate circle”.

The study, which audited 60 sites and conducted in-depth interviews with users, also found that the online communication had more intensity and immediacy, and, in some ways, was almost addictive in nature.

The study, by University of Melbourne researchers Millsom Henry-Waring and Jo Barraket, has been published in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society.

According to the study, an important feature of online communication was the drafting of one’s personal profile - perceived as one’s own “shop window”.

“Many of our participants talked about the fact that people were judged on the basis of how they looked, but also how their photos and profiles ‘talked’ online,” the authors wrote.

“We have suggested that a type of ‘hyper-communication’ occurs in the types of communication and also in the speed and intensity of the contact. As found in other studies, this appears to be facilitated by the informal and dis-inhibitive nature of the medium.”

Navtej Kohli lifts some clouds from the world’s darkest mystery, unsolved till date.

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Indians who truly made India proud, Navtej Kohli talks about Indians of Global Acclaim

Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?

A. Vinod Khosla

Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today’s computers run on it)?

A. Vinod Dahm

Q. Who is the fourth, fifth, sixth richest man in the world?

A. According to the latest report in Forbes Magazine, it is Lakshmi Mittal, Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani respectively. All Indian business tycoons.

Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world’s No.1 web based email program)?

A. Sabeer Bhatia

Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?

A. Arun Netravalli

Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?

A. Rajiv Gupta

Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?

A. Sanjay Tejwrika

Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?

A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

Q. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives.

There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,

* 38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
* 12% scientists in USA are Indians.
* 36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
* 34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
* 28% of IBM employees are Indians.
* 17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
* 13% of XEROX employees are Indians.