Zuckerberg wrote about the big event in his life on his Facebook timeline, with a status update that read, “Married Priscilla Chan” on May 19.

An accompanying picture shows a smiling Zuckerberg dressed in a simple dark blue suit, white shirt and wearing a tie. Chan is in an elegant sleeveless laced white wedding gown with a veil falling over her shoulders. A string of bulbs are hung in the background which is Zuckerberg’s backyard.

The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years. Chan’s Facebook page also had the updated relationship status with the message “married to Mark Zuckerberg.”

The marriage capped an extremely eventful week for the couple. Zuckerberg celebrated his 28th birthday on Monday, May 14. Days later Facebook, which was founded by Zuckerberg in 2004 in his Harvard dorm, became went public through an IPO that pegged the value of the world’s most popular social network site at 104 billion dollars.

The same week Chan graduated from the University of California, San Francisco. Chan studied medicine and is now a pediatrician. On her graduation day, Zuckerberg had written on his Facebook page, “I am so proud of you Dr Chan.”

“Volume based browsing rate on 3G down from 10 paisa per 10kb to 3 paisa per 10kb. This will be applicable for 3G non-pack users with effect from May 17, 2012,” the company said in a statement.

The company had won 3G spectrum in 13 out of the 22 telecom circles in a government-led auction in 2010 for over Rs.12,000 crore. The services which were launched across the country last year have failed to pick up so far due to high prices.

The company statement said that the new data plan for pre-paid customers would start at Rs.10 for 30 minutes of usage over a one-day validity, Rs.45 for 150 MB data valid for 7 days and will go till Rs.1,500 for 10 GB data valid for 30 days.

For post-paid customers, the plans starts at Rs.100 with a 300 MB data and 30 days validity, and goes till Rs.1,500 for 10 GB data valid for 30 days.

Airtel has also introduced Smartbytes additional data usage packs for its post-paid mobile customers on 3G, thus becoming the first in the market to offer customers with the choice of subscribing to incremental 3G data usage packs.

The Smartbytes additional data usage packs are available in a range of predetermined price options that allow Airtel 3G customers to choose a plan that suits their needs, while avoiding any bill shocks, the statement said.

Under this Facility, the mobile phones of the voters will be registered in the voters list. The voters will be informed about their number in the voters list and their polling centres so that they exercise their franchise using their mobile phones.

This will make it convenient for voters to exercise their franchise from their homes, and would be a boon to voters residing outside their Hometowns.

Sirohi also emphasised on preservation of the voters list in a scientific manner in the backdrop of the apex court direction recently and also to issue identity cards to all eligible voters. A website will be developed to preserve the voter lists and information related to the voters so as to encourage them to exercise their franchise, the SEC said.

Apple's New iPad

The love for Apple amongst its fans is well known and the brand loyalty that Apple enjoys is unparalleled.

Apple has never disappointed its followers and has always raised the bar with its new product. It undoubtedly excels in setting a benchmark for tablets.

What does this new iPad have that its predecessor, i.e. iPad 2 did not possess?

No other product has ever been able to outdo Apple in terms of its looks, even years after its invention. The minimalist modus operandi of Apple sets it apart from other brands.
There is an iconic Ione home button in the front, placed at the bottom of the screen. Other essential buttons including Power button, screen rotations, volume rocker button placed on the left hand side. There is VGA camera in the front that facilitates Face Time chats.

The earphone connector is located 3.5mm to the right of the screen. This iPad in the very first look can win one’s heart with the suaveness that it displays. The silvery rear adds to its refined look. There is not much difference in terms of its look compared to its predecessor except that the new one might look slightly more polished. The new iPad is 51 grams heavier and 0.6mm thicker than iPad 2.

The ‘Retina Display’, high-resolution screen is the USP of this phone where images look increasingly crisper with its resolution quality being four times superior to the previous version. It may surely make a hit with video game enthusiasts and others who crave for a flawless screen.

Other user interface features remain the same as in its predecessor. The most interesting feature in this new iPad is the dictation tool where you can use the microphone to dictate all that you want to be typed on the virtual keyboard.

The iSight camera with a resolution of 0.7 MP can capture images with amazing clarity. It also allows you to shoot videos in HD 1080 p.

Reviewed by the Experts @RelianceDigital after the analysis and study of the new iPad in detail. Reliance Digital, the Consumer Durables and Electronic Arm of RIL is a one stop shop for technology solutions of all kinds.

I&B Secretary Uday Kumar Varma has written a letter to the Secretary (DoT) R Chandrashekhar, pointing out that Community Radio stations did not run for profits, so the decision to raise the spectrum fee should be reconsidered, official sources said today.

The DoT had earlier decided to increase the annual spectrum fee for community radio stations from Rs 19,000 to Rs 91,000. In his letter, Varma pointed out that the I&B Ministry had not been consulted by the DoT before this fee hike was decided. The five-fold increase in spectrum fee would have a crippling effect on the growth of community radio stations in the country as many organisations would find it impossible to meet this huge hike in charges, Varma said in his letter.

Community Radio is one of the focus areas of the I and B ministry which has also considered providing financial and other support to groups who can operate such Radio stations. The I&B Ministry, which has even instituted awards to promote community radio, feels that the increase in spectrum fee would send a negative signal to groups interested in setting up such stations.

Community radio groups have also been protesting the DoT decision to hike fee. “This fee hike puts an unnecessary burden on Community Radio Stations which are struggling to make ends meet. TRAI had in 2004 suggested that there should be no spectrum fee for community radio, which should be the case,” N Ramkrishnan, General Secretary of the Community Radio Forum of India said.

Schogini Systems has charted out this strategy of intelligent gaming as a commitment towards the teenagers and young people who are reading less and spending more time before computers or on mobile phones.

As part of the firm’s strategy, FIDE (World Chess Federation) ranked chess player Mohammed Salih, Schogini’s brand ambassador, will challenge laser game Khet’s inventor Luke Hooper to a game at the Technopark campus here.

Khet is an abstract strategy board game using lasers, where players take turns to move Egyptian-themed pieces around the playing field, and fire their low-powered laser diode after each move. Most of the pieces are mirrored on one or more sides, allowing the players to alter the path of the laser through the playing field.

The laser game Khet 2.0 was a Toy of the Year finalist, Mensa Select award winner and was featured in Wired magazine in 2011.

Schogini has also created the mobile version of Khet for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone.

N. Sree Prakash, managing director, Schogini Systems, said technology is advancing at an alarming rate.

“With smart phones being more popular these days, it is no longer about making or receiving calls or SMS. Instead of blaming technology for youngsters staying glued to their mobile phones or laptops, we should find ways to tap its potential to bring back the youngsters from all pitfalls of technology,” said Prakash.

Schogini has also partnered with Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman and Luke Hooper to implement Komodo 4, a top rated chess engine AI (artificial intelligence).

In the company’s efforts to empower the blind, Schogini will also showcase the Talking Chess Board, Talking Chess Application (Apps), Talking Khet Apps, Colouring Apps and Seeing Apps.

In less than two years, Schogini Systems has made giant strides in mobile applications. Starting with just six, they have touched 46 professionals in the past few months.

The App Center will spotlight free and paid applications that use Facebook’s social graph. It will be a part of the Facebook website, but also the company’s iOS and Android apps.

The App Center is designed to grow mobile apps that use Facebook – whether they’re on iOS, Android or the mobile web. From the mobile App Center, users can browse apps that are compatible with their device, and if a mobile app requires installation, they will be sent to download the app from the App Store or Google Play.

“For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the App Center will become the new, central place to find great apps like Draw Something, Pinterest, Spotify, Battle Pirates, Viddy, and Bubble Witch Saga,” explains Facebook in a blog post aimed at developers.

“The App Center is designed to grow mobile apps that use Facebook whether they’re on iOS, Android or the mobile web,” Facebook’s Aaron Brady said in a blog post.

“From the mobile App Center, users can browse apps that are compatible with their device, and if a mobile app requires installation, they will be sent to download the app from the App Store or Google Play.”

Facebook invited software developers to ready description pages for listing in the App Center, where applications will earn spots based on quality, popularity and other metrics.

“The App Center will become the new, central place to find great apps like Draw Something, Pinterest, Spotify, Battle Pirates, Viddy, and Bubble Witch Saga,” Brady said.

The App Center will also see Facebook moving beyond its historic focus on free apps that make money from advertising and/or in-app purchases.

“To support more types of apps on Facebook.com, we will give developers the option to offer paid apps,” explains the company. “This is a simple-to-implement payment feature that lets people pay a flat fee to use an app on Facebook.com.” Developers can request to sign up to a beta programme for this.

What’s interesting about App Center is the change of emphasis that it represents for Facebook. The social network’s app discovery has traditionally been focused on a mixture of virality – those messages that get posted in people’s news streams – and advertising.

The App Center will open in “coming weeks,” according to Brady.

“Government is aware that several calls and SMSs are being sent from private numbers i.e. by subscribers not registered as a telemarketer. 44,810 notices have been issued to unregistered telemarketers and 27,984 telephones have been disconnected till April 24, 2012 since inception of the regulation i.e. Sep 27, 2011,” Communications Minister Kapil Sibal said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.

In order to provide relief to millions of mobile subscribers nagged by telemarketing companies, the government last year brought into force a regulation — The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010 — barring such communications.

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), if pesky calls or messages are sent through individual numbers then notice will be served to the customers while the number will be disconnected on second violation.

The guidelines regulating commercial calls levy hefty penalties on offenders including fines ranging from Rs.25,000 to Rs.250,000 depending on the number of times the violation is detected. On sixth violation, the telemarketer’s connection is to be terminated and get blacklisted for two years.

All telemarketing firms are now easily identifiable as their phone numbers will hence forth begin with ’140′.

To avail the service, customers have to get registered with the National Customer Preference Registry, earlier known as the National Do Not Call registry, by dialling toll free number 1909. They can also send a SMS — ‘start 0′ — to the same number to get registered.

The social-networking company plans to sell shares for $28 to $35 each, using the ticker symbol FB. That will raise roughly $10.6 billion, making it the fifth-largest initial public offering U.S. IPO, says Renaissance Capital.

At the midpoint of the initial range, $31.50, the initial sale of more than 337 million shares of Facebook stock would net more than $10.6 billion, with about $5.6 billion of that going to the company.

The rest will go to existing stockholders who are selling their shares, including CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and venture capital investors such as Palo Alto-based Accel Partners.

The price also values Facebook at about $86 billion, making it the most valuable U.S. company to ever go public, Renaissance says.

The company’s valuation at the midpoint of the suggested range would be about $78 billion, short of many projections that Facebook would shoot for a valuation of up to $100 billion.

Initially established in a Harvard dormitory by Zuckerberg and some friends as college-specific social networks closed off to interested outsiders, Facebook eventually opened up to the world and became the most popular social network in history, with more than 900 million monthly active users.

However, Facebook’s profits dipped in the first three months of 2012 when compared with the same quarter in 2011.

While sales hit $1.06 billion in the first quarter, up 45 percent from the year-ago quarter, thanks to a 37 percent increase in advertising revenue, Facebook’s total profit dropped to $205 million, from $233 million a year ago.

Facebook’s most anticipated stock debut for Silicon Valley in several years is expected to set records for funds raised and valuation for an Internet company.

Google’s IPO in 2004, which set the company’s value at $23 billion and reaped $1.9 billion for the Mountain View search giant, is the largest for now.

Founded in October 2006 by few Indians in California, SlideShare is world’s most popular content sharing platform. It helps professionals discover people through content, and content through people. SlideShare users have uploaded more than nine million presentations, and according to comScore, in March SlideShare had nearly 29 million unique visitors, ranking it among the most heavily trafficked sites for professional content. The company is based in San Francisco, Calif., and is backed by investors including Jonathan Abrams, Mark Cuban, Dave McClure, and Venrock

Slideshare had raised only $3 Million through Funds, while being sold at $119 Millions makes it investors rich by 40 times.

Rashmi Sinha, CEO of SlideShare commented, “We built SlideShare to help professionals share presentations and connect people through content. What we can build with LinkedIn, the largest professional network on the Internet, is the most natural extension of this vision. I am excited about what we can build together.”

What does this mean for SlideShare the company? I will continue to run SlideShare and our team will continue to do what we’ve been doing, which is to develop new features and make the site even better. Over time you will see some integrations that take advantage of the great fit between SlideShare and LinkedIn.

SlideShare is also enabling the sharing of presentations across the Web; nearly 7.4 million presentations hosted by SlideShare are embedded across more than 1.4 million unique domains.

“Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture and share their experiences and knowledge, which in turn helps shape their professional identity,” said LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. “These presentations also enable professionals to discover new connections and gain the insights they need to become more productive and successful in their careers, aligning perfectly with LinkedIn’s mission and helping us deliver even more value for our members. We’re very excited to welcome the SlideShare team to LinkedIn.”

Deep Nishar, LinkedIn’s Senior Vice President of Product and User Experience, blogged about the acquisition at

Over the past few years, SlideShare and LinkedIn have been working closely together to help professionals be more effective and productive through the content they create and share on LinkedIn. I’ve personally been a huge fan of SlideShare and am thrilled to have such a great, skilled team joining the LinkedIn family.

This acquisition means good things to professionals everywhere. Presentations are a core component of how professionals define and brand their identity. This deal enables professionals to discover people through content, and content through people. We’re excited to figure out the best ways our offerings will work together to help professionals around the world be more productive and successful.