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Here is a nice list of topics from edufive.com

# SPINS -Security Protocol For Sensor Network
# Generic visual perception processor
# Nanotechnology Assembler Design And Nano-Communication
# Tele-Immersion
# Liquid Crystal on Silicon Display (LCOS)
# Jini - advanced set of network protocols
# Computer memory based on the protein bacterio-rhodopsin
# CSS and DeCSS
# Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS)
# Extreme Programming (XP)
# Holographic Versatile Disc
# Zero Knowledge proofs
# Bimolecular Computers
# Context Disambiguation On Web Search Results
# Touch Screen Technology
# Surface Computer
# Face Recognition Technology
# DNA Computing in security
# 4g Wireless Systems
# Spyware and Trojan horses
# Zigbee
# Java Management Extensions (JMX) - component framework for building intelligent network
# Quantum cryptography
# Home Networking
# Steganography and digital watermarking
# TouchFLO Technology
# NESSUS *
# 3D Volume Storage
# Optical Networking and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
# Software-Defined Radio
# Space-time adaptive processing

Apple introduces world's thinnest notebook -Macbook Air. Here are some configurations if you wanna pre-order Air. It seems too costly but still a Macbook is always worth the pay.

Interesting thing to observe is its thickness, its jut .76" , thats really awesome. Anyone would love to have a laptop that thin and light ! 

Priced at $1,799.00,Macbook Air ships within 2-3 weeks with 13inch 1.6ghz ,Intel Core 2 Duo processor,2GB memory,80GB 4200-rpm PATA hard drive1,Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi2 and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.

Around the new year, someone started alerting the rumors sites that there was going to be a "MacBook Air" product at Macworld.  Also that it was the "worst kept secret at Apple" (which is very suspicious!)  His/her words sound very similar to this Digg commenter. - 9 to 5 mac

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Google takes on Wikipedia with Knol - The idea is called Knols, or “units of knowledge.” “Knol”, just announced at the official Google blog, is a currently private, invitation-only knowledge sharing service.

Google’s Udi Manber says, “Our job in Search Quality will be to rank the knols appropriately when they appear in Google search results.” Knol pages will be made available for indexing by search engines, Google announced.

Will Knol be same as About.com ? Will it destroy Wikipedia !! wooooo!! . So that it can be called Googlepedia ?? 

Here's a screenshot of Knol from the Official Google blog :

Knol Project: Google Experimenting With User Generated Encyclopedic Pages

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html

Is it  the end of Wiki ? lots of such questions arising ….. Anyway Knol will surely be a huge hit !!

Here are tips to help you pose for a visa or passport photo:

• No cheesy grins, as mouths should be shut. Adopt a neutral expression and look straight at the camera, so face and both ears are seen properly.

• Hair must not obscure your face, so keep those fringes in check. Make sure facial hair does not hide the outline of your nose or mouth. No head coverings, unless religious.

• Embassies usually require plain-white backgrounds and each one has slightly different rules about photo sizes, so find out what’s mandatory. Some embassies, or their visa agents, offer photo-booths, but they tend to charge you more than regular studios.

[ Readers Digest Magazine ]