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Book Reviews A couple of recent reviews in academic journals for our book Code/Space , interesting to get positive feedback. My good mate in Kentucky, Matt Zook's provided a review in Regional Studies , (Vol. 46(8)). While Peter Adey's review in the Journal of Transport Geography , (Vol. 26) opens by noting that "Code/Space is a pretty remarkable piece of scholarship. It works in a number of important ways to collate and develop the authors' research on software, the internet and communications over the last 15 years or so." Also, you might be interested in a book review that I wrote on the The Culture of Diagram by John Bender and Michael Marrinan (Stanford University Press, 2010). The review has just come out in the latest edition of the journal Cartographica . I was rather critical of this particular book, arguing that "... their analysis suffered from drawing on such a narrow range of diagrammatic applications and that it offers a narrowly constrain...

1)Connect             2)X was launched in   January , 2005.X is geared towards providing a large archive of freely searchable video.It lost its importance because of Y which is another similar service.Finally it was shut down in August , 2012. Most of the videos on X were in .gvi format.Id X and Y ? 3)What is this? Hint-Cryptography 4)Which was  the world's first large-scale programmable electronic digital computers, the first becoming operational in December 1943 ? 5)Identify him 6)X X is  a Japanese PC variant, built by Fujitsu.It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for  multimedia  applications and PC games.The name was an homage to Charles Hard Townes, one of the winners of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics.Id X ? 7)Id him 8)What are these  Lorenz SZ40 ,  SZ42A  and  SZ42B ? They could have changed the history of the world :P 9)Id th...

1. It is an Internet Cryptography company started by Sameer Parekh and is now owned by Redhat. Name it.  2.Whats This? 3. "I've been working to create an interactive television my entire life. I always knew it was a way of bringing computers to average people."Who has said this and with respect to what? 4. Identify-   5. Identify the device from its Slogan- "Makes life fun, makes you happy!" 6.  X is the project by Gujarat Government aimed to modernise land administration and to enable farmers to manage this crucial resource better. X enables farmers to access their land records, obtain copies of ownership documents and even apply for ration cards. Identify X.  7.  What is this initiative and by which country?  

1. This is an international, non profit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in internet related standards, education and policy. Its motto is "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world". Identify it. 2. Identify this honor. 3.Identify her.. 4.This is a social media management system for brand management created by Ryan Holmes in 2008. Identify. 5.Identify this device and why is it special? 6. 'DO NOT POWER IT DOWN'. What is so special about this phrase?

1)X is a video game series  originally exclusive to the  Sony   PlayStation .It features ( pandi-kukka), loosely,  pig - rat .   It is set in Wumpa Islands, an archipelago situated to the south of  Australia . Id the game 2)In the recent Gujarat elections Narendra  Modi used holographic technique to appear in more than one location simultaneously.Which company created this ? 3)Id him and which OS did he develop ? 4)Which device is based on he principle of    stereolithography   ? 5)X  was developed when Professor Hari Dass of the Institute began looking for a supercomputer to handle his  theoretical physics  research.X   takes its name from a  Himalayan  peak. The  Department of Atomic Energy  in India made a grant of Rs 3.5 crore to the Institute to develop X. Identify X ? 6)Identify the software and for what it is used  7)Connect Quest Software, Alienware, Perot Systems and Ga...

Publicity Burst on the Manchester Blitz Maps We managed to get some good media coverage about the online maps of Manchester , especially regarding the Second World War bomb damage mapping held by the City Archives. Following a good press release from Mike Addelman we were featured in a great double page spread in Manchester Evening News , including a 'lovely' picture of my head (see partial scan of the hardcopy newspaper page below). The story 'Blitz Maps Unearthed' was actually trailed on the front cover of the newspaper. The version on the MEN website has a useful slideshow of images, again including a couple of cheesy images of myself holding big old paper maps in a supposedly scholarly fashion. The 'blitz maps' story also got a little mention in The Times newspaper last Friday. The following day Donna Sherman ( Rylands map librarian ) and David Govier ( Manchester City archivist ) were interviewed about the new online cartographic resources for Manchest...

1)identify this device and what was its use ? 2)X   is a highly sophisticated  computer worm .It was  discovered in June 2010.   Kaspersky Lab  concluded that X could only have been conducted "with nation-state support".X has affected  58.85% computers in Iran. Id X ? 3) BxR , Topiary , Kayla/KMS are the founding members of which famous hacking group ?  4)  X is an  anti-virus  and  computer security  and  computer software  company based in  Helsinki ,  Finland .It was  formerly called   Data Fellows. Id X ? 5)This doodle is dedicated to whom ? 6)He founded what ?   7)What is  Warez ? 8)These are the brands of which tech company ? 9)What is  Steganography ? 10) Which popular Indian website was founded by  Arun Chandra Mohan, Praveen Sinha and  Manu Kumar Jain  in Jan 2012. It   received the highest traffic of any ecommerce site in India in 2012