Event date 10 Aug 2012
Deadline for abstract submission 11 Jul 2012
Location Vijayawada
Organized by KLUniversity
Eligible students
BE / B.Tech - Electronics and Communication
BE / B.Tech - Electronics and Instrumentation
BE / B.Tech - Electrical and Electronics
For more detailshttp://kluniversity.in/ece/prayog/
 
Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, K L University is proud to present Prayog 2012, A National Level Project Exhibition to be conducted on 10th August, 2012. The event provides students the right platform to showcase their projects. This event is to bring out the inventors in every student who dreams of giving a new dimension to engineering. The event will expose all the participants to a highly stimulating environment of technical innovation and creativity, thus providing them with the means to showcase their skills and hone them through interaction with other budding engineers.


II, III, IV B.E/B.Tech Students of ECE, EEE and ECM discipline can apply.
Upto three participants for a project are allowed.
Abstract should not exceed 500 words.


Registration Fees : Rs 450 for Non IEEE Members and Rs 300 for IEEE Members per project.
Last date of registration and submitting your abstract : 11th July, 2012.
Registrations are limited . So ! Hurry book your slots.

The right stage to showcase your projects and win exciting prizes. Come, learn, enjoy and win.

PRIZES WORTH 50,000 rupees to be won!!!

The Google Online Marketing Challenge!


This is a great exercise for undergraduate or graduate students in classes such as advertising, ecommerce, integrated marketing communication, management information systems, marketing or new media technologies. In the previous editions we had more than 35,000 students competing from more than 95 countries.


The goal for students is to create an effective online marketing campaign in Google AdWords.


Please note that you are able to pre-register even if the competition is currently not open.
Competition Details
Step 1:
Professor registers for the Challenge and divides the students into groups of 3-6 members. (Registration will be opening in October 2012.)


Step 2:
The groups recruit a small-to-medium business or NGO, who has a website but doesn’t currently use AdWords or has not used it in the last 6 months.


Divide your students into groups
->Groups recruit a business not using Adwords
->Groups create an Adwords account & campaign for the business
->Over 3 weeks they optimize
->The campaign and submit their reports
->Entries are judged and winners are chosen.


Step 3:
Each group works with the business or NGO to set up an AdWords account (must be in US dollars and with no billing info), registers it in the Student Dashboard and structures an effective online marketing campaign with the free online credit for Google AdWords worth US$200.


Step 4:
During a 3-week competition window, the groups create, optimize and refine their campaigns. In addition to building the campaign, they must upload two competition reports to the Student Dashboard – one before they begin and one after the campaign ends.


Step 5:
Google and a panel of independent academics from all over the world select the winning teams based on the success of their campaign and the quality of their competition reports. Students can compete over any 21 consecutive days between January and June. Remember – professors should allow sufficient class time to cover online marketing and Google AdWords, and time for students to recruit their businesses.


Teams working with an NGO will be considered for the NGO Impact Award.
Global and regional winners are communicated to all participants in July.
Other Details
To Pre-register for the challenge: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/gomcprereg2011/
To know more about the challenge: http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/about.html
Event Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/GoogleChallenge
Event Twitter Page
http://twitter.com/#!/GOMCHA

An Akamai Technologies report, titled State of the Internet Q4 2011 holds the answers to the queries of those of you who think that the state of the Internet (no pun intended) is particularly deplorable in their part of the country. The report, which helped itself with data from the company’s Akamai Intelligent Platform has found the Internet connectivity in India to be among the worst in the world. The State of the Internet report provides with details about attack traffic, broadband adoption, mobile connectivity and other relevant topics concerning the Internet and its usage, as well as trends seen in this data over time. The report, among other details elaborated on several key factors. It stated that the connection speed in India, on an average was found to be as low as 0.9Mbps, which put it in line with countries, like Egypt and Venezuela.


The report further adds that the attack traffic percent in India in the fourth quarter of 2011 was 3 percent, which is lower than that it recorded in the third quarter of the year (3.7 percent). The average peak connection speed in the country was recorded to be 9651 Kbps in Q4 2011, while the average speed was 1664 Kbps. In the period of assessment (Q4 2011), there were 9,602,386 unique IP addresses that were recorded in the country. The average megabytes downloaded per month by mobile providers in the country was recorded to be 204 MB. Just a notch above India, in this respect is Kuwait (205 MB), closer on is Qatar (215 MB), while Hong Kong (3308 MB), Indonesia (6351 MB) in Asia fare exceedingly better.


In India, 27 percent of the connection is below the 256 Kbps mark, and only countries racing ahead of India in this respect is Libya, where 52 percent of the connections fall below the stipulated 256 Kbps mark, and Nigeria (31 percent), Iran (30 percent) and Nepal (32 percent). In countries like the U.S, this number is as low as 1.6 percent. Only a measly 0.5 percent of the Internet connection speeds in the country were found to be above 5 Mbps, which opposed to a whopping 83 percent by South Korea, 60 percent by Japan and 57 percent by Hong Kong pales.



Also, not surprisingly none of the Indian cities feature on the list of the fastest cities in the world, in terms of Internet connectivity speeds.

On Wednesday, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced that it decided not to grant an appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay trial. After a nine-day trial in April 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were found guilty of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to one year each in prison and payment of roughly $7 million in damages. Each defendant appealed the verdict, and in November 2010 the sentences were shortened, but the fines were increased. The new sentence was again appealed, and now the Supreme Court has rejected those appeals. Sunde must serve eight months in prison, with Neij facing 10 and Lundström to face four months. Svartholm, who missed the hearing do to illness, will be forced to serve a one year prison sentence. One of the defendants, however, reached out to TorrentFreak and informed the website that he plans appeal the new sentence at the European Court of Justice.