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We have a fantastic story about something that Google is doing. It’s a little complicated. But fear not. Because I have the perfect example. A few years back, some enterprising folks founded a company called Sigmoid Labs in Bangalore. It had just one product - an app to help rail commuters find out the status of trains, tickets and schedules. The app, thoughtfully named ‘Where is my train’ is a work of art. Perhaps you have used it. Not only was it built at a time when IRCTC was as helpful as an orange, but it also packed a bunch of great features. Offline train schedules. Live updates without GPS. No sign-up. And one more important feature. Instead of connecting to IRCTC (when it wasn’t down) to find out the latest status of your ticket, the app…read your text messages instead. Very convenient.   It got popular. Quickly. 10 million downloads later, it was the number 1 app in the travel category on the Play Store.   Then two months back, Google made an announcement. Apps coul

Goa Foundation 1 hr How you can assist in the implementation of the Bombay High Court's order on cleaning up the blackspots of Goa. On 14 January, 2019, a bench of the Bombay High Court (Goa) comprising Justices Mahesh Sonak and Prithviraj Chauhan directed all the Village Panchayats to ensure that the (garbage) black spots and the littered waste, found within their respective jurisdiction, are cleared latest by 10.02.2019. The Village Panchayats should thereafter make their report to the Directorate of Panchayats latest by 15.02.2019. The report should specifically state the number of black spots cleared and the location from which such black spots were cleared. Want to assist in this exercise? Tomorrow is Sunday. Simply take a walk in the village with your mobile phone and take pictures of every blackspot you see. Ensure the pictures are delivered to your panchayat. If the panchayat has done its work, the blackspot should be removed and you should find all this me

Portuguese who speak the language poorly will have specific monitoring Portuguese nationals living in the United Kingdom but poorly spoken Portuguese, notably of Indian or Timorese origin, will have a specific follow-up to Brexit, the Portuguese Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities promised. Manchester, UK – Portuguese nationals living in the United Kingdom but speak Portuguese poorly, notably of Indian or Timorese origin, will have a specific follow-up to Brexit, the Portuguese Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities promised today. José Luís Carneiro told the Lusa agency that the consuls of Manchester and London were given “the chance to diversify the typology of consular stays”, namely using translators and intermediaries who master their languages. The Secretary of State admitted that there are “very specific communities that are completely unaware of the Portuguese language because of their national origins and that have much to do with the historical p

Doing business in India is great, till you get too big for incumbents to ignore you. And you make their job easy by stepping on the collective toes of any number of politically powerful constituents like farmers, small businesses, government employees or retired army veterans. That’s exactly what Walmart’s $16 billion purchase of Indian e-commerce leader Flipkart in May 2018 achieved. It made Flipkart, and close second Amazon, too big to ignore.   Which explains the regulatory grenade lobbed by the Ministry of Commerce in the last few days of 2018, even as the two companies were basking in the glow of a great year, capped off by the resounding successes of their annual flagship sale events in October. Shorn of legalese, the government “clarified" that much of the way leading e-commerce platforms, including Flipkart and Amazon, were conducting business in India was illegal.    And everyone had time till 1 February 2019 to remedy things.   If there was a silver lining

Open source video editing for beginners: Kdenlive series This eBook is a video editing tutorial by independent multimedia artist Seth Kenlon. Consisting of six installments, this series introduces aspiring videographers to  Kdenlive , a powerful multi-track video editor available for GNU/Linux. https://opensource.com/ resources/ebook/video-editing

PORTUGUESE CLASSES: The Indo-Portuguese Friendship Society at Goa is to hold its IXth Portuguese Conversation Courses, in Panjim and Margao, and conducted by Profa. Ana Luisa da Rocha Martins from Braga, Portugal. The classes will be held from January 14, 2019, to March 7, 2019, with limited students per batch. For details, contact Margao 2702481 Panjim: 2436875 or 9552596875.

SURNAMES OF PORTGUESE ORIGIN (meaning) : Afonso/Alfonso - Noble is ready. Albuquerque - White Oak Tree. Almeida - Plateau. Ambrose - Nectar. Andrade - Man. Baptista - Wash. Barboz - One who lives in bushes. Barreto - Mud. Benjamin - Southerner. Botelho - A gatherer of seaweeds. Carneiro - Sheep. Carvalho - Oak Tree. Cerejo - Cherry. Coelho - Rabbit. Colaco - Foster brother. Conceicao - Conception. *Correia - Leather strap*. Costa/ D ’Costa - Remark. Coutinho - Small shelter. Crasto - Palace. Cruz/ D ’Cruz - Cross. Cunha/ D ’Cunha - Wedge. Dias - Days. Diniz - Followed *DSouza - vegetable seller*  Falcao - Hawk. *Fernandes - Brave expedition*. Ferrao - Sting. Ferreira - Sea-bream. Fonseca - Stream. Fragoso/Fargose - Craggy. *Furtado - Stolen*. Gomes - Man. Gonsalves - Son of Gonçalo. Gracias - Charming. Lemos - Elm. Lewis - Fame war. Lima/ D ’Lima - A file. *Lobo - Wolf*. Lopes - Wolf. Lourenco - A town in Italy. Luis - French gold coin. Machado - Axe. Martins - Roman God of war. Masca

Goa, often thought of as India's answer to Phuket           or Bali, is also home to one of the country's most           complex literary scenes. Roanna Gonsalves           [ roannag@gmail.com ], herself of Goan heritage,           dives in and finds a state coming to terms with its           history and its future. Goa has done for India what November does to the jacaranda tree; added literary lilac, so to speak, to an otherwise green canopy. This tiny Indian state continues to blossom, time and again, with thoughts, words and deeds to feed the life of the mind. Goa is one of the few places in the world where Catholic nuns can study feminist theology, at the Mater Dei Academy, interrogating the central, Adam's apple tenets of the Roman Catholic Church.           Goa is a land of many tongues, tongue roast recipes           and tongue lashings in Konkani, Marathi, Portuguese           and English. Goa is also my grand-motherland, where           my grandma Philomena and he