The service, Project Hosting, will give open source software developers a place on the Internet to track issues with their software more efficiently using Google's search and infrastructure technology.
According to Google, a small team of Google developers came up with the service and that the Project Hosting was an early beta, but said it is squarely aimed at improving open source software development by making issue and bug tracking simpler.

Issue Tracking: Google's Project Hosting, according to Google's presentation is a "complete re-think of issue tracking," is based on Google's rebuild of the Subversion software version control system with a storage system known as Big Table. The service has an AJAX interface, and allows users to search issue reports and bug tracking with simpler queries. Open source projects will also be able to store code with the free service, although it is not yet capable of downloads.

No SourceForge Killer: Amid speculation of further enhancements to Google's new service for the open source software community, some were predicting a searchable repository for open source projects that would challenge SourceForge, the largest and most established open source software repository.

While there is no approval process for Project Hosting projects, Google will monitor for legitimacy, and is limiting open source software projects to a choice of one of seven open source licenses: the General Public License (GPL), Apache, Mozilla , MIT, BSD, GPL2, or LGPL, with GPL version 3 to be added when it is released.
Open source developers immediately began registering projects and tinkering with Google's Project Hosting, which offers tools for issue tracking, source code browsing, and project administration.

It is unbelievable that the Government of India had asked the ISPs to block several websites including blogspot, typepad, etc. The only time that such emergency measures were taken was during the Emergency period imposed by Late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The censorship news appeared in local newspapers only on Wednesday, though the sites were blocked by Monday itself. Even the Indian press was taken unawares by this act. Recent terror attacks in Mumbai suburban trains was the primary reason given by the Government for censorship. It is surprising that almost all blog sites were blocked by ISPs. For example, the site http://anandsoft.blogspot.com had been blocked for reasons unknown. It is only attributable to the callous attitude of the Government, and the ISPs that blocked sites without any regard for proper filtering.
Expectantly, there is a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) filed in Mumbai protesting blocking of majority of blog sites. This is the first time that such Internet censorship had come to a court of justice in India (at least as far as I remember). It important that the Government realize the implications of such blanket censorship, and act judiciously in times of threat to internal security of the country.
As a side note, bloggers in India are resorting to Torpark for viewing and publishing their blogs!

The GSLV rocket, carrying the 2.2-ton INSAT-4C communication and broadcasting satellite as its payload had been destroyed after deviating significantly from its stipulated trajectory. The satellite too had been destroyed. The Indian rocket program had started in 1979 with the launch of SLV-3 that has put a 40kg payload in a 400KM LEO orbit. There after, improvements in launch technology enabled bigger satellites to be put in orbit. ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is the body taking overall responsibility for design, development, and deployment of satellites and launch vehicles. Comparatively, Indian satellite programs are more successful than vehicle launch programs. The primary reason is likely that the know-how for launch vehicles is more difficult to acquire or develop indigenously. After 27 years of launching SLV rockets, India is yet to launch a GSLV (Geo-Stationary Launch Vehicle) that has indigenous cryogenic engine for carrying bigger payloads.

Considering the history of Indian space program, and recent failures, the Government should expedite steps for achieving self sufficiency in satellite launch technology.

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