Sony Ericsson X10 mini

Android is impressive. Not just because it’s open source and can run on hardware from many vendors. Not just because it’s so forgiving, open to enhancements and customizations and not just because of the marketplace (which, at last count, had over 50,000 apps with a better free-paid ratio than the Apple App Store). It’s because it makes any hardware look good. Take the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini. With a proprietary operating system, it would have just been an average, albeit tiny phone. But slap on Android, and you’ve got a powerful, fully-featured touchscreen smartphone in a size barely larger than an average set of house keys.

The size (and weight) is the biggest talking point; more so because you’ll wonder how they managed to fit a touchscreen, quad band GSM/3G radio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, A-GPS and microSD slot into that tiny frame. Despite the size, the build quality is stellar. Some may complain about the all-plastic construction, but it keeps the weight down. Plus there are some nice interchangeable back covers in the box (different colors available).

Start up the phone, and you’ll see a few familiar Android components (like the useful pull-down bar for notifications), but largely, Sony Ericsson has modified the interface to better suit the device’s small size (and screen). With the X10 Mini, most icons fit into multiple home screens which you can slide from left to right. Four other customizable icons for often-used functions (like phone, contacts, messaging) sit in the four corners of the screen.

Thanks to the 600Mhz processor, everything moves along at a fairly speedy pace and the capacitive touchscreen is a delight too – with equal responsiveness across the length and breath. Call quality was excellent and battery life was good, despite the diminutive size. Music and photo quality are good, and the device can even record fairly decent videos at VGA resolution at 30 frames per second. Wait! So this phone has everything you say? What’s the catch? There are some.

There’s no on-screen QWERTY keypad, so typing messages or emails using the simple keyboard is tiresome and time consuming. Obviously, with a screen so small, a complete QWERTY keypad would have been impossible, but in the current setup it has multiple keypads for numbers, alphanumeric/T9 input and special characters – you switch between the different keypads by swiping left to right. This is a little inconvenient. Wisepilot GPS navigation software is pre-loaded, but is free only for 30days. Thereafter, you’ll be paying extra per year if you want maps. Finally, you’ll have to ask yourself the questions; how small is too small? And does the size make it a ladies-only phone? Overall, there’s no doubting that the X10 Mini is a marvel of technology. But it’s not for everyone. At a similar price of Rs 15k, you can consider the larger AMOLED-screened, Bada-powered Samsung Wave. Or if Symbian is what you crave, the new Nokia X6 is a real cracker for Rs 15k. And if you must have Android with a larger screen at the same price, the HTC Tattoo and Samsung Galaxy Spica are available too.

Specifications: 

Quad band GSM with 3G

Android OS 1.6

Qualcomm MSM7227 600MHz processor

2.55-inch capacitive touchscreen (240 x 320 pixels)

accelerometer

5MP AF cam with LED flash

VGA videos @ 30fps

3.5mm audio out

microSD slot (upto 16GB) 

Bluetooth

Wi-Fi

A-GPS

83 x 50 x 16 mm

88 grams

World's toughest phone

 The JCB Toughphone Sitemaster is being claimed as the toughest phone in the world. But is it? 

Apparently, it can survive underwater for eight hours; can endure heat of 75 degree Celsius and below freezing temperatures of - 30 degree Celsius; and is able to withstand extreme vibration and compression. 

Although it's primary target audience is people who work outdoors - on building sites or farms, that's not to say it doesn't have any mod-cons. It plays music and videos, offers Bluetooth connectivity to other phones and computers and has an FM radio, reports the Daily Mail. 

Here are the various tests it was put to: 

1. Swimming pool claim: Even inside water, the sound quality is pretty good. The line is slightly muffled, but it's easily good enough to have a long conversation. 

2. Steam room claim: After ten minutes in the steam room the phone - though still a bit steamy inside - works fine. 

3. Hot sauna claim: the sound quality is a little muffled - the phone is clearly not entirely watertight - but still, one can make himself heard perfectly well. 

4. Steam roller claim: After being placed under the wheel of a 1.6-tonne Saab and driving over it back and forth five times, the screen remains crack-less only with a tiny scratch on the back. 

5. The big drop claim: the phone is flung from a first-floor window on to the patio, 12ft below and twice the height claimed by JCB. It bounces and is fine. 

6. In the freezer claim: It goes into the freezer, with the frozen peas and ice cream for two hours. It's fully functional after it's taken out. 

7. The hot spin claim: The Toughphone has survived torture with water, heat, dirt and soap. But sadly, it fails the washing machine test.

SWIMMING POOLCLAIM: It’s water-resistant

It is tested in local swimming pool. A couple of lengths in, a call is made while standing at the shallow end. The sound quality is pretty good. The line is slightly muffled, but it’s easily good enough to have a long conversation. A fellow swimmer walks past in his Speedos and sees me. His face is a mixture of bafflement and irritation.

STEAM ROOMCLAIM: It can withstand 48 hours at 70C and 90 per cent-relative humidity

Time to relax in the steam room. Speedo Man is already there and looks bemused as the phone out for another call. After ten minutes of exit. The phone — though still a bit steamy inside — is fine.

HOT SAUNACLAIM: It can survive temperatures up to 75C

Surely no mobile can survive the heat of a sauna? When a call is made, the sound quality is a little muffled — the phone is clearly not entirely watertight.

 SHAMPOO AND SHOWERCLAIM: Can be sprayed with salt water continuously for 24 hours

Soap, shampoo, hot water. Phone still fine.

STEAM ROLLERCLAIM: Can withstand a tonne of pressure

It is placed under the wheel of 1.6-tonne Saab. The engine is started and then over it, back and forth, five times. The screen hasn’t cracked and there is not even a dent — just a tiny scratch on the back.

THE BIG DROPCLAIM: Will survive being dropped 6ft on all of its six surfaces or all four corners

The phone is thrown from a first-floor window on to the ground, 12ft below and twice the height claimed by JCB. It bounces and is fine.

BURIED IN SANDCLAIM: Dust-resistant, and the non-porous casing withstands micro-particles

The JCB phone is burried deep in the sand for about ten minutes before roughly digging it up with a plastic trowel. Not a scratch — but the picture on the screen is looking funny, as if the edges have stopped working. It is suspected it’s delayed water damage. Still, a call is made and the sound is perfectly clear.

IN THE FREEZERCLAIM: Works after experiencing temperatures of -30C

It goes into the freezer, with the frozen peas and ice cream for two hours. When it is out, it’s fully functional — although it’s not much fun ­having to hold a block of ice next to your ear.

The Toughphone has survived torture with water, heat, dirt and soap. But what about meeting all of these foes at the same time? Into the washing machine at 40C it goes, with my gym kit, a few towels and sheets, some Fairy non-bio detergent and ­fabric softener

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’s LETTER TO HEADMASTER

 A letter written by Abraham Lincoln to the Headmaster of a school in which his son was studying. It contains an advice, which is still relevant today for executives, workers, teachers, parents and students.

A WORD TO TEACHERS

“He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just and are not true. But teach him if you can, the wonder of books.. but also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hillside.

In school, teach him it is far more honorable to fall than to cheat…..

Teach to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him he is wrong.

Teach him to be gentle with gentlepeople and tough with the tough.

Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone getting on the bandwagon…

Teach him to listen to all men; but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen of truth, and take only the good that comes through.

Teach him, if you can, how to laugh when he is sad… Teach him there is no shame in tears.

Teach him to scoff at cynics and to be beware of too much sweetness.. Teach him to sell his brawn and brain to highest bidders, but never to put a price on his heart and soul. Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob.. and stand and fight if thinks he is right.

Treat him gently, but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel. Let him have the courage to be impatient.. Let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will have faith in humankind.

This is a big order, but see what you can do. . He is such a fine little fellow my son!

- Abraham Lincoln”

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India now third biggest internet user

With a user base of 100 million, India now stands third in the world in terms of the number of people surfing the net, an official of internet search engine Google said here Tuesday.

"China has the highest number of internet users at 300 million followed by the US with 207 million. India comes third with the number of internet users now soaring to 100 million," Vinay goel, head of products, Google India, told mediapersons.

Of the internet users in the country, 40 million access the net through mobile phones.

"Our estimate is that by 2012, the number of mobile internet users will surpass those entering the net via their laptops or desktops. The number of mobile internet surfers in India is growing rapidly. In 2007, the country had only two million such users. Now the number has gone up 20 times," Goel said.

However, he pointed out that there was a massive scope of increasing the user base in the mobile internet space as the figure of 40 million comprises only eight percent of those carrying mobile phones.

Goel said most of the internet users in the country search for songs.

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Lok Satta voices concern over derailment of democracy

The Lok Satta Party today expressed concern over the washout of the winter session of the Lok Sabha because of the logjam over constitution of a joint parliamentary committee to probe the 2-G spectrum scandal.

In a media statement, party Working President D. V. V. S. Varma and Secretary P. Bhaskara Rao regretted that instead of focusing their attention on recouping the money the exchequer has lost and preventing such scandals in future, both the ruling and Opposition parties wrangled on JPC, unmindful of the futility of such inquiries in the past.

It was tragic that political parties themselves derailed discussions in the largest democracy of the world. Legislatures have to discuss people’s problems and enact laws. If legislators fail to discharge their duty, people lose.

The Lok Satta condemned the State Government for arresting farmers’ leaders who had come to the Legislature premises to represent their problems to the Chief Minister. The Government ought to have made a statement on ensuring remunerative prices to farmers for their produce, purchase of discolored paddy, input subsidy, and measures to help tenants.

The Lok Satta leaders pointed out that democracy would be in danger if legislatures lost credibility.

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Upgraded BrahMos Missile Successfully Test-Fired

An upgraded version of 290- km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired by India today from Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the Orissa coast.

"Block III version of BrahMos with advanced guidance and upgraded software, incorporating high manoeuvres at multiple points and steep dive from high altitude was flight tested successfully from Launch Complex III of ITR," its Director S P Dash said after the test fire from a mobile launcher at 1100 hours. 

All telemetry and tracking stations including naval ships near the terminal point have confirmed the mission's success, he said.

"It was a text book launch and the mission was successful," distinguished defence scientist A Sivathannu Pillai, who is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director of BrahMos Aerospace said.

The 8.4 meter missile which can fly at 2.8 times the speed of sound is capable of carrying conventional warheads of up to 300 kg for a range of 290 km.

It can effectively engage ground targets from an altitude as low as 10 meters for surgical strikes at terror training camps across the border without causing collateral damage.

"The trial was witnessed by high ranking officials of the Army, who expressed happiness to have such high potential weapon system," a defence press release said.

Director DRDL, P Venugopalan and Project Director S Som, were present during the launch.

The Defence Minister congratulated DRDO and BrahMos scientists, army officers and the entire team for the success of the mission, it said.

BrahMos is capable of being launched from multiple platforms like submarine, ship, aircraft and land based Mobile Autonomous Launchers (MAL).

One regiment of the 290-km range BrahMos-I variant, which consists of 67 missiles, five mobile autonomous launchers on 12x12 Tatra vehicles and two mobile command posts, among other equipment, is already operational in the Indian Army, defence sources said.

The Indian Navy has begun the process of inducting the first version of BrahMos missile system in all frontline warships from 2005.

The Army is in the process of inducting two more regiments of BrahMos Block-II land-attack cruise missiles (LACM), which have been designed as precision strike weapons capable of hitting small targets in urban environments.

The first flight test of BrahMos missile was conducted on June 12, 2001 at the ITR and the last was successfully carried out on September 5, 2010 from the same place.

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Martin Luther King: a brief note about great person

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good." _Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

Julia Roberts drapes sari for film

Hollywood actress Julia Roberts fell for the sari, bindi and payal (anklets) and happily dressed herself in the traditional Indian attire for a sequence in her latest outing Eat Pray Love, reveals the Pretty Woman's lesser known Indian co-star Russhita Singh. "I play Tulsi, an Indian girl, in Eat Pray Love that has Julia Roberts in the lead. We shot for a month in India last year. We actually mopped the floor and recited Sanskritshlokas together. In fact, I was impressed with Julia's skills to recite the Sanskrit shlokas with utmost precision," Russhita said in a statement.

"Julia was present for my on-screen wedding. While I was dressed like an Indian bride for the sequence, Julia gladly draped the six yards sari and accessorised herself with traditional Indian bindi and payal. She was familiar with every ritual of the Indian wedding that was being acted out. She was also familiar with the rationale behind the saat pheras and the significance behind wearing bangles," added the young actress.

Directed by Ryan Murphy, Eat Pray Loveis based on Pushcart prize-winning author Elizabeth Gilbert's spirituality-travel memoirs by the same name, and features Roberts as Gilbert who travels to Italy, India and Indonesia in search of peace.

Having released in the US Aug 13, Eat Pray Love is hitting Indian screens in October. It was shot in India at the Ashram Hari Mandir in Pataudi, Haryana, about 40 km from New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport.

Russhita says she enjoyed working on the movie.

"I love every bit of the part that I play in the film. I had to work hard because it was an unusual role. Sharing screen space with Julia was an experience in itself. I'm glad the film has shaped up well," she said.

Eat Pray Love also stars Richard Jenkins, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, James Franco, Leca Argentero and Viola Davis.

12 out of 20 engg grads job unfit: Study

NEW DELHI: Three out of every five students who graduate from the country's engineering institutes need to go through further training to be eligible for any job in the IT/ ITeS sector, says a study by a local talent assessment firm.

It said just one in every twenty of the country's engineering graduates is fit for a job in an IT product company while only one in five were fit enough to work with an IT services provider. The study by Gurgaon-based firm Aspiring Minds highlighted the need for improving training of students to make them employable.

The report tried to use actual candidate quality measurements and industry recruitment benchmarks to create a measure for employability, said Aspiring Minds co-founder Himanshu Aggarwal.

The employability study that covered over 40,000 engineering graduates and post graduates in Computer Applications, was based on the results of a standardised computer-based test called AMCAT taken by the engineering students across the country.

AMCAT covered various objective parameters for adjudging employability in the IT/ITeS sector including English communication besides quantitative, problemsolving and programming skills.

While employability of students for BPOs and technical support jobs ( TSJ) are relatively better 38.23% and 25.88% respectively, companies in the knowledge based segment or KPOs find only one in every ten technical graduates employable.

The report also highlighted that MCA students are relatively better placed among the engineering graduates for finding a job in IT sector as they possess superior computer programming skills.

Gmail allows phone calls from computers

Google Inc. Wednesday said its Gmail service will add a feature that allows users to call any phone directly from their computers.

“Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail,” Robin Schriebman, a software engineer at Google, wrote on the company’s blog.

“We’ve been testing this feature internally and have found it to be useful in a lot of situations, ranging from making a quick call to a restaurant, to placing a call when you’re in an area with bad reception,” Schriebman wrote.

Google will roll out the new feature to US-based Gmail users over the next few days and is working on making it available globally, Xinhua reported.

Users can call any phone in the US and Canada for free for at least the rest of the year, while Google also promised cheap international calls.

Calls to Britain, France, Germany, China, Japan and many other countries will be billed as low as two cents per minute, Google said.

Gmail already has a voice and video chat that allows users to talk to each other.

As Mother Teresa’s birth centenary Thursday draws near, commoners here still get tears in their eyes recalling the deeds and words of the Albania-born

As Mother Teresa’s birth centenary Thursday draws near, commoners here still get tears in their eyes recalling the deeds and words of the Albania-born nun who took Indian citizenship and became one of the world’s greatest symbols of love and compassion.

From homeless labourers to small-time shopkeepers, those who got to interact with the Mother still recall the Nobel Peace prize winner’s humility and supreme dedication to serve the poor, old, infirm and the dying.

M. Shahdani, 55, who resides close to Mother House – the global headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity founded by the Mother – recalls her ever smiling face.

“I first met her in 1974 here outside Mother House. She was indeed a noble and a polite lady. Whenever we used to meet we shared pleasantries. What I remember the most about Mother is her ever smiling face,” Shahdani said.

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia Aug 26, 1910, Mother Teresa left her parental home at 18, and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India.

She arrived in Kolkata in 1929. Years later, she took Indian citizenship and left the convent with the church’s nod to serve the poor and the ailing.

She set up Missionaries of Charity in 1950 at 14, Creek Lane, but shifted to the Mother House in 1953 as her order expanded.

To Shaukat Ali, 50, a homeless labourer living on a pavement near the building, the Mother was god. “There will be no one like Mother again. She was like god to us. We used to sit outside Mother House to catch a glimpse of her.”

The Mother often came to enquire about Shaukat’s health. “She used to give us bread to eat, sometimes cake. I was born on this footpath in front of Mother House and will die here. But the love, the affection we received from her, we will never forget.”

Shaukat’s eyes fill up with tears as he recalls Mother’s caring nature. “It was a winter day. I was sleeping on the footpath and shivering with cold. Mother came to me and gave me a blanket.”

She established her first home – “Nirmal Hriday” – for the dying destitute – near the famous Kali temple of Kalighat.

Bijoy Kumar Samaddar owns a shop along the walls of Nirmal Hriday. He claims Mother herself gave him permission to start the shop.

“Whenever she came to Nirmal Hriday, Mother would exchange pleasantries with me.” As the years passed on, Samaddar developed a “personal bond with the Mother”.

“One day when I was not keeping well, she came to my shop, and sat down on the table where I am sitting now, and enquired after my health,” said 80-year-old Samaddar.

“I once wrote a poem on her and gifted it to her. She smiled and told me it is the best gift she ever had,” he reminisced.

“The last time she visited Nirmal Hriday she was ill. She was about to board the car, she looked at me and smiled and told me to look after Nirmal Hriday. I smiled back and told her ‘we will wait for you, Mother’,” said Samaddar.

Mother was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1979 and given India’s highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work.

The Missionaries of Charity now comprises over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries.

It runs homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also conducts children’s and family counselling programmes and runs orphanages and schools.

Mother Teresa died here Sep 5, 1997, and was buried in the Mother House.

Telescope captures galactic super volcanic explosion

A spectacular “super volcano” that erupted trillions of miles away from earth has been clicked by a NASA telescope.

The staggering eruption was filmed by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array.

Astronomers said shock waves between a giant black hole and cooling gas, caused the mind boggling explosion, reports the Telegraph.

The explosion then blasted through the “massive” Messier 87 galaxy more than 50 million light years away. One light year is the equivalent of 5.9 trillion miles.

Researchers said the black hole powered the “galactic super-volcano” and prevented hundreds of millions of new stars from being formed.

They said that normally such stars would form in the galaxy when “superheated” gas cooled but this particular blast interrupted that process.

Nasa said the cosmic “eruption” was very similar to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, which shot plumes of ash and smoke into the atmosphere and caused chaos for world travel earlier this year.

“With Eyjafjallajokull, pockets of hot gas blasted through the surface of the lava, generating shock waves that can be seen passing through the grey smoke of the volcano,” a NASA spokesperson said.

Che Guevara Biography__( 1928 – 1967 )

Revolutionary leader. Born Ernesto Guevara de la Serna on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina. After completing his medical studies at the University of Buenos Aires, Guevara became political active first in his native Argentina and then in neighboring Bolivia and Guatemala. In 1954, he met Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and his brother Raul while in Mexico.

Guevara became part of Fidel Castro's efforts to overthrow the Batista government in Cuba. He served as a military advisor to Castro and led guerrilla troops in battles against Batista forces. When Castro took power in 1959, Guevara became in charge of La Cabaña Fortress prison. It is estimated that between 156 and 550 people were executed on Guevara's extra-judicial orders during this time.

Later, he became president of the Cuban national bank and helped to shift the country's trade relations from the United States to the Soviet Union. Three years later, he was appointed minister of industry. Guevara left this post in 1965 to export the ideas of Cuba's revolution to other parts of the world. In 1966, he began to try to incite the people of Bolivia to rebel against their government, but had little success. With only a small guerrilla force to support his efforts, Guevara was captured and killed in La Higuera by the Bolivian army on October 9, 1967.

Since his death, Guevara has become a legendary political figure. His name is often equated with rebellion, revolution, and socialism. Others, however, still remember that he could be ruthless and ordered prisoners executed without trial in Cuba. Guevara's life continues to be a subject of great public interest and been explored and portrayed in numerous books and films, including The Motorcycle Diaries (2004).