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One only needs a quick glance to realize that ipad looks like a vastly oversized iPod Touch but what are its main strengths and its greatest disadvantages? Here is the way I see it:


Key features

    * Magnificent 9.7" capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels
    * Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n connectivity
    * Optional 3G connectivity (data only)
    * 1 GHz Apple A4 CPU
    * iPhone OS 3.2
    * 16/32/64 GB of onboard storage
    * Weight of 680 grams (730 grams for the 3G version)
    * Very slim 12.7mm waistline
    * Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
    * Haptics feedback
    * 10 hours battery life and 1 month of stand-by
    * Accelerometer and compass
    * Compatible with every iPhone app without any modifications
    * The cheapest version costs less than an unlocked iPhone
    * iBook application
    * The keyboard dock (purchased separately) easily converts the iPad into a nettop

Main disadvantages

    * It's not a computer but a big iPod Touch
    * No multitasking
    * No Flash support for the web browser
    * No camera
    * No standard USB port (you can get USB connectivity with an accessory but you need to pay extra)
    * No real GPS receiver (though there is cell-tower triangulation)
    * 130 US dollars (90 euro) for a 3G modem seems pricey
    * iTunes required for uploading content
    * No kickstand – it cannot stand on a table without the dock
    * No USB host
    * Looks pretty easy to drop
    * No exchangeable battery
    * Typing is quite uncomfortable
    * micro-SIM, instead of regular SIM for the 3G models
    * No memory card slot

The 'young superstar' Silambarasan known for his rollicking love affairs in the past is all set to settle down with his lady love FINALLY.

The hero who recently altered his Little Superstar title, seems to be making a conscious effort to change his image to that of a sophisticated, young gentleman from the previous image of a romeo.

Having proclaimed his affinity for Anushka, soon after her Arundhati success, the charmer has never hidden his feelings for her. However the marriage has come as a total shocker to the industry and friends.

Simbu has already indulged his ladylove in some expensive gifts, including a De Beers diamond necklace and a Mont Blanc pen, with which Anushka has even inked a few film contracts. The couple has also recently been house hunting in posh localities like Boat Club and Poes Garden.

Simbu who has been linked with some of his past heroines says, "Anushka is a total beauty. I admire her professionalism and the grace with which she handles her personal life. Truly, I am lucky to have her." The beauty is apparently visiting all the Chennai designers to plan her trousseau and her makeup artiste Nikki has already started exploring 'looks' for her big day.

Dressed in an elegant Manish Malhotra pink saree and glowing with shimmery cheek blush, the actress visited Simbu's parents and sought their blessings last week. After the wedding, which is going to be a "simple south Indian affair," Simbu shares, "I am planning to take her to Rome or Florence for the honeymoon. She deserves the best."

Anushka speaking to the paper also disclosed, "I love his X6 BMW. He took me on a long drive and that's when he proposed to me. I had to say yes, since he is such a well brought up person with nice values." Visiting temples might not be Simbu's favourite pastime, but he has apparently taken Anushka to an Amman temple in Kalakshetra colony in Besant Nagar to show his commitment towards marriage.

Although the couple believes in keeping it simple, the wedding is set to be a glitzy affair with some of the couple's closest star pals in attendance.

Simbu is planning to get his clothes done by Sidney Sladen, while Anushka is still on the lookout for a designer.

Simbu who proposed to Anushka during a long drive, presented her with a solitaire ring from Tiffany's.

Managing to surprise his close friends, Simbu told his dear ones about the marriage during a night out at a city bar . After marriage the couple plans to set up home in Chennai and plan to initiate their own production house.

I dont think its for HCL. Kindly chk it or change the sub.

Need of A+ve Blood for a Person who is undergoing a Bypass surgery on 29th April 10 in Cheriyan Heart Foundation, who needs 5 units of A+ve blood group.



Eligible Donors please contact : 9840701609 or  9600091555.


Donate blood! Save a life!

B -ve blood needed for a child who is going to undergo heart surgery. (Soorya hospital, vadapalani).

Those who are interested please contact : 9500168785


Donate blood! Save a life!

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United Nations: More people in India, the world's second most crowded country, have access to a mobile telephone than to a toilet, according to a new UN study on how to cut the number of people with inadequate sanitation.

"It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones, about half cannot afford the basic necessity and dignity of a toilet," said Zafar Adeel, Director of United Nations University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health (IWEH).

India has some 545 million cell phones, enough to serve about 45 per cent of the population, but only about 366 million people or 31 per cent of the population had access to improved sanitation in 2008.

The recommendations of United Nations University (UNU) released on Wednesday are meant to accelerate the pace towards reaching the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on halving the proportion of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation.

If current global trends continue, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) predict there will be a shortfall of 1 billion persons from that sanitation goal by the target date of 2015.

"Anyone who shirks the topic as repugnant, minimises it as undignified, or considers unworthy those in need should let others take over for the sake of 1.5 million children and countless others killed each year by contaminated water and unhealthy sanitation," said. Adeel.

Among the nine recommendations are the suggestions to adjust the MDG target from a 50 per cent improvement by 2015 to 100 per cent coverage by 2025; and to reassign official development assistance equal to 0.002 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to sanitation.

The UNU report cites a rough cost of 0 to build a toilet, including labour, materials and advice.

"The world can expect, however, a return of between and for every dollar spent on sanitation, realized through reduced poverty and health costs and higher productivity - an economic and humanitarian opportunity of historic proportions," added Adeel.

One of my friend undergoing surgery at Ramachandra Hospital needs blood.

Any blood group is accepted,he is undergoing dialysis everyday.

If you can donate please reach Mr.Karthik Ram 9894099867.



Donate blood! Save a life!

My colleagues brother's daughter who is six years old is undergoing heart surgery coming Friday at Ramachandra Hospital. She requires five units of  B+ve blood for her surgery.

Those who can help, may contact me on 98409 26804.

Gujarati Funeral ..... Excellent one...



A family in Gujarat was puzzled when the coffin
of their dead mother (Ba) arrived from the US .
It was sent by one of the daughters.



The dead body was very tightly
squeezed inside the coffin, with no space left in
it when they opened the lid;
they found a letter on top addressed to her brothers
and sisters:



Dear Chandrakantbhai, Arvindbhai,
Smitaben and Varsha ,



I am sending Ba's body to you,
since

it was her wish that
she should be cremated
in the compound of our
ancestral home
in GUJARAT .



Sorry, I could not come along as all of
my paid leave is consumed.



You will find inside the
coffin, under Ba's body, cans of cheese, 10 packets of
Tobler
chocolates and 8
packets of Badam (peanuts) please divide these
among all of you.



On Ba's feet you will find a new
pair of Reebok shoes (size 10) for Mohan. There
are also 2 pairs of shoes
for Radha's and Lakshmi's sons. Hope the sizes
are correct.



Ba is wearing 6 American T-Shirts. The
large size is for Mohan.



Just distribute the rest
among yourselves.



The 2 new Jeans that Ba is wearing
are for the boys.



The Swiss watch that Reema wanted is
on Ba's left wrist. Shanta masi, Ba is
wearing the necklace,
earrings
and ring that you asked for. Please take them off her..




The
6 white cotton socks that
Ba is wearing must be divided among my nephews.



Please distribute all these fairly.
Love Smita.



PS : If
anything more required let me know soon as Bapuji is also not feeling

too well now a days.   

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Thats really nice to hear.. Many of us are not aware abt the new features available in Gingly.

This Online Support wud definitly help us to get Gingly benefits more.

Thanks

A driver is stuck in a traffic jam on the motor way. Nothing has moved for half an hour when suddenly a man knocks on the window. 



The driver rolls down his window and asks, "'What's going on?"



''Terrorists down the road have kidnapped Bal Thakrey, Udav, Raj and few more ministers. They're asking for a 10 million ransom or they're going to douse them with petrol and set them on fire. We're going from car to car, taking up a collection."



The driver asks, "How much is everyone giving, on average?"



"Most people are giving about a litre" 

One of my Friend's friend is undergoing an open hearted operation now [March 5th]  in MIOT hospital at Porur and they urgently require A -ve blood group.

If anyone ready to donate please find the contact details below.


Contact Details
9443331418  - Kannan

Patient Name  - Balasubramaniam

GroupCode <msg> seems to be fine

SMS <any msg> to 95662 95662.

UNSUB <Group code> sounds gud for me. 

Waaa  Search options seems to be good and wud be so helpful in case of offline scenarios.

And I could not find these commands guide in Gingly. Are these commands available at Gingly.com ?

23rd march 1931 in the morning time legendar BHAGATH SINGH, RAJGURU,SUKHDEV Were hanged to death for our nation.

But today we dont even remember their names we only celebrate chocolate day, Valentine Day ETC.., Atleast we can pass this message to every Indian and salute their sacrifice "


JAI HIND !!!

Many More Happy Returns of the day !!

Enjoy the day !! God Bless !!

3:00 pm: Satish Sawant, an insurance agent, collected his brand new Nano from a showroom in Prabhadevi, and headed home, dreaming of showing off his first car to his family at LIC Colony, Mulund (W).

3:45 pm: The car burst into flames at Eastern Express Highway. Sawant jumped to safety.

Sawant had spent Rs 2.4 lakh on the silver Nano (MH03 AW 913), which he had got fitted with an A/C and a power steering.

As Sawant cannot drive, the Concorde Motors showroom provided him with a driver to take him home safely.

There was not much afternoon traffic on the Eastern Express Highway, it being a Sunday afternoon. Sawant managed to cross Bhandup in less than 40 minutes. Around 3:45 pm, he reached Navghar Signal on the Eastern Express Highway. Suddenly, a motorcycle overtook him, signalling him to look behind.

As he turned to see what the biker was pointing at, he was alarmed to see the rear of the car in flames.

Sawant and the driver leapt out of the burning car. In no time, the car was engulfed in flames. Even a tree on the side of the highway was singed.

A shaken Sawant said, "I have no idea what happened. A motorcycle rider overtook me and told me that the vehicle was on fire. The engine was behind me and I did not realise that the car was on fire," said Sawant.

A fire tender rushed to the scene and doused the fire. The Navghar police (Mulund E) have registered a case yesterday evening

 
     
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I would also like to share some of my bitter experiences :

* This was happened at City Tower Hospital, Anna Nagar.

went to the hospital for an emergency visit [stomach ache].

I was admitted to the ICU 

They didnt even take scan or other tests but I was taken to surgery the next day for Appendicitis.  cool is it

Cheater C*%$# 

* Vasan Eye care, chennai.

omg!!! They are killing people in the name of hospitality.

Also whenever we visit them, Doctors would always write ppl to get medicines or drops from THEIR PHARMACY that costs around 400 bucks for 3ml sometimes we may get Expired Medicines that are supposed to be disposed ..ppl be aware of it. 

Traffic arrangements for PM Dr Manmohan's visit

To be in place between 3.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. on Saturday

Chennai Police to take over new Assembly and Secretariat complex on Friday.

Police have issued vehicle passes in four colours.



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CHENNAI: The Chennai Police have announced the following traffic diversions in view of the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is scheduled to inaugurate the new Assembly and Secretariat complex here on Saturday.

Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran said the traffic arrangements would be put in place between 3.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. on Saturday. Besides the Prime Minister, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala and Chief Ministers of three States would participate in the event.

Going by the tentative schedule, Mr. Rajendran said Dr. Singh would drive from the airport straight to the venue (Omandurar Estate) and return to the airport. A programme at the Indian Institute of Technology has been cancelled. A four-tier security cover was planned for the occasion, he said.

Mr. Rajendran said the Chennai Police would take over the new Assembly and Secretariat complex on March 12. Anti-sabotage checks with the help of Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad and sniffer dogs would be conducted. About 5,000 police personnel would be deployed for security. No preventive arrests were made yet, though police were questioning some persons on suspicion.

Police have issued vehicle passes in four different colours. Those with red passes would be allowed to enter Wallajah Road either from the Labour Statue or Anna Salai. Yellow vehicle pass holders could enter Wallajah Road from Labour Statue. Parking for these vehicles would be allowed at the Chepauk State Guest House and erstwhile Kalaivanar Arangam premises.

Vehicles with blue and pink passes would be allowed to enter Swami Sivananda Salai from Kamarajar Salai. These vehicles could be parked at the old MLA Hostel and vacant space near Doordarshan office. No other vehicle would be allowed to enter these routes.

Police and media vehicles would be allowed from Kamarajar Salai to park on the Madras University campus. Public vehicles could reach the function venue on Swami Sivananda Salai and park along the Marina Beach up to the Light House.

Traffic diversions

Vehicles going towards Anna Salai from Kamarajar Salai would have to go up to Kannagi Statue and take a diversion via Bharathi Road and G.P. Road. Vehicles proceeding to Parry's Corner from Anna Salai would be diverted at Spencer's junction to reach the destination via Binny Road, Marshals Road, Gandhi Irwin Road and E.V.R. Salai.

Vehicles going to Anna Salai from Muthusamy bridge would be diverted via E.V.R.Salai, Gandhi Irwin Road, Ega theatre junction, Dr. Gurusamy bridge, Sterling Road, College Road, Haddows Road and Nungambakkam High Road.

Vehicles proceeding from Chennai Central to Anna Nagar on E.V.R. Salai would not be allowed to take a left turn at Gandhi Irwin junction, Dr. Nayar bridge junction and Gengu Reddy subway.

No vehicle would be allowed between Spencer's Junction and Pallavan Road. If need be, traffic would be regulated on roads and lanes leading to this stretch, police said. Public vehicles coming to attend the function from GST Road would have to take a turn at Crescent College and take the Kelambakkam, Kovalam, East Coast Road, Thiruvanmiyur signal, Adyar bridge, Greenways Road, Santhome Road, Light House, Kamarajar Salai and Swami Sivananda Salai route.

Similarly, the vehicles coming from GNT Road would have to take the Erukancheri Highway, Basin Bridge Road, Moolakothalam, Walltax Road, E.V.R Salai, MMC junction, War Memorial, Napier Bridge and Swami Sivananda Salai route. Vehicles coming from Poonamallee High Road should take the Koyambedu, Ega Theatre, Central, War Memorial, Napier Bridge and Swami Sivananda Salai route to reach the function place.

Seeking the cooperation of the public in enforcing the traffic arrangements during the VVIPs' visit, Mr. Rajendran said police would coordinate with the MRTS officials with regard to operation of trains. A small stretch of the MRTS route near Chintadripet railway station runs close to the Omandurar Estate.

Shops in close vicinity to the function venue would remain closed for sometime on Saturday, he added.

Cisco made headlines today announcing a next generation router that will revolutionize the internet by increasing downloads to unheard of speeds.  The Cisco press release makes the following claims about the CRS-3 router:

It enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second; every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously; and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.

Tech Ticker interviewed Kelly Ahuja, Cisco Senior Vice President and General Manager Service Provider Routing Technology Group about the new product this afternoon.  He answered all our questions but one: When will consumers be able to take advantage of this new high speed internet? Perhaps that's because that part of the equation is up to our internet service providers. Until they upgrade it might as well all be a dream.

Cisco announced a new version of its key routing system, which the networking giant said has a dozen times the traffic capacity of competitors and three times as much as the company's previous version.

Cisco's CEO John Chambers said the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System is aimed at the huge growth in video on the Internet, a trend that has also caused slowdowns.

Pankaj Patel, SVP and GM for the service provider business, claimed the system could in just a few minutes deliver all the movies ever made or allow everyone in China to make a video phone call at once.

It had better. The consumption of video online is growing like crazy and a constant bottleneck is likely without some relief.

"Video brings the Internet to life," said Chambers. "You are moving from a messaging platform to a video platform."

Along with Chambers and Patel, AT&T (T) Labs CEO and President Keith Cambron was on the call discussing deployment trials the telecom giant has been doing with the CRS-3. CRS-3 (pictured here) will be available within the calendar year, said the Cisco execs on a press and analyst call this morning.

Cisco had said weeks ago that it was making "a significant announcement that will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments."

Significant? We'll see, of course. For sure, it was a highly hyped announcement by Chambers. But due to the speculation about what Cisco was unveiling, its stock hit a 52-week high yesterday. It dropped slightly this morning after the call.

Many others are getting into the high-speed act on the Web. Google (GOOG) said recently that it is planning on building a superfast broadband service. In addition, the Federal Communications Commission is set to unveil its own ambitious plan to improve high-speed Internet access across the United States.

Cisco has gotten deep into the video business of late, both in pushing its networking gear and in acquiring a video device maker like Pure Digital, the company behind my beloved Flip digital camera.

It is also working on innovative holographic and television-based home telepresence technologies.

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Price
Petrol

1.2 Duratec LXi Rs 3.49 lakh
1.2 Duratec Exi Rs 3.81 lakh
1.2 Duratec Zxi Rs 3.99 lakh
1.2 Duratec Titanium Rs 4.42 lakh

Diesel

1.4 Duratorq Lxi Rs 4.47 lakh
1.4 Duratorq Exi Rs 4.72 lakh
1.4 Duratorq Zxi Rs 4.96 lakh
1.4 Duratorq Titanium Rs 5.29 lakh[/b][/b]

Fwd...

Be aware of LIFE LINE HOSPITAL - Thoraipakkam

Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 10:32 AM
Subject: Be aware of Big Sophisticated Hospitals - pls read it ...
This is not a story but a true incident!

One of my friend, want to do Master check up to her mother.
Though she was quite healthy (No BP, No sugar or No general weakness), my friend wanted to do as she was in 50s.

So he toke her to the hospital in the morning 8.30 AM on Feb 20, 2010.
She was admitted in the hospital for Master Check Up.
After some few hours, he was informed that she has the possibilities to get heart-attack or heart block.
In the afternoon(2.00p.m) he was informed that the blood is getting arrested and have do a operation immediately
and  asked  sign papers.
My Friend was afraid & he accepted for that. He or his father were not allowed to go near her also.
They said she is unconscious and anything can be said after 4 hrs.
In the evening, around 4.30 p.m they said that she is no more.
It was really a shock for my friends & family.

It didn't stop there, the people in the hospital were not ready to give the body till they settle the hospital bill which was around
2.4 lakhs. Then they gave her body to them @ around 7.00 p.m...The highlight was that they her body as a cotton bundle.
As all her parts were removed...As My friend & family were in deep shock and pain they didn't question them.

He took her to that hospital for master check just because he will get back the money as medical insurance/reimbursement and this was one of the hospital which was listed in the insurance company and moreover near to their home.


All this happened in 'Life Line' Hospital, Thoripakkam Chennai.
I have heard that heavily charge, even if you go that hospital for minor sickness like fever, headache, stomach etc...But this is heights of height!!!

I guess this is not the only hospital which is like this. May be many of you might come across these type of incidents...
I thought of sending you this incident to create awareness.

In the interest of Public, please fwd this to your friends

If you have come across of such incidents in any other hospital, please add the Hospital name & place in the below below list:

1. LifeLine Hospital, Thoripakkam Chennai.


Regards,
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A very Happy Birthday Sudhakar !!! Lets hava Bigggggggg b'day bash tomo 

Hava Fantastic Year Ahead !!!

God Bless !!!

AN AMERICAN VISITED INDIA AND WENT BACK TO AMERICA



WHERE HE MET HIS INDIAN FRIEND WHO ASKED HIM

HOW DID U FIND MY COUNTRY 

THE AMERICAN SAID IT IS A GREAT COUNTRY

WITH SOLID ANCIENT HISTORY

AND IMMENSELY RICH WITH NATURAL RESOURCES.

THE INDIAN FRIEND THEN ASKED ....

HOW DID U FIND INDIANS .......??

INDIANS?? 

WHO INDIANS??

I DIDN'T FIND OR MET A SINGLE INDIAN

THERE IN INDIA.......

WHAT NONSENSE??

WHO ELSE COULD U MET IN INDIA THEN......?? 

THE AMERICAN SAID ........

IN KASHMIR I MET A KASHMIRI,

IN PUNJAB A PUNJABI,

IN BIHAR, MAHARASTRA, RAJASTHAN, BENGAL,TAMIL NADU,KERALA:

BIHARI, MARATHI, MARWADI, BENGALI, TAMILIAN, MALAYALI.........

THEN I MET

A MUSLIM,

A HINDU

A CHRISTIAN,

A JAIN,

A BUDDHIST

AND MANY MANY MANY MORE

BUT NOT A SINGLE INDIAN DID I MEET 

.....................................................................

THINK HOW SERIOUS THIS JOKE IS

THE DAY WOULD NOT BE FAR OFF WHEN INDEED WE WOULD

BECOME A COLLECTION OF NATION STATES AS SOME

REGIONAL ANTI-NATIONAL POLITICIANS WANT ...

FIGHT BACK -

ALWAYS SAY I AM  INDIAN 

                       
Pencil Printer --  Not quite as portable, the device will definitely do its job. Simply insert a pencil in the appropriate sharpener and the lead will be used for printing your precious documents. That way you won't be required to use any actual ink. The downside of the process is that the printed words are erasable. In fact, what if I told you that this particular printer can also erase the paper once you don't need it anymore? Well it can do that so, there, you can "save the tree." 

                           

                         







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—Dr. Y. L. R. Moorthi, IIM,Bangalore.

Who sells the largest number of cameras in India ?Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phonesReason being cameras bundled with cell phones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cell phone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sony's and Canons are taking note.



Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India ? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).


Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India . That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.



Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smart phone bus. They admit that Apple's I phone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails?



The "Mahabharata" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle.



Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says "What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?"



The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.

In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India ? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and tele presence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget.



So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. ( India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.



Remember, if there is one place where Newton 's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India . PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then tele presence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!


India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmy gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.



Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter?



The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.


One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cell phone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!


On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley ). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast ...or.... be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly. 

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      Age               : 50

     Hospital          : MMM, Chennai, JJ Nagar, Mogappair.

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The operation ( OPEN HEART SURGERY ) will be tomorrow Feb 3rd 2010.

Please, do the needful. 

         

After the Massive Success of Vettaikkaran (The Hunter) in TAMIL.

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What problems does Google Wave solve?

A matter of perspective by Daniel Tenner

http://danieltenner.com/posts/0012-google-wave.html


There are countless pundits and other tech gurus describing Google Wave as a disappointment, lately. Most of that seems to come from the fact that nobody seems to get what Wave is for. So they compare it to social media.

Is Wave the next Twitter? Nope. Is it the next Facebook? Nope. Is it going to replace Instant Messengers? Possibly, in some circumstances, but not any time soon.

I believe this is partly Google's fault: they released Wave to geeks and hackers and social media folks first. But Wave is not a geek/hacker tool, or a social media tool, it's a corporate tool that solves work problems (more on that later). On the other hand, they never claimed it would be a Facebook replacement or a Twitter killer. Google calls wave an "online tool for real-time communication and collaboration". The way Google should have advertised Wave is: "it solves the problems with email".

At Woobius, we've been working at resolving the problems with email for some time. Woobius is a solution to some of the problems of email within the construction industry. We've blogged and given talks about it. Perhaps that's why it was immediately obvious to me and my team why Google Wave is awesome.

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Conclusion

I believe that people who don't see what Google Wave is for are simply looking at it from the wrong angle. Wave is not a social tool. It's not Twitter, it's not GTalk, it's not Facebook. It was never designed to appeal to the crowds of geeks who are currently trying it out.

Wave is built for the corporate environment. It's a tool for getting work done. And as far as those go, it's an excellent tool, even at this very early stage.

It will probably take years before Wave fully penetrates large corporations and replaces the email systems everyone is used to. But it solves so many thorny problems with email that it might well manage to do so, where so many other tentative "email fixes" have failed.

In the meantime, we should stop judging it as a social tool and start looking at how we can use it for real work. Invite your colleagues to it, and get working. 

This is a photo from the 2009 Obama Inauguration, in which you can see IN  FOCUS  the face of each individual in the crowd!!!


You can scan, double click and zoom to any section of  the  crowd.  .  .


Wait a few seconds.  .  .  Don't  forget wait for few seconds and the focus adjusts. You will  be able  to see each and every person in crowd...


The picture was taken with a robotic camera at 1,474  megapixels. (295 Times the standard 5 mega pixel camera) simply amazinggggggggggg 

Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.

Chk ot the video here http://siftables.com/ Its amazing !!

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Rain fall in Bangalore from Nandi Hills!! Very Rare Photo!!


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In an announcement that came earlier this morning, Google has purchased Gizmo5. Now for those unfamiliar, Gizmo5 is a VoIP provider similar to Skype. Of course, you may be thinking, Google already has Google Voice, and that is a good point. However, that may only be one piece of the puzzle because while Google Voice allows you to make calls, even calls that can be initiated from your computer—you cannot make computer-to-computer calls. A combination of Google Voice and Gizmo5 could make for a nice all around calling solution, and one that could potentially rival Skype, which is something that Gizmo5 was never really able to accomplish on its own thus far.

With that though, it is important to point out that this is just speculation because while Google has confirmed the purchase of Gizmo5 they have yet to clue anyone else into what their plans for the service are. But when you think about it, that is par for the course. I also would not expect anything to happen quick. After all, look how long it took from the time Google purchased GrandCentral until they rolled out Google Voice. Just as a refresher, Google purchased GrandCentral in July of 2007 and did not roll out Google Voice (in limited beta form) until March of 2009.

Bottom line, while this Gizmo5 purchase is indeed interesting, it is important to keep the past in mind. It likely will be a long time before we see anything come from this purchase.

The official word on the Google's Chrome OS mentioned that we would see "more updates in the fall" and that it would not be available for download until the "second half of 2010." That said, things sometimes change, and sometimes they become the subject of rumor.

In this case, we have a rumor, of course its a rumor that the Google fanboy in me hopes to see come true.

Anyway, according to TechCrunch;

"Google's Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we've heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall."

There you have it, a "reliable source" is letting us know that we will soon be able to play with Chrome OS. But with that, it was also pointed out that the driver and device support will likely be limited.

If there's one rule when it comes to computer storage, it's that eventually everything gets a lot cheaper.  A 1 TB HDD can be bought for about $80, while a few years ago it was simply unheard of to even have 1 TB on one drive.  It stands to reason, then, that eventually online storage costs would decrease as well.  For a while that was simply not true, until Google stepped in today.

Google has announced that it will now start selling online storage for Gmail and Picasa at $5 a year for 20 GB.  The move puts twice as much storage for a quarter of what Google was offering previously.  The $20 a year plan now gives users 80 GB rather than 10 GB (users who previously purchased 10 GB should now have 80 GB).  The plans don't stop at 80 GB.  Google is also offering 200 GB for $50 a year, and up to 16 TB for $4096 a year.

Keep in mind that for now this storage applies only to Gmail and Picasa.  Google has yet to announce the fabled "GDrive" that would act like Dropbox or Ubuntu One, though now at a much lower cost (Dropbox charges $240 a year for 100 GB, while Ubuntu One charges $120 for 50 GB).  There is the possibility, as Webmonkey points out that this could somehow impact Chrome OS by offering online storage to offset the relatively small amount of storage available on netbooks.  If Google could somehow get the storage to work with both Chrome OS and Android, it would be even better.

Sure, it's probably a longshot, but being able to store music on Google's servers and have it available to an Android phone, or to a Chrome OS netbook would be a great feature.  It could lead to even more people claiming Google is evil and wants to control all your data, but at least the data will be secure at Google.

Big_S,

May be they are matured enough to make a life long commitment to one another. I have seen many of my college friends got married during their graduation[final year] some due to personal situations and some love. gr8 thing is still they r living together

Age doesnt matter only the mind needs to make up things well and better.

It is love and not age & money that works in a marriage.

newayz Happy married life Mrs.Hema 

Hi Acumen,

Nice to see you here !!

Ur Welcome !!

If you happen to have an old Nokia 1100 that was made in a certain factory in Germany lying around the house, you may be able to say "Show me the money!"  Well, if you wanted to sell to hackers that is.

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It seems that there are claims the phone can be hacked to allow illegal online banking transfers, which is making the amount some folks are willing to spend for one quite high.  Up to a little over $32,000 in some underground forums.  Yeah....you read that right.  All for a phone that ran about a hundred when it was first introduced on the market in 2003.

Nokia says they don't know why the 1100 is selling for so much now, and maintains their phone isn't flawed.  In an emailed statement, the company said that "We have not identified any phone software problem that would allow alleged use cases."

The reason it seems to be in such hot demand is that it allegedly can be reprogrammed to use another person's phone number.  "Big deal," you might say.  Actually, this is kind of a big deal.

This allows the phone to also receive text messages, which then leads to online banking transactions and fraud.  This can happen because in some countries, the banks send mTAN (mobile Transaction Authentication Number) to a customer's mobile phone.  This mTAN has to be plugged into a Web-based form to do transations like....transfer money to another account.  The number, which is kind of like a special passcode, can only be used one time.

And the nefarious have become quite good at getting their virtual hands on usernames and logins for online bank accounts.  They can do it by email phishing or by simply hacking into computers.

Previously, European banks had issued a list of TANs, and some banks used any TAN from that list to complete a transaction.  Big shocker when phishers began getting those numbers off of people.  Then banks asked for specific TANs (still from the list).  Fraud continued.  In 2005 they brought about the mTANs which only work for a specific requested transaction and for a short period of time.  Because of these restrictions, the bank website is saying the mTAN is useless to a hacker.  "The mTAN is valid only for the requested transfer and only for a short period.  It thus has no value for a fraudster."

Unless, of course, that hacker could also get a hold of the mTAN.  Which the Nokia 1100 hack is alleged to permit.  But, Nokia still insists it knows nothing of an 1100 software problem that would allow call spoofing.  Their response is that the phone's SIM card has security measures separate from the actual phone.

The company said that they are aware of commercial services that say they can provide caller ID or phone-number spoofing services, but say in those cases the providers acts as a proxy between the recipient and the caller.

However, Sean Sullivan, security advisor with security vendor F-secure says differently.  He claims it is in fact possible for multiple phones to be running on a provider's network using the same phone number.  He says that the last phone using the network will be the phone that receives the inbound messages.

"So if this particular Nokia 1100 can be modified to spoof the victims phone number, it should be possible to become the primary handset—at least long enough to receive the TAN," Smith said.

It isn't clear how the technical modifications are being made at this point.  But, just recently a woman in Finland offered to sell her Bochum-made Nokia to Frank Engelsman of Ultrascan, who's company will examine and test it to see if "the TAN interception can be replicated".

In the meantime, portablegear.nl, wrote how they put up a fake ad selling the Nokia 1100 on an online marketplace.  The had plenty of takers offering to come and pick it up immediately.  Although the offer price wasn't near what it is said to go for on the underground market, they had offers for over $700.

Over 200 million phones were produced in the 1100 family.  And the funny part?  I actually am one of the people with this phone stuffed in an old junk drawer.  But Nokia isn't talking on how many of those were made in Bochum.