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Your facebook account can be woth a 1000$ !!!

2012-02-09T21:30:00.000+05:30

Didn't hear about the Facebook IPO? You know how much the market valuation can be when FB sells its 10 % stake? IT could be somewhere around &75 to 100 $billion dollars. Now coming to the actual calculation. Facebook says it has around 845 million active users. But there might be some overestimation in these numbers. So, for all practical purposes we will take 800 million as the number of active users. And by assuming that the market valuation will come around 80 billion dollars. So it all comes to be around 1000$ for one active users. Cheer up guys !!! If somebody is complaining that you are not worth as you stick to Facebook for hours, you can shoot them back with this statistics albeit you are not entitled to this worth in the real world !!!

Facebook has a Valentine gift for everyone

2012-02-02T17:26:00.000+05:30

The much awaited Facebook angry birds is ready to be gifted to people on Facebook on Valentines day.

See who is eating into Apple :p

2012-01-23T23:18:00.003+05:30

Creativity best description - Video

2012-01-22T23:34:00.000+05:30

Enter the dragon : China

2012-01-22T18:17:00.001+05:30

The most unprecedented growth, the infrastructure at it's best, an Olympic event that had stunned millions worldwide, and the portrayal as a superpower alternative to west. This had been the China in the previous decade or so.. In the years to come, China might be flexing others muscle by promoting trades in it's own currency, a tight fight over control of pivotal South China sea, a bigger role in every matter. But the only contrast here is it all depends only on a single man and his decisions. The present premier will be retiring in the coming days, the whole world will be watching the China as it transits to another leader. Rather they will be watching keenly the moves of it's new leader. China will be celebrating the Lunar New Year or Spring festival from tomorrow. The Chinese tradition allots a single animal for every 12 years. And this year the assigned animal is the "Dragon" - a composite of nine animals ; the snake, camel,elk,deer, muscle,carp,eagle tiger and ox. A fictitious animal portrayed like a snake with claws. The next 12 years would definitely be crucial for China. Though it enters this new year with a bang, there are several issues that has to be addressed. An intellectually growing middle class is more aware now and might questions it's own government policies in the coming days. Whether this top-down process of high growth still work without much involvement of masses? Ultimately will the authoritarian style of working of Chinese politics survive. As the Chinese takes on the powerful west, the west will certainly be hitting China at these weak areas. Will China be able to fire with it's dragon on others in the coming years or just crawl like a snake dealing with it's own problems ?

When iPad falls from 1000 feet !!!

2012-01-22T13:35:00.001+05:30

iPad falls from 100 feet but still survives the impact near sector 100. Do not overlook on the hardware of the iPad, it is the protective cover that provides this rough smartness...

When Kingfisher pecked at SBI's Vault

2012-01-22T13:31:00.002+05:30

Kingfisher Airlines defaulted on loans provided by the consortium of banks. SBI was the one which had the highest exposure. The SBI declared KF airlines as a Non Performing Asset. So our economist echoes the same views as the vault of a nationalized bank ....

Victory : Vodafone stand vindicated

2012-01-20T21:10:00.001+05:30

The supreme court of India has ruled in favour of Vodafone, in what could be seen as a pivotal judgement in the area of merger and acquisition. In 2007 Vodafone acquired 67% stake in the erstwhile Hutchinson Essar company. The deal was valued at around 55,000 crores. The income tax department argued that though the deal took place between two foriegn companies, it had to be taxed as the assets were located in India. But Vodafone maintained that Income tax department has no such jurisdictions over foreign companies making such deals. The Vodafone which lost the case in Mumbai high court had approached Supreme court challenging the 12,000 odd crores imposed on it by the income tax department. Vodafone had also deposited around 2800 crores and had deposited surity of the remaining. The court ruling has vindicated the stand of Vodafone. Now that the supreme court has ruled this in favour of foreign company, the impact on similar cases will be huge. The government might be mulling over other options for meeting revenue targets.

SOPA and PIPA is not all about piracy ...

2012-01-20T17:20:00.001+05:30

The US Congress is mulling over the draconian SOPA and PIPA act. Is it just the piracy of copyrighted materials their primary concern? There are serious doubts that they are concerned more about the piracy. The freedom, the internet gives to the citizens are immense. The internet gives an identity to a citizen. A person can access everything in the social media which is not available in other forms of media due to restrictions by the government. The power of the social media was seen in the Arab uprising which finally led to the toppling of three dictators who held their foot strong for decades. But there seems to be an emergency to put hold on these type of open media as any government with wrong polices are vulnerable. The recent Occupy Wall street is one of the instance where USA faced the fire from its own idea of freedom of expression. The social media unites the people for a cause but the ruling elite never favors such regrouping as it exposes them to the bottom. Whether it is democratic or communist country, the rulers want their position to be above law. The power corrupts the people, whether you are in a communist state or a democratic one. So are these draconian laws in disguise of piracy prevention.

A day without Wikipedia

2012-01-17T23:08:00.001+05:30

Wikipedia is opting for blackout on Wednesday to protest the draconian SOPA and PIPA acts. So here is a day to experience a day without our favourite wiki. A normal man would never have any impact of this one. But being a fairly active netizen, you would definitely get annoyed if you are not getting the wiki inks in the first few search results. So why getting annoyed for that? Try clicking on other links for your search keywords, you will know how much you will be lost or you would just be going in just one particular direction. The most comprehensive wiki would surely be missed a lot. And guess what this website is a non-profit thing. Wiki raises funds through donations from readers and companies. So it's latest drive to raise 20million $ was over in a matter of few days. This shows the popularity of this wonderful website nicknamed wiki. So at the end of the blackout day, we netizens would surely say "we miss u wiki"

Annoyed by autocorrect in iOs : best way to overcome

2012-01-15T14:50:00.001+05:30

Have you got irritated by the way the autocorrect corrects your spelling in iOS, then here is the best way to overcome it. Go to General -- Keyboard -- Autocorrection -- Turn it off.

The day the Apple got an egg on it's face

2012-01-13T21:18:00.001+05:30

Apple was at the receiving end today, when it's flagship stores in Beijing got hurled by eggs by the angry customers. People qued up from early morning to buy the IPhone 4s from the apple store. But due to the crowd turning awfully wrong, the store shut down. But this action resulted in egging of the brand apple.

Bajaj RE 60 - Can it be the game changer ???

2012-01-03T17:36:00.001+05:30

Bajaj has announced the launch of low cost car RE 60 with the following specifications
40 km per litre
60 gm per km of CO2 emission
Maximum speed of 70km per hour
800CC DTSI Engine
Though the price is still undisclosed, the features makes this car an unique one.

CERT warns Indians against Kim Jong || Malware

2012-01-02T23:53:00.001+05:30

Never be in a haste to read about the coveted leader of North Korea; someone else somewhere can be remotely reading your whole vital data. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team -CERT country's national agency to respond to computer security incidents, has found the malware virus streaming into the Indian cyberspace. have detected and alerted internet users against "malicious spam mails" in the name of the dead North Korean leader Kim Jong-|| leading to hacking and crashing of vulnerable e-mails. The malicious spam mails carry a fake name "brief_introduction_of_kim_jong_||_pdf.pdf". "The said pdf file is exploiting vulnerabilities in Adobe reader and Acrobat, that once successfully exploited leads to remote code execution in the victim system," the CERT-In said in its latest advisory to computer and internet users in the country.

Sydney and Sachin : Will both end the wait for 100th century

2012-01-02T00:09:00.000+05:30

Sachin Tendulkar averages 221 at the SCG and he has two centuries and a double century from just four Tests with a highest score of unbeaten 241. So Sydney is one of the most favourite ground for the little master. Will the Sydney and Sachin combination end the year long wait for 100th century ever for any international player.

First convince or else Confuse - The lokpal fiasco

2012-01-01T20:25:00.000+05:30

The Lokpal bill was not able to be passed in the recently concluded session of the parliament. We still have to wait and see whether it is a possibility in the next upcoming budget session. But what the politicians have done in a sophisticated way is the confusion they have created around the fiasco. Both the ruling and the opposition accuse each other of sabotaging the process of passing the bill. So our politicians who were unable to convince the people by bringing in an effective anti-corruption bill has eventually confused the people at large. The bill was introduced in the Loksabha, passed without a constitutional status. And finally could not even go to vote in the Rajya Sabha. There was allegations that the law was toothless when it was introduced first in the Lok Sabha. But look at the magic created by our politicians; no one speaks about the basic flaws in the bill but now they are involved in pointing fingers against each other for not passing the bill. At the moment the atmosphere created is whatever may be the shape of the bill, passing of the bill would be the greatest achievement. So the government has practically achieved something out of this and the law would be put into our mouths in the coming sessions. Let us wait and see how the drama unfolds in the coming days...

December 2012 Doomsday is actually not coming ...

2012-01-01T20:11:00.002+05:30

There was lot of talks about impending doomsday in December 2012. The Hollywood and many of the the media rallied around the point and aired the Doomsday often pointing to the Mayan Calender which according to them has ended on December indicating the end of the world. But the scientific community has nevertheless rebuffed the doomsday allegation and has logically explained the reasons.

The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Then these two fables were linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.
The Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period and another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.
There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades, Earth will not cross the galactic plane in 2012, and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. Each December the Earth and sun align with the approximate centre of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence.
Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye.
A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, anyway.

Samsung topples Nokia's top position in India

2012-01-01T01:16:00.001+05:30

The Korean mobile manufacturer, Samsung with its wide variety of smartphones and lower end handsets has finally toppled Nokia in India from its top position. Samsung's volume market share in November stood at nearly 38%, and value share at 35.2% according to market research firm GfK. The figures beat the nokia in terms of both value and volume.Nokia has to be worried a lot about this trend because it was the company that boasted of the volumes topp slot for years. The aggressive marketing of Samsung coupled with wide range of selection has shown results for Samsung.

Indian Growth Story in picture

2011-12-25T11:24:00.002+05:30

There is obviously a very much buzz about the Indian Growth story and also there is a lots of discussion happening whether it has gone into an abrupt end. So taking the Indian growth story in a more lighter way and in my perspective it represents this picture.
We have added a lot of infrastructure like in the picture u can see a smooth but not so well built road. And actually we are moving in a three wheeler and there are greater speed limits for this type of vehicles and rightly said our growth story was almost comparable to the same speed.
But unfortunately the vehicle is stopped at the moment due to a puncture. And this we can compare to the recent slowdown in our economy and reversal of decision of FDI in retail sectors.

Normal account and Overdraft account Difference

2011-12-23T19:57:00.001+05:30

Overdraft is a type of bank account where an extension of credit from a bank or a lending institution beyond the available balance in the current account can be made. Whereas the normal account cannot avail this feature.
Overdraft account is usually used by companies, business houses where there is a high volume of transactions. These parties can enter into an agreement with the bank on the terms of Overdraft account like maximum credit limit, maximum default time, interest rates etc depending upon their respective business and volumes.

Here is a small illustration on how overdraft works

A tough Lokpal and a tough possibility

2011-12-23T19:08:00.000+05:30

More than 60 years of Independence and decades of debate on this Ombudsmen bill has not yet turned into an actual law. The corruption has touched its peril. The economic reforms which was thought to bring in some kind of transparency because of more private involvement has not worked out in that way. This is mainly due to PPP- Private, Public, Politician involvement in almost all kind of projects involved. So there is increasing sophistication in which the politicians plunder the wealth due to the immense increase in the volume of economy and advanced technology. So now comes the basic question of why and how the same politicians pass the lokpal bill which will certainly land many of them in jails if it is implemented properly. And that is is the reason a tough lokpal is a tough possibility. The uprising of the middle class should be more wide in the upcoming days. The involvement of people from the villages might be the biggest boost for the current anti-corruption movement. So, is the team Anna listening?

Aakash tablets are on sale !!!

2011-12-18T22:56:00.000+05:30

Aakash tablets are on sale but wait before I could log on to the website http://www.aakashtablet.com/ the tablets were sold out. So you guys will need to have a better luck next time. But there is a preorder available for the upgraded version of Akash that is Ubislate for Rs.2,999.

Difference between Human and Humane

2011-12-09T19:20:00.001+05:30

Humane is an adjective which is used to describe an emotional feeling like compassion, caring attitude towards other living beings.
Human on the other hand is a noun which describes any living being belonging to the family Hominidae whether extinct or not and is characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech and erect carriage.
But the word human can also be used as adjective which might give the same meaning as Humane

Innovation rules this virtual world

2011-12-07T08:05:00.000+05:30

Innovation still rules and definitely it rules large over internet giants. Internet is seeing huge innovations and we can perceive the change on day to day basis. Look at the way the experience changes in the internet. No other field has caught up with this amount of innovations.
Look at the leap of change in experience. Facebook, twitter, youtube everything changes a lot to maximise users feel good experience. The intense competition that rocks this arena is also contributing to the Innovations.

Goldilocks zone - favouring life

2011-12-07T07:46:00.001+05:30

Goldilocks zone is one that is not too hot, not too cold, therefore where water, which is essential for life, does not freeze or boil.