So, after all the drudgeries and the rants about Sachins’ retirement, he finally calls it a day. What a career! 3 decades of his 40 years spent playing this game, his dear game that is so dear to his heart and that has just increased the incessant love for the game in the hearts of million Indians. We owe a lot to this man, a nation pent up with emotions, moods a’changing in line with this mans’ cricketing adventures. Much unlike Roger Federer who when quizzed what if at all is left for him to achieve, answered regaining the number one ranking, Sachin though had just one thing on his mind, the almost child-like fondness to the game, to just be able to wield the willow or just be there in the middle. Much of what was being made off his on-field sojourn in the media or in the end-less arm chair debates by his fans would not deter him. Such was his love for the game.

Guess the loss though cannot be quantified, but then can be clearly felt across many quarters. The fans will no more see this man treading down the 22 yards, with the prayers of millions and carrying the burden of the entire team on his shoulders.  The biggest loss I guess is to the bowlers, who no more can take pride in getting that objet trouve (Sachins’ wicket). Bowlers in the current age are endangered species with all the elements of losing out any motivation to bowl owing to the petrifying rules charted out by ICC as though they have something against them and then the loss of the most prized wicket in world cricket. Its’ the bowlers who I guess seem to have run into some kind of hard luck that they are losing out at any motivational factors.

But then the cricketing world seems to be holding up. The Indian cricket scene in the recent past has seen few really exciting prospects and with few old talents finding their feet at last, the Indian team I guess has managed the transition that saw off few of the modern greats retiring. Part of the plaudits has to go to Dhoni, who as a skipper has not only built a team that has confidence in its’ abilities but also can compensate for others’ gullibility. By cherry picking the team from his own Chennai club, Dhoni is showing how he is using the domestic circuit of IPL as a test lab to gauge and incubate players and prepare them for the international challenge. Though there is a lot of hue about the litany of Chennai players finding their way through to the national side, Dhoni has played a master stroke by turning the IPL into a trial-by arena with the performers finding their way in. The players are first given a chance in the LOI and bled enough to make it to the longer format.

Whatever the cricketing gods have in store for this team, much of what it is and what it will turn out to be will always be attributed to few good men with Sachin setting the benchmark in terms of performances, Dravid in terms of stolidness, Dada in terms of having that immeasurable confidence and aura. The future at least for now seems to be in perfect hands, though not much ain’t seems to be orchestrated, but believe me when I say my generation will miss this man.

China for its’ part is a totally different beast with its’ recently concluded third plenum aiming to impinge a slew of reforms into a market that is growing almost at a pace somewhere north of 7 % and is almost set to grow at much higher rate. Atleast part of its efforts seem to be in place to alleviate poverty and channel its’ market towards an internal consumption model and take advantage of its demographics. The digital power houses like Alibaba and Tencent are already behemoths with millions of customers and a connoisseur to the world’s eyes. China on its’ part is virtually unaffected by the whole GFC drama that unfolded during the last 5 years as its’ growth has come at the cost of strong internal fundamentals and a much stronger export market.  Guess now we can see a change in its’ focus to its domestic markets at the same time few of its companies saturated in China, tend to harbor global ambitions. Much of the infrastructure growth in Africa can be credited to the Chinese, who have partnered with the African governments to douse their own increased investment and provide employment to their own people (1 million Chinese, is the number being floated around).

India, as my last post suggests is largely a state mired in its own bureaucratic problems. With the country going into general elections next year, we can see a stagnation in the reforms being implemented (as though there were any reforms implemented, in the past decade that the incumbent has ruled) as the two major political parties start their mud-slinging campaigns and woo voters (read the BPL people) using tax payers money. India for whatever the world perceives it to be is thanks to its few enterprising and capitalistic leaning individuals who have staved off many internal challenges to emerge out of this virtual political and bureaucratic quagmire to make India an emerging market. But still there is hope, if only the capitalists are left to their devices and the amount of red tape is reduced along with the political interference, we can see a litany of entrepreneurs not only in the increase the number of jobs with the number of younger demographic the highest in the world.

China and India (or Chindia; coined by the effervescent Jairam Ramesh, in line with bankers and the economists fetish for mash ups) for their part are the real power houses in the emerging markets cluster owing to the rich demographic dividend they would pay off and the amount of growth potential they offer. India is in need of huge investment in terms of infrastructure, and if we go with the figures it is $ 1 trillion. And this presents a huge investment opportunity to the FIIs as they can form a partnership with local cos to invest in the infrastructure which are bound to pay off in future. India for all its frailties, will become the  third biggest economy at least by 2030, preceded by only China and US.

The only thing that is plaguing India is the amount of red tape and the high ease of doing business index. India has millions of people entering the middle class and many PhDs, (poor, hungry and driven) who have it in them to grab any opportunity and make hey off it. The guv. for its own benefit has to just let them off guard with proper regulations in place and cut the amount of red tape involving investments by FIIs or individuals. There is a burgeoning class of entrepreneurs and with it a freshly edified collegiate class emerging from every corner of India. India has to create the required number of jobs to accommodate into the higher demographic at a rate never seen before, else there is every chance the country is going to get caught in a whirl of chaos, and we might see a new India emerge out of it.

This though sounds like an Orwell-esque chimera might well change the future of a country for better out of which a new kind of India might emerge.

Demographically speaking, India is the world’ largest democracy, and a socialist republic. Its’ a failed country and its’ leaders  failed it. With a wail of democracy, the Indian politicians have created a system that assists and promotes their own interests and those few of the rich class related to them or who butter them. With all its’ bells and whistles Democracy is a big failure. Power to the people, and the ancient Abe Lincoln’s’ famous definition of Demos Kratos is a sheer mis-deviation of a system that is set for failure. If only we can open our eyes and see clearly there is not a single nation (read successful) that touts its’ success based on the democratic principles laid down by the pre-historic Europeans.

There is a significant radical change in the way Science is thought and taught across the globe, we have come a long way in our search for truth in terms of our origins to how can we leverage technology to improve our lives. The financial economics has come a long way and thanks to the innovation that has occurred in this space and the irrational exuberance of few commoners, we have just seen off a global catastrophe. The fact of the matter is there is some kind of innovation that has occurred either way in all the sciences. But the political science has not undergone any change, and we tend to pour over the virtues of being a democratic nation, about giving the people their due in voting in the faces they want to see as their leaders.

India as a welfare state is an oxymoron in absolute terms. We respect our elders and are nurtured in a familial condition where in we obey what ever our parents say, no questions asked. But when it comes to a much bigger family that of state or country we are the exact opposite talking about free values and going off wire.

If we just look north to our neighbour China, they have instituted a state controlled capitalism, which though not a democracy seems to be working well. There is a lot of talk about oppression and absence of free will, but this is just a portrayal by the free media. If your government is working tooth and nail to uplift you from the clutches of poverty and in turn demands a bit of respect to what it is doing, guess it does deserve it.

A much deeper framework that involves a region can be built. While I fully realise the amount of havoc this kind of integration at a political level has caused in Europe, a more revolutionary framework at a much higher level – continent/region-and holding the country guv. more responsible for the kind of reforms being implemented

Guess the ‘Now for the long term‘ project, kicked off by Oxford Martin School is a step in the right direction in trying to decrease the chaos that has proliferated thanks to these multiple multi-country frameworks, try to beat them down and decrease the amount of red tape that has to be crossed for reforms/ideas to be implemented at a much grander scale. Our world in a way is not to be looked upon and studied as a physicist or a biologist does presently in silos and trying to discover things on their own. Our world is a tight integration of multiple variables like demographics, culture, human emotions, technology and not to forget the various local power centers to name a few.

While portraying a deeper political integration among the worlds’ countries is a stuff better left for celluloid, an attempt to skunk this kind of project around a loose ad hoc framework that can be dismantled or incrementally improved should be designed. But there are multiple factors that factor in, and the lessons learnt from the EU will surely pay off here.

Now is the time, to give this a serious thought and establish a region wise FTA or political power houses. Although a much loosely coupled political fronts like BRIC are springing up, this is hardly an effort towards a seamless economic cooperation and not much has been done in terms of alleviating the poverty levels or improving the education system.  All the efforts for the countries involved have been with in their own realms, with the conferences primarily being to sign or at least discuss any new trade engagements.

Europe has taught us few really important lessons on the levels of integration required to create a true fiscal as well as political union. Its’ lessons can be taken as a basic rectitude framework to build on if countries from a particular region or that which have been bonded through some bankers’ acronym (As I write this, BRICS is being elbowed out to make way for MINT).

A true altruistic* and sustainable capitalism is to be encouraged and thats’ the only way we can have people out of the clutches of poverty and into a free and healthy world where everyone is given an equal chance to live.

*As Richard Dawkins says, there is no true case for us to portray altruism in any sense of the word, its’ just that we tend to be selfish about our own notions that we sometimes end up exhibiting this altruistic behavior. Its’ the same wrt capitalism and the CSR too, with the corporates trying to exhibit this kind of behavior only to gain more investor confidence or whatever ulterior reason. But then its’ just the law of nature.

Crowd-sourcing, agile way of delivery et al, all are nothing but the spill over effects of that famous movement which just could not catch on as it was only being used by tech geeks. Now, as the tech landscape has changed so much and as organizations are looking to new ways of developing the software with shrinking product and release life cycles, and with closer integration of the marketing and tech teams that all these methodologies being practiced in closed silos are suddenly gaining lot of currency in the mainstream market and we are being drowned in these end-less barage of words.

DevOps, whatever its’ worth for all its’ hype, calls for a closer integration of the devlopment and operations teams, to decrease the amount of overhead and confusion that so often divides them. With the average product releases spread between 2-3 months, and with the MVP (minimum viable product) gaining lot of traction, there is a more urgent need to fructify the relationship between the Dev and the Ops team.

Automation of most of the manual tasks is a critical first step forward, in the DevOps model and taking a leaf off the erstwhile crowd sourced model of Linux Development, where in the users (read: devs), used to do it largely be themselves with no clear definition of having a separate Ops team. This inadvertenly turns to the development team dirtying their hands with all that goes into deployment and part of post-deployment support.

While all kinds of jargons seem to be flying off from every direction be it from cloud to big data, it perfecctly makes sense for us to watch out for the hype wave or the next big thing that might make our life much easier.

Gone are the days when we used to calculate the amount of threat the opposition bowlers posed based on the target we were set. There used to be a comprehensive risk analysis of each bowler on each batsmen and how can they ward off the threat. This used to go on for hours with me and my friends frantically debating about how Dada should have wasted that ball or how jammy could have sliced it through the fielders. Now, things are completely different, with analysis thrown to the gutter, the only thing everyone right from the administrators to the players to the crowd seem to be interested is the bling bling bang bang.

If we just look up the way the recent India-Ozzie series went, the  bowlers surely were running for cover. Everyone was left wondering if the batting was simply awesome and were making the bowlers look bad or its’ just the quality of bowlers. There were always few fantastic bowlers who took their batting seriously, but never had it been that bowlers had to resort to batting for survival. As Dhoni said, its’ better we erect bowling machines and let the batsmen have a whack at them if thats’ the way they want it.

Notwithstanding the new rules seem to have strengthened the batsmen as we saw 300 being plundered and chased with less audacity and minimal risk whatsoever. Guess a more rounded framework should be created so that the balance in the game is maintained. If a couple more such series like the one happen, cricket will loose its true followers. Guess cricket was one game that was left untouched by all the marketing hoopla, but then IPL happened. IPL and all the other leagues until they do not dilute the real essence of the game that which keeps people glued to the TV, and brings them to the stadium, and that game played by greats like Laxman, Dravid and Sachin,

The Supply chain per se has come a long way from the days of nomadic traders carrying their supplies on animal backs wandering off from one place to the other to the hyper-connected high velocity uber chains that enable movement of goods in a jiffy compared to the pre-historic periods. And then we have the eBay now, where in we have a human being literally toting the inventory on his back and charging off to make the deliveries afoot does not just seem a bit archaic but also a bit naive on the part of the online giant.

The concept of the same day delivery for its part is a lot tricky both from the customer as well as the suppliers point of view. It might depend on various factors like the time of delivery, the category into which the item ordered falls into and the location of the customer. One way can be to create a hyper speed channel through a well managed logistics networks to deliver the pre assembled contents in a warehouse (may be third party) and then have them delivered.

Big data can surely help here. The kind of  decisions that can be made on what are the things that can be stuffed in your warehouse based on the data collected either on a particular demographic or individuals purchase trends. The information can be gleaned by making sense of endless pile of data generated over social media conversations or the change in status among other things. When context based ads can be catered to the people based on key learnings through their various interactions over the web, that kind of information can be extended over how well a nations’ s or the global supply chain can be better designed.

With thoughts like these occluded in my head that I boarded my first flight to Dubai from where I would take off to London. Dubai, the city that anyone would readily bet on, albeit its realty crashed during the recent GFC, it is still the darling of the investors after all those hi flying chinese cities. As we were flying low in the emirates fly zone, was really stumped at seeing large swathes of waste land, which left me wondering about their daily existence.

And then on to London, which at my first sightings resembled just like Bengaluru from the confines of my Taxi at least. Not any different if you take away the listless traffic on the Bengaluru-Hyderabad highway. There are not many diffs that I could find except for the lack of the chaos factor which Venkatesan was talking about. By now it had dawned on me the kind of vibrancy and the multi-color attributes that India is often attributed to. So, here I was, trying to increase the chaos in my life and thus satisfy the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Celestial! Was the only word that I could conjure up of the way the Azzuri played yesterday. It was absolute 90 m packed entertainment. Azure defence against die mannschaft attack, and what was the result, pure entertainment. If anyone had any doubts that football was just mere possession and then attack, they would have had to bite their tongue, for the way the teams played yesterday was miles far from the way the stalemate between la roja and CR7 ended.

Even though the teams were chasing the ball the audience were treated to some of the greatest footballing skills with the master play maker Pirlo leading the charge and Balotelli who was nonetheless charged up following his not being included in the starting XI trying to prove far too many points. It was only pity that his skills paid off against a team who have played one if the best attacking and entertaining football in the tournament.

As for the Sunday match it all boils down to only 2 things. It will be great to see how the Italian defense and the midfield play against the SpanishArmada.  As for the Azzuri, they are a force to reckon, and remains to see how hard will the la roja try to negate that effect (with their endless passing). Whatever may happen on Sunday, its going to be the best ever match played yet at least in the tournament.

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]]> http://legerdemain.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/la-roja-v-azzuri-scrumptuous-that/feed/ 1 12.839398 77.651287 12.839398 77.651287 Sriharsha Makkuva Spain v Italy - UEFA EURO 2012 Final http://legerdemain.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/the-perpetual-motion-machine/ http://legerdemain.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/the-perpetual-motion-machine/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 18:19:34 +0000 http://legerdemain.wordpress.com/?p=726 Continue reading →]]> Few quests have evoked much attention and almost fanatical veneration than the mankind’s quest for the perpetual motion machine. As was my wont for those nightly jaunts that I suddenly was hit by this brick wall of an idea of having a perpetual motion machine atleast in the virtual sense. Guess, you ‘d’ve gauged it by now on the WWW. As a PMM would need an endless and almost constant supply of fuel to be running for years atleast for 2 generations for the people of generation to happily think that their progeny would live on with that contraption they built, happily ever after, something virtually can be built with the data as the fuel being pumped for eternity without any external intervention.

The hella bytes of data that is being generated each day over the WWW can be in a sense auto-crunched to transform it into a non-sensical information which can be categorised and can be morphed into what can be  a virtual perpetual motion machine with data being fed in for eternity and that would pump out information in a usable format. This kind of a machine will have a constant supply of fuel as well as will be running forever.

This is some kind of a raw idea, the roots of which I have somehow foregone, as the night on which this thing hit me was wsy long back, and now am here in a totally different place. Will surely try developing this idea but now…..

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And then there is this post, just to give an uptick on the things to get under way in this year. Part of the reason for not doing what I ought do might account for my being variably wired or even my own other indulgences not to mention the addiction to the microblogger.

Things do change, don’t they, off late with me wondering if there was anything that exists, that can be perceived to be present except for your own heart beat. For everything apart from you (as you form the tip of the cone) come under the famous past-future cone where in you always tend to perceive things always past.

Guess the blog is really missing on the real big picture and slyly incapable of framing some good ones must confess that must find some alternative to beat down the mutual idle time. Guess am being more subjectively abjected to the so called Stockholm Syndrome at my work place which considerably felt am finding hard to break.

With yet another iron-fist resolve of really putting something meaningful the next time, I just….

The BASIC as the world knows comprises of the world’s fastest growing and most promising emerging markets. Apart from BRIC, coined by the red knight Jim ‘O Neill BASIC forms a quadrant where things are happening and happening at break neck speeds.

The Indian cricket entourage not only consists of the coaches, physicians and et al but also the end less brands each of them endorse and with CLT they are provided a platform that can be exploited to establish a global foot print. As the teams are to a large part represented from big international brands that have huge visibility to small brands that are hitchhiking on the backs of some lesser known players.

This global event grandiose in its scale, does provide an opportunity for them to set up shop not only in the host country but also in the neighboring countries. On a micro scale this is good, as most of Africa is left open by international brands mainly due to their eco as well as cultural backwardness. If only smaller brands, stand and make themselves count to treat South Africa as the light at the end of the tunnel they will be opening up “easy markets” where capital inputs are not only low but can also get them large profit margins.

South Africa on its part is the torch bearer of the Dark Continent. With the success of FIFA ’10 and with CLT following suit, they are not only convincing outsiders to invest into their country but are also opening up the whole African market.

The poles are reversed, Misr used to be the trading point of Africa in the golden age of pharoahs, but now South Africans are the torch bearers.  The MTN-Airtel deal was followed very closely by the world, not only for the sheer size they ‘d be creating but also what  ‘d’ve been a nuptials of two independent business models that are aggressive and market leaders. But with the deal called off, owing to the ideological differences between the political mafia.

[To be Contd.....]

I heard my watch chime in which meant I had just 1 hour to reach Central, and was getting incrementally frustrated at the long queue at the Metro.

After what was a 35 day wait, the D-day arrived at last. Anticipating to see my parents and eat my Mom’s scrumptious cuisine once again I was utterly thrilled when the day at last arrived. (In fact was so thrilled, that I forgot to sleep).

Was something like 5th in the queue when I decided to end the frustration by breaking the law. Breaking the law, and traveling ticket less.  Though that was common place and a routine for a Hyderabadi, but suddenly felt odd. Somehow, with the resolution that I’d deal with any kind of maladroit situation, I jumped off the line and made off the elevator. After a 7 min wait, the train arrives, luckily empty seated.

Right from the time I read about the Gatesian adventures with his business trips, I’m being haunted with these kinds of things of reaching the destination at the last minute, with all the fun diluted. But this time, things were to change and something real surprise was in store for me.

The Metro somehow got me, with hardly 15 mins left with 10 mins of walk to the central, forget the rush hour traffic that includes pedestrians. After 8 mins of twiddling and twaddling and screams from people who were elbowed by me, I reached my destination, heavily gasping and panting. Imagine this on a typical day @ railway station in the screwed up weather that is of Chennai.

Here I go, seated in my reserved berth I start devouring my surroundings. The rest as they say goes into the anals of my cerebral cortex locked for eternity!

Just ‘d ‘nt hit the sack, how ‘d I with my thoughts wandering for one into the Hawking’s Black Holes, report of the structure constant variability I read early in the day, thought of time’s relativity and its effects on people in different time frames and the most idyllic view just right off me, Bliss!

As I end this post, the one thing I really want is to be freezed forever in that time frame, for they are serendipitous and surrealistic moments.  Can’t help but recant Dali’s  “The Persistence of Memory”.

Wanted to always steal myself from this thickly covered concrete jungle, and land myself in some desertest place where it will be me along with myself. But then used to suffice myself with the thought that such a feeling is pure psychological bliss and if only one wants to feel isolated in a mob of a few million, one can easily do so with his own infernal predilections.

And then there was me who used to get lost, deep into the wilderness of my own imagination and thoughts even in the densest places ever visited. But then much of man’s loneliness is often tagged with some water body. On the myriad accounts depicted in books or celluloid the loneliness is more often than not is abided by some sea rules.

And so it was when I decided to filch myself to the nearby coast of our house at the weirdest hour of the day. The feeling was that of an unanticipated exhilaration coupled with a wont for adventurism. Honest feelings, never seen such vast expanse of water so darkly spread across the entire eastern direction. Being a lifelong hyprophobe was always abstractly attracted to the aesthetic sense of the sea than to its other factors. And here was I looking at nothing but white foams of waves marching towards me as  though I held the power of gravity.

At the very first sight I was utterly petrified at the very thought of seeing the sea in utter darkness except for a tiny speck of lights coming from the far northern part where lies the entire city. The night sky bloated with far lesser stars than anticipated with neither the moon light to bask in. The waves were getting stronger and stronger as the minutes ticked out with a gigantic wave springing to reach the sky.

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Not an iPhone beater but is feature rich that comes with a HTML browser, a virtual keyboard and toting a slew of multimedia features. The 8-MP camera is the main draw on the mobile which allows you to share your pics on online networkin g sites like Flickr, Photobucket, Snapfish or Kodak gallery.

The let down is that its a Wi-Fi null device.

The specs include:

• 8 Megapixel Camera with Xenon flash and 16X digital zoom

• microSD slot for storage capacity expansion

• A-GPS for navigation and location based services

• 240 x 400 pixels touchscreen display (262k TFT)

• Full HTML browser along with POP3 e-mail support

• TouchWiz interface with customizable widgets

• 3G/EDGE/GPRS data access speeds compatible

• Wireless Bluetooth 2.0 technology (Stereo)

The name though is kinda let down. MePhone not so appealing a name for this phone. Hope this will change sometime soon, and be christened to something cool as the phone itself.

As bad was the economy, so at its best was the technology that emerged in 2008. We saw few of the most memorable releases that would go down to play a major role in the coming years. Well, quite naturally the best thing that happened was the release of Android, Google’s foray in to the mobile industry with its flagship open source operating system. And, whenever a giant like Google sets its foot in to such a demanding industry as the mobile industry, we expect something magnanimous and Google never disappoints its supporters. Android, the very first day it was announced created ripples in the mobile industry which slowly transformed to waves that really hit the other players so hard that they were rather found to have magnetized themselves to become open source.

We saw the competition grow to the heights with the entire industry embracing the developer and user-centric attitude. According to their recent research report, Gartner said that Symbian still commands 49.8 per cent of the global mobile OS market and was pretty skeptical in its reports over Android. The very fact that, Android is being mooted in just less than a year of its release shows its on to something real serious in terms of apps and the user experience.

The stand out players of this year have been Apple, Google and HTC. Apple overcame its own jinxed sales record by recording a massive 327.5% YoY growth in its iPhone sales. Google itself completed a decade, it released its own browser, the Chrome and Android, which changed the entire perception of a mobile OS. HTC, has surely established its brand the world over by releasing the first device to run Android along with a slew of niche hand sets.

Microsoft and Moto were largely taking too much on to them this year. After the release of Android and even Symbian being evangelized to become an open source OS, Microsoft found itself to be short on fuel, resulting in a sling-a campaign. Moto though was on the economic side of the year, with it being nailed down with a massive loss that it ‘d love soon to regurgitate. We, though see the sunny side by expecting a breath-taking design from Moto in 2009, with their brand new OS, Android.

So, as 2009 is nearing everyone from a Tech geek to a bearish-economist is expecting the best of the year 2009.

But then England have learnt a lot of lessons from this tour. They’ve discovered a champion is Swann and Strauss proved his class once again by nearly dominating the entire English innings in the first match, before Sehwag blew it away for them. The first match was exhilarating and test match at its best. The Chepauk always produced master pieces and this time we could have the master himself sketching a master piece of an innings and dedicating it to the terror-strife country. The gesture really got everyone on their feet. 

And then there was this jinx, of the side that ‘ll lose the test series will go on to win the ODI. It happened to Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka which have all won the test series but eventually lost out in the ODI format. So, by conquering both the formats India made sure we were in the hunt for that elusive no. 1 spot.

2008 saw Gambhir rise to a level where he can really bet his position to become one of the greatest south-paw in Indian cricket. Whether he is going to carry that from is to be seen? 2009, has man things in store for us. India can surely place its ghosts to rest and open the race to become the no.1 team in the world. Though the proteas are also there in the chase, but guess India’s chances are much higher to succeed, following the differences between the teams being the batting line-up. India’s batting line-up guess is the most formidable in the entire world right now. And any bets on this eh!

GSM/GPRS
MP3 Player
Micro SD card slot
Camera
And a few short cut keys on its hood.

Tell you what, he has developed this app using just 20% of his time over a span of four months. The app sounds brilliant not only by the appearance but also application wise. The app is said to provide an excellent interface between the mobile and desktop.

The application lets users create, edit, share, and view personalized maps on their Android powered phone, as well as synchronize with the My Maps tab on Google Maps. “Create a map on your desktop computer using Google Maps and then take it with you on the go and update it on location. My Maps Editor by Google supports full editing functionality for markers, lines, and shapes on maps, plus the ability to mark your location using GPS or attach a photo directly from your phone. Your maps are automatically synchronized with your My Maps on the web.” —- writes Brian in his Google Blog.

The app is ready for download on the Android Market.