Ye Meri Life Hai - Chirag Mehta

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Month: January 2007 (page 5 of 8)

KAAM SHAALA TRULY Rang de basanti style!

NO work load
NO work load

Apni to kaam-shala masti ki kaam-shala
apni to kaam-shala masti ki kaam-shala

na koi kaam karne wala
na koi appraisal pane wala

apni to kaam-shala masti ki kaam-shala

apni to kaam-shala masti ki kaam-shala

kaisa ye sannata hai…
kaam kyun nahi koi karta hai..
Charo aur machta Shor hai.
har koi kaam chor hai…

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Apple, Cisco tussle over iPhone name

Cisco’s Linksys division last month launched a family of “iPhone” devices. The Linksys phones include WiFi antennas, allowing users to make VOIP calls using their home wireless networks and services such as Skype or Yahoo Messenger.

According to a statement from Cisco on Tuesday, Apple has repeatedly sought permission from the networking company to use the iPhone moniker, and the two companies have recently been engaged in “extensive” negotiations over the name. Cisco said it expected Apple to quickly sign an agreement the company sent over late Monday to use the name, but as of press time, Apple still hadn’t signed.

iPhone has been the rumored name for Apple’s cell phone…………………..

Read More @ Mercurynews

TCS Q3: Adds 5,562 employees, 88 clients

Tata Consultancy Services added 5,562 employees (gross addition of 7,835 employees) during the quarter ended December 31, 2006.

At the end of Q3, the total employee strength of the company was 83,500 with staff coming from 60 nationalities. Non-Indian nationals formed 8.8% of the total employee base.

TCS won five large deals in the quarter under review. The company won two deals for $100 million and three deals of $50 million each.

The company added 88 clients in the third quarter and the number of active clients stood at 766.


Read More @ Business Standard (16 Jan ’07)

TCS notches record $1.1-b revenue in Q3

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has beaten estimates, a rising rupee, and a traditionally weak third quarter to post a record $1.1 billion in revenues for the quarter ended December 30, 2006, the highest by an Indian software firm. The country’s largest software company also registered the highest profits for any single quarter at $252 million. It has announced a dividend of Rs 3 per share.

In rupee terms, net profit jumped 45% to Rs 1,116 crore on a revenue growth of 41% at Rs 4,873 crore. Expectations for net profit and revenue were in the range of Rs 1,074 crore and Rs 4,774.5 crore, respectively. During April to December, revenues crossed the $3 billion mark to Rs 13,523 crore.

The TCS stock moved up almost 2% in the morning, but then declined and finally ended the day 0.18% higher over the previous day’s close. Over the last five days, the stock has outperformed Sensex by about 4% and the Infosys stock by about 5%.

Read More @ Economic Times (17 Jan ’07)

See also : Business Standard | The Statesman | The Tribune | The Telegraph | DNA | The Indian Express | The Financial Express | Deccan Herald | Business Standard | Times of India

A contest to support innovative business ideas

Teams should come up with business plan from socially relevant idea Winners will receive up to Rs.3 lakh as seed funding to implement the ideas The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M), Tata Consultancy Services and Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Program (L-Ramp) are jointly hosting `Genesis,’ a business plan contest open for students and NGOs in social entrepreneurship.

It will essentially support innovative business ideas relating to social causes. MIT IDEAS, United States (from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an NGO Aavishkar India Micro Venture capital fund are partners in the contest. Teams participating in the contest will have to come up with a viable business plan from a socially relevant idea that will be self-sustaining. While students, individuals and NGOs interested in social causes can participate, each team is expected to have a representation for the student community up to 50 per cent.

Workshops To explain the contest and as part of Genesis, a series of workshops will be conducted at IIT-Madras on January 13 and 14. No entry free is charged but those interested should register online at ( www.genesis.iitm.ac.in ) . Seats for the workshops are limited.

Read More @ Hindu (11 Jan ’07)  

 

iPhone is out

Capping literally years of speculation on perhaps the most intensely followed unconfirmed product in Apple’s history — and that’s saying a lot — the iPhone has been announced today (9 Jan 2007)

Yeah, we said it: “iPhone,” the name the entire free world had all but unanimously christened it from the time it’d been nothing more than a twinkle in Stevie J’s eye (comments, Cisco?).

iPhone Features

  • 11.6 millimeter device.
  • 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen display with multi-touch support
  • Proximity sensor to turn off the screen when it’s close to your face
  • 2 megapixel cam
  • 4GB or 8 GB of storage
  • Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP
  • WiFi that automatically engages when in range
  • Quad-band GSM radio with EDGE
  • Runs OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes
  • Partnership with Yahoo will allow all iPhone customers to hook up with free push IMAP email
  • 5 hours of battery life for talk or video with a full 16 hours in music mode

The 4GB iPhone will go out the door in the US as a Cingular exclusive for $499 on a two-year contract, 8GB for $599. Ships Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter, Asia in 2008.

View Complete Image Gallery of iPhone @ EnGadget

More Detail @ Apple iPhone Section

View iPhone Gallery @  Gizmodo

Cisco not apple announces iPhone branded VoIP phones

Extracted From EnGadget

We hate to break it to everybody who thought the inevitable Apple phone was going to be called the iPhone, but Cisco, which has apparently had the trademark on the name since the 90s, is launching a line of Linksys “iPhone” VoIP devices (yes, that’s right, lower case “i”, uppercase “P”).

Why wait until now to launch the iPhone name? We can’t say for sure, but we imagine Cisco was probably trying to work behind the scenes to sell the rights to the name to Apple, but things didn’t pan out — but since “iPhone” is already a fairly ubiquitous brand without even being launched, hey, why not run with it? We won’t dwell long on the loss of the name iPhone to describe the Applephone (which is what we’ll henceforth be calling it), so on to the gear.

Expect to see the $180 iPhone Dual-Mode Internet Telephony Kit for Skype CIT400 (pictured), which from what we can tell, is merely a Skype handset; also, announced is the $200 iPhone Wireless-G Phone for Skype WIP320 (pictured after the break), a SIP VoIP phone.

Cisco 's iPhone

What an Awesome Reply man

It was a hot meeting at the office conference hall. All the people from the department had been called. The VP was looking much tensed.

The mood was so bad. My friend asked me -“Hey, what is this meeting all about? I told – May be they will decide on when to have the next meeting. People around smiled at each other. Then the VP started talking. It was about the recent attrition rate that was so high. Around 10 people had put in their papers. All experienced guys. It was quarter end and so work was huge. If we do not complete the work on time, we need to be paying heavy penalty said the VP. The VP turned to the manager and told “Hey – take how much ever resources you want. Recruit or take them from other departments. But complete the work in another 25 days. Take people and complete it man.

To this the sweet manager replied “Sir! Give me one wife and nine months and I shall show you results. Don’t give me nine wives and one month. I cannot do anything.” Everyone looked at him blank.

The VP was not prepared for this answer. We looked at the manager and thought “What an Awesome Reply man!” 

Simple Things to be taken care

Ack :- Melwyn Dsouza

· Have a firm handshake.

· Look people in the eye.

· Sing in the shower.

· Own a great stereo system.

· If in a fight, hit first and hit hard.

· Keep secrets.

· Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

India needs leaders: Infosys Mentor

New Delhi: He is perhaps one of the most emphatic voices of India’s booming IT sector.
So when the Founding Chairman of Infosys N R Narayana Murthy comes out strongly and unequivocally about his commitment to capitalism, it certainly raises a few eyebrows.

In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN’s Karan Thapar on Devil’s Advocate, Murthy categorically stated that if India needed to solve its problems of poverty, it better embrace capitalism.

“I believe that is the only hope we have. I agree with that. The responsibility of the government is to ensure that people are happy and prosperous. And if people want to be prosperous you need to have economic growth

Read More @ CNN IBN

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