1. Make dinner together and eat by candlelight
2. Slow dance to your favorite songs in your living room
3. Send flowers — even when there’s no special reason. Try sending exotic flowers instead of roses.
4. Mail a love letter expressing how you feel
5. Go to a drive-in movie
6. Make a “Coupon Book of Love” entitling him or her to a romantic dinner, free massage etc.
7. Have a wine and cheese picnic in the park at sunset
8. Dedicate a song on the radio
9. Share a blanket and watch the stars on a moonlit night — or take a trip to your local planetarium
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Month: February 2007 (page 3 of 4)
Source : – Economic Times
NANDAN: I tried to see how we could structure this conversation and I thought there are, broadly, three areas we could talk about. One is about the business. The other about India and different aspects of India, your plans for India and so forth. And the third is more on the personal side.
INDRA NOOYI: Yes, as long as we stay out of politics.
NANDAN: Yes. You joined Pepsi in 1994 and at that time, it was soft drinks, restaurants and bottling; and it had assets, capital and so forth. Pepsi, 12 years later, is a completely different company, because you demerged a few things, you bought a few things. Could you just trace that whole journey and your strategy behind that?
INDRA NOOYI: Sure. In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks — Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dinning chains.
PepsiCo, until 1994, had been a much admired company which was performing phenomenally well. Around 1994-95 the restaurant business started softening, and softening in a dangerous way. We didn’t like the business trend. Roger Enrico came in, back from a sabbatical, and he became head of the restaurant sector which at that time didn’t have anyone. So Wayne Calloway, the then CEO, appointed Roger as the head of the restaurant sector and I was his chief of staff having just joined the company.
So in ’94, Roger and I undertook a sweeping relook at the restaurant business. We didn’t take any action on the restaurant business; we were trying to understand as to what was going on with the business — that it had been such a high flying one, and all of a sudden the performance fell. It was really falling. And the wonderful thing is both Roger and I didn’t know the restaurant business. We had to learn it from scratch. We had no biases, we had no hidden agendas, we didn’t have any baggage we were carrying. We just went and worked our way up and down the restaurants of every city.
NANDAN: So, you actually went around to your restaurants…
INDRA NOOYI: Absolutely. Not just our restaurants, but competitors’ restaurants as well. We just hopped on a plane, went to towns, morning till evening checked restaurants — front of the house, back of the house, and what did other people say…. everything.
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Targeting the affluent Islamic Banking community, which needs customised IT solutions, Infosys Technologies is aggressively looking at tapping the burgeoning segment having already bagged a beta customer – Arab National Bank.
“We already have got the first customer Arab National Bank and are developing full-fledged banking solutions for them, (that is) expected to be operational by the end of this year,” Infosys Finacle Vice President and Business Head Merwin Fernandes told PTI.
He said, the company is in talks with several Tier-I and II banks in Middle-East and South East Asia region and is hoping to bag few more orders soon.
Considering that there are more than 300 Islamic financial institutions operating worldwide and many more being set up, the opportunity pie should be substantial, he added
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The acquisition of Corus is likely to benefit other Tata group companies as well. Tata Steel, which has bought the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker for $12.2 billion, is planning to offshore some of Corus’ functions such as IT and equipment manufacture, to India in a move that could boost TCS, Asia’s largest software services firm.
While the finer details of this offshoring work are being worked out, MD B Muthuraman ruled out any reduction in Corus’ workforce. “Apart from steel, there are a lot of other strengths Corus has, that can be tapped by Tata Steel, in consultancy and other areas. We’ll try to increase these synergies. I see much benefit flowing to TCS also,†he said.
Read More @ Economic Times
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Had a good time @ Just Parathas for Vaishali‘s Birthdate party
Location :- Ghantali Mandir , Thane West
Things I Liked most :- Gobi Green Peas Paratha + Curd and Titanic Icecream
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Apparently, the investor community has been abuzz all this week with the idea that Oracle is about to launch a takeover bid for SAP. The gossip even comes with an offer price: 38.5 euros/share ($49.78). The whispers led to some see-sawing of SAP’s stock price, though it ended the week lower than it started.
The speculation was fueled by SAP’s disappointing financial results earlier this month, though the disappointment was with SAP’s failure to meet its own aggressive plans, not with any fall off in its business. SAP’s license sales are still growing, last year at an 11% clip.
So,We wouldn’t put any credence in the story.
Oracle had to fight hard enough to get its PeopleSoft acquisition past the antitrust division of the U.S. Justice department. A bid for SAP would give the combined entity more than 70% of the worldwide enterprise systems market, depending on how you define it. It wouldn’t fly in U.S. courts, and it certainly wouldn’t be approved in the EU.
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Horror gripped the heart of a World War soldier, as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle.The soldier asked his Lieutenant if he could go out to bring his fallen comrade back.
“You can go,” said the Lieutenant, “but don’t think it will be worth it. Your friend is probably dead and you may throw your life away. ”
The Lieutenant’s words didn’t matter, and the soldier went anyway. Miraculously, he managed to reach his friend, hoisted him onto his shoulder and brought him back to their company’s trench.
The officer checked the wounded soldier , then looked kindly at his friend. ” I told you it wouldn’t be worth it,” he said. “Your friend is dead and you are mortally wounded.”
” It was worth it, Sir,” said the soldier.
“What do you mean by worth it?” responded the Lieutenant. ” Your friend is dead.”
“Yes Sir,” the soldier answered, ” but it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still alive and I had the satisfaction of hearing him say ….”Jim…I knew you’d come.”
Many times in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not, really depends on how u look at it. Take up all your courage and do something your heart tells you to do so that you may not regret not doing it later in your life……..
Somethings in life are worth everything…
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The honeymoon seems to be over for Windows Vista. According to reports, hackers have once again managed to get the better of Microsoft. The recently launched Vista is said to have a flaw that could allow remote attackers to take advantage of the operating system’s speech recognition feature.
The potential security hole was discovered after an online discussion prompted blogger George Ou to try out a speech-based hack. Ou reported on ZD Net that he was able to access the Vista Start menu and, conceivably, run programs using voice commands played over the system’s speakers.
Microsoft has said that the exploit was “technically possible” but there was no need to worry. The company has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders. Vista can respond to vocal commands and concern has been raised about malicious audio on websites or sent via email.
Read More @ Economic TimesÂ
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Tata Consultancy Services said it has agreed to provide information technology consultancy services to Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL), for the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) in Mumbai.
MIAL, the joint venture company led by GVK, and TCS have signed a memorandum of understanding for the same. The agreement is for a period of five years.
TCS will provide IT consultancy services, along with implementation and management of the technology backbone at the CSIA, the country’s busiest airport, said a joint statement by the two companies. It did not indicate the size of the project in financial terms.
Read More @ Hindu Business LineÂ
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1. Don’t panic too often
2. Only write on one side of the paper
3. Be nice to librarians – esp in inter-library loans
4. Remember that your supervisor is a busy person – if he/she isn’t,
change your supervisor
5. Find out how you work best
6. Read your degree regulations
7. Always have a couple of things you can work on
8. Read some theses from your university in your area
9. Budget for typing and binding
10. Plan ahead
Read More @ Columbia.edu
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