1. The dot-com deathwatch
2. Microsoft is busted
3. Apple launches the iPod, and gets back on track
4. HP ties the knot with Compaq
5. Google superstar
6. Vista delays .... and launches
7. The battle over Facebook: Social networking hits prime time
8. The rise of the botnets: Security tops Web worries
9. Gates moves on ... baby boomers, move over!
10. The iPhone: Apple redefines a market, again
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Music/Guitaring/DAncing
Photography
Blogging
Sanskrit
Quiz
Stamps/Currencies
Stationary
Sports(swimming, Tennis)
Reading (IT, Finance, Economics)
dunno what all may add to this.
do not think that anyone may have such huge list of hobbies
thats the only reason not able to pursue one and master any one.........
C - Courage/confidence/commitment
F - Faith in you
T - Tolerance
P - Patience/Perseverance/Passion
yet another acronym of qualities that will help in every aspect of life
A ballpoint pen is also eponymously known in British English and Australian English as a Biro named after its credited, though contested, inventor László Bíró
The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to Kayleigh frost Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing implement that would be able to write on the leather he tanned, which the then-common fountain pen couldn't do.
In the period between 1904 and 1946, there was intense interest in improving writing instruments, particularly alternatives or improvements to the fountain pen. Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.
László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, was frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted in filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages, and the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore his pages of newsprint. Bíró had noticed that the type of ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge free. He decided to create a pen using the same type of ink. Since, when tried, this viscous ink would not flow into a regular fountain pen nib, Bíró, with the help of his brother George, a chemist, began to work on designing new types of pens. Bíró fitted this pen with a tiny ball in its tip that was free to turn in a socket. As the pen moved along the paper, the ball rotated, picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it on the paper. Bíró filed a British patent on 15 June 1938. Bíró also patented the invention in Paris in 1938.
In around 1940-43 the brothers and a friend, Juan Jorge Meyne moved to Argentina and on June 10 filed another patent, and formed Biro Pens of Argentina (in fact, in Argentina the ball pen is known as birome, portmanteau of Bíró and Meyne). László Bíró died in Buenos Aires in 1985. Argentina's Inventor's Day is celebrated on Bíró's birthday , September 29.
In 1950 Marcel Bich bought from Bíró the patent for the pen, which soon became the main product of his Bic company. "Bic" as the tradename (pronounced BiK, not Beak); as with 'Hoover' and 'Xerox', the tradename has subsequently passed into general use.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_pen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3
1- Relation to business cycle/economy
a - Procyclic
b - Countercyclic
c - Acyclic
2 - Frequency
3 - Timing
a - Leading
b - Lagged
c - Coincident
read n detail at about.com :-> http://tinyurl.com/58uao
you can find the list of Business Cycle Indicators in the following link from about.com
about.com :-> http://tinyurl.com/yj6uhvq
Of these some important indicators are as follows :
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Consumer Confidence
New Home Sales
Personal Income and Consumption Expenditures
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Retail Sales
Industrial Production
Also following is the link that lists the American collection of economic indicators. It is published by The United States Congress. Their Economic Indicators are published monthly and are available for download in PDF and TEXT formats. The indicators fall into seven broad categories:
about.com :->http://tinyurl.com/yh5txjr
Three factors that effects success
1 - Relations : Man is a social animal. S/He cannot live without interacting with people. So relations play a major role in ones success. This relation can range from you spouse, parents, friends to the world outside. Any type of a person is an outcome of the surroundings around him, so give everybody a fair chance and stop being judgmental.
2 - Focus : In life the earlier you are focused the faster you will be successful and the more your life would be simpler. But yes when are you focused you are doing the same thing, so at certain times you have to hold your patience. After all expertise comes with focus and practice, practice, practice.
3 - Positive Attitude : Along with positive attitude you should also have the go getter attitude, that whatever may be the case you will get things done. The positivity will help you to push and the go getter in you will know that you can manage to get it.
Bonus- Grace (the whole world converges to help you) : If you have the above things in you the environment around will help you in some or the other way. At times it may even help you the way you didn't want. But you shouldn't care as it is the result that you should bother.
Today we had our convocation for Post Graduate Diploma in Management at our college SIESCOMS, Nerul. Actually this was my first convocation ceremony attended by me. There were two guest being called for this occasion. First were Dr. Govind Natarajan and second were Mr. Jayant Godbole. Both were eminent personalities in the field of IT and Banking respectively.
The occasion started of by our Director Dr. A.K. Sengupta addressing us. I must say this was one of his most motivating speeches I have ever heard. I can still feel the Gus bumps when I am writing this.
Sir talked about the shift in the management paradigms. Basically this was to set the expectation which the corporates will have from the day we join them after MBA. The expectations comes from the need of the company/industry. So sir mentioned about the 3 Es of paradigm shift in the management parlance over the period of say 100 years when management as a concept came into focus.
1. Efficiency : As the concept of management came into place in the early 20s - 60s, people were talking about management efficiency. Every one should be efficient in their work. All processes and standards were monitored on efficiency.
2. Effectiveness : As years moved by, in the period from 60s to 80s, for that matter till 90s people talked about effectiveness. It does not solve any purpose how much efficient you are if a person is not able to deliver. How much ever time you save on a work, if it is not helping getting the work done, than its of no use. So everything should be target or goal specific. Be it market share, profits, sales, quality, customer satisfaction etc...
3. Excellence : Last but not the least from 90s onwards management focused more on excellence. As everybody started to be efficient and effective, what difference you are providing? What is that extra bit in you that makes you excellent.
Hence in short it is the excellence that they look for in new recruits. What different approach, be it in any way, are you bringing to the organization as a fresh blood. From technical side or management side companies now-a-days are rewarding such kind of candidates who brings difference in the perspective. Though at times it would be difficult for a candidate to make this difference, but once the change happens we can easily find people at the age of 35 becoming CEOs of the organizations.
And ofcourse at the end of having all this skills, one should not forget the BASICS
This is a project, which is unprecedented anywhere in the world
I have an office in the Planning Commission and thanks to Ahluwalia.
Challenges : 1 - De - duplication : to check duplication for 1 million entries daily.
2 - Quality of finger prints
It is an ultimate form of inclusive growth.
Aggressive deadlines : Issue the first set of numbers in 12-18 months.
600 million numbers in five and a half years from now
2 types of companies needed to implement this : One will provide technology for us
The second is those running applications for us
A biometric committee now under Dr B K Gairola, who is the director general of the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
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Some info on the watch companies
Breguet : Breguet is a manufacturer of luxury watches, founded by Abraham Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now (since 1976) produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland. Breguet is one of the oldest surviving watch-making establishments and is the pioneer of numerous watch-making technologies, the most notable being the tourbillon, invented by Abraham Louis Breguet.
Longiness :Longines is brand of watch, originally a company founded by Ernest Francillon at Saint-Imier, Switzerland. Its origins can be traced back to the 1830s and it currently holds the oldest registered logo for a watch company (a winged hourglass). Longines is currently owned by the Swatch Group.
Longines is known for its 'Aviators' watches. One director of Longines was a friend of Charles Lindbergh; after his transatlantic flight, Lindbergh designed a pilot watch to help with air navigation. The watch was built to his specifications, and is still produced today.
Nandan Nilekani will relinquish the position of co-chairman and member of the board at Infosys.
Nandan Nilekani is goin to take charge of of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
Nandan Nilekani will be appointed as a chairperson in the rank of cabinet minister.
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I have this habit to to write some important pointers whenever I read it somewhere.
Unfortunate thing is that we cannot keep a common notepad/note book so that we can accumulate those points every time.
So I this time I had Post-It notes with me and I wrote on the following points:
01 - Entrepreneurship
02 - Scientific
03 - Technological
04 - Social Transformation
05 - Research
06 - Educational Contribution
07 - Leadership
Now the problem is I do not remember the context in which I wrote these above points.
Guys if you people can make some rationalization please let me know :)
I call it Information Diarrhea.
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Some Good ICFAI Books on management:
Financial Strategy
Financial Management
Treasury Management : The New Dynamics
Six Sigma in Services
Financial Reporting
Financial Services
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This is how google home page looked initially.
Source : Google's tenth anniversary/birthday
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"This is how standards help. Being a student I always wondered what are the total types of Industries/Sectors. What can be the type of Industries and inside them what would be the major sectors. Though the following classification are used by people in the FINANCE domain, at the same time it can be used by common people to know at least what are the main Industry heads around the world"
http://tinyurl.com/bt75d3
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) is used as a basis for S&P and MSCI financial market indexes in which each company is assigned to a sub-industry, and to a corresponding industry, industry group and sector, according to the definition of its principal business activity. It was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI), and Standard & Poor's (S&P) in response to the global financial community’s need for accurate, complete, and standard-industry definitions. The GICS structure consists of 10 sectors, 24 industry groups, 68 industries and 154 sub-industries. The system is similar to ICB (Industry Classification Benchmark), a classification structure maintained by Dow Jones Indexes and FTSE Group.
Links :
- Wiki
- MSCI-Barra GICS Tables. Retrieved on 2007-04-06.
The Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) is a company classification system developed by Dow Jones and FTSE. It is used to segregate markets into sectors within the macroeconomy. The ICB uses a system of 10 industries, partitioned into 18 supersectors, which are further divided into 39 sectors, which then contain 104 subsectors.
The principal aim of the ICB is to categorize individual companies into subsectors based primarily on a company's "source of revenue or where it constitutes the majority of revenue." If a company is equally divided amongst several distinct subsectors, authorities from the Dow Jones and FTSE may be summoned to make a final judgement. Firms may appeal their classification at any time.
The ICB is used globally (though not universally) to divide the market into increasingly specific categories, allowing investors to compare industry trends between well-defined subsectors. The ICB replaced the legacy FTSE and Dow Jones classification systems on 3 January, 2006, and is used today by the NASDAQ, NYSE and several other markets around the globe.
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- Webhelp
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Who is India:Brand India is a phrase used to describe the campaign India is using to attract business. Basically the campaign is to project the attractiveness of India as an emerging destination for business in the fields of service sector, manufacturing, information technology, infrastructure, information technology enabled services, etc. The campaign uses both India as huge market for products and services as well as a lucrative destination for investment. The federal government is spearheading the campaign with considerable cooperation from the domestic business body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the more informal India Inc abroad.
Amongst the leading organizations working on building Brand India is India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF), a public-private partnership between the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, and the Confederation of Indian Industry. It aims to effectively present the India business perspective and leverage business partnerships in a globalising market-place.Its website (ibef.org) is a resource centre for global investors, international policy-makers and world media seeking updated, accurate and comprehensive information on the Indian economy, states and sectors. IBEF regularly tracks government announcements in policy, foreign investment, macroeconomic indicators and business trends.
India Inc. is a common term used by the Indian media to refer to the corporate sector of the nation.
Dhirubhai Ambani was born on 28 December 1932 at Chorwad, Junagadh (now the state of Gujarat, India) to Hirachand Gordhanbhai Ambani and Jamnaben in a Modh Bania family of very moderate means. He was the second son of a school teacher. Dhirubhai Ambani is said to have started his entrepreneurial career by selling "pakora" to pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the weekends.[2] When he was 16 years old, he moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked with A. Besse & Co. for a salary of Rs.300. Two years later, A. Besse & Co. became the distributors for Shell products, and Dhirubhai was promoted to manage the company’s filling station at the port of Aden.
He was married to Kokilaben and had two sons, Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani and two daughters, Nina Kothari and Deepti Salgaonkar.
Following are the Dhirubhaisms from a book named "DHIRUBHAISM" by A G Krishnamurthy. Dhirubhaism is nothing but the "PHILOSOPHY OF DHIRUBHAI AMBANI" as infered by Krishnamurthy when he got a chance to work with him.
