Vote for your favourite Indian Captain
Posted by: magiashok on: July 10, 2009
Poll : Vote for your favourite Phone
Posted by: magiashok on: July 10, 2009
iPhone – Popular Camera as per Flickr Stats
Posted by: magiashok on: July 10, 2009
When iPhone was released, lots of people complained about the 2 Mega Pixel camera. And I could’nt stop laughing at them when I look at these statistics in Flickr.
iPhone tops the Popular Camera Phones in Flickr. The other camera phones are not even close 
Popular Camera Phones in Flickr
Not even that. It is also an equal competitor to cameras as well. It tops the popular Cameras in Flickr 
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Look at the overlap between Canon and iPhone. I am sure that with iPhone 3GS, it can easily make a significant difference.
Popular Cameras in Flickr
Admissions for polytechnic and B.E in Vetri Vinayaha Institutions
Posted by: magiashok on: July 7, 2009
VETI VINAYAHA INSTITUTIONS Polytechnic 1st year and Engineering 1st year admissions open.
Courses offered for polytechnic
DCSE, DCE, DECE, DEEE, DME, DAE.
Courses offered for Engineering
Computer, Mechanical, ECE & Civil
(less fees with good teaching)
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Layoffs begin at Satyam, non-techies first to go
Posted by: magiashok on: June 3, 2009
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Though corporate affairs minister Salman Khursheed had hinted at government intervention, the first phase of layoffs has started at Satyam Computer Services (SATYAM.BO : 66.95 +4.1). Trainers, HR and sales and marketing executives are being singled out for action by Tech Mahindra (TECHM.NS : 586 +26.9), Satyam’s new owner.
“The first phase of layoffs has started. In the second phase, employees who have been on the bench for less than three months would go away,” said an official source. It couldn’t be ascertained how many on the bench have been asked to leave. “Some senior executives on the bench are being offered almost 50% of their salary or an option to go on a sabbatical. Several benched senior executives have moved out,” the source said.
On Monday, commenting on media reports that 10,000 employees could be retrenched at Satyam, Khursheed had stated, “Layoffs is something we are not going to turn a blind eye to, as we have a relevant presence in decision making (in Satyam Computer Services.)”
Though Tech Mahindra hasn’t yet drawn a clear picture on how many of the 10,000 employees on the bench would be asked to leave and how many would go on the sabbatical, the initial targets are non-engineers in non-IT departments, says this source. Employees from human resource, training and sales and marketing departments are being asked to go on a sabbatical for at least three months. They have not been given a joining date, either.
Tech Mahindra is expected to take a final call on the matter by June 21. In a recent communication to employees, Hari T, global head-marketing, Satyam Computer Services, said, “By the 21 st of this month, 80-85% of your questions will be answered.” He was referring to questions raised by employees on lay-offs, sabbaticals, reforms and HR restructuring.
Tech Mahindra is facing a huge challenge in managing the growing bench size. “The company is seeing more downsizing of its contracts and, in turn, an increase in employees on the bench,” says the source.
The company is working on various initiatives to mitigate the impact of the large bench and utilise the staff. The employees are also being asked to take up multiple roles within their units and other departments like sales and marketing.
Meanwhile, the decision on the re-branding of Satyam is also awaited. “The company is yet to decide on the issue”, CP Gurnani, president, international operations, Tech Mahindra, told employees.
An email query sent to Tech Mahindra was not answered till the time of filling this copy.
Blast rocks Lahore 30 dead – 150 injured
Posted by: magiashok on: May 27, 2009
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LAHORE: Terror struck Lahore for the third time in two months when an explosives-laden vehicle apparently targeting the ISI headquarters went off Blast A suicide car bomb flattened a police building in Pakistan’s city of Lahore, killing many people. (AFP Photo) More Pictures in crowded Civil Lines area, killing at least 30 people and leaving nearly 150 injured.
Police officials said 10 people have been killed but the privately run rescue organisation Edhi Foundation put the death toll at 35.
An explosive-laden pick up truck, could not reach the ISI building and blew off at a barrier close to the complex.
Reports said some suspects picked up in connection with the March 3 terror attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team here, were inside the ISI office when the blast took place.
The blast could be an attempt to free Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, Pak media reported. The blast took place on a day when Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed was to be presented in the Lahore high court close by.
Security forces have cordoned off the area and shifted the injured and bodies to hospitals. Emergency has been announced in local hospitals.
“It was a suicide car bomb attack,” Lahore city police official Omar Ahmad said.
The injured lay trapped and helpless underneath the debris after the attack in the city’s commercial district, two months after a deadly assault on a police training academy near Lahore claimed by Pakistan’s Taliban commander.
The chief of Lahore city administration, Sajjad Bhutta, said the attacker tried to breach a road block and get close to the building.
“A vehicle bomb exploded just outside the police rescue offices, destroying the office, damaging nearby buildings and injuring people,” he told reporters.
“The vehicle tried to break the police barrier and enter the building, but it exploded before entering the building. The building collapsed and people may be trapped under the rubble.”
Local television showed images of frantic crowds gathering around devastated buildings, some reduced to piles of rubble, while other structures had their windows blown out by the force of the blast.
Cars were flattened, while around the blast site rows of motorcycles lay on their sides, knocked over or destroyed by the explosion.
Gunshots were heard immediately after the blast but it was not clear who was firing, one witness said. But media reports said that some attackers were holed up inside the CCPO office.
The army has been called in to carry out the rescue operation. Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has ordered a probe into the Lahore blast.
Two persons have been arrested and moved to some undisclosed location, news channels reported.
The attack came as General David Petraeus, head of the US Central Command, was in Islamabad for meetings with government and military leaders.
The Wednesday’s blast comes less than two months after the attack on the police academy at Manawan, close to Lahore on March 30 this year, when armed gunmen laid a siege resulting in the killing of 10 people including eight policemen.
Lahore was also the scene of an attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team on March 3, in which eight people, including six police officials were killed and six cricketers were injured.
Bangalore plot Hayden’s downfall for 2nd semi-final
Posted by: magiashok on: May 23, 2009
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JOHANNESBURG: There can be few sights more intimidating in cricket than Matthew Hayden walking in to face the new ball. If the left-hander is on a song, there might as well be a blast.
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That thought alone will keep Royal Challengers on their toes when the second semi-final of the IPL begins at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Saturday. Hayden, wearing his Orange Cap and carrying the willow that looks like a toy in a truck-puller’s hand, will keep playing on the opposition’s mind.
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Royal Challengers called for an emergency meeting on Friday that had all players in a huddle in a small conference room at hotel Sandton Sun for close to an hour. Whatever their personal work, the players had been asked to keep it aside until the all-important meeting was over. Captain Anil Kumble, coach Ray Jennings, Rahul Dravid and Jacques Kallis walked in first, followed by the rest who were still celebrating Manish Pandey’s ton on Thursday.
There was an important issue to be discussed and it remained no secret once the meeting ended. All the players walked out of the conference room except for Praveen Kumar, B Akhil, Roelof van der Merwve, Kumble and Kallis. They had an extended half an hour discussion amongst themselves.
Kumble knows that stopping Hayden alone will be the key to Royal Challengers making their way to the final. If they can get the belligerent left-hander early, the option of applying pressure on the rest of the line-up will be better than having him out there in the middle. Of course, Suresh Raina and Mahendra Singh Dhoni have been in equally good form, S Badrinath has been impressive and is fit after a slight niggle, Jacob Oram is still waiting to explode and Albie Morkel’s return from injury can make things tougher. But Hayden still remains the key.
“He is dangerous and we all know what he’s capable of doing. He’s the tournament’s highest scorer. If we can get him early, fine,’’ says Jennings.
In seven out of 11 innings, Hayden has given Team Chennai the right kind of start. His strike rate has been consistent at around 140. He has accumulated five fifties and an individual best of 89, so far, adding to the team’s top-order muscle. If Chennai can once again afford to flex that, Royal Challengers will have a lot of work. Dhoni’s best bet to follow-up on the start given by Hayden is Raina, the tournament’s second best batsman after the giant Aussie. At 414 runs, Raina has been the mainstay in Chennai’s middle-order and should be no less a worry for the Challengers.
However, it was interesting to hear Jennings bring Hayden’s name into the discussion whenever the topic of Chennai’s batting came up. Be it mind games or simply a lurking fear, Challengers do know that he’s a bigger threat than anyone else.
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