The Cellular Explosion

The cellular explosion It was a year of living dangerously with your cell phone. Badly made or counterfeit cell phone batteries caused an unprecedented number of injuries in the United States in 2004. About a dozen people were seriously hurt by overheating cell phone batteries that exploded or launched shrapnel that burned at 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Handset makers and operators later in the year began to sharpen battery standards. It was hectic for two major U.S. operators, too. By year's end, the nation's top six wireless operators had nearly consolidated to four. In mid-November, Cingular Wireless closed its $41 billion deal to buy AT&T Wireless. In early December, Sprint said it would buy Nextel Communications for $35 billion. While the billions spent make Cingular Wireless the largest U.S. carrier, former No. 1 Verizon Wireless sank only to the No. 2 slot--without making any moves to counter Cingular's growth. China passed the United States this year as the world's largest cell phone market. By August, China had 315.1 million phones in circulation, almost twice as many in the United States. It was easy pickings. China still has one of the world's lowest per-capita cell phone rates in the world. In the United States, cell phone operators have very little room left in the way of quick and easy expansion because nearly two-thirds of the nation already owns a cell phone. Open-source software dialed into the cell phone in February, when Motorola introduced the first platform based on Linux, and said most models will follow suit. It's a major sign of the growing popularity of the operating system outside its stronghold in high-end computers. By late spring, cell phone makers were introducing Wi-Fi phones, bringing new threats and opportunities to wireless carriers and traditional phone service providers. The highly anticipated hybrid phones let people make connections through a local wireless Internet access point, switching over to a cellular network whenever necessary. The result: greater flexibility in mobile communications. By year's end, wireless data services began living up to some of the hype they debuted with three years ago. Both Sprint and Verizon projected billion-dollar annual revenues this year from selling data services such as instant messages, or downloading games and ring tones. The precedent isn't much to brag about. In Europe, data is up to a fifth of an operators overall revenues, while in the United States, it generates less than 4 percent. --Ben Charny @ CNet News http://news.com.com

Dangerous 26 !!!

Just amazing to note that many of the earthquakes that appeared all over the world in the recent past were all on the date 26. 2001 January 26 - Gujarat, India 2001 September 26 - Chennai, India 2002 December 26 - China 2003 January 26 - Newzealand 2003 May 26 - Japan / Taiwan 2003 September 26 - Japan(Hokaido) 2003 October 26 - China (Sunsu) 2003 December 26 - Iran 2004 December 26 - South east Asia

Interesting one !

A married couple in their early 60s were out celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant. Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table and said, "For being such an exemplary married couple and for being faithful to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish. "Ooh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband." said the wife. The fairy moved her magic stick and - abracadabra! - two tickets for the new QM2 luxury liner appeared in her hands. Now it was the husbands turn. He thought for a moment and said: "Well this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this only occurs once in a lifetime, so, I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me." The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish... So the fairy made a circle with her magic stick and -abracadabra! - the husband became 92 years old. The moral of this story: "Fairies are female."

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Outsourcing ! 

The 40 Richest Indians

1 Lakshmi N Mittal - Mittal Steel 2 Azim Premji - Wipro 3 Mukesh & Anil Ambani - Reliance 4 Kumar Mangalam Birla - A V Birla 5 Pallonji Mistry - Tata Sons 6 Sunil Mittal - Bharti Group 7 Shiv Nadar - HCL 8 Adi Godrej - Godrej Inds 9 Malvinder & Shivinder Singh- Ranbaxy 10 Dilip Sanghvi - Sun Pharma 11 Anil Agarwal - Sterlite 12 Shashi & Ravi Ruia - Essar 13 Om Prakash Jindal - Jindal Group 14 Rahul Bajaj - Bajaj Auto 15 N R Narayana Murthy - Infosys 16 Subhash Chandra - Zee Telefilms 17 Yusuf Hamed - Cipla 18 Brijmohan Lal Munjal - Hero Group 19 Habil Khorakiwala - Wockhardt 20 Vivek Burman - Dabur 21 Nandan Nilekani- Infosys 22 S Gopalakrishnan - Infosys 23 N S Raghavan - Infosys 24 Narendra Patni - Patni Comp 25 Ajay Piramal - Nicholas Piramal 26 Vijay Mallya - UB Group 27 Pankaj Patel - Zydus Cadila 28 Baba Kalyani - Kalyani Group 29 B Ramalinga Raju - Satyam 30 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Biocon 31 Karsanbhai Patel - Nirma 32 K Dinesh - Infosys 33 Uday Kotak - Kotak Mahindra 34 S D Shibulal - Infosys 35 K Anji Reddy - Dr Reddy's 36 Narottam Sekhsaria - Gujarat Ambuja 37 Jaiprakash Gaur- Jaiprakash Inds 38 Shyam & Hari Bhartia - Jubilant Organo 39 Keshub Mahindra - M&M 40 Desh Bandhu Gupta - Lupin Source: Rediff.com

I wish, I can see this Auto Rickshaw in Ahmedabad soon ! 

Indian v/s Chinese

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VEER- ZAARA revisited

Main ID number 12345 cubicle ke dewaron ke us paar dekhta hoon apni hi tarah khaali baithe colleagues ko dekhta hoon kabhi mail karta kabhi coffee peeta kabhi CUG pe baat karta HR-site per apna sa koi dhoondhta rehta woh kehte hain woh PL hai woh kehte hain woh senior hai fir kyon mere jaisa lagta hai kyon din bhar Fw: padhta hai Main ID number 12345 cubicle ki dewaron ke us paar dekhta hoon cabin me baithe apne PM ko dekhta hoon kabhi phone pe kabhi con-call pe gussa utarta jaane kis pe who kehte hain project aane wala hai training complete karo , kaam aane wala hai fir kyon mujhe yeh jhootha sa lagta hai fir kyon yeh sapna sa lagta hai Main ID number 12345 cubicle ke dewaron ke us paar dekhta hoon Doosri companiyon ko join kar chuke purane doston ko dekhta hoon woh kehte hain bond ka kya hai, chale jao woh kehte hain kahin aur kismat aazmao fir kyon bond todne se dil darta hai abhi ek saal aur intezaar karne ko jee karta hai main ID number 12345 cubicle ki dewaron ke us paar dekhta hoon

What happens when you: 1) have nothing to do 2) own a sharp knife 3) have a large lime 4) own a patient cat 5) drink too much tequila 6) and it's football season?  

Capricorn ! That's me ! 

TIME Asia Magazine: Hey, Big Spenders -- Sep. 01, 2003

TIME Asia Magazine: Hey, Big Spenders -- Sep. 01, 2003

AIDS Day ! 

BRILLIANT WAYS GIRLS TURN GUYS DOWN!!

HE: I'm a photographer I've been looking for a face like yours! SHE: I'm a plastic surgeon. I've been looking for a face like yours!! HE: May I have the pleasure of this dance? SHE: No, I'd like to have some pleasure too!!! HE: How did you get to be so beautiful? SHE: I must have been given your share!!! HE: Will you come out with me this Saturday? SHE: Sorry! I'm having a headache this weekend!!! HE: Go on, don't be shy. Ask me out! SHE: Okay, get out!!! HE: I think I could make you very happy SHE: Why? Are you leaving? HE: What would you say if I asked u to marry me? SHE: Nothing. I can't talk and laugh at the same time!!! HE: Can I have your name? SHE: Why, don't you already have one? HE: Shall we go and see a film? SHE: I've already seen it!!! HE: Do you think it was fate that brought us together? SHE: Nah, it was plain bad luck!!! HE: Where have you been all my life? SHE: Hiding from you. HE: Haven't I seen you someplace before? SHE: Yes, thats why I don't go there anymore. HE: Is this seat empty? SHE: Yes, and this one will be if you sit down. HE: So, what do you do for a living? SHE: I'm a female impersonator. HE: Hey baby, what's your sign? SHE: Do not enter.