Q&A: Andy Donkin goes There – There News for PC at GameSpot: Instead of slaying monsters or zapping bounty hunters, the emphasis in There is on social interaction.The chief marketing officer of the recently-launched massively multiplayer 3D simulation title, There, talks about its beta program, social life, realistic economy, and military applications.
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Where is India going wrong?: “Where is India going wrong?
Arindam Banerji writes in Rediff a strategic plan to make corporate India and the Indian nation forces to reckon with globally. The second of a three-part series.”
Do we need more IITs? The Indian government has decided to increase the numbers of IITs and Rediff is hosting this debate DO WE NEED MOERE IITs.?
Well yes and no? Yes for – such a wonderful brand called IIT has to grow atleast one per each state. No for – What happens to REC, they are running on their own – some are having good education and indstury interface and most of others are nothing but a big godown like buldings with lots of corruption and no education. It will be a narrow minded thinking to concentrate just on IIT because there are millions of eligeable and talented student outside IITs also. What kind of quality and assurance do the REC student get, are they IInd class student citizens of this world. When they shell out a heavy fees for their education why can’t they get a comparable if not equal standards. There is a wide level of difference between the standards of REC & IITs, we need plan for both and not just IIT. And why just REC also?. What about primary and secondary education. This is because our government doesn’t have an wholesome thinking, they just want to convey news and not the right messages. As Mr. Nehru had once said there is Unity in Diversity of India, I think it must be a typo or his ignorance over the matter. There is always Diversity in Unity of India and our politicians and goverment knows how to maintain it, remember they have inherited this from Divide and Rule government.
There are many companies / brands / products whose names were derived from strange circumstances.
*Mercedes
This was actually the financier’s daughter’s name.
*Adobe
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
*Apple Computers
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple
Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O’clock.
*CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
*Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
*Corel
The name was derived from the founder’s name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders – Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor,they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’
*Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service,he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” – the programming language used to write web pages. It wasinitially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
*Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
*Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
*Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘The Lotus Position’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
*Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.
*Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
*ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called
Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for
the company.
*Sony
It originated from the Latin word ‘sonus’ meaning sound, and ‘sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
*SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a
UNIX-based OS for the computer.
*Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive in
appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
The election commission always reminds us that there is democracy in this country and politicians are also answerable. Cheers!!!
The Election Commission felt that the advertisements provided an “undue advantage” to the party in power and could “influence” voters, it said in a communication to the Cabinet secretary and the I&B secretary. Rediff
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A winner is NOT one who NEVER FAILS, but one who NEVER QUITS! . read on..
A candidate for a news broadcasters post was rejected by officials since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster.He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous.
*He is Amitabh Bacchan.
A small boy – the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living.He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets.The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed
multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India single-handedly -
*Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company.The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, “We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
* The group was called The Beatles.
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency told modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, “You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.”
*She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.
In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer after one performance. He told him, “You ain’t goin’ nowhere….son. You ought to go back to drivin’ a truck.”
* He went on to become Elvis Presley.
* When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call,President Rutherford Hayes said, “That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of
them?”
* When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, “I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.”
* In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country.They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention — an electrostatic paper-copying process.Haloid became Xerox Corporation.
*A little girl – the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last.
Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another.From then on she won every race she entered.Eventually this little girl – Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.
A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life.
* The boy was Albert Einstein.
The Moral of the above Stories:
* Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
* You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face.
* You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace.
*In LIFE, remember that you pass this way only once! let’s live life to the fullest and give it our extreme best.
* “Failure is the pillar of success!”
* “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
CIOL : News : India outsourcing summit kicks off: “India outsourcing summit kicks off
The two-day summit is creating a platform to debate and discuss topics considered crucial to India like selling outsourcing offshore, brand and market presence.”
The 2003 India Outsourcing Summit
October 15-16, 2003
The Leela Palace
Bangalore, India
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Ronen Sen, Indian high commissioner to Britain writes in Hindustan Times and its a very simple thing to follow for the anti-india anti-outsourcing crowd of the developed nations. A must read…
This is what developed nations get…
Not just costs, but quality
This applies not just to relatively low skill operations like call centres, but higher value added services involving financial management, sophisticated software development, realignment and optimisation of total business operations and so on.
This is what I also say…
Countries like India do not need aid or handouts but greater market access in goods and services, not on concessional, but on an equitable and mutually advantageous basis.
[ Source :
Outsourcing: A win-win strategy of partnership : HindustanTimes.com ]
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