Google buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion

Google stunned the high-tech world on Aug. 15 with an offer to buy Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) for $12.5 billion. The company's largest purchase ever should give the search engine its much-needed patent protection. 

Google agreed to pay $40.00 per share in cash, a premium of 63 percent over Motorola Mobility's Aug. 12 closing price. Ending regulatory approval, the bid is slated to close by the end of 2011 or in early 2012.

Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android, which will remain available to other hardware makers under an open-source license. Google intends to run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.

The patent wars  and the ability to own and control an Android hardware maker are what made Google pull the trigger on this deal, as Google CEO Larry Page said it will entitle him to "supercharge the Android ecosystem and will enhance competition in mobile computing."

"Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies," Page added. "Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers."

Life lessons from a pencil!!!

In the beginning, the Pencil Maker spoke to the pencil saying, There are five things you need to know before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and you will become the best pencil you can be.

You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand. First:

You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but this is required if you are to become a better pencil. Second:

You have the ability to correct any mistakes you might make. Third:

The most important part of you will always be what's inside. Fourth:

No matter what the condition, you must continue to write. You must always leave a clear, legible mark no matter how difficult the situation. Fifth:

The pencil understood, promising to remember, and went into the box fully understanding its Maker's purpose.Now put yourself in place of the pencil; always remember it and never forget, and you will become the best person you can be.

An Introduction To Facebook Questions

Do you know that Facebook has recently launched a “Questions” feature which can be used to ask questions to all or specific Facebook friends of your choice?

Facebook Questions is designed in such a way that you can get answers from any Facebook user, without having to ask the same question to each of your friends separately. So if you’re planning a holiday trip or need advice on buying a product from Amazon.com, it might be a good idea to ask a question on Facebook and see the reaction of your Facebook friends.

In this short tutorial, we will explore Facebook questions and see how this feature can be put to good use.

How to Ask a Question To Your Facebook Friends

On your Facebook news feed or profile page, click the Questions link and type your question in the text area, as shown in the following illustration:

Google Voice Search

Are you using Google Chrome? Have you been to Google.com lately to do a search, then? If you have, then you’ve probably seen this icon next to the search box

Click it, and you can use your computer’s microphone to enter your search string! Just wait until you get the box that says “Speak now” and you’re good to go! It’s just like the Android smart-phone interface!

A small tip for you..

When we have too many programs open at the same time and can't remember which icon belongs to which program on the toolbar, is there an easy way to tell which button is which?

By hovering over an item, a balloon should come up telling you what the program is.

One easy way to switch between programs you have open is to hit Alt+Tab . A small box will pop up with icons for all the currently open programs (even settings windows that don't display on the tool bar - like display properties for instance).

Hold down Alt , then simply hit Tab until the window you're looking for is highlighted. Notice that as you tab, the title bar information is displayed.

Oh, also—hold down the Alt+Shift key while hitting Tab to go backwards through the list.

Open a couple of programs and try it. Happy hunting

Mobile Number Portability now just an SMS away

Mobile Number Portability will be a reality from 20th January 2011, as Government has at last announced the launch of this facility for the entire India from this date.The procedure for switching over from one mobile network to another mobile network is as follows

• Post-paid subscribers, before making the porting request, have to make sure that their last bill has been paid failing which the request for change to new service provider shall be reject.

• In the case of pre-paid subscriber, any balance amount left will not be carried forward when the number is transferred to the new service provider.

• Once a subscriber ports his number to the new operator, then, he will have to wait for at least 90 days before he can change his operator again.

How does GOOGLE work???

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Sardarji to Bill Gates

Dear Mr Bill Gates, 

This letter is from Banta Singh from Punjab. We have bought a 
computer for our home and we found problems, which I want to bring to 
your notice. 

1. After connecting to internet we planned to open e-mail account and 
whenever we fill the form in Hotmail in the password column, only ****** appears, but in the rest of the fields whatever we typed appears, but we face this problem only in password field. 

We checked with hardware vendor Santa Singh and he said that there is no problem in keyboard. Because of this we open the e-mail account with password *****. 

I request you to check this as we ourselves do not know what the 
password is. 

Crisis Management... Anyone can try.....

A new manager spends a week at his new office with the manager he is replacing. On the last day the departing manager tells him, "I have left three numbered envelopes in the desk drawer. Open an envelope if you encounter a crisis you can't solve."

Three months down the track there is major drama, everything goes wrong - the usual stuff - and the manager feels very threatened by it all.

He remembers the parting words of his predecessor and opens the first envelope. The message inside says "Blame your predecessor!" He does this and gets off the hook.

About half a year later, the company is experiencing a dip in sales, combined with serious product problems. The manager quickly opens the second envelope. The message read, "Reorganize!" This he does, and the company quickly rebounds.

Three months later, at his next crisis, he opens the third envelope. The message inside says "Prepare three envelopes"

Friendship vs. Love

Friendship Is Chakka 

And Love Is Manga 

Chakka Is BiGGER THAN MANGA

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We Get lot of chakkakuru from Chakka 

While we get only a single mangayandi from Manga :

Chakka has gum 

So sarikkum otti pidikkum

But Manga has chona 

Thottal pollum

So Chakka is great - - -and so is friendship

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ഇപ്പോള്‍ ലഭിക്കുന്ന മിക്ക സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയറുകളും ട്രയല്‍ ആയി ലഭിക്കുന്നവയാണ് കുറച്ചു ദിവസത്തെ ഉപയോഗത്തിന് ശേഷം അവ വിലകോടുത്ത് വാങ്ങേണ്ടി വരും അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ അവ ഉപയോഗശൂന്യവും ആകും.ക്രാക്കും സീരിയല്‍ നമ്പരുകളും തപ്പി ഇറങ്ങുന്ന നമ്മള്‍ വല നിറയെ വൈറസുകളും ആയി ആകും പോങ്ങുക.ഇത്തരം പ്രശ്നങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് ഒരു പരിഹാരമാണ് ടൈം സ്റ്റോപ്പര്‍ എന്ന സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര്‍.

ഇത് 1 mbയില്‍ താഴെയുള്ള ഒരു സൌജന്യ സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര്‍ ആണ്. ടൈം സ്റ്റോപ്പര്‍ സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര്‍ ആ‍ദ്യം ഇന്‍സ്റ്റാള്‍ ചെയ്യണം.ടൈം സ്റ്റോപ്പര്‍ ഓപ്പണ്‍ ചെയ്ത് അതില്‍ ബ്രൊസ് ചെയ്ത് ട്രയല്‍ പീരിഡിലുള്ള സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര്‍ സെലക്ട് ചെയ്യണം.അതിന് ശേഷം choose the new date എന്ന് കാണിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നിടത്ത് ട്രയല്‍ പീരിഡ് അവസാനിക്കുന്നതിന് കുറച്ച് ദിവസം മുന്‍പുള്ള ഒരു ദിവസം സെലക്ട് ചെയ്യണം.അതിന് ശേഷം ഡെസ്ക്ക്ടോപ്പില്‍ സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയറിനായി ഒരു ഷോര്‍ട്ട്കട്ട് ഉണ്ടാക്കാനായിEnter a name for create desktop icon എന്ന് കോടുത്തിരിക്കുന്നിടത്ത് ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്ത് ഒരു ഷോര്‍ട്ട് കട്ട്‌ ഉണ്ടാക്കണം.ഇനി മുതല്‍ ആ സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര്‍ ഉപയോഗിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ ആ ലിങ്കില്‍ ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്ത് വേണം.ഇനി ട്രയല്‍ പീരിഡ് കഴിഞ്ഞാലും ജീവിത കാലം മുഴുവന്‍ ആ സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര്‍ ഉപയോഗിക്കാം.ഡെസ്ക്ക്ടോപ്പില്‍ പുതിയ ഷോര്‍ട്ട്കട്ട് ഐക്കണ്‍ ഉണ്ടാക്കിയ ശേഷം പഴയ ഷോര്‍ട്ട്കട്ട് ഐക്കണ്‍ ഡിലീറ്റ് ചെയ്യണം.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Rajeev NR

ബ്ലിസ് ???

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Virus attack on Orkut fixed, says Google blog!!!

The search engine giant Google Inc has announced that the virus attack on their social networking website Orkut was removed.

Buzz up!

Orkut was hit by Bom Sabado virus, which means 'Good Saturday' in Portuguese, on Saturday, Sep 25. This virus posted scraps to the Orkut users with the text Bom Sabado and is sent to the users account by the name of the other friends account. It also added affected users to new Orkut groups.

If Ramayana was on Facebook....

By Geethu Vijayan

Rupee gets a new symbol

India  finally got a symbol for the Rupee and joined a select club of countries whose currencies have an unique identity.

The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the design, which includes both the Devnagiri 'Ra' and the Roman capital 'R' and has two parallel lines running at the top. The parallel lines symbolise the equal to sign.

കുട്ടിക്കാനം യാത്ര - A Travelogue

കുട്ടിക്കാനം യാത്ര എന്നത് വളരെ സന്തോഷം ഉളവാക്കുന്ന ഒന്നാണ് .. റബ്ബര്‍ തോട്ടങ്ങളും മറ്റു വൃഷങ്ങളും കടന്നു ഞാന്‍ NH 220 യിലൂടെ എന്‍റെ യാത്ര തുടര്‍ന്നു. മുണ്ടക്കയം കഴിഞ്ഞാല്‍ പിന്നെ ഹൈ റേഞ്ച് തുടങ്ങുകയായി . വളഞ്ഞും പുളഞ്ഞും ഉള്ള യാത്ര . മനോഹരങ്ങളായ ദൃശ്യങ്ങള്‍ .മലനിരകള്‍ , വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടങ്ങള്‍  അങ്ങനെ അങ്ങനെ ...
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Snaps Courtesy : http://subups.blogspot.com  
Posted By Robin

Espana Campeon!!!

AND FINALLY Spain won the glittering trophy of FIFA 2010 World Cup Football Championship for the first time in the World Cup history at Soccer City, Johannesburg on the night of Sunday July 11. On Wednesday July 7, in the second Semi-final of the FIFA 2010 World Cup Football at Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban, the Spanish team made their maiden Final debut in the history of World Cup Football.

In 2020 We Can Wear Sony Computers On Our Wrist

Our present need for internet connectivity is so profound that secondary devices like the Nextep Computer are bound to happen. Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. Earmarked for the year 2020, features like a holographic projector (for screen), pull-out extra keyboard panels and social networking compatibility, make the concept plausible. Ten years from now is not too far away, so how many of you think we’d be buying such gadgets?

Posted by Robin

Perfect Shot from Mahindra Satyam !!!

                                                                              
                                                                                
Mahindra Satyam is the first Indian company to join FIFA as the Official IT Services Provider for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, South Africa. Mahindra Satyam was entrusted with the responsibility of developing the core IT event management system for FIFA and the Local Organizing Committee of South Africa that includes,

•     Delivering cutting edge IT services for one of the greatest games on the planet
•     Enabling 3.14 million purchasable tickets for 64 games 
•     Managing 250,000 accreditations for FIFA
•     Enabling view ability of  World Cup matches to 214 countries across 317 channels   
•     Tracking $1 billion assets for the 2010 FIFA World Cup   
•     Managing deployment of 130,000 volunteers at FIFA  
•     Seamlessly integrating IT systems for FIFA   
•     Developing Extranet services for 2010 FIFA World Cup   
•     Delivering traditional IT services solutions in a non-traditional environment

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The Group Stage is Over, So Now the Real World Cup Can Begin…

That headline makes it sound like I hated the group stages. I did’t. I enjoyed the group stages. They were an enjoyable way to whittle the World Cup down from 32 to 16 teams, and there was plenty of fun along the way. But we all know the knockout rounds are better. For all kinds of reasons.