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Got this advice quite sometime  back, but still holds good in every decision I make in corporate life.

Look around you. If you notice that people around you know more than you, you are at a good place.

Such situations mean only one thing. Learning.

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10 years after 3000 people were killed in the heart of the US, noting much has changed. Only got worse. Cost of wars post 9/11: 250,000 people have died directly from warfare. A whopping $3.7 Trillion spent.

And where does it end? This war cannot be won with guns and tanks. This war can only be won by winning hearts and minds. You can kill one person, but you cannot irradiate a methodology.

I said a whopping 3.7 Trillion was spent on wars post 9/11. Where is this money going?

Top company profiteering from post 9/11 wars:

• Halliburton: According to MSN Money, Halliburton’s KBR, Inc. division bilked government agencies to the tune of $17.2 billion in Iraq war-related revenue from 2003-2006 alone. The then Vice President of America, Dick Cheney once head Halliburton. According to Cheney’s 2001 financial disclosure report, the vice president’s Halliburton benefits include three batches of stock options comprising 433,333 shares. Interesting

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Googler Girl A: Any idea why we bought Motorola?

Googler Girl B: So Abhishek Bachchan can perform in our sales conference #fact

What an IDEA ‘Sergey”!

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“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come,” Jobs wrote in a letter to Apple employees.

The word ‘great’ and ‘innovation’ are probably 2 of the most misused words in corporate world. But one person that truly symbolizes these two is Steve Jobs. Its not an end of an era, its end of ‘the’ era…

More than me being worried about Apple, I’m worried about where this leaves us, Tech enthusiasts.

Hands down, the most charismatic man i grew up following, Mr Jobs, you will be ‘i-Missed’.

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Samsung has just posted a teaser video for an announcement they are to make at IFA in Berlin. The announcement will be made on 1st September.

The teaser displays people walking around with a device that glows. Looks like the announcement could be phone-related, because one of the actors puts the device up to his ear.

Teaser 1:

Which device do you guys think will be announced? Would you like to see an Ice Cream Sandwich device – aka Nexus Prime? Maybe a nice large 5.29-inch Super AMOLED Plus display? Maybe the 7-inch Honeycomb tablet.

Your guess is as good as mine!

For now, take a look at the teaser 2:

Speculation starts!

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Seems like Star Wars up there…

Quiet, damp evening for a change. The whole city seems flooded…

One of the very rare times when one part of the sky is bright, and the other almost black!

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In some great news, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has decided to ban the use of plastic carry bags and cups within the Corporation limits. This is a fantastic move by the Hyderabad administration to preserve the environment.

The ban imposed by GHMC is on plastic bags measuring below 40 microns in thickness.

How this affects you?

• After shopping at your local grocery store,the grocer will charge you Rs 3 for each plastic bag (I am assuming they are going to supply plastic bags that measure above 40 microns).
• There are cops doing the rounds in civil clothes, who will find you using plastics and fine you Rs 500. 

Now to the bad part. This opens up a Pandora’s Box… Corruption. Instead of charging Rs 500 officially, the cops might charge Rs 100, and that goes into their pocket rather than to the Government.

Lets hope this move forces governments across India to adopt a similar model.

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Technology changes every single moment. Only the innovators survive. The feeling of being paranoid brings out the best in technological innovation.

For any company, being paranoid is a good position to be in. It brings out the need to innovate, and the hunger to succeed, in the face of fear…of perishing.

So the next time you get a kick up your back side, remember, it could be the best thing that happened to you…

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. — Andrew Grove

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