Chapter 1: Apple creates the iPhone. Chapter 2: Apple opens the App Store, an online catalogue of cheap or free programs that you can download straight to the phone. Programmers all over the world write 70,000 apps for it that perform every amazing feat you can name. Chapter 3: One of them is Google Voice, a front end for Googles amazing free phonemanagement system (http:// bit.ly/ZPgVv). Among its many features: it lets you send free text messages and make 2-cent international calls, right from the iPhone. Chapter 4: Apple mysteriously rejects this eminently useful app, refusing to list it in the App Store. Then it goes even farther: it actually deletes from the App Store two similar programs called GV Mobile and Voice Central, which have been there for months. That is, Apple changes its mind retroactively and wont give the developers any logical explanation (http:// bit.ly/vdbMq). Chapter 5: The blogosphere goes nuts. Theres only one possible reason that Apple might delete these apps: because AT&T demanded it. Why would AT&T care Because of those free text messages and cheap international calls, of course. If these apps became popular, AT&Ts revenue could take a serious hit. AT&T /Apples logic doesnt even make sense. If the object is to prevent you from making cheap international calls, then they would also have to block Skype and all the other apps (already available ) that let you do so. If its to prevent you from sending free text messages, then they should also block FreeMMS and other apps that already do that. Its almost as though AT&T /Apple never really cared while the apps in question stayed where they belonged-under the radar. But once big-shot Google got involved . Well, we cant have that, can we (The whole thing is especially galling since text messages are pure profit for the cell carriers. Text messaging itself was invented when a researcher found free capacity on the system in an underused secondary cellphone channel: http:// bit.ly/QxtBt. They may cost you and the recipient 20 cents each, but they cost the carriers pretty much zip.) In short, what Apple and AT&T have accomplished with their heavy-handed , Soviet information-control style is not to bury these useful apps. Instead, Apple/AT&T have elevated them to martyr status-and , in effect, thrown down a worldwide challenge to programmers everywhere. Google says it is readying a replacement for the Google Voice app that will offer exactly the same features as the rejected app-except that it will take the form of a specialized, iPhone-shaped web page. For all intents and purposes, it will behave exactly the same as the app would have; you can even install it as an icon on your Home screen. NYT NEWS SERVICE
courtesey: Times of india
http://www1.lite.epaper.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes&pageid=14&edlabel=TOIBG&mydateHid=10-08-2009&pubname=Times+of+India+-+Bangalore&edname=Bangalore&articleid=Ar01402&format=&publabel=TOI&max=true
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Emotions drive you and the world!!!
Emotions drive you. Do you recollect your mindset when you were in your higher secondary? You were always thinking of scoring high marks and get into a professional course? The whole world around you was pushing you towards the same. You had all your energies, thinking, reinforced on the single objective. It was driving you towards the goal. It was an emotion than a mere wish.
But how do you develop an emotion? Do you consider 'emotional' as a word to describe about a person who breaks down because of a separation or a big loss?
Yes they do, but this is not the only instance of 'being emotional'.
For instance, you like to become richer or wiser or powerful. To achieve that you set up a goal. Then you devise a plan to achieve that. It could be elaborate or precise. All people succeed in these two steps.... in setting targets and in planning......
But how many people achieve their goal on time? Very few in thousands...
Why is this so? What makes most of the people to fail….?
Lets look at the roses than the thorns. How few people succeed in their plans?
Answer is - emotion - what's that?
Emotion is a manifestation of your ideas, your goals in to your deeper mind. You start thinking about the great challenges that are lying in front of you and why its important to take them head-on, and how will you feel once you achieve the target. These thoughts gets seeded in to your 'mind' garden and you feel uplifted and this drives you to work on the task that’s lying front which will take you to he next level in the ladder.
“When the thought get emoted it never lets you sit idle rather drives you from behind.”
Many a times we feel that we don’t have anything to achieve.... Nothing to work on.... And being idle and happy.... Unless you have an external force which makes you realize that you must improve on 'few things' if not, many...
But its time that you roll your sleeves and seed few good thoughts... Let it grow into an emotion.. Which will never keep you idle and it will never let u down... Till then water the field’s every day...
Because the emotions drive you and the country!!!
But how do you develop an emotion? Do you consider 'emotional' as a word to describe about a person who breaks down because of a separation or a big loss?
Yes they do, but this is not the only instance of 'being emotional'.
For instance, you like to become richer or wiser or powerful. To achieve that you set up a goal. Then you devise a plan to achieve that. It could be elaborate or precise. All people succeed in these two steps.... in setting targets and in planning......
But how many people achieve their goal on time? Very few in thousands...
Why is this so? What makes most of the people to fail….?
Lets look at the roses than the thorns. How few people succeed in their plans?
Answer is - emotion - what's that?
Emotion is a manifestation of your ideas, your goals in to your deeper mind. You start thinking about the great challenges that are lying in front of you and why its important to take them head-on, and how will you feel once you achieve the target. These thoughts gets seeded in to your 'mind' garden and you feel uplifted and this drives you to work on the task that’s lying front which will take you to he next level in the ladder.
“When the thought get emoted it never lets you sit idle rather drives you from behind.”
Many a times we feel that we don’t have anything to achieve.... Nothing to work on.... And being idle and happy.... Unless you have an external force which makes you realize that you must improve on 'few things' if not, many...
But its time that you roll your sleeves and seed few good thoughts... Let it grow into an emotion.. Which will never keep you idle and it will never let u down... Till then water the field’s every day...
Because the emotions drive you and the country!!!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
First Step!!!
This is a humble beginning from an amateur blogger.
Every beginning has a purpose. I am a drop of water moving from
the non-blogger's world to the blogger's world. It is always exciting
to get in, and make your hands dirty, than being a mute spectator. This is the motivation behind this beginning. Does it sound more like a selfish agenda? hey, not really. I would try to spread the rays of hope and share my ignorance, so as to make it informative and thoughtful. Also I would like to keep my postings sweet and crisp as possible. I know people get bored by marathon writings; off course, you have other important works too.
Signing off. Meet you soon.
Every beginning has a purpose. I am a drop of water moving from
the non-blogger's world to the blogger's world. It is always exciting
to get in, and make your hands dirty, than being a mute spectator. This is the motivation behind this beginning. Does it sound more like a selfish agenda? hey, not really. I would try to spread the rays of hope and share my ignorance, so as to make it informative and thoughtful. Also I would like to keep my postings sweet and crisp as possible. I know people get bored by marathon writings; off course, you have other important works too.
Signing off. Meet you soon.
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