30 March, 2011

Half day off on 30th march due to Cricket Match between India vs Pak

Hi,
 
Council of Companies in Mumbai , State Government of Maharashtra & Gujarat , declared a half a day off on 30th March, 2011 on the event of India Pak cricket match.

Enclosed is the list of companies which comes under this category. If your companies name is the list, kindly pass this information to your colleagues.

Pdf Attached with this mail.

Regards,

Chirag

 

18 March, 2011

Happy Holi to you and your family !!!

Wishing you and your family a very Happy, Prosperous, Peaceful, Colourful & Safe HOLI...!!!

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Chirag Gandhi

Mudra - Ahmedabad

 

http://quotationsbook.com/assets/images/lay/quote-open.jpgIt's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.http://quotationsbook.com/assets/images/lay/quote-close.jpg ~~~Cassis, John

 

15 March, 2011

Hoax Message Only - ALERT! Japan government confirms -- Don not Forward, Do not Panic!

Dear All,

 

Do not panic! This is just Hoax message & do not forward it …

 

BBC FLASHNEWS: Japan government confirms radiation leak at Fukushima nuclear plants. Asia countries should take necessary precautions. If rain comes, remain indoors first 24hrs. Close doors & windows. Swab neclskin with betadine where thyroid area is, radiation hits thyroid first. Take extra precautions. Radiation may hit Phil at starting 4pm today. Pls send to your loved ones.

If you received a similar text message: DO NOT BELIEVE IT!  DO NOT FORWARD IT! It's a false warning designed to spread unnecessary anxiety and confusion

 

More details on:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=13c8547b271c813f&hl=en

 

NOT TRUE !

“BBC FLASH NEWS : Japan government confirms radiation leak at Fukushima nuclear plants”

But here is the latest story that hit an Internet after the damaging earthquake and Tsunami hit Japan on last Friday. Hoax called, “BBC FLASHNEWS : Japan government confirms radiation leak at Fukushima nuclear plants” is doing the round in an internet. The news spread out about the potential meltdown of Japan’s nuclear reactor in Fukushima due to the strong earthquake.

BBC just said, “Japan earthquake: New blast at Fukushima nuclear plant” but some spammers were exaggerating this news. And now hoax called “BBC FLASHNEWS” is doing the round in an internet.

People are posting this ‘fake news : BBC FLASHNEWS’ as their status on Facebook . Also this fake news is being circulated through text/SMS mainly around Philippines and in other Asian Country,  saying that the radiation from the nuclear plant is out of control and will reach Philippines and other Asian countries today by 4pm and everybody is advised to stay indoors for their safety especially when it rains.

Circulated Message is like this:

“BBC FLASHNEWS: Japan government confirms radiation leak at Fukushima nuclear plants. Asia countries should take necessary precautions. If rain comes, remain indoors first 24hrs. Close doors & windows. Swab neckskin with betadine where thyroid area is, radiation hits thyroid first. Take extra precautions. Radiation may hit Phil at starting 4pm today.”

But in reality there is no any such news published by BBC and other International Media.Rather its just a hoax that doing the round in an internet, specially on Facebook.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12740843

 

regards,

chirag

 

 

http://quotationsbook.com/assets/images/lay/quote-open.jpgIt's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.http://quotationsbook.com/assets/images/lay/quote-close.jpg ~~~Cassis, John

 

From: youbroadband.co.in]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:56 AM

Subject: ALERT! Japan government confirms

 

ALERT! Japan government confirms.

 

BBC flash news: Japan government confirms radiation leak at fukushima nuclear plants. Asian countries should take necessary precautions.

 

If rain comes, remain indoors first 24hours, close doors n windows, swab neck skin with beta-dine where thyroid area is, radiation hits thyroid first.

 

Take extra precautions, radiation may hit Philippines starting 4pm (Pinas time) today! PLEASE PAS

 

 

Kind Regards,

 



11 March, 2011

Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work - For want of a nail, the Kingdom was lost?

Very Very Long Article but Worth reading … mainly for the person who is working on Mobile Technology or who is Tech Savy…

Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work

For want of a nail, the Kingdom was lost?

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/10/nokia_ui_saga/print.html

What Happened to Nokia?

From : Mark Wilcox - Consultant Nokia UK & Technology Manager - Kernel & Base (Symbian Foundation)

Mobile and Embedded Software Professional

http://mobilesoftware.tumblr.com/

 

cg

 

"No matter how much you know today, you'll have to know more tomorrow."

 

From: Chirag Gandhi [mailto:chirag.gandhi@mudra.com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:20 PM
Subject: Nokia, Microsoft to Join Forces to Challenge Apple Dominance

 

So finally just few minutes back it is declared Officially… that Nokia calls Microsoft for smartphone help

 

Even the www.nokia.com is also changed accordingly…

 

Twitter is getting lots of update on this every second !!!

http://www.google.com/search?q=nokia&num=30&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&rlz=1T5GGLL_enIN279IN280&prmd=ivnsur&source=univ&tbs=mbl:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=1AJVTdePOYPKrAe9wJSGBw&ved=0CCwQ8QkoAjAA

 

Here are news updates across the Globe…

Nokia, Microsoft to Join Forces to Challenge Apple Dominance

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-11/nokia-joins-forces-with-microsoft-to-challenge-dominance-of-apple-google.html

 

http://www.techmeme.com/110211/p10#a110211p10

 

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/telecommunications/nokia-calls-microsoft-for-smartphone-help/story-fn4iyzsr-1226004648895

 

http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/02/11/open-letter-from-the-two-steves-at-nokia%c2%a0and-microsoft/

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/02/11/nokia.microsoft/#

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/technology/12nokia.html?src=busln

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/11/nokia-microsoft-sign-strategic-tieup

 

cg

 

"No matter how much you know today, you'll have to know more tomorrow."

 

From: Chirag Gandhi [mailto:chirag.gandhi@mudra.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:00 PM
Subject: Nokia CEO's letter to employees

 

Memo is very much motivating & also having very interesting / deep analysis on mobile market & mobile technology future, read it completely…

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop :- We are working on a path forward -- a path to rebuild our market leadership. When we share the new strategy on February 11, it will be a huge effort to transform our company.

And today just one day before 11th Feb. Bloomberg confirms rumors of Nokia - Microsoft planning to join hands

 

More update on following URL:

Nokia, Microsoft in Partnership Talks

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-10/nokia-said-to-be-near-partnership-to-use-microsoft-software-on-handsets.html

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/forget-the-spin-were-doomed-nokia-boss-does-a-ratner-2209872.html

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-10/nokia-s-elop-said-to-partner-with-microsoft-to-challenge-iphones-android.html

 

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/strategy/item/20315-nokia-ceo-writes-frank-memo/

 

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/           

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/telecom/Nokia-CEOs-letter-to-employees/articleshow/7459579.cms

 

Nokia holds a strategy and financial briefing in London on Friday, two weeks after it reported a 21 percent slump in fourth quarter earnings and Elop promised: "The industry's changed and now it's time for Nokia to change faster."

Engadget has reprinted a copy of the text from an internal Nokia memo from the CEO Elop to the company's employees. Here's over to the letter which several analysts have termed 'brutually honest'.

 

Hello there,

There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform on fire. In mere moments, he was surrounded by flames. Through the smoke and heat, he barely made his way out of the chaos to the platform's edge. When he looked down over the edge, all he could see were the dark, cold, foreboding Atlantic waters.

As the fire approached him, the man had mere seconds to react. He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters. The man was standing upon a "burning platform," and he needed to make a choice.

He decided to jump. It was unexpected. In ordinary circumstances, the man would never consider plunging into icy waters. But these were not ordinary times - his platform was on fire. The man survived the fall and the waters. After he was rescued, he noted that a "burning platform" caused a radical change in his behaviour.

We too, are standing on a "burning platform," and we must decide how we are going to change our behaviour.

Over the past few months, I've shared with you what I've heard from our shareholders, operators, developers, suppliers and from you. Today, I'm going to share what I've learned and what I have come to believe.

I have learned that we are standing on a burning platform.

And, we have more than one explosion - we have multiple points of scorching heat that are fuelling a blazing fire around us.

For example, there is intense heat coming from our competitors, more rapidly than we ever expected. Apple disrupted the market by redefining the smartphone and attracting developers to a closed, but very powerful ecosystem.

In 2008, Apple's market share in the $300+ price range was 25 percent; by 2010 it escalated to 61 percent. They are enjoying a tremendous growth trajectory with a 78 percent earnings growth year over year in Q4 2010. Apple demonstrated that if designed well, consumers would buy a high-priced phone with a great experience and developers would build applications. They changed the game, and today, Apple owns the high-end range.

And then, there is Android. In about two years, Android created a platform that attracts application developers, service providers and hardware manufacturers. Android came in at the high-end, they are now winning the mid-range, and quickly they are going downstream to phones under €100. Google has become a gravitational force, drawing much of the industry's innovation to its core.

Let's not forget about the low-end price range. In 2008, MediaTek supplied complete reference designs for phone chipsets, which enabled manufacturers in the Shenzhen region of China to produce phones at an unbelievable pace. By some accounts, this ecosystem now produces more than one third of the phones sold globally - taking share from us in emerging markets.

While competitors poured flames on our market share, what happened at Nokia? We fell behind, we missed big trends, and we lost time. At that time, we thought we were making the right decisions; but, with the benefit of hindsight, we now find ourselves years behind.

The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their experience. Android came on the scene just over 2 years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes. Unbelievable.

We have some brilliant sources of innovation inside Nokia, but we are not bringing it to market fast enough. We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market.

At the midrange, we have Symbian. It has proven to be non-competitive in leading markets like North America. Additionally, Symbian is proving to be an increasingly difficult environment in which to develop to meet the continuously expanding consumer requirements, leading to slowness in product development and also creating a disadvantage when we seek to take advantage of new hardware platforms. As a result, if we continue like before, we will get further and further behind, while our competitors advance further and further ahead.

At the lower-end price range, Chinese OEMs are cranking out a device much faster than, as one Nokia employee said only partially in jest, "the time that it takes us to polish a PowerPoint presentation." They are fast, they are cheap, and they are challenging us.

And the truly perplexing aspect is that we're not even fighting with the right weapons. We are still too often trying to approach each price range on a device-to-device basis.

The battle of devices has now become a war of ecosystems, where ecosystems include not only the hardware and software of the device, but developers, applications, ecommerce, advertising, search, social applications, location-based services, unified communications and many other things. Our competitors aren't taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. This means we're going to have to decide how we either build, catalyse or join an ecosystem.

This is one of the decisions we need to make. In the meantime, we've lost market share, we've lost mind share and we've lost time.

On Tuesday, Standard & Poor's informed that they will put our A long term and A-1 short term ratings on negative credit watch. This is a similar rating action to the one that Moody's took last week. Basically it means that during the next few weeks they will make an analysis of Nokia, and decide on a possible credit rating downgrade. Why are these credit agencies contemplating these changes? Because they are concerned about our competitiveness.

Consumer preference for Nokia declined worldwide. In the UK, our brand preference has slipped to 20 percent, which is 8 percent lower than last year. That means only 1 out of 5 people in the UK prefer Nokia to other brands. It's also down in the other markets, which are traditionally our strongholds: Russia, Germany, Indonesia, UAE, and on and on and on.

How did we get to this point? Why did we fall behind when the world around us evolved?

This is what I have been trying to understand. I believe at least some of it has been due to our attitude inside Nokia. We poured gasoline on our own burning platform. I believe we have lacked accountability and leadership to align and direct the company through these disruptive times. We had a series of misses. We haven't been delivering innovation fast enough. We're not collaborating internally.

Nokia, our platform is burning.

We are working on a path forward -- a path to rebuild our market leadership. When we share the new strategy on February 11, it will be a huge effort to transform our company. But, I believe that together, we can face the challenges ahead of us. Together, we can choose to define our future.

The burning platform, upon which the man found himself, caused the man to shift his behaviour, and take a bold and brave step into an uncertain future. He was able to tell his story. Now, we have a great opportunity to do the same.

Stephen.

 

Best Regards,

Chirag Gandhi

Project Manager

 

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10 March, 2011

FW: How to Manage Failure // SMS Thought of the Day

Too Good…

 

http://quotationsbook.com/assets/images/lay/quote-open.jpgAttitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.http://quotationsbook.com/assets/images/lay/quote-close.jpg ~~~ Churchill, Winston

 

From:
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:22 AM

Subject: How to Manage Failure // SMS Thought of the Day

 

Happy Morning

   

SMS Thought of the Day // How to Manage Failure

 

"Anything is valuable only in to situations"
1st - Before getting it.
2nd - After loosing it.
Know the value of what u have."

 

Happy Day! Take Care.

 

Kind Regards,

 

04 March, 2011

CORRUPTION IN INDIA WITH NEW PICKLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big PDF but, Worth Reading & it will be gr8! If you can spare some time to help yourself for getting freedom from these all Devil’s of Corruptions…

An Eye Opener           

 

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http://quotationsbook.com/assets/images/lay/quote-open.jpgIt's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.http://quotationsbook.com/assets/images/lay/quote-close.jpg ~~~Cassis, John

 

From:
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:39 PM
To: Pankaj Mohta
Subject: CORRUPTION IN INDIA WITH NEW PICKLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

an Eye Opener

 

 

Thanks with Regards,