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Don't Touch me There - IPhone 4

Because of people who don't know how to hold an iPhone (their phones are smart, but they are not) properly, Steve Jobs has to cancel his vacation in Hawaii :-) OH BOY !!! Well when the whole world is hyping on his iPhone he was blushing, now they are talking about its antenna he is cursing. Well you know Steve, its part of game. From the beginning apple is famous for its designs and appeal, of course then performance. we can give benefit of doubt to Apple. Some how I feel Apple is over aggressive (we might call it arrogance). This is the kind of jolt I am expecting for Apple. Though I am fan of Microsoft, I respect Apple products. But its hard to bear arrogance, though we have lot of respect for its products. You tried to prove the whole world has that antenna problem is a problem for all. But it is evident and bigger in iPhone 4. Remember your products were given more hype, so obviously they attack more if there is something wrong. Accept the defect and convey politely that

A Triangle Love Story...

This story is about a Triangle love Story of Social Networking, Employee and Employer. As you all can understand from Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, Foursquare etc., employees are in love with Social Networking. Of course, Social Networking is also getting benefits from employee updates. So its two way love. Then where is the problem? The problem is with girls parents always, that is employer in this case. As parents try to control their children, Organization want to have control on employee updates into Social Networking. All big companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Apple are having the Social Networking policies in place already. Do you know all Hollywood stars contracts have Social networking clause ? yes they are NOT supposed to leak anything about the movie in their social networks. So now these controls are coming to Consulting and offshore based firms. Recently NASSCOM asked Infosys to come up with Social Networking policies. Now Infosys is ready with that weapon, I m

Tips and Tricks of Social Networking

This is a topic about which you can write pages and pages. The famous four social networking sites are Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and Orkut. Believe me this is the order of popularity. Can you believe even though there is so much hype for micro blogging sites like Twitter, still the blogs rule the content world. Location based social networking like Yelp and Foursquare are also picking up very quickly. I have been using them, they are very useful. Future of Social Networking will be Micro blogging, Connections, Location based sharing. As you know Social Networking can speak on behalf of you and make your brand name. People with similar interests will start coming together. Recently I came to know CFO of Oracle was recruited through his Linked in Contact. All the Fortune 500 companies executives are there in Linked-in. Social networking became the basis of Judgement also. Some court cases in US started taking the comments on Facebook as basis for judgement. No second thought, So