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When I first read the headlines, I was surprised as how a new player can become the Telecom Player of the Year. But reading through the article, I got all the answers and I am reproducing herebelow some excerpts from the article. Softbank Mobile has just become the first Japanese operator to report more revenue in data than voice. Since it began business out of the shell of the old Vodafone KK in 2006, Softbank Mobile has done things it own way in the clubby Japanese market. Softbank Mobile wins the trophy of Best Asian Telecom Carrier for having "changed the rules" of Japan's wireless market. . It focused on data, it cut prices, it shut down its 2G service, it pioneered the iPhone - dismissed by some as bound to fail in Japan. It started with just 4.8% of the 3G market; it now has more than 20%. The first thing about this mobile operator is it doesn't consider itself a mobile operator. As senior executive vice president Ted Matsumoto puts it: "We are not t

One more article that landed up in my inbox - The story of Mothers Day is a long one. It is neither a recent phenomenon as many people believe it to be. Nor it is the creation of card and gift marketers syndicate as assumed by cynics of Mothers Day festival. To the surprise of lot many people Mothers Day celebrations are first said to have taken place in the time of ancient Greeks and Romans hundreds of years ago. Even Mothers Day celebrations in UK began much before the tradition saw the light of the day in US. In US the efforts of Ms Julia Ward Howe and Ms Anna Jarvis are greatly recognized for starting the tradition of Mothers Day but several other women too made remarkable contribution to further the cause of Mothers Day holiday. Celebrations in the time of Greeks and Romans The tradition of Mothers Day started with the ancient Greeks who celebrated their annual spring festival in honor of Rhea, the mother of many Gods and Goddesses in the Greek mythology. Ancient Romans too celeb

What a wonderful article this is: Of course, the full credit to the email that brought it to my inbox. please ponder over your lives in relation to you, your family and your friends About ten years ago, a young and very successful executive named Josh was traveling down a Chicago neighborhood street. He was going a bit too fast in his sleek, black, 12 cylinder Jaguar XKE, which was only two months old. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no child darted out, but a brick sailed out and -- WHUMP! -- it smashed into the Jag's shiny black side door! SCREECH...!!!! Brakes slammed! Gears ground into reverse, and tires madly spun the Jaguar back to the spot from where the brick had been thrown. Josh jumped out of the car, grabbed the kid and pushed him up against a parked car. He shouted at the kid, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing?!" Building