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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

Admitting frankly that I am not the originator for the material given below and in the table. I have sincerely copied and pasted it since IPL is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The Indian Premier League (often abbreviated as IPL), is a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and supervised by BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi, chairman & commissioner for IPL, and CEO, Sundar Raman. It presently includes 8 teams (franchises) consisting of players from different countries. It was started after altercation between the BCCI and the Indian Cricket League. It was the first sporting event ever to be broadcast live on the popular video sharing website Youtube.[4] The Indian Premier League's brand value was estimated to be around $4.13 billion (over Rs 18,000 crore) in 2010.According to global sports salaries review, IPL is the second highest-paid league, based on first-team salaries on a pro-rata basis, second only to the NBA leagu

This time I am going to write about a temple which is far away from Madras. I had been to Neyveli in connection with a family function this weekend. So on saturday , due to the insistence of my brotherinlaw we went to this temple after having visited Vallar's place of Siddhithi . I write about it separately in my next blog. Srimushnam , which has the temple of Bhuvaraghava Perumal , a Vishnu temple, is located just 20 kms from Virudhachalam where from you get lot of buses coming into the town. To list the importance of the place one by one here it is This is one of the 108 Divya (sacred places) Sthalams for the Vaishnavities one of the eight Vaishavas shrines where the idol is Swayambu (found as such) The idol represents the Varaha Avatar ( the 3rd avatar of the 10 avatars of Vishnu). It represents the Boar form. The body is that of a man and the head is of boar form While the temple itself is so huge, the main idol of the Lord is such a small one. It is believed

It is so funny that in Tamil Nadu , we celebrate the Telugu New year, Malayala New Year etc during the month of April, while the Original Tamil New Year, which was celebrated on Chitirai 1st, has been shifted to January 16 th because that is when, according to the Party which is running the government of Tamil Nadu says is the beginning of Tamil New Year. So what does this make of chitirai and other tamil months to be - are they all different tamil months. What gives the right for a party to change the practice of majority of the poeple . Dont the people have a say on all these things. It is not just the declaration of holiday on the Old Tamil Years day, but also stopping the practice of special puja on that in the temples. When someone who says openly that they dont believe in God, and then goes ahead and changes things in the temples because it is under the H R& CE, what does it mean. No every channel and papers are careful not to utter the word Tamil New Year,