iPhone 3G and new iPhone Killers

Hi all

It s becoming my routine to tell a story about me getting late for updating my blog. So I ll leave as such this time. This post, we ll take a look at the new version of iPhone and latest iPhone Killers.

iPhone 3G

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Apple had created a buzz and a revolution when it released the iPhone first version earlier., though the phone had many glitches like no 3G, GPS, Bluetooth, Camera defects, etc.

The buzz is not any less when it released the next version with features such as 3G, GPS with loaded maps, Support of Microsoft Exchange, Visual Voicemail, the fastest browser Safari, Wifi enabled, built in Google and Yahoo search, 3.5″ display to view videos, added applications, view of Youtube videos made easy, slightly light weight compared to older version. The new iPhone features are marked in bold above. Not here that Bluetooth is still not made available. The top pick of the new version is that, the 8GB version would cost 199$ and 16Gb version would cost 299$. But I am afraid that is a special price given for operator AT&T which releases the Apple iPhone worldwide.

In India, Airtel and Vodafone have started marketing and asking users to book the iPhone (http://www.airtel.in/iphone3g), but I am afraid it would be much more than the (Rs. 8000 - 199$) tag expected. Even I have booked the phone in Airtel, and I cant wait much long to see the features which are supported in India and its price tag in India.

Samsung Omnia

Samsung has released Omnia, its reply to the iPhone 3G, with loads of features as equal as the iPhone, Omnia also features a 5Mp Camera. Needless to say the phone would cost us dearly.

The phone has a 3.2″ display and have good video and audio playback capabilities. Visit http://omnia.samsungmobile.com/ for more. The pricing is not announced yet and the phone will be available in Europe in July.

Nokia Tube

There has been rumours or hot news from symbian-freak.com that Nokia is going to release its version of iPhone killer. The Nokia Tube. The Tube is expected to have a 16M TFT display with 360 x 640 pixels resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio. The size of the display will be somewhere between 3 and 3.5-inches. The display will offer a tactile feedback but sadly, won’t have multi touch function like the iPhone. No other details are available about the phone.

Well, that s it for now. Catch you in next post, hopefully….. Sooon…..

CK.

 

US - China - India

Hi all

Long since an idea has been pestering me to write an article on this.  I could not find much time to update the blog..

India - China - US.

We see both countries India and China, galloping each other in the race for the future super power after US. Now though US manintains its dominance over the world, US depends on China and India on a large scale., be it for minute toys, automobiles, food items, software industry, the backbone of every other industry (coz of its well versed e-governence), spirituality , medical toursim, etc. One of the strategy of US to maintain its control over the world is to develop the techno-nano-blah balh weapons and make the world to see it with an AW!! like when we see the 007 films. They also make a huge amount

http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp

The above link gives a sample that the military expenditure around the world. Around 46% of the world military expenditure is by US and 80% of the expenditure rise is due to 2006. Now though the figures are for 2006, I hope the situation might have been worse now for the Iraq war and its under hand help to Pak.

The US - Pak - India - China relation is really a twist and tangle,

• US gives arms for Pak to eliminate and fight with terrorists
• Pak rather gives the arms to terrorsits and militants to fight with India
• US advises Pak to support them to find Osama
• US avises Pak to support India’s fight against militants
• Pak plays a double game with militants and US
• US makes a statement that Osama is in Pak
• US prez Bush supports outgoing prez Mush over issues now

Finally whoever wins, India is affected.

• India uses its military might and fights hard to develop a missile or advance a missile technology.
• The next day, Pak releases a new missile… Now this becomes tricky.
• There is rumour that China has sold the missile to Pak.
• US doesn’t like the growth of China over it.  It needs support of India to tacke China.
• Hence, US strateggically makes the 123 agreement with India, making India to fall in a spider web.
• Due to the agreement, India acheived nothing till date., the agreement has not shown promise, India spoiled its relation with Iran, Russia.
• US gained by making India to vote against Iran in the UNO and making India a partner to fight against China.

See now what s the point, who are the allies and who are the wolves…

 

Swami Vivekandandha’s Spiritual Speech

Hello World,

By chance, today I got an audio footage containing Swami Vivekanandha’s speech on spirituality.

I am not a  eligible person to rate the speech but, it was like a treat hearing to the speech. You would not really know how the 30 minute speech made me stick to the seat. Initially it may bore for you., if you are interested kindly give your heart to the speech and listen.

 I hereby share a link containing the audio.

http://cid-00f96cfb2f7ddaa3.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Music%20Sharing/Swami%20Vivekananda%20-%200.mp3

Feel the difference.

 

 

Songjiang Hotel - Concept Design

Back to the design posts…

I was really amazed when I saw the design of the proposed Songjiang Hotel in China. World construction major ATKINS has won the bid for constructing this hotel.

 

The hotel is to be constructed on a 100 meter deep quarry. The hotel boasts of 400 beds with conference room , club facilities, sports and even adventure sports.  The design engineers say that the design makes the hotel unaffected by any climate and weather calamities.

 

Though the design looks like the construction may takes tens of years to complete., the design is to be complete by 2009 end.

For more info., visit.

http://www.atkinsdesign.com/html/projects_hotels_songhotel.htm and http://freshome.com/

A tit bit finally. Wanna be a tiger rider ?

Interesting, isn’t it?

 

IPL Schedule and News

Trully it was a exhillirating video, the Initial promotional video of IPL. With the controversies happened in the Series Down Under, the IPL video spot lighted on the sensational feelings of the people’s minds. I personally liked the final clips where Dhoni smashes the stumps for a run out and Hayden or Gilchrist (I am not sure) gets bowled over by a yorker. It would be interested to see how the ICL takes this competition on.

Some IPL facts you would need to know..

• The Title sponsor is bagged by DLF (The Real estate giants) for Rs. 125 Crore and ofcourse it is for a span of 5 years. Pepsi was a close contestant.
• The TV rights for 10 years of IPL coverage is bagged by Sony group and Singapore-based World Sports Group (WSG) for $1 Billion, which includes promotions for the event also.
• Having the latest bid info on Feb21, the total bidding for all players accounted for 161 Crore rupees.
• Now we see, hell a lot of money being invloved here, though Mr. Laltit Modi, Chairman of IPL says it is a win win situation for all, I leave it to BS to take this issue on for a detailed analysis and info that you would have been wondering till now, “How the team owners get such an amount of  invested money back”.,  http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=10&bKeyFlag=BO&autono=314593.

  

  Mr. Lalith Modi - IPL Chairman

• The IPL schedule is for 44 days., under various timings mostly between 7PM, 8PM and 3PM IST

The schedule is as follows.

Indian Premier League Match Schedule 2008

Date : Friday, 18th April,2008
Time : 7:00 PM, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue : M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.

Date : Saturday, 19th April, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : IPL Mohali v Chennai Super Kings.
Venue : Punjab Cricket Assocation Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.

Date : Saturday, 19th April, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals
Venue : Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.

Date : Sunday 20th, April 2008
Time : 3:00 PM Local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Mumbai Indians v Bangalore Royal Challengers.
Venue : Venue TBC, Mumbai.

Date : Sunday 20th, April 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : Kolkata Knight Riders v IPL Hyderabad
Venue : Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Date : Mon 21st, April 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Rajasthan Royals v IPL Mohali
Venue : Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.

Date : Tue 22nd April, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Hyderabad v Delhi Daredevils
Venue : TBC, Hyderabad .

Date : Wed 23rd April, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
MAtch : Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians
Venue : MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.

Date : Thursday, 24th April, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Hyderabad v Rajasthan Royals
Venue :Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Date : Fri 25th April, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : IPL Mohali v Mumbai Indians
Venue : Punjab Cricket Assocation Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Date : Sat 26th April, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals.
Venue : M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Date : Sat 26th April, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 AM GMT
Match : Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue : MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.

Date : Sun 27 th April, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Mumbai Indians v IPL Hyderabad
Venue : TBC ,Mumbai .

Date : Sun 27th April, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : IPL Mohali v Delhi Daredevils
Venue : Punjab Cricket Assocation Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.

Date : Mon 28th April, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings
Venue : TBC ,Bangalore .

Date : Tue 29 th April, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians
Venue : Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Date : Wed 30th April, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Delhi Daredevils v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue : Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.

Date : Thursday 1st May 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : IPL Hyderabad v IPL Mohali
Venue : TBC,Hyderabad.

Date : Thu 1st May, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue : Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.

Date : Fri 2nd May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils
Venue : MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Date : Sat 3rd May, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : IPL Hyderabad v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue : TBC, Hyderabad.

Date : Sat 3rd May, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : IPL Mohali v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue : Punjab Cricket Assocation Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.

Date : Sun 4th May, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils
Venue : TBC, Mumbai .

Date : Sun 4th May, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings
Venue : Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.

Date : Mon 5th May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Bangalore Royal Challengers v IPL Mohali
Venue : M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.

Date : Tue 6th May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Chennai Super Kings v IPL Hyderabad
Venue : MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.

Date : Wed 7th May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals
Venue : TBC,Mumbai.

Date : Thu 8th May, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Super Kings
Venue : Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.

Date : Thu 8th May,2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : Kolkata Knight Riders v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue : Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Date : Fri 9th May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Rajasthan Royals v IPL Hyderabad
Venue : Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.

Date : Sat 10 th May, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Bangalore Royal Challengers v Mumbai Indians
Venue : M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.

Date : Sat 10th May, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 AM GMT
Match : Chennai Super Kings v IPL Mohali
Venue : MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.

Date : Sun 11th May, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Hyderabad v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue : TBC,Hyderabad.

Date : Sun 11th May, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils
Venue : Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.

Date : Mon 12th May, 2008
Time : 7:00PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Mohali v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue : Punjab Cricket Assocation Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.

Date : Tue 13th May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils
Venue : Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Date : Wed 14th May,2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings
Venue : TBC,Mumbai.

Date : Wed 14th May,2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : IPL Mohali v Rajasthan Royals
Venue : Punjab Cricket Assocation Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.

Date : Thu 15th May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Delhi Daredevils v IPL Hyderabad
Venue : Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.

Date : Fri 16th May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue : TBC, Mumbai.

Date : Sat 17th May, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Delhi Daredevils v IPL Mohali
Venue : Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.

Date : Sat 17th May, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : Rajasthan Royals v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue : Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.

Date : Sun 18th May, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : IPL Hyderabad v Mumbai Indians
Venue : TBC,Hyderabad .

Date : Sun 18th May, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings
Venue : Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Date : Mon 19th May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Bangalore Royal Challengers v Delhi Daredevils
Venue : M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.

Date : Tue 20th May,2008
TIme : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals
Venue : Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Date : Wed 21st May,2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Mumbai Indians v IPL Mohali
Venue : TBC,Mumbai.

Date : Wed 21st May,2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : Chennai Super Kings v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue : MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.

Date : Thu 22nd May,2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue : Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.

Date : Fri 23rd May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : IPL Mohali v IPL Hyderabad
Venue : Punjab Cricket Assocation Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.

Date : Sat 24th May, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians
Venue : Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.

Date : Sat 24th May, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals
Venue : MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.

Date : Sun 25th May, 2008
Time : 3:00 PM local, 9:30 AM GMT
Match : Bangalore Royal Challengers v IPL Hyderabad
Venue : M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.

Date : Sun 25th May, 2008
Time : 8:00 PM local, 2:30 PM GMT
Match : Kolkata Knight Riders v IPL Mohali
Venue : Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Date : Mon 26th May, 2008
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians
Venue : Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.

Date : Tue 27th May, 2008.
Time : 7:00 PM local, 1:30 PM GMT
Match : IPL Hyderabad v Chennai Super Kings
Venue : TBC,Hyderabad.

First IPL Semi Final
Date : Friday, 30th May, 2008
Match : Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Venue : Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai.

Second IPL Semi Final
Date : Friday, 31st May, 2008
Match : 2nd Semi-Final, Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Venue : Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai.

Indian Premier League 2008 Final
Date : Sunday 1st June 2008
Match : Final - TBC v TBC
Venue : Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai.

Karmayudh starts on April 18. 17 Days to go…