Mumbai Express

Pic[Galatta.com] Mumbai Express is going digital and hence the theatres are forced to follow the path. Just like how Kurudhi Punal and Thiruda Thiruda urged theatres to upgrade their audio systems to Dolby/DTS. It had saved him over a crore rupees on his film making cost. Kamal's own banner 'RajKamal Films' is involved in the marketing of the film and also the audio, that make a eye rise on the special music done by Music Maestro Ilayaraja. Mumbai Xpress is the first film from south to have been digitally censored. Hope it stays on schedule.

CM Songs...

No politics. I just meant Chandramukhi songs. The film has 5 Tamil songs and one Telugu song. Don’t know what the rationale behind this Telugu song is?. My recommendation is: Better forget this song. Vidyasagar rocks in all songs. The songs are tailor-made for Rajini fans. The displeasure comes in lyrics. No lyric is appealing yet. Most lines were pretty ordinary. Yes this opinion might change after few more listening. Definitely Vairamuthu’s absence is felt. Since we don’t know when Rajini will come up with the next film he should have opted for Vairamuthu. And also it has been long since Yesudas showed up. Still amma yendru(Mannan) and oru pen pura(Annamalai) is ringing in my ears. I expected a song similar to Raajiyam illai (BaBa) or Vidugathaiya (Muthu). I don’t think Asha Bhosle is a right choice for the song Konji Pesa. Even athanda ithanda(Arunachalam) kind of words are working fine for Rajini what is the need for Devuda Devuda? It’s just a thought. Though lots of my expectations are missing, I will go ahead and enjoy it. Wondering why still Ramadoss has not started yelling about Telugu lyrics in Tamil songs (Devuda Devuda).

Yahoo Ups Storage Ante to 1 Gig Email Expansion

Yahoo Ups Storage Ante to 1 Gig Email Expansion: Yahoo is expanding storage capacity for its free email accounts to 1GB. The move allows Yahoo users to accommodate large email attachments such as photos in their webmail.

Yahoo has gradually increased its email capacity several times during the last year, this time raising the storage limit from 250MB. Yahoo will also upgrade the antivirus capabilities offered through its free accounts by providing software from Symantec. Previously only paid subscribers benefited from the service. Yahoo Mail Plus, at $19.95 per year, offers 2GB and other options not available to free users.

The upgrade will be available to users worldwide from April.

Yahoo buys my favorite Flickr Beta, it's not your grandfather's photo sharing site.

Yahoo desktop search reaches beyond the PC - Yahoo is expected to launch on Wednesday the first upgrade to its desktop search tool, adding the ability to index data from Yahoo's instant messenger archives stored on users' PCs and from users' address books residing on Yahoo's servers.

Google's Googly...

[Google Hyderabad]
Hyderabad Google office is out of beta version after 9 months. Google cricket club has googly balls in the land of Hyderabad.

Now you can customize the news page of Google. Click on the customize this page and have your own sections.

April 14th Updates...

Shankar's Anniyan gets delayed till May 15th. All my cells are open to watch this film.
Rajini's Chandramukhi on track. Waiting for the teasers to go live. Count down ....27 days to watch Devuda Devuda...
Kamal's MumbaixPress gets postponed due to post production jobs.

More Google...

Google Code, Google's place for Open Source software.
Google Personalized! You can even set the amount of personalization to be included along with the normal search results. Cool stuff! What seems to be missing is a login functionality. Is Google expecting us to save preferences in every machine that we use?

Interesting Links...

• Wish Sachin for joining the elite club of reaching 10,000 runs in test career
• Yahoo 360 joins with MSN and Google on Blogs - Service is not made active
  
• Chennai vs Bangalore - Significant points to observe
  
• Wikipedia has a link for Madras Bashai
• Amazed by the recent hiring of Indian IT Companies
• Infosys Technologies has been hiring about 50 people a working day for the last nine months
  Wipro adds three employees to its staff every working hour
  Satyam will see an addition of 30,000 to the present 20,000 in the next few years
  TCS’S headcount stands at 43,681 people with over 6,200 added in last two quarters

IIM-B going Global...

IIT's and IIM's always create the top notch professionals for India and the graduates out of the shcool get paid globally.

• Coming July IIM-B is going global with a new School @ Singapore.
• IIT introduces more courses this year.

More Google...

Google moves its desktop search tool out of beta, formally launching version 1.0 with support for more browsers and file types and better protection of sensitive documents.
For developers, Google has provided application-programming interfaces for developing applications that leverage the search product. Google also provides plug-ins that add more capabilities to the product, such as searching the full-text of scanned images, such as faxes.

Looks like we can check gmail from wap. This is a great boon for people like who depend on wap a lot ;-), but this is not affiliated or endorsed by Google. Give a try when it is free..Hope they don't spam the mailbox...

Quick Links...

• Google wants your brain
• Another look into the Google Internals
• Interesting recruitment posters
• On interviewing programmers

4th Time - Narayana Murthy most admired biz leader

For four consecutive years, Narayana Murthy is judged as "Most Admired Biz Leader" by students of 12 Management Institutes. Infosys and Tata Firms are ranked as most attractive to work.

Happy Valentine's day !!!

All things work together for your good when your heart is filled with love...

My heart is filled with love therefore I expect everything in my life to work together to create wondrous blessings for me this and every day.

In my mind's eye I experience the Divine love that dwells within my heart. I imagine that this love is growing larger and larger until it overflows into my body, mind, and world.

I see this love going before me creating joy, peace,prosperity, happiness, health, and success in my life. I imagine this love attracting to me every good and perfect gift that God has planned for me. In my mind's eye, I see myself going throughout my day radiating love to everyone I meet. People and situations are instantly transformed by the power of Divine Love and they respond to me in a loving manner. I am filled with joy and love all day long. I combine these images with joy and let them go, knowing that they will create the good things I am visualizing and thinking...

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!...

LIVE ..LAUGH and LOVE-------Sethu

Welcome Dude !!!

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Happy to read the current projects of A.R.Rehman in tamil films this year. He explains the reasons for his long wait and the time to score a good music for his films. He also talks about tsunami and remember about Kuran's words. Good accolades go to Udit Narayanan and Sadhana Sargam for their voices getting popular in Tamil. Also talks about the individual styles of Yuvan,Vidhya Sagar and Harris Jeyaraj.

2014 - EPIC, GoogleZon, Google Grid

If you have not watched it already, go ahead and watch it. The story is definitely "fascinating, amusing and unnerving". Have a look.

"In the year 2014,The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC?"

The 'Evolving Personalized Information Construct' (EPIC) is a look at how the media industry might be like in 2014. It is an 8 minute flash presentation by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. Pick a random mirror.

It also talks about GoogleZon (the alliance of Google and Amazon in 2008) and the Google Grid.

Also read the article from News.com

My New Favorite Word

Dooced - Losing your job for something you wrote in your online blog, journal, website, etc. The thing that's funny to me is that this happens so frequently that there is an actual word to describe the event...

Finally Mark Jen talks about his termination from Google as he revealed the financial information and future products of search giant Google. One more of the same kind is published at Washington Post

VISA Credit Card Verification....

Neat move being enforced. A short while from now onwards, it appears that all 'Visa' credit card holders will mandatorily get and have to use username and passwords for online transactions. Hopefully this will reduce online credit card misuse/fraud.

Dear Member,

Please accept grateful thanks from www.irctc.co.in for your continued patronage and support for our services. As you know we have been continuously upgrading our services and making them more user friendly and secure, as a continuous on going effort. We now wish to familiarize you with the latest facility to ensure the security of your Visa Credit Cards.

The new programme is 'Verified by Visa' and covers the Visa Credit Cards issued by all the banks across the world. This facility is being just introduced in India and IRCTC is proud to be the only website in India to have this facility introduced.

The banks participating in 'Verified by Visa' Programme would be issuing secure passwords and / or user Ids to all their credit card holders. The card holder while transacting on our site would be required to give input of these additional passwords / user Ids by which it will be fully ensured that a particular credit card is being transacted on the site only by the person in whose name the card has been issued.

This facility is being introduced in our website on the ICICI Payment Gateway within the next couple of weeks and is expected to benefit a majority of credit card users on our website.

Booking Process :-

1) On selecting the ICICI PG option you will enter the normal particulars of the card such as Card No., type, Validity and the CVV 2 value.

2) You will be taken to a secured page of VISA where you will be asked to enter the VbV user id and password issued by your credit card issuing bank (please get in touch with the bank which has issued your Visa Credit Card for the user id and password).

3) Once the details are entered, your card will be authenticated and the necessary amount processed for crediting to IRCTC and your tickets subsequently booked.

Initially, for a transaction period the option to purchase your tickets with and without the VbV facility will be available to you for a short while. After the initial period VbV compliance process would be mandatory for all Visa Card holders.

This new facility is going to be of immense benefit to you as a customer and also to IRCTC since it will be ensuring that no unauthorized person would be able to use a Visa Card on our site.

For further details on this scheme please visit this Page.

Thanking you and offering our best efforts in your services AS always.

Yahoo Toolbar embraces Firefox !!!

Yahoo today released a beta version if its Yahoo Toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, bringing the toolbar's personalization features to the popular open source browser.

The Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox can be downloaded here. Currently the Toolbar is available for Windows only. The Anti-Spy security feature of the Yahoo Toolbar is not yet ready for Firefox but will be offered in a future update.

HP ousts CEO Carly Fiorina

The board of directors of Hewlett-Packard Company has announced the dismissal of Carleton S Fiorina with immediate effect. She is judged as the world's most powerful woman in business for three years by Fortune magazine!! I am really surprised how HP can take such a dumb decission?
*Updated News!
HP to pay $21M severance package.

Google Updates...

Google India Code Jam 2005. Java and C++ geeks, get-set-go and face the challenge.

Google Maps [Beta] was out yesterday. For Google users in the US it's a huge welcome as Google maps is well integrated with Google Local. A very nice analysis of how Google Maps work.

Week end film tit bits !!

I bet no one can write a better review like Lazygeek Guru for BLACK. I am completely driven by his review. I wish his review to get published to a National News paper or any website. Rediff has showcased Black. MSN review on Black. Also read Ravi K Chandran's interview on working with Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Maniratnam at Vikatan.

February 14 - Kadal pirnathanal to be directed by Hosimin. Another director coming out from Shankar's team. Kadal by Balaji Sakthivel of S (Shankar) films is already making a big wave.

Kamal's assistant director Ashok is directing his debut film "Ayul Rekhai".

Raghuvaran a versatile actor speaks out from his inner mind. Yesudas and his wonderful thoughts behind Tsunami. Yuvan tunes for his life with sweet heart Suja to be released on March 20. Ace spinner Mutthiah Muralidharan is clean bold in his life by Mathi Malar and this match is scheduled for March 21.

Malayalam director Lokidha Das, who was behind every one to get awards from MohanLal to Meera Jasmine is entering into Tamil Industry for making his successful film "Kasthuri Maan", which was highly successful in Kerala.

The wait is over!. James Bond has found his next director!