Nokia to take full control of Symbian - Will it hurt Google??

Image via WikipediaNokia, the world’s largest mobile maker, has stepped up the pressure on Apple and Google, the US technology companies, after offering on Tuesday to buy Symbian, which makes operating systems for so-called smart mobile phones.

The Finnish company wants to acquire the 52 per cent of Symbian that it does not already own for around $410m and then offer Symbian’s software for free use as an operating system for mobile phone handsets.

The move means that Symbian’s software will compete directly with operating systems used by Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry, Apple, maker of the iPhone, and Microsoft. The proposed Symbian deal also comes ahead of the release of Google’s own Android operating system later this year.

The deal is significant because smart phones will provide the next battleground in the development of the mobile phone industry.

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Dasavatharam - Vishnu Vs Kamal comparision

Last few days, there were many mails flooding about relating chaos theory and butterfly effect in kamal hassan 's dasavatharam movie. This is the recent one...

Recently i received this forward mail. It is really interesting!

If you knew the real dasavatharams of Lord Vishnu and their characters you can appreciate the script more.

Starting with the best adapted role:

1. Krishna avatar - Vincent Poovaraghavan
Lord krishna is actually a dalit, he is dark-skinned [shyamalam]. He saved draupadi when she was being violated and he was the actual diplomat in mahabharatham. Lord krishna dies of an arrow striking his lower leg. Now look at how vincent was introduced.. he appears when asin is about to be molested and he saves her like draupadi. Vincent is the dalit diplomat, fights for land issue [soil issue to be exact] and dies from the metal rod striking his leg. Oh even five of vincent’s men are drugged at P. Vasu’s.. sounds familiar???

2. Balarama avatar - Balarama naidu
This is an easy given. as the name suggests and the role personifies you can easily get it.

3. Mathsya avatar - Ranagaraja nambi
nambi is thrown into water in an act of trying to save lord from being thrown into sea, though vainly. what more clue do you want?

4. Varaha avatar - Krishnaveni paatti
During the mukunda song, krishnaveni paatti does varaha avatar in the shadow puppetry. The frame freezes on it for a second. there is the clue. Moreover, in varaha avatar lord actually hides earth so as to protect life forms. Here too krishnaveni hides the germs - life form inside the statue so as to protect.

5. Vamana avatar - Kalifulla khan
remember in vamana avatar, lord vishnu takes the vishvaroopa, that is the giant form! Hence the giant kalifulla here symbolises vamana avatar.

6. Parasurama avatar - Christian Fletcher
Parasurama is actually on an angry killing spree and killed 21 generations of the particular kshatriya vamsa. Hence the real KILLER… Guess what thats what our Fletcher is! He comes around with the gun [modern upgrade for axe] and kills everyone around. I have to check if he kills 21 people though.

7. Narasimha avatar - Shingen Narahashi
first of all the name itself is a play on the words singam [means lion in tamil] and narasimha [the avatar being symbolised]. Lord Narasimha manifests himelf to kill the bad guy and he also teaches prahaladha. In the movie, he shows up to kill the killer fletcher! and is also a teacher.. Lord Narasimha had to kill the asura with bare hands and hence the martial arts exponent here.. get it?

8. Rama avatar - Avatar Singh
Lord Rama stands for the one man one woman maxim, kind of symbolising true love.. Here Avatar portrays that spirit by saying that he loves his woman more than anything and wants to live for her.

9. Kalki avatar - Govindaraj Ramasamy
As you know, the hero in kaliyug can be none other than the Kalki avatar!!!

10. Koorma avatar - Bush
This is the most loose adaptation I couldn’t clearly comprehend. But if you look at the real koorma avatar, the lord is the turtle/tortoise that helps in stirring the ksheera sagara and bringing out the amruth. This essentially creates war among the devas and asuras. Similarly today Bush facilitates war between you know whom… May be Kamal also indicates that this avatar is a bit dumb like the tortoise…

We’ve Got Water On Mars, Let’s Find Life!

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Billions of dollars just to get an ice cube???

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Cricket - Asia Cup 2008 Schedule

Image via WikipediaCricket season again... Asia cup starts tomorrow...
Group A
Sri Lanka
Bangaladesh
United Arab Emirates

Group B
India
Pakistan
Hong Kong

Live telecast in TV: ESPN and Star Sports

The schedule for the Asia Cup 2008 is as under :

Tue 24th June
Group A - Bangladesh v United Arab Emirates
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Time : 16:00 IST, 11:00 GMT

Tue 24th June
Group B - Pakistan v Hong Kong
National Stadium, Karachi
Time : 16:00 IST, 11:00 GMT

Wed 25th June
Group A - Bangladesh v Sri Lanka
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Time : 15:00 IST, 10:00 GMT

Wed 25th June
Group B - Hong Kong v India
National Stadium, Karachi
Time : 15:00 IST, 10:00 GMT

Thu 26th June
Group A - Sri Lanka v United Arab Emirates
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Time : 15:00 IST, 10:00 GMT

Thu 26th June
Group B - India v Pakistan
National Stadium, Karachi
Time : 15:00 IST, 10:00 GMT

Sat 28th June
TBC v TBC
National Stadium, Karachi
A2 v B2
Time : 16:00 IST, 11:00 GMT

Sun 29th June
TBC v TBC
National Stadium, Karachi
A1 v B1
Time : 16:00 IST, 11:00 GMT

Mon 30th June
TBC v TBC
National Stadium, Karachi
A1 v A2
Time : 16:00 IST, 11:00 GMT

Wed 2nd July
TBC v TBC
National Stadium, Karachi
B1 v B2
Time : 16:00 IST, 11:00 GMT

Thu 3nd July
TBC v TBC
National Stadium, Karachi
A1 v B2
Time : 16:00 IST, 11:00 GMT

Fri 4nd July
TBC v TBC
National Stadium, Karachi
A2 v B1
Time : 16:00 IST, 11:00 GMT

Sun 6nd July
Final - TBC v TBC
National Stadium, Karachi
Time : 16:00 IST, 11:00 GMT

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