I think the big companies over internet don’t understand the meaning of beta. I understood this from Google and Yahoo, from the respective products Gmail and YPN. Gmail was launched on April 1, 2004 as Google mail in Germany, Australia and United Kingdom as a private beta, where a user can join only by a invitation. And, in February 7, 2007 it opened to all as a public beta. But still after many days, weeks and months it continues to be a beta in their logo. Check it out below,

The another thing is YPN, Yahoo publishers network is the CPC started program started against the growth of the Adsense, officially beta launched in US and Canada some years before and still continues to be the beta version. The sad thing is, the YPN is still not open to the International users. See to the picture below,

Do you like to convert your iPod Mp3 music’s to cell phone ringtones.Its easy now. There is a free tool which does this. It helps you to convert any CD track MP3 and WAV to ringtone.It also helps you to make a mobile phone wallpaper out of your Personal Computer JPEG, BMP images. Over 60+ carriers, 15+ countries and 300+ handsets, almost all US/Canada/EU/AU carriers supported.Check the following link to find out whether your phone is supported or not.

Supported Phones list

Product Page http://www.tonethis.com/

Direct Download Link http://www.tonethis.com/download/tonethisBeta.exe

IP Version 6As every house in a street has an address, every computer connected to the internet must have an IP Address. It is a rule. Using the IP Address only, computers manage to identify among themselves and achieve information exchange.

For example, if you consider an IP Address today, it will look like this:
192.168.0.1.

You can click here and learn what IP Address is given to your computer now in the internet . (It shows your place also). This very old IP system is called, IPv4.

End to this IP form-4 which has been ruling the world so far has come now. Innumerable computers have come into existence now in the world and we can not assign IP Address to all these computers using IPv4, because 4.3 billion IP Addresses only can be assigned using this system.

As a solution for this deficiency issue, IPv6 has been introduced. All operating systems that are currently released come with IPv6.

In fact, the 192.168.0.1 type of IP system will become totally obsolete in 2009. American government has specified a deadline to convert all its governmental networks into IPv6 completely, before 2008. Therefore, no one can escape from this IPv6.

So Whats New In IPv6.
Its structure is configured somewhat differently in such a way that it can accommodate millions of computers. That is, IP Address can be assigned to as many as 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 computers.

An example for IPv6 is:
2016:0fe8::0000:0000:0000:1975:69bf.

That is, these are HexaDecimal numbers.

We will have to type the IP Address in the url of the browser, as given below:

Without port number
http://[2016:0fe8::0000:0000:0000:1975:69bf]/

With board number-here port number is 443
http://[2016:0fe8::0000:0000:0000:1975:69bf]:443/

To Test IPv6 connectivity
http://ipv6-test.singnet.com.sg/cgi-bin/IPv6-Test

Already IPv6 Enabled Websites list
http://www.ipv6.org/v6-www.html

More Info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

*True entrepreneurship comes only from risk-taking.

*Pursue your goal, even in the face of difficulties. Convert difficulties into
opportunities. Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you
are bound to succeed.

*My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of
odds. Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and
conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.
The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India’s
transformation in the new millennium.

*Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance’s employees and shareholders
will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have
become irrelevant.

*I have trusted people and they have put their trust in me. I have
encouraged youth, and they have never let me down. I have asked my
people to take initiative and to take risks. It has paid me rich dividends. I
insist on excellence. This helps us to be leaders. Reliance is built on some
of these principles.

*The secret of Reliance’s success was to have ambition and to know the
minds of men.

*Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when
you dream it you can do it.

*The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big!

*We can prove to the world that India can do it. That Indians are not afraid
of competition. That India is a nation of achievers.

*I dream India of becoming a great economic superpower.

*We must forge a new partnership for a great India. A strong and
constructive partnership between industry, government and society.

*We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it
is not the best — not only the best in India, but globally.

*If India wants to be a great nation, we must have courage to trust. This is
my sincere belief.

*All we have to do is to break the shackles that chain the energies of our
people, and India’s economy will record a quantum leap and move into a
new, higher orbit of growth, competitiveness and productivity.

*I can never fully repay the debt I owe to Mumbai. To all of you. My past
was shaped in Mumbai.

*For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win!

*I am deaf to the word ‘NO.’

*I am 100 per cent pro-liberalisation. I do not think any industrialist is
against it. But we should protect our industries, from unfair competition.

*There is no question about that (retirement). Business is my hobby. It is
not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

*I give least importance to being Number one. I consider myself to be
fortunate in this position and would like to contribute to nation building
in some way.

*Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my
shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.
In this room extraordinary things must happen.

*Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly.

*Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment
deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for
India.

*First and foremost, I owe my success and achievements to the affection,
friendship and trust of millions of employees, customers, shareholders,
and business associates, who have stood by me and been a major source of
my strength all along.

*I believe that the success of Reliance cannot be attributed to the qualities
and achievements of one individual, or even a group of individuals, but
has to be viewed as a triumph of a process, and a spirit that binds the
entire Reliance family together.

*I consider myself a pathfinder. I have been excavating the jungle and
making the road for others to walk. I like to be the first in everything I do.

*I, as school kid, was a member of the Civil Guard, something like today’s
NCC. We had to salute our officers who went round in jeeps. So I thought
one day I will also ride in a jeep and somebody else will salute me.

*My fulfillment lies in the satisfaction of every member of the Reliance
family, comprising thousands of workers, managers, business associates
and over five million shareholders. Being instrumental in creating wealth
for over 5 million India families, and bringing prosperity and well being
to their life is the best source of satisfaction and joy for me.

*Give the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the
support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They
will deliver.

*You do not require an invitation to make profits.

*If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

*Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor:
Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth.

*We bet on people.

*Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my
expectation.

*Don’t give up, courage is my conviction.

*We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.
As A G Krishnamurthy, founder of Mudra Communications, writes in his
book, Dhirubhaism, about some of the Reliance founder’s doctrines:
Roll up your sleeves and help. You and your team share the same
DNA.
Be a safety net for your team.
Always be the silent benefactor. Don’t tom-tom about how you helped
someone.
Dream big, but dream with your eyes open.
Leave the professional alone!
Change your orbit, constantly!
Money is not a product by itself, it is a by-product, so don’t chase it.

Credit Crunch of America has shaken the world economy to some extent. It may take some more time for this shaking to settle down. Who knows what are to happen within this short time?
The Chairman of the International Monetary Fund says that Dollar Has more Room to Fall over the next several years. He says that Euro is “very near” its equilibrium value. A person, facing disturbance in his physical state, will manage to balance himself to retain his original conditions of stability. This is the time the world economy is trying similarly to balance and correct itself.

People who could not afford have purchased houses availing loans for thousands of dollars and ultimately become unable to repay… As a result, all these problems have developed.

Even in India, this credit disturbance (Loan offers) is increasing day by day. For all countries, this is a lesson to learn from America, to realize how risky it is going to be to avail loans beyond repayment capacity.

Okay, let it be there. Do you know that there is some interesting calculation in your Credit Card Number? You can identify whether your card is a VISA card or a MASTERCARD card from its number itself. In general, the numbers of MASTERCARD type cards will start with 51-55. The numbers of VISA cards will start with 4.

Assume that you are shopping online as usual. You can see e-commerce facility, that is, some provision for the customers to make payments online at many websites. Such websites just by glancing at your credit card will be able to say whether the card is valid or fake. Then only, they will start financial transactions. How is this possible? Check digit algorithm MOD 10, that is, a formula, known as LUHN, comes into the scene for helping in such a validation process. You too can easily identify if a credit card number is valid or fake by applying this method of calculation.

See, here is the formula.

Leaving the right most number, double the alternate digits starting from the right side.
Then add all numbers. That is all. If the last digit of the answer is zero, (as in 30, 40, 50, etc) then it is a valid credit card number.
For example, let us assume that my credit card number is 49927398716.

The following is the outcome of applying the method.
4 9×2 9 2×2 7 3×2 9 8×2 7 1×2 6

The numbers we got by doubling the alternate digits (leaving the extreme right digit 6) are:
18 4 6 16 2

When you add these numbers now, you must take the two digit number 18 as 1+8 and the two digit number 16 as 1+6.

Now add all numbers.
4 + (1+8) + 9 + (4) + 7 + (6) + 9 + (1+6) + 7 + (2) + 6

Answer is 70. Therefore, this is, no doubt, a valid credit card number.
See another example in the picture. It is a fake credit card number.

This formula on Excel
http://www.beachnet.com/~hstiles/bin/luhn.zip
This formula on Java
https://www.azcode.com/Mod10/mod10.js
This formula on C#
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/files/archive275/card.cs

Its always interesting to see a top brands advertisement fights like COKE - PEPSICO, FedEx - UPS, BMW - Audi - Subaru, King Fisher - Air Deccan - GoAir and others. And, here is some of them.

First comes FedEx - UPS War :
Initially the war was started by FedEx. FedEx claimed that they deliver the UPS vans too.

Replying to this, UPS gave a superb reply in their next commercial ad. UPS van stands brave with a minor damage and FedEx van got destroyed in the war zone.

Very soon BMW - Audi - Subaru and King Fisher - Air Deccan - GoAir ad war posts will be published.