Novels : Non-Ficton/Fiction

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Telugu Books

Yandamuri Veerendra Nath: There are 60 Available Books by the Author

search by author - great
BIOGRAPHY
WOMEN STUDIES - At the bottom of the page there is next set links, there are lots of books
EDUCATION

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Dubai development

Dubai development

web hosting

godaddy , site5

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http://www.site5.com/hosting/autoinstaller.php

web based open source systems.- web hosting based

http://www.site5.com/hosting/autoinstaller.php -- these apps must be best systems( and popular ) in their categories like customer support, CMS all web based since these are tested and hosted by site5.
- having this site5 hosting account is the best way to use these apps instead of trying to figure out our own ...

godaddy web hosting account offers these opensource software installed ( similar to site5 above , seems site5 have CMS etc. more )
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http://help.godaddy.com/topic_list.php?topic_id=58

Indian Stock Sites, Indian Finance Sites, Indian Finance Site List

This page consists of a listing of Finance sites based in India. The effort of this page is to list the best sites falling under categories - Finance India, Indian Stock Sites, Indian Finance Sites, Indian Finance Site List, etc
bestindiansites.com/finance/
- ICICI Direct.com
- Equitymaster.com
- My Iris
National Stock Exchange - http://www.nseindia.com/
- Equitymaster.com
- Share Khan
- Kotak

Hyderabad Airport Raises Quality Bar

Hyderabad Airport Raises Quality Bar
Construction of India’s most modern airport at Hyderabad is in full swing with over 82 per cent of the work completed. Flight tests are scheduled in January 2008.

GHIAL is a joint venture of the GMR Group (50.1 per cent), Malaysia Airports Holding Berhad (11 per cent), Airports Authority of India (13 per cent), the Andhra Pradesh government (13 per cent) and others.

To be called the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, the first phase of the GMR-promoted construction, costing $247.8 million, will be completed in March 2008. The international airport would then double its capacity to 12 million passengers a year.

The airport can accommodate the eight-storey tall, Airbus A-380 - the largest passenger aircraft in the world that can carry 853 passengers. About $3 billion will be invested by 2025, which will include a second runway.

A low-cost terminal is expected to be ready in the next phase by 2012, which will enable the airport handle 15 million passengers annually.

The projected traffic growth rate for Hyderabad is a healthy 20 per cent a year for the next five years.

“The rule of thumb in mature markets is that aviation growth moves at twice the growth of GDP. We expect this to slow down to 10-12 percent in the sixth year,” GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL) chief operating officer T Srinagesh told reporters.

The airport will notch up a number of firsts. It will have the longest runway at 4.26 km. Singapore’s Changi International Airport runway is currently the longest at 4 km. It will also have the tallest air traffic control (ATC) tower in the country at 75 metres. The airport would be the first to introduce a city check-in facility.

It will be the first airport to qualify for a Leeds certification, awarded to energy and resource efficient buildings. The airport would be among the first to offer fuel on an open access basis.

Equipment for ATC has already arrived at the Chennai port. The ATC tower is designed to look like a man in a hat overlooking the airport, says Srinagesh.

Interestingly, Hyderabad has the highest number in the country of people coming to see off or greet passengers, averaging 30 to a passenger. To tap this opportunity, space within the airport has been set aside for an “airport village” with food outlets, artisans’ corner and entertainment for these people.

GHIAL has also been approached by golf legend Greg Norman to construct a nine-hole golf course.

“Creating an airport of this stature using the latest technology will raise the bar of the quality of airports in India,” an aviation consultant at KPMG said.

“This airport will help reduce turnaround time required by low-cost airlines in terms of the aircraft being closer to the security ring, through use of aerobridges, thus eliminating the need for shuttles,” SpiceJet spokesman Ajay Jasra said.

From Oct 4, GHIAL is starting a series of trials for operations, readiness and airport transfer (ORAT). It will be conducted by Munich Airport that will stimulate a live airport environment.

It is part of the transition process to synchronize ticketing, baggage handling and reservation systems and will help migration to the new airport in March 2008.

The present Begumpet airport will then close to commercial flights according to the concession agreement between the Airports Authority of India and GHIAL.

A representation has also been made to the ministry of civil aviation following a GMR-sponsored feasibility study to look at rail connectivity to the airport to reduce congestion and pollution in future.

Last Chance To Own A Huda Plot in Hyderabad

Last Chance To Own A Huda Plot in Hyderabad

Leftover plots in all its layouts are being auctioned to raise Rs. 400 crore for its Outer Ring Road Phase II project, writes Melly Maitreyi.

With the land prices in the city and surroundings at their zenith, Hyderabad Urban Development Authority has perfectly timed auctions of left over prime residential plots, commercial, commercial-cum-residential, schools and hospitals spaces in its layouts, developed long ago.

With the land value appreciating to unprecedented levels with the real estate sector enjoying a boom despite some correction in the recent months, HUDA hopes to raise enough resources towards its share for the Outer Ring Road second phase to be taken up shortly through the auction.

Auction dates

And for the investors keen to invest in a HUDA plot in its already existing developed layouts, this could be the last chance to own a HUDA plot as all the leftover plots in all its layouts are being put up for auction.

The auctions slated for September 12, 13 and 14 at HUDA office in Rasoolpura, Secunderabad, would be held for left over prime plots in the above mentioned categories at Nandagiri Hills, HUDA Heights, HUDA Techno Enclave, Madhapur, Asifnagar (New), Miyapur, Ramachandrapuram (Chandanagar), Nalagandla, Tellapur, Vanasthalipuram and also houses at Ramachandrapuram and Vanasthalipuram residential complexes. In all, 263 leftover plots under all categories would be auctioned, with maximum of 102 plots in Miyapur. Along with the left over plots, HUDA is also auctioning prime plots in its latest prestigious project, ‘Pentagon’ at Miyapur in an extent of 105 acres adjoining Miyapur Residential Complex. The plots would be offered in nine blocks in the range of 3 acres to 22 acres towards multiple purpose use for software, institutions, commercial, recreational, group housing for gated communities.

The Pentagon site at Miyapur is located in the serene surroundings against the backdrop of small hillocks and is close to Hyderabad-Bombay national highway. Rockdale Greens is located behind the Quli Qutubshah Tombs and Dargah on Old Bombay road close to Hitech City.

The site plans for all the layouts are displayed at HUDA office and also at the site. HUDA promises to provide all the infrastructure facilities within a period of one year. The upset price fixed by HUDA for Nandagiri Hills layout, residential and group housing is Rs.45,000 per square yard, but the EMD for residential is Rs.20 lakh and for group housing, Rs.1 crore. For HUDA Heights, Banjara Hills Rd.No.12, the upset price is Rs.45,000 per sq.yard and EMD is Rs.20 lakhs and for HUDA Techno Enclave Madhapur, commercial, the upset price is Rs.45,000 per sq.yard.

Prestigious project

In Asifnagar, the upset price is fixed at Rs.25,000 per sq.yard with an EMD of Rs.20 lakhs, while for Miyapur, Ramachandrapuram (Chandanagar), Nallagandla and Tellapur, Vanasthalipuram, it is Rs.15,000 per sq.yard. Along with Pentagon, HUDA is offering for auction another prestigious project ‘Rockdale Greens’ in an extent of 8.02 acres at Tanasha Nagar (Pokalwada) in Ranga Reddy district, quite close to Hitch City. The site to be disposed of as a single unit can be used for construction of residential, integrated developments, group housing apartments etc. Auctions for both these projects would be held on September 17.

Upset price

The upset price for Pentagon is Rs.7.26 crore per acre and for Rockdale Greens, it is Rs.8.70 crore per acre and the Earnest Money Deposit for both the sites is Rs.1 crore.

The sources say that response has been good ever since the sale of applications commenced from September 3 and before that too, the authority has been receiving lot of enquiries from locals and the NRIs.

The USP of HUDA plots is that they are litigation free and the organisation is accountable and moreover the upset price is reasonably fixed, at less than prevailing market prices, they add.

HUDA Secretary D.Ramarao said that they hope to raise about Rs.400 crore through auctions. The allotment of plots would be through auction-cum-sealed tender to the highest bidder/tender.

iPhone

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008-keynote-live/#more-27826

http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/06/09/confirmed-iphone-3g-will-need-to-be-activated-in-store-no-online-ordering/


1) there is no no-contract option of iphone 3G
2) $10 extra data plan that is $240 for 2-year contract

3) Tom-tom said they have GPS software ready to release $50?
4) can do websurf and talk same time since 3G allow data and voice ( when friend called where is near starbucks , go to his point in map and serach and tell him )

5) twice as fast ( web surf) as 2.5G

6) ATT yellowpages.com with GPS enabled ( say starbucks, mcdonald you get shops near by then say directions ..., schools ...) , ATT may sell GPS voiceActivated App as monthly fee $2/month

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9963999-1.html

7) see what ATT execs say

"Less than 20 percent of our customers have integrated devices," Ralph de la Vega, the head of AT&T's mobile business, said during the conference call. "And at the $199 price point we could have mass adoption and put the iPhone in the hands of people who have never surfed the Web on a phone."

What's more AT&T sees iPhone users as highly valuable customers. And executives said that they are willing to make upfront sacrifices to get these customers on their network.

Specifically, iPhone users typically generate more revenue than basic AT&T cellular customers because they use more data services, de la Vega said. And with the new 3G capability and more applications coming to the phone, executives expect that to increase. iPhone users are also more willing to recommend the device to friends and family. And the churn or rate at which they drop the iPhone and the AT&T service is very low compared to customers using other devices.

"The 2G iPhone experience helped us understand what the customer characteristic are likely to be," Rick Lindner, CFO of AT&T said during the call. "These are high value customers."


The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone.
I do have one last thing.…What about developers? [applause]…We've come up with a very sweet solution.…We've got an innovative new way to create applications for mobile devices. Really innovative.…The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. It gives us tremendous capability.…You can write amazing Web 2.0 and AJAX apps that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone. And these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services.

Steve Jobs: I’ll give you a concrete example. I love Google Maps, use it on my computer, you know, in a browser. But when we were doing the iPhone, we thought, wouldn’t it be great to have maps on the iPhone? And so we called up Google and they’d done a few client apps in Java on some phones and they had an API that we worked with them a little on. And we ended up writing a client app for those APIs. They would provide the back-end service. And the app we were able to write, since we’re pretty reasonable at writing apps, blows away any Google Maps client. Just blows it away. Same set of data coming off the server, but the experience you have using it is unbelievable. It’s way better than the computer. And just in a completely different league than what they’d put on phones before

iPhone Application Development


Its great news for us that Apple has opened the door to third-party developers to build applications for the first version of iPhone, said Andre Charland, Nitobi co-founder. Building apps on the Safari browser engine is ideal for Ajax developers like us. Its the perfect platform to work from because it allows us to build graceful, easy to use applications for our customers that have the potential to reach millions of iPhone users."

In Europe, They Like Their VoIP

Europe is poised to emerge as one of the regions where VoIP has a major impact.

According to market research firm Telegeography, consumer VoIP subscribers in Europe will reach 40 percent market penetration by 2011. That’s compared with the U.S., where total VoIP market penetration is forecast to top just 20 percent by the same year.

One of the main reasons for this is divergence: U.S. telecom incumbents AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) have more or less stayed out of the VoIP game, leaving the big push to come from cable operators such as Comcast (CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (TWC). In the meantime, the independent voice service providers Vonage (VG) and SunRocket have fallen on hard times. Taken together, there were just 11.8 million VoIP subscribers in the U.S. at the end of the second quarter.

Conversely, the European incumbents — Britain’s BT Group (BT), France Telecom (FTE) and Deutsche Telekom (DT) of Germany — have responded to pressure from upstarts like Free, who have easier access to local loops, by becoming more active in their respective markets. And of course there’s Skype, which is extremely popular in Europe

Shameerpet land prices stable

Shameerpet land prices stable

Indian marketcaps: Taking the number of $1 billion m-cap stocks to 149.

Indian marketcaps: Taking the number of $1 billion m-cap stocks to 149. Business Standard: May 22, 2007


Mumbai: The general market buoyancy and the rupee appreciation have resulted in 18 new stocks’ market capitalisation touching $1 billion, taking the number of $1 billion m-cap stocks to 149.

The $1 billion m-cap is based on the rupee-dollar exchange rates at the end of each calendar year. Monday’s market capitalisation was calculated on an exchange rate of Rs 40.68 per dollar. The dollar has depreciated by almost 8 per cent from 44.12 on February 7, 2007, to 40.70 on May 21.

On February 7, when the S&P CNX Nifty hit an all-time high, there were 135 stocks with $1 billion m-cap. Of this, Ansal Properties, Nagarjuna Constructions, Lanco Infratech and Shree Cement fell below the $1 billion mark on Monday.
TE Debutants
Mkt-cap (in Rs cr) (in Rs cr)
Idea Cellular 30,412 Reliance Natural 4,626
Power Finance 17,044 Wockhardt 4,552
Indiabulls Real Est 6,956 Max India 4,480
Indian Bank 5,527 Andhra Bank 4,346
Dish Tv 5,286 Syndicate Bank 4,246
Moser Baer 5,130 Praj Ind 4,222
Tata Tea 4,960 Cadila Healthcare 4,140
TV 18 4,808 Chennai Petro 4,037
Deccan Chronicle 4,677 Petronet LNG 4,016

Four stocks from the banking sector, two each from entertainment and pharmaceuticals, one each from constructions, engineering, information technology, telecommunication, shipping, finance, hotels, steel, power, and cement are the new entrants.

The 149 companies collectively account for 81 per cent m-cap of the BSE.

Eight stocks - Reliance Industries, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Bharti Airtel, National Thermal Power Corporation, TCS, Infosys Technologies, Reliance Communications and ICICI Bank — have a market capitalisation over $20 billion.

Of the entire lot, 19 companies have a market capitalisation of $10 billion against 13 in 2006, 7 in 2005 and 3 in 2004 - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Reliance Industries and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). In 2002, only ONGC had a total market capitalisation of $10.4 billion (Rs 49,876 crore).

Reliance Industries tops the list with its market cap crossing $60 billion to $60.36 billion (Rs 2,45,560 crore). The company’s market cap has appreciated by over $16.31 billion (Rs 51,188 crore) in last one-and-half months from $44.06 billion (Rs 1,94,372 crore) on February 7.

ONGC comes second at $49.09 billion (Rs 1,99,685 crore).
Bharti Airtel stood at third with $39.65 billion (Rs 1,61,277 crore).
NTPC $31.64 billion (Rs 1,28,712 crore),
TCS $29.76 billion (Rs 1,21,048 crore) at fourth and fifth place respectively,
followed by Infosys Technologies $27.57 billion (Rs 1,12,163 crore),
Reliance Communications $25.45 billion (Rs 1,03,519 crore) and
ICICI Bank $20.78 billion (Rs 84,528 crore).

China Mobile

China Mobile marketcap:Market Cap: 254.28B
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China claims to have launched the world's first 4G mobile communications system, even though it has yet to introduce 3G services. However Samsung of Korea made similar claims late in 2006.

In mid 2004 South Korea, Japan and China were reported to be collaborating on 4G technology. The joint initiative was aimed at creating phones for commercial use around 2010 and aimed at choking off the economic drain historically imposed on Asian cellphone makers by royalty payments for 2G and 3G technologies largely invented elsewhere.

4G phones will enable users to:
1. watch high-definition TV
2. browse the internet
3. hold video conferences
4. speak in other languages

Ki Tae Lee, president of Samsung's Telecommunications Network Business, said that Samsung hoped to "drive development and standardisation of 4G mobile technology ...and realise our dream to begin the 4G era." He added "We hope to work with associated parties for the successful commercialisation of 4G technology
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China Mobile marketcap:Market Cap: 254.28B
China Mobile Subscribers Surpass Total US Population

"The image is striking -- the equivalent of every man, woman and child in the U.S. using a cell phone," says Pohlig. "But it's important to understand that the per capita income of the Chinese subscribers is US$1700, not US$44,000 as in the United States."

Though Chinese subscribers rely on pre-paid phone cards and pay around 80% less than Americans for mobile phone service, their typical investment of $10 per month represents 7% (or more) of their monthly salary.

"Many Chinese spend a greater percentage of monthly income on pre-paid phone cards than Americans spend on food. This says a lot about the perceived importance of telecommunications in that society," Pohlig points out.

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Nokia predicts amount of mobile users in China to rise over to over half a billion in 07
The Finnish-based firm said in a statement that it also sees the ratio of replacement buyers growing from around 60 pct of the total handset device market, to over 80 pct, by 2010.

China is the world’s largest mobile-phone market, with 449.02 million users as of the end of October 07, according to government data.


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INDIA Mobile market
Indian Mobile Marketcap: 40 + 25 + 15 ( all other ) => $80 billion
Bharti Airtel stood at third with $39.65 billion (Rs 1,61,277 crore)
Reliance Communications $25.45 billion (Rs 1,03,519 crore)


The total number of mobile subscribers in India at the end of June was 185.13 million, compared to 40 million fixed-line subscribers.
asr: Adding 7 million users/month , for rest of 2007 7 x 6 = 42 milion bringing total 225 million by end of 2007

India Looks To Triple Wireless Users By 2011 - Among Fastest Growing Wireless Telecom Markets
Last year, 2006, India reported a wireless subscriber base of 149.5 million users. That’s a huge increase from the 85 million users India had in 2005. The most densely populated nation picked up upwards of 6 million wireless users every month, in 2006.

Dr Jagdish Rebello, principal of iSuppli Corp., projects a wireless user base of about 484 million by 2011 ( vs. China has 484 mill in 2007 so 4 years gap with china in #of subscribers ). Rebello attributes “A rise in per-capita income, the arrival of less-expensive phones, declines in tariffs, pro-industry and pro-consumer regulations enacted by the government and a host of other factors have been instrumental in driving this growth.”

Looks like India will be a wireless force to be reckoned with.
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The Research Room group published a free report with mobile subscription forecast s for 77 countries around the world. - posted 24-SEP-2003
- asr: what a great 3 year forecast predicted on sept/2003 ( post date of article ), the forecast is pretty close.

Important to note that the forecasts count mobile subscriptions - not users. This is why the penetration rates may differ from other research companies penetration rates. Many countries have their own dynamics - and often this may cause to inflate or deflate the penetration rate - but for the purposes of this forecast the penetration rate is considered to be Mobile Subscriptions divided by Population times 100. Countries such as Taiwan have penetration rates above 100% - this is due to the fact that subscribers often have up to 12 active accounts. Some attempt has been made to remove the "dead" subscribers from the numbers - the numbers are often reduced to counter-act the fact that some mobile subscribers keep accounts alive to inflate their numbers. If the mobile account has not generated any revenue for more than three months then the research room does not include this account within its forecasts.

An example, in order of % of estimated population:

# Canada: 18.6 million subscriptions, corresponding to 55.7%
# New Zealand: 2.6 million subscriptions, corresponding to 63.5%
# United States: 180 million subscriptions, corresponding to 64.4%
# Australia: 16 million subscriptions, corresponding to 77.4%
# United States: 180 million subscriptions, corresponding to 64.4%
# UK: 54 million subscriptions, corresponding to 88.3%
# Finland: 4.8 million subscriptions, corresponding to 92%
# Hong Kong: 7.1 million subscriptions, corresponding to 92.3%

With a not so big penetration, but of course a very high number of subscriptions is China, with 400 million subscriptions, corresponding to only 30% of the population.

Which iPod are you ?

Which iPod are you ?

Maybe you’ve got thousands of songs in your music library. Maybe you have just a few. Maybe you like watching video on the go. Maybe you just wanna grab some tunes and run. No matter where or what you want to play, there’s an iPod made for you.

Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future

Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future

The opening of Japan's copper phone lines to DSL competition launched a "virtuous cycle" of ever-increasing speed, said Cisco's Pepper. The cycle began shortly after Japanese politicians -- fretting about an Internet system that in 2000 was slower and more expensive than what existed in the United States -- decided to "unbundle" copper lines.

For just $2 a month, upstart broadband companies were allowed to rent bandwidth on an NTT copper wire connected to a Japanese home. Low rent allowed them to charge low prices to consumers -- as little as $22 a month for a DSL connection faster than almost all U.S. broadband services

Symbian upgrades its OS, fights off rivals

Symbian upgrades its OS, fights off rivals
- In 2006 Symbian had 76% share of the smartphone market, thanks to its very close relationship with Nokia (which owns 47.9% of the company, rest being shared amongst other handset makers), which had 56% share of the global smartphone market.

The new OS will allow Wi-Fi 3G roaming. Push-email and VoIP run over WiFi when in the office and automatically switch to 3G when on the move. In addition, Symbian has added real-time networking ensures that VoIP is not interrupted when other IP-based services, such as web browsing or push email, make a connection.

The new version will give multimedia features a major boost. The camera features would now include image orientation, image distortion correction auto-focus such as red-eye reduction - 35 improvements you find in a typical standalone digital camera.

The system will have better connectivity with home computers, via wireless and The new OS upgrade supports multi-standard digital TV (DVB-H, ISDB-T) and standardized LBS.

Who’s Afraid Of Apple & Google? Not Symbian

Smart phone OS wroldwide market
Who’s Afraid Of Apple & Google? Not Symbian