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September 9, 2011

Vidyut Jamwal will play the villain of Force

Model-turned-actor and martial arts expert, Vidyut Jamwal will play the villain in ‘Force’                                                                                                


Model turned actor, Vidyut Jamwal was cast to play the villain in ‘Force’ and in bagging the role, he managed to beat about 500 actors who auditioned for the role. As per the script of the film, the villain’s character was a crucial one and required to be as physically strong as the hero. So it was a difficult task for the makers to search for a villain to match up with John Abraham, who plays the lead in the film.


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Vidyut is a trained martial arts fighter and has excelled in a fight form called Kalari and has also trained gymnast. He will be seen doing some spectacular stunts in the film along with John Abraham. John who has himself performed astonishing stunts in the film, including lifting a bike, will have a cool competitor in Vidyut.

Vidyut has gone through strenuous training to build a body that could be comparable to John’s. Much to everyone’s surprise, his training has paid off big time as his body has been crafted well and he does seem more muscular than John. Although the debutant has chosen to play the bad boy in his very first film, let’s see if this image sticks or if he gets a chance to explore different shades in the future. 
 
The villain of John Abraham starrer Force had been kept under wraps. But now it has been revealed that the role is being played by newcomer Vidyut Jamwal. Model turned actor, Vidyut Jamwal was selected to play the villain in Force only after defeating 500 people at the auditions. 

As per the script of the film, the villain of the film is as important and as powerful as the hero, so it was a difficult task for the makers to search for a villain to match up with John, both looks wise as well as physically. They zeroed down on Vidyut only after auditioning around 500 others. 

Vidyut is a trained martial arts fighter and has excelled in a fight form called Kalari. He is also a trained gymnast. He will be seen doing some spectacular stunts in the film along with John Abraham. It is his first film and instead of choosing to play hero like most of the newcomers wish to, he has taken the other route and is playing the bad boy instead. 

Vidyut has worked out as hard as John for the film and his body has taken every one by surprise. He has received several offers from directors, who have seen the promos of Force.

An article of Hindustan Times 

Force The Movie:

Force is an upcoming Bollywood action thriller film directed by Nishikanth Kamath, starring John Abraham and Genelia D'Souza with Vidyut Jamwal. It is a remake of Gautham Menon's successful 2003 Tamil film, Kaakha Kaakha and is about a dutiful cop who chases the capture of a dreaded gangster. The film will release on September 30, 2011.

Official Trailer of Movie Force: 

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China renews Google's operating licence

Google China
China said that it has renewed Google's licence to operate in the world's largest online market, after the US company last year moved its Chinese search engine overseas in protest over censorship.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology named Google's China website operator, Beijing Guxiang Information Technology Co. Ltd., as one of 137 firms whose licences were renewed following adjustments in their operations.

The ministry had ordered the adjustments after some firms had changed shareholding structures without official permission, provided services beyond their approved business range or had lax information security controls.

The ministry, which posted the license renewals on its website, did not specify the kind of changes individual companies had to make.

Google spokeswoman for China Marsha Wang confirmed to AFP that the company had been granted the licence renewal.

"We have passed the 2011 annual assessment (of the licence)," she said.

This means Google's Internet content provider licence in China has been extended for one more year, she said.

Google said in March last year it would no longer bow to government censors and effectively shut down its Chinese search engine, re-routing mainland users to its uncensored site in Hong Kong.

Google has maintained that such an approach complied with Chinese law. 

Description about Google China :   

Google China was founded in 2005 and was originally headed by Kai-Fu Lee a former Microsoft executive and the founder in 1998 of Microsoft Research Asia.Microsoft sued Google and Kai-Fu Lee for the move, but reached a confidential settlement. Google's Beijing based office was initially located at NCI Tower.


In 2005, a Chinese-language interface was developed for the google.com website. In Jan 2006, Google launched its China-based google.cn search page with results subject to censorship by the Chinese government.


The Beijing office was moved to Tsinghua Science Park in early 2006. The newest office has been in use since September 2006. It is a 10-floor building located in Tsinghua Science Park, near the south gate of Tsinghua University.


In Mar 2009, China blocked access to Google's YouTube site; access to other Google online services is denied to users on an ad hoc basis.


On September 4, 2009, after four years leading Google China, Kai-Fu Lee announced his surprise departure to start a venture fund amid debate about the Chinese government's censorship policies and Google's decreasing share to rival Baidu.


In Jan 2010, Google announced that they and other US tech companies had been hacked and that Google is no longer willing to censor searches in China and may pull out of the country.

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TATA Pixel : Pics & small Summary

TATA PIXEL FEATURES:


The Tata Pixel, with ‘Zero Turn’ drive and an innovative diamond-shaped door system, is a city car concept for Europe from Tata Motors.


The engine is a low-friction design, featuring variable coolant and oil pump and rapid warm-up technologies.


A forward sweeping roofline, with minimal front and rear overhangs, accentuates the youthful styling, with the window graphic features.


The 'scissor' doors rotate upwards from the front to allow all four passengers to effortlessly enter or exit the Tata Pixel.


A 1.2 litre three-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine, positioned at the rear of the Tata Pixel, gives lively performance.


In addition to serving as the infotainment display when docked in the instrument panel, the tablet also allows temperature, ventilation.


With optimised aerodynamic drag, low rolling-resistance tyres, stop-start technology, and intelligent battery charging, the Tata Pixel.


“My Tata Connect” enables seamless integration of the user’s smartphone or tablet with the vehicle’s infotainment system.


The Tata Pixel also introduces “My Tata Connect” -- the first integrated human-machine interface (HMI) concept from Tata .


This highly efficient, cost-effective system assists rotation of the outer rear wheel forwards and the inner rear wheel backwards.


The Tata Pixel’s ability to maneuver and park in the tightest of spaces is made possible by its Zero Turn toroidal traction-drive Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT).


Based on the Tata Nano, the Pixel – at just over three metres in length – is the most package efficient four-seater in the world.


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September 8, 2011

Upcoming 3D Movies of Bollywood


After witnessing the success of many Hollywood 3D films and Vikram Bhatt's last outing 'Haunted', many Bollywood filmmakers have decided to take the plunge themselves.
Leading filmmakers like Farhan Akhtar, Vikram Bhatt and Sohail Khan have decided to go the three dimensional way. Their upcoming movies are being released in the 3D format and promise to provide some great entertainment to the viewers.
Here are the soon to be released 3D movies.

Don 2

'Don 2: The Chase Continues' is the sequel to the highly successful film 'Don: The Chase Begins'. The sequel, also starring Shah Rukh Khan and Priynka Chopra was scheduled to have a normal release but director Farhan Akhtar apparently had a change of mind and decided to convert the film to 3D format. The film will hit the theatres on 23 December.

Ra. One

Shah Rukh Khan's ambitious project will also be in 3D format. The film also stars Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal apart from SRK himself. The film has been going through some extensive post-production work which also includes the release of Ra. One - The Game. The movie releases on October 26 and would probably cash in on the Diwali spirit.

Joker

Joker is not only scheduled to be released in 3D but is the first Bollywood film that has been completely shot using 3D cameras. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Shreyas Talpade and Minisha Lamba in lead roles. According to the director of the film, Shirish Kunder, "It is an underdog story about how individuals make it big in life and in the process, get help from aliens from a fictional planet". The film is slated to release in the month of December.

Dangerous Ishq

'Dangerous Ishq', directed by Vikram Bhatt, is the chosen project for comeback queen Karisma Kapoor. In the movie, Karisma's will play five different roles spanning five generations one of them being of a supermodel. The movie is largely being awaited due to the return of Karisma Kapoor to the silver screen after 8 years. The film was being planned to release in November.

Raaz 3

Vikram Bhatt returns with yet another 3D film which is none other than 'Raaz' franchise. 'Raaz 3' marks the return of Bipasha Basu and Vikram Bhatt to the franchise after they both worked in 'Raaz'. 'Raaz 2' was directed by Mohit Suri and starred Kangana Ranaut, Emraan Hashmi and Adhyayan Suman in lead roles. The third installment stars Bipasha Basu, Emraan Hashmi and Jacqueline Fernandez.

Sher Khan

Sher Khan is an action-adventure film being produced and directed by Sohail Khan and will star Salman Khan. This film will mark the fifth collaboration between the Khan Brothers. Sohail Khan is reportedly keen on having Nargis Fakhri in the film otherwise he would cast a newcomer if that doesn't materialize. The film is slated to be a December 2012 release.

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September 3, 2011

15 Indian Software Companies that can be next Infosys

India is a giant in software services, thanks in great degree to the extraordinary vision and work of NR Narayana Murthy, who retired this month from the company he founded, Infosys Technologies. There are skeptics who say that India will never be able to overcome this services mindset and move on to develop creative global products and platforms. 

We don't share that scepticism. We believe that the success of the software services industry has created talent that now has the desire, confidence and expertise to build global technology products. 


Thousands of such initiatives are in the works around the country. Here's we bring to you a sample of these, some that have reached a degree of maturity, others that have seen amazing success in a short period. 



Founders: Arvind Rao & Mouli Raman 

Founded in 2000, in California, but moved to Bangalore two years later. 
Business: Mobile value-added services like ringtones, ring back tones, alerts, voice-based searches. More recently, introduced innovative products like Karaophone that allows users to play karaoke with their social networks via mobile or landline phones, and RCS Phonebook, an interactive user address book that synchronises all contact information, including friends on social networks, into one central location for easy management and live access. The company has onsite presence in 52 countries and boasts of 105 million unique users every month. Rao, 52, who was in the venture capital industry in the US prior to forming On-Mobile, says the company's strength has been its risk sharing and joint work with operators to make the products a success, instead of simply licensing its technology. 

Mouli, 42, who worked for many years in Infosys, says OnMobile frequently receives requests from developed market operators to teach them the things being done in Asia. "They are hit by Google and Apple (app stores), and they believe we can help them counter this." The company is now focused on providing multilingual content. 
Customers: Most of the Indian telecom operators. Vodafone uses them globally; Telefonica of Spain 

Revenue: Rs 537 crore in 2010-11; international revenues contribute over 27%. It's not official, but it's possible that OnMobile is today the world's biggest company providing mobile value-added services.



Founders: Sanjay Nayak, Arnob Roy, Kumar Sivarajan 

Founded in 2000, in Bangalore 

Business: Developing intelligent network technologies, networks that not only transport data between two points, but also do it at the precise speeds that customers require, rerouting traffic when any one lane is choked or disrupted, and clean up disrupted signals. "It's like a bus that behaves according to the nature of its occupants. If it knows that its occupants are students, then it behaves in a particular way, and if it knows they are tourists, it behaves differently," says Nayak. 

Customers: Tejas solutions are deployed in all major telecom networks in India. It also sells in 60 countries. South Korea, which has the most advanced wireless broadband network in the world, has its backhaul (intermediate links) running partly on Tejas equipment. 

Revenue: Over Rs 750 crore. Tejas was initially funded by Gururaj Despande, and then by Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund, Battery Ventures, Goldman Sachs and Sandstone Capital. 



Founder: Yusuf Motiwala 

Founded in 2007, in Bangalore 

Business: Browser-based voice application. Unlike Skype, this requires no downloads or installations. Users just need to open a browser, log in and start talking. Motiwala, 38, provides the application programming interfaces so that anybody can integrate the voice application into their browsers. TringMe handles the backend network, technology and data centre, and charges for each minute of call that passes through the system. The technology also allows communication amongst multiple voice sources -- Web, mobile phone, instant messenger. "Skype has the first mover advantage. But we have significant advantages over them," says Motiwala, who previously worked in Lucent Technologies and Texas Instruments and who started the business with Rs 5 lakh. 

Customers: Over 120 enterprises, including IBM, Infosys and AOL 

Revenue: Not available. But TringMe handles over 42 million minutes of calls per month, and serves over 11 million users. The call minutes doubled in the last one year. Winner of Nasscom's most innovative startup 2009 award. 



Founder: Varun Shoor 

Founded in 2001, in Jalandhar 

Business: Helpdesk solutions to deliver better customer support. The company's flagship product brings all communications and support channels -- tickets, email, live chat, self-service, calls and remote desktop support on one platform. Another product is a comprehensive live chat and visitor monitoring solution that helps deliver real-time support. 

"Using our products, one can centrally manage all customer support channels. Our tools empower employees," says Shoor, who developed the technology and started the business when he was only 17. 

Customers: Over, 30,000, including GE, NASA, Virgin Mobile, FedEx, SEGA and ICANN. 

Revenue: It's in multiple million dollars. 

 

Founder: Rohit Singal 

Founded in 2006, in Bangalore 

Business: App developer. The company has developed over 300 apps, twenty of these are in the top 100 in leading app stores. It has apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Palm Pre and Windows 7 mobile platform. Sourcebits most popular apps include Robokill, Knocking Live, Daily Deeds, Night Stand, Skyfire, and Beast Farmer. 

Night Stand, an app which converts the iPhone/iPad into an alarm clock, reached the number two spot for all-time top download on the iTunes App Store within four days of its release and has been downloaded more than 3 million times. Knocking Live, the first live streaming app for iOS, has more than 2.3 million downloads. Singal, 35, is targeting the gaming space next. 

Customers: GE, Coca Cola, Sling Media , P&G , Hershey's , MIT Sloan School of Management 

Revenue: $6.5 million in 2010-11 Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures India invested $10 million in Sourcebits in May. 



Founders: Sriram V Iyer & Arun Samudrala 

Founded in 2009, in Bangalore 

Business: Mobile platform development. The company's flagship product is UConnect, a connection management solution; if cellphone traffic on an LTE network is clogged, it offloads traffic to another available network such as Wi-Fi, so that the connection is not cut. UManage is a device management solution, helps device vendors (USB dongles, mobile phones, tablets, even TVs and set-top-boxes ) to fix/configure their devices even after it reaches the customer. Currently, the only way to upgrade is by connecting them to a PC or taking it to a service station. "There have been even instances of large scale recalls of devices to address problems. With our solution, such recalls will become unnecessary," says Iyer, 32, who previously worked with Samudrala, also 32, in Beceem Communications. Customers: Broadcom. Working with two of the world's leading semiconductor companies/ODMs to bundle UConnect with their LTE devices. 

Revenue: Rs 1.5 crore expected this year. Finalist at Qualcomm QPrize India 2010, finalist at Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge 2011, finalist at YourStory.in's TechSparks 2011. 



Founder: Suresh Sambandam 

Founded in 2003, in Chennai 

Business: Orangescape was one of the early entrants into cloud computing. Its platform as-a-service product allows businesses to build customised applications using a visual modeling interface. These applications may either be deployed locally or on public clouds -- the Google App Engine, Microsoft's Azure, IBM's Smart Cloud or Amazon's EC2. Sambandam recognised the importance of partners early on, and today works with application developers and system integrators like TCS, Wipro, 3i Infotech, Mphasis and L&T Infotech. "One of the most important things for a startup to survive is to start selling at the early stages," says Sambandam, who previously worked with HP and Selectica. 

Customers: Unilever, Pfizer, Citigroup, Astra Zeneca, Ford, among others. 

Revenue: Over $1 million. TiEcon 2011 recognised it among the top 50 global startups. CRN magazine featured Orangescape among the global top 20 coolest cloud platforms. Nasscom recognised it as a top IT innovator in India for two successive years. 



Founders: Abdullah Khan & Mohamed Saliya 

Founded in 1999, in Bangalore 

Business: Embedded hardware, semiconductor platforms. The company provides integrated solutions for developing innovative products or systems in the areas of data communications, consumer electronics and multimedia. Khan previously worked with Tata Elxsi and CDoT, and Saliya in Philips Semiconductors and ISRO. 

Customers: GE Healthcare, Honeywell, Continental, Visteon , Japan railways, Panasonic , and many more 

Revenue: Not disclosed. Microsoft awarded iWave the Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Award in 2009. The award recognises visionaries and organizations around the world that use technology in an innovative and creative manner. 



Founder: Subash Menon 

Founded in 1992, in Bangalore 

Business: Products that allow communications service providers to improve their operational efficiency and deliver enhanced service experiences to subscribers. It has solutions for revenue assurance, cost management, fraud management, provisioning automation, data integrity management and more. The company started by providing fraud management solutions and its product Nikira became the No.1 fraud management solution in the world. A series of global acquisitions has enabled Menon, who started the firm with a Rs 20,000 loan from a former employer, to offer a wider portfolio of solutions 

Customers: 16 of the top 20 wireless operators worldwide and 26 of the world's 50 biggest telecommunications service providers. The company has more than 300 installations across 70 countries. Almost all telecom service providers in India are customers. T-Mobile, Verizon, Telefonica, Comcast, Sprint are among customers in the Americas. 

Revenue: Rs 492 crore in 2010-11. Awarded the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award 2011 along with Swisscom for the industry's first successful Risk Reward Sharing model for fraud management. 



Founder: Pallav Nadhani 

Founded in 2001, in Kolkata, when Nadhani was 16 

Business: Charting products. Nandhani had begun by writing a charting component using Macromedia Flash, which enabled animation and interactivity in charts. He also wrote articles detailing this work for a technology publication that got him $1,500. "That became the seed capital for my company," he says. His biggest learning has been that customers do not look for features, they look for benefits. The company has been profitable from day one. Barring some advertising in technology magazines in the US and Europe, marketing has been through free online options and customer recommendations. 

Customers: 18,000 customers, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, IBM 

Revenue: $4.5 million in 2010-11. Winner of the Deloitte Fast 50 India 2009 award and Nasscom's emerging company 2009 award. 



Founders: Saju Pillai & Aaditya Sood 

Founded in 2009, in Bangalore 

Business: Data centre management products. Automates processes in the data centres so that systems work faster, with fewer faults and greater security. And everything can be viewed and managed from a single window. Competitors include BMC, HP, CA. "But we do it better than them. We have competed against them and we have won every time," says Pillai, 31, who together with Sood, 30, had previously worked in Oracle. 

Customers: Six customers, including Astra Zeneca, UK, Endeavour Tech, one of the world's biggest stock exchanges, and one of the world's biggest banks. ISV to RedHat, VMware, Microsoft 

Revenue: Not disclosed. Finalist at YourStory .in's TechSpark 2011. 



Founder: Manav Garg 

Founded in 2004, in Bangalore 

Business: Products to manage risks in commodity trading. Commodities markets are notoriously volatile. A bad crop in Brazil or Vietnam, currency fluctuations, geopolitical situations --- anything can affect an organisation's ability to deliver. "A Nestle cannot tell customers they don't have coffee to sell. They have to manage country risks, quality risks, risk of shipments, risk of suppliers, to ensure they have enough coffee all the time," says Garg, 37. Garg saw the opportunity for such a software when he worked with Singapore-based G Premjee Group in their commodities trading business in the late 1990s. 

Customers: AWB (formerly Australian Wheat Board); Louis Dreyfus, Geneva; CHS, an US agricultural cooperative; New Boliden, a Swedish mining and smelting company; and more. 

Revenue: $10 million. Winner of the Nasscom Innovation 2009 award. Was in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for India in 2009. 

 

Founder: Atul Jalan 

Founded in 2004, in Bangalore 

Business: Analytics products for the retail industry. The products analyse customer behaviour, merchandising, supply chain performance, supplier performance and a host of other parameters and help retailers decide where to set up a store, what kind of products to stock in a store, where to stock them, which products should be placed together to optimise sales, identify the right promotions. "These are decisions that were earlier taken on the basis of gut feelings and hearsay," says Jalan, 41. 

Customers: Over 76 customers, most in the $1-20 billion revenue range, including McDonald's, Prada, Bally, SM Group, Haggen, Crocs, Ecco and Robinson's. 

Revenue: Approx $18 million IDG Ventures India, DFJ ePlanet Ventures and Fidelity International have invested in Manthan. 



Founder: Subbu Murugan 

Founded in 2006, in Chennai 

Business: Video management and publishing platform. It's a platform for video interstitials. Its video enables your websites, and allows you to easily organize, customise, publish, distribute, analyse and monetize your video assets. "The market for internet advertising in India is nearly Rs 1,000 crore; 8% of that is dedicated to video advertising," says Murugan, 39, who did an MS in computer information systems in Georgia State university, US. The company has a presence in 15 countries, mostly in Europe and the Americas. 

Customers: Many Indian publications and advertiser clients including Fox Networks, YuMe and Jivox. 

Revenue: Murugan does not talk about this. But he says 45% of the revenues come from outside India. 

 

Founders: Aneesh Reddy & Krishna Mehra 

Founded in 2008, in Kolkata, but soon shifted to Bangalore 

Business: Capillary's solution captures data about those who come to shop in a store or for a brand, analyses them, and offers them discounts in real-time. "Even as they are at the billing counter, they would be sent a discount message on their cellphone based on their age, past purchases, etc. These customised real-time offers translate to much higher conversion of discount and loyalty offers than the generalised offers that are typically made," says Reddy, 26, who studied together with Mehra, 26, in IIT-Kharagpur . 

Customers: Madura Garments, Raymond, Indus League, Levi's , Pizza Hut, Puma and more. Over 40 brands use the solution. 

Revenue: Not disclosed. Capillary reaches over 10 million consumers in over 5,000 stores in 400 cities. Winner of Qualcomm QPrize 2009 and finalist at YourStory.in's TechSparks 2011. Qualcomm has invested in the company, as have angel investors Harminder Sahni, Rajan Anandan and Venkat Tadanki.

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