Published in: Times Ascent
Success Sutras by Dr. Debashis Chatterjee
A not so desperate housewife tells me, “I want to change. I don’t like being changed”. The thirty something mother of three wants to break from the domestic rut. Yet, she doesn’t want to take up a soft teaching job that her husband recommends. She wants to grow and export orchids.
” I want to go out there and make a difference, but I am afraid of the unknown,” she says with a heavy breath. Honestly, I tell her, ” How can you be afraid of the unknown when you do not know what that is? You can only be afraid of something you know, isn’t it?” Then looking at her puzzled eyes and a mop of hair hangaing on her cheek like a delicate creeper, I say, “What you are afraid of is really giving up the security of the known. “We are scared to give up control of what we have. We cling like leeches to our past experiences. We are really afraid of getting unstuck from our past. (more…)
Cisco has launched its Digital Media Player device for pushing real-time, multimedia content to large computerized displays. The device, demonstrated at Cisco’s analyst conference last month, is a small Linux -based gadget aimed at delivering IP-based video , digital signage content or other information to large LCD and plasma displays in retail stores, public spaces, such as airports, or other outlets.
The digital media player device combined with a back-end content-management system, eliminates the need to deploy PCs in order to deliver high-quality digital content, as well as the security risks, space issues and power consumption involved in this practice.
Times Ascent :: Under the section “Success Sutras”
Author: Dr. Debashis Chatterjee, Professor at IIM Lucknow
Most leaders are not known for their brevity. As they climb the stage, I whisper “KISS-Keep it short, Sir!” For me, a good speech is about valuing every word you speak. Each word, like a currency note, has a purchasing power. Every word counts when they purchase meaning for the audience. Ideally speeches should have an intimate introduction, a crisp conclusion and a very little in-between. (more…)
Dr. Debashie Chatterjee who is a Professor at IIM Lucknow contributes articles in the Times Ascent under the section Success Sutras.
The articles are so practical that you can relate them to your work life and to yourself. I’ll be including these articles in the Management section for our readers who do not have access to Times Ascent (supplement of Times of India newspaper).
Since we are talking a lot about the Apple’s Phone (i dont know what they are goona launch it finally as) but here a good video on youtube that i found while checking on the phone.
I wish the unveiling of Iphone for Apple would have been a smooth ride.
No sooner has Apple Computer unveiled its “iPhone” at the ongoing MacWorld 2007, Cisco has announced filing a lawsuit against Apple in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
The suit seeks to prevent Apple from infringing upon and deliberately copying and using Cisco’s registered ‘iPhone’ trademark.
San Jose-based Cisco, the world’s largest network-equipment maker, has owned the trademark on the name “iPhone” since 2000, when it acquired InfoGear Technology Corp., which originally registered the name. The ‘iPhone’ trademark was obtained by Cisco in 2000, after completing acquiring Infogear, which till then owned the trademark and sold products under that name.
iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
Great Buttons having the MAC look and feel, i would definately wanna have.
Is your life heading in the right direction? If not, what can you do about it?
When it comes to the big decisions in life we can become our own worst enemy because we tend to imagine the choice is between can and can’t when it is actually between will and won’t.
Conjure up catastrophic fantasies about what could go wrong rather than make a realistic assessment of what is likely to happen.
Get sucked into dealing with things that need to be done now rather than getting everything in place to ensure a bright future.
All of which means that when we want to start a new chapter, we need to think afresh. 5 ways to decide whether to start a new chapter.
Imagine your software contribution helping in the smooth operation of a space shuttle. It’s not a dream…….it’s a reality.
NASA has plenty of open source softwares where the open source community can contribute and make a difference.
Few excerpts from NASA open source project website.
” NASA conducts research and development in software and software technology as an essential response to the needs of NASA missions. Under the NASA Software Release policy, NASA has several options for the release of NASA developed software technologies. These options now include Open Source software release. This option is under the NASA Open Source Agreement “NOSA”. “
The motivations for NASA to distribute software codes Open Source are:
1. To increase NASA software quality via community peer review
2. To accelerate software development via community contributions to maximize the awareness and impact of NASA research
3. To increase dissemination of NASA software in support of NASA’s education
I found the World Wind project to be of lot of interest to the end user. It allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there. Quite similar to Google earth.
Cisco has launched its Digital Media Player device for pushing real-time, multimedia content to large computerized displays. The device, demonstrated at Cisco’s analyst conference last month, is a small Linux -based gadget aimed at delivering IP-based video , digital signage content or other information to large LCD and plasma displays in retail stores, public spaces, such as airports, or other outlets.
iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone. 
