Thursday, February 5, 2009

BRIC nations set for mobile boom

According to a report by eMarketers, India along with other BRIC countries like Brazil, Russia and China is likely to become home to over 1.7 billion users by 2012. India is likely to have 560 million mobile users, while China is expected to top the chart with 800 million. India would be followed by Russia with 189 million users and Brazil at 176 million. Currently India has over 270 million mobile users.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Kannathil Muthamittal my opinion

It's a tough one because there are so many movies I like. I like Mouna Raagam, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, Lakshya, Roja Andaz Apna Apna and Sindhu Bhairavai. In Malayalam I love Cherunarupunjity and Vanaprastham. I like most of Mani Ratnam's movies. If I have to choose one, it has to be Kannathil Muthamittal. This was his first National award. It is really sad he won it so late. The Movie is too strong and shows how great a director he is. I shed a tear during the scene when the girl comes back to the house and the mother initially doesn't speak and finally returns by hugging her. The emotions, the chemistry between the actors, the honesty of the characters and the music is brilliant, especially Rahman's 'Vellai Pookal'.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

IBM Platform for Academia, Industry tie up

IBM has come forward with its Drona Partner Programme- an initiative aiming at providing better collaboration between academia and industry. Under the programme Independent Software Vendors(ISV's) would thus help enhance the employability of students, According to Anil Menon of IBM India, IT jobs in present times require more than just string technical abilities; students would need to have industry and business knowledge along with good interpersonal and effective communication skills. According to sources, by 2012 the need for skilled IT experts would increase to 1.5 million especially in India, China and South East Asia.

Monday, February 2, 2009

About Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia is an interesting topic to bring into this. Although in this condition people can hear colors and see sounds etc this doesn't really answer whether they are experiencing the same. Again if you see a middle c as pink how you do know that the color you refer to as pink isn't the color I refer to as green (perceptually). I am not sure that this question will ever be answered since we can't experience another persons life, however there may be ways of inferring, which is why I brought up the concept of taste (by which I mean fashion or aesthetics) Art has suggested that certain colors are opposites. And it is true that certain colors stand out against one another this would suggest that we perceive the same colors. However some people seem to be inherently incapable of recognizing the jarring effect of certain color combinations, do they have a different perception of color or do they have another lesion elsewhere that just means they enjoy these jarring effects.