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Tata nano – my lucky charm :)

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Tata nano has proved to be luck for me. My first post about Nano was last year on January 26 when I was travelling in train for my MBA admissions process. I got a mail from one of my best friends Sachu who is an ASM with Samsung. The mail inspired me to write about the car and its competetors. Its been a long story from there on and the hits on my posts have been increasing but the number of hits on Tata nano article were overwhelming… more than 800 hits on a single post in a day… Its too much for me… I am elated… hope this kind of response continue.

I am thankful to all my reader.

Events

Tata's Nano rolls out, common man excited

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The wonder car of the aam admi (common man) from the TATA Motors stables is finally in the public domain.

After being shuttled around through the country the six-year-old dream of Ratan Tata is finally here and the man finally looked a more content self.

“Today is another memorable day. It has been a long journey,” says Ratan Tata.

From the glitterati to the common man and even the international media, everyone wanted to be a part of it. But all those who expected a cheap and a rugged four-wheeler were in for a surprise.

The base model comes for around Rs 1,30,000 while the costliest one is for Rs1,72,000.

The car is being eyed by not only the common man but also the who’s who of the country who have made it to the first elusive one lakh customer’s list

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The launch of India’s small car Tata Nano made big news in the United States with top publications from Time magazine to the New York Times giving the story a big splash.

Events, News

Peoples car, an idea whose time has come… Ratan Tata.

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Tata nano the much awaited people’s car is all set to roll out on march 23 2009. Nano is all set to break all sales and booking records and the gurus are already comparing it to the Ford model T. People have been waiting for it very eagerly and now that the launched date has been announced they can’t wait any further.

Despite the economic slowdown the Tatas have managed to do what they had said. Earlier this year there were speculations that nano might roll out in the first quarter but also there were speculations that it might get delayed too.

Now we have the nano and apart from that Tata has a big line up for the days ahead. Following nano will be the Fiat Grande Punto in June, Tata X-over due in last quarter 2009, Tata Safari all new models, Fiat Bravo, Tata Indigo and many others…

So keep watching…

Events

Sprout IT 09: SCIT Entrepreenurship Cell Launch.

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There are unleashed talents waiting to sprout, tired rainmakers who are striving for an opportunity to start their own ventures and there are some truly enlighten souls who believe they have something more to offer in this world.

If you aspire to own your competitive advantage, challenge the conventional thinking and be a part of revolution and want to be a trailblazer in the Information Technology and Management field, look no further than Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Leadership Forum (ITELF) at SCIT. We provide an opportunity to discover and nurture the entrepreneurial spirits.

SCIT is known for creating global IT professionals who are trained to be leaders and unleash their entrepreneurial spirit. ITELF is an endeavor of SCIT that works as a catalyst for nurturing entrepreneurial talents; it is also a resource centre creating awareness relating to entrepreneurship and leadership in education and also providing direction relating to entrepreneurship development and management.

We welcome the alliances with government department, industry, professional bodies like NASSCOM, the national entrepreneurship network, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Academia world and other independent entrepreneurs. Queries and expression of interests can be sent at itelf@scit.edu.

Co ordinators

Saurabh Mishra [9730081077], Kanupriya Kejriwal [9730081817] and Ranjeet Mohan [9922369417].

Events

Breakfast with mozilla

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Got an opportunity to have breakfast with Mozilla guys run Ranganathan, Mozilla Tech Evangelist, and Seth Bindernagel, Director of Localization for Mozilla and attend a session. I never knew that there was so much more with Mozilla other than the Firefox. Mozilla firefox is just the tip of the ice berg and in firefox too there is loot more under the hood than meets the eye.

Seth majorly talked about the Mozilla business model and where they generate the revenue from. He also talked about the various application developed on the Mozilla platform and gave us some quick demonstration.

Arun showed us the major of the tech stuff and how the video is becoming the mainstream content for the web and how javasript has evolved from being considered a toy language to a powerful scripting language that can help the browsers in providing a never before experience to the end user. Arun also showed us a demonstration on Bespin which is a web based IDE and Scalar vector graphics for the web.

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The crowd consisted of Mozilla fans aging under a year to people in late 40s.

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Also got to meet Amit, the peron behind One Laptop per Child – India initiative.

In all it was an awesome experience for me. Detailed write up for the event coming up soon.

General

TwitterKeys: Enhance your Twitter conversations

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As you might know Twitter accepts more than just basic text. The service is UTF8 compatible which means that instead of tweeting “I love you” you could just as well use “I ♥ you”. Or how about this:

“I’m going to ✈ to ☭ in the morning after I make a ☎ to make sure my ♂ is ✔ with it. ✌ for now and don’t forget to ✍ and lets have ♨ soon!”

♥✈☺♬☑
♠☎☻♫☒
♤☤☹♪♀
✩✉☠✔♂
★✇♺✖♨
❦☁✌♛❁
☪☂✏♝❀
☭☃☛♞✿
☮☼☚♘✾
☯☾☝♖✽
✝☄☟♟✺
☥✂✍♕✵

But how do you remember all these damn characters?

Aha!

TwitterKeys is a small tool we (@boris & @sandervdv) developed here at The Next Web Blog which provides you with a floating window with all these funny symbols you can use in Twitter. These are the symbols we currently provide:

Drag this link to your browser
bookmarks toolbar: TwitterKeys

Now go and share this with your friends on Twitter…

Events

NULL Event 2 @ SCIT Pune

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Null second event which is a continuation of the first event at I2IT was at SCIT and was about Evading Firewalls: Tunneling and Application security:codeinjection.

Aseem Jakar and Murtuja Bharmal- the founders of the community talked to the students and pros present there and presented practicaly how to code inject an application by exploiting a buffer overflow and how to evadea filrewall by tunnelling where in you can use a covert channel to browse internet by using jsut icmp ping packets or log in to a shell using ssh bu encapsulating it in ICMP packet.

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Events

My Experience @ Ideacamp Pune 2

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January 16, 2009… Attended the classes whole day long and then a meeting with ITELF [Information Technology Entrepreneurship and leadership Forum] till 0030 hrs and then had to goto POC lab to help out a friend as they had some issues with the setup. In tha lab was reminded that I had to be there at IdeaCamp at SICSR the next day and for that I had to leave by 0715 bus as I was one of the unorganizers. I thought that i might skip this time [my very first time] but left the decision to be taken in the morning. Left the lab at 0230 and still was not sure to go or not. Went to my hostel and slept the moment I fell on bed. Dont know how I woke up at 0700 and then got ready just in time to catch the 0715 bus and was at the venue after 30 minutes or so… had to waut there till 0930 for others to arrive. Then on it was just fun meeting with peeople and getting to know them and their ideas.
People came up with cool ideas as Idea Framework which talked about how to develop an Idea and then there was a presentation by PlanetAikon who provides a platform for the ideas to be developed into products. There were various ideas for the community benifit like Disaster management, Green bags, Green IT, Community Wireless Networks and Service on Mobiles. There was a unique idea by Navin Kabra [ a pune technologist ] about Pune blogs.
It was my first itme presenting a Idea. Mine was the Community wireless networks and i was taken very positively and the response was too good for a presenter like me. I had been thinking about it since long and the inspiration has been the socalfreenet.org, I camr to know about it when I was going throught the book called Wireless Hacking…
My overall experince at Ideacamp was very good. Being an organizer is a nice job and guess from now on I wud always be wanting to be a part of the organizing team. It allowed me to meet many different personalities who have immense experience in their doamin as well as life and it is these people who stand by students or newbies like us to guide our way when we are totally clueless what to do next.

News

Will Tata’s Nano come out to play on Republic day?

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Tata Nano has been the much awaited car since last year and the interest of the people in Nano has only increased. The word is in the air that Tata’s may be making the symbolic statement this Republic Day.

According to highly placed sources at top Tata Dealers “Yes we have inputs that clearly indicate that Nano will roll out on 26 January. We are preparing for that and people are optimistic about it. There is an unending customer list registered for Nano and whenever booking starts these customers will get top priority”.

“Tata will debut Nano in the first quarter of 2009 at any cost but there is no surety of the exact date. January 26 may be the best day for the roll out as it has national significance” said Adil Jal Daukhanwala, Editor in Chief, Times Zigwheel

Internal sources in the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) claim that Nano has cleared ARAI tests in October.

Another highly placed TATA source thinks January 26 too early for the roll out, however the call will definitely hit the market before March.

Roadblocks faced by TATA’s Nano

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sourced from Pune Mirror issue dated Jan 3, 2009.