There are many who say when it comes to speeches, as for a lot of things in life, less is more. I’m not sure whether that’s based on lousy speeches, or by keeping it short, it’s easier to get your point(s) across more effectively.
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When It Comes To Public Speaking, Ignite Your Audience
IT giant IBM plans to hire about 5,000 people in India this year to scale up its BPO operations in the country. IBM hopes to cash in on the growth of the country’s services sector, which ranges from software-related services to looking after the HR aspects of some core manufacturing companies, reports quoted a senior IBM executive as saying. Newspaper and agency reports quote Selby Mascarenhas, senior advisory consultant with IBM Poland, as saying that the company would focus more in the service sector by opening more BPO centres in India
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IBM Hiring 5000 Bpo Employees
Yes, both these words share common initials, but in reality there is huge gap between India and Innovation. In past decade India has become a hub for outsourcing (specially in IT), and has shown some outstanding growth in fields like Telecom. But this post is specially for Internet Startups where all the action is happening today (both locally and Internationally)! I have recently started my startup journey and have experienced some fake expectations and harsh realities in past one year.
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Why In-dian startups stop In-novating?
The Hubble Space Telescope may be on the verge of finding the first evidence that spacetime is quantised The idea that spacetime is quantised at the Planck scale has been around for almost as long as physicists have attempted to reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics. In the 1960s, John Wheeler coined the term quantum foam to describe the quantised structure of the universe at distances of around 10^-35 metres or so
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How Hubble Could Spot Quantum Foam
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week: INTEGRAL – A Status Report Living Tissue Self-Regulation as a Self-Organization Phenomenon Ex-Vivo Detection of Neural Events Using THz BioMEMS Sample Genealogies and Genetic Variation in Populations of Variable Size Critical dynamics of Decoherence
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Mushrooms ‘n’ motors
Some lawyers not trained in business still miss the distinction between various terms used in conjunction with the general term “marketing.” Marketing is a process not an activity. It consists of many things that together make up marketing – including public relations and advertising, which simply put are tools of marketing. The main difference between “PR” and “advertising” is that the former is free advertising (except for the PR agency costs involved, if any) in the form of publicity (being quoted in articles, part of a feature articles, etc.) and are usually written by someone else
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Marketing vs. PR vs. Advertising
The latest evidence suggests that fingerprints process vibrations in the skin to make them easier for nerves to pick up. They may seem little more than digital decoration, but biomechanics have long known that fingerprints have at least one use: they increase friction, thereby improving grip. There have also been hints that fingerprints play a role in the sensation of touch.
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Fingerprints: Signal Processors for Touch
A unique type of nanodiamond could measure the flow of ions through an ion channel with unprecedented accuracy Ion channels play a crucial role in the workings of all living cells. The channels are proteins embedded in the cell membrane that act like pores, allowing certain kinds of molecules and ions to pass through while blocking others. Consequently, they play an important role in many biological processes in which rapid changes occur in cells, such as cardiac function, T-cell activation and pancreatic beta cell insulin release.
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Quantum Measurement Could Reveal Ion Flow Through Cell Membranes
If financial markets behave like nonlinear wave-like systems, then rogue waves are an inevitable consequence. On New Year’s Day 1995, a single giant wave hit the Draupner oil platform in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. By chance, the platform was fitted with laser measuring equipment which recorded the height of waves as they passed by
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Econophysicist Predicts Rogue Financial Waves
A new three-dimensional map of the Milky Way should give astronomers a unique insight into the formation and evolution of our galaxy. Mapping the galaxy is tricky business because of the inherent difficulties in measuring distances to stars. The problem boils down to determining the inherent brightness of a star, a property called its absolute magnitude
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New 3-D Map of the Galaxy Unveiled
The growing evidence that cells communicate with photons is generating an exciting new field of research. Last year, researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago showed that human cells in culture could synchronize their internal chemical processes even though they were mechanically, chemically, and electrically isolated from one another
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The Emerging Field of Biophotonic Communication
DNA repair machines may home in on the electrical signals created by mutations Here’s a curious puzzle involving DNA molecules. DNA is regularly damaged by ordinary wear and tear and the constant buffeting of ionising radiation. However, cells possess an extraordinary collection of molecular machines such as repair enzymes that rapidly identify the defects and repair them
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An Electronic Clue In The Mystery of DNA Repair
Consumer broadband service in Malaysia has been around for almost 10 years now, but it wasn’t until 2005/2006 that the stakes of the broadband service in Malaysia were increased. Until then, the only broadband service that consumers could count on was provided by state-owned incumbent, Telekom….. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions
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M’sian broadband wars heat up
The lakes on Titan have some surprising chemical contents, according to the latest data from the Cassini spacecraft. One of the exotic attractions of Saturn’s moon Titan is the possibility that it has oceans and lakes, with waves and breakers not unlike those on Earth. In the 1990s, astronomers ruled out the possibility of a global ocean using radar measurements taken from Earth but the possibility of lakes remained
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The Surprising Contents of Titan’s Lakes
As reported in today’s The AmLaw Daily some “Law Firms Cautious About ACC Ranking System.” You may recall that the Association of Corporate Counsel announced their Value Index at last month’s annual meeting in Boston; and that it involves ranking outside law firms “based on evaluations from in-house lawyers.” Apparently a number of firms aren’t too happy about that, and the anonymous nature of the evaluations. Is it because they won’t see the evaluations, or because they’re being evaluated in the first place, that their unhappy? Two thoughts come to mind
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ACC Value Index: what’s all the fuss about?
The recent TPI Index from TPI highlighted an interesting trend where ‘a few very large Telco-to-Telco contracts – instances where one telecommunications carrier outsources its network operations requirements to another telecommunications service provider – accounted for more than 30 percent of the Broader Market’s total….. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros
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Are Telcos the New Drivers of the Outsourcing Industry?
The dark red spot is the first surface detail ever seen on a Kuiper Belt Object Discovered in 2004 in an orbit that ranges between 34 and 51 astronomical units from the Sun, Haumea is one of the largest Kuiper Belt Objects and also one of the oddest. Haumea has two moons, a mass about a third of Pluto’s and a strange elongated shape. It rotates every 3.9 hours making it the most rapidly spinning object of its size in the Solar System, probably as a result of a collision in the distant past.
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Dark Red Spot Found on Kuiper Belt Object Haumae
In case you missed “50 Ways to Market Your Practice” in the October 2007 issue of the ABA Journal’s Law News Now it is certainly worth looking at, especially by solo’s and small firms. Although you might think that some of the ideas are hokey, or would not fit your personal style or your particular practice, it still merits a quick read. So, take 5 minutes to look over the 50 tips, highlight those that strike your fancy, and then go back later to reflect on your selections more thoroughly
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Quick Tips on Marketing Your Solo or Small Firm Practice
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)’s Value Index was announced and shared with members at last month’s annual meeting in Boston. As reported in my earlier post , the criteria for measuring outside law firm’s performance is based on a grading system from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) relating to the following service areas: Understands Objectives/Expectations Legal Expertise Efficiency/Process Management Responsiveness/Communication Predictable Cost/Budgeting Skills Results Delivered/Execution Joyce Smiley in her November issue of “Verbatim” relates that a key question is also part of the index; to wit: “Would you use this firm again?;” and the ACC encourages “law firms to adjust their client satisfaction criteria to match the Value Index.” A wise move. Suffice it to say, every firm should ask at least their key clients how they stack up against those six criteria whether their in-house counsel belongs to ACC or not.
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How Does Your Firm Stack Up Against The ACC Value Index?
A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and “frisk” people at distance
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How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA