Srinivas Padma: Personal Musings on Life, Growth, and Connections

2010 was the year of the iPad. 2011 is the year the competition gets serious. Between a slew of new Android 3.0 slates, the BlackBerry PlayBook, and the HP TouchPad, shoppers will have plenty of compelling Apple alternatives to choose from. While tablet PCs have been around for yonks, only now are they becoming the desirable, usable and functional devices that we've always wanted them to be – and it's about time too. The iPad is currently the most obvious example of how tablets are going mainstream, but that's not to say that all tablets released from now on are guaranteed to be super awesome. HTC Flyer The HTC Flyer is out to prove the pen is not dead. The HTC Flyer is a 7-inch Android slate based on a 1.5GHz Qualcomm single-core processor running Android 2.4 Gingerbread, with a new, refreshed version of HTC Sense. Oh, and just to really stir things up, it has a stylus. URL:  HTC Flyer Samsung Galaxy Tab The Galaxy Tab 10.1 has similar specs to many other Android 3.

This is the result of The Astonishing Tribe's Open Innovation experiment. It is an experience video showing the future of screen technology with stretchable screens, transparent screens and e-ink displays, to name a few.

Never mind economics, the new Indian currency symbol designed by IITian Uday Kumar is money in the bank. This opinion is courtesy a set of very pleased graphologists, astrologers and numerologists who believe that, like the symbols for the dollar, euro and yen, the new Indian symbol promises the penetration of our currency into the powerful workings of the global financial market. So far denoted as ‘Re’, ‘Rs’ and ‘INR’, the changed symbol has its own interpretation. “Two parallel lines at the top indicate developing greater inner strength, self sufficiency, while the semi circle in the letter ‘R’ indicates India’s image as an investment-friendly economy,” deduces city-based graphologist Dr Ranadheer Kumar. However, he cautions, “The line passing from the curve at times will pose challenges and stress to the government. Our government must use this logo as many times as possible in international platforms like a spokesperson of our economy.” Graphologists suggest that the symbol incor

I want to talk this lot of times when we talk with non IT organizations, churches who just have this simple question how do we get found on Google. Someone goes down to Google and says "I am looking for hotels in London" or “some church in London” how do we get on page 1 Getting found on Google is called SEO = Search Engine Optimization And if you are in the online business world or in online marketing or advertising you may heard this phrase or know little about it, but lot of times churches don’t know how you get found on Google. They just think it is up to Google. You have good site and it looks really nice and you probably up right on Google and if it’s ugly website you will like on page 10, that’s not true at all because: Google doesn’t have eyes   Google is looking at you code   Google is weighing other factors   Based on algorithm Paid Ads vs. "Organic search" Paid/Sponsored: Google Adwords   Main results/free: Organic results Organic results: Tha

It's finally happened! The $5.95 billion Marina Bay Sands Hotel , Singapore finally opened its doors to public in a gala event, and it also managed to dethrone the Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi from its position as the world's most expensive hotel. But that's not all, the main attraction of the hotel is a 650ft wide pool perched up at the 55th storey of the magnificent hotel, making it the largest outdoor pool in the world that high. Called as the Infinity pool, the drop at the edge of the pool spills into a three-tiered catchment which pumps water right back to the main pool! The hotel also has a boat-shaped 'SkyPark' on top of the three towers. The hotel features 2,560 rooms that would cost you $520 a night. Designed by Moshe Safdie, the structure is said to be based on the design resembling a deck of cards. The hotel décor includes an indoor canal that has Sampan boats to ride in, a casino, an outdoor plaza, a convention centre, a theatre, a crystal pavilion

The design The hardware design hasn't changed from the one we already knew about. It uses the same materials as the prototype: Black glass and stainless steel rim. It fits with the rest of the Apple product line, from the hard edges to the Dieter-Ramsesque utilitarianism of the iMac and the iPad. The black glass is aluminosilicate glass. Apple claims this glass is "chemically strengthened to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic." According to them, this makes it more scratch resistant and durable than the previous generation. The size is smaller than the previous generation: 34% thinner than the iPhone 3GS. Although it is 3 grams heavier. According to Apple, it's the thinnest smartphone ever. It has split buttons for volume, unlike the current iPhone 3GS, all made in stainless steel. The stainless steel rim The stainless steel rim gives the structure to the iPhone, and acts as part of the antenna for 3G and Wi-Fi. In theory, this will greatly incr