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World Peace - Laughter Connection

Friday, March 5th, 2010
DECEMBER 4 is the World laughter day since last 4 yeras announced by a group of people for the world peace
and prosperity - being practiced in India - Maha Maya Ananta and Sri Sri Virat Sri- Sant Lal Chugh Foundation ,
New Delhi 110065   .
The laughter is best symbol of peace and properity in the Universe .
Only we the human beings have the Gods power to laugh who actually laughs through
and gets thrilled on his fun and entertainment .
The whole sky can eco with the collective laughing voices of all the human occeans. impacting
the entire Cosmos and warning any ET aliens if any that the planet earth is very powerful ,peaceful ,
united in one chorus which can shake the foundations of the galaxy .
This will also convey the wholeness of our planet oneness of all the religious systems .
Great laughter sends the message to the mind that every thing is fine every day .
Now you imagine millions of people laughing and dancing at the same time on 4th December in
small gatherings - all TV channels playing comedy soaps the whole day , Schools and colleges praying for
world peace - will send a message to the collective conscious of the Universal mind that every thing is perfectly
fine here on the planet earth .
Mind does not distinguish between reality and imagination .
So even if the laughter is artificial the collective universal mind will believe that truly every thing is fine .
This cumminication will bring more benevolence and supernatural Divine love
of God in every body’s heart creating long lasting peace and happiness with deep sense of security and
vibrational change in the mother earth’s total environment .
All beings in the universe will dance with joy , peace and love .
Large scale tele-conferences should be done , webinars , speeches by the leaders of all walks including Cine actors ,
Sports stars and Politicians  -
Sessions of jokes .
All mass media channels to run free advertisements .
This will help raise lot of charity from us the affluent in the society to be spent
on the needy in the underdeveloped world .to encourage education and healthcare ,
entrepreneurship , brotherhood with music love and dance .
Power of laughter is great and can make the Universe of humanity smile , laugh
and shed the toxins out of their bodies and get healed .
This is very important part of the conventional Indian yoga to heal and enhance energy
levels of the highets pure divine nature .
The day can easily carry real and subliminal messages of green earth ,eco friendly developements and
reduced global warming .
Who so ever chooses can do it daily for his own benefit .
Infact no one has dared to tax the breathing and the laughter .
We can continually keep providing content on  the subject of laughter from the ancient
Indian wisdom of the sages  .
Looking foward to your further inputs to carry on this mashaal of love
energy fire and occeanic peace and stillnes .
Best wishes ,
Prince Mohan - New Member of WPPS since yesterday .
God bless the awakening of the planet mother earth making every body
aware of him self  .
Prince Mohan
Bankers to the Universe

Sexual Abuse and Mind Control

Monday, February 15th, 2010

by Wes Penre, April 27, 2005

researched psychiatry long before I started researching the New World Order; before I even knew what the New World Order was. What came out of that research was mind-boggling. I thought that psychiatry, this so-called “science”, must be the most vicious practice on Earth. The history of psychiatry and the evil it has done to humanity is more than an average person can confront. Little did I know back then that psychiatry is one of the most important tools for the Illuminati when they research advanced mind control techniques. Most of the highest known illuminists are also psychiatrists.

Just recently, when I decided to write some articles on psychiatry, I accidentally stumbled upon the story of Wayne Morin Jr. I was searching through the “wayback machine“, where you can find websites that are no longer on the regular Internet. For you who don’t know, it is an archive of old websites that have been taken off the Internet for one reason or another. I figured that there must be at least a few good websites that were taken down due to threats from the forces they intended to expose, and I wanted to find those as they certainly must have had some good information.

That’s where I found the story of Wayne Morin Jr., written by himself. After had read it, I decided to use it as my first article on psychiatry.  Wayne’s case is so typical, just because he was never heard, never believed, and his website is no longer on the Internet, although it should be highlighted as one of the most important websites out there, if there would be any justice in this world.

Mind control. The controversy of what is and what is not mind control rages on among scholars in the schools of law, human rights and mental health. An accepted definition is: “psychological manipulation, thought reform and/or mind manipulation which results in a form of behavior modification.”

A close scrutiny by the media and public, of one of the biggest destructive “Murder Industry Cults” is “Murderers of the Mind: The Awful Truth About Psychology, Psychiatry, and the Mental “Health” Industry”, published by “Citizens Commission on Human Rights International”. It details an epidemic involving physical and psychological abuses, supplies and in-depth professional investigation and would provide the first steps in resolving the rash of problems that destructive cults, serial killers, sexual child abusers, thrust upon society. Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (or CCHR for short) is run by the Church of Scientology, whose doctrine I am not subscribing to, because the Church has their own reason and agenda on exposing psychiatry, but that fact does not nullify their extremely thorough investigation into the subject of psychiatry. Scientology’s research in this field is very accurate and backed up with evidence.

As consumers of national news media supplied information, we continued to accept half-truths, which, in this case scenario, is seeing and hearing only what results form mass mind manipulation. The Churches in America are the biggest power base for Mental Health Industry. Secret Knowledge equals power, with the result being control. 

After have researched the field of psychiatry pretty thoroughly, the following story rings very true. Let me share it with you.

When Wayne Morin Jr. wrote his article for the Internet, he had been locked up since 1987 in a mental hospital for calling in a fake bomb threat and leaving an egg timer in a grocery store.  He also called the grocery store and told them he placed the fake bomb and gave his name, home address and phone number. Wayne was at the time he wrote the article a devoted Christian and said he was facing daily persecution as a Christian and a political prisoner. He has been in many magazines, such as Media Bypass; Spotlight; Truth At Last; Cutting Edge Newsletter, and he has also done a number of radio talk shows.

His first admission at Napa State Hospital was when he was 12 years old, in 1971. He has had 115 admissions at Napa State Hospital (NSH) since that time, but all were civil commitments. He explains that his mother, brother, and sister have all sat around and used marijuana together with his psyche-tech on a weekend pass. While still accommodated at NSH, at the ages of 13-16, he was taken to his psyche-tech’s home in Fairfield, where he used marijuana and Dexedrine, all on weekend passes. There was another time at NSH when a psyche-tech “fell in love” with him and they had sex, and he was given Ritalin in injection form.

The Napa Sentinel, a local newspaper, has full knowledge of NSH past and up-to-date rampant sex abuses and drug use. There was a time in the 1980’s when most of all the psyche staff at NSH used marijuana and smoked it with the clients there, according to Wayne. This was during the height of “America’s Drug War”, and when a person could use drug (ab)use as a mental illness and furthermore get paid by SSI for being mentally ill, at $700.00 a month.

During Wayne’s 115 admissions as NSH he never had one single felony charge. His instant offense was committed in 1987, and he was sentenced only for three years. However, the State never wanted him released on “outpatient treatment”. Why was that? Wayne explains:

“Just look at their jobs being on the line, and how the psychiatric staff know that the statutes of limitations never run out on murders and rape, which have occurred in this hospital. Knowledge is Power, they know this, so by keeping me inside the fence they maintain their immunity from outside investigation. It is a known fact that mental health staff as NSH use Gestapo-type tactics and invent symptoms without evidence in order to delay the discharge of patients(1).These doctors

with Master’s degrees can also be negligent and accessories to murders and other crimes, who do whatever it takes to cover up both intentional and unintentional mistakes, as if, in the old lunatic days of torture and mysterious deaths in the state hospitals seem to be protected from the law. The same people on patient’s treatment team punish them for any disagreement, trying to defend themselves, and particularly frown on any complaint to Patient’s Rights, if not a reason for retaliation due to their power and illusion of perfection being challenged; in a sense they are playing God with people’s lives. Even if an individual staff member knows the claims against a patient are false they will side with their peers, acting as a fraternity of control, under the guise of hospital policy. This form of racket contradicts the entire concept of people with a diagnosed mental illness being treated and recovering for return to the community, especially for people as myself, who was drunk when committing a crime which was not that serious. Instead, we have psychiatrists and psychologists acting like prosecutors who in reality answer to nobody, and whose main remedy to alleged symptoms is to increase a patient’s medication, do anything about their situation, so they give up trying to fight.”

 Wayne is a political prisoner who should have been released to a group home years ago. He says he needs assistance from an organization to provide counsel and assistance for his legal release. He states that he has a lot of stories to tell about what is going on at NSH, and he would not hesitate taking a lie detector test. Not that he needs to, the evidence is overwhelming, and some of it is even in the mainstream media(2).

Anna Jennings was sexually abused when she was less than three years old. This was the first of several abuses that occurred over her lifetime, and put a confused, frightened child into a mental health system that neither recognized nor treated Anna’s real problem. Diagnosed “schizophrenic”.. she was institutionalized for more than 12 years from age 15 to 32. Although she attempted to communicate the “awful things” that had happened to her, there was no one to listen, understand or help her.

She took her life on October 24, 1992, on a back ward of a state mental hospital [which was in fact Napa State Hospital, editor’s note]. Please take some time and go to Anna’s Memorial Page and read about this young woman, whom Wayne met at Napa, but never got to know too well. He just remembers she was a very nice person: The Anna Foundation Organization.

Comments - Is it possible in today’s world .

The article is from the web site of  illuminati-news.com

David Icke - And the truth shall set you free

Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Dear David , I have started reading your book
“And the truth shall set you free” . This is a remarkably brilliant eye opening
book . Great appreciation for your work , please accept . We have interacted with some brotherhood societies
and always found them socially responsible and doing
noble projects with social objectives as priority . Yes of course they do assist the brotherhood members
to enhance their knowledge and social standing . However even if it was that the global elite or the illuminati
control the things in the world may not be questionable because
the world wide members may not know their agenda or plans . But if you see around you micro to macro families and organisations
you find that they are being controlled by some one . Every one however well place in the world he may be , is having some one
above him to be answerable to . May it be the individual or
government tax authorities . The world as a chain of things has to have some fountain heads
some where in the world in some form or the other . It is an old system in the new packaging . Alexander the Great , King Solomon , Genghes Khan , Chanakya in India had similar agenda as of the brotherhood networks . There is another point that these and many other imperialists
did contribute in bringing the world closer and make it a global village today
and create affluence in the society in many parts of the world . Colonialism was no more viable and it was difficult to manage the
countries physically with few foreigners in the light of growing
literacy which was created by the Colonial rulers only . They thought of a better way and that was to use them to create larger economies for them selves and others by freeing them from colonialism to self rule . Even if the money was lent and interest charged on the money which never existed and does not exist even today , what is the issue . They helped increase the exploitation of world’s resources and create
more and more employment , literacy , awareness and many other things . In the absence of the funny money which is also energy like the real money
there would have been more focuss on primitive wars to control other countries resources which they now try to control through economic
carots . Still the under developed areas are developing and getting modernised . Large number of companies world wide have come up because of their
banking of creating money out of thin air , Vnture capital funds , private equity and debt etc . They have created large number of educated professional work bees globally
instead of primitive work class . However Indian sages have always said that the spiritualism and materialism
should be equally balanced for true Karma Yoga . Enormous amounts wealth , money , power and resources are being continously added by them as per your version . What is the need for these beyond a point . Do they only like this instead of enjoying their lives with their families . What ever the Universal Laws they might have known in advance  they still are human beings with senses and emotions . Or their agenda is to capture another planet for their migration at some point or expand their resources through these planets to increase their wealth on the earth . Or they are still reporting directly to another civilisation or the fourth dimension . Do they have the knowledge that the earth may explode and they need to escape to some other place . If their knowledge of the universal laws is highly advanced then they know most of the things which others don’t . Our sages have known and talked about these things long ago even before these people had probably landed on the earth . These sages invented zero and the decimle for the mathematics of this world . Your idea there is awakening of the cosciouness today is great .
This can bring back the spiritual and material balance . With the many organisations promoting this globally is visible clearly . The internet is also full of this . With the reemergence of the female power it is becoming easier also . Please think isn’t this also doctored that so many people research about them and openly write against the global elite and illuminati under their nose . This is what may be suiting them to create fear and guilt in the world . This gives them more superiority and power over others with free publicity
world wide to their advantage even if their agenda is much less or nil . This also gives you lot of power to control minds of your fans through the
author and reader relationship . Will the balance of spiritaulism and materialism work . Since the evolution good and evil have been existing together even during the best golden periods of Satyuga . I truly appreciate you again for bringing awareness and such a powerful piece of work full of information and knowledge . Best wishes for your ongoing work . www.currentnewsaffairs.com Tags - David Icke , Author , And the truth shall set you free , Book , World wide

Help India Now - Love India Now

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Dear All
 
 
 
I have signed the petition and am forwrding it to my contacts.
 
HELP INDIA NOW
……………………..
 
We all must support Indian economy, so please do your best and keep
 forwarding this request to all your contacts and ask them to keep forwarding.
Please forward it to your stock brokers and Bank’s Senior Executives and their
efforts could be very helpful re investments.
 
(1) As far as possible, buy ‘made in India’ only, even if it costs a bit more.
I buy Indian Basmati, although Pakistani Basmati is  cheaper.
 
It is very importantto buy Indian Textiles and Crafts NOW for personal use
and to give as gifts to friends, relations and Business contacts in India and
abroad, as these industries employ millions and due to fewer export orders
they need help URGENTLY.
 
(2) Under no circumstances buy anything from Pakistan or China.
China is likely to ‘dump’ hugely subsidies products in India, as its exports to
the US/EU etc are gowing down sharply. 
 
(3) All people of Indian origin should try to send more foreign exchange to India
NOW and Indian Businesses should covert foreign earnings in to RS. a.s.a.p.
 
      (a) Indian Banks are safaer than the US/UK/ EU Banks. Funds in foreign Currency     Deposit Accounts earn good interest and can be sent out of India any time, if required.
 
       (b) Subject to your personal circumstances, please selectively buy Indian Shares,
as they offer huge value at current prices. foreign Institutional Investors have sold Billions of Dollars worth shares in India as in other developing countries, mainly because their Head Offices were or are nearly bankrupt and they need cash at any costs. They  have used most of their investments and are unlikely to be able to depress the Indian stocks and shares from now on. So any positive news or lack of negetive news would support the Indian share prices with a chance of making significant capital
gains. The Indian Ruppee will also become stronger  which would means currency excahnge gain as well for NRIs.
 
If you do it now, I know you guys will thank me after one year. All you would owe me
is nice Lunch at Mumbai’s TAJ and I will be there.
 
Jai Hind.
 
With love and best wishes
 
Vipul
London. UK.

Microsoft Seeks Path Beyond the Gates Legacy

Friday, June 27th, 2008
Published: June 27, 2008
Bill Gates is retiring, sort of. He is still only 52, and he is going off to spend more time guiding the world’s richest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He will still be Microsoft’s chairman and largest shareholder, but Friday is his last day as a full-time worker at the software giant, marking the unofficial end of his career as a business leader. And what a career it has been. Mr. Gates has been an animating force behind the personal computer revolution, helping to build a huge global industry and engineer blockbuster products like Windows and Office, used every day in offices and homes around the world. The Harvard dropout was the wealthiest person on the planet for years — worth more than $100 billion in 1999 — though his fortune is now about half that because of the decline of Microsoft’s shares and his continued donations to his foundation, which is focused on global health and education. Despite his success, Mr. Gates is moving on as the company he co-founded in 1975 is struggling to find its way. The center of gravity in technology has shifted from PCs to the Internet, altering the old rules of competition that were so lucratively mastered by Microsoft. For millions of users, mobile devices like cellphones are beginning to edge out PCs as the tool of choice for many computing tasks. And Google, the front-runner in the current wave of Internet computing, has wrested the mantle of high-tech leadership from Microsoft. Although Mr. Gates will spend one day a week at the company, it will be up to his successors, led by Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive, to master the challenges of the Internet or watch Microsoft’s wealth and stature in the industry steadily erode. “Bill’s legacy is Windows and Office, and that will be a rich franchise for years to come, but it’s not the future,” said David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School. Still, the Gates legacy is impressive. In addition to the software itself, Mr. Gates and his company have fundamentally shaped how people think about competition in many industries where technology plays a central role. Today, there are more than one billion copies of the Windows operating system on PCs around the world. Industry experts and economists say that Windows is not necessarily the best or most admired software for running the basic operations of a personal computer — Apple’s Macintosh can claim the most devout fan club. But Mr. Gates grasped and deployed two related concepts on a scale no one ever had in the past: the power of network effects and the value of establishing a technology platform. Put simply, the network effect describes a phenomenon in which the value of a product goes up as more people use it. E-mail messaging and telephones are classic examples. A technology platform is a set of tools or services that others can use to build their own products or services. The more people who use the tools, the more popular the platform can become. Mr. Gates took advantage of both notions and combined them to build Microsoft’s dominance in PCs, spreading its influence with computer makers and software developers. Today, there are many thousands of software applications that run on the Windows platform, not just word processing and spreadsheets but also the specialized programs in doctors’ offices, factory floors and retail stores — a very broad network on a nearly ubiquitous technology platform. “Gates saw software as a separate market from hardware before anyone else, but his great insight was recognizing the power of the network effects surrounding the software,” said Michael A. Cusumano, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. That, Professor Cusumano added, was the essential difference in the paths of Microsoft and Apple, the early leader in personal computing. Apple, he said, focused on making outstanding products alone, while Microsoft nurtured a growing ecosystem of outside software developers who use, and are dependent on, Microsoft’s technology. The result, he added, is that, while Apple continues to make outstanding products, more than 90 percent of personal computers run Microsoft software. In the early years, it was unclear how much Mr. Gates was pursuing each opportunity as it came, as opposed to carrying out a grand strategy. He certainly had large ambitions. When he was a Harvard undergraduate, Mr. Gates lamented that so many of his fellow students pursued a “narrow track for success” instead of being willing to “take big risks to do big things,” recalled Michael Katz, a Harvard contemporary who is now a professor at New York University. In a Harvard Business School case study, published in 1994, Mr. Gates spoke of Microsoft’s strategy in terms of network effects and technology standards that, combined, enabled the company to command markets. “We look for businesses where we can garner large market shares, not just 30 or 35 percent,” he said. In the past, Microsoft has beaten back challenges and vanquished rivals, even when it came late to markets, as it did in the first wave of Internet technology. Mr. Gates’s shrewd 1995 decision to embrace Internet browsing technology and attack the early leader, Netscape Communications, started a pitched antitrust battle with the government. “But he extended Microsoft’s hegemony for a decade,” said Mitchell Kapor, a longtime rival. However, Microsoft is lagging badly in current round of Internet competition and, analysts say, is facing more formidable challengers this time — notably Google. Microsoft’s share of Internet search in the United States is less than 10 percent, while Google holds more than 60 percent and Yahoo has about 20 percent. And search is only part of the new platform on the Web, which includes social networks like Facebook and MySpace and Internet-based alternatives to traditional desktop software, including e-mail messaging, word processors and spreadsheets. Traditional desktop software — and the technology standards Microsoft controls there — matter far less when more software is accessed with a Web browser and delivered over the Internet from vast data centers run by Google and others. The new approach is known as “cloud computing,” and the business model behind it is typically to sell online advertising and software services. At Microsoft, there is scant sign of panic, despite its trailing position and its failed bid to buy Yahoo for $47.5 billion as a catch-up strategy. Microsoft sees an evolution in computing, not a disruptive revolution that will imperil the company, said Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer. Mr. Mundie said Microsoft is preparing for a widening world of both cloud computing and “client” machines, not only personal computers but also cellphones, cars, game consoles and televisions, all running Microsoft software. “The next big platform is the union of the clients and the cloud,” he said.

Kirsten signed two-year contract: BCCI

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Former South African opening batsman Gary Kirsten has signed a two-year contract with the Indian cricket board starting March 1, a top official confirmed in Bangalore on Sunday. “Yes, Kirsten has signed a two-year contract with the board and he will formally take charge from March 1, 2008,” Ratnakar Shetty, chief administrative officer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said. Kirsten, who arrived here Friday to interact with the board officials and observe what the players do in the ongoing third Test against Pakistan, signed the contract before he left South Africa for India. “We sent the contract through courier and he signed and returned it by courier. But he confirmed this through fax too,” said Shetty. The 40-year-old Kirsten, who would replace Australian Greg Chappell as the permanent coach, would spend some time with the team when India tours Australia starting from Dec 20. “There is a 10-day gap between the second and third Tests against Australia. He will spend time with the team during this period before taking over formally on March 1,” he said. Kirsten, who played 101 Tests and 185 One-Day Internationals before retiring in 2004, is staying in the team hotel. “I am part of the set-up, so I have to see how it (system) works,” he said after arriving here Friday. “I will get to know the players and observe what they do.” Kirsten watched the match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday and Sunday. “He would leave India Sunday night. Kirsten, who had not even applied for the post, was surprisingly called to New Delhi and interviewed recently by the BCCI coach selection committee led by board president Sharad Pawar. Around 20 people, including interim manager Lalchand Rajput, had applied for the post that has been vacant since March when Chappell decided against renewing his contract after a two-year tumultuous tenure. It was during Chappell’s tenure that India suffered a humiliating first-round exit from the World Cup in the West Indies. Former India players Ravi Shastri, Chandu Borde and Rajput have been temporary managers of the team on tours of Bangladesh, England, South Africa and the home series against Australia and Pakistan in the absence of a permanent coach.  source: google news  http://blogs.mindbodynsoul.com http://www.currentnewsaffairs.com

BILL GATE RECRUITS A CHAIRMAN-Humour

Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Bill Gates: Thank you for coming. Those who do not know JAVA may leave. 2000 people leave the room. Kantibhai says to himself, ‘I do not know JAVA but I have nothing to lose if I stay. I’ll give it a try’ Bill Gates: Candidates who never had experience of managing more than 100 people may leave. 2000 people leave the room. Kantibhai says to himself ‘ I never managed anybody by myself but I have nothing to lose if I stay.
What can happen to me?’ So he stays. Bill Gates: Candidates who do not have management diplomas may leave. 500 people leave the room. Kantibhai says to himself, ‘I left school at 15 but what have I got to lose?’ So he stays in the room. Lastly, Bill Gates asked the candidates who do not speak Serbo - Croat to
leave. 498 people leave the room. Kantibhai says to himself, ‘ I do not speak one word of Serbo - Croat but what do I have to lose?’
So he stays and finds himself with one other candidate.
Everyone else has gone. Bill Gates joined them and said ‘Apparently you are the only two candidates who speak Serbo - Croat, so I’d now like to hear you have a conversation together in that language.’ Calmly, Kantibhai turns to the other candidate and says `kem chho’ The other candidate answers ‘ek dam majama’


Apple launches iPhone in Uk

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
The company hopes its new mobile phone will be as revolutionary as the iPod music player. At last - Britain’s Apple fans can now switch from feverishly waiting for the iPhone, to moaning about how expensive it is and how it gets scratched in their pockets. The Apple boss Steve Jobs visited the company’s flagship store on Regent Street to announce the coming of the iPhone’s UK incarnation. Launching on November 9, it will cost £269 from 02, with a minimum 18 month contract priced at anything between £35, £45 or £55 - bringing the minimum spending commitment to just under £900. The phone has all the features people were expecting, including the Safari web browser, Google Maps, YouTube and a camera. One feature was missing, though - would-be mobile internet surfers were disappointed by the news that the phone won’t come with the super-fast 3G internet connection. Instead, they will have to make do with slower internet connections using a different technology, EDGE. ‘There are a few upset girlfriends out there’
Steve Jobs, AppleSteve Jobs explained that the 3G technology is not yet good enough for the iPhone’s batteries. “You make a big tradeoff to go to 3G and that is bad battery life.” The deal with 02 was as expected. 02 boss Matthew Key said “This is probably one of the worse kept secrets that we’ve had.” However, neither he nor Jobs would comment on reports that 02 had to give Apple punitive terms to secure the iPhone deal. Key also declined to answer whether O2 was aware that Apple was preparing the very similar iPod Touch product while negotiating the iPhone deal with 02. But Jobs denied that the iPod Touch would harm iPhone sales. “You can see it as training wheels for the iPhone,” Jobs said. Jobs jokily admitted that Apple has irritated the UK’s other mobile phone networks with the way it handled negotiations for the coveted right to sell the iPhone. “We dated a few people that we didn’t get married to,” he said. “There are a few upset girlfriends out there.” Apple also annoyed early US customers by slashing the price of the product by a third shortly after launch. But he could not offer reassurances to UK customers that they would not do the same. “I wish we could [cut prices by a third] but we would be a total philanthropy.” “There are never any guarantees in technology. But if you wait to buy anything looking over the horizon in tech you will never buy anything.” Apple expects to sell 10m iPhones worldwide in 2008 - around 1 per cent of the total market. source : google news http://blogs.mindbodynsoul.com http://www.mindbodynsoul.com

MICROSOFT UNVEILS NEW SURFACE COMPUTER

Friday, June 1st, 2007
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off “Surface,” a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.
The machines, which Microsoft planned to debut Wednesday at a technology conference in Carlsbad, Calif., are set to arrive in November in T-Mobile USA stores and properties owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a shiny black table base, topped with a 30-inch touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame. Five cameras that can sense nearby objects are mounted beneath the screen. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by setting real-world items tagged with special bar-code labels on top of it. Unlike most touchscreens, Surface can respond to more than one touch at a time. During a demonstration with a reporter last week, Mark Bolger, the Surface Computing group’s marketing director, “dipped” his finger in an on-screen paint palette, then dragged it across the screen to draw a smiley face. Then he used all 10 fingers at once to give the face a full head of hair. With a price tag between $5,000 and $10,000 per unit, Microsoft isn’t immediately aiming for the finger painting set. (The company said it expects prices to drop enough to make consumer versions feasible in three to five years.) Some of the first Surface models are planned to help customers pick out new cell phones at T-Mobile stores. When customers plop a phone down on the screen, Surface will read its bar code and display information about the handset. Customers can also select calling plans and ringtones by dragging icons toward the phone. Guests sitting in some Starwood Hotel lobbies will be able to cluster around the Surface to play music, then buy songs using a credit card or rewards card tagged with a bar code. In some hotel restaurants, customers will be able to order food and drinks, then split the bill by setting down a card or a room key and dragging their menu items “onto” the card. At Harrah’s locations, visitors will be able to learn about nearby Harrah’s venues on an interactive map, then book show tickets or make dinner reservations. Microsoft is working on a limited number of programs to ship with Surface, including one for sharing digital photographs. Bolger placed a card with a bar code onto Surface’s surface; digital photographs appeared to spill out of the card into piles on the screen. Several people gathered around the table pulled photos across the screen using their fingertips, rotated them in circles and even dragged out the corners to enlarge the images — behavior made possible by the advanced graphics support deep inside Windows Vista. “It’s not a touch screen, it’s a grab screen,” Bolger said. Historically, Microsoft has focused on creating new software, giving computer programmers tools to build applications on its platforms, and left hardware manufacturing to others. (Some recent exceptions include the        Xbox 360 and the Zune music player, made by the same Microsoft division that developed Surface.) For now, Microsoft is making the Surface hardware itself, and has only given six outside software development firms the tools they need to make Surface applications. Matt Rosoff, an analyst at the independent research group Directions on Microsoft, said in an interview that keeping the technology’s inner workings under wraps will limit what early customers — the businesses Microsoft is targeting first with the machine — will be able to do with it. But overall, analysts who cover the PC industry were wowed by Surface. Surface is “important for Microsoft as a promising new business, as well as demonstrating very concretely to the market that Microsoft still knows how to innovate, and innovate in a big way,” said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Jupiter Research. source : associated press http://blogs.mindbodynsoul.com http://www.mindbodynsoul.com

A prosecution-defence nexus in BMW case?

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
NDTV telecast a ’sting’ operation on Wednesday night purporting to show a collusion between the prosecution and the defence in the high-profile BMW hit-and-run case in which Sanjeev Nanda, grandson of a former Navy chief, is accused of running over and killing six persons while driving a BMW car nearly eight years ago. The channel showed with the help of a hidden camera R K Anand, one of the leading criminal lawyers in the country and the counsel for Nanda in the case, talking to a prosecution witness Sunil Kulkarni about the case. Kulkarni discusses money transaction with Anand who told the channel that the witness was a blackmailer and that he had laughed at his demand for money when he suddenly approached him at the Delhi airport. Anand said everything is fabricated. The channel claimed that Kulkarni had met the defence lawyer a second time but Anand denied that. According to the expose, public prosecutor I U Khan asked Kulkarni if he had met ‘bade sahib’. Kulkarni told the channel that the reference was to Anand. NDTV said that they had been approached by Kulkarni after watching the channel’s expose on the BMW case. He claimed he was under great pressure from the defence and the prosecution to change his original statement and he offered to prove this on hidden camera. But just before the testimony began, he withdrew his initial consent, the television channel said. Anand said that he had told the Delhi High Court that Kulkarni should not be examined because he is a blackmailer and “he has been blackmailing us for so many years”. source : PTI. http://blogs.mindbodynsoul.com http://www.mindbodynsoul.com