by Daniel Duende Orkut, Google’s experiment onSocial Networking Services, is extremely popular in Brazil. More than 53% of Orkut users is Brazilian — even more, if you take into account Brazilian’s profiles that don’t show their country information and profiles by Brazilians living abroad — and more than 70% percent of Brazil’s Internet users are actually profiled and […]
Business Marketing Tips: Understanding the Key Differences between Goods and Services as Products
A product may be a physical "good" or a "service" or a blend of both. You need to understand this view very thoroughly. It’s easy to slip into a limited, physical-product point of view. We want to think of a product in terms of the needs it satisfies. If a firm’s objective is to satisfy […]
Rape and Murder of Two Years Old Girl: Kerala High Court Upholds Death Sentence for Sebastian
The Kerala High Court today upheld the death sentence of Sebastian, awarded by additional district judge in connection with the rape and murder of a two-year-old girl at Fishermen’s colony in Pozhiyoor in August, 2005. The case against Sebastian alias `Cheviathan’, is that he had kidnapped the child, Saranya, from her mother’s side by […]
The Gathering:A DISTURBING AND DIFFICULT GATHERING OF EMOTIONS AND MEMORIES
The blurb says that The Gathering is a family epic. However to call the Gathering a family epic would be erroneous. It is about memories between a brother and a sister, but more importantly it is about memories and fears. Veronica is eight years old when she witnesses abuse of her brother Liam at the […]
Island community seeks alternative power sources
In my mother’s hometown, a tropical island surrounded by crystal-clear blue waters, delivery of the basic services to the people is not much a necessity. And most of the local folks are used to it. Except for one: Electricity. For many decades, the coastal towns that ringed the island didn’t have much choice but to […]
A nervous breakdown
Very early in the morning it was when my elder daughter roused me from deep sleep and it took me some time to figure out why she was so agitated. I was still feeling a little groggy when she repeated the news. It was something that you feared was true but you still did not […]
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