Bill says good-bye!

Bill Gates bid adieu to Microsoft on June 27 as a full-time employee. He is moving on to devote time to his philanthropic causes through Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The company he founded and steered to the top slot in the IT industry will surely miss him. No matter how many rumors, bad words g o around about Bill and Microsoft, everyone of one us must acknowledge the fact that it was Microsoft in first place which led the computer revolution and helped in bringing the PC to every home. I am no big fan of Microsoft, when it comes to practice but then I do acknowledge the efforts and innovations.
The Microsoft website is featuring Bill's farewell on their homepage. And check here for more on Bill. And here is the article from Reuters

GMAT cheat sheet?

I came across an article on BusinessWeek which covers the story around a recent court order on closure of a website which apparently provided prospective GMAT takers live questions before their exams.
GMAC sued the owner of the now defunct website, scoretop.com A Virginia court has granted GMAC, a $2.3 mn judgment against the operator of the site, Lei Shi, who is now absconding and reported to be back in China.

GMAC currently has the hard drive used by the website in its possession and has sent out a message that students who used the $30 service on the website for getting live questions, will be revoked of their scores and will be barred from taking the exam again. GMAC has gone to the extent that they have hinted that the name of such students will be even sent out to the business schools so that they can act upon them. Obviously a great discussion has started around this issue and a lot of students who may have used the service knowingly or unknowingly are facing the axe!

To read the whole story go here. There is an interesting discussion going on the same website, where some freaks have gone to an extent saying that all Asians are cheats and have raised questions over intelligence of Asian students. Apart from such sick comments, there are people who have raised good questions over this whole issue. Do go through the comments.

Boston Again

Last Saturday, I went to Boston. This was my second trip to the city I loved most in US till now. I don't know the exact reason but somehow I feel this is the best city to be in on the east coast. One thing that attributed this liking was the fact that there were so many young people in the city, thanks to MIT, Harvard, Boston College. The student community is so strong and vibrant up there. Especially when you go in Cambridge and start strolling around the place, you will see youngsters all around there.
This time I went around Harvard and felt so great about the whole neighborhood. Not only, inside the campus boundaries but all around the campus students were there. It felt great and I was having a constant urge to join some university here and start my higher studies right away. I had the same feeling when I was inside MIT. Man, I can't tell you how much I wanted to be inside some lecture room, hearing some professor and finishing assignments and being awake all night, chatting with room mate and friends. Damn, I miss so much the good old college days.
Apart from this, I also happened to see the ongoing shooting of a Bruce Willis action flick scheduled to release sometime next year. The movie is "The Surrogates" . The shooting was going on in the Financial District and I saw the whole set. When the movie comes, I am gonna see it and try to figure out the scene which must have been getting shot down there :)

Hold your breath....here comes the Killer

The countdown begins again. After speculating hell lot about the latest iPhone and what's gonna be the price and all, Apple finally disclosed the sturdy, feature packed and smart iPhone on Monday this week.
The way iPhone knocked the cellphone market when it was launched last year is gonna happen again. Other devices in the market will be killed again. This time this whole thing is gonna be more grand with more people queuing up Apple Stores on July 11.
Much more is being written and spoken about this beautiful device this time, reasons are many. Apple has slashed the price by almost 200 USD and iPhone now starts at remarkable $199. At this price, gadget lovers who were reluctant last time due to high-price will not like to miss this chance to own one. Apart from price, iPhone now has an embedded fully functional GPS device. That's a feature many will be looking ahead for. And then, there's 3G to make sure that the internet surfing capabilities are utilized efficiently. The phone still has two-year contract with AT&T in USA.
What I loved about this whole thing, Apple had cut production of the earlier version of iPhone a long ago to make sure that all pieces of iPhone v1 are consumed completely from the market.
After the price was disclosed, people are talking everywhere about iPhone. Even in my office, we talk about this near coffee machine :)
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Juno

I saw this movie back in India and I really loved this simple n sweet movie. A simple storyline but presented in a beautiful way which won many hearts. The soundtrack for the move was also so well done. You will love all the songs for sure.
Here's "All I want is you" from Juno:



And after that, watch this for some really cool lines from the movie :)

4 minutes

One of the latest hits on charts now a days here is 4 minutes by Madonna ft Justin Timberlake. I had listened this song many times and liked it too. However, I didn't saw the video for this one. Today when I was browsing YouTube for another song from Justin, I came across the vid for 4 minutes. Actually not the vid, but the Video on Trial episode for this vid. Man, the way they busted this very video made me laugh.

You'll love the way they have made fun of this :D