OOB == Out Of Box

Wanna stand out of crowd? Wanna be leader (in any field)? have any idea/ thought, which can grab the attention of people? Then make sure you are there in OOB conference, 2007.

oob stands for ‘Out Of Box’, and defines the new age entrepreneurs, thinkers, idea-creators and achievers. oob, is an experience! An experience which will keep you inspired; will get you thinking; and will push you to action-mode.

Today morning, i got an e-mail from the Project Director, OOB Conference. Instead of writing what he said, i prefer to paste his e-mail here. please update yourself with these changes:

"Thank you for blogging about oob™ Conference 2007. You would be happy to know that International Speakers are willing to come on board and speak at the conference. Keeping this in mind, we have postponed the Conference to the 14th and 15th of Sep (Friday - Saturday) this year. The conference will be held at the J N Tata Auditorium, IISc Campus. I would request you to make the appropriate changes to your blog page. Thanks again.

Regards,
MC PreethamProject Director - oob™ Conference
E-Mail: preetham@oobconference.com
Web: http://www.oobconference.com/"

(Inputs drawn from: http://www.oobconference.com)

Microsoft Surface: Behind-the-Scenes

The software giant announced today at the D5 conference that it’s built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on.



CLICK HERE TO READ MORE, INCLUDING HOW SURFACE WORKS...

PLUS: CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO GLENN DERENE TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF SURFACE ON THE POPULAR MECHANICS SHOW PODCAST...

(Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com)

Play Soccer with fingers

Miranda- DON

Good but funny Video..:-)

YAHOO! & MSN (MICROSOFT) have joined forces.

Many third party IM applications are available which will club all your yahoo & msn messenger contacts in one. But now Yahoo & MSN have come together. Now you can use yahoo messenger for chatting with your contacts in yahoo & msn IMs.
PS: You must have new yahoo messenger with voice (Beta)

Here is what yahoo! says:

It's a great day for the world of instant messaging. Working hand-in-hand with our friends at Windows Live™ (MSN), we've connected our IM communities, making it even easier for you to stay in touch.

From the new Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, you can see when your Windows Live™ (MSN) Messenger contacts are online and send them instant messages. Keep all your friends in one place and IM with them anytime, right from Yahoo! Messenger. How cool is that?

To start sharing instant messages with your Windows Live™ (MSN) Messenger contacts, please sign out of Yahoo! Messenger and sign back in.

Then just click the Add a Contact button on your main Yahoo! Messenger window to start inviting your Windows Live Messenger friends to join the fun.

Once you click on add new friend you can see a messege popping out of drop box alerting you about new feature introduced by yahoo! Once you invite your friend who is using msn messenger, your friend will get an alert [See picture below :) ]

One more series of bomb blasts in Mumbai-India

(Picture courtesy: today.reuters.com/news)
A series of 7 bomb explosions rocked Mumbai this evening around 6:00 PM (local time). All seven explosion took place in a span of 30 minutes across seven locations in western Mumbai. The blast took place during the peak hour, when many working people start going back to their homes.
Till now official claim is that around 145 people have been killed and 250 people are injured. But in reality the actual numbers always outnumber the official figures. Looking at the timing of the blast, location of the blast, I suspect around 250-300 people might have been killed.


Related stories on Mumbai blast:
Serial blasts halt Mumbai's Western Railway
90 killed in Mumbai blasts
Serial blasts rock Mumbai(Pictures)
Bombs hit trains in Mumbai, at least 135 dead

Some more related links(07/12/2006):
Eight explosions hit train network
World leaders condemn Mumbai explosions
Mumbai's spirit shines through
Picture courtesy: Times of India - Mumbaites helping each other in the hour of crises
(This picture really touch my heart. Look at the old woman's spirit. Hats off to her.)
Terrorists will be defeated: PM to countrymen

National Geographic:Stone Age Elephant Found at Ancient U.K. Hunt Site

James Owen reports in National Geographic News that there is an evidence of human life UK during stone age. Here is an excerpt drawn from National Geographic site :

The 400,000-year-old remains of a massive elephant discovered near
London provide the first evidence that Stone Age humans in Britain hunted
and ate the ancient animals, scientists say.

PICTURE:Workers excavate the tusks of a prehistoric elephant found in 2004 near London, England. Researchers were able to date the site to approximately 400,000 years ago, using the teeth of voles (inset)—small rodents resembling rats—that were found near the elephant's remains.The discovery is the first evidence found in Britain of early humans having hunted and eaten ancient elephants. Photographs courtesy: Francis Wenban-Smith

The early humans butchered the elephant at the kill site and ate the meat raw, the archaeologists add. The male straight-tusked elephant—a member of the extinct species Palaeoloxodon antiquus—weighed about 9 tons (9.1 metric tons), twice as large as elephants living today.
Workers unearthed the remains in 2004 in the town of Ebbsfleet, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) east of London (see map of the United Kingdom), during construction of a new railway line to the Channel Tunnel.
The elephant was found on the edge of an ancient lake along with stone tools that archaeologists say were used to cut up its flesh.
The mammal was probably killed by a group of hunter-gatherers armed with wooden spears, the study team adds.
Read more details on National Geographic site .

(Excerpts are drwan from: news.nationalgeographic.com)