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Here is a  post by the Big B, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, in his blog on “A more comprehensive take on the Sachin – Bradman debate ”

In this article, he made many genuine points on our perception in general

Jalsa , Mumbai Dec 20 , 2010 Mon 11 : 40 PM

The entire day has been spent in trying to attend to millions of sms on the mobile asking me to join in at a discussion cum debate on the television, for the reaction to Sachin and his 50 test hundreds ! And I have deliberately and I feel judiciously remained away from it and not responded.

There are as always, many reasons for this. Firstly, I am amused by the thought that every time there is a topic that comes up in which the media shows interest, they seek reactions from us common folk. And I have often wondered, why would they believe that we in the film industry would ever be in possession of such wisdom, which would give inputs of any value. We are the 'film industry' as we all know ! We are 'filmy' - an almost derogatory terminology used by the media often - and therefore less possessed of any semblance of what is right, what is fashionable, what is politically correct, what ails society, what compromises our morals, and a host of other similar issues that plague our systems. So why come to us ?

And secondly, why must there be a debate or even a discussion on whether Sachin is greater than Don Bradman or not ? Sachin is greater, period ! By bringing the topic up for debate you are somewhere unsure whether he really is deserving of being great or not ! And this is objectionable to me. How much more does one have to do to prove one's credentials. And who are the media to concur who is great or not ? We know he is. Matter over. Do not, I plead bring down the stature of this great son of the land by continuously comparing him to others. Let others compare themselves to him. Why do we always play it the other way around ? Why are we so complexed ! Why do we always want to describe our achievement or subject with a comparison from the West. Alright, the West is far developed than us, is richer materially, advanced and secure. So how does this give us the need to comment that they are superior. Or that the best comes from there and not here.

Yes, thousands of years of slavery under foreign invaders and rulers, has made us submissive and servile. But being servile does in no manner display the fact that there are some regions where we have excelled too. And in such a short time span. Ridding ourselves of dependence and coming out in this hugely competitive world through great individual enterprise, indigenous and unique.

Under these circumstances, under a suppressed environment, under the constant shadow of being made to feel inferior, when we do excel, do not compare us with others. It diminishes our own most deserving value and strength and status.

I do not for a moment wish to demean the accomplishments of others. They are hugely impressive and of immense value. They are great, but we are greater ! At least in this most pertinent yardstick set by our own Sachin Tendulkar. And I have this to add. Had this achievement come from one in the United Kingdom or the US of A, you would have seen how fantastically proud and poised they would have been towards their hero. Their love appreciation and acknowledgement towards their fellow countryman would never have permitted the mention even of anyone from another state or region. This I shall hand to them. When it comes to propagating their own cause they are far far superior than us.

We are, I believe in a state of deep complex. We think so little of ourselves that we allow and permit other lesser achievers to make us look small and worthless. We are not ! Its just that we have no concept of how we need to market ourselves. How to take pride in ourselves and in what we achieve.

'When will you be working in a Hollywood film, Mr Bachchan ?' , is often asked of us. 'We want to see you win an Oscar' .. or 'when will this film go to the Oscars ?' See we have already accepted defeat. We have concluded beyond any argument that the Oscars and Hollywood are superior than us. That that is a title that marks the highest honor. I have no qualms in accepting that Hollywood is far advanced, but that does not still make it the final destination. Why should it. Take pride in our own system. Why ... oh this is the Tom Cruise of the Hindi Film Industry, or so and so is the Brad Pitt of ... when we go to introduce a subject or issue or character. Why can it not be that Tom Cruise is the Shah Rukh Khan, or Brad is the Salman of ... !!!

When we shall take pride in our own heroes without any comparison to others, we will find others complimenting our sentiments, looking up to us, and putting us on that pedestal where we belong.

I visit the UK often and I observe that every time there is a British defeat or an unsuccessful venture, they will always put up for public broadcast a previous achievement of the country, almost immediately. It shows the character of a nation. On our 'Face the Nations' and 'We the people' all we do is take immense pleasure in tearing down and making our own system look false and down.

Unless we learn to acknowledge our own achievements how on earth can we expect others to.

So stop this debate on whether Sachin is superior or not ! He is ! And the entire world needs to honor it !

Love good night and may you have a pleasant sleep !!

Amitabh Bachchan

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Two Stories

Excellence!

A German once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?" "No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage." The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work. "Where are you going to install the idol?" 

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. "If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked. The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it." 
The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. 


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"A plum once said, just because a banana lover came by, I converted myself into a banana. Unfortunately,his taste changed after a few months and so I became an orange. When he said I was bitter I became an apple, but he went in search of grapes.
Yielding to the opinions of so many people, I have changed so many times that I no more know
who I am. How I wish I had remained a plum and waited for a plum lover.

Just because a group of people do not accept you as you are, there is no necessity for you to strip yourself of your originality. You need to think good of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
Never stop down in order to gain recognition. Never let go of your true self to win a relationship. In the long run, you will regret that you traded your greatest glory - your uniqueness, for momentary validation.

'In the history of the universe, there has been nobody like you and to the infinite of time to come, there will be no one like you.... Existence should have loved you so much that it broke the mould after making you, so that another of your kind will never get repeated.
You are original. You are rare. You are unique. You are a wonder. You are a masterpiece... your Master's piece. Celebrate your Uniqueness." n so.....

"I AM WHAT I AM "


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NASA Finds New Life

NASA has discovered a new life form, a bacteria called GFAJ-1 that is unlike anythingcurrently living in planet Earth. It's capable of using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes. This changes everything. Updated.

NASA is saying that this is "life as we do not know it". The reason is that all life on Earth is made of six components: Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.

That was true until today. In a surprising revelation, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe-Simon and her team have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today, working differently than the rest of the organisms in the planet. Instead of using phosphorus, the newly discovered microorganism—called GFAJ-1 and found in Mono Lake, California—uses the poisonous arsenic for its building blocks. Arsenic is an element poisonous to every other living creature in the planet except for a few specialized microscopic creatures.

The new life forms up close, at five micrometers.

According to Wolfe-Simon, they knew that "some microbes can breathe arsenic, but what we've found is a microbe doing something new—building parts of itself out of arsenic." The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding organisms in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth. Like NASA's Ed Weiler says: "The definition of life has just expanded."

Talking at the NASA conference, Wolfe-Simon said that the important thing in their study is that this breaks our ideas on how life can be created and grow, pointing out that scientists will now be looking for new types of organisms and metabolism that not only uses arsenic, but other elements as well. She says that she's working on a few possibilities herself.

NASA's geobiologist Pamela Conrad thinks that the discovery is huge and "phenomenal," comparing it to the Star Trek episode in which the Enterprise crew finds Horta, a silicon-based alien life form that can't be detected with tricorders because it wasn't carbon-based. It's like saying that we may be looking for new life in the wrong places with the wrong methods. Indeed, NASA tweeted that this discovery "will change how we search for life elsewhere in the Universe."

Mono Lake, in Central California. Image Credit: NASA

I don't know about you but I've not been so excited about bacteria since my STD tests came back clean. And that's without counting yesterday's announcement on the discovery of a massive number of red dwarf stars, which may harbor a trillion Earths, dramatically increasing our chances of finding extraterrestrial life.

Send an email to Jesus Diaz, the author of this post, at jesus@gizmodo.com.

My first BALAYYA post

Here we go..

BREAKING NEWS:

ISRO DOES NOT EXISTS ANYMORE.....!!

BALAYYA  PURCHASED ALL THE ROCKETS FOR DIWALI

CELEBRATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THINK WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF BALAYYA  WOULD HAVE BORN 150 YEARS AGO..?????

 BRITISH WOULD HAVE FOUGHT FOR INDEPENDANCE....

THE PYRAMIDS IN EGYPT ARE ACTUALLY.................................

..........BALAYYA S PRIMARY SCHOOL CRAFT PROJECTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEFINITION OF SOLAR ECLIPSE:

WHEN BALAYYA  STARES AT SUN WITH ANGER, SUN HIDES BEHIND THE MOON.

THIS GREATEST PHENOMENA IS CALLED SOLAR ECLIPSE.........!!!!!

AN EMAIL WAS SENT FROM VIZAG TO HYDERABAD

BALAYYA  STOPPED IT AT VIJAYAWADA....

RECENTLY CHINA AIRPORTS WERE CLOSED DUE TO HEAVY FOG

........ LATER IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT BALAYYA  WAS SMOKING IN INDIA!!!!!!!!!!

BALAYYA  DID HIS LKG FROM SEVEN DIFFERENT PLACES..TODAY THOSE PLACES ARE KNOWN AS IITs!!!!!!

BALAYYA  WOKE UP ONE DAY AND DECIDED HE SHOULD SHARE ATLEAST ONE PERCENT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE WITH THE WORLD......

THUS....................... THE GOOGLE WAS BORN!!!!

        

BEST BALAYYA  JOKE!!!!!!

EVEN GHAJINI REMEMBERS BALAYYA !!!!

WHY DO EARTHQUAKE OCCURS?????

BECAUSE AT THAT TIME BALAYYA 'S MOBILE IS ON VIBRATION MODE!!!!!!!!!

ONCE BALAYYA  BUNKED A WHOLE DAY IN SCHOOL.....!

SINCE THEN THAT DAY IS KNOWN AS

................

..............

SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      

WHY DID BALAYYA  BUY AN ACRE OF LAND WTH 4 WELLS ON EACH CORNER?????

....................... TO PLAY CARROM!!!!!!

BEFORE TOM CRUISE, BALAYYA  WAS APPROACHED FOR THE MOVIE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, BUT BALAYYA  REFUSED AS HE FOUND THE TITLE INSULTING...

Balayya's  next project. Titanic in Telugu . Climax revised. Both survive. Balayya swims across the Atlantic Ocean with heroine in one hand and…. Titanic in the other.

THE SARDARJIS ASSOCIATION  HAS DECIDED TO DONATE ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS TO BALAYYA  AS A TOKEN OF THANKS FOR SHIFTING PEOPLES FOCUS AWAY FROM THEM!!!!!

Do You Really Need a 4G Phone Right Now?

4G is here! More Gs means more faster, right? And who doesn't want their phone to be faster? Except—maybe you don't need 4G today.

What are you gonna do with all those Gs?

Today's 4G networks (leaving the semantic niggles of 4G aside) offer real-world downstream speeds that range from 3-6Mbps on Sprint's WiMax, 3-6Mbps on T-Mobile's HSPA+ network, and Verizon's promised 5-12Mbps. That's roughly 2x-6x faster than the 3G speeds we were seeing a year ago; it's closer to DSL-level speeds in lots of cities across the US.

When I peer over people's shoulders to see what they're looking on their smartphone (I'm very nosy) half the time they're looking at Facebook. This is what a typical procession of usage looks like to me: Facebook; email; Twitter; web browser; Twitter (again); maps.

Is 4G going to make that stuff—the majority of what people do on their smartphones—thatmuch faster?

Consider how fast your phone feels on Wi-Fi, which is the kind of experience 4G is promising, compared to how it runs out in the open. The comparatively skimpy CPUs in tablets and phones are as much the bottleneck behind web pages taking longer to load on a phone than they do on your laptop. In the end, with 4G, you're talking about shaving seconds, not radically redefining the experience of posting on somebody's wall.

The applications that'll really tap 4G powers on phones and tablets are still in their infancy. (Aside from downloading apps.) The most obvious application right now is video, because apps have historically been designed to minimize how much bandwidth you're eating on a mobile device, rather than treat it as freely as it would on your home network. There aren't very many killer high-bandwidth, non-video applications in the pipeline. Audio streaming could sound better, perhaps. So could voice calls, except 4G networks are data-only for now. Torrenting won't fly. The problem with online gaming is latency—and these networks still have a fair amount of it. Multi-megapixel image uploads to Flickr will be faster, though.

So there's video streaming! Netflix, arguably the premiere video streaming service now, is only on a handful of phones. Video chat: Still a messy minefield. Video uploads to services like YouTube. It's good 4G networks are rolling out now, to get developers thinking abouthow they'll use these 4G networks. But unless you're an aggro-nerd—tethering, watching tons of video over the air and doing who knows what else—you're probably safe waiting out jumping on the 4G bandwagon for another generation of more powerful phones and the really amazing apps that'll come with them, tapping higher power CPUs and that fat, over-the-air pipe.

On the flip side, given that carriers are increasingly moving to payment models where you pay for every byte that you use—Verizon's got a 5GB cap for its LTE network, just as stingy as its 3G data cap—maybe all of those high bandwidth applications still won't look all that attractive. The 2GB and 5GB caps from AT&T and Verizon seem roomy enough now, but what about in a year or two?

Holy coverage, Batman

The thing about new networks is that they take time to roll out. So, coverage is limited or spotty, no matter whose 4G network you're on. Verizon's rolling LTE out to just 38 markets this year. Sprint's is available in just 68 markets—New York just got it, and SF won't see it until Dec. 28. T-Mobile covers 75 cities with its HSPA+ network. And even inside of "covered" cities, coverage is rarely a snuggly blanket of smooth coverage, in our experience, at least compared to established 3G networks. When are you gonna get 4G in your town?

It's a battery killer

Know what happens when you flip the 4G switch on an Evo to start sucking in lots of data? Your battery rapidly sputters to death, like a man swallowing too many McRibs at once. [Delicious citation needed. –Ed.] And that's going to an issue in general: The faster your phone is pulling in data with these modems, the faster your battery's going to die. Of course, if you've ever flipped your phone from 3G to EDGE to save battery life, you already knew that.

So, in the end, 4G sounds shiny and awesome and fast, but it's worth a gut check before you buy a phone just 'cause it has 4G tacked on the end of it: Do you really need all those Gs?

You probably don't.

Send an email to matt buchanan, the author of this post, at matt@gizmodo.com.

Better, Faster, Customizable: Who Will Win the Browser Battle?

In the world of web browsers, it's beginning to look a lot like the 1990s. Back then, the Internet was just starting to become an integral part of daily life and Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer vied for dominance in helping users surf the web. By the end of the decade, Microsoft emerged the winner and Netscape faded into dotcom history.

This time around, the browser battle includes an increasing number of competitors, most notably Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome. But players such as Apple's Safari and newcomers like RockMelt, a start-up that promises to integrate web browsing with social networking, are banking on innovative features to stand out in a sector where users are reluctant to change -- or are unaware of myriad options beyond their browser of choice.

What's behind the browser renaissance? Wharton experts attribute the new interest in part to cloud computing, which allows data to be hosted on remote servers and run on demand over the Internet; and mobile computing, which has put Internet-connected devices into everyone's hands. Meanwhile, some popular browser engines -- the component of the application that turns the underlying HTML code and formatting instructions into the final web pages that users see on their computer screens -- are now open source, meaning that anyone is free to use, change or enhance the software. For example, RockMelt -- which began offering beta access on November 8 -- uses the underpinnings of Chrome and integrates services such as Facebook and Twitter. A number of other browsers are based on Webkit, an open source project originally spearheaded by Apple. According to Kendall Whitehouse, director of new media at Wharton, open source has dramatically lowered the development costs involved with building a browser and "makes it much easier for a company to focus its development efforts on value-added services. [RockMelt] is a good example of open source components making innovation possible."

As a result of these open source browser components, newcomers can enter the market without building technology from the ground up. Instead, players like RockMelt can focus on new features in search of the perfect browser. "The ideal browser to me will be customizable, learn about my preferences over time, allow me to easily turn on and off social services and segment 'friends' for use in those services, and share my browsing history across multiple devices," says Shawndra Hill, an operations and information management professor at Wharton. "The browser will most importantly help me to find the pages I am looking for on the web efficiently and effectively."

Browsing Goes Social

When Google launched Chrome in September 2008, it spurred a new wave of development of faster, more lightweight browsers. According to RockMelt CEO Eric Vishria, browsers are undergoing another innovation spurt -- in his company's case, one that is tied to creating an experience that mirrors the way people use the web today. "We want to bring the notion of sharing, identity and having your friends built into the browser," he says.

In addition to faster search capabilities, RockMelt has a sharing function built into the browser. Once users give RockMelt access to their Facebook accounts, the browser allows them to see which friends are online and provides one-click access for updating Facebook, Twitter and other sites without navigating away from the web page they are on. The data is stored in the cloud, so it can be accessed anywhere on any computer.

RockMelt's approach has already attracted the interest of a few veterans of the earlier browser wars of the 1990s. The start-up has received roughly $10 million in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm run by Marc Andreessen and partner Ben Horowitz. Andreessen was co-founder of Netscape, which first popularized the web browser in the mid-1990s.

"The browser got ignored too long in the late 1990s and early 2000s after [Microsoft's Internet Explorer] crushed Netscape. No one else was willing to take on Microsoft until Google decided to dedicate resources towards the browser [first, indirectly through Firefox and later through Chrome]," notes Kartik Hosanagar, an operations and information management professor at Wharton. "The success of Firefox and then Chrome has showed that there was ample room to innovate."

Indeed, scarcely a week goes by without something new in web browsers. Mozilla has Firefox 4 on tap for 2011 and promises speed enhancements in the new release. In addition, Mozilla is experimenting with social networking features to make sharing web pages easier. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is embracing HTML5, the next generation of web's page description language. Apple's Safari and Opera, the browser created by the independent Norwegian company of the same name, have become dominant for browsing on mobile phones. Google continues to make frequent enhancements to its Chrome browser.

As a result, global market share has been split among a handful of leading players. NetApplications, a web applications and analytics firm, estimates that various versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer control 59.2% of the browser market, followed by Firefox at 22.8%. Google's Chrome captures 8.5% of the market and Apple's Safari has 5.36%. Opera has 3.2% market share including its desktop and mobile browsers.

When Google launched its Chrome in 2008, the strategy was to create a lightweight browser that could quickly run increasingly complicated web applications like Google Maps and Google Docs. According to Whitehouse, Google's Chrome "sparked another round of browser development. Microsoft woke up and focused renewed development effort on Internet Explorer." Indeed, Chrome kicked off a race between Google, Microsoft and Mozilla's Firefox to be the fastest browser on the web.

The download page for Chrome describes the web browser as "arguably the most important piece of software on your computer." And many experts agree that the browser has only become more crucial in recent years as buying new computer software became less about a trip to the store and more about visiting a website and clicking the "download" button. Browsers -- whether enhanced by plug-ins like Adobe's Flash Player and Microsoft's Silverlight or implementing the latest HTML5 features -- are now able to run sophisticated software programs including video, games and business applications "In a cloud computing-based environment, software becomes service-driven rather than a shrink-wrapped product," notesAndrea Matwyshyn, a Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics. "Off-the-shelf software is becoming a thing of the past. The browser has become the focal point."

In the 1990s, one notion was that the browser would become the de facto operating system. That prediction never panned out, although Whitehouse acknowledges that the browser plays an increasingly expanded role on users' computers. "While an operating system is still important to handle routine hardware functions, the browser -- and Internet-connected platforms like Adobe's AIR -- play an increasingly pivotal role in the way the user interacts with software applications, minimizing the role of the underlying operating system," he says.

But not everyone considers the browser a big deal. Hosanagar thinks current trends indicate that the software is more important, but "I won't take the extreme position that it is a replacement for the OS." Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader compares intense competition in the browser sector to a pillow fight: "There's not a lot of meaning there, and the browser is just a small part of the equation" in achieving dominance on the web.

Indeed, in a recent story in Wired magazine, editor Chris Anderson argued that the world wide web is nearing extinction and that surfing will soon be replaced by downloaded apps. "All of the Internet connections are still there, but people want to get where they want to go quickly," Fader notes. "A browser is a layer between that. Apps get you right where you want to go. What does a browser mean on the iPhone or iPad? No one spends time on a home page on the iPad. You have a bunch of apps and you choose one."

RockMelt's Vishria, however, disagrees with the idea that the web -- and the browser -- are operating on borrowed time. "The web is the primary way we get news and information, and the browser is the primary way we find anything," he maintains. "Our job is to create a much better browser experience."

The Next Generation

It remains to be seen whether RockMelt will be successful, but experts at Wharton say the idea of browsers incorporating social networking data and other new features is a natural progression. According to Hill, the next generation of browsers will take existing systems from Microsoft, Google and Mozilla and build on them to create niche software focused on specific tasks. "It appears that RockMelt is a more feature-based add-on to Chrome as opposed to a full-fledged browser," she adds. Vishria does not dispute that argument. "Because Chrome is open source, we can benefit from all the speed improvements and add what we're doing on top of it," he notes.

While RockMelt initially focused on adding Twitter, Facebook and news updates in its quest to build a more social browser, Vishria says there will be extensions for e-commerce and other activities. The Facebook obsessed "will love RockMelt, but others may refrain," Matwyshyn predicts. "Certain browsers will fit audiences better." For instance, Matwyshyn suggests that other browsers in the future may be tailored to specialized markets, such as e-commerce or gaming.

But Hill and Matwyshyn warn that privacy concerns related to providing the information needed for cross-platform integration with Twitter or Facebook could hamper adoption of RockMelt. In addition, it is not clear whether a wide audience will want social media and browsing to be integrated. Vishria says RockMelt will not share browsing data with other networks. "We're not running an ad network, and there's no incentive to share data," he notes.

Another unknown is whether any of the next generation browsers can capture enough market share to make money. Whitehouse notes that most of the major browser vendors -- Microsoft, Google and Apple -- make revenue from other products in their portfolio. "For these companies, the browser's main value is to drive users to the other services they offer -- and they can readily monetize." Some browser vendors also garner income by selling their search boxes to companies like Google and Microsoft, who bid to become the default engine used when a user looks for information. For instance, Google accounts for most of Mozilla's revenue.

Vishria's plan to make RockMelt profitable includes adding multiple services and charging companies to be the default providers, rather than just selling rights to the search box. He names e-commerce as one channel that is ripe for such an approach. However, Vishria acknowledges that RockMelt, which only recently launched its beta, needs to acquire a critical mass of users first.

The biggest risk to RockMelt and other entrants may revolve around larger players adding similar features. "These new 'social' features can potentially be incorporated into the top three browsers," Hill points out. "Likewise, if Facebook later decides to enter the browser game, they could easily incorporate social features to browsing."

According to Wharton management professor David Hsu, it is doubtful that the likes of Mozilla, Google and Microsoft will shift gears to take on a start up. "From a new entrant perspective, RockMelt is counting on Google to not mess around with its market too much. It's likely that the incumbent companies will monitor RockMelt, but they won't reorient what they do to take it on -- at least in the near term."

Startups like RockMelt will also have a tough time breaking through consumer inertia. Experts note that it takes a lot to get consumers to try a new browser. "Most people don't care what the browser is," Fader says. "Unless there's meaningfully different functionality, browsers are a commodity."

Hosanagar agrees that consumers generally will choose to stick with what they know instead of moving to a new web browsing interface. "I doubt the browser market will be highly fragmented in the long term," he adds. "I suspect that we will have a few major players covering over 90% of the market, just like in search."

But Vishria remains undaunted by the odds. Browser market history is on his side, he says, noting that Chrome did not exist two years ago, and Mozilla's Firefox managed to grab market share from Microsoft. "The history of the browser market shows that companies with a better product can come in and disrupt."

Knowledge@Wharton

AP Minister List

New Ministers list in CM Kiran Kumar Reddy's Government. (December 1st 2010)

Medak:

Sunita Lakshma Reddy

Geetha Reddy

Damodara Raja Narasimha

Hyderabad:

Mukesh Goud

Danam Nagendar

Shankarrao

Mahaboob Nagar:

Jupalli Krishna Rao

D.K.Aruna

Nalgonda:

Jana Reddy

Komati Reddy Venkat Reddy

Rangareddy:

Sabitha Indra Reddy

Khammam:

Ramreddy Venkat Reddy

Guntur:

Kanna Lakshmi Narayana

Dokka Manikya Vara Prasad

Mopidevi Venkataramana

Kasu Venkata Krishna Reddy

Warangal:

Basavaraju Saraiah

Ponnala Lakshmaiah

Nizamabad:

Sudharshan Reddy

Karim Nagar:

D.Sreedhar Babu

Ananthapur:

Raghuveera Reddy

Sailaja Nath

Nellore:

Anam Ramanarayana Reddy

Krishna:

K.Partha Saradhi

Vishakapatnam:

Pasupuleti Bala Raju

Prakasham:

Magunta Maheedhar Reddy

West Godavari:

Pitani Satyanarayana

Vatti Vasantha Kumar

Srikakulam:

Dharmana Prasada Rao

Shatrucharla Viajaya Rama Raju

Kadapa:

Y.S.Vivekananda Reddy

D.L.Ravindra Reddy

Ahmadullah

East Godavari:

P.Vishwa roop

Thota Narsimha

Kurnool:

T.G.Venkatesh

Erasu Pratapa Reddy

Chittore:

Galla Aruna Kumari

Vijayanagaram:

Botsa Satyanarayana.