Google launched its popular video sharing site in India. http://in.youtube.com is the localized version for the Indian community.

All three founders are in Pune trying to hire good Ruby on Rails professionals with no luck so far. He was surprised at the situation here, because Rails has picked up big time in other technical hubs of the world but India is still paying the catchup game.

Rails is certainly much in demand but we still don’t have many hardcore Rails developers. The ones which are there are either working on their own projects or are not interested in full time employment or just not up to the mark as they are still in the learning stage.

One of the reasons to this could be that Rails is largely a freelancer, web 2.0′ish language as of now in India because applications can be developed and deployed comparatively faster than in other languages. It’s just a matter of time before Indian professionals catchup and excel at it.

If you are a Rails professional and looking for a job send your resumes to nerds [at] tnerd.com

Vodafone plans to launch iPhone in India by September (around my birthday!, GO Vodafone!) but I suggest if you have waited for more then a year now then wait a little longer and get a better version of iPhone.

Apple plans to release a new version of iPhone some time around May or June with 3G capabilities and other upgrades. I think its worth waiting a little longer and get a better version.

3G compatibility for iPhone is important as they plan to launch in places like Spain and Italy where 3G intake is higher than any other European countries. 3G also brings in its share of worries for iPhone users about its price and battery life.

All said and done I am really looking forward to the next release of iPhone as I am expecting hardware and firmware upgrades and also support for 3rd party applications and plugins.

This would have been the biggest scam in the history of bank robberies if he would have been able to get away with it. Jagmeet is currently in jail on the charges of money laundering and abusing trust.

HSBC reported that none of the services were disrupted or customers affected as the fraud was detected in time.

It’s good to see how social networking sites learn from each other .

Site:Orkut.com

Grand Theft Auto is a rated game. Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) issued a press release alerting parents to be cautious about the ratings of the game. ESRB has banned GTA for sales to anyone under 17 years of age.

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Following Image shows the rating of GTA IV from ESRB.

IGN has posted their review of Grand Theft Auto IV, scoring it a 10 out of 10.  Click here to read the review.

Rockstar Games is also running an offer which offers added benefits to GTA fans who registers for a copy of GTA IV before 29th of April.

Early adopters who register for the Rockstar Games Social Club BEFORE April 29th 2008 will be rewarded by being automatically entered to win a special once-in-a-lifetime prize for true GTA fans: your portrait custom drawn by Rockstar Games in the signature art style of Grand Theft Auto IV’s illustrations.  Visit the Rockstar Games Social Club for more information, rules and legal.

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Mr. G Madhavan Nair, chairman of ISRO after the launch said, "The mission was perfect," he added, "It is a historic moment for us because it is the first time that we had launched 10 satellites in a single mission".

In its twelve consecutively successful flights so far, PSLV has repeatedly proved itself as a reliable and versatile workhorse launch vehicle. It has demonstrated multiple satellite launch capability having launched a total of sixteen satellites for international customers besides thirteen Indian payloads which are for remote sensing, amateur radio communications and Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1). PSLV was used to launch ISRO’s exclusive meteorological satellite, KALPANA-1, into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) in September 2002 and thus proved its versatility. The same vehicle will be used to launch Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, India’s first mission to Moon during this year.

Click here to see PSLV-C9 Satellite Image Gallery

Victory will come, inshallah and the scenario of Chechnya will be repeated and we will drive you out. Millions of young Muslims are willing to die for al-Quds, which belongs to us.

This was the first time ever, a group of hackers managed to break into the an official site and leave a message. "Globes" reported the story on 27th-APR and the site is still down which goes on to show that the bank authorities at still trying to handle the situation.

As reported by "Globes" bank’s spokesman stated that the banks website is not linked to the internal systems of the bank so the doubts about the leakage of bank data does not arise.

Internet is fast becoming a testimonial of an individual. Perform a search with an e-mail address, Name, Mobile Number, etc.. of a person and more often than not you will find quite a bit about that persons habits and behavior online which gives you an idea of what that person is all about.

Sites like LinkedIn, Facebook. Orkut, MySpace, Blogspot (Blogger), Wordpress, etc.. has profiles most of the people who spend good amount of time online which makes it even more easier for people to know about each other or about a person in specific.

Thats not all, it would have been better if you were in total control of the information about yourself on the internet but unfortunately thats not the case here. Given the democratic nature of the internet, people are allowed to write whatever they want to, about whoever they want to. This makes it even more tougher for individuals to keep the slate clean if they have been involved in something they shouldn’t have.

Services like Lookuppage offer to keep your search engine reputation decently clean on the internet by publishing your profile online with high visibility. On the other hand such techniques and practices are controversial because these go against the democratic nature of the internet.

Here is what a search on "Syed Abbas" looks like on Google. My Online reputation is pretty much in my control as 5 out of 10 results are in my control :).

Anyway.. now the officials are taking more technical stands on IPL cheerleaders saying if they don’t have the license to work in India then they will not be allowed at the matches. Not only that but if any cheerleaders are found performing at the match without the license then the organizers or owners of the team will be prosecuted.

I hope the politicians change with the changing times and wont hold back on the good entertainment being offered at such events.

[Update] Performance license has been issued to the cheerleaders in Mumbai, which means cheerleader will be performing at all matches in Mumbai (until further interruptions by politicians).