Apple's evolution over these years

Check out this really cool poster of Apple over the years

"Gandhi-giri" goes global and high tech!

"After two weeks of protests by high-skilled immigrants over a broken promise to expedite the processing of green cards, the White House has approached immigration advocacy groups to work out a compromise. While the talks are ongoing and could still break down, the government is likely to reverse a July 2 decision to refuse more permanent residency applications, and will likely begin accepting them in the next few days. "I think they are determined to fix the situation," says Charles Kuck, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Assn."

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iPhone Mystery at Duke University: The Case of the Flooded Routers

"A handful of Apple's (AAPL) iPhones have managed to knock out large sections of the campus Wi-Fi network at Duke University, and network officials there still don't know why."

Read the whole story and get puzzled!

What's beyond web2.0?

"Think of how we access all the information of the Internet. We do it at a desk where wires keep us attached to a specific location. Laptops help us branch out a bit, but even then we are tied to a wireless connection. Go too far and you no longer have access to information."

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Nigerian scams: Be on the alert

"I was looking at my e-mail inbox with sleepy eyes one morning when I was jolted into attention by a message from my younger brother with the subject noted as 'Emergency'.

With trembling hands I clicked on the message to read that he had gone to Nigeria for a conference and had lost his passport, tickets and money. He was in deep distress and would like me to send him some money urgently through a Nigerian friend. He had signed with his old designation in Bangkok rather than his new one at his present post."

Read the whole story here

Please help Bay Area Family

A Bay area Indian family needs your urgent help after a devastating turn of events in their lives - the 32-year old father had a ruptured brain aneurysm and went into coma. He is having a wife and a five month old baby girl at his residence in Sunnyvale, CA.

Any help in any small amount - financial, logistics, information forwarding, Prayers - will help as we respond as a humanity. Details are at available at these links :

Details and medical aspects :
http://poddars.wiki.zoho.com/StoryMedical.html
Ways to Help (you can add ideas here) :
http://poddars.wiki.zoho.com/Santanu.html
How to help with Financial contributions :
http://poddars.wiki.zoho.com/Fund.html
Pass the info so others can join your help:
http://poddars.wiki.zoho.com/HelpSantanuFlier.html

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Santanu Poddar, age 32 living in Sunnyvale is a graduate from Jalpaiguri Engg College and postgraduate from IIT Kharagpur in Mechanical Engineering. He is an employee at Hewlett Packard, Sunnyvale, California.

He had a cerebral attack around 15 days back and is now on life support and had numerous brain strokes. His brain has suffered irreversible damages and he is in coma. The doctors at Stanford Medical have given up all hopes after 10 days of monitoring. He has recently been shifted at Critical Care Unit at ElCamino Hospital in Mountain View.

He is having a wife and a five month old baby girl at his residence in Sunnyvale. His wife, Debarpita Poddar, doesn't work and is faced with lot of financial issues to take care apart from this tragedy.

It would be great help if we all could help her with some financial assistance.

Please contribute generously for Santanu and his family, in ways suggested at
http://poddars.wiki.zoho.com/Fund.html

Apple's next phone

Read about apple's next iPod nano like phone

Seva Cafe ... a unique restaurant based on service

Take a look at this very nice video of the seva cafe based in Ahmedabad which is based on the gift of giving.

If you are in the Berkeley area, visit their sister location -- "The Karma Kitchen"