In-flight cell phone service:

European Union recently passed a law allowing people on board a plane to use the cell phone. Air France is the first carrier to kick-off this facility on its plane. New York Times reporter took a flight and checked out this new feature. The reporter found several faults in the system.

• The quality is patchy and keeps most in-flight calls short and tinny-sounding. One receiver of an OnAir call complained that it sounded like "talking to a small robot."
• Hefty roaming charges of up to 3 euros ($4.72) a minute.
• Calls made from the plane to the ground usually need a few tries to actually connect. Calls made from the ground to the plane tend to go directly to voice mail.
• Only six passengers can get a signal at any one time to avoid interfering with aircraft equipment. OnAir says the capacity will double to 12 in the coming weeks.
• Blackberry users had trouble downloading e-mail messages

I am sure this will improve over time but are we really that dependent on cell phones that we can't even wait for a few hours without talking to someone? Now, I am not a big fan of this service. How would you feel if you got stuck next to a person who keeps chatting on phone with someone during the whole flight? It would be damn annoying for me. I for sure will remember to take my ear plugs before boarding one of these flight.

US stocks have best week in 5 year:

Sounds unbelievable but US stocks had their best year since 2003 with Dow Jones industrial average finishing up 229 points. Fueling the confidence in Wall Street are three assumptions:

• Despite a recession in the United States, companies with significant sales outside the U.S. continue to do well and are benefiting tremendously from a lower dollar.

• Many technology companies appear to be weathering the domestic slowdown.

• Investors believe the big financial companies appear, finally, to be close to understanding the depths of the problems from the subprime-mortgage crisis. That's why Citigroup and Merrill Lynch both moved higher Friday. Merrill Lynch was up 1.4% to $47.35 on Friday and ended the week with an 8.4% gain.

Wall Street is hoping that this rally in stocks will continue but we should not forget that oil is still trading around $115 and inflation is still a problem. So is it really the end of bad times? Are we going to see another leg down in stocks? Only time can answer these questions but what do our readers think? Please let us know your thoughts.

Reference: money.msn.com

9 reasons to archive your emails in Gmail.

Many users don't archive their email. If you don't regularly click on the "archive" button or never even thought about it, here are some reasons you might want to get in the habit. Archiving just means moving mail out of your inbox and storing it for safekeeping. Your messages will be waiting for you when you click All Mail or search for them.

9. Phone numbers and addresses
You never know when you'll need a phone number someone emailed you or an address that was in a signature.

8. Procrastination
Sometimes you want to get a message out of your inbox, but you don't want to deal with organization, and you don't want to trash it.

7. Posterity
Just because you’re not famous now doesn’t mean that in forty years (or fifteen minutes) you won’t want to write your memoir.

6. Winning arguments
“But on May 5, 2005 at 8:43pm EDT you said….”

5. Mailing lists
Do you really need to know what Clintobamccain is doing every day? Auto-archive* their messages until you want to donate again.

4. Birthdays
Search for “grandma birthday” and voila, find the message you sent her last April. Aren't you glad you archived instead of deleted?

3. That guy
Remember that guy you thought you’d never need to get in touch with ever again?

2. Because you can
May as well use the free storage space. Plus, clean inbox = clean mind.

1. Fate-tempting is bad. You just never know
Thirty-one days after you send that message to the Trash and it gets permanently deleted, you're going to need it. Don't tempt the fates.

What Warren Buffet thinks:

According to Warren Buffet, “stocks are a good thing to own over time. There are only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time.”1

Warren Buffet is a value investor, if we look at his buying pattern, it is clear that he invests in companies which are under valued and the companies that have potential to grow bigger. A normal investor does exactly the opposite of what he does. It is human nature to follow the crowd; when companies do well, people start buying… and keep buying without realizing that they might have grown overweight and there is only one way for the company to go from there… down! (Stock price has to adjust to what the company is really worth.)

People keep buying more and more stocks in bull markets and keep selling in bear market. If we listen to what Buffet says, we should be doing exactly the opposite. “I always say you should get greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy. But that's too much to expect. Of course, you shouldn't get greedy when others get greedy and fearful when others get fearful. At a minimum, try to stay away from that.”1

This article was published on CNN where he invited a group of business students for an intensive day of learning. You can read the complete article at http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0804/gallery.buffett.fortune/index.html

1 Reference: money.cnn.com

Lesson from Tibet:

Olympic torch is all set to arrive in Delhi on the April 17^th. We all are aware of how it creates turmoil everywhere it goes and why it does so. Question is should India embrace the torch with open arms? Is there any thing we can learn from what Tibetans are doing?

China considers Tibet as a part of China. Tibet is fighting for its rights as an independent nation. Tibetans have found a proper way to raise their voice in front of world when the entire world is paying attention to China as it is about to host the biggest sporting event for the first time. Many world leaders have criticized China on its stand over Tibet. This might not resolve the Tibet’s conflict with China but it definitely provides a solid ground for Tibetans to claim their rights. Should India do the same? Remember that we are trying to resolve border conflict with China for a few decades now. China claims part of Arunachal Pradesh as its territory when this territory has been an integral part of India for ever. Shouldn’t India take advantage of this opportunity? What’s been happening here is completely reverse. China has been pressurizing India over Tibet. India recently issued a statement considering Tibet a part of China and asked Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who has left Tibet and took refuge in India years ago, to refrain from making any political statement over recent turmoil. Shouldn’t India stand up for the rights of its people? If a small country like Tibet can do it, why can’t we?

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Picture is worth a thousand words!!

There is a hidden image in the tree..Look carefully and u will find an image of a baby.
Did u get that?