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The world's biggest waste of time?

Facebook is developing new applications that will take advantage of the geo-location abilities of some of the latest mobile devices. And there will also be more for users who do not have data on their mobile devices.

With India a fast growing market for Facebook, the product endorsed (indirectly) by Mahendra Singh Dhoni in an advert and with a growing retinue of users, expect more from the world's largest social network soon.

• Everyday, people spend five billion minutes on Facebook, making it one of the top three properties on the Internet (there are 525,600 minutes in a year).
• Over 125 million people visit the Facebook site every month.
• Of that, 65 million people access the site on their mobile devices using either dedicated applications (BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia N97) or the mobile website (http://m.facebook.com).
• There are an estimated 4.5 million Facebook users in India alone and India is one of the site's fastest growing geographies.
• Facebook is developing new applications for people with regular mobile devices to connect on the site minus a data connection such as Facebook on SMS available at 9232232665 (92-FACEBOOK) in India.

Top 10

Top 10 Browsers:

If you are surfing Internet and want to use feature rich browser then you have so many options to choose from.Choosing the best for great experience, you will have to know about all browsers.To help you choose best, today I have come up with the list of top 10 browsers with their features.

1. Mozilla Firefox :

This browser is perhaps the world’s favorite browser. The top multinationals have decided to keep it as their default. It is open source browser with the worldwide support from a community of developers and testers. The main features of this browser are:

• Private Browsing
• Instant Web Site ID
• Built-in Spell Checker
• Customization with around a million themes available for free from its official website
• Ships with almost all linux distributions

2. Chrome :

This is managed by Google. It is fastest of all browsers that are available today. It main features are:

• Flexible Tabs which can be placed anywhere
• In Built Download Manager
• Private Browsing
• Online Task Manager
• More Secure
• Webshots of last websites visited

3. Internet Explorer :

This is perhaps our first web browser that we might have experienced. It is maintained and developed by Microsoft. The main features of this are:

• Compatibility with older versions so that the visibility is not an issue
• Grouped Tabs
• Private Browsing
• Grouped Tabs
• Web Slices

4. Opera :

This browser is claimed to be the fastest on the planet. This was developed by the telecom company Telenor. The main features of this browser is:

• Visual Tabs
• A number of Addons are available on its official website
• Faster internet surfing even on slow connections
• Content Blocker for young and sensitive audience
• Download Manger with Torrent support

5. Safari :

This is developed by Apple for its macintosh Operating System. Some of the features are:

• Private Browsing
• Bookmark Integration with Address Book
• Built in password management feature which is only available in Mac only
• Mail integration
• Inline PDF Viewer
• Tabbed browsing

6. Maxthon :

It is a freeware software that is developed by some firm in China. It was developed mainly for Microsoft Windows. Its main features are:

• Link Validator
• Tabbed Surfing
• Adobe Flash and ActiveX object support
• Programmable mouse gestures and mouse chording.
• RSS Reader

7. Flock :

It is a social networking web browser that is built for Facebook and Twitter. It is an open source project with many contributors all around the world. Its main features are

• Integration of all the social networking account into this single browser
• Support for the sharing for videos, photos and links
• Feed Reader to accommodate all the types of feeds
• Support for third party Firefox extensions

8. Avant :

It is an extremely light and fast browser that is developed by Avant Force. Its main features are:

• In built RSS Reader
• Private Browsing
• Flash Animator Filter
• AD/Pop-up Blocker

9. Deepnet Explorer :

It is the only browser with a phishing alarm along P2P connectivity. The other main features are:

• In built RSS Reader
• Private Browsing
• Automatic Form Filler
• File Sharing Support
• Mouse Gestures

10. Phase Out :

It is a freeware that is used for the ultimate space exploration. The various features are:

• Pop-Up Blocker and Clean-Up Tools
• Integrated Advanced Search Tool Bar
• Tabbed Web Windows
• Automatic search function on page not found error (404)

Retailing

Nano to be sold across 2,000 Tata vehicle outlets:

Revving up sales: Ever since Nano sales fell to 509 units last month, Tata Motors has been pulling out all stops to revive customer confidence in the car.

In a first-of-its kind sales strategy in the automobile industry, Tata Motors plans to sell the Nano across India through at least 2,000 vehicle outlets.

Apart from its 540 passenger car dealerships and the newly created 110 exclusive Nano access points, the company plans to sell the car through 290 authorised service centres meant for Tata passenger cars. It is also exploring the option of using its over thousand Tata Authorised Service Centres for commercial vehicles to sell the Nano.

Nearly 1,000 outlets will retail the car in the next few months. Another 1,000 – the commercial vehicle service centres – may begin to sell it at a later stage.

In short, there will be three to four Nano sales points in every district in India.

Nationwide sales:

The company has started open sales of the car in 12 States and a spokesperson said this would be countrywide by March 2011. Once that happens, the number of special access points where the Nano is showcased will exceed 200.

The idea is to take the car within easy access of all customers. Sources say Tata Motors is using the price tag as the bait to entice two-wheeler buyers. The selling strategy is on the lines of bike manufacturers. While carmakers such as Maruti, Hyundai and Tatas have 500-600 sales outlets each, Hero Honda alone has 4,500 sales points. The Nano's vast network will now replicate the two-wheeler model.

Each of these outlets in interior India is intended to play a part in helping the company realise the full capacity of its Sanand plant at 2,50,000 cars annually.

The potential customers for the Nano are largely in these regions and this initiative will help reach access them better. In fact, Maruti, Hyundai and Mahindra have been reaching out to rural areas and small towns.

Ever since Nano sales fell to 509 units last month, Tata Motors has been pulling out all stops to revive customer confidence in the car. The first step was to offer added safety features for existing customers. This was followed up by extending the warranty to four years or 60,000 kilometres (from 18 months or 24,000 kilometres).

EXCEL

Business Uses of Excel:

• Analyzing data downloaded from SAP
• Tracking Updates in Fore casted Sales
• Dashboard for Investment linked Insurance Policy
• Excel Calendar
• Stock Management
• Shipment Planning
• Merging Data
• Create forms
• Performance Tracking
• Find Break even point
• Identify Blank Rows
• Duplicate Records
• Extract data from ACCPAC/SAP
• Ranking

*Using Excel, will find our business processes more simpler and time efficient. 

so get to know of Excel.