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Top 10 Live Blogs for Apple’s iPhone event – September 10, 2013

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As we all are gearing up for Apple’s Sep 2013 iPhone event, following is the handy list of best live blogs to help you with live updates… GigaOm - http://gigaom.com/2013/09/10/live-blog-apples-iphone-5s-iphone-5c/ Techcrunch - http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/live-blog-from-apples-iphone-5s-announcement/ Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/10/apple-iphone-liveblog-2013/ CNET - http://live.cnet.com/Event/CNETs_Apple_Sept_10_event_live_blog TIME - http://techland.time.com/2013/09/09/apple-media-event-september-2013-live-blog/?iid=tl-main-lead The Verge - http://live.theverge.com/apple-iphone-5s-liveblog/ Readwrite - http://readwrite.com/2013/09/10/apple-iphone-5s-5c-live-blog#awesm=~oh2Cw2PFgMwk7R Gizmodo - http://live.gizmodo.com/our-iphone-event-liveblog-starts-right-here-on-9-10-at-1277167537 ArsTechnica - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/09/liveblog-apple-to-brighten-everyones-day-on-10-september-at-10am-pdt/ MacWorld – http://live.macw

Help stop Child Marriage. #IndiChange #RingtheBell

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Lets face it - In India we are still having Child Marriages... We can say it is happening only in rural India, we can say it is due to screwed Male to Female ratio, or we can say it is due to people who are challenged Intellectually... But we are having it... Not many days ago I read an article mentioning that India is leading on World's Child Marriages - UN. Artile link   here . Article mentions that  "Every second girl in India is married underage, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)".  I was shocked to notice that. I used to think that this practise is going down day by day - Alaas I was wrong :( Lets start with what Indian Law talks about this - Refer  The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 .  In 2006 the government of India updated legislations regarding child marriage and passed the  Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 . Detailed  Report . Indian Government have Law against all the involved parties eg Male who contracts a child marriage,

Top 10 Apple WWDC 2013 Live Blogs...

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As we all are aware WWDC 2013 is planned on 10/June/2013. More details from Apple’s site can be found out here . Top 10 Apple WWDC 2013 keynote Live Blogs: Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/10/apple-wwdc-2013-liveblog/ CNET - http://live.cnet.com/Event/CNETs_Apple_WWDC_2013_live_blog GigaOM - http://gigaom.com/2013/06/07/live-blog-apple-keynote-wwdc-2013/ Time - http://techland.time.com/2013/06/07/wwdc-2013-live-blog-coverage/ TheNextWeb - http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/06/08/wwdc-2013-liveblog/ Gizmodo - http://live.gizmodo.com/our-wwdc-2013-meta-liveblog-kicks-off-monday-6-10-at-12-511781107 Macstories - http://www.macstories.net/news/liveblog-wwdc-2013-edition/ ReadWrite - http://readwrite.com/2013/06/07/apple-wwdc-2013-keynote-live-coverage ArsTechnica - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/06/liveblog-apples-wwdc-2013-keynote/ TechnoBuffalo - http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/06/07/wwdc-2013-liveblog/ Enjoy follow

Push or Pull – you have to be Remarkable !!!

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While watching old but famous hindi movie “Coolie” today I came across a scene where one of the hero (Rishi Kapoor) go for journalist’s interview and owner of newspaper tell him to write something like this so that all the copies will be sold before they get printed … Lol !!! this sentence “… so that all the copies will be sold before they get printed” reminded me of Marketing class where Dr Sriram talked about a concept to sell the goods even before they get manufactured… Initially I thought how can this be achieved – to sell something before it even exists. As per study this mostly happened with Cash Cows and Star series of the product lines… Well this happens at lot of places now a days… You stand in queue and order something at Mc Donalda or Pizza Hut, you pay for it and voila – seller achieved it – they sold you something which is not yet ready… Now if you are thinking FMCG is something different then think about that iPhone you ordered just on launch day, what abo