'Google most valuable brand in world'

India's leading private sector lender ICICI Bank has ranked 45 among the 100 most valuable brands in the world, a list that has been topped by Google.

"With a brand value of USD 14.5 billion, the Indian bank ICICI is the first Indian brand to feature in the BrandZ Top 100.

"ICICI is the bank that introduced retail banking to India and stands to profit from the country's continuing growth," according to the fifth annual Millward Brown Optimor BrandZ Top100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2010 list.

It said ICICI pioneered ATMs in India to provide wide access to banking and to help flatten the society's hierarchical structure.

Separately, ICICI, which now operates almost 5,000 ATMs in India and is present in 18 countries, ranked number 10 out of the top 20 financial institution brands.

Apart from ICICI, another Indian company Infosys made its debut in Millward's 'technology category'.

"Outside of the Top 100, Infosys is a second Indian brand, also new this year.

"Originator of the term 'the flat world', Infosys is India's most valuable technology brand and with a brand value of USD 6.4 billion, is a strong contender to enter the Top 100 ranking soon," it said.

Infosys ranked 18 in the top 20 technology brands category.

Technology brands demonstrated their pervasiveness in people's daily lives, with Google topping the list as the Most Valuable Global Brand with a total worth of USD 114 billion.

IBM was second at USD 86 billion, followed by Apple now worth USD 83 billion.

Microsoft was fourth with a value of USD 76 billion.

Facebook, the popular social networking site, entered the technology sector ranking for the first year with a brand value of USD 5.5 billion.

Others companies featuring in the top 10 include Coca Cola, McDonald's, Marlboro, China Mobile, GE and Vodafone.

"When most key financial indicators plummeted, the value of the top 100 brands rose by four per cent in the last year to more than USD 2 trillion.

"In the past, many companies were quick to cut their marketing spend during a down economy.

"A new trend has emerged in the wake of the recession as more companies realised the importance of maintaining and even increasing budgets to support brand loyalty and engagement," said Joanna Seddon, CEO of Millward Brown Optimor.

Among the top 100 brands are HP (12), Blackberry (14), HSBC (23), BMW (25), Toyota (26), Louis Vuitton (29), ExxonMobil (39), Nokia (43), Honda (46), Pepsi (58), Sony (94) and Gucci (97).

40 Sentences That Help In Life

40 Sentences That Help In Life

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9 Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
13. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.
14. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
15. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
16. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
17. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
18. Over prepare, and then go with the flow.
19. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
20. The most important sex organ is the brain. 21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"
23. Always choose life.
24. Forgive everyone everything.
25. What other people think of you is none of your business.
26. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
28. Believe in miracles.
29. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
30. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
31. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
32. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
33. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
34. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
35. The best is yet to come.
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
37. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
38. If you don't ask, you don't get.
39. Yield.
40. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

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First Indian film to feature a gay kiss, Dunno Y … Na Jaane Kyun,

the first gay kiss in India's cinematic history.

The posters are ready, so is the film. The only question is whether the Indian public is too.

Dunno Y … Na Jaane Kyun, a film featuring India's first cinematic gay kiss, is scheduled to go on general release within weeks.

Already dubbed India's answer to Brokeback Mountain it tells the story of an aspiring model who travels to Mumbai, India's commercial and film capital, to seek his fortune and enters into a homosexual relationship, in part to further his career.

Trailers of the film have been well received by activists.

"It looks good," said Ashok Row Kavi, editor of Bombay Dost, India's first gay magazine. It talks of the complexities [of being gay] in India. Taboos are still very strong and hopefully it will change things."

For decades Bollywood avoided graphic depictions of even heterosexual kisses, with films famously cutting away to images of budding flowers, breaking waves or crashing waterfalls at the crucial moment.

Earlier this year a film called Love, Sex … and Dhokha (ditching) which included relatively graphic scenes of heterosexual sex was released. Though there was much media debate, the film generated little public outrage, encouraging those seeking to draw the largely formulaic Indian film industry in new directions. However the most explicit sequences in the film were cut or altered by censors.

"The sexual revolution has been under way in Bollywood for half a decade," said Anupama Chopra, film critic and author. "Kissing is now fairly acceptable for most of the younger stars. The younger directors are responding to an evolving audience."

However homosexuality remains taboo. The nearest Bollywood has got to portraying same-sex relationships so far is the 2008 film Dostana – which showed two straight men pretending to be gay to persuade a landlady to allow her beautiful daughter to be their housemate. At the end of the film, as a punishment, they kiss.

"It was a comedy but did involve big names playing effeminate men on screen," Chopra said.

Last week a gay film festival in Mumbai attracted big crowds.

"From India alone there are 25 films … I thought not many queer films were made in India," the festival director, Sridhar Rangayan, told DNA newspaper.

The committee was careful about their selection however.

"We don't want to hurt the Indian sensibility. We had to discard 30 films for various reasons," Rangayan said.

Gay activists fear Dunno Y will provoke a backlash from religious and political conservatives, many of whom opposed the recent effective repeal of colonial-era Indian laws that made homosexuality punishable by up to 10 years in prison as a crime "against nature".

Promotional posters for Dunno Y … Na Jaane Kyun showing two semi-naked young men embracing did spark controversy last year.

The film's director, Sanjay Sharma, told the BBC recently that Indian cinemagoers were "mature enough" to deal with the story line.

"At the moment I'm not thinking about any political or censor problems," Sharma said.

Sharma's brother Kapil, who plays the lead, insisted that Indian audiences were ready to accept homosexuality on screen. Change however is slow.

"We are still a very long way from seeing a mainstream major star play a gay role and that we won't see that soon," Chopra said.

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FileSavr is free web based file hosting services offer 10 GB upload size limit, currently the largest available on the internet. one of best feature of the FileSavr is :

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Megaupload is a leading provider of online storage and web hosting services. they offer ad-financed free and affordable premium online storage/remote backup capacity, plus sophisticated uploading and downloading tools. you can access your data from any browser from anywhere . One can easily upload and download any Size file and share with your friend or you easily publish your media on the web.
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Image Hosting Sites:

1.Photobucket:

Photobucket offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. ... with us - we are one of the most popular video hosting sites in the world.
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"Flick Cabin" is a simple free image host where you can anonymously upload pictures from the home page upload form without registering an account, and hotlink the remotely hosted images on eBay auctions, message boards, blogs, MySpace, and other websites. After uploading images, you are given BBCode (for posting the image in forums) and a direct link URL. There is no mention of maximum filesize, bandwidth and inactivity limits, or how long the hosted pics remain on the server.
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Free web hosting for images with direct linking allowed to your websites. The popular media hosting website ImageShack just launched a new service that lets you download torrent files onto their servers.They have a subscription service, but the mostly free service are good for everyone.
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TinyPic® is a free based photo and video sharing service that lets you easily upload, link, and share your images and videos on MySpace®, eBay®, Orkut Scrapbooks, blogs, and message boards. no need of registration required, simply you can submit your picture or video and directly linking allowed to MySpace.com®, eBay®, Orkut scrapbooks, message boards, forums, blogs, journals, e-mail, IM, and other websites.
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The image hosting .com was launched in August 2004. its an free web based photo sharing services . You can easily create free online photo albums and to upload multiple images at once and ZIPPED image files. the image hosting .com suitable for .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .swf, .png format files.
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With Auctiva you get free, unlimited, image hosting with world class reliability. eBay charges as much as $1.05 per listing to do this .
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flickr is most famous image and video hosting service by Yahoo.com . flickr is best online photo management and sharing application in the world . In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.
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Flash .swf files Hosting sites:

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MegaSWF offers you a free, stable .SWF file repository on our high-speed servers. Upload SWF files up to 10 megabytes in size.
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Free web hosting for Flash .swf files with direct linking allowed to your websites. The popular media hosting website ImageShack just launched a new service that lets you download torrent files onto their servers.They have a subscription service, but the mostly free service are good for everyone.
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SwfCabin allows you to publish your swf files with ease. with user friendly interface you only need to select your swf file and select whether or not you'd like people to be able to use the voting feature on submission .SwfCabin automatically detects the dimensions of your swf’s and codes a page for to fit it properly to the values taken when we analyzed the file on upload.

free web hosting site:

Wix - Create a free website, Free MySpace layouts & Flash MySpace layouts

With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.
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Weebly is the easiest way to create a free website. From personal to professional sites, Weebly will enable you to spend your time on the most valuable part of your site, its content. You can create free website and free blogs.
Google Sites

Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. This is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website as well.
Freewebs - Make a web site with photo albums, blogs, videos, forums and more!

Make a website in minutes with simple tools for individuals, groups, or small businesses to share photos and videos, open a store, and build a member community.
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Viviti - build a website as unique and dynamic as you

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Jimdo - Create your free website

It’s really easy to create your own JimdoFree-Page free website, you will need to just sign-up, follow the link to your own Page, integrate pictures, videos and texts in seconds, change the design with a click, add as many pages as you want and show your swifty JimdoFree-Page to your friend.
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Webon free websites and free website hosting

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She is life

Tomorrow you may get a working woman, but you should marry her with these facts as well.

Here is a girl, who is as much educated as you are;
Who is earning almost as much as you do;

One, who has dreams and aspirations just as
you have because she is as human as you are;

One, who has never entered the kitchen in her life just like you or your
Sister haven’t, as she was busy in studies and competing in a system
that gives no special concession to girls for their culinary achievements

One, who has lived and loved her parents & brothers & sisters, almost as
much as you do for 20-25 years of her life;

One, who has bravely agreed to leave behind all that, her home, people who love her, to adopt your home, your family, your ways and even your family ,name

One, who is somehow expected to be a master-chef from day #1, while you sleep oblivious to her predicament in her new circumstances, environment and that kitchen

One, who is expected to make the tea, first thing in the morning and cook
food at the end of the day, even if she is as tired as you are, maybe more,
and yet never ever expected to complain; to be a servant, a cook, a mother,
a wife, even if she doesn’t want to; and is learning just like you are as
to what you want from her; and is clumsy and sloppy at times and knows that you won’t like it if she is too demanding, or if she learns faster than you;

One, who has her own set of friends, and that includes boys and even men at her workplace too, those, who she knows from school days and yet is willing to put all that on the back-burners to avoid your irrational jealousy, unnecessary competition and your inherent insecurities;

Yes, she can drink and dance just as well as you can, but won’t, simply
Because you won’t like it, even though you say otherwise

One, who can be late from work once in a while when deadlines, just like yours, are to be met;

One, who is doing her level best and wants to make this most important,
relationship in her entire life a grand success, if you just help her some
and trust her;

One, who just wants one thing from you, as you are the only one she knows in your entire house – your unstinted support, your sensitivities and most importantly – your understanding, or love, if you may call it.

But not many guys understand this……

Please appreciate “HER”

How Happy People Are in Various Countries?