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Evolution of modern number system from Tamil

February 16th, 2012 2 comments

Modern number system, (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 ),is developed from Hindu-Arabic number system.

I have got a forward mail that depicts the evolution of modern number system from Tamil number system.

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Thought this may not be true, it is definitely something interesting. Worth to check Logic behind Arabic numbers.

A silent satire about ‘WE’ – Short Film

November 25th, 2011 No comments

A silent satire about ‘WE’

REG:WE is a short film by Karthik Subbaraj, an upcoming Short Film director from Chennai-India.

This movie depicts the reality of who actually WE are regardless of language, country.

Truth is so bitter!

Why This Kolaveri di

On the lighter side, here is song from a Tamil movie called Moondru (Three) that created global attention. This song has been trending in Youtube and Twitter Trends for more than a week. More than 4.6 million views in less than ten days and it’s counter is still ticking.

Visit Kolaveri – Wiki page to know more about the song, if you can’t understand the meaning of few words :)

Google Street View coming to India

May 27th, 2011 1 comment

Google Street View service is a huge hit since the day one of its launch from USA.

Finally Google India officially confirmed that, it is bringing the service to India. It is official now.

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Here is the photo of the street view car and the cycle in Bengaluru.

google street view India car cycle

Guys who are roaming on the streets, say a cheese and pose the camera :) (Your faces will be blurred though)

Exciting to see Indian streets in Google Street View.

Indian Rupee got its identity

July 15th, 2010 1 comment

Indian Currency Symbol

15 July 2010, a notable day in Indian History. Indian Rupees has got a new identity.

This symbol was selected through a public competition. Udaykumar an IIT Student has registered his name in Indian History.

This symbol will be included in Unicode letters. At the moment we don’t have  a way to type the letter.

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Cool Airtel Ads to promote Twitter in India

October 24th, 2009 No comments

 Twitter-on-Airtel-in-India

India is one of the strong Twitter base where we have more than 5 million Twitter users send/receive tweets (Times of India reports).

Recently Twitter reached a landmark deal with Bharti Airtel, to enable SMS tweets through a service called TweetSMS.

To promote this deal, Airtel recently released a video campaign for Twitter.

Related post : Twitter in Plain English