Lotussutra Consultants

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India Worlds Best in 2008

• A take on significant events and the Best in
  Business 2008

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Best of the Web 2008

• For Wallpapers www.interfacelift.com
• For Audio files www.audible.com
• For Best Job sites www.monster.com,www.naukri.com
  
• For Photo Sharing www.flickr.com
• For Resources Unlimited www.wikipedia.org
• For Social Networking www.bigadda.com

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Must Read in 2008

• Amitav Ghoshs Sea of Poppies
• Aravind Adigas The White Tiger
• Barack Obamas Dreams of My Father
• Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat A Brief
  History of the Twenty-first Century

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Best Companies to work for in India 2008

• RMSI Private Limited
• Marriott Hotels India Pvt. Ltd.
• Google India Pvt. Ltd
• Agilent Technologies
• Classic Stripes Private Limited 
• Cadbury India Ltd.
• NTPC Limited
• Godrej Consumer Products

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Top Technology Trends 2008

• Green Computing
• E-Service
• Business Process Modelling
• Mobile Commerce
• Networking and Security
• Consumer driven Technologies (ipod,video games)
• Virtualization
• Storage Innovations

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Top Consumer Trends 2008

• Green Trends (Green Officer,Green washing)
• Marketers creating Social Networks
• Leveraging Mobile Application platform
• Video for B2B,B2c Marketers
• Exotic Foods (acai,goji berries )
• Health focus
• Marketing as a Service

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Best Movies of 2008

• The best Superhero flicks ('The Dark Knight,'
  'Iron Man'),
• Top-notch comedies ('Tropic Thunder,' 'Role
  Models'),
• Fantastic family fare ('WALL-E,' 'Kung Fu Panda')
  
• Must-see Oscar contenders ('Milk,' 'Slumdog
  Millionaire')

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The DNA Test

• Learning and sharing your genetic secrets are at
  the heart of 23andMe's controversial new service
  a 399 saliva test that estimates your
  predisposition for more than 90 traits and
  conditions ranging from baldness to blindness.
  Although 23andMe isn't the only company selling
  DNA tests to the public, it does the best job of
  making them accessible and affordable.

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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

• nasa is about to prove that again with the
  planned launch in February 2009 of the Lunar
  Reconnaissance Orbiter (lro). Our first unmanned
  moonship in 11 years, the lro will study the
  things lunar orbiters always study gravity,
  temperature but it will also look for signs of
  water ice, a vital resource for any future lunar
  base, and compile detailed 3-D lunar maps,
  including all six Apollo landing sites. Wingnuts,
  be warned yes, we really went there.

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The Tesla Roadster

• Electric cars were always environmentally
  friendly, quiet, clean but definitely not sexy.
  The Tesla Roadster has changed all that. A
  battery-powered sports car that sells for
  100,000 and has a top speed of 125 m.p.h. (200
  km/h), the Roadster has excited the clean-tech
  crowd since it was announced in 2003

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Hulu.com

• Unlike YouTube and other amateur-video-upload
  sites, Hulu is a hub for network TV shows and
  movies Hulu offers shows from nbc, Fox, pbs and
  other channels, including free full episodes of
  SNL, The Daily Show, The Office and other hit

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The Global Seed Vault

• the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Almost every
  nation keeps collections of native seeds so local
  crops can be replanted in case of an agricultural
  disaster. The Global Seed Vault, opened this year
  on the far-northern Norwegian island of
  Spitsbergen, is a backup for the backups. It's
  badly needed as many as half the seed banks in
  developing countries are at risk from natural
  disasters or general instability.

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Bullets That Shoot Bullets

• Raytheon's APS will automatically detect an
  incoming round and then launch a missile to
  destroy it, all within a split second. If it
  works, future Army vehicles will be able to head
  into combat with less armor.

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Sanyo Xacti HD1010

• Sanyo's sleek-as-a-pistol Xacti is a digital
  camera and video camera in one. Rather than
  carrying around separate, boxy gizmos, you can
  take 4-megapixel stills and 1080i or 1080p
  high-definition video with the pocket-sized
  Xacti. Its slim design allows you to hold the
  camera comfortably in one hand the buttons are
  streamlined and simple to operate for switching
  quickly between still picture and video. The
  Xacti's stand-by mode makes it easy to start
  filming in an instant. The camera uses cheap,
  small SD cards, so you don't have to lug around a
  stack of tapes or worry that you'll run out of
  internal memory. Price 800 appr

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