http://www.tongbram.com Blog on Life, Myself, Technology, Business and the Internet! Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:01:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One more good news for the SaaS enthusiast.. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced that Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a Fortune 500 financial services membership organization, is standardizing on Salesforce for Wealth Management. The company is deploying Salesforce for Wealth Management ... http://www.tongbram.com/thrivent-financial-for-lutherans-choses-salesforce-for-wealth-management/ The nuclear deal will spin off a 100000 new jobs. Good for the country. Good for Rahul Gandhi. And the game goes on. So this was all it was about.. And the opposition never looked so stupid.. http://www.tongbram.com/nuke-deal-will-spawn-a-million-jobs/ Its been a crazy week. I guess its been three weeks. Even went home... for just a day, missed my best friends wedding, bahhh but I managed to meet my DEAD line. Got invite for the first tweet-up. It is like a blog meet, but for twitter users. It is going ... http://www.tongbram.com/a-weeks-worth-of-blogging/ I usually play the FM sometimes on my drive to Office everyday, but I am not a big fan of any of the Channels or RJs. I just browse the channels at random. And there was this soft spoken RJ today who narrated an Incident. I think, she said something ... http://www.tongbram.com/touching-real-life-story/ Dailytech writes that a twelve month long drop in world temperature wipes out a century of global warming. Sounds good. But then, we don't want an Ice Age situation like The day after. Moreover, what we should remember is that the cooling could as well be a result of the Global Warming ... http://www.tongbram.com/forget-global-warming-beware-of-global-cooling/ Less than one month into 2008, in the technology community the money and investments all appears to be flowing to open source. Just recently open source database software company MySQL was acquired for $1Billion by Sun Microsystems and open source adserver OpenAds received $15.5Million in Series B VC funding. While ... http://www.tongbram.com/open-source-fetches-12-billion-in-january/ There will be lamp posts....but only good for the dogs. What with thieves on a rampage stealing the copper wires. With the ongoing astronomic rise of the prices of precious and base metals, thieves are targeting the copper wiring in the lamp posts. Park officials said more than a mile of ... http://www.tongbram.com/nyc-will-run-out-of-lamp-posts-soon/ Where I go for work, there is this Central Library. Well, libraries have books, and I haven't read a book in a while, so there I went with the intention of picking up a book or two. Books, I didn't bring any but how could I? There were rows and ... http://www.tongbram.com/of-bold-foreign-movies/ For the past half an hour, I have been trying to make some buys, so that I could at level out my losses, or even make a profit, and I can't bloody log into my account. The internet speed is like a freeway here, and I can continuously stream youtube, ... http://www.tongbram.com/icicidirectcom-cannot-withstand-indian-stock-market-swings/ Mihir Bose writes something very interesting. Apparently Harbhajan Singh did not call Andrew Symonds ‘monkey’ during the episode at the Sydney Test that provoked the recent cricket crisis between Australia and India. He actually said "Maaki". Thank god Symonds heard it only as Monkey and not as Maaki, not that ... http://www.tongbram.com/symonds-ki-maa-ki-what/