Return of the tape: Sony’s new storage tapes hold 185 TB of data

The cassette tapes these days are seen as items from a long forgotten era of the 80s and Walkmans. However, Sony has created a new record with storage capabilities using one of these tapes as the storage medium. Sony has created a tape capable of holding 185 terabytes, smashing the previous record for data storage. At 148 gigabits per square inch, Sony's new tapes hold the equivalent of 11,840 16-gigabyte iPhone 5s smartphones – or about 3700 Blu-ray discs.

The tapes, which were developed with the help of IBM, obliterate the previous record, which was set in 2010 by Fujifilm and IBM. Back then, the companies set the record with a tape capable of holding 35 terabytes.

Now Suck Beer Flavored Lollipops

A San Francisco born & Austin raised candy company Lollyphile has recently launched three new beer flavored lollipops, like: IPA, lager, and stout.

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The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Aniruddha Dutta 1

It is our pleasure and honour to announce that a multiple time National Level Champion Quizzer - Aniruddha Da has accorded his approval for re- publishing his content (that was posted on his facebook group) on Bizdom blog. We shall be publishing his questions in a weekly series starting today.

1. It is a term referring to the unintended consequences of a company pre-announcement made either unaware of the risks involved or when the timing is misjudged, which ends up having a negative impact on the sales of the current product. This is often the case when a product is announced too long before its actual availability. This has the immediate effect of customers canceling or deferring orders for the current product, knowing that it will soon be obsolete, and any unexpected delays often means the new product comes to be perceived as vaporware, damaging the company's credibility and profitability. Which term?

2. It is one of the largest in its trade in the world. It became involved in the print trade around 1480, and grew into a major printer of Bibles, prayer books, and scholarly works. To meet its most important publication's rising costs, the last hundred years has seen it publish children's books, school text books, music, journals, the World's Classics series to match its academic and religious titles. Which publishing house is this?

3. The word was originally used for a “drawing on strong paper” or a durable drawing used as a model for another work. The term comes from the French word for “heavy paper, pasteboard”.

4. The Oxford English Dictionary states that perhaps it is a corruption of the word recruit. The earliest example from the OED is from Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads referring to the term in the sense of raw recruits to the British Army.

5. UNICEF originally set up the Bombay Education Initiative in Mumbai to establish a tripartite-partnership between the government, corporate and civil society to improve India’s primary education in 1994. Today, it is the largest non-governmental organisation in India. How is it known today?   

6. X originated in the seventies, in an advertising campaign that ran only in Europe.It was brought to the US in 1988 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the brand. A 1991 study found that 5-6 year old children could recognize X morereadily than either Mickey Mouse or Fred Flintstone. After is introduction, the brand's share of the illegal market went up from 1% to just under 33%.Identify X and the brand.

7. In 1992.which non smoker did the Philip Morris tobacco company is hire for $1 million to serve as its international political consultant and provide advice "on controversial issues, including the penetration of tobacco markets in Eastern Europe and the Third World"?

8. She started work as a receptionist for the Town & Country magazine, and was the only unofficial photographer on board the SS Sea Panther yacht on the Hudson River who was allowed to take photographs of The Rolling Stones during a record promotion party. She photographed Clapton for Rolling Stone magazine, becoming the first woman to have a photograph featured on the front cover. In 1974, she herself appeared on the cover, making her the only person both to have taken a photograph, and to have been photographed, for the front cover of the magazine. In 1991, she introduced a line of frozen vegetarian meals, which made her wealthy independently of her husband. Heinz Company acquired the company in 2000 and later sold it off in 2007.

9. It was launched in 1931 in the United States as Apparel Arts, a magazine for the clothing trade, aimed primarily at wholesale buyers and retail sellers. Initially it had a very limited print run and was aimed solely at industry insiders to enable them to give advice to their customers. Apparel Arts continued until 1957 when it was transformed into a quarterly magazine which was published for many years by Esquire Inc. Apparel was dropped from the logo in 1958 with the spring issue after nine issues, and the current name was established. Which magazine?















                                       
1. Osborne Effect
2. Oxford University Press
3. Cartoon, from Carton
4. Rookie
5. Pratham
6. Joe the camel and Camel Cigarettes
7. Margaret Thatcher
8. Linda McCartney
9. Original Name was Apparel Arts. Clue was in the word - Quarterly. GQ  stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly.

Haathi or Haath, the story behind congress's election symbol

Congress started with a pair of bullocks and a plough as their election symbol during first election in 1952.

After Indira Gandhi broke away from the Congress in 1967, she chose a calf and a cow as the symbol of her faction. She won a landslide victory in the 1971 elections with this symbol.

Now, this new congress/government was in the control of Mrs. Indira Gandhi and her son, and opposition parties started criticizing the symbol as the real state of the congress: Indira as Cow, and Sanjay as Calf. Thus, Indira decided to look for an alternative election symbol.

After the emergency of mid 1970s, Indira finally opted for fresh elections in 1977. So, Indira had decided to discard that symbol and later come up with a new one this time.

They went to the Election Symbol just two days before the deadline, the task was assigned to Buta Singh, and he came up with the three options: Elephant (haathi) , Bicycle, and Open palm (haath). EC had insisted Buta to select the symbol by the next morning, failing which, the party would have to contest without a symbol.

Indira was out in Vijayawada, with Narasimha Rao, when Buta was asked by the Election Commission to pick an election symbol. Buta was not sure which symbol he should choose, so he booked a trunk call to seek Indira's approval," says author Rasheed Kidwai in his book, 24 Akbar Road. He was the AICC general secretary then.  "The line was not very clear or, perhaps, Buta's Hindi pronunciation was so thick that Indira kept hearing haathi (elephant), instead of haath (hand).  "She kept saying no to it even as Buta kept trying to explain that it was not the elephant, but the open palm symbol that he was advising her to pick.  "The comedy of errors continued till an exasperated Indira handed the telephone over to Rao. In a matter of seconds, Rao, master of more than a dozen Indian and foreign languages, understood what Buta was trying to convey. He shouted, "Buta Singhji, panja kahiye, panja' Indira was relieved, took the receiver and said, Haan, haan, panja theek rahega (yes, yes, the open palm symbol will be appropriate).'  

 

 

Mills and Boon launch digital series The Chatsfield, designed to be told in real time

Mills and Boon, the Harlequin-owned book publisher best known for its saucy women's fiction, is embarking on a new chapter in storytelling, with the launch of digital series The Chatsfield. Fans can visit the dedicated Chatsfield website to learn more about each of the characters, snoop around their rooms and read their private emails and text messages. They can also create their own stories and share their own hotel escapades in the Lounge.

Happy Birthday, BASIC

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully used to run programs on the school’s General Electric computer system 50 years ago this week–at 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, to be precise. Kemeny worked as Albert Einstein’s mathematical assistant before arriving at Dartmouth as a professor in 1953, where he was named chairman of the mathematics department two years later at the age of 29. He became known for his inventive approach to the teaching of math.

John Kemeny shows off his vanity license plate in 1967

“Havells Appliances. Respect Women.”

Havells has launched a new campaign, which plays on a simple insight that in India women don’t have a voice of their own despite playing multiple roles.

Jacqueline Fernandez is the New Face Of The Body Shop

The Srilankan beauty Jacqueline Fernandez, who has created a niche for herself in Bollywood, has signed up as the brand ambassador of The Body Shop.

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