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A monthly newsletter of L&T Infotech Library

October 2011

In this Issue:
Article: Googles 13th Birthday: Here are 13 Milestones

Google's 13th Birthday: Here are 13 Milestones

Google enters its teens on 27th Sept. and celebrates with a Google Doodle of what else? A birthday cake as it has done in previous years. Doodle is a little more elaborate than most previous birthday doodles. The Google logo is there, all right. But you might notice there's an exclamation point after the logo. That was part of the original emblem.

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The google.com domain was registered on Sept. 15, 1997 and Google the company wasn't incorporated until Sept. 4, 1998. On at least two occasions in the past, Google has split the difference in those dates and celebrated its birthday on September 7.Google didn't start posting birthday doodles to its main search page until its fourth year anniversary in 2002. True to high-tech mythos, Google was started in a garage by two Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with $100,000 in seed money from Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

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But it didn't stay in that garage for long. Less than a year after Google incorporated, it had already moved twice when in June 1999, it announced it had secured $25 million in funding for its operations.

2000
By 2000, things began percolating for the search company. Its main rival, Yahoo!, announced it would be using Google's search engine for its site. Meanwhile, it hit the 100 million search queries a day mark and launched its AdSense program.

2001
The next year the company went global, setting up its first international office in Tokyo. It also added a new chairman of the board, Eric Schmidt, who soon became CEO of the company, and it branched out into image searching.

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2002
Google Labs, where the company develops new offerings, as well as Froogle, its shopping search engine, and Google News were all launched in 2002.

2003
The next year Google got into the blogging business with the acquisition of Pyra Labs, maker of Blogger. It also launched Google Print, now Google Book Search, which gave searchers the power to ferret through excerpts from thousands of books in digital form. 2003 was also the year that lexicographers recognized a new verb in the English language: to google.

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2004
In 2004, Google's search index reached eight billion items. As it moved into its new digs, the Googleplex, its garage days were a distant memory. A most important development during the year was the launch of its web-based mail service, Gmail.

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2005
Maps became a focus of the company in 2005, along with customizable home pages (iGoogle), an online news reader (Google Reader) and Google Analytics, for discovering Web metrics. The company also began taking baby steps into the wireless realm by introducing mobile versions of Gmail, Blogger and Search.

2006
In 2006, Google bought YouTube, and the following year it further expanded the global reach of Google Maps and the audience for applications like Google Docs and Gmail. It also added street level photography to its maps offering, which opened a can of privacy worms for the company around the world.

2008
Google continued to reach beyond its search roots in 2008 when it launched a mobile phone operating system to compete with Apple's popular iPhone, and it even waded into the browser wars with its own offering, Chrome.

2009
Browsers and mobile operating systems weren't enough for the company, though, and in 2009, it launched its own lightweight operating system, Chrome OS, although it wasn't until 2011 that any computers running the system began shipping in volume.

2010
By 2010, Google was a full fledged behemoth. As such, news about its gee-whiz developments began to take a back seat to less flattering notices. There was a WiFi scandal, where it was discovered the company was collecting information from open wireless networks. It joined Verizon in a net neutrality pact that appeared to some to be jumping in bed with the devil.

2011
In a move that could transform the company yet again, Google in 2011, entered into an agreement to acquire the mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion. Also in 2011, in one of the largest settlements ever, Google agreed to pay $500 million to settle a case involving the importation of illegal prescription drugs into the United States. Over the last 13 years, Google has done an enormous amount to make the lives of many people easier and more productive. It's made a few missteps along the way, and it will undoubtedly make a few in the future. By and large, though, it appears to have tried to live up to its motto, "Don't be evil." That's something most of Google's users hope the company will continue to do for the next 13 years of its existence.

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Contributed by: Renuka L. (Library, Bengaluru)

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October 2011

A Book Fair-cum-Sale was organized at L&T Infotech Powai campus on 4th & 5th October, 2011. Mr. Sudhir Warde (EVP-HR & Talent Management) had inaugurated the exhibition along with Mr. MVN Rao (VP-HR) & Mr. G.S. Suri (Head-Strategic Resources) was present as guests at the exhibition.

We had fabulous response from employees and there were around 850+ Infoknights visited to this 2 days event and more than 720 books & 75 CDs were sold. We have received good numbers of book recommendations from Infoknights. There was also a subscription drive for Magazines like Data Quest, PC Quest by Cyber Media and Business World, Fortune India by ABP Pvt. Ltd. We are thankful to all our infoknights for their active participation in this event. For Internal Circulation Only Page 3

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Book Talk
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The Last Lecture - By Randy Pausch

The Last Lecture is one of the best books I have read in recent times. The only reason I could relate to it so easily was the fact that the author Randy Pausch, was a computer science professor. And I being in IT industry for quite some time now, could really get the feel of the high and low points of Randys life. The whole narrative of the book is very chronological, which is easy reading. There is no going back & forth in times. The way this book is written, it has all elements such as humor, inspiration, story-telling etc. So it is an interesting read. The determination, the willingness, the care, the attitude portrayed by Randy all across his life, and more so in his last days is worth appreciating, and it inspires the readers to a great extent.

Neha Bandi (17 TG) Navi Mumbai

SAP Business Information Warehouse Reporting - By Peter Jones The author explains the concepts well and in greater detail.There are lots of useful examples, tips and tricks. This book devotes a lot of space to the query designer this is the central tool for all SAP BI reporting - and covers it well. This hands-on guide shows how to construct Enterprise Data Warehouses, create workbooks and queries, analyze and format results, and supply meaningful reports. Learn how to use the BEx and Web Analyzers, Web Application Designer, Visual Composer, and Information Broadcaster. It also covers all aspects of the SAP Business Intelligence Reporting toolkit, the cutting-edge set of utilities for delivering accurate and effective corporate reports. Specific business scenarios and detailed solutions illustrate important points throughout the book
Amit Patra (50TS) - Bengaluru

Coaching People : Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges - By Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation If you are pressed for time and want to get quick information capsule about coaching then this book is for you. In less than 70 pages, this "pocket mentor" from HBS Press tells what is coaching, describes key coaching skills and provides tools in terms of forms, checklists and worksheets. A small test near the end of the book not only assesses readers' understanding of concepts but also reinforces them. An annotated list of learning resources concludes this book. Along with structured information, this book also provides few anecdotes to illustrate concepts. Overall it is worth reading for every practicing and aspiring manager.
Shrikant Mulik (99SG) - Powai

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Books Galore
Bengaluru
1. .Geek Nation - By Angela Saini 2 The GSM Evolution: Mobile Packet Data Services - By Peter Stuckmann 3 Rework: Change The Way You Work Forever By Jason Fried 4. The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy - By Hagel John Iii & John Seely Brown 5. Cloud Computing For Dummies - By Hurwitz, Judith/Bloor, Robin/Kaufman, Marcia

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New Arrivals in the Month of September - 2011.

Chennai
1. Advanced microsoft Excel 2. chicken soup for the soul though times,tough people By Jack canfield 3. Oracle 9i The complete reference By Loney Koch 4. Oracle database 10G New Features ,(Maximize the enhanced capabilities of oracle database) - By Robert G. Freeman 5. Oracle Designer/2000 handbook - By Paul Dorsey 6. You are addicted to youBy Noah Blumenthal

Navi Mumbai
1. Facilitative coaching: a toolkit for expanding your repertoire and achieving lasting results - By Dal Schwarz 2. Executive coaching with backbone and heart - By O'Neill Mary Beth 3. Building applications in the cloud - By Christopher M. Moyer 4. Google power search By Stephan Spencer 5. Operating systems : Third edition - By Achyut S. Godbole 6. SAP SD : For beginners Second editon - By Samad, K. A.

Powai
1. Immunity to change: How to overcome it - By Robert Kegan / Lisa Laskow Lahey 2. Better under pressure : how great leaders By Menkes.Justin 3. 8 things we hate about IT : how to move By Cramm,Susan 4. Leader of OZ : revealing the 101 secrets 2nd ed. - By Gazzara,Kevin D. / Lakhani,Murtuza Ali

Pune
1. Professional Java Web Services- By Jeelani Bashi 2. The Magic of Thinking Big Set your goals high.... then exceed them - By David J. Schwartz 3. e High Performance Enterpreneur - Golden rules for success in today's world By Subroto Bagchi 4. The Winning Way Learning from sport for Managers - By Harsha Bhogle 5. When the Penny Drops Learning what's not taught By R. Gopalakrishnan 6. I have a Dream - By Rashmi Bansal

5. Enterprise cloud computing

: technology , architecture ,applications By Gautam Shroff

This is an indicative list of new arrival books. For more details Click here.
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Serials Corner
Bengaluru
Business India [Issue 875] Business Today [Vol. 20(20)] Business World [Vol. 31(20)] Communication Today [Vol.18(9)] Data Quest [Vol.29(15)] Digit [Vol. 11(9)] Electronics For You [Vol.43(9)] Human Capital [Vol.15(4)] Information Week [Vol.3(4)] Intelligent Computing Chip [ Vol.8(1)] Latest Issues received in September - 2011.

October 2011

Chennai
Data Quest [Vol.XXIX(11)] Frozen Thoughts [Vol. 11(1)] Human Capital [Vol.14(15)] HRM Review [Vol.XI(8)]

Mysore
Business Today [Vol. 20(9)] Business World [Vol. 30(49)] Dataquest [Vol. 29(7)] Human Capital [Vol. 14(11)] India Today [Vol. 37(17)] My Mobile [Vol. 6(11)] Outlook [Vol. 52(16)]

Navi Mumbai
Business India - [Issue.875] Coordinates - [Vol. VII(9)] Developer IQ - [Vol. 11(9)] Forbes Asia - [Vol.7(10)] Fortune [Vol. 164(4)] India Today - [Vol. XXXVI(39)] Intelligent Computing CHIP - [ 8(10)] msdn magazine [Vol. 26(9)] Outlook [Vol. L1(38)] T+D - [Vol. 65(8)] Training [Vol. 48(4)] Visual Studio Magazine [Vol. 21(8)

Powai
Business Today [Vol. 20(19)] Datauuest [Vol. XXIX(19)] Digit [Vol. 11(9)] Human Capital [Vol. 15(4)] Intelligent Computing CHIP [Vol. 8(10)] Linux for You [Vol. 9(7)] Motoring (Sept, 2011) National Geographic [Vol. 220(3)] PC Quest (Sept., 2011) Voice & Data [Vol. 18(9)]

Pune
Business Manager [Vol. 10(1)] Human Capital [Vol. 15(4)]

This is an indicative list of Latest Periodical Issues. For comprehensive list click here.
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October 2011

*Top Library Users

Bengaluru: 1. Manjunatha R (IES) 2. Tapas Ranjan Dash (50MK) 3. N Rudra Prasad Das (50TS) Chennai: 1. R,Umaa Maheswari (30OH) 2. H,Rathinavel,Vidhyalakshmi (INS) 3. MythiliNandakumar (30TG) Mysore: 1. Muktar Ali Ansary (40 TG) 2. Tukaram Bhukya (40 TG) 3. Shobha Narasimha (Admin) Navi Mumbai: 1. Avdhoot Devidatt Chitale (17OR) 2. Prashant Kushalprakash Sharma (17KC) 3. Balasubramanian,Srinivas- (17CX) Powai: 1. Amit Rege (10TM) 2. Mahesh Kumat (10TG) 3. Sanjay Bapat (10SA) Pune: 1. Ms. Ashwini Jawalekar - (21 IN) 2. Mr. Sandeep Shah (21IN) 3. Mr. Akash Singhal (21IN)

*Top Library Books

Bengaluru: 1. 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses 2. HTML : The complete reference 3. Spring in action Chennai: 1. Design Patterns : Element of Reusable... 2. Creating value : Successful business strategies 3. Microsoft secrets Mysore: 1. Java: The Complete Reference, J2SE 2. Professional Android 2 Application ... 3. Sams teach yourself javascript 1.3 in 24 hours Navi Mumbai: 1. Fountainhead, The 2. Head first java 3. Working with microsoft dynamics CRM 2011 Powai: 1. Exploring the Unix System 1st ed. 2. Writing UNIX Device Drivers 3. TCP/IP illustrated : the protocols Vol.1 Pune: 1. Head First Java (Covers Java 5.0) 2. Unix shell programming 3. Wings of fire an autobiography of abdul kalamVol.No.0

*Based on Library Transactions for the month of September - 2011.

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