Xobni is just one heck of a utility!. It is helping me everyday on my corporate email communications. Xobni Organizes email by People. It provides you with excellent statistics and insights in to your Outlook inbox. There is a new update to the Xobni and during the installation process, it presented me with some very interesting Trivia about Corporate email communications. I have noted down a few to share with you.

Xobni Corporate email communication Trivia

• Microsoft Exchange Server has 59% market share in Corporate email
• 46% of all Xobni users Outlook 2007 and 54% use Outlook 2003
• Globally in the next 4 years enterprises will spend around $17 Billion on corporate email
• Enterprise email costs an average of $435.85 per User per Year
• By 2009 workers are expected to spend 41% of their time managing email
• An average human brain is capable of maintaining 150 friendships
• Xobni users communicate with about 1900 different people
• The average Xobni user has around 30,000 emails in Outlook

If you have not tried Xobni yet, I would strongly recommend you to try it once.

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Thought it would be interesting to see a cost comparison of the software between Mac and Windows. The fact is that Windows is having more ‘functional’ freeware for my needs – yet for the purpose of comparison I’ve picked some commercial alternatives. Let me know what you think!

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I have an IP filter enabled!

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Have you seen the new CNN beta site? I’ve heard earlier that CNN political ticker blogs runs WordPress CMS.

What do you think about this beta site?. I liked the new interface better.

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Over 100 MNCs have set up R&D facilities in India in the past five years. These include GE, Bell Labs, Du Pont, Daimler Chrysler, Eli Lilly, Intel, Monsanto, Texas Instruments, Caterpillar, Cummins, GM, Microsoft and IBM. India’s telecom infrastructure between Chennai, Mumbai and Singapore, provides the largest bandwidth capacity in the world, with well over 8.5 Terabits (8.5Tbs) per second.With more than 250 universities, 1,500 research institutions and 10,428 higher-education institutes, India produces 200,000 engineering graduates and another 300,000 technically trained graduates every year.

• Besides, another 2 million other graduates qualify out in India annually.
• The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is among the top three universities from which McKinsey & Company, the world’s biggest consulting firm, hires most.
  • Indians abroad
    A snapshot of Indians at the helm of leading Global businesses
    The Co-founder of Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla),
    Creator of Pentium Chip (Vinod Dahm),
    Founder and creator of Hotmail (Sabeer Bhatia),
    Chief Executive of McKinsey & Co. (Rajat Gupta)
    President and CFO of Pepsi Cola (Indra Nooyi)
    President of United Airlines (Rono Dutta)
    GM of Hewlett Packard (Rajiv Gupta)
    President and CEO of US Airways (Rakesh Gangwal)
    Chief Executive of CitiBank (Victor Menezes),
    Chief Executives of Standard Chartered Bank (Rana Talwar)
    Chief Executive officer of Vodafone (Arun Sarin)
    President of AT & T-Bell Labs (Arun Netravali)
    Vice-Chairman and founder of Juniper Networks (Pradeep Sindhu)
    Founder of Bose Audio (Amar Bose)
    Founder, chip designer Cirrus Logic (Suhas Patil )
    Chairman and CEO of Computer Associates (Sanjay Kumar)
    Head of (HPC WorldWide) of Unilever Plc. (Keki Dadiseth)
    Chief Executive Officer of HSBC (Aman Mehta)
    Director and member of Executive Board of Goldman Sachs (Girish Reddy)
    Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (Raghuram Rajan)
    Former CTO of Novell Networks (Kanwal Rekhi)
  • Of the 1.5M Indians living in the USA, 1/5th of them live in the Silicon Valley.
  • 35% of Silicon Valley start-ups are by Indians.
  • Indian students are the largest in number among foreign students in USA.

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• The domestic BPO sector was projected to increase to $4 billion in 2004 and reach $65 billion by 2010. (McKinsey & Co.).
• The outsourcing includes a wide range of services including design, architecture, management, legal services, accounting and drug development and the Indian BPOs are moving up in the value chain.
• There are about 200 call centers in India with a turnover of $2 billion and a workforce of 150,000.
• 100 of the Fortune 500 are now present in India compared to 33 in China.
• Cummins of USA uses its R&D Centre in Pune to develop the sophisticated computer models needed to design upgrades and prototypes electronically and introduce 5 or 6 new engine models a year.
• Business Week of 8th December 2003 has said “Quietly but with breathtaking speed, India and its millions of world-class engineering, business and medical graduates are becoming enmeshed in America’s New Economy in ways most of us barely imagine”. William H. Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Microsoft Corporation

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Top 5 American employers in India are General electric with 17,800 employees, Hewlett-Packard with 11,000 employees, IBM with around 6,000 employees, American Express with 4000, Dell with almost 3,800 employees.

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• The Indian pharmaceutical industry at $6.5 billion and growing at 8-10% annually, is the 4th largest pharmaceutical industry in the world, and is expected to be worth $12 billion by 2008.
• Its exports are over $2 billion. India is among the top five bulk drug makers and at home, the local industry has edged out the Multi-National companies whose share of 75% in the market is down to 35%.
• Trade of medicinal plants has crossed $900M already.
• There are 170 biotechnology companies in India, involved in the development and manufacture of genomic drugs, whose business is growing exponentially.
• Sequencing genes and delivering genomic information for big Pharmaceutical companies is the next boom industry in India.

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• India is among six countries that launch satellites and do so even for Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore and EU countries.
• India’s INSAT is among the world’s largest domestic satellite communication systems.
• India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) was indigenously manufactured with most of the components like motor cases, inter-stages, heat shield, cryogenic engine, electronic modules all manufactured by public and private Indian industry.
• Columbia space shuttle when it disintegrated over Texas skies just 16 minutes before its scheduled landing on Feb 1st 2003, she was the second Indian in space.
• India imported 9M tonnes of food-grains to support its people, through a grand programme of national self-sufficiency which started in 1971, today, it now has a food grain surplus stock of 60M.
• India is among the 3 countries in the World that have built Supercomputers on their own. The other two countries being USA and Japan.
• India built its own Supercomputer after the USA denied India purchasing a Cray computer back in 1987.
• India’s new PARAM Padmaâ„¢ Terascale Supercomputer (1 Trillion processes per sec.) is also amongst only 4 nations in the world to have this capability.
• India is providing aid to 11 countries, writing-off their debt and loaning the IMF $300M.

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• Tata Motors paid $ 118 million to buy Daewoo commercial vehicle Company of Korea.
• Ranbaxy, the largest Indian pharmaceutical company, gets 70% of its $1 billion revenue from overseas operations and 40% from USA.
• Tata Tea has bought Tetley of UK for £260M.
• India is one of the world’s largest diamond cutting and polishing centres, its exports were worth $6 Billion in 1999.
• About 9 out of 10 diamond stones sold anywhere in the world, pass through India.
• Garment exports are expected to increase from the current level of $6 billion to $25 billion by 2010.
• The country’s foreign exchange reserves stand at an all-time high of $120 Billion.
• India’s trade with China grew by by 104% in 2002 and in the first 5 months of 2003, India has amassed a surplus in trade close to $0.5M.
• Mobile phones are growing by about 1.5Million a month. Long distance rates are down by two-thirds in five years and by 80% for data transmission.
• Wal-Mart sources $1 Billion worth of goods from India – half its apparel. Wal-Mart expects this to increase to $10 Billion in the next couple of years.
• GAP sources about $600 million and Hilfiger $100 million worth of apparel from India.

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