Nimbus Communications is looking at life beyond cricket and is launching two new channels &ndash; Neo Cinema (based on Bollywood) and Neo Zindagi (a lifestyle channel for women) in June.

Nimbus moving to a new pitch

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&ldquo;She&rsquo;s like this because of you. You suck at raising kids.&rdquo; Dad has a bad day at work. Finds kid throwing tantrums. Blames mom. Passes judgment. Case dismissed. Moves on. The kid doesn&rsquo;t get her grades. &ldquo;Dumb like her mom&rdquo;. Case dismissed. The kid falls in love. &ldquo;Where were you while she was going out?&rdquo; Dads always blamed Moms for the kid&rsquo;s upbringing. Never ever realizing that it&rsquo;s the family that makes a kid, not just the mom.

Non-traditional ad, the early chapters

In a first, five medium-sized travel agents have formed an alliance to offer international travel experience under a common brand &ndash; Landmark Journeys. Apart from companies such as Travels &amp; Rentals, Trail Blazer Tours, Odyssey Tours and Travels, Equino Fun Holidays and Bharath International Travels, the alliance also includes Saltours International, a B2B partner.

Smaller travel firms form umbrella brand

    In cricket it&rsquo;s a term used to describe a delivery that reaches the batsman without bouncing on the pitch.

The Strategist Quiz (#188)

    Name the company that got started when its founder&rsquo;s friend, a glassmaker based in San Francisco, failed to sell one of his pieces on the street simply because he couldn&rsquo;t accept credit cards. The same person founded a successful online company with projected revenue of $150 million.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#187)

As more users access internet from mobile devices, web-based threats continue to grow in size.

Mobile apps emerge fertile ground for cybercrime

Balasubramanium Thiagarajan, president (air conditioning and refrigeration products group), Blue Star, has never been afraid of taking risks and making difficult decisions. Yet, he admits, this one decision has been two years in the making.

Beyond the comfort zone

Organised retail in India is that paradox which has been on the top of the potential chart for almost half a decade, but can still be considered only an infant in the retail maturity curve.

The new level

The Godrej Group&rsquo;s gourmet foods retailer is integrating its premium persona across all touch points of the brand.

Nature's basket refreshes itself

EBS Worldwide will close 2010-11 with revenues of Rs 64 crore, within seven years of entering this business, is interesting. It makes the Mumbai-based company, arguably, the largest provider of interactive marketing services out of India. It has offices in London, New York, Mumbai and Noida. These offer three services. One, one-to-one interactive/digital marketing services across the globe. Two, remote studio facilities for artwork and design of anything from annual reports to ad campaigns and brochures only for global companies. Three, it helps companies automate their marketing departments. EBS is majority owned by Group CEO and founder Chris George and his team. The rest is split between IL&amp;FS and several individual shareholders, including Mahesh Murthy and Ranjan Kapoor. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar spoke to George on how the company works. Excerpts.

Q&A: Chris George, Group CEO, EBS Worldwide

An out of the box face-to-face virtual meeting solution from Cisco could change the world for frequent business travellers and allow them to communicate instantly and conveniently over long distances straight from their desktops with sophistication.

All the world's a conference room

Accenture asked Tholons, the India-based global leader in offshoring consultancy, to study how the top 20 IT firms around the world weathered the downturn of 2008-09. The presentation of findings, led by Tholons Head and Founder Avinash Vashistha, pulled no punches. Some of what it said was complimentary to Accenture&rsquo;s peers but what it had to say about Accenture was not always complimentary.

Old and new worlds meet

Ram Vishwanathan is determined to fight out the Devas deal.

S-band meister

In a meeting with editors of television channels earlier this week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came out tops on the state of economy and what ails it, why inflation could not be addressed by aggressive monetary tweaking and how we needed to maintain growth momentum. He also cited India&rsquo;s economic success as his biggest achievement. Much of that well earned kudos was eclipsed by his uncomfortable handling of the biggest controversy in India &mdash; the telecom spectrum scam.

Dangerous liaisons

How a copyright amendment might change the way we read, write and publish in India.

2(m) or not 2(m)

Was it a revolution, then, what happened in Tunisia and Egypt? Or merely a revolt, an Arab-style anti-incumbency? The young people of Tahrir Square didn&rsquo;t sound like revolutionaries. There was no programme, no alternate vision, no theory. They wanted the presidents-for-life thrown out, period. According to Western correspondents in the region, it was also, and crucially, a matter of &ldquo;face&rdquo; &mdash; pride, dignity, prestige, izzat.

About face in Egypt

Those of us who work out of home often feel the need for a dedicated room or corner which offers peace and privacy. Here are a few tips from architects and designers on how to set up a home office within a comfortable budget of Rs 2 lakh.

At home with work

If, for some reason, you woke up one morning and found you had turned into a mid-size diesel sedan (just humour the imagery for a moment, if you will), you would no doubt be fairly taken aback. However, once the initial shock wears off, you would be quickly reassured by the fact that there has never been a better time to be a diesel sedan in India &mdash; demand is such that you would be snapped up by an impatient owner even before you had time to reassess your life path. The numbers are there for all to see &mdash; Maruti Suzuki can barely keep up with demand for its diesel engines, even after it upgraded its production capacity from 100,000 to 300,000 units a year. The waiting list for a diesel Swift/Dzire still runs into months, with the Ritz having joined the game as well.

SX change operation

The first-ever filmed advertisement for a beverage was Thomas Dewar&rsquo;s whisky commercial. It shows four kilted, tipsy Scotsmen dancing outside what looks like a tiny pub. They kick their feet up for a few seconds and then they fold themselves back into the pub, presumably for the next dram.

He nose it all

Nostalgia is over the hill where Loutolim&rsquo;s lone leopard occasionally prowls, across the highway from Mr Rebello&rsquo;s blue-and-yellow house (do not jump the wall without permission) and past the Raia Church. These directions are perfect for locating this shrine to one man&rsquo;s passion for Goan cuisine.

Memories of Nostalgia

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