Tech Buzzwords that's selected as Words of the year - 2011 by Oxford Dictionary

• Arab Spring: A series of anti-government uprisings in various countries in North Africa and the Middle East, beginning in Tunisia in December 2010.
• Bunga bunga: Used in reference to parties hosted by the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, at which various illicit sexual activities were alleged to have taken place.
• Clicktivism: The use of social media and other online methods to promote a cause.
• Crowdfunding: The practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.
• Fracking: The forcing open of fissures in subterranean rocks by introducing liquid at high pressure, especially to extract oil or gas.
• Gamification: The application of concepts and techniques from games to other areas of activity, for instance as an online marketing technique.
• Occupy: The name given to an international movement protesting against perceived economic injustice by occupying buildings or public places and staying there for an extended period of time.
• The 99%: The bottom 99% of income earners, regarded collectively.
• Tiger mother: A demanding mother who pushes her children to high achievement using methods regarded as typical of Asian childrearing.
• Sifi: A bank or other financial institution regarded as so vital to the functioning of the overall economy that it cannot be allowed to fail, a.k.a. “systemically important financial institution.”

Bricks for Bread and Milk

In New Delhi there are upwards of 100 construction projects underway in preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games scheduled to take place from Oct. 4 to 13. These projects -- ranging from several new stadiums to a new international airport terminal -- are drawing vast numbers of migrant workers from all over India to provide the extra labor needed. Contractors, already behind schedule, are taking advantage of lax labor laws and coercing their employees to bring their children to work alongside them, promising payments of bread and milk. Above an Indian girl carries a brick at a construction site in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Feb. 3.

Read more here:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/05/bricks_for_bread_and_milk

Banglore - 2nd place in IT arena

As per the latest global tech spot list of Silicon.com, Bangalore is only next to Silicon Valley.

http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/techhotspots/ lists the top 20 global hot spots

1. Silicon Valley
2. Bangalore
3. London
4. Tokyo
5. Boston
6. Cambridge
7. Shanghai
8. Tel Aviv
9. Seoul
10. Beijing
11. Chennai
12. Pune
13. Singapore
14. Helsinki
15. Moscow
16. Hong Kong
17. Hyderabad
18. New York
19. Sydney
20. Shenzhen

India & China have 4 each; US has 3 and UK has 2; while Australia, Finland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Russia and Singapore have 1 each.

Interestingly America has 3, Europe has 4, Middle East has 1, Australia has 1 while Asia has 11!