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21st Century Phobias Includes Mobiles
Payment Phobia.

The Twenty First Century claims to be the most developed century.

It seems to me that it has the ingredients becoming one on using Technology to lose touch with the Reality called Life and saps your personality,reducing everything to machines and quantitative analysis.

Here is List of the Twenty First Century’s gift of Phobias.

Story:

According to a new study more than half of Brits suffer from nomophobia – an abbreviation of no-mobile-phone-phobia.

But it’s not the only phobia to have been caused by, or worsened by, the pressures of modern living.

We take a tongue-in-cheek look at some other fears and phobias that can be blamed on our 21st-century lives…and how to avoid them.

ANTEFAMAPHOBIA

The fear that people were talking about you but stopped as you entered the room.

An occupational hazard for many bosses…and those who overdo it at the office Christmas party.

AGMENOPHOBIA

The fear that the queue you join will be slower than the other one.

It might be the post office or the airport check-in. But for some people the Sod’s Law of queueing can become a real phobia.

Try employing a “queue dummy” – a friend who stands in the other line, just in case,

ANCRAOPHOBIA

Fear of wind.

Apt to affect teenagers returning to school who have spent the entire summer holiday inside playing on their X-boxes.

Also known to strike users of particularly violent washroom hand-dryers.

CHOROPHOBIA

Fear of dancing.

Teenagers forced to go to wedding receptions with their dads have been recognised sufferers for many years.

But the rise of Youtube-inspired Flashmob routines in shopping centres and railway stations is raising the incidence rate.

ALLODOXAPHOBIA

Fear of opinions.

According to experts it is “associated with previous encounters wherein the person affected has not been able to properly express their opinion” – ie likely to affect previous members of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet or anyone working for Simon Cowell.

ATOMOSOPHOBIA

Fear of atomic explosions.

Seems perfectly rational to us…..

NUCLEOMITUPHOBIA

Fear of nuclear weapons.

Ditto

ARACHIBUTYROPHOBIA

Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth (yes, really).

Don’t eat it. Or smear it on your hips. It ends up there anyway.

EDITIOVULTAPHOBIC

Taken from the Latin words for ‘face’ and ‘book’ it means . . . fear of Facebook.

Or just a fear of having every aspect of your life lived in front of “friends” you’ve never met or would ever want to meet.

CARBOPHOBIA

Fear of carbohydrates.

Once affected only the most obsessive devotes of Mr Atkins and his diet.

Now becoming worryingly prevalent among fans of TOWIE taking regular holidays to Marbella who live by the motto ‘No carbs before Marbs’.

CATAGELOPHOBIA

Fear of being ridiculed.

Easily prevented. Don’t audition for Britain’s Got Talent.

CENOPHOBIA

Fear of empty rooms.

Also easily prevented. Don’t come third in X Factor but insist on pursuing the dream.

AEDIFICATORPHOBIA

Fear of builders.

First identified among home owners in the 1970s conservatory era. Now considered an essential defence mechanism.

CONSECOTALEOPHOBIA

Fear of chopsticks.

Use a fork, stupid. Or have crispy duck pancakes. Or go for an Indian.

CHLOROPHOBIA

Fear of the colour green.

Likely to affect GM crop producers, EU fishermen and anyone employed in the oil industry

CYBERPHOBIA

Fear of computers.

Source and for More.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/modern-phobias-new-fears-caused-2227420
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27 Aug 2013
Vodafone Three Hundred Million Pounds Office No Staff
To take advantage of tax benefits, Vodafone, had an office in Ireland with a turn over of 324 Millions Pound Sterling per annum.

Telecoms giant: Employing no staff for five years, Vodafone took advantage of Ireland’s generous corporate tax rate to record a £324million annual turnover collecting royalty payments for the use of its brand

The catch is this office had no staff between the years 2002 and 2007.

I used to wonder at the rate the Mobile companies are reducing the service charges in India.

Initially the companies were charging Rs.10 per SMS, it came down to 5, then 1 and now most of the service providers provide it Free, depending on the Plan(!)

I came to know that the charges per SMS is Paise one (charged by the BSNL) , the gateway provider in India, to these service providers.

Now even call rates have come down.

Still these mobile companies make a killing.

Now this story!

Not content with fleecing their customers, they are fleecing the general Public who are not their customers at all, by enjoying tax benefits not meant for them.

Story:

Vodafone has made a multi-million pound settlement with HM Revenue & Customs in the wake of a dispute over the tax it had paid in Britain, it emerged last night.

The information was revealed after it was reported that the company ran an Irish subsidiary from a satellite office in Dublin for tax purposes.

Employing no staff for five years, the telecoms giant took advantage of Ireland’s generous corporate tax rate to record a £324million annual turnover collecting royalty payments for the use of its brand

The UK-based group used the Irish subsidiary, which employed no staff between 2002 and 2007, to collect royalty payments from operating companies and joint ventures around the world.

During a four-year period, it emerged these royalty payments helped Vodafone Ireland Marketing Ltd send more than £850million worth of dividends to the low-tax jurisdiction of Luxembourg from their Dublin base.

The dividends, which include a final payment of £121million due to be delivered this year, came from profits made after taking advantage of Ireland’s tax rates.

The disclosure comes as the British mobile phone group came under fire for its minimal corporation tax payments in the UK.

It also emerged that it is the largest supplier of mobile phones to the UK government, with more than 30 departments and public bodies, including the prime minister’s office, having contracts worth £14million a year with Vodafone.

The Guardian newspaper reported that the accountancy structure struck by the multinational was similar to the one used by Apple in Ireland.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396979/Vodafones-320m-year-Irish-office-staff-Telecoms-giant-multi-million-pound-tax-deal-HMRC.html

Related Articles
- Vodafone in multimillion tax deal over Irish office (irishtimes.com)
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19 Aug 2013
Mobile Manufacturers Service Providers Make Merry
Mobile Applications.

Though I do not much use for the Mobile/Cell Phone, I do have one(in fact three!)

All of them passed on to me by my son and daughter, after they have used it for, say , a couple of months or at the most a year)

They buy high-end smart phones, with lot of Applications.

I saw a recent ad for a Mobile Applications,saying that the Mobile hand set has more than 1200 Applications!

Even if you try three applications a day, it would take you three and a half years to try all the Applications.

The recent scam by these two are quite novel.

In the case of Smart Phones,(costs anywhere between 20, 000 to 35, 000 for a middle end set), the handset develops some problem, like the screen going blank, After repeated charge, the charge goes out, the hand set hangs,you can not make calls….ad infinitum.

If you take the Mobile to the Manufacturer’s Service Center, you are informed that a small problem has occurred in a part, it takes baout 15 working days to get it rectified.

If you are dumb enough to give the set to them, you would be informed after a month that there is no stock of the required part and it was expected any day.

In the process you waste about 3 months,

Later they inform you that the model is outdated and a New Model has arrived and you may get the new Mobile at a discounted rate on an Exchange Offer!

You end up with another highly Glitzy and outrageously priced Mobile.

You can do nothing, even in a Consumer Court because of the carefully worded Warranty Causes.

Well, if you want to change the Clause, you won’t get the product.

With the Service Providers, it is a different story.

Theyoffer Plans that make you so confused that you start thinking whether you are literate at all!

I had written on Airtel on the swindles they execute.

Others are no better.

BSNL, has , for the past 10 years, been giving me honest service.

As in Life, all things must end one day.

Over the past three months I noticed that my balance was dwindling very fast and I decided to investgate.

When I went to get the Mobile Topped Up, I was informed that ‘

“You get a message’You have 100-if you open it, your balance will be depleted”

I got the Mobile topped up and presto came the Message.

I deleted it with out opening

However the next morning, I found my balance at Rs.4.50!

The BSNL Help Desk could not be raised.

Through a contact of mine in BSNL, I got a number to contact.

The moment the call was received a man at the other asked me of the problem.

The moment I started explaining, he interrupted me saying ,

You send an SMS ‘START, send it to 1909, you will get a reply SMS, you type YES and send it to the same number.’

With out prompting he said these are routine that he does not know what will happen after this!

I followed his advice and received a reply that my request has been received and I will be allotted an Unique Registration Number within 24 Hours>

I do not know what that means!

I will post on the developments.

This post is mainly for people who may have similar problems!

On Mobile manufacturers tricks a post is to follow.

Related:

GetApp, one of the biggest marketplaces dedicated showcasing cloud applications aimed at small and midsize businesses, has created a section focused on mobile applications.

The new marketplace currently represents more than 1,200 services and tools for mobile devices running Android and Apple iOS. There are 25 different categories including productivity suites, communications, finance and accounting, collaboration, operations management and project management.

Sources;

http://www.zdnet.com/marketplace-features-1200-plus-mobile-apps-for-smbs-7000018084/

Applications Market Place.

http://www.getapp.com/

Related:

http://ramanisblog.in/2012/10/18/bsnl-bangalorelandline-broadband-complaints-bills-details/

According to Nielsen Media infographic, smartphone users have an average of 35 apps on their phones and use 2/3 of the phone usage time on apps.

(Quora)

http://www.quora.com/Mobile-Applications/What-is-the-average-number-of-apps-that-people-have-running-on-their-iPhone-or-Android-and-of-those-app-which-apps-get-used-most-hourly-daily-weekly
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19 Jul 2013
Teens new Syndrome Sleeptexting
Dating had been a problem , to handle it, it was accepted, thinking it is solved(people would say ”What problems?)

Then ‘Drugs’, partly solved , but Marijuana has been legalised with ingenious arguments>

Now comes “Sleep Texting‘

One has to learn to live with it, unless Teens understand that it is a problem;

Any way Psychiatrists will have a roaring business!

Sleep Texting

Teenagers are prolific texters. But now’s there’s evidence that they are even doing it in their sleep.

It’s called sleep texting.

“It’s just what you’d think it is, it’s texting while asleep,” says Elizabeth Dowdell, nursing professor at Villanova University, “It’s exactly what is sounds like, or really more between that, you know, that area between being asleep and being awake.”

“The phone will beep, they’ll answer the text,” Dowdell says. “They’ll either respond in words or gibberish. (It) can even be inappropriate. Ex-girlfriends contacting ex-boyfriends, saying ‘I miss you. I want to see you.’ The thing that happens, though, is that when they wake up, there’s no memory.”

Dowdell says teens should get eight, nine or ten hours of sleep a night.

“Overplugged and overextended teens and young adults tend to get less than that,” she says, “so this interrupts what could be a good night’s sleep, because they’re an hour-and-a-half or two hours into their sleep cycle, and they’re answering texts or the machines are beeping at them.”

Dowdell says sleep interruption can lead to obesity, depression, failing grades and more.

She says the answer is a technology-free bedroom, or, at the very least, putting the phone on the other side of the room, and turning off the ringer.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/02/11/local-expert-sleep-texting-is-growing-problem-among-teens/
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13 Feb 2013
Pakistan Suspends Mobile Services on Ramzan(EID)
Mobile Service suspended.

Pakistan cities suffer a total black out of Cell Phones in major cities, under orders from the Federal Government fearing Terrorist Attack.

Seems to be feeling a pinch of their own medicine.

Story from The Dawn.

Millions of people in the country, who were busy exchanging greetings through SMS, received a rude shock on the eve of Eidul Fitr when mobile phone service in some of the main cities was suspended on the direct orders of the federal government.

Mobile phones in Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Quetta and a number of other cities started to go silent from 8pm onwards, which was the peak period for most people to exchange Eid greetings.

In many areas of violence-prone Karachi panic gripped the denizens, particularly those whose families were out for last-minute shopping on ‘chand raat’. However, late in the evening the message started to spread around through television that the problem was not due to any malfunctioning or sabotage, but a result of the government’s counter-terrorism measure.

The suspension will continue during Eid prayer hours on Monday.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the action had been taken in view of security concerns of the governments of Punjab and Sindh.

Talking to newsmen, the minister said cellphone service would be suspended all over Punjab at the request of the provincial government.

“The Punjab government has requested us to suspend cellphone service in some parts of the province, but we think it should also made temporarily inoperative in sensitive areas of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh because terrorists usually use mobile phones in their acts of terrorism,” he said.

http://dawn.com/2012/08/20/malik-issues-eid-terror-alert-cellphones-go-silent-in-cities/
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20 Aug 2012