MC Kinsey MD Charged

With American authorities formally charging the former McKinsey managing director, Rajat Gupta, with insider trading, questions are being raised about his future on the boards of several Indian institutions.
On March 1, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced insider trading charges against Mr. Gupta, formerly on the boards of both Goldman Sachs and Procter and Gamble, for illegally tipping off a hedge fund manager with confidential information about quarterly earnings at both firms and an impending $5 billion investment in Goldman.
The tips allegedly earned more than $18 million for the Galleon Group, whose founder Raj Rajaratnam will face insider trading charges in court later this week. Mr. Gupta was a direct or indirect investor in some of Galleon's funds at the time, according to the SEC.

Office Manners

Check out the five manners below that can drive your co-workers against you.

1. I'm better than you: Many people believe that talking down to colleagues will give them a competitive edge over their counterparts. Every now and then, they want to prove them better than the others at any cost. But instead of making them stronger, this kind of attitude will make them an irritating fellow in their co-workers' eyes. The colleagues will go against them. 

2. Constant ringing of phone: Always keep in mind, the desk with flimsy partitions in that corner, where you always use to sit is not your private province. So don't take personal calls, keep your personal life and gripes to yourself. If you need to talk to somebody for some personal reason, lunch hour is all yours.

3. Criticizing and being Sarcastic: When a colleague comes to your desk to ask something, don’t give him a 'you don't even know that' look on your face. Being sarcastic about your colleague's opinions or frowning may put you in his black list.

4. Nosing around in other's conversation: Want to irritate your colleague really bad? Make sure that whenever your co-worker is asked something, it's you who answer to it even before the person who was asked. Come on! If you really use to do so, stop doing that and mind your own business.

5. Complaint management system personified: There is nothing wrong about making complaints regarding any inconsistencies in office management. But in order to become proactive, if you go to your boss and list all your colleagues' names with their corresponding complaints every other day, it will build grudge in your colleagues mind against you.

Creating and maintaining a good relation with colleagues can help you in many ways. Always keep in mind; what is allowable and tolerable for you may be annoying for your colleagues. So take down the above sins and keep yourself away from practicing them at any cost.

About USB 3.0

The USB 3.0 specification guarantees an increased performance of 10 times compared to the capabilities of the current USB 2.0, providing a bandwidth of 600 MB/s second.

Performance comparison: Transfer of 25GB HD movie:
USB 1.1: 9.3 hours
USB 2.0: 13.9 minutes
USB 3.0: 70 seconds

The new 3.0 connectors and cables will be physically and functionally compatible with hardware from the older specs. Of course, you won’t be able to maximize your bandwidth unless you’re using a USB 3.0 cable with Superspeed devices and ports, but at least plugging a 3.0 cable into a 2.0 port won’t blow up your PC.

Currently there are no OS available in the market which supports USB 3.0 and even the upcoming version of Windows i.e. Windows 7 will not support USB 3.0 though Microsoft may add support for it later on via Windows Update