Recently i have been planning on starting my own company in India. It will be a Private Limited Company and something like Global —–   —–  Pvt. Ltd. So i file the documents in Mumbai for registration of the name. Well it got rejected and came back… Why??? Because the company name contained the word “Global” so they want me to register it with Rs. 1 Crore and not Rs. 1 Lakh. What happened to a free country and equal opportunity? The moronic government passed a rule that allows a certain class of names to be registered by only the upper class of society.

This needs to be re-planned for India’s growth. In the USA most companies are started by 1-2 people with little capital investment and many do very good for themselves. So why are we in India shooting ourselves in our feet???

Moronic People who passed that rule for sure.

Chill Out.

Vikram Jhaveri

Airtel is up to their worst tricks again. So i recently upgraded my internet connection to 1MBPS unlimited from Airtel. And what do i get for paying them more money? Constant sales call, FROM AIRTEL SUPPORT, to give them more money. Worst of all, they call me at 9AM on a Sunday. Those freaking losers can forget getting any other business from me. I have cancelled my Airtel post-paid cell, Airtel cable TV, and disconnected the phone line. Only kept the internet connection because they are good at something.

Why don’t companies learn not to harass customers???

Not sure why, but Big Bazaar (Mumbai – Bombay Central – City Mall) has around 10 check out lanes, but i have never seen more than 4 in action. This caused a huge problem on Sunday, when buying my groceries took 10 minutes and finishing checkout took 30 mins. They could not move any more slow there (i think it was new staff) and to compound the problem, they could not figure out how to accept a gift certificate the person in front of me had.

It was an absolute nightmare and they need to hire a competent floor manager and create a customer grievance counter too.

So far they have lost me as a customer. I am going to go to Reliance Fresh, which seems to have a better staff.

- Signing Out Vikram Jhaveri

Today i was stuck in traffic of 90mins, for a drive that should have taken 15mins. The reason?

New Era School in Mumbai, was upgrading not only its facilities, but also its curriculum, which is a good thing. The bad thing, rather than planning it, they simply rushed through it, which resulted in all current students being relocated.

So the parents protested, on the streets, disrupting traffic, because they decided it was okay. I personally felt they should have been thrown behind bars for a few hours for disrupting civil peace. However we are an extremely tolerant society and did not.

One has to think though, what were the parents thinking? Does the general public care about the time they just lost, or about a school they do not care about. What were the parents and children getting? Curses or Pity?

It was complete chaos and a lot of people lost close to 5 good hours. Luckily i just lost an hour. However hope that all those parents that created so much trouble and pain for others, should be forced to have to send their children to the relocated school just for that.

By, Vikram Jhaveri

This is mainly a personal complaint against MTNL. I signed up for their unlimited 512 kbps plan. It was painless and took a few minutes over the phone. Which i thought was impressive.

Next they said they would install it in 7 days, however they came in 2 days to install it. I was impressed again.

However now came the nightmare. Since i was not at home, they left the equipment, said that it was all activated and all i had to do was connect it. So i did, and guess what, it did not work.

After spending hours registering a complaint, they sent a young technician, who after 7 days could not get anything working. So i decided to cancel. And guess what, they billed me installation fees and 1 month usage for Rs. 4000 even though the plan costs Rs. 1500 and did not work for more than a few minutes.

Guess some companies try to show that they have improved, but that is all smoke and mirrors.

By, Vikram Jhaveri

This is a small description of a huge mistake made by cell phone companies in India. Let the company be new or old, public or private, they all make this mistake.

What is the mistake?

Unwanted Sales Call and Sales SMS.

I have tried a variety of cell phone services, this was a small project of mine. I got Airtel, Aircel, BPL (Now Loop Mobile), MTNL, Idea and BSNL. Since i knew what i wanted, first day i got my cell phone, i turned send an SMS to the Do Not Disturb National Registry. So that should have told them that i do not want to be troubled.

Now i do not get any Sales calls. Which is a good thing. I wanted to try a routine here with sales call though. Any service i was offered, i plan to call these sales people to my office, let them waste a few good hours. I can live with that. My few minutes is worth their useless hours in time comparison.

Now regarding SMS, OMG, these companies just send one SMS after another. It has just got to stop. Again a side note, (Idea cellular service) only sent me one sms in a month, i would definitely recommend them. However Loop Mobile, Aircel, Airtel and MTNL, just stay away from them. I get SMS’s from them every few hours. How annoying is that for business people???

Just a huge corporate blunder is what i see here. No one will want their corporate employees to have a cell phone that constantly annoys them.

By, Vikram Jhaveri

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Here is to finding a children’s watch, an easy task by no means.

How hard can it be?

Well why don’t you try. Walk into a store and you will find all kinds of watches, however all these watches are plastic watches with plastic straps. In fact, they are kind of kiddy too. I tried so many stores at the mall and even in specialty watch stores.

On the verge of giving up. I found the watch at an online store called Amazon. These watches are made by a company called Titan, around $20 are very classy and have leather straps.

If anyone is like me searching for a kiddy watch with a leather strap. Thank me cause i saved you a lot of time.

- Vikram Jhaveri

Well i needed to hire fresher’s for a new project i was starting. I googled India and resume services. I quickly found the top 3 sites, Naukri.com, TimesJobs.com and MonsterIndia.com

First lets compare how fast we can be set up. Naukri.com had an almost instant setup. I paid via HDFC netbanking and i was up and running in 1min. MonsterIndia took an entire day to get me up and running, in their defense i signed up on a Sunday. TimesJobs on the other hand, took 2 days to get me running.

Costs:

Naukri.com was the most expensive. I did not even bother to buy their database services, too expensive. I would advice them to have something cheaper that was a 24hr. pass. 

MonsterIndia.com has a good package. 2 listing and 7 day database access for an affordable price.

TimesJobs had a decent package too, 3 print AD listings and 3 online ads and 1 day database access.

Things to note: Timesjobs Print AD’s would not work in over 4 computers i tried at home and work. In 3 different browsers and they kept blaming it on me. Finally the CS was kind enough to take my AD over email and manually enter it.

Results:

Naukri.com – The matching emails had relevant emails to show candidates key skills and location. Once i figured out the system, i got pretty good matches.

TimesJobs – They have the worst matching system. Got lots of spam, but not just from my city, from all over India. Their database access must be outdated too, i contacted over 200 candidates and not even 2 responded back.

MonsterIndia – They have a keyword completion tool. I highly recommend using this. Once i figured it out, 60% of resumes were matched correctly. Their DB must be outdated too, again contacted loads of peoples and not even 10% got back.

I ended up getting all my employees from Monster India and Naukri in the end. DB access was worthless and only posting online ads was the best way to go. In fact if you read this, it will save you loads of money.

If i had to choose between MonsterIndia and Naukri, i would give the vote hands down to Naukri.com

Why pay for something when you can get it free… If you feel the same, read on…

You can’t find a product called Security Suite CBE 2009 from the official Kaspersky’s website. This version of Kaspersky is not for sale but it is provided for free by Computer Bild, one of the best selling German language computer magazine in Europe. If you didn’t know, Computer Bild has been providing this free version of Security Suite CBE for a few years already. Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 2009 is a computer security protection software for Windows system that includes antivirus, antimalware, firewall, antispam, proactive defense, application filtering, antiphishing, network attack blocker, antidialer, and banner ad blocker.

Actually Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 2009 is exactly the same as Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 v8.0.0.504 except that it is re-branded to another name and uses German language interface. Normally if you are using other language versions of Kaspersky, you can easily switch it to English language by hitting the F12 key but it won’t work on Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 2009.

After taking a break for nearly 3 weeks because of my wedding, today I am back sharing with you guys on how to obtain a license key for Kaspersky Security Suite CBE, where to download the latest version of Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 2009 and how to permanently change the Kaspersky Security Suite CBE German language to English.

1. Go to this page and fill up the form to register for an account at computerbild.de.

2. Check your email. You should get an email from ComputerBild with confirmation link to activate your account.

3. Check the second checkbox to request for the Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 09 license key and click the “Lizenzschlüssel anfordern” button.

4. Check your email again and this time you’ll get an email containing the license key to activate Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 2009. (The license key that you get will always be the same. So don’t bother requesting multiple times with different accounts)

5. Download latest Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 2009 and install. Now everything is in German. If you can understand German language, then you don’t really need to change the language to English. For others, continue the steps.

6. After installation and Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 09 is running, click the Einstellungen button on the top right to bring up the settings window.

7. Click Parameter and uncheck Selbstschutz aktiveren. Click OK to close the Einstellungen window.

8. Go to Start > Run, type regedit and click OK. Navigate to the following path in the Registry Editor:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\KasperskyLab\protected\AVP8\environment

9. Look for Localization and double click to edit the string.

10. Change the value data from de to en.

11. You can either Restart your computer or terminate Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 09 and run it again to see the changes. See the image below, Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 09 in ENGLISH!

If you go to the license tab, you should see that the Kaspersky license validity period expires on 9/13/2009 with 82 days remaining. Not to worry on that because Computer Bild has been providing updated license key since 2007 to keep the product activated. Oh, this license key can ONLY be used on Kaspersky Security Suite CBE and not on either Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 or Kaspersky Antivirus 2009.