The sordid relationship between the internet and pornography is a storied one. It’s a kinship that inpires thoughts of locked doors and closed blinds, the secret fulfillment of shameful lusts. That, and it makes a hell of a lot of money.
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Posted 14 May 2007
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I’m 99% sure that India do not have a single TV Channel that is HDTV enabled! To enjoy your HDTV, one have to realized the fact that it needs a HD Cable or Satellite feed. Even most DVDs are common DVDs and not HD enabled. So, if most of the common visual quality that we [...]
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Posted 28 April 2007
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In a rather smart agreement by India, the United States finally agreed to import our Alphanso and Kesar mangoes in lieu of their Harley Davidson bikes for India. To mark the agreement, the first shipment of 150 boxes of mangoes acquired clearance from the Indian customs yesterday and will be on its export-bound to the [...]
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Posted 27 April 2007
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The Indian embassy in the US Capital, Washington D.C. is planning to outsource processing of Visas to a US company. The whole move “is really a man bites dog kind of story”, “It’s a small irony in an otherwise serious situation.” Without disclosing much details including lay-offs and designation structures, the head of political affairs [...]
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Posted 05 March 2007
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Couple of days back, news was that Reliance Communications was interested in Hutch-Essar. Being a Gold Member of Hutch (erstwhile Orange in Mumbai) since 2000, I was not really happy to hear the news and wish that Reliance Communications do not take it up on their stride. Now, the news is of Vodafone’s interest and [...]
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Posted 25 December 2006
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Mr. Narayana Murthy, Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited, is known not just for building the biggest IT empire in India but also for his simplicity. He founded Infosys in 1981 along with six other software professionals. He is incidentally, one of the top 50 Influential people of Asia according to an Asiaweek publication and also [...]
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Posted 20 December 2006
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I was reading Avoid These 10 Interview Bloopers and I really liked most of the points. The special points that I want to emphasize are – Do not talk too much Do not talk bad about anybody Make good enough eye contact However, if you were to totally avoid this and Kiss Corporate Life Goodbye, [...]
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Posted 31 October 2006
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Man, I did think of this idea long back and if you ask my colleagues, friends, they will tell you that I did tell them about this idea. I saw Mashable’s article- Recruiting.com Becomes Digg for Jobs and realized that it is something somewhere else that I wished to do myself long back. I’m not [...]
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Posted 15 September 2006
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The popular desktop customization program, WindowBlinds has been acquired by Yahoo. Yahoo, which recently bought Konfabulator, a popular widget engine, said that adding WindowBlinds to the mix was a natural next step. WindowBlinds 5.1, originally expected to be released late summer 2006, will be rebranded as Yahoo Skins. It will include a simple SDK in which [...]
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Posted 19 August 2006
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The interview of Guy Kawasaki by Cameron Olthuis is an interesting read. This should be a good read for any enterprising business enthusiast. Excerpts You can learn an awful lot through rejections. 99% of the time, they are not going to get funded. But there’s that 1%. Of course, you do realize that even with [...]