Siddharth has a good set of arguments about how Yahoo is gradually losing (or has already lost) its foothold in the end-user free email space:
I had registered my gmail account for many job sites while I was searching the job for my brother. One by one I started marking them as spam. And it has [...]
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How Yahoo is losing the battle to Gmail
Published by January 11th, 2010 in IT and Personal. 0 CommentsDaily tech tips at the Ampercent blog
Published by December 11th, 2009 in IT and Internet. 1 CommentAmit Banerjee from Kolkata runs a website and he publishes a very useful tech tip almost daily. Read up the latest one:
You have a dozen of usernames and passwords to remember which becomes unmanageable with time. You have passwords for your emails accounts, social sites, blog accounts etc. The problem with secure passwords is that [...]
Deeps just completed a year at IBM, her first job. She recollects her journey so far:
I think the best part of the whole journey was the friends we made. We have a kind of connect with each other which is in-explainable!! I love them to bits and today when all of us are distributed across [...]
Obama and outsourcing
Published by May 25th, 2009 in Business, Economy, Globalisation, IT, Policy, Politics, Regulation and World. 0 CommentsJoyeeta Biswas looks at Obama’s new policy initiatives on curbing outsourcing:
And even at one fifth of the salary of the American workers, Indian workers in the IT and BPO services still account for 5-7% of India’s GDP, bringing about a huge impact on cities such as Bangalore, the centre of the industry. Needless to say, [...]
Some recent graduates of our IIMs have started a blog at www.strat.in, where they discuss the strategies behind business and technology. Consider this a meta-blog about those two popular themes of many of our blogs. Here is an except from their latest post about an innovative way of advertising:
This guy walked into a book store [...]
iTunes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Published by April 15th, 2009 in Business, Humour and IT. 1 CommentPriyank reads through the Apple’s iTunes License Agreement and writes a hilarious post.
“THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, [...]
Vote Report India
Published by April 14th, 2009 in Announcement, Democracy, General Elections 2009 and IT. 0 CommentsThis time around, we can try to see more transparency and visibility of the elections coming up in May by the multitude of electronic media and tools available. One such initiative is VoteReport India, where you can submit your own story, SMS, twitter feed, etc. and it all gets organized into a single point of [...]
Tools and rationality for IT in education
Published by March 27th, 2009 in Business, Development, Education and IT. 0 CommentsAtanu has posted a very interesting article about the “effectiveness, efficiency, affordability” and ease of use of tools in general and then applies that analysis to the way Information Technology (IT) is being treated as a panacea for all diseases ailing India:
Even if we have determined that a CAT scanner is the tool required in [...]
India’s First Digital Elections
Published by March 24th, 2009 in Blogging, General Elections 2009, IT, India and Politics. 2 CommentsGaurav Mishra writes a post for Golbal Voices’ special coverage of Indian elections: he calls it India’s First Digital Elections. Interesting.
No lap left behind
Published by February 6th, 2009 in Business, Development, Education, Government, IT, India and Science & Technology. 1 CommentGreatbong lampoons the announcement of the $10 laptop by the government, with some hilarious links:
So what if the $10 laptop is worth $30? So what if it is actually $100 and the concerned Indian official did not read one “zero” as it was mistyped —after all what’s a few zeroes between friends, especially when the [...]
FOSS and Metal Music
Published by February 4th, 2009 in IT, Music and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsAshik draws parallels between FOSS (Free and open source software) and Metal music. Very interesting points there. Check it out.
Both are creativity at work . People do make music and software for money. But the quality of something that they make for the sheer pleasure of creating something is so much more awesome !!
Crappy metal [...]
How can we prevent another Satyam
Published by January 13th, 2009 in Business, Economy and IT. 2 CommentsRJ argues “that the real issue is a lack of a proper regulatory structure in India with which to assess the completeness, integrity and accuracy of financial data, and internal controls over financial reporting”:
If the global economic downturn wasn’t bad enough, incidents such as the Bernard Madoff issue, and now the Satyam scandal can’t have [...]
The disappointment with Satyam
Published by January 8th, 2009 in Business, Economy, IT and Law and order. 1 CommentAnubhooti had bought stocks just an hour before all the news of the mayhem spread:
Yesterday I dont know why, but I felt very sad, it was neither the first time I lost, nor the amount was too big, but may be it hurt me for multiple reasons and biggest one was that…….it was a real [...]
Bhanu Prakash on his blog points out what is lacking in the websites put up by Indian companies, and tells us what is to be done to properly utilize their potential:
But the fact lies many people don’t realize the importance of having a website and how can it be a powerful tool in the current [...]
Apoorv suddenly discovers that MTNL is bringing his neighborhood closer on his wireless network, with a range of 30 km:
I did a cross check on that number from MTNL’s online directory, and it turned out to be a number from Dwarka Sector 7. This was another shock, as I live around 30 Km away from [...]
Praveen Dalal practices law at the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India in matters relating to hi-tech crime and cyber forensics. In a post teeming with links and much more useful data,he writes about the digital age of India:
Another issue that assumes significance in this regard is the fact that Internet is [...]
To all of us hooked on to the fancies of Twitter, look at the new perspectives that Mahesh brings to the table:
Conduit for Text Commands
Enter Twitter that does both the above tasks brilliantly. Twitter acts as a conduit, a passive conduit, that makes it perfectly suited in this scenario. It is this facet of Twitter [...]
The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) initiative has its own presence in India, and some controversy was generated regarding the ‘Omlette Post‘ published by Atul Chitnis. In response to that, Prashanth at desitech writes about his opinion of the controversy:
The main points of argument seem to revolve around the blatant undermining of other forms [...]
Lets have Wi-fi hotspots instead of security tips
Published by September 19th, 2008 in Government, IT and India. 8 CommentsSriram Sharma wants TRAI to stop preaching about how to secure WiFi networks and rather provide Wi-Fi hotspots around the country:
This new regulation sends a different message from our government. They won’t bother providing free public wireless hotspots, because you know, that would be too much to ask as a tax payer, and the terrorists [...]
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