Man, Andy Warhol was right with his famous comment that In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. Well, it’s Chuck Ganapathi’s day under the arc-lights today. The Internet is all atwitter about this fella. It seems the PSG Tech alumnus, who we were all blissfully unaware about until a short while ago, […]
Apple’s iPad is going into places where no tablet has ever gone before. United Airlines is converting to paperless flight decks by deploying 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots. Besides replacing paper flight manuals, the iPads will provide pilots with paperless aeronautical navigational charts via the Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck app. United Pilot with […]
Deven Sharma, president of tainted credit rating firm Standard & Poor’s, has been out-graded (take that neologism, schmucks). Sharma, 55, is stepping down as head of the firm effective September 12 but will remain an adviser of the parent company until the end of the year. The official reason cited for Sharma’s departure is that […]
The year is 1967 (most readers of the wonderful SI blog are not even born). Shammi Kapoor has put on noticeable weight, the cheeks seem a little swollen and the gait is a tad less graceful (two years have passed since his beautiful wife Geeta Bali died of smallpox leaving behind two young children). Yet, […]
It is pleasant not to be despised in one’s own country. – French writer Voltaire after the success of his play Zaïre Source: Voltaire by Ian Davidson, p.85 But what is our country? India? America? Both? Neither? Who can tell where the loyalties of a wanderer’s heart lie? Not even the wanderer. Related Posts: Zaïre
Now is the time for all desi cheapskates that scoffed at the iPad (because you didn’t want to fork out $499 for a fine device) to pick up the good-for-nothing HP TouchPad for $99. Here’s the list of U.S. stores peddling the TouchPad for $99. You can’t do much with the TouchPad but, hey, it’s […]