If the rip-off prices of inkjet printer cartridges come down in the U.S, you’ll have to thank a desi guy in California – Ranjit Bedi. On Monday, Ranjit Bedi filed an antitrust lawsuit against HP and office supplies store chain Staples in the U.S.District Court in Boston charging the two companies with illegally colluding to stop competing […]
Many of us have come across the term country cousin either in a book/magazine article or in conversation. Simply put, country cousin refers to an unsophisticated individual or a rural person new to the ways of the city. The origins of this popular term date back to the late 18th century. Several Indian languages have […]
PC World royally screwed Windows Vista the other day slamming the operating system as the biggest tech disappointment of 2007. PC World Contributing Editor Dan Tynan writes: Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do? It’s not that Vista is awful…. It’s just that Vista isn’t all that good. Many of […]
Indian perfume millionaires Mahender Muralidhar Sabhnani and his wife Varsha Mahender Sabhnani were found guilty by a New York jury of forced labor, harboring illegal immigrants, involuntary servitude and conspiracy charges in a high-profile case dubbed by prosecutors as “a case of modern day slavery.” The Sabhnanis, who live in a multi-million dollar home in Muttontown, a wealthy […]
Google is challenging the popular Wikipedia information web site with a new project called Knol that gives the popular search engine a reach into the content domain. Describing Knol in his blog post, Google’s VP of Engineering Udi Manber wrote: A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone who […]
Billa II Review – Frustratingly Bad As far as we can tell, Tamil movie superstar Rajnikanth has led a stellar and dignified life except for two big follies. Rajnikanth’s first folly happened sometime in 1979 or 1980, when he disgraced himself with his bad behavior at an airport in South India around the time of […]