It’s becoming a zoo out there in the Indian car portals arena with so many players. In the typical me-too style characteristic of many Indian Internet ventures, one more car portal has come up. The latest entrant is Carazoo, the offspring of automotive interactive software provider Logix Microsystems of Bangalore. Like its fellow travelers, Carazoo […]
Just days after Canon debuted two new DSLRs, Nikon is hitting back with two new digital Single Lens Reflex cameras – the high-end D3 and the lightweight D300 for serious amateurs. Highlights of the Nikon D3 include a 12.1 megapixel FX format (36.0×23.9mm) full frame image sensor with 12-channel read out, 9 fps frame rate, […]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has shut down 10 Reliance Industries superstores after protests by small traders and political activists. Five supermarkets run by another Indian retail chain Spencer’s have also been shut down. Mayawati, who became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh recently, after a resounding victory, said: I have constituted a high-level committee to […]
He cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle, and he does not score many goals. Apart from that, he’s all right – Football legend George Best on David Beckham. David Beckham is considered as God’s Gift to Soccer in Britain and a celebrity even in his new home, the […]
In an op-ed piece in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required), economist Arvind Subramanian questions the wisdom of providing foreign aid to poor countries. In a piece titled Farewell to Alms (borrowing from Hemingway’s famous Farewell to Arms), Subramanian, a senior Fellow at the Washington DC think tank Center for Global Development argues that foreign aid […]
It seems like there’s no end in sight to Dell’s problems. Just after disclosures of fraud in its accounting, Dell’s having serious problems shipping some of its laptops and desktops. The problems couldn’t have come at a worser moment for Dell because the lucrative Back to School season is getting started in the U.S. The […]