Asha Smartphones Screwed; Will Die Soon

Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s mobile phone devices business means that Nokia’s new Asha $99 low-end smartphones for countries like India will die an inglorious death sooner rather than later. As part of the deal to acquire Nokia’s devices and services, Microsoft will get the Asha brand too. Asha Smartphones from Nokia Asha Doomed Nokia’s Asha […]

Microsoft Flushes $7.2B Down the Toilet

When two smartphone failures join hands, the end result can only be a mega-dud. Microsoft is shelling out $7.2 billion in cash to buy Nokia’s mobile phone devices, license some patents and get access to Nokia’s mapping services. The deal will swell Microsoft’s headcount from 99,139 (on June 30, 2013) to 131,199. Nokia Lumia Smartphone […]

U.S., India Top List of Nations Seeking Facebook User Data

My two favorites, U.S. and  India, lead the pack of 74 countries requesting information from Facebook on users. Government requests to Facebook include basic subscriber information (such as name and length of service), IP address logs and actual account content. The majority of requests made by governments are said to be related to criminal cases […]

Playing with Linux Easier than You Think

For less than the cost of a pirated Bollywood or Kollywood DVD, you can learn to play with the open source Linux operating system. Despite its enormous popularity as an enterprise server powering mission-critical operations at thousands of organizations including the likes of Google, IBM and the Amazon, the Linux operating system has failed to […]

IT is Nirvana for Indian Immigrants in U.S.

More than a quarter million Indian immigrants work in IT jobs in the U.S. A recent study by Washington DC-based Migration Policy Institute has estimated that 29% of employed Indian men and 15.5% of working Indian women in the U.S. are employed in information technology jobs. This works out to a total of 274,406 India […]

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