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 […]
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 […]
All those eagerly waiting to see notorious Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri punished severely for his alleged savage crimes against two fellow Indians in King of Prussia, PA last year will have to wait for some more time. A Pennsylvania court today agreed to Yandamuri’s lawyer’s request for additional time to prepare for the trial. This […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]