Starting with the browser, Microsoft has been one of the biggest failures and laggards on the Internet side of the computer industry. Microsoft’s latest and biggest failure is, of course, on the search front where Google has taken all the glory and all the money. Despite throwing in hundreds of millions of dollars, Microsoft’s MSN […]
What’s all this hullabaloo about IT company EDS paying $720,000 in bribes to Indian officials? We just don’t understand all this sound and fury and gnashing of teeth. It’s all much ado about nothing. After all, taking and giving bribes is a great Indian tradition. Scores of Bollywood movies show ministers and officers demanding and […]
In America, it seems everything is for sale. Now you can even buy convincing lies, with a nice alibi to back you up when you face some of life’s sticky situations. Want to get off for a weekend with your girlfriend without the wife knowing, skip a boring office conference, justify missing an event, a […]
The good news – Zimbabwe’s official inflation rate is down by nearly a thousand percentage points. The bad news – the official inflation rate in this African nation is still a whopping 6,592.8%. Independent economists peg the real inflation rate many times higher than the official rate. Zimbabwe has the highest inflation rate in the […]
U.S. State Department officials said Monday India has a serious problem with diversion of chemicals and legal opium into illegal markets. In President George Bush’s Majors List of major drug-transit or illicit-producing countries submitted to Congress, India figures as one among 20 countries that have failed to adhere to international counternarcotics agreements and to take […]
For Indian movie fans tired of seeing their favorite Bollywood babes go through the motions of acting in movie after movie, Jodie Foster is an acting revelation. One of the finest actresses of our generation, Jodie Foster delighted us in Silence of the Lambs, Panic Room, Accused, Flightplan and even that old Robert De Niro starrer Taxi […]