At Microsoft’s meeting with financial analysts yesterday, CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged a fact that anyone with a head has known for a long time: Microsoft is a total disaster in the mobile arena where Apple and Google are ruling the roost in smartphones, tablets, apps and music. The tragedy for Microsoft is that as the […]
HP CEO and failed governor candidate Meg Whitman must be one crazy woman! Why else would HP announce FIVE new Android and Windows tablets when most vendors of these tablets are struggling to sell their devices and not lose too much money. Android tablet vendors are in a price war to the bottom while Windows […]
Linux, as the cognoscenti know, is not the work of hobbyists writing code in the evenings while simultaneously eating Samosas, drinking Masala Chai and watching Ram Charan Teja romance Priyanka Chopra in the Bollywood dud Zanjeer. Linux is serious business, the work of talented and dedicated programmers toiling to deliver a robust operating system for […]
Telugu serial groper Srinivasa Erramilli’s desperate bid to avoid jail time has failed with a Chicago judge sentencing him today to nine months in jail for groping a female co-passenger on board a U.S. commercial flight on June 14, 2011. Erramilli was also fined $5,000, placed on court supervision for a year after he is […]
Jail for Telugu Groper Srinivasa Erramilli Telugu serial groper and convicted felon Srinivasa Erramilli has made several interesting arguments in his bid to escape jail time and obtain probation (albeit with special conditions). Erramilli’s novel arguments were made in his Sentencing Memorandum submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on […]
In the business of life, every tiny episode is a test, every human encounter a lesson. Look and learn. – the Five Star Billionaire Walter Chao Drowning in a Svedka stupor, I’d be hard pressed to tell you how I stumbled upon Tash Aw’s new book, Five Star Billionaire. How does it even matter? The book […]