Deven Sharma, president of tainted credit rating firm Standard & Poor’s, has been out-graded (take that neologism, schmucks). Sharma, 55, is stepping down as head of the firm effective September 12 but will remain an adviser of the parent company until the end of the year. The official reason cited for Sharma’s departure is that […]
The year is 1967 (most readers of the wonderful SI blog are not even born). Shammi Kapoor has put on noticeable weight, the cheeks seem a little swollen and the gait is a tad less graceful (two years have passed since his beautiful wife Geeta Bali died of smallpox leaving behind two young children). Yet, […]
What makes HP TouchPad a compelling alternative to competing products is webOS. – Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president and general manager, Palm Global Business Unit, HP (June 9, 2011 On August 18, HP killed the webOS-based TouchPad after a horrible market reception to the tablet. Related Stories: Non-iPad Tablets Should Roll Over & Die It’s […]
An Indian techie Dharmendra Modha is leading an initiative at IBM to develop a chip (microprocessor) that mimics the functioning of the human brain. Describing the new microprocessor as cognitive computing chips, IBM researchers say they will emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. An experimental version of the chip has already been […]
When clueless bozos stray into the kitchen and headless chicken run helter skelter around the dining room, the ugly epiphany is a hopelessly trashy Indian restaurant called Arusuvai Chettinad in North Brunswick, NJ. The fitting punishment for such Indian restaurants dumpsters in New Jersey – Adi Seruppale (i.e. remove your old, dirty slippers and fling […]
Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility throws up the big question …. Why? * First and foremost, buying cellphone, set-top boxes and tablet vendor Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion (a 63% premium over Friday’s closing price) is a tacit admission by Google that ultimately Apple’s closed model of controlling all aspects of the […]