Like client-server computing in the early 1990s, Java in the mid-1990s and e-business in the late 1990s, cloud computing is the buzz IT phrase of this era. Hailed as the panacea for all IT ailments starting from ballooning IT infrastructure costs to the shortage of talented IT workers, cloud computing is supposed to take us to the […]
Folks, here comes the 22nd instalment of Incredible India, with those only-in-India stories. * This one is straight out of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not book and we were tongue-tied when we first heard this. Mahesh, a follower of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, cut his tongue at a Hindu temple as a […]
First it was the H1B software coolies that began screwing American workers (thanks to greedy U.S. corporations). Now, the down-on-their-luck American workers are being bitch slapped by other things Indian. The New York Times has an interesting article today on how Indian steel pipes are being used in an oil pipeline project in Granite City, […]
Worldwide PC shipments (desktops and notebooks) in the first quarter of 2009 were down 7.1% year over year to 63.46 million units, according to the number crunchers at IDC. IDC said there was a sizable decline in PC shipments in India but did not disclose details. The U.S. market was down 3.1% to 14.96 million units. […]
One country’s misery fuels another country’s prosperity. As the U.S. reels under a cataclysmic recession, Indian tech firms like Infosys Technologies that provide software and BPO services for large American corporations are riding the wave of success. India’s software giant Infosys turned in yet another quarter of impressive results and added nearly 5,000 jobs (gross) even […]
Over the years, we’ve wandered hither and thither across the vast landscape of the WWW (World Wide Web). Newspapers, blogs, movie sites, government sites, corporate sites, risque sites and more. You can see our spoors on all of them. But very few web sites are really interesting. Most have no reason to exist except to feed […]