Who’d have thought that the Indian education system would become the envy of a highly developed country! Today’s New York Times has an interesting front page piece on how the Japanese are now increasingly fascinated with the Indian education system. As the NYT piece puts it: Bookstores are filled with titles like “Extreme Indian Arithmetic Drills†and […]
Is it just me or are we all agreed that Intel’s new Linux Compute Stick is a piece of junk that has no hope of success. Touting the Compute Stick in hyperbolic terms as a “New Mini-Computing Paradigm,” Intel describes it as a “pocket-sized computer delivering an entry computer experience by plugging directly into the […]
Try as I might, even a hardcore gadget freak like me finds it impossible to get excited over Chromebooks. Compared to the prospect of using a Chromebook, sitting through a Priyanka Chopra, Salman Khan, Allu Arjun or Ajith Kumar movie would be an unending thrill. Just yesterday, a gaggle of journalists fawned over a new […]
Life abounds in ironies. Some weirder than others. As anyone who can move a mouse quickly realizes, Indians arrived late to the computer and software party. We owe modern computer hardware, software and the Internet to the pioneering work at American research institutions like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs, the U.S. Defense Department and scores […]
“You can smell an Indian before you see or hear him” is a truism as old as the Himalayas. Just the other day, I stumbled upon a furphy that Alexander the Great hurriedly scampered out of India after crushing the local king Porus not because his soldiers mutinied; au contraire, it seems the Emperor found […]
Surface Pro 3 – Discounts Start Some companies are like some people – Plain stupid. They never learn from their follies. Take Microsoft and its doomed Surface tablets for instance. Over the last few years, Microsoft has incurred losses nearing two billion dollars on its disastrous forays into the tablet arena. No matter that Microsoft […]