The blithering idiots at Sun Microsystems, the sick man of Silicon Valley, have done it again – delivered yet another lousy quarter. Sun today announced preliminary results for its first quarter (of fiscal 2009) ended September 28, 2008 and they are UGLY. Sun expects revenues for the quarter of $2.95 billion to $3.05 billion, compared […]
We’ve long believed that most Indian software developers are fit only for Coolie, repetitive tasks. Ask them to develop a decent consumer or small business application and most of them fall flat on their face. Those with long memories will remember that even the “great” Tata Consultancy Services failed to make much headway with the EX accounting […]
We love newspapers. We always have. For us, the joy of reading a newspaper in bed cuddling a loved one is a pleasure bar none. In our childhoold (the pre-TV days of the 60s and 70s), the sports pages of The Hindu were a big draw. As we grew older, we shifted our loyalties to the […]
“98.7% of the founders of important Silicon Valley companies were born in America! 99 percent are White!” – Republican commentator Ann Coulter responding to those who boast of startups founded by tech immigrants, p.239, Adios, America H1B Visas and outsourcing are undoubtedly wreaking havoc on the lives of American programmers. Only in Amazing America will […]
In a bizarre (non)incident sending shock waves across America, no shootings were reported on campuses and no one was killed, maimed or injured at US kindergartens, schools, colleges and universities today as active and passive shooters remained AWOL. Emergency rooms at US hospitals remained as deserted as in the recent Korean corrupt doctors TV series […]
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 […]