If history is any guide, Indian consumers will for the most part ignore Microsoft’s new Lumia smartphones launched in the country today. Lumia 510 and Lumia 950 XL, Microsoft’s latest smartphones, debuted in India November 30, 2015 just 10 days after their U.S. launch. The high-end Lumia 950XL (Rs 49,399) has a 5.7-inch screen, 20MP […]
If you schmucks thought all the cool products in the world emerge only from the womb of giant corporations like Apple or Sony, you’d be so wrong. Thanks to the paradigm shift wrought by the Internet, even unknown individuals with limited resources but bright ideas can get funding to realize their giant dreams. In 2014, […]
One stumbles upon the oddest books at the library. Earlier today, I scooted over to the local bibliothèque to return the Se7en DVD when I happened upon 99 Classic Movies for People in a Hurry ($9.95). People in a Hurry? Ha ha ha! Now if you show me someone not in a hurry in our […]
We live in a world full of small men. Fortunately, there are still some brave, honorable people like Edward Snowden who through their actions make the world a better place for all of us. Snowden, 29, a former employee of the CIA, works for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton as an Infrastructure Analyst for the […]
In an effective declaration of war on on tens of thousands of poor Americans, the Obama administration today shut down 26 low-cost Chinatown buses alleging safety violations. The U.S. Department of Transportation boasted that it was “the largest single safety crackdown in the agency’s history.” Besides shutting down the 26 Chinatown buses, the Federal Motor […]
Indian software services trade organization Nasscom must have a very poor opinion of Americans. Not content with robbing hundreds of thousands of Americans of their well-paying software and call-center jobs, Indian businesses are now stooping to insult the intelligence of Americans. American Job Killers As anyone with that body appendage called the head knows, Indian […]