Most people recognize trash when they see it or hear it. Except for the suckers and trash lovers. No surprise then that Microsoft’s Zune digital music player has been consigned to the trash heap and shown the middle finger by most music lovers. Launched in November last year, Microsoft has sold about 1.2 million units […]
Struggling with its online initiatives in the face of the Google onslaught, Microsoft is in talks to pick up a 5% stake in social networking site Facebook at the same time that Google is also considering investing in Facebook, according to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). If it goes through, the Microsoft investment could be in […]
In America, it seems everything is for sale. Now you can even buy convincing lies, with a nice alibi to back you up when you face some of life’s sticky situations. Want to get off for a weekend with your girlfriend without the wife knowing, skip a boring office conference, justify missing an event, a […]
Eastern Promises is the kind of intoxicating underworld movie our Bollywood directors ought to make but just cannot. A bloody violent movie, Eastern Promises is the gritty – and gripping – story of the Russian Mafia in London and a young midwife who accidentally comes in contact with it. One evening a very pregnant 14-year-old […]
Azim Premji is a name well known to a lot of Indians. After all, Premji is the shrewd entrepreneur who inherited a $2 million Vanaspati (hydrogenated cooking oil) company in Mumbai and turned it into a $3 billion IT, BPO and R&D Services organization called Wipro that is today listed on the New York Stock […]
Kerala is that odd state in India with a high rate of literacy and life expectancy, higher quality of life compared to other Indian states and possibly the highest rate of migration of its people in search of better prospects. The Kerala model of high investment by the state in education and healthcare for its population […]