To the list of Chinese pet food, Chinese toys, Chinese furniture, Chinese laptops, Chinese this and Chinese that, American consumers will soon add Chinese cars. Chinese car maker Chery is expected to hit the American market by 2009 and will surely kill what’s left of the struggling U.S. auto industry. You see, Chery workers in […]
It’s becoming a zoo out there in the Indian car portals arena with so many players. In the typical me-too style characteristic of many Indian Internet ventures, one more car portal has come up. The latest entrant is Carazoo, the offspring of automotive interactive software provider Logix Microsystems of Bangalore. Like its fellow travelers, Carazoo […]
Silicon Valley start-up Tilera has launched a new processor called TILE64 that contains 64 programmable cores, each capable of running the open source Linux operating system. TILE64 is the first in a family of TILE Processor chips that can supposedly scale to thousands of cores. Tilera executives claim that TILE64 delivers 10X the performance of […]
India’s hopelessly incompetent Tourism Ministry has launched an e-commerce portal on the Incredible India web site. The aim is to let visitors to the Incredible India web site make online reservations at a variety of hotels and Bed & Breakfast establishments. India’s Tourism Minister Ambika Soni, a fossil from the Sanjay Gandhi days, wants to […]
As Delhi’s doddering Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit bumbles along, the city’s killer buses continue their merciless death ride. Particularly eggregious of Delhi’s buses are the privately owned Blueline buses, popularly – and correctly – referred to as the “killer buses.” According to Saturday’s New York Times, the Blueline buses have already claimed 62 lives this […]
Jet Airways got such effusive coverage of its plans to commence daily flights between Mumbai and Newark (in the New York area) effective August 5Â in the New York Times’ travel section on Sunday that it must have made other airlines flying to India see red. In a puff-piece headlined A Flying Apartment to India […]