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Editor's Pick
Rising fuel, bad business plan, Airlines run on ego and you get the picture about the Aviation scene in India. Capt. Anup Murthy
on the state of Indian Aviation.
Featured Review
• Ranjan Varma reviews The Big Idea by Stephen Strauss.
Biz/Tech Features
• Yahoo's recent changes to its search engine advertising model. Good or bad?, asks Anand.
• "When Wii came home, I accepted defeat." Blokesablogin's tryst with Nintendo Wii.
• India's accelerated growth is neither multi-dimentional nor is it well thought out. DesiGirl feels there is much background work to be done.
- Nov 15, 2008
- Book Review: Head First Statistics
A good statistics study book with an emphasis on distributions.
- Nov 14, 2008
- Book Review: Nagios - 2nd EditionSystem and Network Monitoring
- Book Review: Nagios - 2nd Edition
- Nov 13, 2008
- Book Review: Head First PhysicsA Learner's companion to Mechanics and Practical Physics
- Book Review: Head First Physics
- Nov 12, 2008
- Swiss Bank Accounts
Ensure the demise of the poor and the few remaining rich can have the earth to themselves - Python for Unix and Linux System AdministrationEfficient problem solving with Python
- Oct 29, 2008
- Medical Ignorance and Patient's BlissIgnorance could be bliss, at times in medicine too
- Medical Ignorance and Patient's Bliss
- Oct 27, 2008
- Book Review: Refactoring SQL Applications
The book is a must have for the database practitioners and IT specialists working in this field.
- Oct 26, 2008
- Book Review: Building Embedded Linux SystemsConcepts, techniques, tricks and traps
- Book Review: Building Embedded Linux Systems
- Oct 25, 2008
- Book Review: The Art of DebuggingA good book in an area where interest is difficult to inculcate due to widely dispersed documentation.
- Book Review: The Art of Debugging
- Oct 22, 2008
- Chandrayaan-I: Money Down the Drain or Time to Celebrate?
How can you quantify the benefits and the advantages of being at the vanguard of space research and exploration? - Chandrayaan-I - Not A Waste of Money and ResourcesThere is an inherent lack of understanding amongst the people in India about the use and potential of technology to improve the well being of
- Oct 21, 2008
- Expansion of IIMs - Credibility At StakeExpanding IIMs introduces risk of IIMs losing credibility - one thing that they have always banked upon in the world
- Bubbles and The Current Financial Crisis
Is there an end to the current financial bloodbath that is plaguing the world markets
- Expansion of IIMs - Credibility At Stake
- Oct 19, 2008
- Book Review: Intellectual Property and Open SourceThe book is as good a reference or as a read to fit an Intellectual Property within the appropriate legal framework.
- Book Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source
- Oct 16, 2008
- Jet Airways Reverses Layoffs, Naresh Goyal ApologizesMr. Goyal apologized to the employees and indicated that the move might have been a hasty decision.
- Jet Airways Reverses Layoffs, Naresh Goyal Apologizes
- Oct 7, 2008
- The American Financial Crisis — Dejà vu?
Is what’s happening on Wall Street giving us a sense of dejà vu? A peep into the future for the global middle class citizen!
- Oct 6, 2008
- Wall Street - Cold, Flat, and BrokeMadam Defarge and the tumbrels were kept busy while heads rolled in the basket in a grisly fashion.
- Wall Street - Cold, Flat, and Broke
- Sep 29, 2008
- Book Review: Android EssentialsThe Google Phone is based on the Android platform, which is a software stack for mobile devices including an operating...
- Book Review: Android Essentials
- Sep 28, 2008
- Consumer Review: Reliance BigTV
Demand had indeed outstripped supply, but the service is very good.
- Sep 26, 2008
- The Fall of CapitalismI am beginning to believe in a people's economy, aka black money.
- The Fall of Capitalism
- Sep 23, 2008
- Dyscalculia - Not Having Fun With NumbersIts not the end of the world to finally put a tag on what I have lived with all my life.
- Dyscalculia - Not Having Fun With Numbers
- Sep 22, 2008
- End of the Investment Bank Era on Wall Street?
The last two standing institutions get themselves declared 'proper' banks. - Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Reorganize to Bank Holding CompaniesThe Federal Reserve continued its tradition of Sunday surprises, by announcing that the last two major independent Wall Street investment...
- Sep 18, 2008
- Book Review: The Ten Commandments for Business FailureThis slim book is eminently readable and works best if the nuggets are mapped to one's own perspective and experiences.
- Book Review: The Ten Commandments for Business Failure
- Sep 14, 2008
- Racist Web Game Muslim Massacre Taken Down By Developer
"Ultimately it’s just a game where you blow the gently caress out of Arabs…" - Book Review: Website OptimizationSpeed, Search Engine and Conversion Rate Secrets
- Sep 13, 2008
- Book Review: Statistics in a NutshellThe book covers the practical topics of probability,descriptive statistics and graphics, critiquing statistics presented by others.
- Book Review: Statistics in a Nutshell
- Sep 9, 2008
- Apple Loses Its Innovation Edge
We are used to expecting wonderful things from the last icon of technology. - Markham Ice Shelf Breaks Away In ArcticWe can now start seeing the effects of global warming, and as yet, the engines of civilization are still pumping.
- Sep 2, 2008
- Product Review: Google Chrome - The New New ThingGoogle seems to bringing order to its cornucopia of services, slowly yet strategically.
- Product Review: Google Chrome - The New New Thing
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