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• Indian Entrepreneurship - A Myth?
• Why Tax Holidays?
• Look ma, No more Visas. H1B Visa cap reaches on day one.
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.
- Mar 6, 2010
- An Unpleasant Experience at the Local Big Bazaar
Combine a lady prone to quarreling with some weird policies, and you get a disaster. - IT Outsourcing Can Actually Increase a Firm’s IT SpendIT Outsourcing is not a panacea for reducing costs, it can do other things, but not reduce costs
- Mar 4, 2010
- Beautiful Mathematics in Control TheoryWhat is common between stimulus packages, launch vehicles, robots and inverted pendulums?
- Beautiful Mathematics in Control Theory
- Mar 3, 2010
- Technology Lapses
Technology fails to prove its absoluteness.
- Mar 2, 2010
- Accountants are High Priests, Drawing Order out of ChaosAccountants are not merely bean counters, they are our interlocutors with the Gods
- Accountants are High Priests, Drawing Order out of Chaos
- Feb 24, 2010
- The Robin Hood Tax - A Crock of Brown Organic MatterThe Robin Hood Tax needs to be thought out more. Perhaps withdrawn.
- The Robin Hood Tax - A Crock of Brown Organic Matter
- Feb 22, 2010
- Book Review: Complicit by Mark Gilbert
A conspiracy of greed among bankers, investors, rating agencies, and regulators has imperiled everyone's financial future.
- Feb 17, 2010
- What an Idea?Is it not a farce to demand ID proof while activating a mobile connection?
- What an Idea?
- Feb 1, 2010
- Is The Apple iPad an i-Wash?So, what is it? A phone? Or a MacBook? Or an Apple Netbook?
- Is The Apple iPad an i-Wash?
- Jan 24, 2010
- Free Countries and Lower Cost of Debt
The more the political rights, the more free the country, the lower are the costs of debt for firms.
- Jan 22, 2010
- Software Review: Seesmic Look - Twitter For The MassesThis does not translate to ubiquity but does increase the curiousness factor
- Software Review: Seesmic Look - Twitter For The Masses
- Jan 17, 2010
- Making Universities Independent Makes Them More ProductiveLet my universities go, paraphrasing old man Moses.
- China - No More GimmicksIn recent days, a lot of voices are being heard warning about the Chinese Bubble.
- Making Universities Independent Makes Them More Productive
- Jan 16, 2010
- Solar Eclipse and the Haiti EarthquakeQuestion is the essence behind scientific discoveries, if brushed aside could become counterproductive to science.
- Solar Eclipse and the Haiti Earthquake
- Jan 10, 2010
- BRIC Economics - Peering Into The FuturePredictions are powerful because when they are made by influential people they become self-fulfilling prophecie
- BRIC Economics - Peering Into The Future
- Jan 6, 2010
- Google Says - Next Us with NexusGoogle's Nexus One announcement is even more significant given the timing.
- Jan 3, 2010
- Book Review: Practical Intrusion Analysis Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century
- Book Review: Practical Intrusion Analysis
- Dec 17, 2009
- Financial Independence and Freedom for MenFinancial freedom can free you from rat race and transform the quality of life that you live.
- Financial Independence and Freedom for Men
- Dec 3, 2009
- Book Review: The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling by Stephen Denning
Storytelling is an art of weaving the story in such a way that the audience keeps looking at you to know ‘what next’.
- Dec 2, 2009
- To Tweet Or Not To Tweet - Word of the YearThe fact that Twitter has been most searched and so vastly used, especially in 2009 bears a strange coincidence with the recession.
- To Tweet Or Not To Tweet - Word of the Year
- Nov 30, 2009
- IIM CAT Snafu Continues - Mismanagement and InconvenienceThe first online CAT for the IIMs presented a poor showing for the institutes and the company conducting the test, Prometric.
- IIM CAT Snafu Continues - Mismanagement and Inconvenience
- Nov 29, 2009
- Where the BRICs Stand Today
How China, India, Brazil and Russia fare today eight years after the Goldman Sachs' BRIC report - a subjective assessment
- Nov 21, 2009
- Mobile Number Portability in India - Rs. 19 OnlyOne of the biggest problems currently with changing your service provider is that you have to take a new number
- Mobile Number Portability in India - Rs. 19 Only
- Oct 24, 2009
- PC Game Review: Plants Vs. ZombiesThe zombies are a quirky lot from newspaper reading zombies to cheerleaders and bucket headed janitors
- PC Game Review: Plants Vs. Zombies
- Oct 20, 2009
- Google - Weaving a Worldwide Web
Clearly, Google has in myriad ways, taken on the likes of Microsoft and Apple, quietly from just being a search engine giant. - Brand Confusion in Indian PharmaThese brands are akin to the pirated books we get on the foot-path; it has everything other than the rewards reaching the author
- Oct 12, 2009
- Banks To Charge For ATM Access For Other Bank CustomersFrom October 15, a customer can take out a maximum of Rs 10,000 per withdrawal from ATMs not owned by the bank in which he
- Banks To Charge For ATM Access For Other Bank Customers
- Oct 8, 2009
- Technology in EducationHow does this software impact/ redefine the role of a teacher-student interaction?
- Oct 4, 2009
- Climate Change App For the iPhoneThe app allows visitors to the Swiss Alps to visualize change in glacier levels
- Climate Change App For the iPhone
- Sep 24, 2009
- Google Launches Sidewiki - Changing The PerspectiveThis can be the ultimate CRM tool, aggregating feedback conveniently juxtaposed with the brand/site.
- Google Launches Sidewiki - Changing The Perspective
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