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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.
- Jan 8, 2009
- Risk Manager Role With Afghanistan International Bank
Why just an advertisement for a risk manager for an Afghan Bank is a small but good step?
- Jan 4, 2009
- How Companies React To Major Crisis EventsManaging geo-political and religious adverse events? Lessons for firms from the Mohammad cartoon crisis
- How Companies React To Major Crisis Events
- Dec 20, 2008
- Going Slow on Highways DevelopmentUnfortunately, this is not the only case where the Congress Government interferes with institutions.
- Going Slow on Highways Development
- Dec 19, 2008
- Shareholder's Dissatisfaction at Satyam's Board
Actions trying to benefit the promoters
- Dec 1, 2008
- A Tale of Two CountriesJust as every single terror attack big or small finds a linkage in Pakistan, almost every single IT product big or small has some Indian
- A Tale of Two Countries
- Nov 24, 2008
- Citibank - The New State Bank of AmericaWelcome to Citibank, the new State Bank of America.
- Citibank - The New State Bank of America
- Nov 23, 2008
- Book Review: Hacking VoIP
Protocols, Attacks and Countermeasures
- Nov 15, 2008
- Book Review: Head First StatisticsA good statistics study book with an emphasis on distributions.
- Book Review: Head First Statistics
- Nov 14, 2008
- Book Review: Nagios - 2nd EditionSystem and Network Monitoring
- Book Review: Nagios - 2nd Edition
- Nov 13, 2008
- Book Review: Head First Physics
A Learner's companion to Mechanics and Practical Physics
- Nov 12, 2008
- Swiss Bank AccountsEnsure 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
- Swiss Bank Accounts
- Oct 29, 2008
- Medical Ignorance and Patient's Bliss
Ignorance could be bliss, at times in medicine too
- Oct 27, 2008
- Book Review: Refactoring SQL ApplicationsThe book is a must have for the database practitioners and IT specialists working in this field.
- Book Review: Refactoring SQL Applications
- 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 Debugging
A good book in an area where interest is difficult to inculcate due to widely dispersed documentation.
- 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
- Chandrayaan-I: Money Down the Drain or Time to Celebrate?
- Oct 21, 2008
- Expansion of IIMs - Credibility At Stake
Expanding IIMs introduces risk of IIMs losing credibility - one thing that they have always banked upon in the world - Bubbles and The Current Financial CrisisIs there an end to the current financial bloodbath that is plaguing the world markets
- 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 Apologizes
Mr. Goyal apologized to the employees and indicated that the move might have been a hasty decision.
- Oct 7, 2008
- The American Financial Crisis — Dejŕ vu?Is what’s happening on Wall Street giving us a sense of dejŕ vu? A peep into the future for the global middle class citizen!
- The American Financial Crisis — Dejŕ vu?
- 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 Essentials
The Google Phone is based on the Android platform, which is a software stack for mobile devices including an operating...
- Sep 28, 2008
- Consumer Review: Reliance BigTVDemand had indeed outstripped supply, but the service is very good.
- Consumer Review: Reliance BigTV
- 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 Numbers
Its not the end of the world to finally put a tag on what I have lived with all my life.
- 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...
- End of the Investment Bank Era on Wall Street?
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