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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.
- Feb 1, 2010
- Is The Apple iPad an i-Wash?
So, what is it? A phone? Or a MacBook? Or an Apple Netbook?
- Jan 24, 2010
- Free Countries and Lower Cost of DebtThe more the political rights, the more free the country, the lower are the costs of debt for firms.
- Free Countries and Lower Cost of Debt
- 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 Productive
Let 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.
- 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 Future
Predictions are powerful because when they are made by influential people they become self-fulfilling prophecie
- Jan 6, 2010
- Google Says - Next Us with NexusGoogle's Nexus One announcement is even more significant given the timing.
- Google Says - Next Us with Nexus
- 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 Men
Financial freedom can free you from rat race and transform the quality of life that you live.
- Dec 3, 2009
- Book Review: The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling by Stephen DenningStorytelling is an art of weaving the story in such a way that the audience keeps looking at you to know ‘what next’.
- Book Review: The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling by Stephen Denning
- 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 Inconvenience
The first online CAT for the IIMs presented a poor showing for the institutes and the company conducting the test, Prometric.
- Nov 29, 2009
- Where the BRICs Stand TodayHow China, India, Brazil and Russia fare today eight years after the Goldman Sachs' BRIC report - a subjective assessment
- Where the BRICs Stand Today
- 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. Zombies
The zombies are a quirky lot from newspaper reading zombies to cheerleaders and bucket headed janitors
- Oct 20, 2009
- Google - Weaving a Worldwide WebClearly, 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
- Google - Weaving a Worldwide Web
- Oct 12, 2009
- Banks To Charge For ATM Access For Other Bank Customers
From 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
- Oct 8, 2009
- Technology in EducationHow does this software impact/ redefine the role of a teacher-student interaction?
- Technology in Education
- 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 Perspective
This can be the ultimate CRM tool, aggregating feedback conveniently juxtaposed with the brand/site.
- Sep 14, 2009
- Creation is a Vibration Vedanta and its philosophy of creation and existence has affected the debate in Modern science more than once.
- Creation is a Vibration
- Sep 12, 2009
- Jet Airways Strike Ends - Victory for LabourIt remains to be seen how long flights will take to return to normal, and whether this will have a lasting impact on Jet Airways'
- Jet Airways Strike Ends - Victory for Labour
- Sep 9, 2009
- Apple Announces New Rocking iPods, Video Camera, And More
The best part of today's Apple iPod Event came at the very beginning.
- Sep 6, 2009
- Dear Brother InternetTill the day he discovered that Savita bhabhi was actually a horny old man.
- Dear Brother Internet
- Sep 3, 2009
- Mom's Guide To Not Losing The iPhoneI lost my iPhone while traveling over the weekend. No, I misplaced it and then some female stole it.
- Mom's Guide To Not Losing The iPhone
- Aug 30, 2009
- Book Review: The Process of Software Architecting
Terminologies, Project Scenarios and Best Practices - Book Review: The Blender GameKit, 2nd Ed.Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU Public License.
- Aug 29, 2009
- Book Review: Android Application DevelopmentIt is now the flagship software of the open handset alliance(OHA) committed to develop open standards for mobile devices.
- Book Review: Data Warehousing with SAP BW7, BI in SAP Netweaver 2004s
Architecture, Concepts and Implementation
- Book Review: Android Application Development
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