100$ PC by Nicholas Negorponte, looks like the Rs 5000 PC for the emerging market is going to come true. The product has been priced right so that emerging market can afford it, but does it meet the needs of the market. This will need to have an interface for which learning costs has to…More

I am so excited by this news, germany’s Fraunhofer Institute which developed the mp3 codec is come up mp3 surround. One can enjoy surround sound on a headphone. I am going to check out the free software available for download.More

Rashmi Bansal is a journalist from mumbai , I guess she writes in occasionally at businessworld. She has a blog titled youth curry in which writes about the Indian youth(discovered via Om). I would say that she has great insightly about the indian youth pulse. Her recent post titled “The Call of the Call Centre…More

Kewl !! “Wiki-Based Search Engine Claims To Be Web’s Biggest” ( via URLwire ) . The real cool thing in it is that it enables user to edit search results. Wow. This is significantly differs from google [which uses pagerank( hyperlinks )] , it is a built a huge whois kind a database of all…More

Vasant links to an article on the slashdot, Geeks in Management. Check out this book released recently by Joel Sposky titled Joel on Software or some real advice for managers in software development firms.He also has a blog by the same name. Vasant you don’t have comments enabled in your blog , huh !!More

AJ talks about bangalore bloggers meet. Tell me when and where is it. Mentions objective is to discuss Tsunami Efforts using our blogs.More

My geeky roommate will totally freak out on reading this all the more given that he is working on telugu support for firefox, but here is very good analysis on firefox vs explorerMore

Very interesting product from a Taiwanese company called Sysgration(http://www.sysgration.com/). A connector that sits between phone and phone jack and also plugs into USB and which redirects Skype calls to phone, has got tremendous implication on the telecom market worldwide. (via Venturebloghttp://www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2005/001140.html)More

Vipul a very good friend of mine(now @ IIM-A) had been to college a few weeks ago. A junior( apparently i don’t remember him , grin !! ) blogs about his experience meeting with him. Very nice !! ( Just forwarded the link to Vipul)More

Some cool links for the day( they have been around for quite some time, I got to check them out today ) Linux on iPod I found this real cool link on porting of linux to iPod. They have ported the linux on 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation of iPod , work on 4th is going…More

Came across this cool site/blog it lists things happening in the Indian corporate/market. Also there are lot of highlights of job openings.More

Here is a service/product that I had been wanting( also thinking a lot on these lines ) for quite some time now. It analyses the blog buzz. I really like the quotes in the company website(Umbria Communication), ” For years we have used the internet to advertise, market and sell to your customers and prospects.…More

Saw a post on the slashdot titled Converting Images Into Sounds for the Blind , it talks about a product from Cornell university. Read about a simillar product from a company in Netherlands about an year ago. Now a product like this is what umair calls as an example of recombinative innovation. What is interesting…More

I just love the wikipedia for the vast amount of information it contains on any subject that is of interest, but this takes it one step further.More

Here is a list of strategy books to read, a post from an ISB grad. I can pretty much adapt that to read list and add the following books in the classics section. “Book of the Five Rings” by Miyamoto Musashi “On War” by Karl Phillip Gottlieb von ClausewitzMore