An Opinion

“All the world’s a stage” Mr. William Shakespeare The corporate world is the strangest of places perhaps even more interesting than the soap operas and stage, nobody knows what the next episode promises. Consider the case of sworn tech rivals Microsoft and Sun. Till the beginning of this month the much heated debate over...

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Published in Hindustan Times on September 14th, 2007 There are winds of change sweeping the global software market— and you could see it next in the most ubiquitous activity on the Internet: e-mail. If current indications are anything to go by, Microsoft’s popular Outlook software and IBM’s Lotus Notes could see a part of...

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We are living in a digital civilization that belongs to the web and internet. Our entire user experience as a consumer, as a citizen and perhaps as a being is transforming into an online one. The Microsofts and Googles of the world are corporations that govern our very existence today. Just think about your...

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The Google Phone We are an e-civilization and gizmos our new tools for communication, for pleasure and perhaps more. The luster of Apple’s iPhone has barely faded and there are now talks about a Google Phone, christened by some as Goophone and GPhone by others. According to Andy Goldberg in Bangkok Post “If the...

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“Dogs and Indians not allowed” Circa 1945, signboard outside the elitist British Club in Calcutta “India is the 2nd biggest investor in London” Circa 2006, small news snippet in the business page of a leading newspaper. How times change. In less than seven years the India Inc story is going on the success route...

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The chip is again making news. Again? Well again because if you have been reading about what’s happening to the chip it makes me wonder if someday chips are destined to take over our brains! Don’t believe me? Ok have a look at the recent developments. Memory reinvention in the Winter of 2006 Imagine...

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Is Google getting too big for its boots? I bet Steve Ballmer thinks so. I bet he even laced it with an abuse or two (remember what he called Google two years ago!). As the war between tech giants Microsoft, the biggest organization in the universe and Google, the entrepreneurial technology wonder, enters its...

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India is a unique democracy, probably as unique as unique could get. A powerful judiciary, a free press, all very good. But will somebody please explain since when has India turned a demo-militia. You think that is an exaggeration then why is the defence raising objections in commercial policy matters of the country? Will...

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A single atom in itself is a form of the entire universe. The entire universe is manifested in it. So says one of the best books I have read in my life “An Autobiography of a Yogi”. The human body is made of several atoms is a universe in itself part of the larger...

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The Enigma of Being Google ‘It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity’ said Titus Livy. The breed of Steve Jobs and Larry Page seems to have perfected the excellence to maturity path. Apple is one enigma which delivers excellence and then disappears to create another masterpiece. Google has the same gene....

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