Month: March 2009

It doesn't matter where scientific discoveries and breakthrough technologies originate - for national prosperity, the important thing is who commercializes them. This summarizes the first and last chapters of Amar Bhide's…

Following on from my earlier blog post Micropayments - Saviors or Enablers?, I decided to check out how well they fare as enablers of digital content shopping. Going back to Walter Isaacson's…

The latest breed of American personal finance services like Mint and Wesabe provide great value by helping their users get a handle on their personal finances. Mint bills itself as an…

I recently upgraded my home Airtel broadband connection to WiFi so that the three PCs and one Palm PDA in my home can access the Internet simultaneously. Airtel's engineer had set…