Whose Cloud Is It Anyway?

The WordPress admin website has lately been urging an upgrade  to its latest 2.8.6 version. I only recently upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4. I admit that I'd significantly delayed this upgrade, but…

Cry Baby Cry

The new Cry Translator is an innovative, easy-to-use iPhone app that's able to quickly identify the five distinct cries made by infants – hungry, sleepy, annoyed, stressed and bored - thus…

Comparison Shopping For Alternative Payments

Many Americans might find it increasingly difficult to get, and hold on to, credit cards in the wake of the recently passed The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD)…

Saviors or Villains

Protection money, the latest While You Were Out column, is yet another Stanley Bing masterpiece that explains why I open the FORTUNE magazine from its last page – Bing's permanent abode.…

Consorting With The Enemy

In large systems integration projects, it is customary for the buyer to award the entire contract to a systems integrator who manages all other companies required to fulfill the different…

When 4 Is More Than 5!

I recently came across TwitterFeed which automatically posts Twitter and Facebook updates from a blog's RSS feeds. It has a dashboard where you can view how many people have viewed your…

Slow News Days For Economic Times

Like every publication, Economic Times (India's largest and the world's second largest business daily newspaper after The Wall Street Journal) is entitled to its own share of slow news days. Very few…