Talk of Many Things

In this subprime mortgage caused financial meltdown, public opinion accuses some players of abject greed and others of downright fraud. But incompetence is a charge perhaps reserved only for credit rating agencies. The aspiring…

Along with my new notebook PC, I've been trying to buy a licensed version of Visio, the leading drawing software from Microsoft. I find it very surprising that the leading distributors listed in…

Over the past few years, a few private and state-owned banks invested heavily on their ATM networks and were able to differentiate themselves by providing their customers with wider access to…

I came across the below article in The Economic Times yesterday which merely reproduces content from the famous tech blog TechCrunch. As readers would be aware, TechCrunch is absolutely free and does not even…

Ever since I read about it in a Business Week article on the effectiveness of email newsletters, I've been very impressed with VeryShortList. While not as short as Twitter's 140-character microblogs,…

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…