Talk of Many Things

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…

In a recent essay in the TIME magazine, Walter Isaacson (former managing editor of TIME and currently president and CEO of the Aspen Institute) has lamented about the crisis in…

A year ago, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could 'outsource' ironing of my clothes in London. A few years ago, it was un-imaginable to find someone to provide…

Recent news reports have declared that organized retail in India has lost the first round to kirana stores (which are the Indian version of mom-and-pop stores). Reasons for this include…

For many years now, I’m a highly satisfied user of LIC’s website for making online premium payments for my insurance policies. For those of you who don’t know, LIC or Life Insurance Corporation…