Travails Of Buying Licensed Software
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…
How Will ATM Owning Banks Cope With RBI’s New Regulation?
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…
Newspapers Or Printed Versions of Blogs?
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…
Very Un Self-fulfilling Prophecy & My Attempt At Very Short List
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,…
Commercialization Is The Key To National Prosperity
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…
How Micropayments Enable Digital Content Shopping
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…
P2FM Services Walk The Tightrope Between Convenience and Security
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…
Securing Airtel WiFi Broadband Connection
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…
Micropayments – Saviors or Enablers?
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…
Changing Face of DIY Markets
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…