- Whatever the odds, the (real) incredible story behind DLF: How it fudged its books to the top in an unregulated Indian real estate market
That India needs a real estate regulator, along the lines of TRAI, is stressed once again by the case of real estate leader DLF, which has been found to fudging its books to boost its stock price and various other malpra…
Topic: Books and Literature, Scandal, India | Read more
- Tablets will begin to outsell PCs by the fall of 2013
It had to happen eventually. Most users aren't cosumer creators and Tablets are available for $75 in certain markets. It isn't about the iPad anymore. Asymco calculates that the tablet market will exceed that of PCs some…
Topic: Geek, Tablet, Android, Mobile, Trends | Read more
- Dave Winer's challenge to hypocritical, dubious tech blogs: Practice what you preach
When a blog that is being financed by a group of VCs who want their investments covered favorably, ran a post mocking Dave's criticism of iPhone-related security issues, in the wake of Path's attempts to steal users' add…
Topic: Internet and Websites, Geek, Iphone, Security | Read more
- The real truth about Facebook Fan Pages: Only 16% actually see a piece of your content
In a presention for its so-called premium service, Facebook revelaed that when a Facebook page owner posts a piece of content to their Facebook page, and that content spams the News Feeds of that page's fans, only 16% of…
Topic: Facebook, Advertising, Business | Read more
- How Apple's TV plans will no better than its Appified Internet Walled Garden Plan: cable companies and content providers will be most hit
Get this thing clear: Apple just wants to sell us its shiny, bauhaus-style gadgets. Apple isn't concerned with better TV experience (which eventually is about better content). This is what Business insider says about App…
Topic: Apple, Apple tv, Video | Read more
- How Asperger's Syndrome got us the geek culture (and how being obsessive might not be good all the time)
Aspergher's greatest (or worst) gift to humanity might be the tech culture centered around the Silicon Valley and elsewhere in America, as geek gods such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg create multi-billion dollar tech co…
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- Annals of American Healthcare: Medibid, letting medical providers bid for your business
In a highly dysfunctional American healthcare, where medical premium costs outspeed the rise in people's incomes, comes Medibid, that lets medical service providers bid for patients' business, in the style of ebay. Read …
Topic: Internet and Websites, Healthcare, US | Read more
- Oprah's Book Club did not help Publishing: Only stole sales from important literature away to fluff literature
The much vaunted Oprah's book club, long thought to be a boon to book publishing was not that good to publishing at all, according to a study. All Oprah's Book Club did was take sales away from books that ought to be rea…
Topic: Books and Literature, Oprah, Book club | Read more
- Al Qaeda's real achievement: It made America insecure, stupid, and an overspender
After 9/11, Al Qaeda did not commit any more mass scale attack on America or anywhere else, but it did make America afraid, and like all afraid things, America made wholesale wrong decisions, most important of all were e…
Topic: US, War on terror, Terrorism | Read more
- How to get back at Big business: Sue them for any valid reason (aka the $5 million half tank gas lawsuit)
Here's how you, the average citizen can get back at big business, who think they can get away with anything, just because they have the money, the contacts, and their vile processes: Sue them for any small, but valid rea…
Topic: Consumer activism, Diy | Read more
- Why Indian students plagiarize: They have been taught to do so and they don't know how to write properly
Here are two reasons why Indian students plagiarize, as explained by an academic Prof. Rohini Muthuswami from the School of Life Sciences, JNU: 1. Many students don't know what is so special about plagiarism when they h…
Topic: India, Trend, Education, Scandal | Read more
- How Bangalore's Techies might be becoming fundamentalists under RSS influence (and why it might be easy to indoctrinate techies)
Helped by a BJP government, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) is making successful inroads into the Indian IT hub of Bangalore (which many charitably call cosmopolitan, and which is kind of Las Vegas-style consumer c…
Topic: Trend, India | Read more
- Why Indian government servants should consider a Negative Salary: Pay to have a job
Indian government servants, not known for being sincere, honest, and hard workers, should take a lesson from their Greek counterparts, who are helping the government's austerity measures by opting for something called 'n…
Topic: Idea, Trend | Read more
- Media comment of the day: CNN should be forced to register as a Republican Super PAC
News organization should just cover events and report, and not work with any subject that may be part of the news under coverage. Describing CNN's decision to "partner" with Arizona Republican Committee, Sam Smith says:
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- How Facebook is basically a walled garden Monica Geller would have designed
Facebook's 'no nipples' rule has upset breastfeeding mothers who think that Facebook's censorship attitude is symptomatic of a society that is not prepared to accept breastfeeding. Describing Facebook co-founder mark Zuc…
Topic: Facebook, Censorship | Read more
- Pinterest's biggest problem: Is a tool for reckless copyright infringement, Few users post any original stuff
Basically Del.icio.us with only images, Pinterest's biggest problem is that it is a tool for reckless copyright infringement, Few users post any original stuff, and among these creative users, most are big retailers. Pi…
Topic: Pinterest, Social sharing, Legal | Read more
- How fights between big companies (like Google vs. Microsoft) are useful for the rest of us: Helps bring more private information public
When Microsoft wrote on its blog about Motorola (now owned by Google) overcharging Microsoft for use of its video-related patents, we came to know that Microsoft was planning to use 50 of Motorola's patents, that patent …
Topic: Google, Microsoft, Patent fight | Read more
- How Google isn't that usable anymore: New mantra is 'copy everything, don't be simple'
As Google becomes more and more like a content provider, moving away from its origin as an elegant, efficient and effing fast indexer, Google may be losing its reputation of providing a fast and simple service. How can G…
Topic: Google, Usability | Read more
- iPhone financials: Apple's margin on each iPhone sold is around 55%
Apple sells an iPhone for around $650. A report says Apple's cost of Goods sold (COGS) is $293. Of this COGS, the bill of materials (e.g. touchscreen cost) for an iPhone is $200. That means Apple spends around $90 on man…
Topic: Big Business, Apple, Iphone | Read more
- The Insta-author trend: Make short ebooks on the latest media sensation and make a killing
Latest media sensations such as basketball's latest star Jeremy Lin are inspiring content creators to churn up 15,000-word ebooks and putting them up for sale for Kindle and other devices, as quickly as they can. The ri…
Topic: Media, Ebook, Trend | Read more
