- The Google Nexus One Termination Fee Problem
It is a big problem. You buy a subsidized smartphone and if you choose to end the contract, you pay damages not only to the carrier (T-Mobile) but also to the seller (Google)
What does the Nexus Fine Print actually s…
Topic: Advocacy, Consumer, Googlephone | Read more
- Google Nexus News roundup: complaints, new SDK etc...
A big product brings with it a whole ot of news, from customers, partners, reviewers, developers and so on.
Readwriteweb does a credible review of the Nexus One.
Consumer complaints for Nexus One are pouring in. Con…
Topic: Wireless, Google, Googlephone, Android, Droid | Read more
- The End of 'American Idol' and Rise of 'X-Factor'?
Look at this photo. Those were the ideal idol days. Simon would run down a contestant/auditioner and Paula would go apeshit in support of the poor person Simon would cut up with his words. However, American Idol is not…
Topic: Television, | Read more
- Google vs. China: How Google plans to win in China, destroy Bing...
Faced with a soild Baidu in China, and helped by a timely attemted hack of Gmail accounts held by Chinese Human rights activists right from Google's servers, Google has chosen to play the "Do No Evil" mantra. From now …
Topic: Internet and Websites, Google, Yro | Read more
- How Wikileaks can fund itself
There is no doubt that Wikileaks is one of the most politically important platforms on the Web. A treasure like Wikipedia. A news platform better than Digg. The enemy of locked information and vested interests on this pl…
Topic: Internet and Websites, Wikileaks, Howto | Read more
- Google GDrive: Competition for Amazon S3
Google is getting more serious about cloud computing by the day and has just announced that the GDrive online file storage system.
GDrive will give 1GB free storage to users. It will charge $.25/G/year for more spac…
Topic: Internet and Websites, Google, Cloud-computing | Read more
- How you can help Haitian Quake survivors
Did you know that Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphereNow it is hit by an earthquake that may have killed thousands. The coutry has had a rather sad recent history of recent earthquakes that have killed…
Topic: Disasters, | Read more
- A Chronology of 14 Major Sex Scandals Involving Indian Politicians
First, a quick look at what the Indian Politician really wants: The Mid Day Newspaper writes about Indian Politicians and their sex habits
In the past five years, at least 10 politicians from Uttar Pradesh alone have be…
Topic: Scams, Scandal, Sex-scandal | Read more
- A roundup of the aftermath of attempted hijacking of Flight 253
The best headline for the attempted hijack story comes from Gawker, which runs, Would be terrorist only succeeds in burning balls making air travel exponentially worse. This explains the whole story and what happened to …
Topic: Terrorism, Al-qaida, Bravery, Air travel | Read more
- 9 Problems with Using Kindle in the Classroom
A Princeton Univesity Professor is not satisfied with the Kindle. Undergraduate students for a course on "Civil Society and Public Policy" are using Kindle DX, with 15 e-books for the course preloaded on the device under…
Topic: Actually Useful Technology Buyers Guide, Ebook, Kindle, Review | Read more
- Three Idiots: More Idiot than Rang De Basanti
Aamir Khan continues to sell his brand of soft-patriotism/self-development/what have you to a generation that doesn't have the time for the real thing. There is nothing to like in Three idiots.
Idiot note#1: The pro…
Topic: Films, Aamir khan, Review, Dumbyouth | Read more
- The Christmas Tweet of the Year?
Not everyone is taken in by the marketers' dream of a white, shopping heaven. It is a wonder how the most advanced country in the world can be sold on myths and chocolate factories. And they wonder at India's religions.
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Topic: Say That Again, Twitter, Christmasexcess | Read more
- Our Google and Microsoft Government
First, Microsoft established its bases in governments around the world, bribing them to use its bloated and expensive office and server applications. Now, in the online cloud computing age, you got Google cornering alm…
Topic: Big Business, Googleevil, Microsoftevil | Read more
- Decade from Hell: A Review of Indian Television in 2000-2009
One watched TV these ten years as if one was already in hell for one's innumerable sins, watching TV when one was allowed to, forcing unbelievably loud sensations to seep inside one's frying brains, believing the crude a…
Topic: Television, Bestofdecade | Read more
- Dumb ideas of 2009 #4: The demographic dividend
Perhaps the dumbest idea of the decade. Everyone is selling you the 'Youth power' mantra, but before you pass out in the rabid nationalist delirium, time to get off the train at the halt of 'WTF'. Some 35 years back, th…
Topic: Politics and Government, 2009, Google, Demographic dividend | Read more
- Dumb ideas of 2009 #3: No one is searching for how to make India better, boss
According to the big search book of Google Sir, we Indians want know 1. how to kiss (still too much sexual repression, bhaijee?), 2. how to hack (empty mind is a dangerous mind), 3. how to meditate (the pressures of ge…
Topic: 2009, Google | Read more
- Dumb Ideas of 2009 #2: Nilekeni's Unique ID Project
Take a technologically ignorant Cabinet of Ministers, an entrepreneur who made big on selling code monkey services and an army of bureacrats eager to make money from the IT spending gravy gravy train ( One has not read a…
Topic: 2009, UniqueIDproject | Read more
- Dumb Ideas of 2009 #1: MBAs Nahin Sudherenge
As if the rising costs of foodstuff was not enough for all of us. Having been burned bad by the lucrative Investment Banking and Consulting industries, almost every other of our glorified textbook clerks, aka MBAs now wa…
Topic: Say That Again, 2009, Mba | Read more
- Are resumes relevant?
How do you convey your education, experience and skills to prospective employersThere are two schools of thoughts. The traditional way is to list out your key specs, share it on online resume websites, take a print out a…
Topic: Resume, Career | Read more
- Will Facebook and Twitter ever make some real money?
Like Facebook before it, Twitter has done deals with cash-rich heavyweights, which has given some hopes that the company is actually profitable. How realistic is that thinkingWhen you put the revenue into perspective and…
Topic: Internet and Websites, Twitter, Facebook, Advertising | Read more
