Reverse Brain drain (Brain gain)
Being in the IT Industry you can feel the energy of growth, innovation and excitement that’s in India now. You can relate the present scene to the one that was…
November 2007
Web Browser Standards
I came across these two references today (November 2007). One was the Web Browser Standards Summary, which summarises the level of support for web standards and maturing technologies in popular…
Jungle book and Gold Spot
How times have changed? When I was in school, we had this orange cool drink called “Gold Spot” that was hugely popular. They had a campaign at that time –…
Digital Home – Squeeze Box
I have started on a journey to centralize all my digital assets in a central computer (a.k.a server) in my house. The server will have all my digital photographs, music…
Microsoft Sync Framework
Microsoft announced recently a new Sync Framework. This is a CTP release that is targeted for release in Q2 2008 and it supports P2P and Online/Offline synchronization of data. Currently…
World’s Longest Road
Today I saw in The Hindu/Business Line newspaper an advertisement from Emirates Airlines about their new route from India to Toronto. It talked about Toronto having the world’s longest Road…
Prepaid Microsoft Office 2007
WOW, writing the above headline made me wonder how far software has come from the time you bought it from guys with coat and suit, to online, to free and…
Microsoft Museum
During my trips to Redmond (WA) – the hometown of Microsoft, every few years once I make it a point to visit Microsoft Visitor Center (Microsoft Museum). It has on…