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The goal of developing easy-to-manage desktop computers and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) has been the cherished dream of several Silicon Valley entrepreneurs for more than a decade. 

Oracle’s Larry Ellison tried and failed in the late 1990s with his network computers (remember the famous NCs?). Ellison’s buddy Scott McNealy of Sun failed to make much headway too. As did many others in Silicon Valley because for all their promise thin clients or network computing devices offered a lot less than desktop computers.

Now comes a start-up called Pano Logic that swears it’s conjured up a new way of making desktops easy to manage for IT managers through the combination of an all hardware, no software device and server virtualization.

Pano also claims its architecture will slash the TCO of desktops by 70%.

The privately held start-up Pano says its palm-sized hardware device will Continue reading »

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Reliance – Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group’s BigFlicks.com entertainment web site has gone live (albeit in alpha mode i.e. a kind of test version).

BigFlicks’ selection of Indian entertainment content is supposed to include Bollywood and Indian regional movies, TV programs, movie songs and music videos. Currently, the content is mostly a sparse selection of Hindi, Telugu and Marathi movies.

There’s also an Adult Movie selection – with five movies currently – that can be viewed anywhere except in India.

BigFlicks’ target market seems to be primarily the NRI crowd in the U.S., UK, Canada, Middle East, South East Asia, Europe and Australia, given the high broadband penetration in these countries and the presumed craze of desis abroad for Indian content.

Users can stream the BigFlicks content for free or buy or rent the video content via download, which can take from 30 minutes to three hours.

Movies cost from $4.49 to $19.99 to buy. For instance, last year’s Hindi hit movie Rang De Basanti costs $14.99 while the Telugu movie Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana is $4.49.

But does the BigFlicks launch matter from a $$$$ perspective? 

While we suspect the free option will prove popular, we seriously doubt that NRIs will Continue reading »

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