Starting with the browser, Microsoft has been one of the biggest failures and laggards on the Internet side of the computer industry. Microsoft’s latest and biggest failure is, of course, on the search front where Google has taken all the glory and all the money. Despite throwing in hundreds of millions of dollars, Microsoft’s MSN […]
What’s all this hullabaloo about IT company EDS paying $720,000 in bribes to Indian officials? We just don’t understand all this sound and fury and gnashing of teeth. It’s all much ado about nothing. After all, taking and giving bribes is a great Indian tradition. Scores of Bollywood movies show ministers and officers demanding and […]
Struggling with its online initiatives in the face of the Google onslaught, Microsoft is in talks to pick up a 5% stake in social networking site Facebook at the same time that Google is also considering investing in Facebook, according to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). If it goes through, the Microsoft investment could be in […]
India won the Twenty20 World Cup final beating arch enemy Pakistan by five runs in a nail-biting finish this evening in the South African city of Johannesburg. Batting first, India ended up with a modest 157 for five wickets. The highlight of India’s batting was Gautam Gambhir’s fine 75 scored off 54 balls with eight boundaries and two […]
Indian beauty queen and Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai is in the final stages of obtaining a U.S. trademark for her name from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Commerce. Most likely, Aishwarya Rai will be the first Bollywood star to get the coveted USPTO trademark. Getting […]
In America, it seems everything is for sale. Now you can even buy convincing lies, with a nice alibi to back you up when you face some of life’s sticky situations. Want to get off for a weekend with your girlfriend without the wife knowing, skip a boring office conference, justify missing an event, a […]