Kollywood’s Young General (a.k.a Ilayathalapathy in Tamil) Vijay must be crying himself silly into his beer over the sorry fate of his recent movie Azhagiya Tamil Magan. This much anticipated movie of our self-styled Young General turned out to be a disgraceful affront to his fans and has deservedly met with a less than enthusiastic […]
In preparation for its February 27 launch, Microsoft rolled out Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1 for beta testers on Wednesday. Customers can download and test Windows Server 2008 at http://www.microsoft.com/ws08eval Microsoft claims that 1.8 million customers have obtained Windows Server 2008 evaluation code so far. Windows Server 2008 is the next generation of the […]
India’s active Internet user base in 2007 is still a pathetic 32 million, according to a new survey report put out by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). This represents a growth of 10.9 million active users over 2006. The IAMAI is also throwing out a figure of 46 million Internet users in the […]
They say that even the rats desert a sinking ship. While Padmasree Warrior is certainly no rat, this shrewd corporate warrior has abandoned the sinking Motorola and sought refuge in the safe harbor of networking leader Cisco. Padmasree is joining Cisco as CTO, the same position she held at struggling Motorola where she was responsible for […]
If you really, really care about your life, you’d better read this piece. No kidding. This is scary stuff. Although we’d registered Dr.Atul Gawande’s name on the periphery of our consciousness a while back, his new piece in the December 10, 2007 issue of the New Yorker was the first time we took a dekko at […]
Your free lunch days are over, Microsoft is telling software pirates and their cheapo customers. Make no mistake, Microsoft is aggressively going after pirates of its software these days. And to prove that it means business now where piracy of its software is concerned, the software company’s been throwing around some impressive numbers. Just the other day, […]