As strong supporters of public transportation and the little man against the big corporations, we can’t help but wish that Mamta Banerjee screws or at least seriously delays the Tata Nano project in Singur (West Bengal) so that costs escalate and the car becomes unaffordable. We fear that cars like Nano will distract from necessary […]
Abu Dhabi Media Company plans to invest $1 billion in Bollywood, Hollywood and other movies, according to the Financial Times. As part of the new initiative, Abu Dhabi Media Company has formed a new company called imagenation abu dhabi to develop, finance and produce content for both the global and Arabic language markets. The plan […]
Dell is hopping on to the Netbook bandwagon, according to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Netbooks are cheaper, no-frills versions of notebook computers with smaller screens and are ideally suited for web surfing. Although the margins on the Netbooks are lower compared to notebooks,
Today i.e. August 29, 2014, Indians across the world celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi in honor of the birthday of Lord Ganesh (the son of Shiva and Parvati and a favorite God for millions of Hindus). Does anyone now how old Ganesh is? In several states of India, Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated for several days and at […]
Call it Pickles. Or call it Achar (Hindi), Urga (Tamil), Upinkai (Kannada) or Uragai (Telugu). Rich or poor, villager or city slicker, young or old, North Indian or South Indian, these hot accompaniments are a sine qua non of any Indian meal. They go well with rice (particularly yogurt rice) as well as roti. And […]
Infotainment products vendor Harman International and Indian IT major Wipro are setting up an embedded engineering center in Chennai and Bangalore that will work on audio and infotainment products across automotive, consumer and professional markets. Services to be delivered from the center include software development and related hardware engineering. The center is to start with […]