Folks, here comes yet another edition of Amazing America. * 17-year-old girls in the U.S. who screw without contraceptives don’t have to worry anymore about getting a swollen belly because they can get the Plan B morning after birth control pill without a prescription and without permission from their parents. Yes, the U.S. Food and […]
Future historians will most certainly describe Pakistan’s craven surrender to the Taliban pigs in the Swat region as a Himalayan blunder. Emboldened by the surrender of Swat Valley, the Taliban has already ushered in Sharia (Islamic law) in parts of Swat and taken over the neighboring Buner district as well. How far from Buner to […]
Can you imagine a top information technology executive in the U.S. with a name like Jack Callahan or Margaret Weinberger. No, sir. No. The name’s got to be a Ramasamy or Padmasree. OK, at least a Chopra or Kundra. Top IT Dogs Any surprise then that the top IT dogs in President Obama’s administration are […]
There must be massive personal Internet use in Indian offices and of course, the accompanying massive loss in productivity. What other explanation is possible? You see, Internet cafes are no longer as ubiquitous in India as they once
Chennai-based Vembu Technologies has launched a backup virtual appliance called StoreGrid Cloud AMI on the Amazon cloud infrastructure. The online backup ‘virtual appliance’ on Amazon Web Services is supposed to let service providers offer an online backup service to their small and medium business (SMB) customers without any upfront capital investment in a data center. […]
A report co-authored by a desi says that H1B Visa admissions into the U.S. pull down wages for native IT programmers and systems analysts by 5%-6%. Are you surprised? You shouldn’t be: Because coolies always work for less (you know just like the Walmart slogan We sell for less you see on the back of their […]