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, […]
Over its 25-year history, Sun Microsystems has seen many talented executives come and go. Among them founder Vinod Khosla and long time CEO Scott McNealy (now Chairman). But one executive seems to have been at Sun forever even as the company’s prospects soared during the dot com days, faded subsequently and then painfully stabilized. And […]
Madhuri Dixit’s comeback movie Aaja Nachle has failed to resonate at the U.S. box office in its opening November 30-December 1 weekend dealing a severe blow to its producer Yash Raj Films. U.S. box office numbers show that Aaja Nachle brought in an embarrassingly low $257,500 and debuted at No-22 in its opening weekend. Aaja Nachle’s […]
India’s military has carried out its first launch of a single stage interceptor missile against an electronic ballistic missile as target. The interceptor missile launch took place from Wheeler Island, an island off the coast of the east Indian state of Orissa. Indian defense personnel claim that the Endo-atmospheric interceptor intercepted the missile at 15 […]