Wipro Throws a Few Crumbs to Americans

After several years of displacing high-paying U.S. IT jobs through its low cost Indian outsourcing operations, Azim Premji’s Wipro Technologies is now throwing a few crumbs to the Americans. Wipro Technologies said Monday that it’s setting up a new software development center in Atlanta that would hire 200 employees in the first year and grow to […]

Joshi Launches 17 New Printers, $300m Ad Campaign

HP’s executive VP of Imaging and Printing group Vyomesh Joshi may have lost out in the race to head one of Silicon Valley’s storied computer companies. But the man has not been not standing still. On Tuesday, HP’s Imaging and Printing group, headed by Joshi, rolled out 17 new printers as well as a $300 […]

SAP Bets Big on India; Doubles Customer Base

We were perhaps the first to write about German enterprise software house SAP’s ambitious plans for the Indian market back in the mid-1990s when our ship was still anchored in Bangalore. So it’s gratifying to note more than a decade later SAP’s significant presence in, and committment to, the Indian market.  During the current visit […]

Why Asian Guys can’t get White Girls

Oh, my god…this is one of the funniest videos we’ve seen on YouTube in a long time. Living in USA, you can’t but help notice this “issue” of why Asian guys don’t seem to get White girls. It’s always the other way around. There’s even an Indian angle to this video towards the end. We […]

Pano Promises Software-less, Virtualized Desktop

The goal of developing easy-to-manage desktop computers and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) has been the cherished dream of several Silicon Valley entrepreneurs for more than a decade.  Oracle’s Larry Ellison tried and failed in the late 1990s with his network computers (remember the famous NCs?). Ellison’s buddy Scott McNealy of Sun failed to make much headway […]

Wow! Heyy Babyy Does Better than Chak De India in U.S.

Surprise, surprise. Heyy Babyy, that ugly Bollywood ripoff of Three Men and a Baby, has fared better than Chak De India in its first weekend at the U.S. box office. Heyy Babyy came in only at No-24 in the box office chart for the August 24-26, 2007 weekend but its weekend gross was much higher at […]