After years of importing tens of thousands of foreign workers of Japanese descent from Latin American countries like Brazil and Peru for blue-collar jobs, Japan is now doing an U-turn on its immigration policy. An U-turn that America must seriously consider (but only partially) vis-a-vis its H1B Visas. Facing growing unemployment of its own citizens […]
Desi butcher and Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit has joined the disgraceful gallery of America’s Worst CEOs. Describing Vikram Pandit as one of the 20 Worst CEOs, here’s what Conde Nast’s Portfolio had to say on our ‘desi butcher’: Pandit didn’t create the mess Citi is in, but he is the financial-services equivalent of the Titanic’s […]
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 […]
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. […]
Like client-server computing in the early 1990s, Java in the mid-1990s and e-business in the late 1990s, cloud computing is the buzz IT phrase of this era. Hailed as the panacea for all IT ailments starting from ballooning IT infrastructure costs to the shortage of talented IT workers, cloud computing is supposed to take us to the […]
Folks, here comes the 22nd instalment of Incredible India, with those only-in-India stories. * This one is straight out of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not book and we were tongue-tied when we first heard this. Mahesh, a follower of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, cut his tongue at a Hindu temple as a […]