Come April, Apple will jack up prices of some singles in its iTunes digital media store (largest online store for Indian songs??) to $1.29. Currently, single tracks are 99 cents with most albums at $9.99. At Macworld,  Apple today announced a new three-tier pricing structure – the songs will be available at one of three price […]
Finally realizing that all the speculation on his health was proving to be, well, unhealthy for investors and the company, Apple CEO Steve Jobs fessed up today that he is indeed sick. Here’s an excerpt from Steve Jobs’ confession letter: Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of […]
Predictions are boring. So 2008-ish. Since we are no Nostradamus or Sahadeva, we’ll instead talk about what we’d like to see. The following are some of the items on our Wish List for 2009: * LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran surrender to Indian security forces and plead to be hanged for his crimes against humanity. * Desi […]
Is it too much to ask Indian restaurants in New York City that they keep their premises and kitchens reasonably clean? Indian restaurants in New York City are notoriously dirty. Restrooms without toilet paper, spoiled food, dirty outer garments of staff, rats, mice, flying insects and other live animals are only some of the ugly […]
The Apple App Store juggernaut continues. Today, Apple took out a full page ad in the print edition of Wall Street Journal to blow its horn that its App Store now has 10,000 applications and that iPhone users have so far downloaded 300 million applications from the store. That’s an amazing record considering that the App […]
We just read a few minutes back that every day in America 240 people die from healthcare acquired/associated infections (i.e. infections acquired in a hospital, long-term care facility, home care, nursing home). That’s 86,400 deaths a year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines healthcare-associated infections as infections that patients acquire during the […]