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Great people make great companies. There has been no bigger proponent of the same then the author of Good To Great – Jim Collins. A line from his book says “leaders of companies that go from good to great start not with “where” but with…

Just after seeing the start of a major battle in the Social Networking sphere, we should be bracing ourselves for yet another battle to be fought soon i.e. the battle for domination in Operating System space. And this shall be fought…

Did you get the subtle connotation that the word Life has for Gamers? No? Read on anyways! We Gamers are a funny bunch. We need instant gratification, and you’d think we would quickly tire of our latest toy and want to move to another…

It looks like I am becoming a Google Plus Evangelist – This is the name more than one person gave me when I attended a conference yesterday. Whether that is true or not, one thing is sure – Google Plus is here to stay. Google Plus is still…

We are lucky to be living in this day and age – Technology has positively affected our lives more than any other previous generations. Cisco’s Dave Evans recently released a presentation called “Ten Technology Trends that will change the…

Google+ vs Facebook : The fight is on. All kind of rumors are floating around with quants predicting the number of users on G+ already. Some say it will be 10 million today and some say it will be 20 million by this weekend. Google hasn’t…

To me, Alternate Reality Games are a really clever combination of narrative and user generated content that becomes the game itself. Did you just go blank? Take Two. An Alternate Reality Game starts off with a premise.  Let’s take…

I always thought freemium model is a tough nut to crack. Even though Slideshare, Dropbox etc. are successful examples of leveraging the freemium model there have been questions on the sustainability of freemium business model in general.…

We have been hearing from last few years search is going to be social; all search engines in coming years are going to put more value to social signals from the searcher’s social graphs then the links obtained by sites from different places…

Imagine, if you can use your Smartphone to get your eyes tested within less than 30 seconds. That’s exactly the innovation created by researchers (led by Dr. Ramesh Raskar) at MIT Labs. EyeNetra is a very small, cheap device (that costs…

Eh! Does the title of this post sound a bit exaggerated in terms of the statement it is trying to make? But, probably, that might NOT be too unrealistic a target for the Indian Railways (IR) to achieve with the reach of its web portal…

I am a fan of e-commerce but one look at e-commerce in India and there are more negatives than positives. Infrastructure issues apart customer service/satisfaction is one aspect where most Indian e-commerce ventures continue to be below…

Google does not give much importance to Indian Government’s content removal requests – This came out very clearly in the Transparency report published by Google. Between July and December 2010, only 22% of all the Government Content…

Mathematics is not everyone's cup of tea, we reckon. If you think that you are good at mathematics and enjoy the subject, why not use this skill in carving a niche career path for yourself? Here are top 5 careers that you can pursue if you…

“EKA” is the fastest computer in India, developed by Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. On a global front there is nothing much to write about, as India has been falling rapidly over the years…

India now has over 28 million Facebook users and over 1/3rd of all Internet users are on Facebook. India also has the 5th largest Facebook user base in the world and is expected to become 2nd largest Facebook userbase by end of 2012. These…

Internet is becoming ubiquitous these days especially with mobile internet literally providing multi-fold increase in the user base hooked online.In the absence of high-speed and reliable connectivity, mobile internet is working like a…

In the recent past, all major IT service providers have embarked on new strategies to drive future growth as well as streamline operational costs. Infosys has had a major restructuring and new senior management have been inducted, Wipro…

I have always been a big believer that 'the cloud' is marketing lingo. I can understand how 'cloud computing' is an exciting new phenomena but certainly not 'the cloud'. Even 'cloud computing' is not that new. However, how you do business…

Facebook is changing the world around us – It has now become much more than just a social network – It has become a gaming hub, a marketing platform, a event organizer, an ecommerce shop and hundreds of others things that we do in our daily…