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Microsoft is lying low in Social Media space. Google owns Youtube and Orkut, and it has recently launched Buzz. Yahoo accepted the failure in running the social network, and choose to follow a different path by partnering with Facebook and Twitter. Yahoo has focussed fully on content generation and is using the social networks partnership to drive traffic to its site.
Microsoft on its part is not in talks. People [...]
Today is the birthday of our Honorable Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor. He is one of the most versatile politicians of India.
Mr. Tharoor is not only the #1 Most Followed person from India, he is also the third most followed Indian globally after Cisco CTO Padmasree and GogaOM founder OM Mallik. Mr. Tharoor is an author, humanitarian, peacekeeper, columnist, former UN Under-Secretary General, candidate for UN [...]
North Korea has developed its own operating system named "Red Star" based on the Linux Kernel. The operating system has been under development since 2006, reports Tech Blog Techtified citing a Russian Student Blog.
The OS is on sale for $5 for both server and client versions. It is powered by browser "My Country", which is a derivative of Mozilla Firefox. The operating system comes with a default firewall application called [...]
Sri Lanka, A Paradise Island in the Indian Ocean
The Island nation is situated south of India. It was one of the most developed Nation in Aisa 50 years back but lost its path during the LTTE struggle. The country is rich in culture, bio-diversity and many more. It has Seductive beaches and tempting water sports, magnificent landscapes featuring lazy lagoons, fertile wetlands, ecologically-wondrous types of forest, imposing mountains, bounteous [...]
I had a unique chance to meet Mr. Shivraj, Executive Vice President of Regalix. We spent some time talking about Regalix, their business, Social Media in general and the businesses uses of the emerging media.
Shivraj feels Google Buzz is coming up, and FourSquare is emerging. When asked which network to use, he says different Social Media Networks are meant for different purpose and business leaders needs to choose best [...]
Business Week has reported Google complaining Chinese Internet censorship in WTO, which the company and US government believes violates the open trade and services condition. Is this a fair argument?
As BusinessWeek posted Wednesday,
The U.S. Trade Representative’s office is consulting with industry groups about China’s Internet policies, spokeswoman Carol Guthrie said. Two groups with links to Google, the Computer & Communications Industry Association and the First Amendment Coalition, have told the [...]
TiVo CEO Tom Rogers talks to Fox Business Channel on how the company is merging Internet and DVR and the future of content. He shows a remote working with the Television, which can be used to browse both the internet and TV content within the TV. The TV needs a broadband and TV broadcasting cable connection, and you are ready to go.
There is a small box attached to the [...]
Indian Prime Minister is firm on moving ahead with progressive economic policies, which included rise in fuel prices. His party, Indian Congress, is famous for bringing populist budget. The government has good majority in the House and can take aggressive steps. But the government took easier path past year and was criticized for not bringing visionary and ambitious budget.
This year budget is also not very ambitious but it aims to bring [...]
Doing business in China is not easy. There are many challenges including a completely new place, new language, different food, communist government and the unusually hardworking manpower. The list does not end here.
Here are some of the key points to know while doing business in China or having any personal or professional relation with Chinese people. Ref. Marcus McGowan presentation in SlideShare.
Women should avoid high heels and short [...]
Nikkei BP Consulting and AdMob research found [Japanese] that 49.4% of Japanese Male iPhone Users have two or more cellphones. The online research was done on 1,000 Japanese iPhone users.
The research has male:female ratio of 72.3%:27.7%. Web-tan Forum [J] who reported the research. The paid research did not mention the number of percentage of female iPhone using iPhone as their second cellphone, as reported by Asiajin.
Apple launched iPhone in Japan [...]
