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Ta-ta Big Cars, Hello Nano

January 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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Tata Motors unveiled the 100,000-rupee car earlier today at the Auto Expo in Delhi today.
Tata Chairman Ratan Tata talks about his inspiration for the car:
Speaking at the unveiling of the car at a motor show in Delhi, Tata chairman Ratan Tata said: “”I observed families riding on [...]

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Tags: economy · india · technology

Hello, Can I Factorize Your Polynomials?

November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

This is not new, but the NYT ran an article on outsourcing tutoring (in math, amongst other subjects) to India. This is part of the “second wave” of outsourcing:
The first wave of slicing up services work and sending it abroad has been all about business operations. Computer programming, call centers, product design and back-office jobs [...]

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Tags: diaspora · india · mathematics · teaching · technology

The Google Witch

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

It being Halloween tomorrow, Google has decided to celebrate by changing its little Street View fellow into a witch. Now, you can fly on a broom-stick to whichever street you want to view.
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Tags: humor · technology

Married To Your Blog

August 14th, 2007 · No Comments

An article from two weekends ago in the WSJ talks about what happens to a marriage as technology gets more and more programmed for individual use. If you’re married, you know where this is going. He likes techno, she likes rock. He likes sci fi, she likes romantic comedies. And that leads us to some [...]

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Tags: blog · humor · news · offbeat · technology

PC Vs. Mac Rap

June 27th, 2007 · No Comments

You saw the Big Mac Rap. Now watch the PC vs. Mac rap.
I’m a right clicka.
I’m an I-Book flippa.
Macs ‘n PCs - no fight gets bigga!
Hell yeah!

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Google Gets Some Street Cred: Part Deux

June 1st, 2007 · No Comments

So it seems that there’s been a flurry of activity after the Google ‘Street View’ feature has come out.
First off, we had a woman get frantic about the people circling her streets in vans while taking pictures of her cat. Sounds like 24? Well, think again. Here’s what she wrote to BoingBoing:
I’m all for mapping, [...]

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Tags: diaspora · humor · india · offbeat · opinion · technology

Google Gets Some Street Cred

May 30th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Google Maps has just released a new feature: Street View. This lets you get really down ‘n dirty and actually check out pictures of a neighbourhood at street-level, as if you were walking around. It’s pretty cool - you can pan, zoom and even move in intervals of around 100 feet (or so).
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Tags: humor · news · personal life · technology

Microsoft Hearts Apple. No, Really.

May 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Around a year or so ago, I posted a link to a video about what would happen if Microsoft designed the box for the Apple Ipod. Well, here it is again.

Then, the NYT’s Technology columnist David Pogue found out that:
Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated the creation [...]

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The Moon

May 9th, 2006 · No Comments

We all know that Google came out with its Google Moon Project a while back. Some of us even read the FAQs where Google says that
we can confirm that on July 20th, 2069, in honor of the 100th anniversary of mankind’s first manned lunar landing, Google will fully integrate Google Local search capabilities into Google [...]

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How do you like ‘dem Apples?

May 9th, 2006 · No Comments

So Apple Computers won the lawsuit brought on them by Apple Corp [it's not actually a functioning webpage, but a placeholder], the company that looks after the interests of the Beatles’ music. This editorial in the NYT talks about the case, Michael Jackson (he co-owns their song catalog - which is also part of [...]

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Tags: music · news · technology