Category Archives: News

What happens to the Doctorates?

January 19, 2010 – 11:06 pm

Well the news is out the Govt. of India is derecognizing 44 so called deemed universities in India due to lack of infrastructure facilities. Finally some one in the Education department recognized it and blew the whistle.
Although I didn’t study in any of these universities but I have visited some of them during my UG [...]

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Where is bi.ng and Ap.pl?

December 15, 2009 – 1:06 am

Just read the news that the mighty Google has released its own URL shortener tool http://goo.gl which is available with Google Toolbar and  FeedBurner according to press release.I’m sure the tool will slowly be used by all Google products and may be ship with Android and Chrome OS which would be cool.
Pretty much every IT [...]

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Universal Mobile chargers finally..

October 25, 2009 – 9:59 pm

CNET news reported that the International Telecommunication Union a branch of UN has decided to go for universal mobile phone chargers.
In a world where each mobile phone from same manufacture have different chargers working this is a welcoming sign.
I also hope ITU gets in to and standardize the chargers for all portable devices as well. [...]

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Change of theme

September 18, 2009 – 1:31 am

Its been quite a while since I switched my wordpress theme to a different one. I changed some time in march and there were some issues with IE browser so reverted.
This time I have decided not to change the theme for IE issues alone. I’m done playing games for IE.
As far as the new theme [...]

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The Ripple Effect

May 18, 2009 – 1:38 am

With the United Progressive Alliance – UPA lead by Congress(I) winning the 2009 Indian parlimentary election with a surprise and its ripple effects has started showing up.
Obviously the first place to feel the effect is the closest to the center that’s Srilanka where BBC has reported that Velupillai Prabhakaran leader of LTTE has been killed. [...]

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India Election result maps(2009) using ESRI Arcgis Flex API

May 15, 2009 – 6:14 pm

As usual I was lookig for a site that would show the Indian goverment election 2009 and I found out that electio commision has a site set up with the maps and stats online.
Here is the web site http://www.eciresults.nic.in/
The intersting part is they have a amazing interative map online using ESRI Arcgis Flex API and [...]

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What good will it do

October 13, 2008 – 12:19 am

What good will it do especially after the last fiasco with with Karnataka govt.

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Google News in Tamil..

October 7, 2008 – 10:33 pm

Not sure how long Google News had tamil news feed from Aug 6 2008 but I just found about it today. Now I will be able read all crappy,funny and gossips from tamil news papers as well.
With every political party preparing for elections its going to be fun. Since none of the parties can give [...]

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Irony

September 10, 2008 – 11:44 pm

Here is an article that I was reading today which basically says that Indian chefs are welcome in UK but not IT workers.
Soon after that I was wondering if Veera Pandiya Kattabomman welcomed any of them to his kingdom. Time changes lot..:)

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No Smoking..

September 7, 2008 – 12:41 am

My dear Smoker’s,
If you haven’t heard the news that you can’t legally smoke inside your office/restrooms in India any more. The law will be effective Oct 2 2008 and its a good initiative by the government.
Passing law is an easier task but implementing it properly is always been a problem since Independence. For e.g the [...]

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