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I love to go to movies, restaurants and stadiums. Many times I have noticed that it becomes really difficult to remember where I parked. Once I remember being lost in the parking lot in Disney World and after an hour or so, the security staff helped us find our car. I also remember parking in [...]

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It is just a coincidence that two leading democracies in the world introduce two bills around startups, one which will encourage startups and one which discourages startups. CrowdFund Act of US is designed to help the startups by making it easy to receive small amounts of investments from individuals also, while the Startup Tax Bill [...]

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While browsing online, I came across two specific pictures which had a common pattern: Creative road side shop keepers copying popular internet brand names and coming up with their own shop names. In one instance, a person opened a mobile soft drink stall called Gogola and nicely copied Google’s style. In the second instance, this [...]

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Today I came across the website where Bill Gates blogs actively. This site is called The Gates Notes. I got a chance to read quite  few blogs that he had written and I was amazed at the level of information that he has gathered during the past few years. As many of us know, Bill [...]

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I started writing about my top technology tools last year and have been fascinated at how my technology needs have changed (or not!) in the past year. Hence I am writing this post to see what are my top technology tools in 2011. This year, I realized that my technology tools actually fall under three [...]

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I have actively started using Facebook as a user in the past week and as I was studying the way Facebook was tracking friends and their associations, a very interesting fact became obvious: Facebook knows more about my friends than what I know! I mean this specifically from one particular standpoint: As I was adding [...]

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In the past year, I realized that every single person I know has a Facebook account now! This only means that Facebook has become an integral part of our daily habits…by the way, it also means that we understand what exactly Facebook is getting from us in return for the free platform to express ourselves [...]

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In the past hour, I had a very interesting experience in my attempt to transfer my number from AT&T to T-Mobile. It was a very good learning exprience and I thought I should share it here as the technology advancement (or the lack of) in the area of customer service amazes me. When I called [...]

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Dennis Ritchie, the founder of C, passed away earlier this week. Not sure if many of you know, the IPhone Operating System is based on Dennis Ritchie’s core invention. Ritchie also co designed the UNIX operating System. He is most famous in Indian Universities as the book he wrote with Kernighan ‘The C Programming Language’ [...]

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For the first time in over ten years of using the blackberry, I noticed today that the Blackberry service has been interrupted worldwide. Being one of the main technology tools that I use, I could not help noticing it and was very surprised this happened. Over the past two days, Blackberry has been having outage [...]

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