and now Joost. The tag team of Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have created yet another disrupting technology.
Their first was Kazaa. Although Napster was one of the first peer-to-peer file sharing applications. Kazaa was using a protocol that could connect to many computers to download the same file and spread into one of the [...]
Entries from January 2007
Kazaa…Skype…
January 29th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Technology
On vacation
January 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Yes it’s true, I’ll be on vacation for the next 3 weeks on my honeymoon. After a gap of a month between the wedding and the honeymoon, we are really ready to get the fu!#$ out of Bombay for a well deserved break.
I’ll have several pre-written blog entries that will be appearing over [...]
Tags: Vacation
Colbert reports on the Bollywood Feud?
January 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Normally, I could care less about the Indian film industry known as Bollywood, but when Steven Colbert chimes in on the supposed feud between Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan it’s worth a listen.
Great quote - “If Preity Zinta is there, you better fu#%ing show up”
Tags: India
Why the fight for Hutch?
January 15th, 2007 · No Comments
Due to the lack of any real business news in India, all the newspapers continue to plaster the headlines with day to day updates on the Hutch buyout. The numbers being thrown around for Hutch are hugh - USD 20 billion, justified? Compare the ARPU’s (average revenue per user) between US carriers and Indian [...]
Tags: Business · Technology
Gandhi video causing an uproar
January 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The Times of India has a front page article about the above video causing an outrage with the Indian government, in particular the I&B (Information and Broadcasting) Ministry. So much so they want to ban YouTube, hahahahaha. I love how these officials throw around such retarded ideas, first they wanted to ban Orkut (unsuccessfully), [...]
Tags: India
Wedding in Rajasthan
January 12th, 2007 · No Comments
Wow!!!, was the word I kept on saying and hearing from others at the wedding of Ritu and Rick. It was definitely a fairly tale wedding, albeit Rick didn’t ride in on a white horse but instead an elephant. It was 3 days of sheer fun and livin’ large at the Samode Palace and [...]
Tags: Vacation
Indian IPO’s
January 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Indian investors for many months have been grabbing every IPO that has come out but as of late - that ain’t the case. I wouldn’t call myself a doomsday guy, but having been in the thick of the “internet revolution” of 1999-2000, history does repeat itself. There have been a few IPO’s I have [...]
Tags: Business
Macworld SF 2007
January 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Here we are a day after Macworld San Francisco and everyone is weighing in on the latest and greatest from Apple. After everything was said and done, Steve released 3 products:
- Apple iPhone - at first this product looked like the “holy grail”, but now it just seems like an awesome phone and NOT [...]
Tags: Technology
Happy New Year
January 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Happy New Year to everyone. 2006 was definitely a big year for me and expecting 2007 to be bigger.
Woke up this morning and saw the logo to the left plastered all over the Times of India. It’s a new marketing campaign launched by the Times Group to get everyone jazzed about India Inc. [...]
Tags: General