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Although the 2008 Democratic National Convention (DNC) is about 18 months away. I thought I would dig into the archives and show a clip from the 2000 DNC that took place in Los Angeles. I was part of a promotional video highlighting the work Cisco Systems was doing through its Cisco Network Academy [...]

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I’ve been using the newest iPod from Apple - the second generation Shuffle for the past 2 months and figured it was time for a review. This is not my first iPod nor my last, I’ve been using iPods since January 2003, when I bought my first, a 10GB second generation iPod, since then I’ve [...]

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Vikram Pandit, who started Old Lane is moving over to Citigroup, which just announced job cuts of 17,000 people this week. So how much was the pay off for Vikram and Old Lane? A cool USD 800 million.
Old Lane which manages USD 4.5 billion was started 13 months back and employs some [...]

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The Indian Union Minister for Communications and IT, Dayanidhi Maran has promised that 2007 will be the year of broadband.
“The year-2007 will see broadband in India further affordable and promised that people have to forget the 256 Kbps and enter the Information Superhighway. Already BSNL and MTNL are working on this. [...]

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Google seems to be killing the business plans for many start-ups that are centered around Google Maps. Google’s latest is called My Maps, that let’s user map specific points of interest and do it really easy. I played with the service for about 30 minutes and was able to generate some maps of [...]

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Yeah, another cover story from BusinessWeek. The last few months BusinessWeek has had some very interesting topics. Although the Mittal’s are from India, it’s one area where Arcelor Mittal doesn’t have much of a presence. That could be attributed to the fact that his brothers (Pramod and Vinod) are based in India and [...]

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The rates for calling between these two countries is so low, that in most instances it’s cheaper to call India from the US then to another state. The rates dropped again as of April 1, however only the wireless carriers have updated their rates.
When calling from the US to India you have several options:
Reliance [...]

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