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For the past 10 days I’ve been on American soil and hence the chirping crickets on this blog. I’m back for several reasons: business, personal and what I like to call “damn it feels good to be here.” List of things I’ve done so far:
- Visited the Apple Store on 5th Ave in NYC [...]

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I don’t watch much TV in India. But when I do, I always see this commercial from HCL. I just hate this smug little IT guy. You get the feeling HCL is everywhere, but it’s not. If this was from Reliance, then that’s another story. Best part is he looks over to the [...]

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The folks over at El Segundo, CA based Mattel should really look at changing their name to Mettalic in light of yet another product recall involving lead paint. This would be recall number three for them. If you didn’t know lead paint is paint containing lead, a heavy metal.
The company at first blamed China for [...]

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RUFK - Are You F**king Kidding.
That’s what ran through my mind when I saw the following headline in the Wall Street Journal - “Sony to Challenge Apple in TV, movie download.” Sony is a USD 70 billion company with 163,000 people and they are still clueless on their market strategy. I don’t remember when they [...]

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It’s really not even worth comparing the two social networking sites since Facebook wins hands down. However, it’s worth comparing to show how Facebook kicked Friendster to the curb. Friendster was all the rage back in 2003 and quickly the site was swamped with traffic and never fully recovered. It even told Google [...]

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