The recent issue of IEEE ITPro Magazine (July/August 2008) had carried a very interesting Editorial. It raised the question "A Moving Target: Try to Define the IT Workforce", where it pointed that job titles in IT industry were being invented and qualifications were shifting daily. It uses...

The recent issue of IEEE ITPro Magazine (July/August 2008) had carried a very interesting Editorial. It raised the question "A Moving Target: Try to Define the IT Workforce", where it pointed that job titles in IT industry were being invented and qualifications were shifting daily. It uses...

According to a recent release from market research firm Gartner where it listed the Top 10 disruptive technologies it believes will reshape between 2008-2012: Multicore and hybrid processors Virtualisation and fabric computing Social networks and social software Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms...

The other day on the Internet I saw the above photos of the next version of One Laptop Per Child Program. What struck me very interesting was the absence of Keyboard (hence absence of mechanical failures) and the ability for two children to share it at the same time - very valuable in developing countries...

The original blog post from which I took the above chart is from here . It talks about how any one at any age with learning and practice can become an Expert. A nice piece to read and think about.

About 18 months back I was surprised to find a convenient checking-in process done by Kingfisher (Yes, I know that this was the only item I am in praise of an airline other than my favourite Jet Airways). It is by what they call "Roving Agents" who are airline staff roaming around near the...

In the recent months there has been good improvements in Virtual Earth's Birds eye view. One of the reasons behind them is the camera used for these excellent high resolution images is Ultracamx . UltracamX is from a company (Vexcel) Microsoft acquired some time back. It supports very large image...

In the recent months there has been good improvements in Virtual Earth's Birds eye view . One of the reasons this was possible was due to new camera used for these excellent high resolution images - Ultracamx . UltracamX is from a company (Vexcel) Microsoft acquired some time back. It supports very...

In the corridors of Mix '08, Scott Hanselman (PM, Microsoft and Ex-Regional Director) got hold of me & my fellow Regional Director (Delhi) Vinod Unny for an Interview. The topic was on " Outsourcing " and how it affects both sides of the world - we enjoyed talking on this hotly debated...

Early this week Apple released their Safari browser for Windows . Safari is a neat, standards compliant web browser and I feel its arrival for Windows is definitely an important step. You might think the usefulness or the need for yet another browser. Look at it this way - with Web becoming ever more...