In the Forbes Asia June 16, 2008 issue I came across these interesting facts about Adobe (the makers of Photoshop and Flash). According to Adobe, Flash Player is the most widely available software on Earth (Is it?) For every 1000 users of free Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Acrobat Reader, there is a Web...

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...

If your laptop like mine is part of a domain, then updates are likely to be controlled by your IT Team. In our office, our IT team uses WSUS to download the updates locally, test them on local machines and then approve the updates for general consumption across the organization. I am one of the few in...

We are managing one of the wap sites using MCMS 2002 and I noticed that response.redirect method takes a little longer at times and had asked my dev lead to implement server.transfer method. he checked the faq from CMS 2002 and it says that server.transfer is not supported in MCMS. Even though there...