http://www.geek.com/articles/news/blockbuster-express-digital-rent-movies-on-sd-cards-20091110/# Last week Kingston announced it was going to start bundling movies with sales of Flash memory products, this week Blockbuster has announced you can start renting movies on SD cards. Now correct me if I'm wrong but out of the following two scenarios what looks good? This is what a sane human (Blockbuster management...

A good intellectual discussion on Google's Strategy, between two great thinkers on Planet Earth. Me After relentlessly aping Yahoo (email, maps, search, messenger, local), Apple (G1, App Store, et al), Microsoft (OS, Live mail, Docs, Browser), Google sets its eyes on Facebook. I think they should get an award for being the least creative company in the world - the only innovation they came up with was Google...

This experiment started about a month ago, when I noticed that no matter at whichever setting you pop the microwave popcorn, there are always some kernels left unpopped. So either there must be an optimal setting of the microwave OR these kernels should not be there in the packet. I tried to pop various packets at different power levels at different times in the Microwave. The recommended settings are usually...

The online landscape: Yahoo! wants to spread some cheer to Internet users around the world. A leading online portal, Yahoo! draws people to its network of Web sites with a mix of news, entertainment, and shopping, as well the revitalized Bing search engine (powered by Microsoft). The company also offers registered users personalized Web pages, e-mail, and message boards. Yahoo! publishes content in some 30...

And now the big one. Salary. Why big? Money makes the world go round. I ain't saying it. Its general consensus. In this article we plan to look at post-MBA salaries across various industries and sectors. Naturally, these depend on the number of years of work experience, the pre-MBA profile, how well defined are the aims of the candidate and the list goes on and on and on. In fact a company called Wetfeet publishes...

I did this as an assignment on the MBA. Since it is my own work - I chose to declassify it. A critical assessment of “Marketing Myopia” – Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review, 1975 in context of the contemporary Green Energy Industry. If you have pests in your house, what do you do? Build better and better mousetraps, or actually address the cause of infestation? For decades many companies have learnt the trut...

I often watch videos off the TED site, but some videos related to India, off late, set me thinking. Shashi Tharoor and the Power of Soft Power (referred to as ST from now on) Devdutt Pattanaik on East v/s West (referred to as DP from now on) Mallika Sarabhai - Dance to Save the World (referred to as MS from now on) I couldn't help but notice and laugh (yes, laugh) at the commonalities that these speakers......

I came across this article on http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_happiness_genie/ Suppose a genie appears and gives you two choices. The first option is that he will give you $10 million dollars, but everyone else you know will get $20 million apiece. Choice two: You get $5 million, but no one else gets anything. As a bonus, the genie offers to erase your memory of having made the choice, so guilt will never...

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realised that what you heard is not what I meant. Rebecca Saxe tries to address the problem of how we develop the neural infrastructure to think about others' thoughts. The region of the brain called the RPTJ can actually, on external stimulation change people's perceptions of what is fair and what is not.

Washington, July 10: Invoking national interest, renowned spiritual guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, has appealed to all Indian political parties to display ‘magnanimity’ and support the troubled Indo-US nuclear deal. "All parties must support the deal that is beneficial to the country," he said. India has always had a tradition of the government and opposition coming together in national interest whenever a crisis ...