India and the flat world
In his bestselling book ‘The world is flat’, author Tom Friedman illustrates his ‘flat world’ concept. For people who have not read the book, let me give a quick background.…
Indian Railways – Automatic Ticket Kiosks
It was 5:10 AM on 26th January when I reached Bangalore railway station and I was supposed to travel by general compartment. The ticketing counters open by 5 AM, and…
Reflections on ‘The Guru’
I like only two type of movies: serious and comedy. Since Mani Rathnam's 'THE GURU' belongs to the first category watched it on the theater (after a long long time).…
BOOK REVIEW: I too had a dream
Author: Varghese Kurien as told to Gouri Salvi Price: 395 INR Translation in Tamil: Mu. Sivalingam Price: 150 INR (Tamil version) This is one of the best auto-biographies I have…
The Road Ahead – The Smart techie cover story
The month’s ‘The Smart Techie’ magazine has come up with a cover story titled ‘the road ahead’. The cover story about the career roadmap for techies and the problems they…
Building Embedded Systems – A programmer’s perspective
The Embedded Systems domain is poised for a huge growth as more and more embedded devices are flocking into the market. These Embedded devices range from small consumer electronic devices…
Wasteful Consumption Vs self respect
Couple of weeks back I wrote a blog about Muhammad Yusuf and his micro credit concept. This trigged interested discussion among my friends circle and finally we all converged and…
Bangaloreit.in – 2006
Last weekend I got a chance to visit bangaloreit.com-2006, an annual IT tradeshow promoted by Government of Karnataka along with Software Technology Parks of India (STPI). Following are some of…
Digital photography: The next big thing?
In recent times I have been observing the digital photography business. The fast growth of internet and mobile network growth is fuelling the photography business big time. About ten years…
Agent based modeling of terrorists
This weekend I got a chance to read one of the IEEE papers titles ‘Modeling terrorists’ which was sent by my cousin Shanmuga.Predicting and preventing terror attacks has become a…