Could this be the most critical budget for India?

For business journalists in India, budget time is excitement time. It's like sports journos covering the Olympics. As a newspaper correspondent, I too had my fill of budget-time excitement. But I often wondered why the government must play with the (fiscal) fate of 1 billion Indians every year.

Till today, the Union Budget continues to determine every Indian's "financial" fate..... Read more »

Tags: ESOP, Software Technology, Indian IT-ITES Industry, Tax, Recession

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Shhh, but I ain't no Apple fanboy

Clearly, I ain't no boy. And unlike the millions of people worldwide who proudly carry an iPhone in their pocket, I'm also no fan of Apple.

But, before the religiously loyal Apple fanboys start using my photo as target practice, I'm also no mega fan of Microsoft, or any one particular brand. Rather, I'm a fan of any system and..... Read more »

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple PowerBook, GAAP, Security, Apple Inc.

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Outsourcing and value for money improvement--incompatible?

Why would an outsourcer ever want to offer its clients value-for-money improvement?

Perhaps before we answer that question, we should consider what value-for-money improvement is and what leads to it.

To me, value-for-money improvement means I pay less for the same thing or I pay the same and get more. And most importantly, it is my choice which of those two I..... Read more »

Tags: Improvement, arbitrage, outsourcing company, profit margin, revenue

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So you're the boring guy

As I write this, news organizations all over the world are still scrambling to cover the sudden and shocking death of Michael Jackson, a "troubled genius" and "tortured icon", as CNN put it. Certainly, he was no boring guy as he was the master of the entertainment stage.

The person referred to as "boring" in the headline is me. As..... Read more »

Tags: Compuware Corp., Michael Jackson, EMC Corp., server software, entertainment

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Should India now look forward to unique ID cards?

In his book Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century, Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, talks about how the future of India depends not just on simple economic growth, but also on reforms and innovations in all sectors of public life.

Today, he has the rank equivalent to that of an Indian Cabinet Minister to put many innovative ideas to practice.

A..... Read more »

Tags: Project, biometric identification, ID Card, UID, Government

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The day tech saved me

A few months ago, I accepted an invitation from my car manufacturer to attend a driver orientation program. During that course, we were shown some fancy features of the bar. Other than ABS and air bags, which are pretty standard, the car had some kind of crash-warning technology. This feature triggers with a sudden lifting off the accelerator and causes..... Read more »

Tags: H1N1 Flu, Manufacturer, accident, asset based security, Car

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Utopic world of free-for-all content

Hi, my name is Eileen Yu, and I'm a Barry Manilow fan.

All right, there, I've said it. I'm a huge, big, out-of-this-world, mega fan of the guy who dances to the Copacabana in a pink ruffles puffy-sleeved shirt. So what if he has a nose the size of a brinjal and shares the same age as my dad. He..... Read more »

Tags: digital-rights management, content provider, copyright law, copyright protection, Internet

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Tech sweetens deal for Donut Empire

Steven Chiew and his brother, Sky, started their business amid the donut craze that hit Singapore some time in 2006-2007.

Their company has now grown to become Singapore's largest donut chain, with 13 outlets across the island-state and plans for regional expansion that includes Malaysia, Dubai, Indonesia and India.

Aptly named Donut Empire, the company bakes egg-free donuts that feature..... Read more »

Tags: Business, Customer, Web Site, social networking tool, Social Networking

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How to run .NET applications on Linux

In many enterprise environments we work with a mix of Windows and Linux servers. If you had to build a large, complex enterprise application that runs on Linux, you would typically use Java. Now there's an alternative that's maturing and gaining popularity--you can run .NET applications on Linux, using the open source Mono runtime.

Running .NET applications with Mono..... Read more »

Tags: Mono, Linux Server, console, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

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Weirdest IT story I've written

In my almost a decade of covering the IT beat here in the Philippines, I've written different sorts of stories--some of them quite interesting (at least in my point of view), some were technical (although I also didn't really understand the IT concepts myself), and a few that we might label as weird. In my book, weird means absurd.

Perhaps, the..... Read more »

Tags: Philippines, Wi-Fi, HotSpot, Digital City, USB adapter

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• The arrogance of Steve Jobs
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• The problem with Cyberjaya
• Wireless in Singapore...NOT!
• Bidding farewell to Singapore's open source advocate

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