Research is considered a very important part of academic institutions. Ultimately top academic institutions are the ‘temples of knowledge’ and one of the major activities that professors in these temples are involved is not just collecting knowledge from other places but also creating knowledge. This knowledge creation process is a rigorous process. Most research (knowledge) [...]
Saul Hansell has a very insightful piece in NYT today where he reviews the state of changing media. He talks about the old line media companies: Old-line media companies’ fears can be lumped into three nightmarish categories: ¶Business-model anxiety. Will paid download services like Apple’s iTunes, not to mention TiVo’s and their ad-defying fast-forward buttons, [...]
Ask Jeeves has announced new picture search — pictures.ask.com – that is claimed to be better than the earlier search. My few minutes with it suggested that it is very similar to what other image searches are from Google and Yahoo. It seems to rely completely on the name of the file and the text [...]
InformationWeek has a very interesting article by Aaron Ricadela about what is happening in India. A good balanced picture of the situation. Not just a one sided (positive or negative) article.
See this article in PC Mag to find out the thinking of young students about the mobile phones of next generation. Many interesting ideas — clearly mobile phones are continuing to become increasingly important part of our life.