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End of DVD!!!

Posted by Ramesh on November 30th, 2006

The way things are going, DVD may become extinct or a remote secondary mechanism for distributing content. NYT has an article that summarizes the direction of content delivery.

The decade-old DVD moved two small steps closer yesterday to technology’s endangered-species list.
Wal-Mart, the country’s largest seller of movies, announced that next year it will begin testing [...]

Most (Indian) Grads Unemployable

Posted by Ramesh on November 29th, 2006

Times of India has an article about the pathetic state of Indian education situation.  This article reports that:
Most students fail to make a mark. Yes, they have a degree, but they are not employable. They lack technical and soft skills.
“He said the curriculum was outdated in most places and equipment used was obsolete; students [...]

Barry Diller wants to revolutionize News

Posted by Ramesh on November 28th, 2006

Barry Diller wants to revolutionize News on Internet.  He said:
“I actually think that there’s going to be real opportunity in the conversion of print journalism to online, real opportunity, which I think very few people have attacked head on,” Diller told the Reuters Media Summit in New York.
“We’re doing it in our way from an [...]

Interesting approach to make your team victorious

Posted by Ramesh on November 27th, 2006

When I read about this in multiple Indian Newspapers, I could not help but find it ‘interesting’ enough to share it with some of my friends who connect here.  Of course, this is not technology — the topic I usually talk about — but it definitely is related to the state of technological advances in [...]

Uploading photos

Posted by Ramesh on November 22nd, 2006

A friend suggested that I see two sites for uploading photos that are really very easy to use and I did find that they are very easy to use, much easier than anything that I had seen.  These are
bitemyphoto and allyoucanupload.  In fact allyoucanupload does not even require registration.
I find these sites interesting because they represent a [...]