Another inexpensive PC for developing countries
Posted by Ramesh on October 31st, 2007An interesting news about PC sales to a third world country for educating children. This is compeitor to OLPC.
Archive for October, 2007
Seraja — towards a new incarnation
Posted by Ramesh on October 30th, 2007Good technology does not necessarily mean a successful company. I was trying to build the first generation of EventWeb through Seraja.com. It appears that Seraja did not grow as we wanted it to and hence we are facing a touch decision — what to do? Based on feedback from many different sources, it is clear [...]
Back after fires
Posted by Ramesh on October 29th, 2007Well, I was not affected by fires, but somehow my blog stopped working — it would let me see everything except updating it. So I was away from the blog. My systems people, Thanks Hans, tell me that it was due to some incompatibility in the PHP and were wondering how it has been working. [...]
Fires in Southern California
Posted by Ramesh on October 23rd, 2007Fires are not new to southern California, but this time it is really bad. I have never heard close to 300,ooo families being evacuated from so many different areas. If we still lived in San Diego, we would have been asked to evacuate. And considering the length and extent of fires, it appears that the [...]
Indian Technology in the Flat World
Posted by Ramesh on October 22nd, 2007The flat world offers some exciting opportunities to developing countries. I was invited to talk in Indian-American Society of San Diego on this topic. I have been thinking about this topic so I was only happy to share my ideas and views with people there. My presentation is available here. After the talk, discussions continued [...]