USA knows well that protectionism is detrimental to its future. In fact USA has been the most open county and has become what it is because of its open policy. From time to time, however, some politicians start talking about…
Protectionism in difficult time
Google: Maps and Latitude
Google Latitude may be again a major introduction in mobile networking space that may result in many new applications like Google Maps did. Google maps made maps a common utility that could be used in the ‘background’ (an active one)…
A Great Opportunity: Mobile Phones in Rural India
WSJ has a very informative article about how rural india is changing with mobile phones. It is difficult for us living in California to imagine the following: In the village of Karanehalli, a cluster of simple homes around an intersection…
All those LifeLogs and Mobile Phones
There was a time when many projects started worldwide to build one or other form of eChronicle, Lifelog, MyLifeBits or something like that. All these projects were to capture semi-objectively a multimedia extended diary of a person’s life. Of course,…
Uncertainty in Databases
While attending a talk on uncertainty in databases, it became clear to me that the approach that is being adopted to deal with uncertainty in databases is very different than what I have seen in other areas. I could not…