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Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:20pm

Vicky.in Exclusive Not everytime you see a CEO of carmaker walking down to you,shake hands and dance with you. But Mr. Karl Slym, President and Managing Director of GM India did. But it was not just about dancing, we had a longgggg interview with him on GM India product.. We got exclusive information’s on GM India’s [...]

Tags: India, diesel, Auto Scoops, cng, cruze, aveo

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:06pm

The most pervasive philosophical message that has hounded me all of last month has been this Your flight has been delayed due to late arrival of incoming aircraft Yes. I’ve been traveling more than my DVT affected blood vessels can take and eating more microwaved-to-oblivion aircraft meals than my digestive system can tolerate. But between all of the nastiness of the travel itself, I&amp[...]

Tags: Ooru Sutthal, brucelee, hongkong, kungfu

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 11:51am

The much awaited people’s car beetle and Touareg SUV finally hit the Indian shores.  The New Beetle will be priced at Rs 20.45 Lakhs and the Touareg at Rs. 51.85 Lakhs (all prices ex-Showroom Delhi). Speaking at the launch, Mr. Neeraj Garg, Member of Board and Director, Volkswagen Passenger Cars said, “We are excited to bring [...]

Tags: Auto News, India, launch, volkswagen, beetle, touareg

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 10:50am

CPI(M) leader, Brinda Karat wants Google India chief to be arrested, for showing sex determination ads on Google India searches. Earlier supreme court issued notice to Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for displaying ’sex determination’ ads and the issue has resurfaced, even though Google claims that they have blocked all of the ads on Google.co.in site. The interesting twist is that Google [...]

Tags: india internet, india online

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 07:12am

A fun read. I'm linking to it because of this: In some prominent men, who looked sane and wise, I had to just scratch the surface to see their incurable conviction that Hindus are historically special. A senior scientist from the Indian Institute of Science once told me, as a matter of fact, “A reason why we were so superior in the olden days might have been because of a technology tra[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 07:04am

I know the rumour, I know that I am extremely close to the person named in the rumour, but I honestly have no friggin' clue right now.

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 06:50am

At the World Newspaper Congress at Hyderabad this week Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton ?took on Google and used some strong language to stir things up. He called Google a digtial vampire and a parasite. He goes on to further bash the internet content Kleptomaniacs whose business model depends on purloining the expensive journalism of mainstream media (read more about what he said over here). The issue th[...]

Tags: Technology

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 06:10am

The relationship between India and China has in recent months become, as the cliche goes, the cynosure of all eyes. Border roads and dams; military incursions; a row over the Dalai Lama; illegal Chinese workers on Indian soil, Google™ maps, all have become milestones in the steady escalation of tensions. The media has been at the centre of the dispute, and there is a feeling that “[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 03:18am

View This Pollsurvey software Virender Sehwag’s dismissal for 293 in the first hour of play on the third day of the third Test match at the Brabourne Stadium erased hopes of his becoming the first batsman ever to score three triple centuries or of becoming the first Indian to reach 400. Nevertheless, that should not deflect attention from a key truth: the Nawab of Najafgarh in full fl[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 02:09am

What is intriguing about signboards from Pune (Puneri Patya) is that they are so explicit! If there is something that can make people laugh it’s the absolute truth told in no uncertain terms. But one cannot help wondering if these signs actually work! Take a look at this signboard for instance. It says: THE BUNGALOW IS EMPTY THERE IS NOTHING WORTH STEALING HERE. DO NOT UNNECESSARILY[...]

Tags: India, Pune, Travel, Development, Culture, Society

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 02:02am

Kancha Ilaiah, professor of political science at Osmania University, Hyderabad, and author of Why I am not a Hindu, in The Times of India: “Hinduism is in a state of crisis, facing a kind of civil war within. The primary reason for this is the stranglehold of the varnashram system which keeps 750 million Hindus subjugated and humiliated. These are the Dalits, tribals and the backward cla[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:54am

Continuing with Tech Flop Shows in India, Few WTF Moment of 2009, here are some of WTF moment that’d put a lot of us to shame: CAT 2009 CATastrophy is the right word to describe the online CAT 2009 saga. Now here is one organization that produces best managers and miserably failed to manage it’s new venture. All the theory of ‘scaling up your business’,  ‘deriski[...]

Tags: Technology, 2009 recap

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:25am

The waiting for Goddot is no more. The financial institutions, once vied with each other in distributing the loan for Nano, has reversed its job now- to cancel the loans. The reason cited- long wait! Not willing to pay interest for the unavailed loan, the customers are in the beeline cancelling their loan proposal. This [...]

Tags: maruti, Nano, tata, indica800, waiting, delivery, date

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:09am

Google has launched it’s Public DNS service that, as Google claims will provide you faster speed and more stable browsing experience. The Google Public DNS IP addresses are as follows: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 How to setup Google DNS Changing DNS server settings on Microsoft Windows Vista Go the Control Panel. Click Network and Internet, then Network and Sharing Center, then Manage network connect[...]

Tags: Technology, facebook, google dns

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:05am

An alarming model from Bajaj- Pulsar 135 @Rs54000- may roar the roads soon and the platform will have the series of 150cc, 180cc and 220cc. this is similar to the (re) Discover of 100cc segment in last July, in a bid to leverage the brand value. For this, the sacrifice was made with the upgrading [...]

Tags: honda, bajaj, tvs, xcd, gear, unit

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:50pm

Google has recently announced its own Public DNS system that will allow internet users the ability to bypass the ISP’s DNS servers and contact the Google’s Public DNS servers for resolving all DNs queries. First some background on DNS. whenever you type a web address like http://google.com in your browser, the domain name address (google.com) needs to be translated into an IP address. [...]

Tags: google, fqdn, legitimate concerns, privacy implications, public dns servers, public dns service

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:41pm

Maruti Suzuki does not want to take any chances to slid its stronghold of 50% share in the market. For this the company has strategically increased its production capacity by 75% in the next five years. This means, responding to the market demand, the increase of production would be 1.5- 1.75 million passenger cars, by [...]

Tags: maruti, swift, asia, east, european, mansear

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:17pm

Though we have a plethora of Online Automobile magazines and portals in India, Offline magazines with the usual magazine layout come with exciting pictures, variety of information and ‘next-month-what’ expectations! [more informations....] Related PostsYamaha’s resurgence starts with R15Honda to launch limited edition Unicorn and CBF150Bajaj low cost bike steel Pictu[...]

Tags: gear, whatcar, overdrive, autobild, carindia, motoring

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:14pm

Kamlesh a carpenter in Delhi scratches his living out of the dry wood. He complained this morning that his cell phone was not functioning properly for last few days and was unable to reach most of his clients. Normally people like Kamlesh would get work through referrals on his mobile phone. Besides he is also a proud owner of a flashy-cool-looking touch screen based multifunctional Chinese handse[...]

Tags: Indian Telecom Industry

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 10:37pm

This year, the Meera Trust invited TIFR mathematician Professor M.S. Raghunathan to deliver this public lecture, and he chose to speak on The Queen of Sciences: Her Realm, Her Influence and Her Health. * * * Sidebar Thanks to my friend and colleague Anant, who played a major role in organizing this lecture, we now have the text of the talk, as well as the slides. They may eventually be posted [...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 10:28pm

Telecom tariff war is in and as we mentioned earlier, Uninor has launched it’s GSM service in India (they are the 8th GSM operator in India). The launch, as the company claims is the largest single day launch in telecom history, as the service is now available to 550 million people, i.e. 7 circles – Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar & Uttar Pradesh (East &amp[...]

Tags: Indian Telecom Industry, indian telecom market

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 10:28pm

Telecom tariff war is in and as we mentioned earlier, Uninor has launched it’s GSM service in India (they are the 8th GSM operator in India). The launch, as the company claims is the largest single day launch in telecom history, as the service is now available to 550 million people, i.e. 7 circles – Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar & Uttar Pradesh (East &amp[...]

Tags: Indian Telecom Industry, indian telecom market

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 08:58pm

Via Mudra Mehta, here’s a superb comic by the always-brilliant XKCD: So all you girls complaining about how your man’s always late for a date, consider how it would be if he had Windows inside. The India Uncut Blog © 2007 Amit Varma. All rights reserved. Visit: India Uncut * The IU Blog * Rave Out * Extrowords * Workoutable * Linkastic

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 08:27pm

Being a three-time winner, I was inducted into the Indibloggies Hall of Fame this year, which means that I don’t get to take part from now onwards. But I can still vote! So here are the blogs I voted for, all of which I recommend highly: Best Indiblog: Smoke Signals by Prem Panicker. Best New Indiblog: Let’s Put Da by Ramesh Srivats. Best New Indi Microblog: Prem Panicker, [...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 08:26pm

I am not really a huge fan of ‘guess the ending’ and ‘complete the story’ kind of ideas on the Net, which involve consumer participation. It’s been done before and unless the participation is encouraged by providing tools and easy uploads, the response is likely to be lukewarm. There have been exceptions – like the Indica Xeta effort in I[...]

Tags: Digital, Vodafone India, Zoozoos online contest

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 08:10pm

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the tragedy in Bhopal. My friend Peter Griffin has a post on this subject that I urge you to read. Also, check out the blog he’s started on this subject, I’m a Bhopali. Here’s the Facebook page. I was also moved by Lekhni’s post, “Remembering Bhopal, and trying to forget.” The India Uncut Blog &[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 08:04pm

Much thought and effort goes into the Call for Entries ad for Creative Award Shows. Not as much as creating the ads in Dec or putting together all the entries 2 days prior to the deadline, perhaps. The entire tamasha around Award Show entries and the big night is beautifully captured in these set of ads for The Lotus Awards 2009. Agency: Rethink Communications, Canada The upcoming 2010 Vancouver O[...]

Tags: Advertising, Creative Awards, Lotus Awards 2009 Vancouver

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 07:18pm

The news para of the day comes from a Times of India report on the International Film Festival of India: Korean director Ounie Lecomte walked away with the Silver Peacock for ‘A Brand New Life’, which translated her own experiences as a child into a collective film. She also received a cash prize of Rs 15. There’s a part of me that wants that to be a typo, so that t[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 07:00pm

Today, as I look back to the same period a decade ago, it seems like it was a different era -  and a different me! I ask myself at times whether I was smart or just lucky. Perhaps, a combination of both - one has to be smart to be in the right place at the right time to be lucky. As I wrote a few years ago: In the end, when I made the decision to sell IndiaWorld in November 1999, it was not a[...]

Tags: Uncategorized

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:13am

From the Wikipedia entry on Dr. Shambu Nath De (1915-85): De made significant contributions to our recent understanding of cholera and related diarrheal diseases and set a permanent milestone in the modern view of diseases caused by bacterial exotoxins. [...] The seminal works of De in Calcutta (now, Kolkata), during 1950-60 breached several qualms pertaining to the enteric toxin produced by bac[...]