Archive for October, 2009

Vonage Offers Unlimited Calls to India : Back to 1 Month Free Offer

Friday, October 30, 2009 8:17 1 Comment

Recently Vonage started offering Unlimited Calls to India under its $24.99/m existing plan. Good thing is that the plan includes both landlines and cell phones all over India. If you are already a Vonage subscriber, make sure you have Vonage World plan to get this great deal. Not sure whether it is automatically done. For [...]

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Its Funny, How Experts Are Made In America

Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:04 No Comments

Its funny how Experts are made in America. Rule No.1 : You can become an Expert on anything just by claiming you are already one. So much for dreaming big and believing in yourself. And once you are an Expert (or rather once you claim) you will be treated like an Expert !! BTW, an [...]

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Buzz In The Cloud : Cloud Computing Is The New Web2.0

Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:11 No Comments

These days, not a single day goes by without talking, hearing or reading something about Cloud Computing. It appears, the whole cloud (I mean the world; don’t blame me for overusing the word ‘cloud’, I just want to make a point) is totally excited about ‘Cloud’ suddenly. In a way, Cloud Computing is the new [...]

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Newsworthy News in Red October : Dow Jones & Tax Dodgers

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 20:17 No Comments

Dow Jones Index crosses the symbolic 10000 figure. U.S. stocks rallied, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 10,000 for the first time in a year, on better-than-estimated earnings at JPMorgan Chase & Co. andIntel Corp. Bank of America Corp., American Express Co. and JPMorgan more than doubled since the Dow slid to a 12-year [...]

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Grady Booch : Why Engineering?

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 0:04 No Comments

These are some of the most wonderful words ever said about the profession of Software Development. (I made some text in bold just to highlight) Software is invisible to most of the world. Although individuals, organizations, and nations rely on a multitude of software-intensive systems every day, most software lives in the interstitial spaces of [...]

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