IBM acquires PwC Consulting. Or what would’ve been Monday. For $3.5 bn. I heard somewhere that the stock price of acquiring companies typically fall after such announcements. IBM’s didn’t. Does that mean they got PwC at a low price? Given that HP once refused them at $18 bn, maybe…
Since I was updating this site from home as well as office, I completely muddled up versions. I think I’ve lost a few days’ work – at least in the archives. Something like Blogger does help.
Here’s a good business model. Buy a free e-mail provider. Add spam. Then charge for eliminating spam. Good thing I got rid of my Hotmail account.
Some people have too many mousepads.
Companies like L&T, Ashok Leyland, Infosys are using digital signatures already.
Dr. Abdul Kalam. India’s President.
I’m starting a blog on Dr. Abdul Kalam.
PC Pit Stop. A good tune-up for your PC. I managed to improve my hard disk performance by enabling DMA, and my memory by reducing the video card shared memory.
A story dreaming for the semantic web.
A cool combination of the Amazon and Google APIs to BookWatch. (Incidentally, I downloaded the Amazon and Google APIs.)
I learnt mind mapping. Ref: 1 2
For a few tenths of a second, at the micrometer level, the Second law of Thermodynamics can be violated. The interesting thing is that it happens at such a large scale.
Yahoo’s been filtering e-mail viruses. Good, but they’ve been a little crude. So a Google search for medireview reveals a book on Middle Ages: that medireview chronology, and a treasure ride with medireview jewels, a medireview city and medireview treasures.
A Google blog. And while we’re on the subject, I’ve found Google labs’ glossary very useful. So are some Google applications based on their API. (Incidentally, their server is overloaded. I tried getting a key yesterday, put it politely declined.)
The winner of the Google programming contest.
I know – I’ve been talking too much about Google. Still, here’re the dates on which Google updates itself.
This article mentions a Patrick Critton. Thanks to this innocuous reference, he ended up in jail.
Text-based games on the rise? Skotos’ site looks interesting anyway.
Bottom line. A blog on the economics of IT.
I just bought a Fuji Finepix 2600. Should be getting it in a month.