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Cellular calls will become cheaper. I might buy a phone.

Bhagavad Gita online. Has audio, translations in several languages, etc. Very well organised. The final quote was very fitting for Mr. Krishnan’s IIMPressions, incidentally.

Consumer Electronics Show 2001 is going on.

123india has a list of discounts in Bangalore. For example, US Pizza has a party pack Rs 111.

Vishwabharat and Lead Networks let you register domain names in Indian Languages.

Microsoft makes video games – Sony’s domain. Sony moved into PCs – Compaq’s domain. Compaq moves into electronics – Sony’s domain. Intel moves into consumer electronics – Sony’s domain. With growing technology, industry borders become blurred.

It’s been long since I solved lateral thinking puzzles. Hartman’s site has over a hundred (with answers).

VAIO Slimtop is a computer by Sony which has a flat screen monitor you can write on. $3,000.

We can read the questions for which various ministries are answerable in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. What fun!

CIOL’s e-governance channel

The Fed lowers interest rates! Certainly hadn’t expected it till the end of the month. Obviously, since this is the first time they changed rates in-between policy meetings. The market was caught short too. Anyway, the NASDAQ has shot up. IT stocks in India are following.

Didn’t know dot-coms had unions. Amazon does. A reaction to the layoffs in dot-coms?

Coimbatore: The next IT destination?

Now Yahoo! will charge a fee for auctions. No more free PCs. No more free ISPs. No more ad revenues. No more free auctions. The trend is clear. Pay! Unfortunately, they’ll also monitor what’s being sold – an indication that country-specific legal barriers are creeping into the Internet.

The Economic & Political Weekly is online.

The Albuquerque Journal charges $50 if you want to link to their articles! A new revenue model? Legally its possible. I don’t think too many sites can get away with it, though. I mean, only the Wall Street Journal gets away with charging for content. Anyway, looks like flat rate pricing will eventually win.

A one-minute summary of movies. For some movies, if you’ve read it, you’ve seen it.

If you’re looking for Tamil songs, the search engine at TFM Page’s audio section comes in very handy. Comments FRANKLIN 1 Jan 2001 12:00 pm: good Rajkumar 15 Jul 2010 8:47 am: I found this site is very useful for south indian people especially tamilil people like me. Most of the songs i download from ur site. Thanks for ur hard work and ur teammates. I am really proud of u that ur INDIAN. Keep doing more like this in the future. Hats of to ur hard work ANAND. U hve done a wonderful job. Cheers Raj praveenkumarchopra 31 Jul 2010 10:09 pm: i like maesro raja songs very much Jaga 17 Jul 2010 4:03 pm: Ilayaraja good songs R.KOTHANDARAMAN 21 Aug 2010 11:11 pm: i like it raja sir melodys raja sir is wonder full music directer in world gayathri 21 Jul 2010 8:24 pm: i love raja sir songs.evergreen maestro Senthil 24 Aug 2010 9:26 pm: Fantastic Ram 7 Aug 2010 2:59 am: What a fantastic songs he made ! He will be in the books till the universe lives……….

I cut an audio CD-R today. Remix downloads came in handy. Only problem is, I goofed up, and closed the session before fully testing the CD. So I can listen to the songs only on a computer.

AOLiza continues. People still have conversations with a program in a chat room, without knowing it. Conversation 42, for example, is a fairly desperate 23-year old working in Starbucks, and…