Archive for February, 2006
Second IISc near Kolkata
Deccan Hearld has reported that West Bengal will get the second Indian Institute of Science. Here is the news;
A second centre of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will come up near Kolkata with an investment of Rs 500 crore, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee said on Tuesday.
The Centre, on the [...]
Google Page Creator - Knee-jerk review
I had a chance to spend 15 min with with Google Page Creator. (My test page is here).
And I am disappointed. Unlike other services by Google which had at least an iota of nerdness, this is sooo dummy-ish. The templates and the layout remind me very much about the idiot proof Microsoft Front [...]
YahooMail bans “Allah”
Yahoo! has banned using the string “Allah” in their email systems.
Now I challenge Yahoo! to try the same with all the hindu gods!
Technorati Tags: allah, yahoo, india
Should IISc start undergraduate programs?
Delivering the JN Tata Memorial Lecture at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) the President of India Abdul Kalam urged IISc to start undergraduate program - especially in cross disciplinary programs such as Bioinformatics, Nanotechnology and Aerospace. More on his lecture can be seen in today’s The Hindu. In a sense [...]
Whom does Mr. John Dvorak quotes in him PC Magazine article?
I read John Dvorak’s today article Will Apple Adopt Windows with great suspicion from the very beginning. Quoting a psychology professor to prove his premonition that apple is secretly dumping OSx in favour of Windows sounded strange. Why should… of all things in this world, Steve Jobs sholud secretly hatch a suicidal [...]