This is an interesting story here. The ICC is opening up bidding for owing IPL teams for the T20 tournaments. Vijay Mallya is probably going to own the Bangalore team, and it seems Shahrukh Khan has bid to own 3 teams! Ambanis & other corporate groups are also bidding for the teams. Interesting story to [...]

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Hey everyone, check out this new Dilbert Widget. You can see the latest dilbert comic strip in FULL COLOR, and even see all the archives! Pretty cool. You can put this widget anywhere - On your blog, on your web page or on facebook. Too Cool!

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Scientists have apparently discovered an Active Volcano underneath Antarctica’s massive glaciers. Scientists saw that the Volcano may already be pumping out heat, contributing to the accelerating melting of the ice sheets.
And if this Volcano goes boom, then it’s going to be real trouble for the planet. I’d highly recommend everyone to visit Lakswadeep, Mauritius, Maldives [...]

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As the situation in Zimbabwe worsens, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is trying all kinds of stunts to make ends meet. After trying to impose price controls, take over factories and begging for foreign exchange has failed to control the 12000% inflation, the bank is now issuing notes with an expiry date [...]

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The law of unintended consequences is my favorite law. There are so many examples of this where someone enacted a law trying to do one thing, and the effect of it is totally different. In this week’s column, the Freakonomics guys have an article explaining this very well!
There’s another story of how the European royalty [...]

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I just stumbled on this great app today for the Nokia N95 (and a few other) phone. Let’s say you’re in a meeting and the phone rings. Instead of going through all kinds of buttons to silence/disconnect the phone, you just turn it over. Yes. That’s it. You turn it over, and the phone detects [...]

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I absolutely love watching movies where the whole world is going to end, but the hero saves the planet (or the universe) at the very last minute. Some folks, however, treat this subject rather seriously. Check out this list of top-10 ways that the our planet could end. Apart from the usual suspects of “Global [...]

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There has been wild speculation recently that the entire world economy is going into a recession, like it did just after the dot-com bust. But only this time, it’s going to be worse. Check out the screenshot of financial news from reuters today. Every single story is about disastrous performance of the economy. This is [...]

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Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, seems to have landed a job with the US banking giant JP Morgan Chase. Interestingly, his position is going to be “Senior Advisor”, which, in my opinion, is a euphemism for “The guy who gets us contacts”.
I really like this Tony Blair dude. Despite his bad judgments and missteps [...]

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LG demoed a phone + watch thing today at the CES in Las Vegas. This thing looks something straight out of a bond movie. Too Cool!

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