Who says banks aren’t lending?

February 13, 2009 Business

Here’s a picture of the three envelopes I received in the mail from PNC yesterday:
If you can’t tell from the small picture, one envelope says I qualify for an introductory APR of 0.99%, another says 1.99%, and a third was blank on the cover, but opening it revealed a surprise – only 4.99%!
Last week PNC [...]

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Gmail Contacts finally becomes useful

February 12, 2009 Google

If you’re a Gmail user like me, 2008 seemed like a lost year.  Google did give us the Google Labs features, many of which were nice tweaks, but there wasn’t a significant improvement to the core application.  2009, as you know has been quite different.  We’ve seen the addition of many significant features, with offline [...]

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Hey Amazon, it’s time to socialize the Kindle

February 6, 2009 Hardware

Image by MARQUINAM via Flickr

Over the last few months, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, mostly on my Amazon Kindle.  I think it’s a great device in its current form, an will no doubt get better with the refresh that’s due out next week.  As an electronic book reader, the Kindle is definitely the [...]

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ReadWriteWeb discusses the state of software innovation in India

January 22, 2009 Business

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ReadWriteWeb recently ran a post about the state of India’s innovation engine.  I’ve posted a clip here, but click through to read the whole thing:
State of Innovation in India: 2009 – ReadWriteWeb
That Big Wide-Open SaaS Opportunity
Indian start-ups that dreamed of creating the next SAP or Oracle faced massive hurdles on the sales and [...]

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Pragati interviews Nandan Nilekani of Infosys

December 31, 2008 Business

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Pragati, an online and electronic journal, is by far the most thoughtful collection of analysis on India that I’ve come across in a long time.  Back in graduate school I once had a professor tell me that the best political and economic analysis was done in journals that had [...]

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