Angsuman Chakraborty
September 5th, 2008
Apple launched iPhone in India, a country with only 1.2 billion people and overall not considered rich like their counterparts in USA. In USA Apple launched iPhone for $199 only. Steve Jobbs also promised that it will be similalry priced across all markets. So how did they target a market of 1.2 B with a very high mobile pernetration and nowhere as rich as USA? By pricing iPhone 3G at 4 times the US price at Rs. 31, 000 only (and lockdown for a year to the service provider) and without 3G. Imagine how the market reacted…
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Angsuman Chakraborty
August 20th, 2008
Google has decided that boring (into) the World Wide Web is not enough and it plans to start drilling into the earth's crust.
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Angsuman Chakraborty
July 28th, 2008
Only four days after escaping from a federal minimum-security prison in Florence, Colorado "Spam King" Eddie Davidson, 35, killed his wife, baby daughter and finally himself.
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Angsuman Chakraborty
February 26th, 2008
Steps to apply for Non-Immigrant US Visa from India
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Angsuman Chakraborty
January 9th, 2008
So Bay Area Rapid Transit is BART and Dallas Area Rapid Transit is DART. I wonder what will be the name of future Fairbanks / Fairbury / Fairfields Area Rapid Transit & Washington Area Rapid Transit?
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Angsuman Chakraborty
October 20th, 2007
When Google Checkout came out I was very excited to have a viable alternative to PayPal from a reputed company despite its limitation to US only market. Since its launch I have heard several complaints from my readers, with zero positive experiences.
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Angsuman Chakraborty
October 18th, 2007
I recently got two interesting comments from a scammer. The comments are very interesting because it preys on the need of people to snoop around other's MySpace account (or life in general) to dupe them of their own account information. Let's first look at the comments (currently in moderation and will never be approved):
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Angsuman Chakraborty
October 6th, 2007
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Angsuman Chakraborty
September 17th, 2007
Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (approx: $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.
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Angsuman Chakraborty
August 30th, 2007
 Metz Fresh LLC of King City issued the recall of 8118 cases of spinach on Wednesday, after salmonella bacteria was found during a routine test of spinach it was processing for shipment according to company spokesman Greg Larson.
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