Year: 2002

The music industry has taken a step away from the ridiculous. Now, on pressplay.com, you can download and burn songs on a CD for a fee. (The big deal is that, earlier, you could only stream and listen. For a fee.)

The Internet Archive has archived my page as of Aug 2001. The site hasn’t changed much since then.

This is a smart one. Sony Ericsson makes these mobile phones with cameras. To promote them, they’ve hired young couples, who’ll go to bars, etc and ask people to take a snap of them. If I were asked, I’d fiddle with the camera/phone a bit.

I have a cold. And although some Chinese may say otherwise, it has nothing to do with cold weather.

China, which anyway has the largest mobile user base, has now beaten Japan to the second largest PC and Web base in the world. Wonder how they do it.

Project Gutenberg explains some proposed changes in answer to a question on Slashdot.

IBM acquires PwC Consulting. Or what would’ve been Monday. For $3.5 bn. I heard somewhere that the stock price of acquiring companies typically fall after such announcements. IBM’s didn’t. Does that mean they got PwC at a low price? Given that HP once refused them at $18 bn, maybe…

Since I was updating this site from home as well as office, I completely muddled up versions. I think I’ve lost a few days’ work — at least in the archives. Something like Blogger does help.

Here’s a good business model. Buy a free e-mail provider. Add spam. Then charge for eliminating spam. Good thing I got rid of my Hotmail account.

Companies like L&T, Ashok Leyland, Infosys are using digital signatures already.