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We can read the questions for which various ministries are answerable in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. What fun!

CIOL’s e-governance channel

The Fed lowers interest rates! Certainly hadn’t expected it till the end of the month. Obviously, since this is the first time they changed rates in-between policy meetings. The market was caught short too. Anyway, the NASDAQ has shot up. IT stocks in India are following.

Didn’t know dot-coms had unions. Amazon does. A reaction to the layoffs in dot-coms?

Now Yahoo! will charge a fee for auctions. No more free PCs. No more free ISPs. No more ad revenues. No more free auctions. The trend is clear. Pay! Unfortunately, they’ll also monitor what’s being sold — an indication that country-specific legal barriers are creeping into the Internet.

Coimbatore: The next IT destination?

The Economic & Political Weekly is online.

If you’re looking for Tamil songs, the search engine at TFM Page’s audio section comes in very handy.

The Albuquerque Journal charges $50 if you want to link to their articles! A new revenue model? Legally its possible. I don’t think too many sites can get away with it, though. I mean, only the Wall Street Journal gets away with charging for content. Anyway, looks like flat rate pricing will eventually win.

A one-minute summary of movies. For some movies, if you’ve read it, you’ve seen it.