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Jet Airways flights to Gulf

Naresh Goyal likes to smile. All his pictures in the business magazines sport a mustached grin. Either he is a happy man, or his PR company selects his pictures that go in these magazines. The former seems unlikely with the Indian Aviation industry bringing in more bad news for the companies and proportionate good news [...]

Smiley completes 25 years

While the internet might be 12 years old or so (atleast in the public domain) and the online chat might have been around for much less time than that, the pioneering smilie syntax has just celebrated its 25th Birthday!

Carnegie Mellon University Professor Scott Fahlman has proclaimed to be its inventor. Although it is an idea [...]

Dhoni becomes captain of ODI Indian cricket team

Mahender Singh Dhoni, the 26 year old lad from Jharkhand who among other things gets his hair oil right has been named as the captain of the Indian Cricket team for the next twelve One dayers (7 against Australia and 5 against Pakistan)! He is under three years old in the dressing room, but, he [...]

iPhone in India

According to a posting on Engadget, the new iPhone hack will allow users in 90 countries, including India, to be able to use iPhone in their home country. As reported, the hacked iPhone will be able to work with Airtel, Hutch and Idea network in India.

Rahul Dravid resigns from Captaincy

Is it an end of an era? I got phone calls from most of my friends; all world class gully cricketers messaging me about Dravid’s decision. It’s big. Dravid is one of the few gentlemen left behind to believe that cricket once upon a time was indeed a gentleman’s game. Rahul Dravid formally announced his [...]