Dell Alienware Aurora Desktop
By Aditya Mhatre at 9 September, 2010, 10:56 pm
I am quiet used to receiving small boxes with the latest toy put out by Dell. However, the sight of a box about 4.5 feet tall and 3 feet wide was enjoyable. The Alien was here. Dell had sent me the latest Dell Alienware Aurora desktop PC for a test drive. As one starts unpacking [...]
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Wolfram Alpha Review
By Aditya Mhatre at 20 May, 2009, 4:52 am
Wolfram Alpha (WA) launched last Friday with a lot of people saying a lot of things about it. It was being positioned as a google killer even before it had launched. The website says that the objective of WA is to make world’s knowledge computable which in itself is bit vague. I think, Information is [...]
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3 reasons why Tech Mahindra - Satyam buyout makes sense
By Aditya Mhatre at 13 April, 2009, 10:01 am
Finally, after 3 months and 6 people behind bars, Bidding for Satyam ended and Tech Mahindra won the race. Tech Mahindra offered Rs 58 per share (total - Rs.1756 crores) for a 31% stake in Satyam. It’s not very often that a buy out of this maginitude makes so much sense. Here are a few [...]
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Future of competition in the Indian DTH market
By Aditya Mhatre at 7 March, 2009, 11:22 pm
The DTH market in India is relatively nascent but is getting crowded very quickly. In the past 3 months, two solid competitors like Airtel, Reliance have entered the market and Space TV, a Star TV venture, is awaiting government approval. The future of competition in the DTH market is not going to be in the [...]
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TCS hints at lay offs
By Aditya Mhatre at 26 February, 2009, 9:01 am
TCS CEO, Mr Ramadorai announced today that there would be no salary hikes and that employees should expect job cuts. Just a few days back TCS had announced that it had put 1000 employees “under the scanner” so this shouldn’t be a big surprise. A similar announcement was made by Infosys when they put [...]
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