Author Archives: Harish Venkatachalam

A year ago at 11:25 p.m. CDT on August 28 Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph near the tiny fishing village of Buras-Triumph, Louisiana. Sometime during the early morning hours of … Continue reading →

It’s official. Pluto got the boot. Send your hate mail to the IAU. I guess we just couldn’t leave well enough alone. This is probably what the World War 9 will be fought over 100 yrs from now. That’s when … Continue reading →

Microsoft, that stalwart defender of “Intellectual Property” and master of innovation loses yet another court battle on Patent Infringement. This company couldn’t innovate their way out of paper bag with a 100 page instruction manual. I have said this before … Continue reading →

According to a recent CNet article, Windows Live One Care is selling like hot cakes at the stores. “Helped by low pricing, Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare landed the No. 2 spot in sales at American stores in its debut month, … Continue reading →

The blogosphere has been buzzing about the the number of Microsoft jabs during Steve Jobs’ keynote address at WWDC 06. Looking at the keynote this year one would think he is obsessed with Windows Vista and all the problems Microsoft … Continue reading →

Apple has opened up the OSX kernal along with a lot of other stuff. The iCal server and Bonjour to me are actually more interesting. I would love to see more web support for iCal instead of just WebDAV. Despite … Continue reading →

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past weeks, you have undoubtedly heard of Microsoft’s new iPod/iTunes killer device / platform. As always John Gruber has a great take about it on it on his website. So … Continue reading →

So the convicted monopolist has now entered a 12 step program to recovery. Microsoft published a set of 12 tenets to govern their future behavior. I echo the sentiments of Mary Jo Foley – “Don’t be fooled: There are no … Continue reading →

During the evening rush hour on July 11, 2006 terrorists set off a series of seven explosions on commuter trains in Mumbai. At this point close to 200 people have lost their lives and no one has claimed responsibility for … Continue reading →

My good friend Matt had a link to this article on his blog. Please take some time to read it in its entirety. I had a new appreciation of why the people in those blue uniforms stand apart from us … Continue reading →