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Just came across Basab Pradhan’s Blog via Sambhar Mafia. So he’s one of the rarer breed on the blogosphere today - the Indian CEO Blogger. Apart from Rajesh Jain, there are almost no Indian CEOs blogging. First, Basab’s got a few good articles straightaway - one that wonders why Navi Mumbai’s rise has to be the result of Mumbai’s meltdown, or an intersting one about why passengers hurry to disembark from a plane at Bangalore airport, but not at Delhi airpor t!

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Today I’m speaking at the IBM-PICT Day at the PICT campus at 3:15PM. For those who’ve registered for Concepts 2006, be there. I’ll be talking about the ” Web2.0 Paradigm”, and how IBM’s leveraging these technologies, both for our customers and internally. I’ll make as much of the presentation available as I can later.

What’s the best mobile browser out there? On my Nokia 6670, I’ve tried NetFront 3.2, Opera for mobile (the 15-day trial). Both of these run neck-to-neck in terms to overall experience. There are a few features NetFront has that Opera doesn’t, and vice versa. But I wasn’t happy with either of them - the speed, the rendering, the fonts (awful for both) - mobile browsing wasn’t quite there yet, I thought.

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The motivation for this piece began when Bill Gates, on a visit to Israel, commented on the difference in the technology industries of India, on the one hand, and Israel on the other. Gates said,
“There will be competitors for Microsoft and for Israeli companies coming out of those countries (India and China) although today the success, particularly in India, has mostly been in the software services area, outsourcing work, doing call centers and things like that,”

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