Month: March 2011

Julian Assange, on the India cables and the reactions to them:

“First, they refused to comment at all, then to suggest the materials are not verified and no other government accepted it. Absolutely false…

“This is actually the behaviour of guilty men. Man who is innocent doesn’t tend to behave like that.

“That doesn’t mean people making those statements like Prime Minister Singh are guilty of this particular crime.

“It suggests something that how Indian parliamentarians and politicians respond to very serious allegations.They respond through indirection and attempting to cover up the issue for the public, rather than address it fully and frankly.”

via Manmohan Singh is misleading country:Assange.

What a mess. Is there anyone who believes anymore than we can rely on elected (and non-elected) representatives to do one thing that does more good than harm?

“No time frame is available with TRAI regarding allocation of number resources by DoT,” TRAI said.

via TRAI puts off rules for telemarketing indefinitely.

Encouraging, coming from Airtel:

We believe that the walled-garden strategies are fundamentally flawed. The best way is to create gateways, and to ensure that we can leave our customers at the gateways in the most effective manner. We are an access company. We will ensure that we bill you and deliver quality access. After that, we will give you a number of different options, which would be through applications. Which would make it easy for you to navigate and consume content, but you choose your content. You choose what it is that you want to eat at what point in time.

via Airtel Mobile Services President Atul Bindal On 3G Rollout, Data Trends, 4G, VAS Cannibalization – Part 1 | www.medianama.com | Readability.

Excellent series on what (print?) media personalities read. Here’s Michael Lewis, David Brooks, Frank Rich, Felix Salmon and Jeffrey Goldberg, among others.

Oh, and Eric Schmidt.

Also: ‘How I Work’ from 2006 on CNN Money, and the far more geeky ‘What I Use’.