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Infosys Birthday and the Seven Founders

Now that Infosys is celebrating 25th anniversary, what is Infosys’s actual date of birth?
In an interview with Narayana Murthy, in rediff.com, he says “it was a wintry morning in January 1981 when seven of us sat in my apartment, and created Infosys.”
From a case study about Infosys Technologies Limited prepared by The Wharton School:
On … Read full story »

Narayana Murthy on Corporate Value System

My friends have been asking me this question, why am I still working with Infosys for the last 8+ years and not looking for opportunities with other companies, including foreign multi nationals?
My answer was simple. Infosys is a company powered by intellect, driven by values. The most important factor I love in Infosys is … Read full story »

Google Romance™

Hm… On 1-Apr-06, Google extended their search capabilities to the youth to find their dates and mates! Check out Google Romance™ You can post your romantic information and search for love of your life!
You might remember other April 1st Google applications like Google’s Lunar Mission and Google’s April Fool’s Day Hoaxes! Read full story »

Google Pages – Online WYSIWYG Webpage Editor from Google

Google has again come up with another innovation. It is Google Pages. Allows to create webpages online without requiring any technical knowledge. It has a good WYSIWYG interface. The pages will be added to Google search engine by default. A lot of templates/layouts are provided. This is really easy to use. I have created a … Read full story »

Office Live Beta and Ananthapuri.net

I registered for Microsoft Office Live beta, and started using the free basics edition.
Office Live Basics beta provides company domain name, a hosted web site with 30 MB of storage and five free e-mail accounts with 2 GB of storage each. I have created a draft web site for ananthapuri.net using the site builder … Read full story »

"Internet and IT in Modern World" @ Abraham Memorial School, Thirumala, Thiruvananthapuram

As part of Sanjeevani activities, we conducted a session on Computers, Internet and Information Technology in Modern World to a group of selected 9th standard students of Abraham Memorial Higher Secondary School, Thirumala, Thiruvananthapuram.
It was a 4 hour session for 20 students. In this discussion, I have connected to the Internet from my laptop through … Read full story »

Blogging from Flock Browser’s Blog Editor

Hi! I am back again!
Today I have installed the Flock Browser developer version in my laptop. It is based on the Mozilla code base, most of the functionality and navigation is same as that of FireFox.
The following are the new features I tried out.

Blog Editor
Tagging using del.icio.us
Favorites Manager for del.icio.us
Shelf

I am not much excited about … Read full story »

Happy New Year!

I am back to the Internet and the blog world after a ‘remote vacation’ of 6 weeks! I have to see what all happened around my internet world during this time. Hope to blog more in coming days.
Wish you a happy and prosperous New Year 2006. Read full story »

Thiruvananthapuram Places Marked in Google Maps

As a continuation of yesterday’s post on place marking in Google Earth, I created this in online Google map too. This does not require you to have Google Earth installed on your computer. But Google Earth is clearer than the Google Map view of satellite image.
Satellite View of Thiruvananthapuram using Google
MapsA smaller version is provided … Read full story »

Thiruvananthapuram Mapped in Google Earth

Google recently released Google Earth streaming technology to deliver 3D satellite images of the earth right on to your desktop. See my previous post on Google Earth. I have been playing with it for some time now. It is really helpful to find places in the US. For US cities, I always look at Google … Read full story »

Did You Know That India is Just 30 Minutes Drive from Dallas, TX?

In my recent visit to Texas, I found that India is just 30 minutes drive from Dallas, TX! See the map of India, TX and driving directions in MapQuest! And, there are 3 more India in the US!
Actually, India is not alone. There are many Russia, England, Britain, Spain, Brazil, Africa, Norway, Japan, … Read full story »

"You’ve Got to Find What You Love" – Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, Inc.

The following is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, Inc., delivered on June 2005. For some reasons, today I ended up thinking about life, work, passion and the past, and made me read this again. This speach is worth spending your time, read completely. If you have read … Read full story »

Google’s Free Online Website Analytics Tool

Google announced its free Online Website Analytics Tool called Google Analytics. This has been discussed in Google community for sometime. Here it is finally.
Read more about Google Analytics in Official Google Blog and Analytics Benefits page.
It is very easy to sign up and analyze traffic to your site or blog. I created a profile for … Read full story »

4PM.IN – New Domain for Project Management Blogging

I wanted to start a new blog on project management and similar IT related areas I come across on a day to day basis. I have been looking for a simple, small, easy to remember, catchy domain name. Today I came up with the name, 4pm.in! For Project Managers/Management.Do you like this domain name? … Read full story »

Indian Government Portal – india.gov.in

Finally, Indian Government has a portal!
Visit http://india.gov.in/.
Good work. Most of the information is now available online either through this website or other related NIC websites.
The website is in English. Just wondering how much effort will it takes to have the portal in all 22 scheduled languages!

This is the National Portal of the India, … Read full story »