Government is turning to MNCs for its IT needs while US is turning to Infosys el al. I am puzzled. "The Indian government’s National Informatics Center (NIC) has partnered with IBM to add new capabilities to the country’s national portal that enables it to deliver government services to Indian citizens." .. more »

"Quigo is not the household name that these other two search giants are. But the privately held company, which competes with Google and Yahoo in a key part of the online advertising business, is quietly becoming a bigger player. Quigo sells a product called AdSonar to online publishers. AdSonar, like Google's AdSense and Yahoo's Content Match, .. more »

Another starup on sale at Ebay. Ebay is now becoming an exit strategy for small companies. CrispAds is a popular Blog Advertising Network and is now up for sale on ebay. .. more »

A website dedicated to regular expressions! .. more »

Use wget to keep a local copy of your online bookmarks. The article has the wget command to do the same. Only problem currently with the script is: It only lets you save the front page bookmarks. (only 1 page worth). .. more »

The inverse brain drain of Indian technicians heading back home from Silicon Valley was foreseen by New Delhi, says Salil Tripathi. .. more »

Good reference on CSS. .. more »

Businesspundit warns of an doing 'Chinese math' in your business plan. "Market numbers are important, and so is breakeven analysis. Present these numbers as part of your plan, but don't act like the low percentages mean they will be easy to reach. If you are counting on easy milestones for your success, you aren't ready for entrepreneurship." .. more »

Some good Google based addictive games/tools... more »

Among those planned is "a video pocast show this month".. more »

AllPeers get positive comments from Techcrunch. "I’ve been testing the product with co-founder Matthew Gertner - this is going to be a very popular application. Very large (video) files transfered in my tests without difficulty, including after repeatedly shutting down the browser mid-transfer. Like other bittorent clients, the transfer picked .. more »

Online drawing classes for you!.. more »

It is important to not get locked into propreitery standards like MS-Word doc format. Last month, Malaysia became the one of the first Asian countries to propose the use of ODF as a national standard for office documents. Now U.N. has called for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to embrace the OpenDocument format... more »

A brilliant analysis of the current tech trends by Tim Orielly. He says, "free and open source developers are in much the same position today that IBM was in 1981 when it changed the rules of the computer industry, but failed to understand the consequences of the change, allowing others to reap the benefits" and "I find it useful to see open source .. more »

The Tata group, India's second largest business conglomerate by sales, has ruled out selling stakes in its telecoms flagship, Tata Teleservices Ltd., to foreign companies, a top group official said on Tuesday... more »