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Walmart name and it's existence in my life took shape in 1996-1997 when my brother in law landed in United States. I still remember when my Brother-In-Law gifted us a book of America and it's beautiful images, which was bought from Walmart. Till then, I had no idea what Walmart was and what Sam Walton did to revolutionize the retail experience in United States. The real grasp of what Walmart does on a day to day basis to an average american and in general the United States economy, did not impact me till I landed in this country almost a decade back.  Almost a decade later, we have Walmart knocking doors at India's footstep. India too is looking to revamp and open up it's entire retail model at the same time. The decision of Indian government to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail is the most radical reform it has undertaken since 1992. What is so different about the proposed revamping of the retail space is how a FDI can directly buy from the local fa...

Why reviews from Tech Blogger doesn't matter to me OK. I am a sucker for new gadgets.  Every new gadget that I am really excited about gets released, I am literally crawling the web for reviews from the best tech blogger out there.  After reading their reviews, I do determine if I should go to the store and check out the item before making that impulse decision to buy that gadget.  At times, it is hard to get a feel of the gadget as it is sold online and you have to go by on the face value.  After following the process religiously for quiet sometime, I have come to a point where I believe that the blogger, who have been reviewing the gadgets for quite a long time, never look that gadget from a user perspective, but from their own vision of what that gadget should have been.  After reading reviews and that too tons of reviews from an expert, you kind of get what the expectation of the blogger was when he was reviewing the gadget. It shows in his review...

Every now and then a questions pops up in my mind – Why do I have to dial a 10 digit number to talk to someone – even knowing that the someone is a person, who I see every day or talk to them on a daily basis? Why dial a 10 digit number to talk to someone on the other line and then punch 10 more digits to get to a person’s extension? I would take this discussion further and ask – Why do we need phone numbers to communicate? Whoa. That is big!  phone numbers for as long as I remember is how we know to communicate. With the advent of mobile phones, the numbers has doubled and with the rising global population getting on to mobile, we are soon going to be faced with a problem that was faced by IPv6 last week. We are getting closer when the 10 digit phone number would soon be exhausted. The talks for 11 digit numbering system will rise from the preliminary talks and heat to the finalization stage.  I am sure that our “able” lawmakers and politicians alike will come with a 1000 ...

India is a nation of almost 1.2 billion people. There is an immense need for resources and infrastructure to sustain the growing population and the booming Indian economy to keep the nation moving forward. India also lacks the basic infrastructure at rural areas to provide the basic necessity like power, roads and water supply. It's common in B-town city to have a structured way of "power-cuts" ranging anywhere from 2 hrs. - 8 hrs. a day in summer! For the longest period of time, India has been dependent on Coal, and its power is more or less generated by Coal energy or fossil fuels. Coal as everyone knows is one of the "old" energy technology responsible for carbon emission and India has always walked a tight line, when it comes to Kyoto Protocol aimed at fighting global warming. India is at a threshold to usher in Nuclear energy with a new proposed nuclear power plant in Jaitapur, Maharashtra. The proposed nuclear power plant is no ordinary plant -- The 5 b...

Sometime in the middle of last year Steve Jobs made a statement  that "mouse driven gesture technology is a thing of past". He then went ahead and took several potshots at Adobe causing a worldwide rage on the internet causing people to form base camps. Apple also went ahead and shipped all apple products without flash support. Even the Macs were shipped without Flash support. It was hard for a lot of people, including me to understand the logic behind the statement. It never made sense as most content on web is Flash and I personally don't foresee it to ever cease. So why make the statement?  This year during the unveiling of the iPad 2, he made several statement and took a lot of potshots on Google, HP, Blackberry and probably everyone. But there were two word that stood out --  "Post-PC era". This again caused the whole internet to go crazy. Even a month and a half back to the press conference, I never got it.  Eureka Moment This weekend...