Category Archives: Internet

Job of a CEO

Reed Hastings, CEO of NetFlix, already committed multiple mistakes by making unplanned and abrupt changes to the pricing structure for its DVD and streaming based movie rental services. Consumers and investors don’t like uncertainty; and showing the path to future … Continue reading

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Net Neutrality – What is the true cost?

I have written several times about Net Neutrality. You can read my prior articles here, here and here. During the process of writing and afterwards, I have asked myself “What could be a valid anti-net-neutrality argument?”. I then figured, the … Continue reading

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Future of the phone

I asked couple of friends of mine how they saw their cell phones changing in the next five years. The last 5-10 have been game-changing in that phones have come a long way since being a device for making and … Continue reading

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Be mindful what you search!

If you have followed my blogs, you probably have read my posts on Net Neutrality here and here. Put simply, I am a proponent of Net Neutrality and of the opinion that the market has to shape its business models … Continue reading

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Cisco E4200 – Review [in <10 lines]

As I made my first upgrade to my wifi setup in more than 5 years, I asked myself – What is a defining characteristic of a wifi router? In my opinion, it is that you have to forget it exists … Continue reading

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Dangers of personalization

When I use facebook, one of the things I do is use filters to decide who should read my posts. For example, when I post messages in Tamil language, I make sure my non-Tamil-reading friends don’t see it in their … Continue reading

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IPv4 – What is the reality?

With IANA telling everybody that it has allocated the last blocks of public IP addresses, media has started its own interpretations of this, which have exaggerated and (incorrectly) extrapolated this to mean many bizarre things – ranging from “we wont … Continue reading

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Future of terrorism

There’s a reason it is very difficult to take sides on the Wikileaks issue. Asange created a platform for people to ‘leak’ classified information and as a result, he is in a lot of trouble. Are the governments (US, Swedish, … Continue reading

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Cloud – A primer

Everybody who knows anything about computers and Internet knows something about Cloud – that most of them even think it is fashionable, nerdy, cool, sophisticated to associate themselves with this term. Cloud is but a way of letting an user use a resource … Continue reading

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The more you give, the more you get

I owe one to one of my friends who used to say – the more we give, the more we get. In no ambiguous terms, he was talking about money. He used to splash money on possessions, people, good times … Continue reading

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