Flextronics is moving aggressively..a company to watch..

Nortel Networks Reaches Agreement with Flextronics International Ltd. Regarding Certain Manufacturing Operations, Related Activities
and its recent agreement to purchase Hughes Software Systems suggest that Flextronics is attempting to stake out a position in embedded systems design in the telecom space.

Spiderman with a sarong...

Gotham Entertainment Group, India bringing in desi incarnations of western comic heroes. Quote: "...Readers of this series will not see the familiar Peter Parker of Queens under the classic Spider-Man mask, but rather a new hero – a young, Indian boy named Pavitr Prabhakar. As Spider-Man, Pavitr leaps around rickshaws and scooters in Indian streets, while swinging from monuments such as the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal.
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Will it work? I personally do not think so. I think the Indian markets are so westernised, at least for consumers of these comic characters, that playing around with the integrity of these characters may actually be counterproductive in that these consumers will really want the "real" thing- not some weak desi-fication of the original. Imagine Superman with a turban.....

Why Microsoft looked at SAP and then backed down...

Microsoft-SAP talks rooted in database concern | CNET News.com

THinking that ORacle's bid for Peoplesoft would slow Microsoft's own Database business prompted Microsoft to consider a 'blocking' stake in Peoplesoft or a merger with SAP ! But managing the possibility of allowing customers to continue using other databases and also on finding out that IBM had no interest in SAP, caused Microsoft to back off....

you have to ask what is nokia's interest in keeping mozilla alive...

you have to ask what is nokia's interest in keeping mozilla alive...


i think that the browser may well become the key platform going forward for mobile learning. i.e. rather than agonize over how to develop for both palm and pocketpc, perhaps we should also consider just developing for the mobile phone browser....that would provide a more portable platform. (apart from formfactor issues which are anyway there even in developing direct for the palm or the pocketpc)

you have to ask what is nokia's interest in keeping mozilla alive...

Why would SAP want to merge with Microsoft?

I can understand why Microsoft would want to explore a merger with SAP. Microsoft may not be able to push more tools to the desktop. Where will its growth come from? Hence it is looking to forward integrate into the application space. Witness its acquisitions of axapta, great plains, navision..... but whatever was in it for SAP? to grown into the Small and Medium businesses that ostensibly Microsoft could provide?