If you don’t have a clue why the financial markets are tumbling down, indexes crashing and job cuts everywhere, I just found a Dummies Guide to the recent crisis gripping the markets. Doug Diamond and Anil Kashyap posted an awesome write-up on the New York Times Freakonomics blog. I call it a ‘dummies guide’ because anyone can easily understand the causes and effects as the authors did a wonderful job dissecting the roots with a lucid explanation. And I understood. 

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As Google celebrates its 10th birthday this year, guys at Google came up with this interactive history time line detailing every important event in the company’s history with pictures, from the day the founders, Larry Page & Sergey Brin, met at Stanford to their famous April Fool jokes.  

A must visit. 

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Always wanted to learn from the best university and competition shunned you from attending Premier colleges like Stanford or the IIT’s? Well, no more. Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Internet connection is all you need. View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students, all at your convenience.

This fall, SEE launches its programming by offering one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering. Read on for a list of courses offered this fall.
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The iPhone was finally released in India. I believe it never lives upto its tagline, "twice as fast, half the price". Here’s why. The pricing is very steep & it doesn’t fit the bill in the sensitive Indian market context. A jail broken iPhone is available at 20,000 INR in the grey market sans the support while the iPhone is available through only 2 operators, Airtel and Vodafone, at 31,000 and 36,000 (INR) for the 8GB and 16GB models respectively. Let alone the hundreds who buy it for hype, the status and ‘cool’ness factors, why bother buying a 3G phone when India doesn’t have a 3G network at all! Also, there is no iTunes store for India.

Here go some reasons why iPhone might fail in India:

1. Overpriced in India.
2. No 3G video calls over 3G network.
3. You cannot forward a SMS message, you have to retype it or use an external application to do it.
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