HBS Working Knowledge on The Pull Leadership Manifesto

Outsourcing of online game playing. Wired reports that wealthier players outsource tedious parts of the game they are playing for hundreds of dollars!

Yahoo! Search blog. A blog from the search engine team at Yahoo!

The Playboy Google Interview at the Search Engine News Journal

By the Book Leadership: Six leaders recommend the nonbusiness books that influenced them most.

Business Week carries an interview with Rich Templeton, our CEO.

Now a MP3 player for your AK-47

"Nokia Moments"? Nokia trying to be the kodak of the digital age?

Windows Automotive. Interesting to see MS putting a good deal of effort into this market segment.

RFID tags become hacker target. RFID tags can be reprogrammed by thieves or hackers thereby making a new type of shoplifting possible. And with RFID tags being used for various other uses such as Identity cards, it also opens up new avenues for abuse.

Is it a good idea for Microsoft to its Office suite to Linux? Won't that cause more people to switch to Linux? How can that make business sense for Microsoft? Iam not so convinced by the arguments of the article.

Microsoft has put up Lookout 1.2 on their website for download. Unfortunately i cant try this out as i have moved to thunderbird long back.

An interview with RMS. Stallman talks about GNU, the status of Hurd, and the future of GNU projects.

Army rations rehydrated by urine. Food scientists working for the US military have developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water or even peeing on it. Now thats something which i would never ever want to try!

A whitepaper on "New Directions in RTOS Kernels"

Charles Simonyi's Interview on Intentional programming and how to use it?

Older blog entries on Charles Simonyi and his company Intentional Software are here and here

A hard disk car audio player. Uses Linux, allows for upto 36 GB of internal storage and also has voice recognition for hands free access of all audio functions.

These Elecom iPod slim speakers are the sexiest speakers i have seen till date.

Google: The Missing Manual. Saw this book when browsing through Amazon! The book has got quite a number of good reviews!

Business Ethics magazine has come up with the list of 100 best corporate citizens of 2004. Find the list here. TI has the 40th place in the list.