I am rather pleased to report that Apple's iPhone launch in India was a dismal failure. I was aghast in August this year when Apple (and its cohorts Vodaphone & Airtel) decided to swindle Indian customer by charging over 400% premium over US store price. At that time I advised people to wait till the price drops. Frankly I felt betrayed by Steve Jobs because he promised $199 price globally in his keynote.

Collect calls and calls to 1-800 numbers should be free, right? Unfortunately in India, there isn't a simple way to call a 1-800 number in USA or make a simple collect call for free. However there is a way and it is free.

10,000 cores in one single computer!

FoxyProxy is a free, open-source, advanced proxy management tool that helps you in proxying your browsing experience through Firefox. It surpasses the limitations of Firefox's inherent one and gives you quite a wide scope to browse. FoxyProxy automatically switches an internet connection across one or more proxy servers based on URL patterns. In other words, it automates the manual process of editing Firefox's Connection Settings dialog box.

The war of the technology giants (Microsoft and Google) have now reached office too. No, I am not talking about Mountain view or Redmond literally. But about office applications, more precisely, web based office application. On November 17, Microsoft is launching one component of its Software + Service strategy this week: the final versions of its Microsoft-hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint. Microsoft is launching two of its growing family of Microsoft Online services at an event in San Francisco, according to company officials.