Anyone who has never made a mistake

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein

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Apple Air : The Thinnest Notebook on Earth

Steve Jobs in his Macworld keytnote announced the MacBook Air, which is the world’s thinnest notebook. He demonstrated just how thin the notebook is by pulling it out for its grand introduction from a standard envelope.

It sports a number of standard notebook features, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and a Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 80GB hard-disk drive. It has a battery time would be roughly five hours. Unlike the iphone, users will not have to wait for long as the product starts shipping in 2 weeks.

However it does not have a optical drive. There’s a “remote disc” feature built right into the operating system that will show all Macs or PCs in the vicinity — you can just click on one of the machines and ask to borrow its optical drive. That’s cool.

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Netscape is Dead - A sad end to a great product

AOL is going to remove support for Netscape browser starting from 1st of February 2008. Unsurprisingly very few bloggers seem to have taken note of the event, we have moved beyond Netscape long time back.

A really sad end for a product that made the internet possible. Before netscape, internet was used by geeks alone. A large number of complex protocols, incompatible software and non-existent graphics meant that ordinary folks simply did not have the ability or the desire to go online. However Netscape changed all that by making it possible for ordinary folks to access the internet. It may be hard to believe but at one point of time 80% of all internet users used Netscape.

The rest is history. Microsoft realized the potential of the browser. Once Microsoft had bundled the internet explorer with windows, netscape did not have a chance in hell.

Netscape will not be missed by many. But it will always be remembered as one product that made internet a possibility.

You can read the Netscape blog here

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US Enters into a recession

According to this article on BBC, the US is already in a recession.
“The feared recession in the US economy has already arrived, according to a report from Merrill Lynch.”

It will be interesting to see how Indian IT companies will cope with this recession in US. Will it continue to be business as usual or will we be back to the black days of 2001 (the retrenchment, regret letters). I have my fingures crossed.

In another report Goldman Sachs predicts that US unemployment will rise from the current 5% to 6.5%. This may bring back the anti-outsourcing lobby. The US presedential election may make things even worse.

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