Category: India
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Dial-Up 2.0
Most “broadband” providers in India offer a fairly low cost DSL product with top speeds of 256K. At 256K, you are limited to 400MB of downloads. If you go over 400MB, you will be charged per additional megabyte. Now the interesting thing, for unlimited downloading, the speed drops to 128K. Yup, I was pretty surprised…
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A Passage to India
Nusair asked that I start blogging about my experience in India over the next few weeks. I have toyed with the idea of doing a podcast and/or blog of my travels and of the whole process of doing a startup. I arrived in India in the beginning of last week. I’m here to determine what…
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English Schools in Karnataka Shutting Down
This is a very disturbing piece of news. One of the biggest reasons India’s been such a powerhouse in the offshoring and outsourcing of technology services and business processing has been the fluency of Indians in English.Thouse most educated Indians speak with an accent, Westerners are able to understand Indians much more easily than eastern…
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Internet Access in India and the Nokia E61
A little background on how I was led to the Nokia E61. Back in April, I had picked up a Motorola SLVR L7 and have been pretty happy listening to my favorite podcasts on it. A few weeks ago, I decided that I was going to be taking a trip to India and needed Internet…
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Indian Plan to Freely Float the Rupee
The SS Tarapore committee on fuller capital account convertibility has recommended loosening of controls on capital flows in three phases, over a five-year period ending 2010-11. India nears free float of rupee technorati tags:India, Rupee, Finance, Free Floating Currency, Currency Blogged with Flock