@pjain – My Ramblings on Tech, Startups, Economics, Crypto, Investing and more

FON has gotten a huge amount of blogosphere and media coverage over the last day or two. It appears to be a very interesting idea. I’m not sure how well it would fly in the US with all the broadband providers prohibiting the sharing of broadband pipes – just another example of old businesses trying…

Ever since I started using a Mac a year ago, I was always amazed at how everything just worked. There wasn’t any tinkering required with registry settings, or config files, or installing tons of drivers. Everything just worked. For the advanced users or the folks who wanted to hack around, you could open up the…

The first time i tried to get broadband at the end of 1999, I kept getting told by Verizon that “It’s coming soon”. After about eight or nine months, I finally decided to get DSL from a company called InternetConnect which went out of business. Covad picked up the assets of InternetConnect and I’ve been…

Does anyone know why Google has NOT come up with Google Pack for Linux or OS X? Now, I understand that they’re gearing their software towards the largest market share of computer users but considering that Google has built the company on Linux, I’m amazed that they’re not doing anything about making their software work…

My Jabra BT250v died last week. I’m not sure how it died but I was able to hear people but they weren’t able to hear me no matter how loud I yelled. This is my third Jabra BT headset. As you can imagine, this is my third one because they are incredibly comfortable. Yes, the…