Live from TMCnet ITEXPO 2010 (Miami, Florida)
Interviews with Arjun Roychowdhury, Asst. Vice President at Hughes Systique Corp (HSC). HSC is a HUGHES company, an industry leader in IP and communications technology.
(recorded at 2010-01-21 12:04:39)
click HERE for the interview (ignore video ad below)
As a frequent traveler, I’ve flown several airlines to several places. However, the one airline I’ve categorically avoided in the past is India’s own Air-India (AI) for international travel. I guess it’s because pretty much all my life, I’ve only 
heard bad things about its service, quality of airlines etc from my parents , their friends and friends of friends. But this was 15 years ago. Times change. However, I was still not willing to try AI due to its (in)glorious past track record that was handed down to me by word of mouth and from generation to generation.
A week ago, I had to travel to India for work. This was January 2010 and the fog conditions in Delhi were particularly bad. As I sit in my hotel in India and look out of the window and write this article, the fog is really bad – hardly any visibility. With this much of fog, most flights that arrive in Delhi late at night get rerouted to other cities and make it into Delhi only during daytime the next day. My colleagues who arrived in India earlier warned me of the condition, so I looked around for flights that landed in the day in delhi. Pretty soon I realized there was only one option for me to try: Air India. Drat. All the other flights like Lufthansa, United etc all arrived late at night and the only other daytime options were ridiculously expensive. I had read that Air-India had recently re-done its entire international fleets and there were new planes and newly re-designed business class and first class seats which according to their marketing was “comparable to other international flights”. Furthermore, the fact that it flew directly from IAD to Delhi with a short stop at JFK was a very attractive option for me, so I decided to take the plunge and try out this carrier for the first time in my life. What follows next is my experience.
I finally get why people tweet. It lets you speak your mind the way it is, without requiring you to make a paragraph out of it. When I blog, I think, then form, then rehearse then post. When I tweet, I think and tweet. The link between my thoughts and the tweets is more direct. And of course, very often, I don’t have paragraphs to talk about, but still experience exciting new things that can be written in 3 lines. So now I understand the subtle difference of tweeting vs blogging. I’ve wiped the dust off my twitter account. I will use that more often now. I will still occasionally post, but only if I have lots to say.
Follow on at http://twitter.com/arjunrc
XKCD has a hilarious cartoon on “Estimation”. I just burst out laughing when I read the footnote. If you are a windows user, you will burst out laughing too.
Estimation
After 4 years of serious Blackberry 8700 and 8800 use, my wife convinced me to switch to the sexier iphone. I was pretty wary knowing it is not very good for business usage. However, my wife’s prime interest was to get me off the keypad while driving. To her dismay, I am now an expert fast typist on my iphone virtual keyboard – but I do listen to her and for my own safety don’t thumb responses to email while stopping at a light. Here are my experiences (so far) on what I did to bring my iphone closer to my needs. I have the iphone 32G 3GS. My previous phone was the wonderful, but, well not oomphy BB 8800.
There has been a lot of posts and flutter on Google’s new purported Chrome OS and how it will be a great battle with Microsoft, how it will confuse and/or kill Android etc. And also, of course, taking off from the Google Blog on Chrome OS “For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies” people are also throwing in “Web OS” everywhere.
I thought I’d write a post detailing my thoughts (technical) on this entire issue.
So yesterday, Google finally announced it is getting into the “OS” business with Chrome OS.
Similar to Google Wave, this one is also just an announcement (gee, it doesn’t even have a front page yet 
)
But anyway, here are my predictions on where this will go:
Like all the apple fanboys like to squeal and shout, here is my obligatory squeal of delight on having my phone shipped out today. Let me join the ranks of the ‘I feel so proud that apple condescended to ship me something I paid for’ list with the obligatory, but totally useless details:
When did I order: July 11, 6:44AM PDT to be exact
What did I order: Iphone 3GS, 32Gig, Black as an AT&T upgrade
Where did I order it from: Apple Store (online)
When did I get my “shipped” status: June 18, 2009, 2:14 PM ET to be exact. Interestingly, I happened to be on the appstore site hitting refresh so I saw the status change from ‘Prepared to ship’ to ’shipped’ (Another squealing shout relevant only to me)
What does the fedex tracking status say:
Picked up from Memphis TN
Delivery on: Jun 19, before 3:30PM
On my flight back home from CTIA Wireless 2009, I was on a southwest flight (one of only 4 in southwest) that offered free Wifi over satellite as a test. Here is a quick test of how it performed
Hi folks, as promised (over and over earlier we finally have an initial version of the IMS UA ready for download. The IMS system we used was Open IMS
Grab the IMS UA code from the HSC Open Source webpage here
(look for IMS UA for Google Android Entry)
The test bed looked like this:
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