By stock exchange we know it’s the place where companies’ stocks are traded realtime. In simple words, demand and supply of stocks push up or pull down (you may as well say ‘push down’ and ‘pull up’) the stocks’ prices. The total quantity of shares traded is termed trading volume and the total value of […]
Branded PCs lead the charge
When my friend who supplied my desktops all these years put his gloves down 6 months back for want of order, I could see the writing on the wall. He is among the lucky few to have switched over in time to ‘servicing’ PCs instead of pure hawking. This development of branded PCs gradually eating […]
10 most influential Internet marketers
When the Sun was just about to rise on the Internet horizon, and few people knew what the dawn was going to be, there were guys who could foresee what might occur in days to come. In their own mind, they felt here was an opportunity of lifetime and lost no time to start experimenting […]
Vista debuts
Guess how Microsoft launched Vista in India yesterday? It has been a superlative performance by a dance troupe, attired all blue, in front of Taj Mahal in Agra. Perhaps there’s a message in a blockbuster launch like that. Which is that Vista is second to none. [Image source] Released simultaneously in 70 countries for retailers, […]
Travel ahoy
Pundits have long argued that boom in traveling is a sure sign of growing economy. So too are opting for advanced medicare, splurging on shopping, sending kids to money-guzzling schools, but these are somewhat not so openly pronounced. Traveling on the other hand is. See my post, Have money, will tour. Go to book your […]
Snap Preview Anywhere
If you’re an avid blogger or web surfer, you can’t help but track what all new that debut every now and then. It’s a fun to remain abreast of exciting things that surface on the horizon. And I must say Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA for short form) is one among them. How do you know […]
India’s trendy new websites
Mid to late 90s belong to dotcom era. Keeping with the worldwide trend then, we’ve seen many Indian portal sites – and vortals or vertical portals – coming into being. A few shopping sites too debuted. Post dotcom bust, few remain, and those who remain are not better off either. This is because the search […]
Yahoo! acquires MyBlogLog
MyBlogLog is not just another social networking site. Here, one has to own a blog – any blog for that matter – to gain ‘admission’, and thereafter one can build a network with other blog-owners across the web. If a blog-owner is a paid member of MyBlogLog, which Kolkata Musing is, he or she can […]
When IT comes calling
India’s common man’s first encounter with anything computer was perhaps occasioned when Indian Railway introduced online booking of long-distance train tickets. Then came computerization in nationalized banks where even small account holders could get their passbooks updated by the ubiquitous machines. Initial resistance to computers – especially by left trade unions – soon melted into […]
Social networking
If you notice, you’ll see each blog-post here has options for viewers to tell others about it if they wish to. How can they do that? It’s rather simple. The series of icons at the bottom of every post and the 2 links right below each post’s heading at the top are in fact gateways […]