It seems like problems keep unraveling for Apple’s iPhone, which was once dubbed as the “god phone.” Apple seems to be stumbling from one PR nightmare to another. Just a couple of weeks ago they had a PR nightmare with the lowering of price etc. etc. and the offer of $200 for those who forked […]
Archive for September, 2007
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 30th, 2007 • Category: Electronic gadgets, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Technology, The New York Times
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 30th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Technology
Last week Bangalore-based Wipro Technologies announced that is is acquiring Oki Techno Center of Singapore. This is an all cash deal and Wipro has not disclose the cash amount. As part of the deal Wipro will set up a design center for Oki.
Oki Techno Center is a subsidiary of Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd. With this acquisition Wipro […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 30th, 2007 • Category: Events, Ideas, India, Only in India
Who is India’s highest taxpaying politician? No, it is not Amma or Kumari Jayalalitha from Tamil Nadu or the ex-chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh. It is the current UP Chief Minister Mayawati. Recently, Mayawati paid Rs. 14 crores (S1=Rs.39 and approx $250,000 is equivalent to a crore) as income tax reports The Economic Times. […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 30th, 2007 • Category: Diaspora, India
Vishwanath Anand or Vishy as he sometimes known won the recently concluded World Chess Championship in Mexico City. There is no dispute this time around as to who is the world chess champion as this New York Times article points out.
This is the second time Anand has been world champion. In 2000, he won the World […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 30th, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Events, India, Only in India, YouTube Videos
Last week Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Ekalavya was nominated as the 2008 Oscar entry from India and thereby hangs an interesting tale.
Ekalavya was up against Dharma, Chak De! India and Gandhi My Father.
Soon after the Film Federation of India chaired by Vinod Pande made India’s Oscar announcement you could hear the rumblings in the background. The nomination […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 30th, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Only in India, Podcast, Social Media, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, User Generated Content, YouTube Videos
As I mentioned previously, I have started writing a fortnightly column in Sunday’s edition of Financial Express. This article was published in Financial Express on September 30, 2007.
Here is the link to the Financial Express article: Go Surfing With Shah Rukh Khan.
Recently I did a Google search on Farah Khans yet to be released film Om […]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
