Here is an amazing video of passengers from inside the Qantas plane that had a big gaping hole from an explosion. The passengers seem to be very calm and composed for an emergency landing.
Archive for July, 2008
Apple India is running a promo in which it is offering a 12% discount to students from approved institutions. This is a great offer to grab as the prices are as low as they can get!
I’m holding out for the Macbook revision before I take the leap. Stuck to my Dell for now 
Today Microsoft launched a hosted Exchange solution to counter Google Apps. Is this a slow and steady response to the Google threat?
When the world’s biggest company launches a subscription based online/offline software of it’s core product you that Subscription based software and Software as a Service has arrived into the mainstream. Microsoft today launched a subscription based service of Microsoft Office Home and Student edition. It will be available starting Mid-July and is mainly targeted towards the lower end of the consumer spectrum. Clearly Microsoft still wants it’s enterprise customers locked into it’s desktop software. Understandably so, enterprise customers will be more apprehensive about sending their data into the ‘cloud’ without secure and reliable storage channels.
However with this new service Microsoft is clearly targeting the SOHO and casual users community which might be looking at Google Docs or Zoho type of services for their daily word processing and spreadsheet needs. It remains to be seen whether this experiment by Microsoft will succeed and if they will ultimately port the Professional edition also onto the SaaS platform.
I managed to catch the Incredible Hulk at Metro Adlabs in South Mumbai. First things first, the Metro Adlabs is one hell of a theater and had incredible leg space although that might be because I was sitting in the platinum seats. All three clases (Platinum, Gold and Silver) were priced at the same level and plus we got a 25% discount thanks to HDFC and Paymate. Anyways I digress. The movie was well made from a CG angle but that’s about it. The story line was very thin - it was as if the entire story was conceived to fit around the special effects. The story was very slow at places and dragged a lot. Enough suspense was left for the next hulk sequel in the end.
In all a 2/5 movie for me.
