The News-
On May 10, 2011 Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake.

About Microsoft-
We all know that, so not wasting time.

About Skype-
Founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis,(two men who had created a file-sharing technology called Kazaa that became widely associated with music piracy) and based in Luxembourg, Skype was acquired by eBay in September 2005 for $2.6 billion in cash and stock, and then acquired by an investment group led by Silver Lake in November 2009.

Today, I had a meeting with Dr. Paul Kim, CTO, Stanford School of Education who told me about this new OLPC computer. The new OLPC computer is a tablet, has looks like the iPad and its probably going to give the iPad a run for its money. The tablet may achieve the original pricepoint of $100 (Rs 4,500) for the device. Marvell’s new Moby educational tablet platform based on ARM-based chips serve as the brains of this re-designed low-power tablet computer.

Only when you solve your own problem, you create a tool or service that
you're passionate about. And passion is key. Passion means you'll truly use it
and care about it. And that's the best way to get others to feel
passionate about it too.

The point here is understanding that you're not alone. If you're having
this problem, it's likely hundreds of thousands of others are in the
same boat. There's your market. Wasn't that easy?

Example: MoneyWorks4me.com has come out of the problem Raymond
& Sreeram faced while attempting to do value investing in Indian
Stocks.

Cisco Systems has been promoting rural education through using of innovative technology and harnessing young entrepreneurship. In Chhindwara(Madhya Pradesh), Cisco has helped three entrepreneurs to help achieve their Lakshya (Goal) of establishing a network for virtual education. Full story here.

At Quick Heal we recently organised AVAR 2008 ,a global security conference from 10th to 12th December 2008,  at Hotel Taj Palace in Delhi .

Lore has it that Dronacharya, the guru of the Pandava clan, feared the tribal Ekalavya would one day defeat his favourite student, Arjuna. The wily guru circumvented Ekalavya’s pleas to become his student, by asking for his thumb as guru dakshina.

If you look back on this incident, do you really think Ekalavya would have defeated Arjuna, even with his thumb intact? Possibly not.

For all those who raise an eyebrow when they hear of MBA in Biotechnology, Here’s an answer straight from the stalwarts in this business. SERUM INSTITUTE OF INDIA, India’s largest biotech company according to recent reports, arranged a day long symposium for the students of MBA-BT, PUMBA as part of a platform of industry interface for budding “techno-commercial” managers at PUMBA.

What is Service-Oriented Architecture? Do you need one? And if you do, what are the first steps you need to take to create an SOA of your very own?

What is Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

SOA is a confusing term because it describes two very different things. The first two words describe a software development methodology. The third word, architecture, is a picture of all the software assets of a company, much as an architectural drawing is a representation of all the pieces that together form a building. Therefore, service-oriented architecture is a strategy that proclaims the intention to build all the software assets in the company using the service-oriented programming methodology.