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Viewsonic, the display company is going through a major makeover. The company has launched Smart displays, Tablet PCs and also some Media center XP-based machines. The company has decided to get into the desktop business as well. My how the CEO James Chu has changed his tune. Four years ago, he told me, “A monitor [...]

Red Herring :: ‘See, not everyone selling phone service is what you’d call a phone company,” says the gravelly voice-over on a recent TV ad. As pigeons land on (and presumably crap on) moodily lit phone lines, the ruffled feathers are obvious. “SBC has telecommunications networks across the country. Our competitors have access to them. [...]

So now with AOL’s Steve Case gone here are my predictions of what is going to happen:

AOL Time Warner would become Time Warner
Netscape Division which is hardly making any money is going to be shut down.
Suddenly AOL will be default software for RoadRunner, and a broadband super power.
Internet Explorer will be the default browser at [...]

In this era of dumb ideas, I think the smartwatch initiative of Microsoft takes the cake. According to the

Steve Case is a big baby and now he is admitting it in public. He resigned over the weekend.

Sitting here at the Talwar Gallery I am watching the hauting and hypnotic short pieces by Alia Syed. Interesting concepts and amazing visuals - I am quite sure Alia will soon be making headlines. The throngs have not descended yet since the official opening is still another hour away. I dropped in earlier pretty much [...]