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MIT Technology Review :: Wi-Fi might soon be the key to a new kind of convergence that joins your living room and your personal computer. This is my latest freelance article, perhaps the last one for a long time since I have started working for Business 2.0. Download the article in PDF format.

“Japanese electronics company NEC has unveiled a new all-in-one chip that can act as a digital video broadcast decoder and power next-generation entertainment devices that record to either a DVD or a hard disk,” reports News.com. This could spread the PVRs even more, though no respite for TiVO (though it keeps getting big plugs in [...]

Gartners Group is talking about some thing they are unimaginatively calling NGN - next generation network. “NGN will unify three networks — public switched telephone, Internet and wireless — and will focus on the customisation of communications services purchased at individual subscriber level on the enterprise and/or the consumer side,” Gartner tells NewsFactor. Wait a [...]

In less than two weeks, I would leave my beloved New York for the second time. This time I have run out of options. With the worst job market in the history of publishing I am glad I have managed to secure a job and it is in San Francisco. It could be a lot [...]

Well it is South Africa versus India in the final of TVS Cup in Bangladesh. No surprise there. What really bothers me is that Indian team is still not experimenting with newer players. I have seen some great performances from the young ones. And not so impressive performances from the likes of Dinesh Mongia and [...]

For some odd reason, I woke up early this weekend and ended up watching this show called AVS: Asian Variety Show. It has been around for years but I have never bothered to read it. There was a segment on this singer called Adnan Sami, which was preceded and followed by long ads for his [...]