When the Apple iPhone first came out, it cost $499 (Rs 21,819) in the US markets.
But since that was too high, it was brought down to $399 (Rs 17,446). This was become Apple decided to make just about $80 (Rs 3,498) from the direct sale of the iPhone. Though, Steve Jobs negotiations with AT&T meant [...]

06
Aug

Here is the graph from Google Reader about the number of feed items I have read over the last one month and categorized according to the time of the day.
I’m quite a night person, atleast when it comes to reading feeds. I read the maximum number of posts between 1am and 2am in the night. [...]

Jason Calcanis has started a long conversation in the blogosphere by declaring bankruptcy on social networks. He is exhausted by the number of people he has to meet up there, and who are sending him requests for more (link), whereas on the other hand Ben Casnocha, in an unrelated post, talks about how social networks [...]

I start this edition of Link Sutra with a pointer to a post talking about a customer-oriented, critical-thinking, bootstrapping entrepreneur. The kinds you meet everyday. Or Not. (link)
Yes, it is about the sabzi wala, who has a huge possible customer base, but limited resources, devoid of manpower, with a miniscule market share, yet not without [...]

The first lawsuit against Apple’s IPhone has been filed.
DailyTech reports
One iPhone customer wasn’t happy at all with the iPhone’s battery life or the two alternatives to replacing a defective battery and filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple as a result. In the suit, Jose Trujillo claims that:
Unknown to the Plaintiff, and undisclosed to the public, [...]

27
Jul
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Google Analytics, which has been running on Gyaan Sutra for a little less than five months, says that Gyaan Sutra has had over 25,000 visits. After the huge push from LifeHacker yesterday, I think i’m over the 5000k a month limit.
Thanks a lot to everybody for coming down here. I hope to see you all [...]

I moved to Ubuntu 7.04 sometime back and have been enjoying myself since. Though there were a couple of things which really annoyed me, and today I finally fixed them.
1. Reply on top of previous message
One problem was that in Thunderbird, when you reply to a message, the new message was appended to the end [...]

I find it impossible to think about Bill Gates life before he got rich. But here in an interview he explains how it was. Read on it’s not much different from all of us.
Most of all I like the part about ‘I did the best of those who failed’. Failing is no guarantee that you [...]

I welcome all of you to the first edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists here at Gyaan Sutra. This carnival covers the latest and greatest posts on business, and travels from city to city, country to country and continent to conitnent.
This week The Cotc has landed in Pune, India, at my blog Gyaan [...]

10
May
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It is impossible to distinguish if an article is written by a female or a male right? Well no, it looks like here is a simple algorithm which finds out if the writer is a female or a male.
I tried it twice and it really works…
The Gender Genie
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