India is fretting once again over a poor monsoon just as other signs point to a rebounding economy, exposing its nagging reliance on unpredictable seasonal rains  despite its rapid growth and modernisation in recent years. Unless India makes sweeping reforms to upgrade its fragmented and
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Poor monsoon looms as cloud to India’s economic recovery
July 16th, 2009 |
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Robert Teitelman: Goldman, J.P. Morgan and Wall St.’s original sin
July 15th, 2009 |
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Every high school biology student (if they’re awake) knows the story of the famous experiment concocted by Columbia’s Harold Urey many decades ago. Urey used…
How did Apple achieve 1.5 billion downloads?
July 14th, 2009 |
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“One of the factors feeding the App Store’s growth,†explains Philip Elmer-DeWitt (fortune.com) “is the size of the installed base.†That would be the 40 million iPhone and iPod touch customers with a healthy appetite for games and other applications. “The other is the variety and sheer quantity of applications,†now more than 65,000 strong, more than 58,000 of those in the U.S. App Store alone.
Netbook Shipments Will Reach 33 Million in 2009, Report Says
July 14th, 2009 |
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Worldwide shipments of netbook PCs are expected to reach nearly 33 million units in 2009, according to a new report. While netbooks year-to-year growth is likely to be just shy of 100 percent, predicted year-to-year growth for full-sized notebooks is likely to fall flat.
– Worldwide netbook shipments are expected to reach nearly 33 million units in 2009, according to analysis firm DisplaySearch. Shipments of full-sized notebook computers while expected to reach 129.5 million units are expected to be flat, year over year, for the first time.
In its July 13 “Qu…