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Back in December 2009, I had come up with a list of predictions for 2010. I may have gotten a little lucky this year, because many of these predictions were spot-on to an uncanny degree. Here’s how I fared: Political predictions I don’t see Asif Zardari making it through 2010. I think he will be [...]

I recently evaluated the predictions from last year. In a nutshell, I was about 80% correct. 2009 has certainly been filled with unique challenges, both at a global and national level. We’re all hopeful the future holds better things, and on that subject, I’ll share with you what I think will go down in 2010. Once [...]

How many times will we come across these “Digital map shows Kashmir in Pakistan” stories? Well, certainly more than once! After all, it wasn’t too long ago that we reported on the outbreak of great outrage and violence in India because Nokia’s digital maps showed Kashmir to be a part of Pakistan. In that instance, [...]

If you’re in technology and you don’t think about the future – like *all* the time – then something’s probably wrong with you. The future is coming at us fast. And I don’t mean that in the sense of the Sardarji who wasn’t worried about his 14 year prison sentence since, “Koi gal naieen, 14 [...]

If you ever thought that a little GPS map embedded deep inside a tiny application in a relatively inexpensive piece of consumer technology was, in the grand scheme of things, unimportant and harmless, well, think again. Recent happenings in India will expose your naivete! Apparently, Nokia cell phones contain GPS maps of Kashmir, which (correctly, from [...]