information technology foxed…

The foxy lady Olivia Munn is back and back with a ‘bang’! She is the new starlet hosting the viral video  for Dell Computers “IT Through The Decades…”

The clip is more of a marketing ploy that is directed at the goof-ups or poor IT-related decisions companies have made the past few decades i.e. ‘78 thru 2008. In the clip, Mike ‘the IT guy’ suggests ‘new’ technologies like databases and bar codes and gets made fun of by his colleagues. Olivia doesn’t have a million lines but then she was never hired to speak anyways, she does what she does best… adding a lot of sex appeal to the YouTube clip.

Warning: It’s a little longer than what is normal for viral clips… Olivia fans will also probably get a kick out of seeing her dressed up in retro 70’s and 80’s outfits.

Socially aware technology…

Viky recently blogged about a fantastic new mobile handset that is for the visually impaired.

…Exclusive here doesn’t mean its some premium phone with some million-dollar price tag. But I think this phone is priceless cause it allows blind people to enjoy keeping a mobile phone.

This phone will be made by Spice for blind and visually impaired; the phone doesn’t have a screen and the keypad is in Braille and on the top of that if you press the button, the phone will tell the person, which button he/she has pressed…

read the rest of the article here…

Vikram also blogs at takeonlogyk and fone arena blog…

A ‘Common’ Child writes…

Some of the people whom I met and heard from about the movie ‘Taare Zameen Par‘ and their verdicts/opinions before I actually went out to see it…

My boss, “It’s a great movie… superb!”

A neighbor “You’ve not seen it? Yet? Why?… it’s a very good movie”

A senior person at my company “Very good movie but I felt that there was no need for the first part, the real movie start after the intermission…”

Actually when one of my colleagues suggested I go and watch this movie I reverted with a caustic remark saying “Who needs to see a movie about a little guy’s sufferings? Everybody gets flogged once in a while at school, if he escapes that then he is made fun of at the school, if the lucky titter escapes that he is bound to get his fair share when he gets ragged at college. In case of he escaping all this he is sure to be screwed enough at work, and believe me that makes up for all the hassled years that he’d have spent… There is no chance but if he is the luckiest guy and escapes this too… he marries and that’s the end of everything… he gets beaten up by his wife [this is more plausible than you think, if you are single, you are happy] and last but not the least it’s the children…” By this time the colleague had given up any hope of me ever watching this movie…