Recently my cousin came from UK with his wife and two happy kids. We had a discussion about the primary education system there. I was very much surprised to know that our systems of education differed a lot, even though we were under their rule for quite some time. Our primary education is very much flawed. and when thinking about my own primary education I can see how much of a bad influence it still has on me. The mistake we...

The Vanitha article about “Mobile phones and Blue Truth”, that contains so called real stories, provoked me to write my previous post http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/04/25/vanitha-internet-and-the-mobile-phone/ Thanks to the readers for pointing out some examples of stinking journalism that the Malayala Manorama group does. The first one, their sting operation in which they send some girls to provoke men and collect...

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I recently read a long feature about the harm caused by mobile phones in “Vanitha Magazine“, a local womens magazine which is very popular. The main argument was that students are using mobile phone to view and share porn. The article is written in such a manner that no parent will dare to buy a mobile phone for his son or daughter. This is not the first time that Vanitha magazine is writing against mobile phones. A...

I am free market advocate. Only free markets have survived the test of time. We have seen many models, and in this flat world every single closed market have crashed. Others have opened up to survive and then to flourish. Some others still say, they are a closed and controlled markets, but they are free markets in their behaviour. I believe in competition. Competition forces us to deliver our full potential. In a free market the...

In the future Ill have a cell phone that will be capable of doing all following. Receive AM, FM and all other sorts of radio Connect to GSM, CDMA, and any other network technology Receive and decode satellite video Receive and decode terrestrial TV transmission Be my wifi and wimax transceiver This is all that I can think of now. The point is that your cellphone will become a universal communication device that can handle any...

This is where bloggers compete in a friendly manner by writing posts about a few topics. After the blogathon judges will review the posts and awards will be given. The schedule is something like this. April 12 - Blogathon Begins April 20th - 25th - Submission of posts to blogathon website April 26th - Blogathon concludes May 6th - Blogathon awards are announced Topics: Infrastructure: Sunday, 20th April...