Two days ago one of our very resourceful admin staff emailed out a mammoth excel sheet with contact details of everyone in the national Mint network. It had names, extensions and mobile numbers. And I don’t have to tell you how, in a newsroom environment, this sort of thing is pretty helpful. When you...

Ever since moving to Delhi late last year I'd made a solemn pledge to use my two hours worth of daily commute from Dwarka to Connaught Place to catch up with my reading. With a reasonable chance of getting a seat at least on the return journey I figured that I'd get at least a printed out New...

The University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is a great campus to stroll in. Pretty and pleasantly wintery, what struck me though was the spate of BlackBerrys around. Everybody, from the university managing director to the students are twiddling on these phones and in my relatively-brief 6-hour time on...

I love the idea of audio books and e-books. Over the last 10-12 years, I have even acquired quite a few of them. But, somehow, I can never bring myself to hear them. Or read them. I have tried many, many times over the years... on a PC/laptop, on an iPod, on a phone, on a tiny 26gm Sansa Clip... And...

So you have a shiny new BlackBerry. Which means you have email access all the time. And just in case your handset runs out of battery or your network drops you can always fall back on that Thinkpad with the wifi card. So what more could you ask for? Even more email reliability you say? Auto synching...

You are at work but worried if you should be spending more time with your kids? Or are you with friends but anxious that your boss might need you in office? Welcome. You are part of the 'Elsewhere Generation' of professionals, according to Newsweek, who constantly feel they should be elsewhere...

Citibank just told its employees to get a better handle on costs, including measures as saving colour copies for presentations, making double-sided copies more often, restricting mobile expenses to just business calls and limiting the BlackBerrys... Sounds like a lot of what we have been hearing in India...

Not too many people would have noticed a Parliament of India ad on Page 13 of Hindustan Times' New Delhi edition on 18 August. It turns out that the Committee on Petitions of the Rajya Sabha has decided to consider what it dubs as a petition for "Imposition of Reasonable Restrictions on Use...