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		<title>App-store for TV channels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madhusudan Rao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you hooked to the current packages that you have bought (paying for channels that you dont watch)? With Television becoming more and more social, it makes sense for an App-store style application for the million television channels available. No longer the consumer is forced to buy all channels in one package, whether he is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madhusudanrao.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6446044&amp;post=793&amp;subd=madhusudanrao&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My technology predictions for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madhusudan Rao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of technologies which will be in the limelight during the year of 2012. Last year, I struggled to pick one among 3 (Mobile payments, Web-TV, Check-in sites) technologies. Usage of check-in&#8217;s did not pick up as much as one thought. The first two reappear in the list below since they still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madhusudanrao.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6446044&amp;post=786&amp;subd=madhusudanrao&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Mainframe ever go away?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madhusudan Rao</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[legacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started my career, everyone said &#8220;The mainframe is dying&#8220;. I still hear the same comment today as well. This was a comment that I heard yesterday from my colleague who is 20 years old in the IT industry. Application Transformation, Legacy Modernization are buzz-words that one hear in the industry but have the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madhusudanrao.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6446044&amp;post=783&amp;subd=madhusudanrao&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Television</title>
		<link>http://madhusudanrao.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/travel-television/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madhusudan Rao</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cable television]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Television is improving in a big way with recent developments &#8211; LCD, LED, 3D and now, Web TV. Shortly, we will be able to see a day when we can take our television with us when we travel. Not the television but the content that we see on our television at home. For instance, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madhusudanrao.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6446044&amp;post=780&amp;subd=madhusudanrao&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This should be taken care</title>
		<link>http://madhusudanrao.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/this-should-be-taken-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madhusudan Rao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times has one heard this phrase during discussions or meetings &#8211; &#8220;This should be taken care&#8221;. Everyone nods and agrees. Period. Matter is forgotten. Nobody picks up the thread to say that I will ensure this is taken care. Very often, we see our colleagues and friends talk animatedly (mostly in hindsight) about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madhusudanrao.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6446044&amp;post=778&amp;subd=madhusudanrao&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Superstition and Analytics</title>
		<link>http://madhusudanrao.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/superstition-and-analytics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madhusudan Rao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia states that Superstition is a belief in a non-physical (i.e. supernatural) causality: that one event causes another without any physical process linking the two events&#8230;.It is also commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, prophecy and spiritual beings, particularly the belief that future events can be foretold by specific unrelated prior events. Think about it &#8211; we have heard about soccer players and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madhusudanrao.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6446044&amp;post=776&amp;subd=madhusudanrao&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retiring Applications in any organization</title>
		<link>http://madhusudanrao.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/retiring-applications-in-any-organization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madhusudan Rao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portfolio Rationalization. Retirement of Applications. Give it any name &#8211; it basically deals with shutting down applications that are not required for any organization. Everyone has their own way to deal with applications which have been inherited by IT groups from other groups or organizations (that might have merged). Obviously, I am not talking of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madhusudanrao.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6446044&amp;post=774&amp;subd=madhusudanrao&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agile &#8220;Plus&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://madhusudanrao.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/agile-plus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madhusudan Rao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agile methodologies typically talk about using communication tools that help the development teams collaborate and communicate in a better way. Google Talk, Skype and other tools were used all these days to improve distributed Agile development. Enter Google Wave. One thought that Google had come up with a killer feature by which distributed development could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madhusudanrao.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6446044&amp;post=772&amp;subd=madhusudanrao&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To send or not from your iPad?</title>
		<link>http://madhusudanrao.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/to-send-or-not-from-your-ipad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madhusudan Rao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have we seen in mails received from our friends where, at the end of the mail, you see &#8216;Sent From My IPad&#8217;? No, I am not waiting for your answer &#8211; there are &#8216;n&#8217; number of times you have seen it. But, is the iPad the right tool for sending/receiving mails? I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madhusudanrao.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6446044&amp;post=769&amp;subd=madhusudanrao&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foursquare and Credit Cards</title>
		<link>http://madhusudanrao.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/foursquare-and-credit-cards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madhusudan Rao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foursquare has been associated for users to have fun and later by retail organizations to provide location-based advertising. But, it has not been yet used by traditional organizations like Banks, Financial institutions. One use-case that justifies the use of Foursquare is one which takes care of authentication of credit-card holders. Today, I had to face [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madhusudanrao.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6446044&amp;post=764&amp;subd=madhusudanrao&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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