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	<title>arun shroff</title>
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		<title>Could this be iPad&#8217;s Killer Application ?</title>
		<link>http://arunshroff.com/2010/02/16/ipads-killer-application/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post earlier post I countered the view held by many  that the iPad will kill the Kindle. I believe these two devices target different and  overlapping market segments and can coexist.
However, I also believe that the iPad is  a solution looking for the right problem to solve.  If Apple  can find the [...]


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		<title>Top 10 Reasons Why the iPad will NOT Kill the Kindle</title>
		<link>http://arunshroff.com/2010/01/28/top-10-reasons-why-ipad-will-not-kill-kindle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a post on TechCrunch today about the Top 10 Reasons The Apple iPad Will Put Amazon’s Kindle Out of Business
Certainly the iPad will give some competition to the  Kindle - especially the $489 model - but put it out of business ?  Highly unlikely.    Here are the top 10 reasons why the iPad [...]


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		<title>Apple Introduces the iPad -  Revolutionary or Evolutionary ?</title>
		<link>http://arunshroff.com/2010/01/27/apple-introduces-the-ipad-revolutionary-or-evolutionary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time there was so much hype about a tablet, was possibly when Moses came down the mountain with one made of stone !   Steve Jobs - who has almost attained the same legendary status in the tech world  - officially announced  the much-anticipated Apple Tablet today and it is called &#8230; the [...]


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		<title>Education and Public Schools in America - Some Insights &#038; What The US Can Learn From India</title>
		<link>http://arunshroff.com/2010/01/23/education-and-public-schools-in-america-some-insights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is now widely acknowledged that America&#8217;s  public school education system  is broken and needs fixing.  Numerous studies rank US school children well below other countries in  science and math tests:
&#8220;The average science score of U.S. students lagged behind those in 16 of 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a [...]


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		<title>15 Facts You May Not Know About the Google China Incident</title>
		<link>http://arunshroff.com/2010/01/14/15-facts-you-may-not-know-about-google-china-incidentout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After reviewing articles from many sources in the media, I have compiled a list of certain  facts and figures regarding   the recent cyber attacks  from China and the subsequent stunning announcement from Google.   Some  of these are surprisingly under-reported  in the media so you may or may not know them.  Here they are [...]


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		<title>Google&#8217;s Stance Is Also a Warning about China</title>
		<link>http://arunshroff.com/2010/01/13/googles-stance-is-a-warning-about-china/</link>
		<comments>http://arunshroff.com/2010/01/13/googles-stance-is-a-warning-about-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s bombshell  announcement yesterday about its &#8220;new approach&#8221; to China is still reverberating across the media and the blogosphere.    Everyone is trying  to put this in perspective, assessing its impact and figuring out  Google&#8217;s true  motivations and rationale for this drastic action.   However,  most blogs and analysis focused on two important aspects of [...]


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		<title>Google&#8217;s Brave New Stand Against China After Unprecedented Chinese Cyber Attack</title>
		<link>http://arunshroff.com/2010/01/13/googles-stand-against-china-after-unprecedented-chinese-cyber-attack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In what will surely be remembered as a  pivotal and defining moment in Internet history, Google today took a brave stand against China which has so  far dictated how Google  conducts business in that country.
In a post on their blog titled &#8220;A New Approach To China&#8221;, Google stated that it had  detected an [...]


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		<title>TechCrunch&#8217;s Google Nexus Giveaway !</title>
		<link>http://arunshroff.com/2010/01/06/techcrunchs-google-nexus-giveaway/</link>
		<comments>http://arunshroff.com/2010/01/06/techcrunchs-google-nexus-giveaway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So my favorite technology blog TechCrunch announced today that they were giving away a brand new Google Nexus to one lucky person who retweeted their blog post OR posted a comment about why they deserved to win one.   This seems to have set off a tsunami of Retweets (6380 as I write this) [...]


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		<title>Twitter Changes Its Question -  Finally (many months after I suggested it !)</title>
		<link>http://arunshroff.com/2009/12/14/twitter-should-change-their-tagline-to-reflect-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA["Isn't is time Twitter changed their tagline "What are you doing? " to something that reflects what most tweets are about ?"


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		<title>How Would You Explain Twitter to Your Grandmother ?</title>
		<link>http://arunshroff.com/2009/11/08/how-would-you-explain-twitter-to-your-grandmother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By now thousands of articles and blog posts have analyzed the reasons  for the appeal of Twitter.  They have sliced and diced it neatly into its various components - simplicity, brevity, openness, immediacy,  transparency etc. But if you have ever tried to explain  Twitter this way to someone who has never used Twitter,  you most [...]


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