Trump Tariffs: Who Is Paying How Much?

Ever since Donald Trump started talking about tariffs (1988) and first imposed tariffs (2018), the mainstream media has been parroting the pedantic economics theory that tariffs is a form of tax on US consumers. When Trump reiterated his intention last year to impose tariffs if he was elected the President of the United States, MSM … Read more

ROI For Customer ≠ ROI For Investor

A company that invests in ERP stands to gain from higher inventory turns, lower DSO, etc. Benefits of enterprise software are generally of the nature of increase in income and / or reduction in expense. To calculate the ROI of its investment, the company would add up the dollar value of the total benefits and … Read more

Why ChatGPT Has Not Killed Google Search

People started complaining about the decline in quality of Google Search around a decade ago. Accordingly, many pundits predicted the demise of Google Search in the then near future. But, for reasons I speculated in my blog post entitled The End Of Google Search Is Not Nigh, it did not happen. Then came ChatGPT at … Read more

Metro Integration: Movement, Not Moment

When you get off at London Heathrow airport (LHR), you can reach the Heathrow Tube stations without going to the street level. Without leaving the building of Frankfurt Airport (FRA), you can not only reach the Airport (Flughafen) Station of the intracity S-Bahn public transport network but also of the intercity long distance rail network. … Read more

Overcoming The Top 5 Challenges Of Selling AI To Enterprises

AI vendors report that they’re facing many challenges in selling AI to enterprises in USA and other markets. According to the Economic Times article entitled Scoring with AI not Enough to Crack US Enterprise Code, they’re learning that merely having an AI solution is not enough. Surprise surprise said no one! The cardinal principle in … Read more

Oath Language: Plot Thickens!

Soon after I published Witness Swears To Tell “The Whole Truth” – But Can He?, I came across a great example for the central theme of the post. This was in Scott Turow’s latest novel PRESUMED GUILTY. Aaron Housley, resident of Skageon County, is arrested for homicide and obstruction of justice. The first crime happens in … Read more

How GenAI Satisfied My Craving For Explainer Video

I’ve written many times about how ChatGPT has turned many things in my long pending wish lists to reality e.g. responsive design website, data miner, semantic search. Let me add Explainer Video to that list. I’ve been trying to make an explainer video for my company for a while. The best-in-class video production agencies in … Read more

About UPI Ban By Small Merchants – Part 2

I recently covered the primary issues related to the ban of UPI by small merchants: Do small merchants make so much money? Why refuse UPI? Why avoid GST? Are small merchants evading GST? What about Income Tax? In this blog post, I’ll explore some secondary issues. For the sake of completeness, I’ll continue with the … Read more