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Launching www.PlanetChild.org

During the past 1.5 years that I have been working for Microsoft India Development Center I have had the opportunity to visit India and China a number of times. Each time I go there on a business trip I try to visit some schools over the weekends and Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 03, 2006 3:32 PM by DavidDehghan | 4 Comments
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My first SMS messages in China

One sad thing is that here in Beijing I can’t find any Windows Mobile smartphone. Nokia and Samsung are everywhere ;-( I got a China Mobile SIM card and unfortunately I see some ‘••••••’ on the home page of my phone. I also received some SMS messages Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 01, 2005 7:36 PM by DavidDehghan | 32 Comments
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Effects of high oil prices on global economy

This months issue of The Economist has a special report on crud oil prices. I have been reading it veraciously in the past few hours in the plane to Tokyo. Back in 1998 crude oil prices declined to near all time low of $10 per barrel. Since then the crude Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 01, 2005 6:29 PM by DavidDehghan | 6 Comments
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Finally, it is vacation time

I have not gone anywhere special on vacation for a long time so I finally decided to stop by China for a personal trip before I head out to India to meet my team at Microsoft India Development center. I am flying from Seattle to Tokyo to Hong Kong to Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 01, 2005 5:39 PM by DavidDehghan | 2 Comments
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Windows Server Update Services release candidate is live

I am very please to announce that the release candidate for WSUS formerly known as SUS 2.0 or WUS is finally out the door. I worked on this product for the past 2 years and I am very happy seeing customers using it. It will help IT administrators keep Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:05 PM by DavidDehghan | 2 Comments
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Starting a new chapter in my Microsoft career

After 5 years of being immersed in software distribution problem space I have just move on to a new challenge of working for India Development Center. I will be based in Redmond and will coordinate the efforts of my team in Hyderabad, India with the rest Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 13, 2005 7:54 PM by DavidDehghan | 31 Comments
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The Hole-In-The-Wall experiment

The Hole-In-The-Wall experiment is one of the most amazing studies that show the ingeniousness of children. In 1999, Dr Mitra setup a computer with internet connection in the slums of India and watched children’s interaction with the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 30, 2004 6:42 PM by DavidDehghan | 6 Comments
 
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