Indianomics

iPhone has triggered a touch screen and smart phone war. Since then may phones were launched. Nokia N96, Samsung Innov8, HTC are the few names. Nokia, whose core strength is not touch screen is coming up with a touch screen phone. Motorola is joining the war now. It is releasing a GPS enabled phone [...]

 Assocham has predicted that Indian companies are set to trim the workforce by 25-30% post Diwali. That study has invoked a lot of criticism and panic. I wasn’t thoroughly convinced about that study and did not feel like blogging about it. Now government and finance minister has rebuked the study and Assocham has decided to [...]

Airtel which is the most favorite telecom brand in India, has launched the voice SMS. Voice mail is famous overseas but not in India. Indians are more inclined to leave an SMS rather than leaving a voice mail. That might soon change. Texting has its limitations. It is extremely difficult, has a character limit and [...]

Its finally here. Why did Google take this long for their most awaited service? I don’t like email as much as I like my feedreader. May be because I don’t get too many emails, which make me feel unimportant. My RSS reader never disappoints me. It will throw me information all the time. Google alerts [...]

Bharti Airtel has entered the elite club of top telecom companies. It is at number 25. It is the only Indian company in the list. Britain’s Vodafone which recently acquired Hutch is at number 1.
The study conducted by UK based brand valuation firm Brand Finance Plc, uses the parameters to calculate the brand value of [...]

We all hate being locked into a contract with our service provide. Be it Airtel or Vodafone. iPhone was available in India with only two (Airtel & Vodafone) service providers. If you are using any other GSM provider then iPhone isn’t for you. That is all going to  change now. Code [...]

Online shopping is yet to take-off in India. ET has published an article about the rise of online shopping in India following the terrorist attacks. Diwali would be a good start for the online trade. Sooner than later online trade will kick off and in a big way. The cycle that US went through [...]

SOS Children is the world’s largest charity for orphans. SOS Children UK in collaboration with Wikimedia has released the latest series of Wikipedia selection for schools in DVD format. The organization has embraced BitTorrent for this release. The previous releases were in DVD format and were distributed offline. This latest release is equivalent to [...]

Gmail has at last introduced the Smiley support. Gmail was first introduced on April 1, 2004. Its been more than 4 years and it is the only email client I have used for more than 4 years. Other email clients already have the emoticon support. I never really thought emoticons were that big a [...]

Google’s Android operating system, which power the G1 mobile, is released for the open source community. G1 phone, which combines the features of iPhone and Blackberry, has promised a lot. Google Phone is slated to release in December in India. It would also be interesting to see how applications developed for Google’s Phone stake [...]