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Motorola’s GPS phone in India : Motoming 1600

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 [...]

[ More ] November 3rd, 2008 | No Comments | 601 views, 1 so far today

Assocham withdraws job cut report

 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 [...]

[ More ] November 2nd, 2008 | 1 Comment | 393 views, 2 so far today

Airtel launches voice SMS

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 [...]

[ More ] November 2nd, 2008 | 1 Comment | 585 views, 3 so far today

Google alerts on a RSS feed

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 [...]

[ More ] November 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment | 367 views, 1 so far today

Airtel in the top 25 telecom companies

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 [...]

[ More ] October 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments | 597 views, 3 so far today

One step closer to iPhone 3G Unlock

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 [...]

[ More ] October 28th, 2008 | No Comments | 485 views, 3 so far today

Open2Save.in : Your online deal aggregator

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 [...]

[ More ] October 27th, 2008 | 2 Comments | 372 views, 4 so far today

Wikipedia DVD released on BitTorrent

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 [...]

[ More ] October 27th, 2008 | No Comments | 337 views, 4 so far today

Gmail introduces smileys

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 [...]

[ More ] October 26th, 2008 | No Comments | 391 views, 4 so far today

Google opens up Android

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 [...]

[ More ] October 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment | 420 views, 3 so far today