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Facebook fellowships for computing research: another win-win collaboration?

by Sandy on January 9, 2010 |

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Just two days back we reported on Yahoo setting up a hadoop cluster in IIT Bombay, and now we have news of Facebook coming up with fellowships to PhD students researching topical areas in computing that are relevant to Facebook. The relevant areas as per the Facebook blurb are: …

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2010 Is The Year Of The Smartphone Surge: Is India ready?

by Sandy
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As per this Forrester report, 2010 is going to be the year of the Smartphone. The report focuses on how smartphones improve productivity, and how enterprises benefit when their workers use smartphones for supplementing their work. While it is indeed true that the smartphone revolution is primarily driven by enterprise …

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Yahoo’s Hadoop cluster lab at IIT Bombay: a win-win industry-academia collaboration?

by Sandy
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Hadoop, is an open-source project of Apache, for distributed computing over large data sets. One of the methods it uses is the famous MapReduce paradigm for distributed computing over large data sets that Google is believed to have pioneered.  Yahoo runs one of the largest Hadoop clusters- and it has …

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US mulls startup founders visa to lure foreign entrepreneurs

by Sandy
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Paul Graham , a Y combinator partner, had mused about startup founders visa, to be given to entrepreneurs who want to start a startup in US ,  about six months back and since then the idea has resonated with many in the US. The idea is simple. Today it is very …

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Earthquake detection and response: Has India got a twitter strategy in place?

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Twitter has been put to many unusual uses and the latest is the detection and responses to earthquakes in real-time based on the spike in tweets and their geo-locations. The US Geological survey (USGS), as per this BBC report, is trawling the tweets for keywords like quake and earthquake to detect …

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Adding real-time trending ads to the web: OneRiot at a time

by Sandy
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OneRiot, a search engine for the real-time  web and developer of the PulseRank algorithm to discover trending content on the web, has recently announced its plans to monetize the real-time web by making available contextual  ads that are related to trending topics. They have partnered with a few partners including Digsby, …

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Indiagames to cash in on T20 Fever

by Sandy
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Indiagames, one of India’s topmost gaming destinations and platforms, is launching a new iPhone app called cricket T20 fever.   Desktop versions of the game will be launched along with the iPhone versions while the other Symbain , Maemo, PSP etc based versions will follow later. ‘Cricket T20 Fever’ is …

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iPhone is the most popular phone in US: Nokia doesn’t even figure in top 10

by Sandy
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As per a Neilsen wire blog posting, for the year 2009 (jan-oct 2009 data) , apple’s 3G iPhone was the market leader followed by RIM’s Blackberry 8300 series. Not a single Nokia model features in that top 10 list, and I find that surprising.  Nokia was once a company know …

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India decodes human genome: a sign of good times for the biotech and healthcare industries?

by Sandy
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7 years since the human genome was first decoded, India too managed to decode the complete human genome of a 52 year old healthy man from Jharkhand and join the elite list of nations  like US, UK, China, Canada and South Korea. Unlike the select club of countries having nuclear …

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Mobile Internet : compelling opportunities for emerging markets like India

by Sandy
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Stanley Morgan has published the Mobile Internet Report along with two accompanying slide decks that collectively highlight the key themes driving the mobile internet market and its adoption. All the reports are freely downloadable form their site.   The Key themes in brief are : Just like …

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Google to acquire Yelp- when will the local business review segment get tapped in India?

by Sandy
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There is some news about Google being in advanced stages of acquisition talks with Yelp. Many of the Indian users may not be familiar with Yelp or its equivalent CitySearch as such services are not available in India, but mostly confined to US, UK, Canada etc. Yelp is a local business review …

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LinkedIn sets shop in Mumbai; ties up with Network18

by Sandy
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LinkedIn evidently has aggressive expansion plans for India.  It had recently announced that it had hired ex country head, India,  of social networking site MySpace, Mr. Hari V Krishnan, as the country manager for LinkedIn, India. As of today, the LinkedIn India’s local office at Bandra –Kurla complex, Mumbai, seems to be operational.   …

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Is iPhone keeping millions of its users hostages and is thriving on Stockholm delusions?

by Sandy
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iPhone has achieved a cult status amongst its users. It wouldn’t be hyperbole to call the iPhone enthusiasts as fanatics who would clearly not be amenable to reasons, but are more driven by a passionate engagement with their iPhone mobile experience. The same is true for iMac fans and apple …

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Entrepreneurs are born or made?

by Sandy
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We know that a good majority of trak.in readers is made up of entrepreneurs and wannabe entrepreneurs. Recently we had a guest post that argued that an MBA degree doe snot make an entrepreneur and earlier we had Arun reporting on the anatomy of an entrepreneur and what ar eth likely characteristic of an entrepreneur. [...]

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