One of the arguments I hear a lot these days is : people are flocking to Android because it’s open. I am sure it is. Android is open. But what does it really mean to you? As a consumer or as an average consumer, what are you really doing
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Smartphone or a mobile phone is almost like a prosthetic limb for the new age. Many people fiddle with their phones and these people will be literally out of action if we take away their phones. That’s is only one piece of the problem. There is bigger problem at
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Oh! There’s a phone for that! Never heard that expression before? You might as well hear it from now on. Whenever you hear it again, you know you have heard it first here. There is a growing need to innovate and make a difference for the 200 odd mobile
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Tablets are emerging as a very important product category in India. A very good indication of this is Apple’s launch of iPad 2 in India. When Apple enters the Indian market, then we know we have a winner. As per the BS article, India’s tablet could be 1 million
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Here’s a question for you – How did that mobile phone you are dabbling with your hands reach you? Your answer might be I bought it from the store down the road. There are bunch of stores like Sangeetha, Univercell, Hotspot, Next or your neighbourhood super store which sell
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The quest for the cheapest possible computer continues! Producing a computer at the cheapest possible rate (generally less than USD 100) possible has eluded quite a few. There were promises made, challenges made and then there wild boisterous claims. One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was an ambitious project which
» continue readingThere are reports and then there are more reports. What many people don’t realize is that these reports are fraught with assumptions and sometimes the reports are interpreted the wrong way. Nothing wrong with the reports per se as the reports are careful with their wordings. It’s the interpretations
» continue readingI was browsing through GadgetsGuru (GG) and tiny little ad struck me. I couldn’t believe what I saw. I checked, double checked and re-checked. What I saw was real. Not quite sure why. A phone called Vertu Ascent which looks like a feature phone costs Rs. 2,09,999. That is
» continue readingIndian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has unveiled India’s supercomputer built in the labs of Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvananthapuram. Computer named SAGA-220 is capable of a theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second). SAGA displaces India’s existing supercomputer by Tata Sons called EKA which
» continue reading“Driving Rules of India” is an Android app launched by Techpista. The app has free as well as paid version. App features traffic signals and its meaning. The paid version shows the penalty information and driving test. Sounds like a good option for someone who is going for a
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