technology

Just after seeing the start of a major battle in the Social Networking sphere, we should be bracing ourselves for yet another battle to be fought soon i.e. the battle for domination in Operating System space. And this shall be fought…

We are lucky to be living in this day and age – Technology has positively affected our lives more than any other previous generations. Cisco’s Dave Evans recently released a presentation called “Ten Technology Trends that will change the…

We have been hearing from last few years search is going to be social; all search engines in coming years are going to put more value to social signals from the searcher’s social graphs then the links obtained by sites from different places…

Imagine, if you can use your Smartphone to get your eyes tested within less than 30 seconds. That’s exactly the innovation created by researchers (led by Dr. Ramesh Raskar) at MIT Labs. EyeNetra is a very small, cheap device (that costs…

“EKA” is the fastest computer in India, developed by Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. On a global front there is nothing much to write about, as India has been falling rapidly over the years…

I have always been a big believer that 'the cloud' is marketing lingo. I can understand how 'cloud computing' is an exciting new phenomena but certainly not 'the cloud'. Even 'cloud computing' is not that new. However, how you do business…

Enterprise Mobility space is getting really interesting with the sudden explosion in the smartphone and tablet choices in the market. We earlier wrote about tablet usage in enterprises and now we have some interesting trends on enterprise…

The launch of iPad led to a renewed focus of manufacturers all around and every technology manufacturer worth its salt has since launched a tablet or is working towards it. There is no doubt that tablets are being touted as the next big…

We are nearly 6 months since 3G first rolled out in India – Now-a-days you see every Mobile operator heavily advertising their 3G offerings. Airtel, Vodafone, Tata, Reliance, Idea, BSNL and others are offering 3G services in Metro’s and…

Dell has been steadily increasing its market share in India over past few years, however last quarter has been quite stellar in when it came to number of PCs shipped in India. According to Gartner, in 4th quarter of 2010, Dell had shipped…

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…

What first comes to your mind when you are in a traffic jam? Probably a statement cursing yourself to why at all you took this route! This happens to majority of office goers in metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai. Tier 2…

Indian 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…

Wipro fired its joint CEOs because its lagging behind peers, Infosys shares are down because of below expectation profits. Why are the Indian IT companies who were on an unstoppable growth march till yesterday are suddenly hitting…

Now, this is a seriously good April fool joke by Google – I mean seriously. I am sure many will be taken for a ride. For a techie though, it is clear that this is a April Fool prank that Google has played on us. Google has launched a beta…

India has been a dumping ground (this phrase has become such a cliché) for Apple – Whether it was iPhone’s or iPad’s. Indians have officially received  these much sought after gadgets when the world was close to getting their next…

The Indian mobile operators have slowly but surely started their 3G services across various cities of the country. Airtel was one of the most recent ones to launch them. Reliance is also rolling out their 3G services across various cities…

Google does some wonderful things, and one that I am a big fan of, are their Google Doodles. The pictorial Doodle’s that are mostly dedications to significant events of the past or some form of current celebrations. Today’s Google Doodle…

Technology has two sides to it – positive and negative. And, in whichever industry it is applied, the boon and the bane of the technology oozes out, creating sizzles across the sector. While the media and entertainment industry has…

Yes, I just made phone calls to USA using Google Voice and it worked very well (so well, that I was floored by the quality). Probably, I am one of the random lucky user for whom the Google Voice got enabled. Let me tell who how I did it.…