technology

Love it or Hate it, but you can’t deny it. Apple does what no other company can and in fact does it time and again.What exactly are we talking about? DISRUPTION Before getting into the kind of disruption I intend to talk about, lets take…

This compact little netbook sports a nifty 7 inch TFT Wide screen display with 800 x 480 pixels (WVGA) resolution and full QWERTY keyboard. UBIsurfer netbook operates on Windows CE platform, boots-up in ten seconds, and applications…

Doordarshan is finally entering the digital age - The Cabinet Committee on infrastructure has approved the digitalization program of Rs 1540 crore for Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) in the Eleventh Plan in order to enable these…

Logistics play an important role in any economy and the growth prospects of the sector are closely linked to the economic growth and to some extent even foreign trade of the country. Gradually, small and medium enterprises in the…

iPad is finally in the hands of users. Every one had been waiting with bated breath to get this killer device in their hands. And how does it fare against the huge expectation ? I have rarely seen such overwhelmingly positive review of any…

Okay, we have been harping about pathetic Broadband speeds in India for sometime now. Although, speeds are better than what they were couple of years back, they are still very low compared to global standards. Now, Airtel seems to be…

I am not a lawyer, so do not treat this as legal advice. However, I have learnt about copyrights, patents and other intellectual property issues the hard way, and hence feel qualified to give you practical 'big picture' advice (which might…

I know each one of you is expecting an IPL post here, but I believe that you will be reading this post only if- 1. You are not watching IPL or 2. You are not watching IPL over youtube :). It’s amazing how this internet industry has…

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates once said (I admit it is so clichéd to quote this), “640K ought to be enough for anybody” – Even a 64 Gigabyte Hard-Disk is now looked down upon. 30 years since that statement was made, we are now looking at…

Next time you see a cop on Bangalore’s road playing around with a Blackberry in his hand, you better be careful.He might just be checking your history of traffic violations and might hold you down for not clearing you earlier violations.…

Finding water on Moon is a huge thing – More than you can imagine. Last September, Chandrayaan – I, India’s maiden Moon probe Mission vehicle gave conclusive evidence that there is water on Moon. Now, again…

Since its launch I have been trying to figure out ‘Buzz’. That may be because of my own ‘free’ marketing needs, but even after reading multiple Tech Crunch reviews and Mashable techniques I found it difficult to…

It really struck me at the first time, but then when the whole world is online and e-commerce is entering our homes, what stops donations  going online too. Yes, we are talking about temple donations which to my knowledge amounts to a lot…

Content Delivery over the Web is getting bigger and everyone is jumping into it - Literally every week couple of announcements related to it. The latest is the list is Bharti Airtel who have announced their entry into Content Delivery (CDN)…

Twitter growth is slowing down and that too quite drastically – that is the finding of “State of Twittersphere” released today by HubSpot. However, the average Follower and following count of users is increased a lot – A lot more…

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…

High Speed Internet Connectivity in India might as well be called an Oxymoron.Despite the larger than life claims from the Service providers, the broadband speeds have been rather sub standard or even if they deliver on the speed , the…

There have been recent reports of tech giants like Yahoo and Cisco showing their interest in the UID project and trying to woo the Indian government and especially Mr. Nilekani, and trying to convince that they be given the contracts based…

If Hollywood Sci-Fi movies make you jump from you seats and be in awe of the hero using gizmos that are seemily out of this world, here is something that is as good as the mind blowing technology that you see on screen but this time it is…

Google integrates their hugely popular Google Maps to Android Mobile OS – What comes out is plain awesomeness that has power to make all the paid GPS services and devices literally redundant. Don't mistake Google GPS for normal mobile…