2014

If you are techie/geek and followed Google I/O closely, there was something very interesting that Google handed out to their attendees – A DIY CardBoard Box that could be converted into a Virtual Reality headset. Yes, the pre-cut…

There were old days when my dad had Nokia 6600 with a VGA camera (or was it 1.3 MP). That was a rear camera and we clicked hundreds if not thousand photos with it. Of course, then came the Mega Pixel era that started off with 2 MP.…

TRAI released their telecom subscription report for month of May 2014, and according to it India had a total of 910.16 million mobile subscribers a rise of 0.30 percent over previous month. This is a rise of about 40 million subscribers in…

Technology investors and venture capitalists are betting big time on India: $1.3 billion or Rs 7800 crore worth of investments have already been done in the last 12 months, with 82% of all investments going to startups and early stage…

India’s Railway Minister Shri. D.V Sadanand Gowda announced the much awaited Railway Budget for 2014. In our view the budget was a forward looking one that gave importance to factors like growth, technology upgradation, structural reforms,…

In the recently updated Fortune Global 500 List, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has emerged as the largest Indian company as it’s the only Indian company to be included in the top 100 ranking, positioned at 96th rank. Compared to last year,…

Xiaomi seems to be in a hurry to capture Indian smartphone market. Earlier in June they had announced their arrival in India with a teaser website and Facebook page, then late in June, reports came in that they will be selling their devices…

It is just not the 10 sites that we have mentioned, but over 219 sites have been ordered by Delhi High Court to be blocked. Please see the update at the end of the post for more details. It seems that many popular free file hosting and…

YouTube has tied up with telecom operator Tata Docomo to introduce the first-of-its-kind online video streaming plan in India. You must be thinking that such plans already exist in our country where people pay a subscription fees and get…

Cisco is building Asia’s first Internet of Things hub in the Electronics City, Bangalore. This state of the art hub will provide a ‘smart city environment’ to IT and Electronics companies and help them create the next generation IT enabled…