Archive for the 'Technology' Category

TiE 2007

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Today (December 11th) was the first day of TiE 2007 summit (http://www.tiesummit.org/). I was there for 3-4 hours. Got to hear Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Uday Challu - founder of iyogi, Pradeep Kar, and various others including panelists from Sierra Ventures, SIDBI, Citibank etc. I particularly liked Uday: he was very objective and to the […]

A virtual world, the second life

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

78% of the bloggers write blogs to prove their intelligence (Remember, 48.9% of the statistics are made on the spot! ). But I am posting this to prove how big an ass I am. Absolute ignorant good-for-nothing IT guy! Ok, let me cut the chase. Just yesterday (May 28th, 2007), I came to know […]

Google shares its Tech Talks

Friday, May 4th, 2007

There is an interesting posting that I just read : Google Tech Talks Showcase
“One of the great parts of working at Google is that every day there are tech talks that I really want to listen too. More than I can spend the time to actually see. Last week I talked about Philip Wadler of […]

Best Tech Products

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

PC World magazine has ranked the major technological inventions of the past few decades that have changed the way we live and work. Which is your favorite?

Netscape Navigator (1994)
Apple II (1977)
TiVo HDR110 (1999)
Napster (1999)
Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (1983)
Apple iPod (2001)
Hayes Smartmodem (1981)
Motorola StarTAC (1996)
WordPerfect 5.1 (1989)
Tetris (1985)

Half of the list consists of products that have […]

Mobile-Internet convergence

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Lots of companies, VCs and investors are betting big on mobile phone web users. With the increasing smart phones and iPhones, the bet is getting bigger and bigger. I have my own apprehensions around it. How many people really surf web over their blackberries, N73s or jazzy samsung smart phones? I do not know many […]

Google launches GMail Paper!

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Google continues to surprise me. Google launched GMail Paper. You can order print outs of your emails (GMail emails) and Google will post the print outs to you for free! The paper is environmental friendly and the GMail Paper service costs nothing as the cost will be offset by the advertisements on the back.
“The cost […]

KoolTorch: new search engine

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

After Google validated the search engine market space, there are many new comers as I covered in my Smarter Search Engines post. KoolTorch is yet another candidate. KoolTorch claims - “KoolTorch is a next generation, patented technology that provides a USER FRIENDLY interface for viewing and navigating search results. ” I am not sure […]

Unlimited mailboxes - marketing ploy?

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Yahoo just announced number of enhancements to email service. Unlimited yahoo mailbox size is one of them. Rediff is also showing a cheap advertisements about offering unlimited email storage space. Here is the video ..

These unlimited mail storage space looks like a marketing ploy to me. How many of us actually use more than […]

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