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Wordpress.app on the iphone
Just got Wordpress.app for the iphone. Think it would inspire me to write more?
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Attending Proto.in – Jan 18 & 19, 2008 in Chennai, India
I'll be in Chennai on Jan 18 & 19, 2008 attending Proto.in - will be scouting for companies to partner with my employer for the enterprise market.
You can get more info on Proto here.
Vijay Anand and team at The Knowledge Foundation have been working real hard on making Proto a success - I look forward [...]
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-04
#Apple How addicted to Apple are you? http://tinyurl.com/yqlyft #
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How addicted to Apple are you?
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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-02
Back in Mumbai, working today... #
Twitter Updates for 2007-12-31
Ringing in the new year at 10 Downing, T. Nagar, Chennai, India with friends from school! #
Twitter Updates for 2007-12-27
#telecom Indian DOT turns angel investor! $2.5 Bn fund! http://tinyurl.com/2dzad5 #
Twitter Updates for 2007-12-24
The weather is great here in Chennai, India - course winter here is just "Not Summer" #
Just a lil bit more effort and the blog's new theme should be set. Check it out: http://a.livelymind.in/blog/ #
Am considering using google adsense on the blog... #
Great quote by Dr. Suess that was in October Special’s header
There was this great quote from Dr. Suess in the October Special theme's header...
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at [...]
Twitter Updates for 2007-12-22
Learnt that Snitter also consumes memory like there's no tomorrow... might be an Adobe AIR apps thing though - a general flaw #
Yay! My twitter updates now go up on the blog too! #
heading to the airport - flying from mumbai to chennai this evening - lets see how late the flight gets #
great - [...]
Changes
Lots of change going on lately, in personal life and on this blog...
After over a year using the October Special theme for Wordpress (Great theme by Derek Punsalan), I've started changing things around on this blog. The new theme is called Garden 3.0.
The nav menu is sitting over the search form, so guess there's some [...]
India’s economic growth also leads to significant growth in paper consumption
There's an article on The Economic Times from a couple of days ago that talks about how paper consumption in India is contributing significantly to the 12% growth rate in the manufacturing sectors.
Paper consumption set to double by 2015-Indicators-Economy-News-The Economic Times
Consumption of paper in India is set to double from the current [...]
Gokul’s question on the legality of 3pcc VoIP calls in India
I missed this earlier, Gokul had a question up on his blog asking:
Question on legality of 3pcc VoIP call in India « Gokul Blog — A conversation on VoIP, IMS, Cisco and Just about Anything
Basically, let’s say that I have a Soft PBX making calls to two mobile endpoints and then connecting them [...]
Discovery Channel more popular in India than MTV!
The latest ratings by TAM Media Research on TV viewership in India shows some of great trends:
Discovery Channel is the highest rated English language channel with a viewership of 13%... MTV is a distant 3rd.
60% of men watching TV watch Discovery Channel
News channels, with all of them regurgitating the same news couldn't cross 5% each.
The [...]
6 million new Internet users in India in 2006-2007 but broadband growth rates are stalling
Its 2007, the "Year of Broadband" in India, but broadband growth rates are stalling! The dream was for 9 Million broadband (>=256kbps) subscribers by year end.
However the latest numbers show the number of subscribers at just 2.46 Million and the growth rate in May dropped to 0.04 million from 0.13 million in the previous month. [...]
TRAI makes the case for femtocells and GSM phones with WiFi support
The TRAI has figured out something that I felt was obvious, that 60% of all calls on mobile phones are made when the caller or the called person is inside a building.
The Hindu Business Line : Mobile phone calls within buildings account for 60%
According to estimates made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of [...]
Indian bloggers most active in APAC says The Hindu
The Hindu has an article up regarding statistics on blogging in India vs the rest of APAC. What interested me the most was this nugget:
The Hindu Business Line : Indians blog to motivate others: Survey
While Australians blog to keep in touch with friends, Chinese to share knowledge skills and store important information, Indians [...]
Telecom Professionals Group June 2007 meeting
The second meeting of the newly formed (i.e. May 2007) Telecom Professionals Group was held on Friday (June 22, 2007) at Park Sheraton in Chennai. Gokul has documented the minutes of meeting here.
Outside the official agenda of administrative issues with organizing the group, discussion topics were quite varied, a lot of discussions centered around VoIP [...]
AT&T decides to wait for and invest in LTE
I shared this news item on my link blog earlier today:
Looks like AT&T is going to sit out the WiMAX deployment cycle and wait for Long Term Evolution (LTE) - the 4G equivalent of GSM. Engadget is linking to an article about this in Wireless Week and connecting this to the Sprint story on plans [...]
Girls with a gadget craze – the new India!
Girls with as much (or more) of a passion for gadgets than guys in Surat, Gujarat (the diamond capital of India). Reading this article in the Economic Times today was really amusing... this is the new India!
Gems don't lure any more to Gujju girls-Entertainment-Media / Entertainment / Art-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
So what [...]
