Technology
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 [...]
How addicted to Apple are you?
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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 [...]
Google picks up another major piece of the content generation puzzle: Feedburner
With this acquisition, Google will now practically own the feed generation and management market as Feedburner is the preferred method through which most bloggers (including me) process their feeds. A nice fit when integrated with Google's Webmaster tools and Google Reader apps.
Here's what Tech Crunch has to say about this:
$100 Million Payday For Feedburner - [...]
What’s your nerd rating?
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Opera Mini 3.0
I'm a few days late on this - Opera Mini was released on November 28, 2006...
I use Opera Mini on my RAZR V3 and its a great browser - much better than the built-in browser that Motorola provides. I've just upgraded after reading this news via OSNews - lets see how the new version is.
Opera [...]
Tiny Projectors the size of a sugar cube – using Lasers
BBC NEWS | Technology | Projector size of sugar cube made
A video projector that is the size of a sugar cube has been created by researchers.
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Telecom & IMS: Quote
Telecom & IMS: Quote: "IMS is a polygamist. It tries to marry all the protocols and hogs bandwidth resources, just as it should."
Vijay Anand's got a post up on Telecom & IMS that discusses a conversation he had on IMS. I agree 100% with the quote. IMS is to communication what middleware is to IPTV [...]
Moving my iTunes library from XP to my new iMac 20“
I've finally documented how I moved my iTunes collection intact from Windows XP to the new iMac!
Before blindly copying everything and ending up losing my song ratings and presets and playlists, etc for my gigantic 8600 song collection, I decided to RTFM first (one of those rare cases where its worth reading up before acting!).
My [...]
Backing up my data
As part of my series on switching to the Apple iMac, here's my piece on backing up data.
I looked around for a good solution to store upwards of 300GB of data on a Firewire + USB2.0 external drive and came across the Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition.
This drive comes in [...]
More on the move to the iMac
I'm gonna spend the next few days documenting my move to the iMac from Windows, including the following:
1. backing up data
2. transferring my iTunes Library intact without destroying my precious song ratings, # of played, last played and other meta-data that iTunes stores on my 8600 song, 48 Gig music collection
3. every day programs I [...]
Switching back to Apple!
DECT cordless phones in US market from Philips
No Snap or Crackle: A New Technology for Cordless Phones - New York Times
Its hilarious to see the NYTimes not checking their facts before writing this article... DECT has been around for at least a decade as a technology for cordless telephony. In fact, it has been used for much more. There are over a [...]
BarCampChennai
As I live in Chennai and am interested in this whole concept of free-form BarCamps, I will be attending BarCampChennai.
I plan to keep tracking the progress as this event is organized and might be writing my thoughts live from there on this blog... lets see how it goes!
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Each new generation takes tech for granted (& adopts it) while those even 5 years older have a hard time getting used to the same
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Kids today - LANs - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
So what of today's youngsters, what do they see? One eight-year-old I came across has never seen a computer connected to anything other than a power outlet when charging.
Kids in each new generation just take certain things (especially technology [...]
DRM, CAS and why the Indian Digital TV market was stillborn
Anil Dash: Dos and Don'ts for Beating the iPod (and iTunes)
Teaching consumers about DRM is like giving your cat a bath: You're only going to piss her off, and she'd do a better job of it on her own anyway. Explain your lack of DRM in terms of user benefits instead of technology, [...]
This appears to be inspired by the Cylons
Found this picture in an Engadget article on a contest organized by Microsoft. Reminds me of the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica.
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Hilarious info on EuroTelcoblog
James Enck of EuroTelcoblog has touched on this hilarious tidbit:
The floorspace occupied by VoIP, IPTV and telco triple play industry
events exceeded the total surface area of Canada for the first time in
history, and the delegates to these shows, marched side-by-side into
the sea, would form a neverending column
The hype and craze for IPTV and triple [...]
How real is the need for speed?
How real is the need for speed? Om Malik asked the question earlier this week and has some fascinating facts which show that beyond a certain connection speed, there is no perceptible difference in the experience. Of course, with applications like streaming video - IPTV or Video-on-demand - this would change, especially if these are [...]
Innovative Plasma Drives
Came across this when I was catching up with the last few week's technology news: ESA has been conducting research on an innovative plasma drive system that harnesses energy from the difference in electrical properties of two [...]
