Convergence at cross roads
One of the most promising applications of broadband is convergence. Basically it’s the voice and data in one pipe. There have been many promises made so far about the “potential”; however, there has...
View ArticleReliance:Enigma?
There is a larger than life creation of Dhirubhai Ambani and Reliance seems to be creating this image of a person who created “magic” out of no where. In the pure play capitalistic markets, this larger...
View ArticleUbuntu Linux
I would take a break from the regular broadband bashing and instead focus on the new imminent release of Ubuntu Linux, code named as Feisty Fawn. With cutting edge software, Ubuntu’s version promises...
View ArticleMobiles in India: New developments
The next battlefield for eyeballs is not your desktop. It’s your mobile phone. The advertisements claim that Mobile phone is the nearest thing to a computer. The user experience may belie this fact but...
View ArticleOpera Mini released
The fourth beta of Opera Mini has been released.Amazingly, this is just a 90kb download thingy and brings forth desktop like capability on your handsets. I am no big fan of Wireless Internet and have...
View ArticleThe open source hassles
I have been an open source proponent over the past 4 years and realised the frustration over the period of time by sticking on to it. At the centre of debate is the copyright versus copyleft scenario...
View ArticleApple iPhone: Another feather in their cap
I was positively impressed by this technology. I saw one in real life and was totally floored by the touch screen and the way it navigates through the web. I agree about the stunted access via GPRS (or...
View ArticleBSNL Broadband: RTI application filed :)
Opening up another salvo, I am planning to file another application against BSNL this time. The objective is the ask them the following: 1) The cost of providing access to Broadband to a customer’s...
View ArticleSmartphones: The next wave of computing?
There can be no easy answer to this. Both the Android and Apple iPhone OS are competing for mind space and increasingly green bucks from the paying customer. Both of them have “redefined” the word...
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EXPIN: An alternative to NIXI
During the past few months in setting up Hayai, it’s also been made terribly clear about one thing that could help the Broadband situation in India. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: NIXI...
View ArticleCloud computing: Relevant?
A couple of days back I had written about cloud computing; whether or not it is relevant to Indian scenario given the state of the broadband networks and how they function. 4G is not yet launched and...
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Nokia Mobile: Selling it’s soul to Microsoft
One of the breaking news of the day is that Nokia has opted for Windows 7 platform; I usually don’t comment on these “platform changes” but Nokia is dying a slow death. I had earlier written about...
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Nokia: Stupidity
has been taken from Endgadget; although these are only concept pictures. The most important aspect of the smart phone is the OS AND the APPS (which means a developer ecosystem). As of now, we don’t...
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Wednesday Evening Links -
Cablers Outpace Telcos On Broadband/Net Customers mediapost.com Sprint could deploy LTE nationwide by year-end 2013 fiercewireless.com Verisign Reports Relentless Growth of Internet Addresses in 2010...
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Disappointing statistics
The methodology can always be disputed. India lags behind China in everything and not surprisingly in adoption to open source. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 still rules the roost and I strongly...
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Mobile Internet: Opera gets leg space in App store
Image via Wikipedia Forget the statistics, the “key words” or even foward looking statements. Although strictly not under the purview of the blog, mobile Internet has attracted the attention of lot of...
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Mobile Access : Tablets and ecosystem
Image via Wikipedia Which is better? iPad 2 or Kindle? It’s hard to decide on the specifications and my only interest to put up the post here is to mark a shift in the way Internet is being accessed...
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Chrome Notebooks: Any business model for developing nations?
A lot has been made up for Google Chrome OS and it’s notebook. It transpires that Samsung and Acer would manufacture laptops for chrome OS. Is cloud computing inherently better than the “offline...
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New additions
Image via Wikipedia I have cleaned up the sidebar; unfortunately, in it’s prior avatar, it was rather bland. Changes were made to the tag cloud and a category cloud has been added. One of the major...
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Skype: Microsoft acquistion and disruptive VoIP?
New York Times has run a story on Skype‘s acquisition and Image via CrunchBase how would it be disruptive for the traditional cellular carriers. A lot has been written skype’s acquistion (please see...
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