Ringtones are a big business in India, the worlds 2nd largest mobile market. They in fact make up for more than 35% of all mobile VAS revenues.
Isnt it time that companies stop charging for ringtones ? Why even pay the Rs. 7-15 for a ringtone ?
If you want to stop paying for ringtone downloads and […]
I did a mini primer on Location Based Services and its state in India a couple of weeks back.
While I barely touched the surface, if you are looking for some serious technical knowhow, I came across an interesting story related to GPS technology - what its all about, how it works etc.
Check it out here. […]
Twitter, who recently secured their second round of funding, has fueled the microblogging phenomenon. As more people caught on to the “What are you doing” culture, folks at Twitter have hardly kept up with the increased load. The site has faced several prolonged downtimes, which have gotten only worse over time. Not a week goes […]
Here’s a list of some of the most promising open source social networking platforms for those of you who might be interested.
1) BuddyPress
BuddyPress was started by Andy Peatling as a series of plugins for WordPress MU that will turn it into a fully functional social network. It was acquired by AutoMattic, founders of WordPress, and […]
Say you bootstrap your Internet startup and are on the verge of either making a public announcement or pitch media-bloggers about the impending launch of your startup.
My question is - how do you anticipate the traffic load and how do you plan accordingly for any contingency? Assuming that the pitch was successful and you get […]
As per a release, Vodafone will be launching the iPhone in ten countries later this year, including India. Unlocked iPhones have been available in Indian gray market for some time now.
It’ll be interesting to see if these unlocked phones will get blocked now that Vodafone is officially bringing the iPhone to India.
After procrastinating for a looong time, I finally opened a Twitter account today. I’d put it off till now due to all the information overload I suffer on a day to day basis (ok..partly because I was lazy too).
Signing up for Twitter however got me thinking - with the rise and increasing popularity of so […]
The results from the recently concluded ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) are out. St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics (Russia) secured the first place, MIT came in second, followed by Izhevsk State Technical University (Russia) in the third place.
The list is dominated by Russian, East European and Chinese universities.
The first Indian contestant […]
Amit@DI has an amazingly helpful post how to find out everything about a website - what hosting company is used by a website, is it accessible from China-Japan, what other sites are hosted on a web server (reverse IP lookup), what web technology is being used by a site etc.
He had another bookmark-worthy post a […]
Yahoo has announced a collaboration with Tata Sons Ltd. owned Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) to support cloud computing research. As part of the agreement, Yahoo researches will get access to CRL’s EKA, the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world.
With 14,400 processors, 28 terabytes of memory and a peak performance of 180 teraflops, EKA is only […]
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