Articles Archive for January 2009
Gadgets »
It’s something that everybody does….Taking pics from camera phone without letting anybody know about it(Don’t we).Be it for fun purpose or turning a bit intrusive to somebody else’s privacy,folks get away with a click without getting noticed by just putting their camera phones in ‘Silent’ mode and start pretending as if they are just so busy in their 3.5 inches mobile screen that they have no interest in the guy/girl standing next to their camera lens.
Most of the times,such a thing never really bothers but sometimes,it …
Twitter apps, Web apps »
There’s a newly launched service called 140it(for a change,this time the twitter app isn’t “tw………”),that lets you shorten your tweets if they are exceeding the 140 character limit in twitter.They use the usual style of shortening the text,which is commonly used by us while sending an SMS or even a tweet.
For instance,we shorten ‘are’ with ‘r’ or ‘management’ with ‘mgmnt’ and now the same task can be done with this twitter based app.You just need to “drag ‘n’ drop” it in your browser toolbar and …
Announcements, funding »
ChaCha,a free mobile answers service,has just raised Series C round of $30 million,adding to the earlier rounds of $6 Million(Series A) and $10 Million(Series B) and making the total investment in this 2 years old startup to whopping $46 Million.For those who haven’t heard of this service before,it basically allows people to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate(what they claim) answer as a text message using any mobile phone,from a basic flip phone to advanced smarphones such as iPhone.
TechCrunch,an notable tech blog in Silicon …
Startups, aggregator »
In these troubled days of recession,one online sector that’s happily taking the cake away is “Job Portals”.Layoffs,shutdowns and every such mishap creates more unemployment which inturn makes people search out for jobs.And the easiest way out is to browse through every Job portal one can possibly find.
Hence,one website that might prove to be a ‘utility’ these days is “Faayda“.It’s an Indian Job search engine,that crawls various popular job portals and lists out jobs from all such websites.
Faayda crawls hundreds of job portals as well as career pages …
Announcements, Business oriented »
According to a survey by ON24,a San Francisco based virtual events company,Physical events are loosing out against Virtual events.It compiled the results on the basis of responses from its 270 customers (including PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM).
The survey also projects that there’s an expected decline of nearly 40-60% in the year 2009 in physical events.Reasons are quite obvious.When companies are drying up with funds and laying off employees in massive numbers,they will try their best to save out of every lavish spending they had been doing …
Startups »
Google any product(books,gadgets,automobiles..),service(web hosting ,restaurant…..) or anything else you can think of and you will find a battery of comparison websites,letting you compare various aspects of a service such as price,specifications,features and related stuff.
But there are many neglected local services for which most of such JAPC sites never bother and refuse to take any pains for placing them in their catalogue.For instance,comparisons for services such as Lasik surgery centres,Home alarms,teeth cleaning etc aren’t there in abundance on web and if you love details about everything then …
Announcements, Events »
Today,we all witnessed another chapter,being added to the history of United States,when about 2 million people(LIVE) and hundreds of millions all over the world saw Obama becoming the 44th U.S. president.After his inaugural speech,it seemed as if the troubles are soon going to be ‘over’.The ‘Right’ leader is very much in the power and we all can expect brighter days ahead.
But apart from the official transition of power that took place today,there’s one more thing that’s notable enough
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As we all will soon be watching and cheering for Obama,officially becoming the U.S. president in a real BIG ceremonious way,indians have probably one more reason to cheer for him.Under his governance,the first U.S. CTO is most probably to be an Indian.
And if an indian really makes it to the position of “U.S. Top Tech Exec”,then it will be more than just a moment of proud for all the indians(as they are far
