Digg out, Smartphones, Utility focussed »

[By Prashant Sharma | 4 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
iPhone 4: Magical, Revolutionary & Flawed. Period

Over the past week or so, i have been hearing about iPhone 4, iPhone 4 and just iPhone 4(and i guess, i am not the only one).

Most of the elite technology bloggers are always ready with some hot-cooked story relating to iPhone 4, whether that story revolves around reviewing the iPhone 4 or detailing every single feature that’s been introduced in the new iPhone.

But for the first time, iPhone has got trapped into a serious problem, the Antenna problem. It has been so widely reported on internet …

Startups, Utility focussed »

[By Prashant Sharma | 14 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]
Linkshiftr: A tailor-made URL Shortening tool for Online Marketers

URL Shortening tools are already in abundance on the web. Bit.ly is certainly the dominant link shortener at the moment but that isn’t prohibiting more and more tools to come up and proliferate into fast evolving URL shortening business.

But it’s also pretty evident that end users are no more interested in making transition to newer URL shortening tools, until the service is serving a valuable and unique purpose. With majority of URL shorteners facilitating same old link shortening, there are only a small fraction of URL shortening tools busy serving a …

Gaming, Utility focussed »

[By Prashant Sharma | 3 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]
It hurts when Money leaks. Never Miss Out on ‘Rakeback’ !

Despite being thoroughly engaged and working within Internet & Technology Industry for years now, i do possess some Not-so-techy interests as well that keep me fascinated all the time, one of them being ‘Poker’, a game that’s all about money and is fondly relished by some of the most abuzzed tech entrepreneurs of our generation.

Honestly, Jason Calacanis is that ‘tech celeb’ who drew my interest towards ‘Poker‘ for the first time. Jason is a serial tech entrepreneur, currently serving as CEO of Mahalo. …

Utility focussed »

[By Prashant Sharma | 8 May 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
TV Companies get ready for the World Cup

TV Companies in the UK are ready to jump on the back of the World Cup by rolling numerous offers aimed at cashing in on the most popular sports tournament on earth.

Sky TV for example are offering a Free Sky+HD Box and selling it by encouraging customers to ensure they do the World Cup justice and watch it in HD.

HD TV sales are going up in the build up to the World Cup, with football fans up and down the Country seeing it as the perfect excuse to …

Utility focussed, Web apps »

[By Prashant Sharma | 29 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Maintaining an Online Identity Without Hurting Your Pocket !

As Internet is truly becoming a platform for expressing and creating an identity for oneself , more and more people are realizing its importance and looking for different ways to have a recognizable online identity. Although profiles on Social Networking websites are certainly picking up pace these days and that’s still not considered a formal and respectable way of presenting oneself.

It’s the conventional way of creating one’s own website with a proper domain name (unlike free websites hosted on WordPress or Blogger), which is still the most effective way of …

Announcements, breaking news »

[By Prashant Sharma | 27 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
‘iPhone leak’ Drags Gizmodo Into Deep Trouble. Editor’s Computers Seized

The whole past week was all about the next iPhone which was lost & found by iPhone engineer->unknown guy->Gizmodo, and as expected, Gizmodo went on to take advantage of the leaked iPhone and squeezed the yet-to-launch iPhone to its limits, even when it was dead(remotely killed by Apple).

As millions of people kept their eyes at Gizmodo’s coverage of next iPhone, the controversy took a new turn when Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who supposedly lost the next iPhone at a bear bar, came into picture. Gizmodo dragged …

Utility focussed »

[By Prashant Sharma | 23 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
The Future of Internet Is “Without Cables”, a.k.a. “Wireless”

As we’re hearing more news about Wireless Broadband and its fast adoption across the globe, it is quite evident that the future of Internet is certainly without cables.

Most of the wired internet service providers have already made huge investments in establishing Wireless Internet services, whether it is low speed GPRS/EDGE service or high speed 3G services or WiMAX services.

In developed countries, the prevalence of ‘Wireless Internet’ has completely overshadowed ‘Wired Internet’, apparently in a similar fashion to the way,  GSM/CDMA(2G) Wireless Mobile networks dominated and eventually sidelined landline telephone …

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