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The recently concluded CES 2013 (Consumer Electronics Show) at Las Vegas, Nevada showcased some of the best breakthroughs in consumer electronics that will soon find their way into the hands of consumers. Here are 5 of them that are worth watching and tracking Bendable Displays - Gorilla Glass put on display its new bendable glass named Willow. Truly bendable into a full 180 degree arc

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The "One Laptop Per Child" program from Negroponteis engaged in some interesting work in Ethiopia where they are distributing tablets to kids without providing them any instruction on how to use them or what they are for. What's interesting is the speed at which illiterate kids are picking up not just pieces of learning as know to the civilised world but also picking up and even hacking into

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Heard of Data Democratization? Well, you might not want to dismiss it as another of the fancy terms geeks keep inventing. It is here to stay and is expanding as you read this post.  Data Democratization was a term invented to signify the opening up of huge datasets owned by corporations and governments and making the data available to the general public. The public could leverage this

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The second edition of the Indian Grand Prix (Formula 1 Racing) is due this October 26-28. TV ads are increasing in frequency and so is the buzz around the second race to be held at the Buddh International Circuit, New Delhi. A causal conversation with friends led to a debate on which sport leverages technology to the maximum. Formula 1 racing pipped the rest to the top. This led me to

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I have been a fan of Chandamama stories and I had written an earlier post on Chandamama going online. Chandamama now is available online. You can read stories of Chandamama dating back to June, 1955 all the way upto the last issue. Not just that, you can select the language in which to read the story in. Man, the good old days are back here. Click here for the archives. Thanks to technology

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I came across an amazing next generation computing interface company named Leap Motion. The company has invented a small rectangular piece of computing hardware that generates an invisible fabric of waves in front of a screen. You could then interact with this fabric and your inputs are translated into action on the screen of the computer. You could zoom, rotate, pinch, cut, slash, play,

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A well written article chronicling how the Mumbai Dabbawallas use the same principles that are the force behind the Big Data technologies today. Titled "What is Common between Mumbai Dabbawalas and Apache Hadoop?", the article details out how the entire process of collecting, shuffling, sorting and delivering tiffin boxes by the Mumbai Dabbawallas is akin to the MapReduce algorithm that is key

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Rajivalochan Subramaniam is no ordinary guy. He has been a hunter for the elusive Higgs Boson. His revelations on his work, the hardships faced make for an interesting read in the article titled "First-hand look at boson experiment".Part of the team behind the ATLAS  detector that collected data whenever two photos collided, he mentions some mind boggling statistics If all the data from

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An interesting concept that an engineering student has come up with in university of Queensland, Australia. We all know that wireless power transfer is possible via magnetic induction over short distances. What this ingenious student has done is combine that with the ability of magnets to levitate. He has invented a levitating bulb that draw power wirelessly. See a video here... LevLight

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E-Commerce in India has been maturing rapidly. We have witnessed the mushroom like sprouting of startups, an year of brisk business, the entry of the Big Gorilla, Amazon, in the form of Junglee.com and heavy competition via price wars and then a phase of consolidation with some big acquisitions (FlipKart acquiring LetsBuy, SnapDeal acquiring eSportsBuy and HealthKart acquiring MadeInHealth)&nbsp

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Pluggd.in has a blog post penned by Maniraj Singh, graduate from IIT Delhi and MIT, USA and entrepreneur himself. The blog post titled "Why you should stay away from e-commerce in India [A Perspective]" has some insightful pointers on what lies beneath the "rosy picture" that is often, albeit wrongly, associated with e-commerce in India. The post examines 7 facets of an online commerce

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The New York Times has listed 32 technologies that will change our lives in the future. Quite a good enthralling list. The ones that attracted my attention were the ones that make sense from an Indian context. It talks of shirts that convert the differences of heat across body parts of the wearer into electricity that can be used to charge mobile devices for instance. Cars that are fitted

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In my previous posts on IaaS and PaaS, we covered the building blocks of Cloud Computing. SaaS is the top most layer in our cloud computing stack that rides on top of the power unleashed by the Infrastructure and Platform layers to really deliver value to consumers and enterprises. SaaS or Software as a Service is quite a buzz word these days. Why so? Is it a new concept? Not really. SaaS

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A Noida based startup has launched ChangeMyTyre.com, a online portal to help you research and pick your tyres from an assortment of tyre vendors. No more a need to get restricted by the vendor your local tyre shop promotes. The best part of it is that you can order online, choose to get it delivered to any of the major cities and get them fitted and tyres aligned for free at their centers.

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Everytime I am done reading a book, I start looking for some book in the same genre that can take me to the next level. I pester friends who have read the book to suggest some new thing that I can feast upon. I scour libraries, friend's personal book collections to see if something interests my current frame of mind. Now I can relax for I have the Internet to my rescue. I recently discovered

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Dedicated to all my book-aholic readers....a list of the top 5 Online Book stores in India Flipkart - www.flipkart.com - Top of the mind recall store for books. What started off as chiefly a book store has today transformed into selling a lot of other category stuff. However, it still happens to be my first stop shop to lookup the latest books and not to mention the steepest discounts.

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Platform as a Service corresponds to the second layer in my analogy of cloud computing to your commonplace desktop at home. PaaS – Platform as a Service is akin to an operating system that allows application developers, programmers and the like to install their language support systems, write and test code, package and distribute and finally deploy/install them to render the apps usable by end

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The Infrastructure layer of cloud computing is the base foundation of cloud computing. This is the layer that triggered off the thoughts of true cloud computing.Additional hardware purchased by divisions of companies that remained unused must have prompted other divisions to request for this hardware on a temporary basis. That action is what sparked off the thought of subscribing to hardware

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Remember the analogy I presented to you in my last post in the series? About the cloud being akin to a giant computer. We also talked about the 3 layers of this computer. What was interesting was the fact that each of them had the "as a Service" suffix. What does this mean and what are its implications.  Extending out giant computer analogy a little further, it is certain that such a

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What is the name of the photo application that Facebook paid $1 billion in cash and stock to purchase? //Instagram What is the name of the company that has partnered with BSNL to bring out a Rs. 3499 tablet? //Pantel What is the name of the new IT services company that Ashok Soota, founder of MindTree earlier on, launched earlier this year? //Happiest Minds What technology innovation comes

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A lot of my readers ask me fundamental questions on cloud. This series of posts are dedicated to all my fans and readers who would like cloud computing to be simplified for them. Let's start with a pictorial analogy of cloud computing to something that we are more familiar with. Consider a server or even your desktop computer or a laptop. A scratch at the surface to see what makes these

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What is the name of the photo application that Facebook paid $1 billion in cash and stock to purchase? What is the name of the company that has partnered with BSNL to bring out a Rs. 3499 tablet? What is the name of the new IT services company that Ashok Soota, founder of MindTree earlier on, launched earlier this year? What technology innovation comes to your mind when  you see the

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A lot of my blog readers ask me to blog on tips that could enhance their computer productivity. Here's a first of a series of posts dedicated to all my readers Power point has become so common a tool that every Windows user clicks on MS Power point icon when asked to research, create a presentation, draw a flowchart or even just take notes. However, there is so much of

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Interesting Infographic that I stumbled upon. One that shows country wise statistics on mobile usage, mobile ownership patterns and some tit-bits. Reproducing the India piece for you below here. For the full infographic click here Close to 874 million mobile subscribers in India and 53% of them have lost their phone or have it stolen. Amazing fact !! No wonder Nokia and Samsung are having a

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Angry Birds Hit FacebookIt was but naturally complementary for the largest social networking site to have the most popular game on the planet on its menu. Angry Birds, a game that took the iPhone by storm and then transcended to Google Chrome and Android devices is now available on Facebook. For a social networking site that makes 13% of its revenues from games, Angry BIrds was a natural

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