Category Archives: Technology

Ringtones

With so much great music around, I figured it was dumb to use stock sounds as ringtones. I set out to creating a few ringtones myself, using great compositions others have created from time to time. Would like to share … Continue reading

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Spellbound – Cloud Computing

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Could Amazon come up with a phone?

When Mel Gibson offers to lose in all the hands in the first 60 minutes of poker in the movie Maverick, no one at the table realizes why. When his 60 minutes are up, he has learnt enough about everyone … Continue reading

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How social media changed you

As of few years ago, keeping in touch with friends required effort. The people you were in touch with were almost always a factor of where you work and where you live.  You could say you maintained platonic relationship with … Continue reading

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Out of this world

It is important to be curious, I consider myself generally curious. But with Bill Gates, curiosity reaches a whole another level – I have heard second hand accounts of people who have interacted with Gates, who were floored by his … Continue reading

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Simple is difficult

Its amazing what the possibilities are, when you apply the “simple is difficult” angle to our life and the things that are part of it. Being an alumnus of Apple Inc must have given the Nest team enough publicity to … Continue reading

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What people’s death tell us

When Steve died 3 weeks ago, the whole world indulged in tweets and statuses and blogs and such – indicating all of a sudden how profoundly he “changed the world”, how profoundly he “transformed their lives” et cetera… As for … Continue reading

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iPhone 4S

I enjoy writing technical reviews on new products and technologies. I have reviewed most gadgets I have bought. As I write reviews, one of the things I would like to ensure is the review is balanced and factual. I bought … Continue reading

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Job of a CEO

Reed Hastings, CEO of NetFlix, already committed multiple mistakes by making unplanned and abrupt changes to the pricing structure for its DVD and streaming based movie rental services. Consumers and investors don’t like uncertainty; and showing the path to future … Continue reading

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Ecosystems at War

When the number of cell-phone subscribers in India surpassed the fixed-line subscribers, we defined it as a mobile revolution, appropriately so. But it limited itself mostly to making and receiving phone calls. What the US and much of the developed … Continue reading

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