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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
Posted in Entertainment, Gadgets, Mobile, Musician Tributes
Tagged Carter Burwell, Charles Dumont, ilayaraja, iphone ringtones, john mclaughlin, ringtones, u shrinivas
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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
Posted in Business Models, Gadgets, Industry Specific, Mobile, Technology
Tagged amazon
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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
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
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
Posted in Gadgets, Industry Specific, Inspirational Thoughts, Lifestyle
Tagged apple, nest, nest thermostat, thermostat
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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
Posted in Culture, Introspection, Technology, Timepass
Tagged apple, bill gates, eric schmidt, google, microsoft, steve jobs
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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
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
Posted in Business, Entertainment, Internet, Leadership
Tagged netflix, reed hastings
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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
Posted in Business Models, Industry Specific, Mobile, Technology
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