The state of ecommerce shopping in India is pathetic. Today I tried shopping @ Tradus E-Shop after getting a special discount voucher from them. It took me 15 minutes to get pass their cranky registration process. I hated the design, validation process and IA of the website. I cussed and cursed throughout the ordeal. (more…)
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E-Commerce Stores in India
Thursday, March 25th, 2010My Ideal Mobile
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Google Nexus, Motorola Droid & i1, iPhone… the list grows, while I am in love with my highly customized Palm Pre Tero Pro Windows Mobile Phone.
HTC EVO 4G: Sprint’s First WiMAX Phone just joinged the list. The phone has 1GHz processor and 512 MB RAM.
Micro-blogging or Blogging
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Making my first post from Windows Live Writer.
Why should I post log on twitter, when I make mirco blog-posts on my own Blog; blogging would be hopefully less cumbersome when using Windows Live Writer.
Google takes another swipe at killing Microsoft Exchange
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Google is continuing its push to gain on Microsoft in the enterprise space. At a press conference today, Google announced a new plug-in that will sync Google’s enterprise versions of Gmail, contacts, and calendar with Microsoft’s Outlook. In the enterprise, Outlook is still king and not everyone is ready to switch just yet to browser-based email, calendars and contact management. So employees can continue to use Outlook if that is what they are comfortable with, and Google Apps will run on the backend. Google is claiming that its enterprise apps cost less than half of Microsoft Exchange. (more…)
Is Google Opening too many warfronts
Monday, August 3rd, 2009Personaly I admire Google for the quality and functionality of their applications. Whatever they do works and elevates the level of products in the arena. Most products Google has created have rounded the competition [example - emailing, feedreaders etc] (more…)
US Air Force developing decision-making attack drones
Monday, August 3rd, 2009US Air Force developing decision-making attack drones
US Air Force is readying an unmanned drone that could fly over a target and then make the decision whether or not to launch an attack, all without human intervention. These drones laced with Artificial Intelligence [AI] would take combat decisions and act within legal and policy constraints. Humans will monitor the execution and would have the authority and ability to overide the system. (more…)
Apple blocks Google Voice from iPhone and App Store
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Just heard the inevitable, Apple had refused to approve official Google Voice application itself from the App Store, citing the fact that they “duplicate features that come with the iPhone”. The news hasn’t surprised many and was on expected lines after Apple last week changed the Terms and Conditions and blocked several Google Voice based applications like GV Mobile from their App Store. (more…)
Google Latitude works great
Saturday, July 25th, 2009I tried Google Latitude [The application of Google Maps for iPhone] to keep tabs on friends or employees or girlfriend or wife or husband and find out exactly where they are works great. I am testing it, but soo far it has me smiling ears to ears 
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Yahoo Image Search adds Sightseeing Feature
Friday, July 24th, 2009Yahoo has launched an interesting feature to their Image Search which lets you do Sightseeing Without Leaving Yahoo Image Search.
There is no separate section. When you type in a city in image search, Yahoo will suggest related points of interest to your search, giving you more relevent information about your city search. I searched for Las Vegas on Yahoo image search, and it showed me Bellagio, Caesar’s Palace, Paris Las Vegas etc on left hand navigation bar that will include image results for various points of interest and popular destinations within Las Vegas. Further clicking on any of the popular joint shows the image results of that place or building. (more…)
Intel’s We are sponsors of Tommorow Campaign is Exciting
Friday, July 24th, 2009Intel’s “We are sponsors of Tommorow” is an excellent campaign by created by Venables Bell & Partners along with Grow Interactive (who crafted the site).