A U.S. software industry report on Wednesday chided India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but also took aim at developed countries such as Germany that did well on its inaugural scorecard. India has the world’s second-largest software industry after the United States. Cloud computing refers to providing software, storage, computing...
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Blackberry bows to India – Finally sets up servers in Mumbai
After much controversy, BlackBerry has finally set up its server in Mumbai following intense pressure from the government to provide a mechanism for lawful interception of its messenger services and Nokia has been asked to follow suit. The servers have been inspected by a team of officers and permission for direct linkage for lawful...
All you need to know about OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
what is the xo? The XO laptop is Linux-based, with a dual-mode display — one mode is full-color and transmissive, the second is black and white, reflective, and sunlight-readable at three times the resolution. The XO-1.5 has a 1GHz processor and 1GB of memory, with 4GB of Flash disk. It does not have a...
Will the ambitious One Laptop Per Child Project succeed in India
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) , which aims to bring laptops to schoolchildren in impoverished nations, recently pushed its price per laptop to $175, from $100. India’s HRD ministry, which rejected the offer from OLPC, says it thinks it can push that price down to $10. The manufacturing cost has already been scaled down...
Indian Online Shopaholics – Amazon Finally Coming to India
Finally the wait for the online shopping giant seems to be over. Amazon has started the process of setting up its first fulfillment center in India. In layman terms a fulfillment center is simply a warehouse where items from suppliers are kept for some time before they are shipped to customers. The fulfillment centre...
Three Reasons Why You Must Never Install Ubuntu on a WIndows Machine
I have gone through the pain of installing Ubunto on top of my windows OS, and I don’t want you to go through that. Here I will explain you why ? But first let me make it clear what do I mean by an Ubunto Installation on my Windows OS. That means I will...
ToutApp – Does it enhance your email Experience
Tout is an email management and analytic tool. I must say that after so long someone is thinking in the right direction, because 30 to 50% of our time is spent in checking emails, responding to them. Most of the corporate and diplomatic communication happens over the emails. Here is a list of things...
Yummy iPhone Apps For Foodies
Here is my collection of yummy iphone Apps which will make lives of iPhone users easier. Foodily Foodily delivers a daily feed of the best food & drink recipes from the web, curated by your friends, so it’s easy to discover what’s new. You can also take pictures of your own creations and share...
Absolutely the best way of sending large files online
Recently in my office, a friend of mine brought a large collection of movies. Each movie size was around 4 GB. What I wanted to do is to send all those files to my home computer over the internet. After a few hiccups, I found the easiest way to send it to my computer....
Mobile Internet – Much Bigger Success in India than in US
Google India MD Rajan Anandan has some very interesting insights on internet usage in India. In India 40% of queries to Google Search India come from Mobile. If you compare this number to the US where only 14% queries to Google search come from Mobile, India is way ahead. Why is it so ?...