Monthly Archives: January 2011

The Smallest Battery has a Big Future!

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Though the advancement of electronic devices & breakthrough gadgets has been advancing progressively; the battery technology still is a few steps behind the other. In the coming years, one can expect their laptops, cars, mobile phones and any other devices running on battery to be replaced by something which is more handy & small in [...]

Social Media Simplicity – 4 Essential Plugins

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My grandmother just friended me on Facebook. So—either hell has frozen over, or social media has truly permeated every aspect of life. This multi-generational Zeigeist is huge and companies are caching in. The best part is it is cheap and easy enough for even the smallest website to take advantage of.

The most blatant Facebook injustice yet

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Facebook has been criticized for their privacy violations for several years. In the United States, they may be investigated by the FTC for stealing user data and selling it to advertisers. Recently, the situation has become even more insulting for the users who have already been exploited. Facebook actually was given an award after a [...]

Open Source’s 7 Lucky Forecasts for 2011

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Well, nobody gets tired of making predictions, or at least thinking of what the future looks like. Predictions were made for several technological categories like Security, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and a more generic forecast on Information Technology as a whole. Similarly, we can never stop thinking of making forecasts for one of the most [...]

A thought, about worldwide adoption of Linux

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This is the question that lingers in the minds of many technology enthusiasts; at least for fun, they would have given it a thought – What would happen if Linux was adopted Worldwide? An ultimate ambition that the free software community has, is for Linux to be used in the mainstream industry and it has [...]

Take risks, calculated risks

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You know you are a true entreprenuer when you are willing to take a bullet for your product. The man in the photo, a bullet proof vest maker, is. (source : Baris Karadogan) Being an entrepreneur involves taking many risks. As much as most people hate taking risks, they can’t be avoided. But taking risks [...]

4 clear trends to watch in Consumer Electronics for 2011

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This year’s event was held on January 6-9 and yielded 4 clear trends in consumer electronics that should be a focus for IT geeks in 2011: that everything will be internet-enabled, the app frenzy will continue, tablets will continue to explode, and we should finally start seeing in 3D.

VALUE-able Facebook is now worth $50 Billion

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The end of last week seemed pretty worthy for Facebook, as it raised a whopping amount of $1.5 Billion on Friday taking its financial valuation to a net worth of $50 Billion. This should definitely make Mark Zuckerberg smile ear-to-ear as his baby project, Facebook has grown to become the third largest online service in [...]

Does Open Source have in it to be Numero-Uno?

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I remember writing an article about 2 months ago, on Open Source’s revenue flow and the actual source of the payments that Open Source gets. I stated that the question of Where does Open Source get its Payment from? is one that could have multiple answers. This question of whether Open Source has it all [...]

Phone-banking services in India — bringing banking to the masses and a tidy profit

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The new plan from Vodafone has them partnering up to give banking services via mobile phones, a service that (possibly inadvertently) would reach out to the unreachable in India. Vodafone has partnered up with ICICI Bank (the second largest banking institution in the country) to bring electronics payment capabilities to Vodafone cell phone users. In the works are additional plans to provide other banking services as well, via mobiles.