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On why Pico Iyer Unplugged from the Digital Grid and Social World
The digital world has taken over our lives. So much so that we can’t escape being constantly connected 100%. We text, we tweet, we carry cell phones like they’re life...
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Education 2.0: Social Networking and Education (Infographic)
In today’s education, Social Networks and media is a big plus. Those schools and universities which are using it have impacted the costs and also made the curriculum delivery very...
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Is Infosys on the Acquisition block?
Economic Times suggests in an article that Infosys is a very attractive acquisition target right now. Look at some of the facts: Infosys has Cash and cash equivalents (Rs 22,000...
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Bitcoin, its competitors and uses: Is this crypto-currency an alternative to World currencies?
Bitcoin is a cryto-currency – not a real currency, but acting as one. It is the new rage these days. Bitcoin (BTC) is an online commodity that is based on...
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Warren Buffett bets big on selling Insurance online in India
As Indian masses come online, Warren Buffett, the master of traditional businesses, is betting big on Indian consumers. Ironically. He wants to sell insurance online. Currently, Berkshire India sells motor,...
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Half of Instagram’s 100 mn users now use Android!
The power of Android phones vs iPhones (and others) is visible from how Android powered phones have made Instagram so pervasive. Instagram recently said in its blog post that half of...
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How to maximize your engagement on Twitter and make Tweets deliver more
Twitter is a great resource, if used well. There are times, ways and structures of tweets which beget more retweeting and promotion of the tweets. What are they? Here is...
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Rise of Social Media Use in India
India’s internet use is undergoing a change as the Smartphone revolution takes over. Every urban youth is using a smartphone today and with it is coming the access to the...
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Facebook going for a Redesign: to become World’s Best Personalized Newspaper
Facebook is achanging. It is doing a redesign. So that the content is properly displayed. Mark Zuckerberg says - ”What we’re trying to do is give everyone in the world the...
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India falls to 3rd spot of Global Spamming nations
India seems to be really prolific in spewing spam around the world! In fact it is #3 in the world! At some point it was much ahead of China, but...
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Posterous goes out; closing on April 30th
Posterous – a blogging platform – when started, was one of the most revolutionary. It offered a lot of new features. The best being that you could create a blog...
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Google Glass, Apple’s iWatch and a future of Augmented Reality
Are we headed to a completely virtual age? An age of augmented reality? Well, the way the tech giants are coming out with their new gear, it surely seems so! ...
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Samsung launches a new mobile OS: Tizen
As Firefox enters the market for smartphones OS, there are more entering the fray as well. Now, Samsung has come out with Tizen. LG recently bought WebOS from HP as...
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India #1 traffic source for Quora ahead of US now!
Quora is a great site for Question and Answers. People ask interesting questions and there are experts who come out with very details and informative answers. And it seems that...
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What you can learn from Website Design of Fortune 500 companies’ sites
How should the web design of a successful page be like? Well, here are some interesting structural insights from the study of the websites of the fortune 500 companies. ...
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Firefox OS signs up with a formidable list of Global carriers for the New Mobile OS entrant
Firefox has arrived to disrupt the party of the two major technology giants – Google (Android) and Apple (iOS) – with a new OS for the mobile world. Interestingly a...
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Indian IT companies headed for a rough future
Experts are predicting that the high profit margins experienced by the Indian IT companies will erode in the next 3-5 years. And would settle at just around the 11-15% mark....
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Microsoft Office 365 could derail Google Apps in India, specifically for SMEs
It seems that Office 365 suite, which includes Exchange, SharePoint and Lync, coupled with Office applications as a cloud service, is becoming a hit with the SMEs in India. Although...
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Google to earn $5 billion from its ads on Tablets!
This confirms what we have been discussing earlier. How Google works and what its strategy is pointing to in terms of revenue earning. Google‘s ads are everywhere, but new data...
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US student designs a Drone-Proof City
A law student Asher Kohn, 25 has come up with a futuristic design for a city to counter and foil drone attacks. It uses the sci-fi type of design on...
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Want to know how POWERFUL Facebook is now? Yesterday it almost brought the internet down!
Want to know how powerful Facebook is? Thanks to the ubiquitous Facebook share functionality. Here is a reminder. On Thursday, many major websites were taken down by an error that...
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Facebook Deactivation Agreement: Dad to pay his Daughter $200 to keep off Facebook for 5 months!
A man in Massachusetts, US, is paying his teenaged daughter $200 to keep her off social networking website Facebook. Paul Baier, who is the vice president of an energy firm...
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Samsung to launch Wifi-enabled, Android based Fridge and Washing Machine with built-in Evernote app
Samsung is coming out with a fridge with a built-in Android tablet and an internet-connected washing machine, by the end of the year. The fridge will have Android tablets which...
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Nokia coming out with EOS phone with 42 megapixel sensor camera with Windows 8
Nokia is coming out with a Windows 8 phone which will be a game changer. It will be based on the optical technology and sensor used in Nokia 808 PureView. It...
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Indian Startup Review: CouponDunia
CouponDunia fills an important gap in India’s online retail market – coupons. I had often wondered what could be the alternative for sites like FatWallet in India. Well, CouponDunia is...
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History of Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office has largely defined the work-space of the modern workers in the last 25 years. Everything that we have done in the Corporate world has used MS Office in...
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Twitter is worth $10 Bn
It is an impressive social networking site, but then $10 bn? Wow. Last Friday, the Financial Timesreported that BlackRock (BLK) was buying around $80 million of shares at a valuation just north...
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Android Tablets have almost caught up with iPad; 50% Android devices from US; Kindle Fire most popular
Android has made big gains in the Tablet area and is breathing down the neck of iPad and is likely to overtake Apple sometime this year – 2013! Android tablets...
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How to get your Start-up featured on Top Tech Blogs like Techcrunch and Mashable
Many blog owners would die to be featured on sites like top blogs such as Techcrunch, Mashable etc. Here is some great insights from an expert! Read Quote of Robert...
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Android vs iPhone’s iOS is Windows vs Mac OS all over again!
iPhone was the first real smartphone in the world and extremely user friendly. The Geeks and the tech-lovers have until now been swooning over every new version. Those who love...
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Does Facebook make you a different person?
A Facebook friend had the following interesting status on her wall: I’m always curious when I hear people mention, ‘Facebook friends’, Facebook behaviour’, ‘Facebook mannerisms’..are we so different here than...
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Firefox OS Phones coming soon: Developer preview versions to be available by Feb
The OS market for mobiles is really heating up. Because that is where the real prize is in future. We talked about Ubuntu, a few weeks back. Ubuntu is an...
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Roots of the Indian IT industry and its influence on the Global Computing history: Contribution of IITs and MIT Indian students
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have shaped the Computer history in many ways. Indian computing talent has not only impacted the computing world...
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How I reduced Bounce Rate from >70% to under 20% by simply changing my theme
On the weekend of November 16-17th, we changed the theme at Drishtikone. We moved to a “Responsive WordPress theme” (Brennuis theme from Themeforest). We used to be on Studiopress’ Genesis...