Archive for November, 2006

Hutchison Essar + Microsoft = New mobile applications and services

HOT, HOT, HOTTEST – Thats Indian mobile industry! Few months ago .MOBI TLD was launched which was supported by around 13 top IT companies including Microsoft, Google, Samsung, etc. If that was not a strong enough signal for mobile users as to how serious IT companies are about the mobile segment, this is another and [...]


How about a 1GB SIM instead? Samsung has it!

I hated it when I bought a 500$ phone and had to buy a high capacity memory card (I hated the memory card thing, not the phone). Back then I thought why don’t the phones have more space on them (Yes, I do think. Surprised?). Guess what! Samsung was already working on it.
Samsung released a [...]


Mikomoto-Beans i-Theater Glasses: How About a Personal Theater

This product is called i-Theater and is made for personal entertainment. By the looks of it, it is some kind of a Star Trek-ey gadget, it sure looks like one but all it does is play videos from different sources. I heard about this technology couple of years ago but back then the prices were [...]


Sony VAIO G: World’s lightest Laptop ever made!

Things are certainly not the same since when I bought my HP zd7260us (it’s an elephant). Laptops have become really portable since then, and Sony’s VAIO G last week re-defined the definition of portability. VAIO weighs mere 1.98 pounds or 0.90 kilograms which makes this the worlds lightest laptop with all the advance features like [...]


How to save music off the internet?

Thousands of sites offer free on-line music. You can listen to songs on-line, but cannot download them (pity).  I always searched for sites which offered free music downloads, found a couple but they do not have what I want. What I want is not available for downloads but available for listening on-line. So the next [...]


Online Calendars: How do Geeks Socialize?

Once a geek always a geek! How do the geeks show off their daily geeky schedule and appointments?  The buzz word is “Online Calendar”, Yes, first get all your appointments online make it public or share it with the geek community and later brag about it over a blog or the discussion on the forums.
Online [...]


eBay Academy Seminars – Learn and Earn more

"eBay Academy Seminars – Learn and Earn more", That’s what it said. I just received an e-mail from the eBay team inviting me to attend an “eBay Academy Seminars” this is an initiative taken up by the team to teach how to operate eBay and eBay shops specifically. This is an exercise to attract the [...]


Songbird Browser: All in the name of music lovers (iTunes+FireFox)

If playing music wasn’t enough how about playing the web. Yes! That’s what they (Songbird Browser) say “Play the web”. I personally think this browser is a cross of FireFox and iTunes. With the FireFox running in the core of this browser it is all set to become the FireFox of Music!
This browser can [...]


Digital Art on ArtPad, Create Your Own Digital Art Now!

Art.com not only is a great place to buy some art but also create art. This is free to use feature and Art.com calls it ArtPad!
You can use different colors and shades, and once you are done with you’re never seen before great art work you can save and send it to your friends and [...]


GTalk to Offer Offline Messages Soon

  ZDnet reported that Google Talk will soon release the functionality for leaving offline messages. This feature will be available to Gmail users who save their chat history and do not have "Off the record" mode enabled.
Google Talk is popular and favorites of millions of users because of its simple to use approach and [...]