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SearchGoogle, Skype and VPN - you are up next. But Google? Really?03:10 AM, Aug 31, 2010Buoyed with its success with BlackBerry, the Indian government is taking it up a notch. It will be issuing notices to Google, Skype and VPN to comply with its guidelines. These companies have to give access to their servers to law enforcement agencies. Or else they would face a ban. (source)This is bad news for the the Internet telephone world, which is buzzing right now with competing products and acquisition rumors. Google has launched it... India’s growing eWaste04:39 AM, Aug 30, 2010India is the fastest growing telecom market and has the second largest number of telecom subscribers in the world. India’s 630 million telecom subscribers means an inclusive growth and increasing opportunities for the rural poor. But it also means more than 600 million mobile phones which can turn into eWaste in two years. The average shelf life or the obsolescence rate for a mobile phone is 1.8 to 2 years. There will be millions of ... New solar charger for the iPhone 411:02 PM, Aug 29, 2010A solar charger is something we would expect for low-cost phones aimed for rural areas. But Frostfire, a design company, has designed $70 iPhone cover, called MoonCharge, which can use solar energy to charge the iPhone 4. Mooncharge has a hybrid solar battery case which is a rechargeable battery concealed in a protective hard cases. This case can be charged through USB or through sunlight. The case stores the energy to be used by the iPhon... Indian parliament to be powered by solar energy09:09 PM, Aug 29, 2010Indian parliament will be powered by a 80 KW solar power plant. It has invited bids from solar power companies to generate 80 KW power, 50 Kw of which will be fed to the grid and the rest will be used for illumination. Lanco Solar Energy emerged as the lowest bidder and would be setting up the power plant in five months. Lanco will charge Rs. 1.29 crores for building the plant and maintaining it for 10 years. Other companies Reliance Indust... 5 must-read books to learn more about India03:19 AM, Aug 02, 2010India could soon be a two trillion dollar economy so the timing is right to know more about India. And what better way to learn about a country than to read about it? While a book would give a glimpse of what a country is made of, one also needs to know more to deeply connect and understand what’s going on. India is rich in history and dates back many centuries. However a good starting point might be India’s history in the past cent... Quora: My latest addiction!02:34 AM, Aug 02, 2010You may already be aware of a new startup called Quora. If you aren’t then you ought to be. Quora is a new web startup where you can spend a lot of time and come out with a lot of knowledge and can’t wait to go back. If you are a blogger then there is a good chance that you get two blog posts out of it. Quora is a basic Question and Answer website where the questions and answers are administrated by few Quora folks and few non-Qu... OlivePad: Yet another iPad beater from India?06:32 AM, Jul 23, 2010There is no dearth of iPad beaters. For Apple’s iPod, the beaters never arrived. iPhone beaters arrived couple of years late. But for iPad the so called beaters have arrived in less than an year. Looks like Apple has some work to do. OlivePad - VT 100 is a table PC with a touch screen which is priced at Rs. 25,000 ($535) ( I really wish I could type the rupee symbol) has 3.5G capabilites and runs Android operating system. Other specificatio... A $35 laptop from India06:09 AM, Jul 23, 2010This time it might not be a electronic brick. Government of India has introduced a $35 laptop to suit educational needs. The cost would go down to $20 and eventually to $10, though there were several promises for a low-cost computer and none of the promises were met. There was a lot of hullabaloo about an electronic device which was dubbed as a$10 laptop and thought to be quite ingenious. That turned out to be an external hard drive or, in ... Andhra politics moves to Maharastra01:16 PM, Jul 21, 2010Politically Andhra Pradesh has been very quite for the past 15 years. Under Chandrababu Naidu’s (Naidu) regime of nine years followed by five-year regime of YS Rajasekhar Reddy (YSR), Andhra’s political climate has been serene - for the most part. Right after the elections in 2009, and right after YSR sent 33 congress members to the parliament, a series of unfortunate events were triggered. And Andhra is not the same... Soleckshaw – Solar rickshaw as green postal delivery vehicle!10:10 PM, Jul 10, 2010Soleckshaw – a rickshaw powered by solar electric power which was piloted in October, 2008 is now being launched as a green postal delivery vehicle in India. India post is piloting Soleckshaw as a delivery vehicle for postal parcels in a city of Rajasthan. In a survey in Pune, a postman travels 40-45 kms per day and carries a weight of 10-15 kgs per day. This is typically done by using a bicycle and can be grueling in Indian traffic an... $10 cellphone microscope – Will it revolutionize global medicine?10:36 AM, Jul 08, 2010A new microscope from Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA can revolutionize global medicine. It can change the way countries and governments look at healthcare. It could give tele-medicine a new meaning. It has all the ingredients of a successful device just like a cell phone. It is cheap, useful and most importantly it works with cellphones which are so ubiquitous. The cost is just $10. The microscope can be mounted on a cellphone camera an... IRCTC eTicketing agents banned from using Tatkal for an hour02:05 AM, Jul 07, 2010The IRCTC site open at 7.55am and you think you are lucky, but at 8am it logs you out and if you log back in takes forever to load. Reason: Issue of tatkal tickets has started and our beloved eTicketing agents have squatted and are in the process of booking the tickets in bulk. These tickets will later be sold at a premium. This is a great inconvenience for passengers who are seeking just two or three tickets. Well that is going to chan... Nigeria can play football, thanks to Facebook01:24 AM, Jul 07, 2010Nigeria’s president suspended the national football team for two years following the team’s poor show at the world cup. Goodluck Jonathan started his Facebook page on May 15, 2010. It now has 78,761 fans. After starting the Facebook page Mr Jonathan has received several comments. Some were appreciating his decision to ban the football team and some were requesting to rescind it. Mr. Jonathan has listened and now reve... Asia generates most tweets... Japan tops, India fourth11:55 PM, Jul 05, 2010Asia is the first and fastest growing region when it comes to tweets, according to the Semiocast which studied 2.9 million messages. Asia now constitutes of 37 percent of total tweets and US now accounts for 25 percent (down from 30 percent). In Asia - Japan, Indonesia and South Korea contribute 32 percent of the regional total. India’s contribution is less than 1 percent and stands fourth in Asia, behind Japan,... What is the real cost of petrol in India?10:56 PM, Jul 05, 2010Commit and rollback – a pretty easy operation in a database world but not so easy in the real world. India has taken steps to de-regularize the petrol prices and increase diesel prices. In effect petrol and diesel prices are raised by 3 rupees and 2 rupees respectively. Kerosene was increased by 3 rupees per liter and the Liquefied Petroleum Gas(LPG) rate is increased by 35 rupees per cylinder. 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