Technology

Future of competition in the Indian DTH market

By Aditya Mhatre at 7 March, 2009, 11:22 pm

The DTH market in India is relatively nascent but is getting crowded very quickly. In the past 3 months, two solid competitors like Airtel, Reliance have entered the market and Space TV, a Star TV venture, is awaiting government approval. The future of competition in the DTH market is not going to be in the [...]

ISRO to launch a Google Earth clone service

By Aditya Mhatre at 4 March, 2009, 2:46 am

The India Space Agency, ISRO , will be soon launching Bhuvan, meaning “Earth” in Sanskrti , a service similar to Google Earth. The launch date has not been announced as yet but V. Jayaraman, the Director of the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) an ISRO unit in specializes in satellite image processing and distribution, said [...]

Google makes up for Gmail downtime

By Aditya Mhatre at 25 February, 2009, 10:08 am

You might have noticed that Gmail was down for several hours a yesterday and for some it might have been a welcome relief from the email clutter in their inbox. But the problem is that Gmail services businesses as well and an email outgage might turn into a big problem for a small business.
I am [...]

Infosys announces Rs.50 lakh science award

By Aditya Mhatre at 17 February, 2009, 8:50 am

Infosys announced that it will be setting up an “Infosys Science Foundation” to promote and highlight the achievement of Indians across various sciences. The non-profit organization was set up by founders of Infosys as well as Infosys Technologies itself with a corpus of Rs. 21.5 crores.
The plan is to reward Indians for significant work [...]

Nokia announces app store too

By Aditya Mhatre at 16 February, 2009, 12:44 am

After Apple’s App Store success, Google decided to start an a market place for Mobile applications for Android and given the fact that Microsoft has been doing exactly what Google has, it announced SkyMarket to sell mobile applications for Windows Mobile. And today, guess you decided to join the party. Nokia announced that it would [...]