Technology

Why I don’t like Jeevansathi’s mobile application

By Aditya Mhatre at 17 March, 2009, 10:44 am

WatBlog reports that Jeevansathi has tied up with Mobisoc to search matrimonial on your mobile phone. The WAP application will allow users to register, search profiles matching their criteria and express interest in profiles.
Jeevansathi might be pitching this idea as “we are now accesiible through the cell phone too” angle but if you just think [...]

Flickr Video is a bad idea

By Aditya Mhatre at 10 March, 2009, 10:10 am

A few days back Yahoo Flickr announced that all users will be allowed to upload videos on Flickr. Until recently, only pro users had the ability to upload videos on the photo sharing website. Flickr’s contention is that many people record videos using their digital cameras or cell phones and wanted to provide these users [...]

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 [...]