December 30th, 2008
January 09 is going to be all technology. CES, Macworld, IITB TechFest and the Nokia developers conference in Bangalore. This is certainly a event that developers wont like to miss. Internationally we have seen the kind of buzz developers make. India is one of the fastest growing mobile market and the opportunities for developers is endless.
It is believed that the mobile VAS market would touch 15000crores in 2010. Thats more than double in 2 years. Mobile Gaming and Advertising are expected to fuel the growth in this sector.
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December 11th, 2008
With the goal to close the gap between classroom learning and the practical world for their students CSI-MPSTME (NMIMS University) is all set to kick off its first TechFest – Taqneeq 08. The event looks extremely promising in its first edition itself. In the coming years we hope Taqneeq would lift the bar for Tech fests in India.
Computer Society of India established a Student Activity Center at NMIMS University in 2005-06. From a few students then, the Student Activity Center grew into a Student Branch with a strength of more than 200 members. Our first technical festival TAQNEEQ promises a phenomenal assortment of events for all present at our festival.
Events to watch out for:
- Blog IT Up - A blogging contest. We love Taqneeq for this!
- Robotics Race: Wired robots competing across different tracks
- Hardware Junkyard: Collect junk from a puzzle and make a product on the given theme
- Guest Lectures: Senior execs form L&T, Mahindra and Tata communications
View the complete schedule here
Also at Taqneeq is a Salsa workshop, a two day seminar to groom entrepreneurs and a street play on AIDS Awareness.
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July 5th, 2007
Urban skylines are changing in India – in cyberspace too. Global Internet services company Yahoo! Inc – headquartered in Sunnyvale, California has launched a new series of networks covering urban Indian areas in cyberspace.
Called Our City, this three-month-old network is “a dynamic representation of content created by you and everyone else”.
Currently, this venture covers an A-to-V of Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Goa, Guwahati, Hubli, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, Patna, Puducherry, Pune, Ranchi, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram and Visakhapatnam.
Our City can be used to explore photos, videos, events, news, weather, blogs and a lot more. It also allows one to share events, photos, videos, plan trips and blogs.
“This is the new generation of the web – city content of the users, by the users and for the users,” Sreekanth said.
What is the response so far?
“Very good,” said Sreekanth. “The product is continuously evolving. Over 50 detailed blog posts have written about it. User feedback has been very positive and we have got several requests for new cities to be added.”
Users are increasingly looking for content that is local to them, Yahoo! holds.
“We are trying to answer the following question ‘how local, interesting, engaging and useful can the internet become’ and this is an attempt to answer this question on a large scale,” according to Sreekanth.
Yahoo! says it is trying to aggregate useful content in many forms – text, photos, video – about the city from various sources and present it to users in an “interesting manner”.
This product ties in various services (maps, the photo-oriented flickr.com service, and the bookmarks-based del.icio.us), all of which were successful net-based services, and some that were bought up by Yahoo!
Users can participate in Our City in several ways. They can post photos, videos, posts on message boards and also write trip plans. “We will be beefing up features further,” Sreekanth said.
Rights of the contributors will be fully respected, assures Yahoo! “We show only excerpts of the content and fully acknowledge the source of the content. Further, we hyperlink the content to the original source,” said the organisation.
Yahoo! has released “close to 30 city versions” in less than three months. Sreekanth said: “We will continue to add more features and city editions. Bangalore and Delhi are the most successful cities in India. These cities have a sizeable Internet audience and this explains their popularity.
“The quality and quantity of online content available for a city varies widely across countries and is a bigger challenge for developing countries. The product was conceived in a company internal innovation contest (called Hackday) and was quickly ‘productised’ considering the potential of the idea.”
Recently We also saw a similar service CitiPals (http://www.citipals.com) check it out.
Read http://www.tech2.com/india/news/websites-internet/yahoo-brings-your-city-up-close-and-personal/8592/0
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=9f91f75c-7e3d-42f8-9e93-25980456611a&&Headline=Yahoo!+brings+your+city+up+close+and+personal
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