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February 18, 2010 0 Annkur

We have heard it since long that components and spares for MNC products sold in India are sourced illegally (or perhaps a better term is “Jugaad”) from company manufacturing units itself. The vast manufacturing hubs that China houses are not…

Concept / Educative

Green Award winning Siemens SpeedMatic Dishwasher

February 17, 2010 0 Tassavur

This is the award winning Siemens speedMatic Dishwasher. It is 20% more efficient than any other in the highest energy-efficiency category. Its minimal water consumption of 10 instead of 14 litres per cycle is also a new record by the…

Tech Industry News

Bharti Airtel trying to enter the African market again with Zain

February 17, 2010 0 Tassavur

Indian Telecom giant Sunil Mittal is making a third attempt to enter the African market. He has bid a price of about 10.7-billion-dollar to buy the African unit of Kuwait’s Zain Telecom. After two attempts to woo MTN, Airtel is…

Launch Pad

Windows Phone 7 Series Brings No Flash love

February 16, 2010 1 c0rex

Microsoft has finally announced and showed off their next mobile operating system with a bit different brand name – Windows Phone 7 Series. Apart from sleek and staid interface, there are several features integrated to the core level. But surprisingly…

Site Announcements

Vodafone launches Voda 150 & 250: Worlds cheapest phones

February 16, 2010 2 Tassavur

With the slew, of smart phones being launched at the Mobile World Congress 2010. Vodafone has managed to pull the rabbit right out of the hat and surprise everyone by launching two ultra simple phones which is being billed as…

Reviews

Do we need a 1280×1024 mobile?

February 10, 2010 0 Annkur

I just came across this really sexy and sleek Qisda mobile that would launch sometime soon. On the specs front, this promises 1280×768 resolution on a 4? touchscreen. Thats even higher than the 854×480 we saw on the Motorola Droid. And…

Nokia

Open source Symbian: opportunity or challenge?

February 4, 2010 0 Annkur

Last June Nokia announced its plans to go open source with the Symbian platform. Already handed over to the Symbian Foundation, the smartphone OS that currently powers over 300million handsets has been battling it out with the Apple iPhone, Android…

Tech Industry News

… in other news – 4/2/10

February 4, 2010 0 Annkur

All that we aren’t taking about at OG, but there is a chatter in the tech town! OS 3.2 reveals details of next iPhone, 720p video recording? Higher res? HD? – read at Intomobile Aspen: The green business phone from…

Rumors

Samsung S8500 and S8200 coming to MWC with USB 3.0 & BADA OS?

February 2, 2010 0 Annkur

I have probably mentioned it a dozen times that Samsung is missing a smart OS in its touch screen range (viz Corby, Star) and perhaps BADA OS would fill that gap. We are hearing that the S8200 would be the…

eReaders & Tablets

First Look: The Google tablet interface

February 2, 2010 0 Annkur

The iPad came and went down with a lot of criticism. In a market where traditional PC’s rule and only the scaled down version of the mere same interface sells, Google tried to sell us the Chrome OS concept last…

Concept / Educative

N-Gage gone, in comes the Nokia Ovi Orion concept

February 2, 2010 0 Annkur

Nokia has said RIP to Gage for sure, but you never know what’s actually cooking in Finland. Nokia might well be planning some groovy gaming phones that could match up with the challenge thrown by the iPhone / Android…

Future WIP

Sharp rolling out solar powered phone this month

February 1, 2010 0 Annkur

Later this month Sharp is rolling out the SH6230C in Chinese market. Whats special is that, this is the first solar powered mobile from Sharp and another step towards clean tech coming to smartphones. While it would make a much…

Launch Pad

Intel & AMD gearing up for six-core releases

January 30, 2010 0 Annkur

Android

Hands-on with Acer Liquid – Quick Review

January 29, 2010 0 Tassavur

We just went hands on with the Android and Snapdragon powered Acer Liquid. While most handsets we handled here were prototypes, we were lucky enough to get a few minutes with Mr Richard Tans’ (Country Head, Acer India & Sales Manager Asia…

Apple

The Apple iPad, nothing magical?

January 27, 2010 11 Annkur

Steve Jobs just unveiled the iPad on stage and much as expected it runs the iPhons OS 4.0 (guessing). The design of the tablet though is to my surprise just a oversized iPhone itself. While I hear people going WOW…

Google

Conversation with Dr Lars Rasmussen – Wave, Maps, IBM Vulcan … more

January 27, 2010 0 Team OG

Having watched his infamous 80 minute Google Wave demo twice over- we were looking forward to see the man in real life. And the man did not disappoint. Using his distinctive wit, he quipped, “I always start my lectures with…

eReaders & Tablets

And the Infibeam Pi ebook reader is real!

January 27, 2010 2 Annkur

Whoa, we got this one right for sure! Just as we revealed to you all exclusively that Infibeam is all set to unveil the Indian Kindle, they have actually gone on sale with an e-book reader. Called the “Pi” this…

Apple

Apple Event today: what are your predictions? (Contest)

January 27, 2010 4 Annkur

Today is the big day and in Exactly 24 hours we would be anxiously glued to our computer screens, refreshing the live coverage pages all over the web. The Apple event promises to introduce us its “latest creation” and this…

Security

Security exploit takes down Techcrunch, is it WP?

January 26, 2010 0 Annkur

Techcrunch.com is down since morning, and the site has just updated this with an official confirmation of the hack (you are advised not to visit the link mentioned on the image above!) Earlier tonight techcrunch.com was compromised by a…

Concept / Educative

[Video] Interview with Dr Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB

January 23, 2010 0 Guest Author

Special thanks to @sengupta (Blog) for the interview on behalf of OnlyGizmos Dr. Ajay Bhatt certainly knows how to use self deprecatory humour well. He began his lecture by screening this clip of him trying to emulate the rockstar image…

eReaders & Tablets

Infibeam working on an Indian version of Kindle, named Pi?

January 22, 2010 6 Annkur

are hearing from a pretty reliable source that Infibeam (yes the shopping portal) is cooking up its ebook reader and has already got “killer” tieups with some publications. Currently no ebook reader has actually launched in India, and local publishers…

Concept / Educative

The hunt for the best technology startups has begun

January 21, 2010 0 Annkur

While we count the days to the upcoming Apple event that would shed some official light (hopefully) on the entire tablet case. A lot of speculation about the technical specification and Apple’s game plan has just emerged (warning: take every…

Tech Industry News

Tipster spills the beans on Windows Mobile 7, launch at MWC?

January 19, 2010 0 Annkur

According to a MobileCrunch tipster (who is actually a developer) Microsoft is going pretty Apple-like with the upcoming Windows Mobile 7. Apart from the old rumors of the WM 7 making an official appearance at MWC next month we now…

Launch Pad

Western Digital My Book (USB 3.0) goes on sale

January 18, 2010 0 Annkur

Western Digital has gone on sale with the My Book 3.0 external drive that houses the next-gen USB 3.0 support. Announced earlier this month at CES 2010, WD MyBook 3.0 is one of the first USB 3 storage devices (the…

Apple

Will Apple revolutionize mobile advertising?

January 16, 2010 0 Tassavur

With the Apple – Google rivalry heating up by each passing day and the resultant competition will definitely bring in new dimensions to the industry. The news doing the round these days is that Apple (read Steve Jobs) is trying…

Android

Kodak sues Apple, RIM over camera phones patent

January 15, 2010 0 Tassavur

Yesterday we read about Google’s superphone Nexusone being sued. Today we woke up to the news of the bunch of best selling smartphones being sued. Kodak whose revenues have been consistently dropping has decided to make some quick bucks by…

Android

NexusOne being Sued!

January 15, 2010 2 Tassavur

From consumer complaints to confusion to the software problems, Google is seeing it all. But this one has come right out of the blue. From what we read, it seems like Nexusone is being sued for copyright violations. Now this…

Concept / Educative

Charging batteries with WI-FI: RCA AIRNERGY

January 14, 2010 0 Tassavur

We have already heard about solar chargers and kinetic chargers (theses are the ones with the dynamos attached to it). The latest one doing the rounds is the WI-FI charger. Yes, you heard it right and its no typo error……

Apple

AppStore piracy is almost $0.5 billion market!

January 14, 2010 0 Annkur

Apple has proudly sold 3 billion apps on the iPhone platform. But the pirated apps market is booming, and estimations suggest that it has dented Apple’s revenues considerably. Had the pirated apps been purchased legally by Apple; app developers would…

Google

Nexus One customer complaints on the rise

January 14, 2010 1 Tassavur

“Welcome to the world of direct sales”, says users and “Google aren’t ready for customer support as they have never sold hardware before” is what analysts have to say. With the deluge of the customer queries and complaints coming Google’s…

Google

Waiting for the Apple Tablet? add Google Tablet to the list!

January 3, 2010 2 Annkur

Lets consider this official that 2010 is the year of tablets. The Crunchpad in its new form ‘Joo’Joo’ has already been announced, and talk about an Apple Tablet never dies. All the chatter and constant rumors of powerful reputed companies…

Tech Industry News

Dropped your cellphone in water? Your iPod is wet in the Rain? Dont Worry

August 7, 2009 0 Annkur A

Yes the rainy season is here, and here I hear these words every now and then – “Annkur, I got wet in the rain …My cellphone is dead.” Well people do all kinds of crazy things with their gadgets, while…

Tech Industry News

No mobile for Kids under 16 in India?

September 13, 2007 1 Annkur

Karnataka Government has planned to ban the use (sale!) of mobile phones for children up to the age of 16 years. The reason for this ban is its adverse health effects. This comes almost 2 years after mobile phones were…

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Tech Industry News

Is original the new fake? Ghost shifts at work

Green Award winning Siemens SpeedMatic Dishwasher

Bharti Airtel trying to enter the African market again with Zain

Windows Phone 7 Series Brings No Flash love

Vodafone launches Voda 150 & 250: Worlds cheapest phones

Do we need a 1280×1024 mobile?

Open source Symbian: opportunity or challenge?

… in other news – 4/2/10

Samsung S8500 and S8200 coming to MWC with USB 3.0 & BADA OS?

First Look: The Google tablet interface

N-Gage gone, in comes the Nokia Ovi Orion concept

Sharp rolling out solar powered phone this month

Intel & AMD gearing up for six-core releases

Hands-on with Acer Liquid – Quick Review

The Apple iPad, nothing magical?

Conversation with Dr Lars Rasmussen – Wave, Maps, IBM Vulcan … more

And the Infibeam Pi ebook reader is real!

Apple Event today: what are your predictions? (Contest)

Security exploit takes down Techcrunch, is it WP?

[Video] Interview with Dr Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB

Infibeam working on an Indian version of Kindle, named Pi?

The hunt for the best technology startups has begun

Tipster spills the beans on Windows Mobile 7, launch at MWC?

Western Digital My Book (USB 3.0) goes on sale

Will Apple revolutionize mobile advertising?

Kodak sues Apple, RIM over camera phones patent

NexusOne being Sued!

Charging batteries with WI-FI: RCA AIRNERGY

AppStore piracy is almost $0.5 billion market!

Nexus One customer complaints on the rise

Waiting for the Apple Tablet? add Google Tablet to the list!

Dropped your cellphone in water? Your iPod is wet in the Rain? Dont Worry

No mobile for Kids under 16 in India?

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