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Carpe Diem – Never Miss Your Daily Goal!

posted 84 days ago

Carpe Diem App

The wise say, ‘Grab the Day’ – which means, don’t let it pass by without achieving what you want to do. ‘A Wonderful Day’ by Tenmiles actually helps you do that by visually describing if we have completed our daily goals. The app is incredibly simple to learn and use – Just list the activities,… read more »

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Microsoft ThinkNext comes to India for the First Time

posted 91 days ago

Microsoft ThinkNext

I don’t drink (alcohol), and thanks to my generous gait, I should avoid cheese. So, what do I do when I get invited to a meetup of entrepreneurs, technology leaders and investors over Wine and Cheese? I sign up I got an invite to be part of Microsoft ThinkNext, which initially started as an informal… read more »

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A Phone, A Cloud, A Platform – A Windows Phone Perspective

posted 97 days ago

Harish Vaidyanathan 2

One of the cool benefits of being part of the YourStory tech team is the ability to participate in all-women App Meet-up despite not being one. YourStory.in along with Microsoft Bangalore held an App meet-up to create Women entrepreneurs and also to share the awareness on participating in the Mobile App ecosystem among the women.… read more »

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Apps Roundup 2011 – Have you tried these Mobile Apps yet?

posted 139 days ago

mobile_apps

By Sriram V Iyer Second half of 2011 was quite interesting – As Tech Editor to YourStory.in, I got an opportunity to use and review quite some apps! Some of them were brilliant, while some showed a lot of promise. I thought iPhone 4 was very highly priced, till Apple announced the price of iPhone 4S inIndia.… read more »

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Why WiMAX Lost The Data Communication Battle?

posted 140 days ago

Wimex

By Sriram V Iyer I spoke about Wi-Fi won the battle on being the technology of choice for basic networking in laptops and later mobile devices too. The fight was taken to the next level in WAN technologies. With the deployment of 4G technologies imminent, the field became very interesting. To put simply, to create… read more »

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Why did WiFi win in the race for wireless access to networks?

posted 189 days ago

wifi

After my previous rant on Apple, I thought I’ll stay light this time, and share some stuff on wireless! Can you try and remember the time, when there was no WiFi? The only way to access the network was to be tethered to a corner of your office with an Ethernet cable. At home, you… read more »

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Dear Apple, Is India ‘Out of the World’?

posted 212 days ago

iOS

I usually use the phrase ‘Out of the World’ in a good connotation – And, mostly I have associated this with good food. But some how, I got this in my mind, when I got an email from Apple, when they announced “iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour, 2011” – They have a very exciting… read more »

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Zynga: Facebook App or Game Incubation Center?

posted 216 days ago

Zynga

Me being busy doesn’t make the world go any slower! (damn) – Zynga launched their zTag recently, and it is apparently, the precursor to their move away from Facebook. To give a brief introduction before we delve deeper, Zynga is a very famous online gaming company, and they recently raised (speculative) 250MM to 500 MM… read more »

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iPhone 4S – NOT the Big Step Forward…

posted 229 days ago

Mobile Apps

I recently went over some funny survey data that a lot of people who bought iPhone 4 thought that ‘4’ in the name indicated 4G Network support. (Now, don’t tell me you thought so!) – A confusion, for which Apple too was to blame, because, iPhone 3 was called iPhone 3G where 3G meant 3G… read more »

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Tizen – Where did that come from?

posted 235 days ago

Tizen

By Sriram V Iyer Developers, especially the good and crazy ones (in a good way) are very strange beings. It is difficult to find an industry where something free is celebrated as here. (Free Software Foundation, Open Source Community etc). Also, there are people who code for the sake of fun, work on their pet projects,… read more »

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