MINT POD an in-flight interactive entertainment device is launched by Mumbai based IP Avenue. Mint POD – My interactive Nano TV is a device with 4.3 inch screen and is loaded with 30 hours of content. Enough to last four to five back to back trips in India. Mint Pod is available on all […] Read more
RIM is hoping that tablets will revive its fortunes. Tablet clairvoyants are betting big on the consumer PC market. RIM is pinning its hopes on car companies. Research in Motion (RIM) is hoping to sell tablets to cars. RIM’s Playbook has received mixed reviews so far, and the consensus is of it being a rushed […] Read more
One of the arguments I hear a lot these days is : people are flocking to Android because it’s open. I am sure it is. Android is open. But what does it really mean to you? As a consumer or as an average consumer, what are you really doing with Android’s openness? And when did […] Read more
Kingmax has introduced world’s first 64 GB micro SD card. Retail pricing of the card is not out yet. The card meets SD 3.0 specifications which will take care of any data transfer errors. All the smartphones released so far, especially the Android ones, have a standard clause of expandable up to 32 GB or […] Read more
If touch screen isn’t working out very well for you and want to replace it with some amount of touching yourself, then your prayers might have been answered. Folks at Potsdam University, Germany have come up with a imaginary phone to let you not touch your phone but touch yourself instead. A lot of unnecessary […] Read more
“I am running out of juice for my jacket.” That might soon be a standard expression if this inventor from Andhra Pradesh has his way. Kranthi Vistakula, an engineer from Andhra Pradesh went to MIT, only to find the sub-fifteen degree weather unbearable. Instead of resorting to multi-layered clothing like everyone else, Kranthi has invented […] Read more
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Tablets! Oh! boy don’t we love them by now. Looks like the world just woke up to the tablet usefulness. And they existed for 24 years now. Not the way we know them today, but something similar in functionality. I almost want to pass it on to the infographic without discussing about Apple’s genius and […] Read more
I am not much of a refrigerator guy but this thing just blew me off. Godrej which is designing stuff by curiosity has something unusual for a refrigerator. It doesn’t have an extra door but it does have something extra. GodrejEdge SX MuziPlay is a refrigerator which will play FM music for you in the […] Read more
Devices talking to devices is nothing new. But what we are seeing is a something really exciting. All the devices talking to each other in not so distant future will make life a whole lot easier. Should your mobile phone be talking to your air conditioner? Now that’s a thought. That might look like a […] Read more
Desktops and laptop market in India achieved a 6.2% growth in the first quarter of 2011. 2.6 million units were shipped in the Q1 2011. The 6.2% growth is over Q4 2010. Growth is driven by laptops aka mobile PC shipments which grew by 23%. Dell, HP, Acer, Lenovo and HCL are the top 5 […] Read more
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India is a virgin market for tablets. An estimated 55 million tablets will be sold in 2011 globally of which India’s sales will be 0.6 million to 1 million. But this figure will most likely improve to 2.5 million units by March 2013. That’s an impressive number and parts of it will be associated to […] Read more
There are more than 200 mobile phone brands in India and everybody wants a sliver of the mobile handset pie. If 200 companies compete for the same pie, you know what’s going to happen. Saturation, heavy competition and great innovation which ultimately benefits the customer. India’s mobile handset market is at this stage right now […] Read more
Technology is all pervasive. It is only a matter of time it has reached the education sector. In many ways it already has. US schools have started distributing iPads and there is an argument that every kid in America should have an iPad. Education is education be it America or India. Education in India has […] Read more
There are two problems with the existing crop of wireless mice. They need a USB dongle and they suck out a lot of batteries. This new wireless mouse from HP uses WiFi to connect to the mouse which ditches the dongle. And it runs for 9 months straight which solves the battery problem. HP’s WiFi […] Read more
Nokia is going through a major overhaul. After partnering with Microsoft for WP7 and outsourcing Symbian development to Accenture, it is ditching Ovi brand. Now all the Ovi branding would be transition to Nokia. Ovi will no longer be available as a brand on mobile and on the web. The user experience, the services everything […] Read more
Tablets are emerging as a very important product category in India. A very good indication of this is Apple’s launch of iPad 2 in India. When Apple enters the Indian market, then we know we have a winner. As per the BS article, India’s tablet could be 1 million strong market by end of 2011. […] Read more
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