Flipkart’s music service (result of acquisition of a Mumbai based startup, Mime360 and bollywood catalogue from Chakpak) will go live this month. The music service will be called Flyte (as spotted by Woikr) and the service will enable users to download legal mp3s files, which will be DRM free and device agnostic. Using Flyte, you [...]
The first BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard, released today, ranks India 19th in a list of 24 countries’ preparedness to support the growth of cloud computing. The list is led by Japan with 83.3 points, on a scale of 100, followed by Australia (79.2) and Germany (79.0). India scores 50.0, while Brazil stands last at [...]
So you started a business, and for reasons you know best had to pull the plug on it. It might have been lack of growth, vision, right partners or lack of funds but whatever the reasons maybe, once an entrepreneur, always one. :-) I started my career working in my family businesses and then moved [...]
Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. today launched the Explorer Touch Mouse. Sleek and sassy, the Explorer Touch Mouse is targeted at the tech savvy user who wants both great comfort and great style. Compatible with both the Windows and Mac the new mouse speeds up everyday tasks with a Touch strip optimized for quick vertical [...]
I had a feeling that many popular websites were not storing user passwords in a secure manner. As an experiment, I tried the Forgotten Password feature for some popular ecommerce sites in India to determine their password storage and recovery policy. As a best practice, passwords are typically stored using a one way or irreversible [...]
Dual-core 1GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, Video Acceleration, HDMI output and 3G connectivity: these are the specs of an average smartphone these days. Not long ago, these were the features of a fully functional desktop or laptop computer. I still have a three-year-old HP laptop that is lesser privileged than my Samsung Galaxy S. With phones [...]
Zootout is a local lifestyle recommendation engine (not just search) that focuses on recommending ‘specialties’. For instance, apart from answering queries like ‘south Indian restaurants in koramangala, bangalore’, Zootout can also answer queries like ‘best place to have ‘masala dosa’ in Koramangala, bangalore] The Indore based startup has currently started with food category, but will [...]
Mahindra Satyam and SBI Holdings, Inc., a global internet based financial conglomerate and Japan’s largest venture capital/ private equity house, currently managing more than US$ 3 billion have partnered to launch $50mn fund in India. The total size of the proposed fund will be US$ 50mn with equal contribution from both. The objective of the [...]
