As I submitted last week, there is a need to look beyond the devices, including the tablets, and to shift the focus to inter-device interoperability. Different ICT devices, irrespective of their form factors--and their core functions, which could be communication,...
Governments increasingly want to control how ICT touches consumers’ lives, but the 2.0 consumer doesn’t seem to like the idea of a censored experience and in fact, empowered by the technology, also has raised expectations from the government. Call that the making of...
Apple has finally brought its iPad tablet to India, and while it’s not exactly too little too late yet, it borders on being so. And that’s not just because iPad 2 could be very much round the corner, but also because India is no longer a virgin land as far as tablets...
With Airtel debuting its 3G services from Karnataka early this week, three of the seven operators who won licences in the auction in May last year now appear on the 3G map. The other two are Reliance Telecom and Tata Teleservices. While Reliance has launched its 3G...
There is a strong buzz going around that Apple would be bringing its iPad to India by the end of this week itself. What could be the immediate reason for this sudden acceleration, particularly when nine months have elapsed since the device was first launched in the...
In a news story filed by Wall Street Journal less than an hour ago, it is reported that India's largest mobile service operator Bharti Airtel launched 3G services in the telecom circle of Karnataka Monday, January 24. Launches in other 12 circles, where Airtel has...
Globally Google, and in India Wipro made important executive change announcements, along with their latest quarterly financial results. Google brought in co-founder Larry Page back at the helm, replacing Eric Schmidt, while Wipro brought in TK Kurien in place of...
Attention shifts from Steve Jobs to Larry Page: Earlier this week, Steve Jobs surprise sick leave left the market with speculations on how well the Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. would fare in his absence. Now, a day after Google posted strong quarterly...
Media reports say India’s $35 tablet PC, also called the ‘Sakshat PC’ has hit a wall. It is being said that HCL Infosystems was given the contract and that the vendor is probably pulling out of the project due to unrealistic specs being demanded by the government /...
(Daily Roundup is being renamed In Focus, as it is better representative of the content in this post.)Facebook launches app that brings it to feature phones: According to a post put up by Mark Heynen, Mobile Program Manager at Facebook, the social networking giant is...
“Will you be switching you operator, post the implementation of Mobile Number Portability (MNP)?” Online polls to this effect have been around for a while, but don’t seem to have generated much enthusiasm and response.Subscribers don’t seem to rate different operators...
Isn’t it an irony of the biggest order that the Internet, which is utmost democratic and egalitarian in essence, should be a fertile ground for breeding colossal global monopolies that could stifle competition? The recent developments at MySpace--once the No. 1 social...