Netbooks at $99 from AT&T
Posted: April 4, 2009 Filed under: india, technology | Tags: 3G, AirTel, gadgets, india, infrastructure, japan, mobile computing, netbooks, networks, technology, trends, USA, wireless 1 Comment »This piece of news is exciting enough to merit a blog post.
This year, at least one wireless phone company in the United States will probably offer netbooks free with paid data plans, copying similar programs in Japan, according to industry experts.
But this revolution is not just about falling prices. Personal computers — and the companies that make their crucial components — are about to go through their biggest upheaval since the rise of the laptop. By the end of the year, consumers are likely to see laptops the size of thin paperback books that can run all day on a single charge and are equipped with touch screens or slide-out keyboards.
How long before we have the intersection of 3G and Netbooks in India? I see this as a positive trend for Web services and the Internet economy.
Google signs deal with AirTel for GPRS users attention
Posted: December 23, 2007 Filed under: building ventures, india, technology | Tags: adsense, advertising, adwords, AirTel, google, google india, gprs, india, mobile computing, search, technology 4 Comments »Why would Google India sign a deal with AirTel to share advertising revenue for data applications?
Bharti Airtel Ltd, India’s largest mobile service provider with nearly 53 million customers, plans to tie up with leading Internet portals for sharing advertising revenue when Airtel’s subscribers visit those websites through mobile Internet.
Rapid product development at Google
Posted: December 19, 2007 Filed under: technology | Tags: disruptive, google, internet, microsoft, product development, product management, startup, technology Comments OffGoogle Gets Ready To Rumble With Microsoft – N.Y. Time, Steve Lohr and Miguel Helft.
Google maintains that pace courtesy of the cloud. With a vast majority of its products Web-based, it doesn’t wait to ship discs or load programs onto personal computers. Inside the company, late stages of product development are sometimes punctuated by 24-to-48-hour marathon programming sessions known as “hack-a-thons.” The company sometimes invites outside engineers to these sessions to encourage independent software developers to use Google technologies as platforms for their own products.
New features and improvements are made and tested on Google’s computers and constantly sprinkled into the services users tap into online. In the last two months alone, eight new features or improvements have been added to Google’s e-mail system, Gmail, including a tweak to improve the processing speed and code to simplify the handling of e-mail on mobile phones. A similar number of enhancements have been made in the last two months to Google’s online spreadsheet, word processing and presentation software.
Early this month, Google released new cellphone software, with the code-name Grand Prix. A project that took just six weeks to complete, Grand Prix allows for fast and easy access to Google services like search, Gmail and calendars through a stripped-down mobile phone browser. (For now, it is tailored for iPhone browsers, but the plan is to make it work on other mobile browsers as well.) Read the rest of this entry »
Fring de! India
Posted: November 6, 2007 Filed under: building ventures, india, technology | Tags: AirTel, chat, edge, fring, gprs, india, instant messenger, mobile, mobile computing, mowser, technology, VoIP, wireless 9 Comments »VOIP for mobile happens to be one of my top predictions for fastest growing markets in India. Fring is the application making it happen. It is already the most frequently used application on my Nokia E61i. I use Fring for Skype International calls, chat on GTalk, MSN and other networks. The only drawback is that it seems to suck out your mobile battery faster than you can imagine. I end up having to restrict its use to only when I am traveling.
The people behind Fring seem to acknowledge the huge interest and potential and have dedicated a blog to India. The blog is a great addition to help their customers, announce features and new phones compatible with Fring.
Now if only AirTel, Vodafone and the other big Mobile boys wake up and learn to walk their customers through enabling wireless data on their handsets.
Another product riding the mobile wave in India is Mowser who claim to receive more than twice as many mobile requests from India alone. Rajan attributes that interest primarily to dial-up users from India who use Mowser and other content adaptation engines for mobiles to surf the web.
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