My absence from the blogging world has been extremely long and I missed a lot of news and action due to that. Though I have had previous breaks but none of them have lasted this long. The reason was that I had been working on my startup (Motvik) which kept me very occupied leaving pretty much no time…More
Category Archives: Mobile
Smartphone bazaar
I don’t know the number of smartphone users (let’s say just Nokia) in India but I am sure that is not so low that it is economically insignificant. I have myself observed hundreds of people carrying a Nokia 6600 or 3230 and have also observed a few carrying an N70. Infact I have an N70…More
Blackberry 2.0 with Camera
RIM has released its camera phone which has been in the news for quite some time now. WSJ columnist Walt Mossberg is apparently quite impressed by this phone dub named ‘Pearl’ (via Reiters). Blackberry from RIM become the de-facto phone for business users and despite of it ugly looks even today it sells like…More
Bluetooth & Security
Activemedia is gearing to rollout its mobile marketing product based on bluetooth, they recently did a pilot at a café shop in New Delhi (via exchange4media) As happens with many technologies Bluetooth has went through the same phases of being overestimated in the short term but underestimated over the long run. Though much of…More
Mobile 2.0 ? Peripheral Vision
A few days ago I came across this presentation from Jyri Zengstorm who is an entrepreneur from Finland. Here is a presentation that he made at Aula and the title of which is peripheral vision. I found it to be quite very interesting. What fascinating about this presentation is that Jyri uses a brilliant…More
Mobile Monday August Event today
Mobile Monday August event is announced to be held today, It’s being hosted at CKS Consulting an innovative research & design services firm headed by Aditya Sood. The topic for today’s discussion is Mobile VAS Scenario in India. Rishit Jhunjhunwala CTO of Verity Technologies is presenting a talk on the topic. Verity has developed a…More
ITP for India
I have always been amazed & intrigued by folks at ITP NYU & their work. The core techie in me would have given out a shrug at the triviality of applications/technologies developed/used here and not give ‘em a second look. But then it is the social, cultural asthetic aspect & meaning which underlie their…More
FONArena
Varun (met online via blogcamp.in groups) runs a blog called Fonearena which he is been running for more than a year now covering the mobile related news in India. It is good to see another blog covering the mobile space from an Indian context. Maybe with a good enough number of collection of blogs maybe…More
GPRS Airtel
Veer mentions about a welcome move from Hutch on zero rental for GPRS from Hutch. As he rightly says any move from telcos in increasing data services adoption is always a welcome move and in India more than anything it is pricing which is the critical factor drives adoption. In the same context I wanted…More
Skype & FON partner together
Nytimes breaks the story of Skype & FON partnering together. (via Martin) Network architecture that have service & connectivity unbundled allows innovation to happen by new ways of rebundling. Of course one cannot ignore that in the process this would disintermediate many players in the old value chain. This piece of news has excited so…More
Network Intelligent or Stupid
Rajiv mentions in his recent post about an interesting discussion that surfaced in the mobile monday meet about design of network architecture. Where should the intelligence lie in a network? It is a quite an important discussion and I will add my two bits to the meme here. As Rajiv pointed out that those who…More
Momo Bangalore July event update
Mobile Monday Bangalore July event had a great turnout, the Mobile Monday blog has been updated with the presentation from the speakers. In the meet we decided that going forth the 4th Monday of every month would be marked for holding Momo Bangalore event. Check out the photos here. From the next meet onwards we…More
Mobile Monday Bangalore July Meet
This months’ Mobile Monday is going to be held on 24th July. Due to request from many who would be attending MoMo the date has been shifted from 17th to 24th july. We would be sticking to 4th monday of a month mostly from now on. Thanks to effort from Veer we have launched the…More
Mobile Monday Mumbai First Meet Thoughts
I am just back from Mumbai first Mobile Monday event and it was a wonderful evening. Despite the best efforts of the Mumbai rains to disrupt the first meet Veer could successfully gather a wide variety of people from different segements of the mobile media value chain.Kudos Veer ! It was nice to meet…More
Mobile Monday Mumbai
Mumbai Chapter of Mobile Monday has been announced. Here are more details. When: Monday, July 3rd, 2006 7 pm onwards Where: Netcore Solutions, Lower Parel, Mumbai [Address and Directions] Speakers and format of the event is as follows. Introductions Rajesh Jain, MD, Netcore Solutions Mobile Internet for Emerging Markets Pankaj Sethi, VP –…More
Mobile Monday Bangalore first meet update
I am just back from kicking off the first Mobile Monday Bangalore(India) meet and it was thrilling to meet many mobile enthusiasts. Since this was just a small kickoff meeting and the main intent of the meeting was to discuss about Mobile Monday we had expected only 10 people to turn up but about 20…More
MoMo meet
I would be in bangalore over the weekend and on monday few of us would be meeting up for the first MoMo bangalore meet. Details are below. Date: 19th June, Monday Time: 6:30 to 8:00 pm Venue: Koshy's Chill Out Cafe, St Marks Road. Aztec Soft, #23, 3rd A Cross, 18th Main, 6th Block,…More
Barcamp Hyderabad 2
Barcamp Hyderabad held in April got an amazing response with close to around 200 people turning up for. So much so that almost everyone was eager to know when the next barcamp is going to be. Energized , encouraged & enthused by this we announce Barcamp Hyderabad 2 and this time around we plan to…More
Future of mobile media
Shawn Connan, co-founder & CEO of Rabble is an extremely smart guy, something which I have mentioned few times earlier. He is a visionary and is far ahead from the rest of the pack in his understanding the mobile & media business. Shawn gave a talk called “User-Generated Content and the Future of Mobile…More
Mobile Barcode Big
Tommi’s s60 application blog has a post where he refers that 2d barcodes will become huge for mobile. I think this has a huge potential and have big liking for this concept. I have been tracking this since when one of first such application started coming out.More