January 2010
6 posts
Jan 23rd
Welcome to the club
Whenever someone gets married (or sends an invite), all the friends/acquaintances say/reply with “Welcome to the club”… It has become so much of a cliche now… that I feel this is only a club of people who say “welcome to the club” whenever one of their friend / acquaintance gets married. Getting it?
Jan 23rd
Jan 21st
MapMyIndia Launches TrailBlazer, Navigation Device... →
_MapMyIndia has been in the launch spree – they earlier launched mobile app (GPS Navigator sans GPRS) and has now launched navigation device for motorbike enthusiasts. Termed TrailBlazer, the device is loaded with maps of 620 cities, is waterproof, and comes with an FM transmitter broadcasts turn-by-turn voice directions to FM radios within a particular range._ I need a camera also along with...
Jan 16th
Indian Language User Interface
Why is Indian Language User Interface (in PCs & also in mobile phones) not as wide-spread as other languages (say Chinese, Japanese, Korean)? Why do we not get OS-es & applications that come by default in an Indian language? Say Windows in Hindi or Tamil or Kannada? East Asian scripts are also as complex as Indian scripts, if not more, aint it? All our major languages are available in...
Jan 12th
UID Project plans to introduce micro-payment... →
All along, they said it was “just about” giving a unique number to every citizen and verifying it whenever any service provider wants to. Now, why are they talking about they introducing a micro-payment platform? I am confused.
Jan 11th