Category: web-software

Will MindTree’s Product Strategy / Smart Phone Pay Off ?

MindTree intends to launch smart phones on Android-OS platform with an ASP of US$300+ by Nov-Dec 2010, which will be sold on white-labeled basis to telecom service providers globally. Jankiraman, Head- R&D Services of MindTree discussed the company’s Product Strategy. Here is an excerpt, MindTree’s product focus will be on…

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Microsoft’s Loss is Apple + Android’s Gain

Microsoft headed by a Non Technical and Non Product Savvy CEO, Steve Ballmer has reason to worry when Apple pipped Microsoft as the World’s Largest Tech company in terms of Market Cap [an indication of future growth prospects]. Microsoft under David Cuttler developed one of the best Digital Platforms, the…

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Small Business – Switch from Microsoft Office to Google Apps and Save

Google’s assault on Microsoft has intensified with a Blanket Ban on Windows Operating System across Google’s Office globally and today a massive Ad Campaign on how Small and Medium Enterprises can save by switching to Google Apps from Microsoft Office. How a Small Business With 50 Employees can save $20,168…

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End of Web 2.0 – Beginning of Third Wave

John Doerr one of the largest legal wealth creator in the World backing innovation for decades announced today the beginning if the Third Big Wave in Computing at Disrupt Conference of TechCrunch. John said, I think we’re on the verge of a third great wave of innovation. The first was…

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Technology Insight into UIDAI – Aadhaar Biomtric ID Project

UIDAI / Aadhaar Project is a Government of India (GoI) initiative to assign a centralised identification number to all residents of India. Headed by Mr. Nandan Nilekani, Founder and ex Co-Chairman of Infosys Technologies. The UID will dispose the need to produce different identity documents for availing various services (opening…

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MyDala Group Buying Vs KhojGuru – Discount Deals

With increasing number of Indians going online there is a need for Discount Search Engine. However, they have evolved in two different forms. One of the interesting concepts is that of MyDala – Discount Deals on Group Buying; thus the retailer or service provider gets volume and its a Win-Win…

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Yahoo Customized Homepage – IJW

We give a IJW – It Just Works rating for Customized home page of Yahoo. After having tried lots of ways to engage users on the Yahoo platform, finally they have found a way. Yahoo, neither had a browser nor killer Web 2.0 Applications / social network to keep its…

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Migrating SMF from One Domain to Other

Recently I had to migrate a SMF Forum hosted on one domain to another. In this process the servers also changed as both the domains are hosted on different servers. Assume, abc.com/forum is the original site hosting the SMF forum and was migrated to xyz.com/forum Where to start ? SMF…

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