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It’s been 2 months since Apple came out with the latest version of it’s operating system 10.5 (aka Leopard). I finally installed it last week and can say it was worth it. I initially was going to upgrade my system by having Leopard install over my existing OS, but at the last minute decided [...]

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After using the iPhone for the past 6 weeks, i’ve come to the conclusion that spending over USD 550 on my BlackBerry Pearl was stupid. I also don’t know why Research in Motion (maker of the BlackBerry) is trading near it’s historic highs. The only great thing about the BlackBerry is that [...]

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I’m hooked onto Yet Another Google Service (YAGS)…this one is GrandCentral. It’s a phone service that is essentially a call router. You get a new number from GrandCentral and then you configure the service to call up to 3 other phones. I first thought it was a Skype replacement but in fact [...]

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After buying the iPhone at the Fifth Avenue store in NYC, I finally got around to unlocking it so it works in India on the Airtel network. When I was in NYC I used the AT&T prepaid service for a couple of weeks and the phone is great. It has a slick interface [...]

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RUFK - Are You F**king Kidding.
That’s what ran through my mind when I saw the following headline in the Wall Street Journal - “Sony to Challenge Apple in TV, movie download.” Sony is a USD 70 billion company with 163,000 people and they are still clueless on their market strategy. I don’t remember when they [...]

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It’s really not even worth comparing the two social networking sites since Facebook wins hands down. However, it’s worth comparing to show how Facebook kicked Friendster to the curb. Friendster was all the rage back in 2003 and quickly the site was swamped with traffic and never fully recovered. It even told Google [...]

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I started talking to someone about using the internet to download TV shows and they at first were excited as I continued talking their eyes were glazed over as I rattled off things like - feed reader, RSS feeds, BitTorrent, dot torrent files, DivX, Xvid, etc… Then I realized maybe I should put together a [...]

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We are less than a week away from the iPhone being released into the wild and the suspense is building. However, since I’m in India there is no chance of getting the phone from my local Apple dealer. But, that just shows how big this launch is. I downloaded a 175mb file [...]

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Back in April, I commented about Indian telcom chief Dayanidhi Maran’s plan for 2007 to be the year of broadband.  Here we are at the middle of the year and nothing positive yet, just negative news:
- Maran is out as telecom chief, some sort of power play within the DMK governement
- no new ISP’s [...]

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This week is the highly anticipated Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. All eyes will be on getting juicy bits of information on 10.5 (aka Leopard) from Steve. I’m also betting there will be an update on the iPhone launch which is all systems go for June 29. The new MacBook Pro’s are [...]

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