Sunday, January 30, 2011
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Today I was a guest speaker at Microsoft Gurgaon Office for Windows Phone 7 Day. The event rocked all across web with hashtag #wp7day. The event started with my session and had pretty large audience. Whats more the event was live streamed across the globe.
You can checkout my slides at:
Windows Phone 7_Saumya Aggarwal
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Recently, I was interviewed to share my journey as Microsoft Student Partner at Microsoft Feed.
Catch the whole interview at:
http://microsoftfeed.com/2011/meet-saumya-aggarwal-msp-from-international-management-institute-india/
Sunday, January 16, 2011
So what's this all about? Oh, just the BlackBerry Dakota which we heard about back in July, and which definitely seems to be real. This one, pictured above in a photo procured by BGR, looks like it's going to boast that up top 2.8-inch (VGA resolution) capacitive touchscreen we'd heard about, with the BlackBerry Bold-style keyboard you've come to know and love below.
Yes, this 'Berry is quite attractive in the looks department, and spec-wise, it's a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE device with tri-band UMTS. It also packs a 5 megapixel cam with HD video recording, 4GB of storage, plus 768MB of RAM. The phone will also have WiFi and be 3G hotspot-enabled, and it'll run BlackBerry OS 6.1. Like we said, from the looks of it, this thing is legit, but there's no word on pricing or availability as of yet.
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MindHelix Technologies has reportedly launched the 'Tuk Tuk meter' - India's first multi-platform auto-fare calculating mobile application based on GPS. It is said to dynamically calculate the distance travelled using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and also calculate the fare due in comparison with the auto's meter, thereby saving consumers from getting cheated by greedy auto-drivers or faulty meters.
The most interesting aspect is that it is intelligently designed to run on multiple mobile platforms including Android, Blackberry or Symbian operating systems sans internet connection or access to service provider. Hence, anyone who has a mobile with GPS access could run the auto-fare app without any limitations.
According to Christin Emmanuel George, co-founder and CEO of MindHelix Technologies, the auto-fare app can be controlled by a simple start/stop button and customisation of fare details based on the location. The application is freely downloadable from the MindHelix's homesite link: www.tuktuk.mindhelix.com
Mobile application technology has successfully captured our imagination more often than not and it looks like conquering the world in its final crusade!
Do you remember what the world was like before Wikipedia? It seems like the dark ages, when you couldn't visit the open-source encyclopedia to get information on just about anything from Ikea to the Tsetse Fly and everything else in between.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can add to, is celebrating its tenth birthday this week.
The site was founded on Jan. 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wales, after he failed at launching a traditional online encyclopedia called Newpedia.
"Wikipedia turned out to be more successful than anybody ever imagined or ever even aspired for it to be," Wikipedia's chief executive Sue Gardner told the AFP. " It took on a life of its own and became this hugely popular thing.
Ten years later, the site says it has 440 million unique visitors each month. The popular reference site is available in more than 250 languages and features around 26 million entries. On top of that, it's edited by roughly 100,000 individuals from around the globe.
Now that Wikipedia is a household name in the first world, Wales is intent on finding a foothold for Wikipedia in developing countries. Specifically, he's opening an office in India, which will be the site's first branch outside of the U.S.
"Our goal is to reach people all around the world with Wikipedia and to make it possible for them to access the encyclopedia," Gardner said. "We all know that people are coming online in massive numbers, particularly through movie phones, and so we have a new strategic effort to focus our energies on these developing countries so, as those people come online, Wikipedia is there for them to use."
In China, access to Wikipedia is limited. However, it's also a country in which Wales would like to see Wikipedia grow.
"When I talk to Chinese Wikipedians, I have the impression that what they are hoping to do is build up a good Chinese-language encyclopedia so that come the day that people in China get unfettered access to the Internet, it is waiting for them, good and rich to read," Gardner added.
College students might be warned heartily not to cite Wikipedia in their research papers, but the site is actually pretty reliable, say independent observers. In fact, Nature Magazine found in 2006 that Wikipedia's accuracy was "surprisingly good" and that the margin of error is similar to what would be found in the widely respected Encyclopedia Britannica.
In what you might call a testament to the non-profit's popularity, Wikipedia recently raised $16 million in its shortest fundraiser ever. More than 500,000 donations came in from 140 different countries, with an average donation of $22. That's more than double the 230,000 donations made in 2009. Wikipedia will use the money to fund various infrastructure costs, staffing, program support, grants, and other costs.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Daily deals major GroupOn has acquired SoSasta.com, and Ananya Bubna, co-founder and CEO of SoSasta.com has taken on a new role as Managing Director, Groupon India, reports Alootechie.
Groupon did approach other Indian daily deals sites for an acquisition or an investment. SoSasta (translates as So Affordable) is among the many GroupOn inspired daily deal sites in India, and has been founded by two former Google employees. It had operations in Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune, as of October 2010.
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