The Transparent Toaster Corollary

Here’s a meme that resounds quite often in the startup world: Execution is more important than ideas. Good ideas are only so good in the mind of the beholder, unless proven to be useful or effective through execution. Ideas matter. The execution of those ideas matters more. But,…

In Touch With Augmented Reality

I’ve been reading a lot about “Augmented Reality” lately. Just the other day, I saw this beautiful short film titled ‘World Builder‘, that also depicts this powerful holographic technology to express the fusion of the physical and virtual worlds. Augmented Reality (AR) is basically…

Where is the "Common Man's" Mobile Application?

Half of world’s population has a mobile phone, yet, only 21% of the world’s population uses the Internet. On my last visit to India, I was not so astounded to see the milk-man or the rickshaw driver to have a mobile phone. What I was astounded…

Mono on the iPhone

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything related to the Mono project, the open source (and cross-platform) implementation of Microsoft’s .NET. But something really interesting came up today. Mono has been ported to the iPhone. Last year, parts of the Mono Project, were…

WiFi Hotspots

PC World gathers a list of WiFi hotspots (some free) located in India (Delhi) and Australia (Melbourne CBD & rest of Victoria).…

What has an iPhone got to do with Social Networking?

The latest scoop from the social web is that, both Google and Yahoo are working on next generation social networks. Yahoo is working on a service called Mosh (certainly to replace 360), while Google is working on Socialstream (possibly to replace Orkut, which is pretty dormant outside India and Brazil)…

Smartphone Smartass

Lately, I’ve been facing a series of problems with my Treo smartphone. It’s been well used for a few years now, and its starting to show signs of wear-off. First, its firmware got flushed, and I had to repatch it. Then, its memory got wiped-off mysteriously…