Novix - Video Streaming over GPRS
Novix is a mobile startup based out of Mumbai, India. Their product Novix Live provides audio-video compression technology which aims at delivering quality video experiences to user on their mobile phones. Novix enables compression of high quality videos in real-time over low bandwidth networks like GPRS. Mobile companies which have content like mobile videos can use ...
Archive for April, 2008
Macabre but hilarious… IIT Kanpur website hacked!
This is serious but also funny. IIT Kanpur's website has been hacked, possibly by Pakistani hackers! For an institute whose computer science department gets the best of the IIT brainers, this must be embarassing. Apparently, this is not the first time the website has been hacked; as this blogpost & this screenshot indicate, its homepage was ...
This is serious but also funny. IIT Kanpur's website has been hacked, possibly by Pakistani hackers! For an institute whose computer science department gets the best of the IIT brainers, this must be embarassing. Apparently, this is not the first time the website has been hacked; as this blogpost & this screenshot indicate, its homepage was ...
Case Study- Is your business really Internet centric?
Update: Readers seems to be clamouring for revealing more about the business in question; unfortunately doing that is likely to give away the identity of the person (partially if not wholly)... and I have promised not to do that. What I can say is that the business is B2C in the area of personal financial management. ...
Update: Readers seems to be clamouring for revealing more about the business in question; unfortunately doing that is likely to give away the identity of the person (partially if not wholly)... and I have promised not to do that. What I can say is that the business is B2C in the area of personal financial management. ...
SlideShare getting disrupted by massive DDOS attacks
Just wanted to drop a quick note here that SlideShare is being hit by DDOS attacks. In fact, this has been happening since last week, and the website has been off-air intermittently during this period. We had been debating internally, whether or not to go public with what's happening behind the scenes. We decided to come ...
Just wanted to drop a quick note here that SlideShare is being hit by DDOS attacks. In fact, this has been happening since last week, and the website has been off-air intermittently during this period. We had been debating internally, whether or not to go public with what's happening behind the scenes. We decided to come ...
TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008 announced!
Canaan Partners (in association with TiE) has rolled out the second edition of the TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge, a national level business plan competition for early stage entrepreneurs in India. The business plans entered in the contest will be evaluated by a selection panel. Eight entries will be short-listed for mentoring before the final presentation to the ...
Canaan Partners (in association with TiE) has rolled out the second edition of the TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge, a national level business plan competition for early stage entrepreneurs in India. The business plans entered in the contest will be evaluated by a selection panel. Eight entries will be short-listed for mentoring before the final presentation to the ...
How browsers are the de-facto window to the World Wide Web?
This is a guest post I wrote for the news website Alootechie. It is about the evolution of web based applications and how they are slowly but surely replacing desktop applications. The post delves into the adoption pattern of web applications in India and how webapps offer a way to circumvent some of the typical problems ...
This is a guest post I wrote for the news website Alootechie. It is about the evolution of web based applications and how they are slowly but surely replacing desktop applications. The post delves into the adoption pattern of web applications in India and how webapps offer a way to circumvent some of the typical problems ...
CallGraph… a simple Skype Voice Recording Tool
CallGraph is a free tool from Sedna Wireless (a Bangalore based startup) to record Skype conversations on your computer as MP3 files. CallGraph is not the first product to offer Skype call recording, competing with similar and well known products like Pamela and Total Recorder. However, CallGraph offers a simple, minimalistic interface without any bells and ...
CallGraph is a free tool from Sedna Wireless (a Bangalore based startup) to record Skype conversations on your computer as MP3 files. CallGraph is not the first product to offer Skype call recording, competing with similar and well known products like Pamela and Total Recorder. However, CallGraph offers a simple, minimalistic interface without any bells and ...
Burrp launches online TV guide… sticky addition to its social hangout offerings
Burrp has lauched an online TV guide that brings internet style interactivity to the task of keeping abreast of your favorite TV programs. The guide is an easy way to track what’s playing on TV, set reminders, manage schedules etc. It provides a comprehensive view of what’s playing across TV channels along with show timings, channel ...
Burrp has lauched an online TV guide that brings internet style interactivity to the task of keeping abreast of your favorite TV programs. The guide is an easy way to track what’s playing on TV, set reminders, manage schedules etc. It provides a comprehensive view of what’s playing across TV channels along with show timings, channel ...
Why everything from USA is great and from Asia is weird/funny? And what about India?
Ever wondered why everything (about the internet) from the USA is great and that from Asia is weird or funny? Why innovation on the web is the prerogative of US based companies? These are the questions that Benjamin Joffe seeks to dispel in this very popular presentation (shared on slideshare). Benjamin is the head of Plus8Star, ...
Ever wondered why everything (about the internet) from the USA is great and that from Asia is weird or funny? Why innovation on the web is the prerogative of US based companies? These are the questions that Benjamin Joffe seeks to dispel in this very popular presentation (shared on slideshare). Benjamin is the head of Plus8Star, ...
Please participate in the Empower Social Media Research Survey
EmPower is a global research & media services company based out of New York & Bangalore. They are conducting a research study about the extent & impact of Internet-based social media (blogs, wikis, podcasts etc) in India. This must rank amongst the earliest research exercises at understanding the consumer behavior in the social media space in ...
EmPower is a global research & media services company based out of New York & Bangalore. They are conducting a research study about the extent & impact of Internet-based social media (blogs, wikis, podcasts etc) in India. This must rank amongst the earliest research exercises at understanding the consumer behavior in the social media space in ...
